Books with author Robert Corfe

Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying, Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.Barney Snow, a voluntary participant in medical experiments at a hospital for the terminally ill, becomes emotionally involved with the dying patients

Aslan is on the move! Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Cording has created a series of full–color paintings that celebrate C.S. Lewis’s fantasy world and the great lion who rules over it. Readers explore the Land of Narnia with Cording and a gathering of well–known writers, Lewis experts, children, and others whose lives have been touched by these magnificent stories. This ideal gift for new and longtime fans of Narnia also includes: letters from Lewis to readers that provide insight into the author’s message an engaging perspective from Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’s stepson original writings on “what Narnia means to me” It makes me, I think, more humble than proud to know that Aslan has allowed me to be the means of making Him more real to you.—C.S. Lewis in a letter to a reader.

In Heroes, Robert Cormier explores the nature of heroism through a young and tragic life.Francis Cassavant returns from World War II to seek revenge on his childhood hero. He lost his face in France when he fell on a grenade, earning the Silver Star for Bravery. His hero also holds the Silver Star for Bravery--but do either deserve it? Examine the nature of heroism in the latest powerful novel from Robert Cormier.

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking fortenderness--tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls.Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction? Told from their alternating points of view, this harrowing thriller speeds to its fateful conclusion with an irresistible force, and a final twist that will not be easily forgotten.