“katherine d roome”

Authored by Edgar Allan Poe winner Mildred Davis with her daughter Katherine Roome and grandson Ren Roome, this work tells the gripping story of a small Maine community terrorized by a serial child murderer.A riveting mystery, set on a island in Maine, that begins with five teenagers jumping off a d... More

As friends gather for a holiday weekend party on an island off the New England coast, they are haunted by the memory of a child's death 20 years earlier.A mystery set on an island off the New England coast. As friends gather for a holiday weekend party, they are haunted by the memory of a child's de... More

Authored by Edgar Allen Poe winner Mildred Davis with her daughter Katherine Roome and grandson Ren Roome, this is the gripping story of a small Maine community terrorized by a serial child murderer.... More

'A Touch of Innocence' is an absorbing family chronicle written with a gift for physical detail sometimes too real for comfort. In quietly graphic prose the growing girl, the slightly older brother, the ambitious father and the kind stepmother are pictured in such human terms that when their lives g... More

In this book my subject is the experience of the girl in becoming a woman. It is a subject about which a psychoanalytic perspective is invaluable: our understanding of the development of children and adolescents has been richly elaborated in recent decades.""A sensitive, gracefully written explorati... More

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis K... More

Reissued to coincide with the publication of Geek Love.With daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean "Dutch" Gillis. Dutch goes "trucking" from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles... More

Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings. This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand years throughout ... More

In June 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sparked a heated debate when it issued a warning to physicians concerning the possible increased risk of suicide in children and adolescents taking antidepressants. The authors in this anthology debate the safety and efficacy of antidepressants in ... More

The "Tuttle Compact Indonesian Dictionary" is a totally new Indonesian-English/ English-Indonesian dictionary. It provides Indonesian and English speakers with the very latest and most concise definitions for commonly-used Indonesian words and phrases, including thousands of new Indonesian words and... More