Books with author Steven Crossley

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health-and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant.Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared has charmed over two million people around the world.

In the second book of the Knight series, Dean Knight tries to cope with his serious injury and mental illness which leaves him confused and with most of his memory gone. The dark secrets of his and his family's past torment him as much as the voices that he hears and the visions of his dead father and sister which pop up during the times when he is least likely able to deal with them effectively. He finds himself torn among three girls that seem to like him. One of them wants to use his talents for her own gain, another one represents a past he would just as soon forget, and the final one has her own mental problems to deal with. Even with his mental illness, Dean manages to resume a somewhat normal existence, but it doesn't last long when the jock who caused his twin sister's death enters back into Dean's life. Can a team of mental professionals, including a psychiatrist with his own unorthodox methods, save Dean once again before the stress in his life and the bullying he faces destroy him forever?

Allan Karlsson, resident of a nursing home in a small Swedish town, is about to be celebrated at his 100th birthday party with the press, the mayor, and the entire nursing staff and fellow residents in attendance. But Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption), so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his “pee slippers” and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. At the same time we discover Allan’s larger–than–life back story: not only has he witnessed, Zelig–like, some of the most important events of the twentieth century but he has actually played a key role in them. Starting as an explosives expert, he finds himself involved in the development of the atomic bomb and in his travels throughout the world, shares meals and more with everyone from Stalin, Churchill, and Truman, to Mao, Franco, and De Gaulle.

Dean knows being different isn’t always a good thing.Trapped by the voices and visits from the dead, Dean is drowning. His father, allegedly drowned, and the friend who took his own life taunt like the school bullies he can’t seem to get away from. A sliver of hope breaks through when his mother announces they are moving. A chance for a fresh start for all of them. So why does she move them to the cottage near the river his father drowned in? The water begins to envelop him, threatening to pull him under, when Dean discovers nothing changes and the bullies find not only him, but his twin sister, Dee, as favorite targets. Dean’s personal struggles worsen as his tentative grasp on reality weakens.An unexpected hand plunges through the water toward him, bringing with it questions and a family secret that haunts them all.

The woods near Bryan Stewart’s house have a long history of evil. When he was 14, he became a victim of it. Police found him semiconscious, a large amount of LSD in his system, lying on a path close to the heart of the woods. When he recovered, he could remember nothing about his ordeal except that something had changed him forever.Not long afterward, Bryan tried to kill himself. What makes a 14-year-old boy so depressed he doesn’t want to live? His parents think he has a mental illness; the townspeople just think he’s an evil, drug-crazed thug, and Bryan has no idea what happened. He only knows it all began the night of his ordeal, the night he has blocked out of his mind. After he meets two girls his own age: a beautiful, almost pagan-like, dark-haired girl, and a devoted Christian who constantly challenges him on his own faith, Bryan begins to remember what happened to him when he was 14. Even more frightening than the memories, is the realization that the evil is returning and wants Bryan again. He must choose the correct path, the one that will lead him safely through the dark woods. If he chooses the wrong path, innocent people will die in ways that are unimaginable.

New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever-a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.

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In the blockbuster tradition of Downtown Abbey, the tie-in to the television event of the season: Ford Madox Ford’s World War I classic finally comes to audio to coincide with the HBO/BBC five-part miniseries, unabridged on both CD and MP3 CD with HBO tie- art.First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. A profound portrait of one man’s internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict, Parade’s End bears out Graham Greene’s prediction that “there is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.”

Dean knows being different isn’t always a good thing.Trapped by the voices and visits from the dead, Dean is drowning. His father, allegedly drowned, and the friend who took his own life taunt like the school bullies he can’t seem to get away from. A sliver of hope breaks through when his mother announces they are moving. A chance for a fresh start for all of them. So why does she move them to the cottage near the river his father drowned in? The water begins to envelop him, threatening to pull him under, when Dean discovers nothing changes and the bullies find not only him, but his twin sister, Dee, as favorite targets. Dean’s personal struggles worsen as his tentative grasp on reality weakens.An unexpected hand plunges through the water toward him, bringing with it questions and a family secret that haunts them all.