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With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...

 At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.

 Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.

 Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.

 Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door — and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier — and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon

Nikola Tesla je 1919. godine kroz serijal članaka u časopisu Electrical Experimenter objavio jedinstvenu autobiografiju. U tom serijalu opisao je svoje detinjstvo, dogodovštine iz Smiljana, ali i period proveden u evropskim gradovima i Americi.<

Trzecia i ostatnia czesc trylogii o dwoch rownoleglych swiatach — blizniaczych Ziemiach — naszej, zdominowanej przez czlowieka i drugiej, opanowanej przez Neandertalczykow. W Hybrydach Ponter Boddit i jego partnerka z Ziemi Homo sapiens, Mary Vaughan, staja przed koniecznoscia pogodzenia zycia w dwoch swiatach. Usiluja znalezc sposob, aby ich niezwykly zwiazek mogl przetrwac pomimo pietrzacych sie trudnosci i roznic. Za pomoca zakazanej neandertalskiej technologii planuja poczac dziecko, pierwszego hybryda — symbol nadziei na polaczenie dwoch tak odmiennych wersji rzeczywistosci. Tymczasem na Ziemi zamieszkalej przez Homo sapiens zaczyna zmieniac sie pole magnetyczne planety, dlatego szef Mary, tajemniczy Jock Krieger, coraz czesciej z zazdroscia spoglada na nie zdewastowany przez czlowieka raj, jakim jest neandertalski swiat.<

Thea Osborne and her spaniel Hepzibah embark on their second house-sitting commission with few worries. Despite her first disastrous venture, in which she became drawn into a murder case, Thea is convinced that lightening will not strike twice, and arrives at the idyllic Frampton Mansell with renewed enthusiasm. However it seems she is jinxed: within days of her arrival she finds a body hanging from the rafters of one of the barns. But was it suicide...or murder?

And now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby.

When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person she can turn to is ex-husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? She'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath— the dollmaker—who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die.

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, at first it seems like an accident. But when two more deaths occur foul play seems certain...

Thea Osborne and her faithful spaniel, Hepzie, have taken on a house-sitting assignment in the charming Cotswold village of Temple Guiting. But as always, an idyllic village can harbour a disquieting number of secrets and when a skeleton is discovered at the roots of an old beech tree, Thea is grateful for the presence of her partner DS Phil Hollis. There is no concrete evidence as to who the bones belonged to although it isn't long before theories and rumours abound. Thea soon finds herself drawn into a murder investigation - perhaps the countryside isn't that quiet after all.

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A devotee of vitamins and herbal remedies, it seems ironic that he succumbed to a heart attack. Trainee undertaker Drew Slocombe isn't so sure of this conclusion, but Jim's cremation is just days away...

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: head-butted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt. The official verdict – a freak accident. But for the Cattermoles it is merely the start of their troubles for on the day of the funeral a family friend, himself a hunt saboteur, is found dead.

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences house-sitting in the Cotswolds, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest assignment – house-sitting for transatlantic reptile breeder Harriet Young. However the region's bucolic charms prove to be more than deceptive, as Thea is thrust once more into the heart of a Cotswold mystery.

Despite the ease with which Thea's new assignment in the secluded village of Cranham begins, she soon finds a dark side to the characters she encounters. From the elderly Donny Davis to the enigmatic figure of Edwina, Thea begins to realise that Harriet Young's beloved geckoes are not the only cold-blooded creatures at large in Cranham.

Family intrigue, murder and suicide combine to give Thea a decidedly challenging summer in the Heart of England . . .<

Neandertalski fizyk Ponter Boddit, podczas eksperymentu z komputerem kwantowym przypadkiem przekracza barierę między wszechświatami i zostaje przeniesiony do naszego świata.

Niemal natychmiast zostaje rozpoznany jako Neandertalczyk. Czuje się obcy w dziwnym dla niego świecie, nie potrafi porozumieć się z otoczeniem, a do tego musi przejść kwarantannę. Na szczęście znajduje kilkoro przyjaciół, w tym specjalistkę w dziedzinie genetyki, Kanadyjkę Mary Vaughan, kobietę, z którą zaczyna go łączyć szczególna więź.

Tymczasem w świecie Pontera, jego partner, Adikor Huld, musi stawić czoło podejrzeniom o morderstwo. Jak ma dowieść własnej niewinności, skoro nie wie, co się stało z jego przyjacielem?