Los Angeles is the Peninsula Hotel, Spago Beverly Hills, and a beach place in Malibu. It's also...Barney's Beanery, Koo Koo Roo chicken, and 24-hour fitness centers. Not to mention the parents' place in the Valley with its wet bar and kidney-shaped pool. In Stephen Randall's hilarious novel of manners and mores in Los Angeles, twin brothers Perry and Tim Newman fight the ties that bind them to their pasts on the other side of Mulholland while trying to make their mark in the teeming competitive world spread out below the canyons. While Perry swaggers home with a new girlfriend on his arm and a development deal in his pocket, Tim toils in the decidedly temporary offices of a web site, Hollywood Today, and wonders if there will ever be a right moment to spring his sexuality on his parents. But Syd and Ann Newman's lives haven't stopped because the boys moved into town. Syd's life work, Newman's Super Honda, is under attack, and Ann's serial passions for therapy, activism, and real estate are beginning to take their toll. When Tim has a rare chance to be a hero, will he take it? Will the balance of fraternal power shift once and for all?

M. Robert Mulholland Jr. fleshes out a carefully worded definition of spiritual formation that encompasses the dynamics of a vital Christian life and counters our culture's tendency to trivialize, methodize and privatize spirituality. Now revised and expanded by Ruth Haley Barton with a new foreword, practices and study guide.

Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and Bad Island.

Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family “Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive account of Lynch’s career.”—The New York Times Book Review In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition. Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened. Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists. With insights into . . . Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE Twin Peaks: The Return Praise for Room to Dream “A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . . provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense commitment to the ‘art life.’ ”—The Guardian “This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a country.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.

The interwar British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue. This comprehensive eBook presents the most complete edition possible of Oppenheim’s works in the US, with numerous illustrations, rare novels and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Oppenheim’s life and works * All 80 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features novels not available in any other collection * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are illustrated with their original artwork * Rare short story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Oppenheim’s rare non-fiction * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, later novels, story collections and the autobiography cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available in your public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Expiation A Monk of Cruta The Peer and the Woman A Daughter of the Marionis False Evidence A Modern Prometheus The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown The Postmaster of Market Deighton The Amazing Judgment Mysterious Mr. Sabin A Daughter of Astrea As a Man Lives Mr. Marx’s Secret The Man and His Kingdom The World’s Great Snare A Millionaire of Yesterday The Survivor Enoch Strone A Sleeping Memory The Traitors A Prince of Sinners The Yellow Crayon The Betrayal Anna the Adventuress A Maker of History The Master Mummer A Lost Leader The Tragedy of Adrea The Malefactor Berenice The Avenger The Great Secret The Governors The Distributors The Missioner The Kingdom of Earth Jeanne of the Marshes The Illustrious Prince Passers By The Lost Ambassador The Golden Web The Moving Finger Havoc The Court of St. Simon The Lighted Way The Tempting of Tavernake The Mischief Maker The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton The Way of These Women A People’s Man The Vanished Messenger The Black Box The Double Traitor Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The Kingdom of the Blind The Hillman The Cinema Murder The Pawns Count The Zeppelin’s Passenger The Wicked Marquis The Box with Broken Seals The Curious Quest The Great Impersonation The Devil’s Paw The Profiteers Jacob’s Ladder Nobody’s Man The Evil Shepherd The Great Prince Shan The Inevitable Millionaires The Mystery Road The Wrath to Come The Passionate Quest Stolen Idols Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker The Golden Beast Prodigals of Monte Carlo Harvey Garrard’s Crime The Interloper Miss Brown of X. Y. O. The Short Story Collections The Long Arm of Mannister Peter Ruff and the Double-Four For the Queen Those Other Days Mr. Laxworthy’s Adventures The Amazing Partnership The Game of Liberty Mysteries of the Riviera Aaron Rodd, Diviner Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat Hon. Algernon Knox, Detective The Seven Conundrums Michael’s Evil Deeds The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead The Channay Syndicate Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon Madame and Her Twelve Virgins Nicholas Goade, Detective Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Prince of Storytellers Tells His Own Story Who Travels Alone Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.