Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a captivating novella by the renowned author Stephen King. It tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker unjustly convicted of murder, who is sent to the notorious Shawshank Prison. Over the decades, Andy maintains his innocence and forms a deep friendship with fellow inmate Red.

This mesmerizing tale explores themes of unjust imprisonment and the indomitable human spirit. Andy's journey through the harsh realities of prison life is both suspenseful and heart-wrenching, as he seeks hope and redemption in a seemingly hopeless place.

Originally published in 1982 as part of the collection Different Seasons, this novella is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories. Its unforgettable characters and compelling narrative have captivated readers and viewers alike, as it was adapted into the critically acclaimed film The Shawshank Redemption.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains a timeless classic, offering a poignant exploration of friendship, hope, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Dotty Davis belongs to that sub-genre of hard-boiled, sleazy, overweight, boozing, and otherwise disgusting private detectives increasingly offered as protagonists working for the "betterment" of humankind. Nonetheless, exhibiting a modicum of charm through her heavy-handed humor, Dotty proceeds to wiggle her way out of several murder charges after answering a middle-of-the-night call from the male prostitute living downstairs from her.

Soon after, Dotty removed a dead, Catholic nun from his bed, someone rigs an explosion, sending the gigolo to the hospital. And then there's more dead bodies for Dotty to contend with, and both the police and a killer are looking for her.

Dotty Davis, a ball of fun with no sense of style and five-alarm outbursts, is the target of most of the jokes. But until the author puts out her fire with a bucket of vodka and her being a murder suspect, she's the novel's bliss.

A pirate's most valuable treasure is buried in the heart of one woman. Aislin is wrongly convicted of her own father's murder. Although innocent, she is sentenced to a prison colony in Australia. The prison ship winds up too far west, where the murderous pirate, Captain Jackson, is said to rule the seas. Her pleas to God seem to go unheeded as the ship is attacked and taken by the formidable buccaneer.

Although she fights it with everything she has in her, Aislin can't help but fall in love with the pirate captain who captured her. Captain Gabriel Jackson is a pirate of a different breed. Playing the part of a bloodthirsty brigand, he finds himself coming to the aid of the enchanting maiden almost against his will.

As they both struggle to survive in a vicious world, they are drawn together by an unseen force. Why? Because God knows that through Aislin and her love for Him, the prayer of God, Save the Pirate may finally come true.

It takes the wisdom of Yoda to survive the sixth grade!

Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him "Captain Dwight." This is embarrassing, particularly for Tommy, who sits with him at lunch every day. But Dwight does one cool thing. He makes origami.

One day he makes an origami finger puppet of Yoda. And that's when things get mysterious. Origami Yoda can predict the future and suggest the best way to deal with a tricky situation. His advice actually works, and soon most of the sixth grade is lining up with questions.

Tommy wants to know how Origami Yoda can be so smart when Dwight himself is so clueless. Is Yoda tapping into the Force? It's crucial that Tommy figure out the mystery before he takes Yoda's advice about something VERY IMPORTANT that has to do with a girl.

This is Tommy's case file of his investigation into "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda."

A rumor has persisted in the vampire world of a dark slayer—a woman—who travels with a wolf pack and strikes terror into the hearts of the vampires. Mysterious, elusive, and seemingly impossible to kill, she is the one hunter who instills fear in the undead.

Ivory Malinov is that woman, betrayed by her own people, her family, and everyone she held dear. She hunts during the night with only her pack to sustain her sanity. For a hundred years, she has not spoken to or been with any other person except to feed or slay.

One night, she stumbles across a body on her way back to her lair and discovers her lifemate. He is Razvan, branded a hated criminal, detested, feared, and loathed by all Carpathians. He is also a dragonseeker of one of the greatest Carpathian lineages.

Held captive nearly his entire life by his grandfather, the Carpathians' bitterest enemy, he is seeking the dawn to end his terrible existence. Instead, he finds his deliverance in Ivory.

This is a story of two people, horribly betrayed and wounded in spirit, fighters to the death, who must struggle to unite against a common enemy.

Imprisoned for inflammatory writings by the totalitarian Theocracy, shy intellectual Ashleigh Trine figures his story's over. But when he meets Kieran Trevarde, a hard-hearted gunslinger with a dark magic lurking in his blood, Ash finds that necessity makes strange heroes... and love can change the world.

E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:

"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me étage, apt. D."

How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her "Star." A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes.

Robert A. Heinlein's one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny and tremendously readable—a favorite of all who have read it. Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.

In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.

From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman.

When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten.

Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible hero.

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience.

Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race.

In this genre-bending novel, one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.

Los Angeles. There are two seasons, day and night. Toyer. He is a natural response to Los Angeles. There has never been anything like Toyer, but of course, each time there never is. Each time, the newest cutting-edge lunatic has the same refreshing aspect: he is unimaginable.

Maude Garance. She is a doctor, thirty-six years old. Her face is complicated by woven scars of fatigue, she is on the brink of a breakdown caused by a disorder in her patients - Toyer's victims - that she cannot cure.

Doctor T. Chief-of-service at Maude's hospital. Married too long to the wrong wife. All he can do now is to love Maude without mentioning it.

Sara Smith. A reporter. A story, any story, is sent from God and God has sent her one. Maude dislikes her on sight.

Jim O'Land. Sara Smith's boss at the Herald, a man easily followed. He publishes Toyer's thoughts. Unprecedented in journalism, he says, a first.

The Uncastables. Three comfortably unemployed actors. Telen Gacey came to Hollywood on a whim and is ready to leave. Peter Matson has star quality but cannot act. Billy Waterland, a would-be comic, ex-gymnast, dreams of stardom.

Jimmy O. A pale ginger cat with a direct stare, humble. Maude called him a savior in cat's clothing who'd come to rescue her. She was right.

These are the players in Gardner McKay's first novel, Toyer. Their lives intersect and intrude on one another with terrifying results to produce a novel that is as compelling as it is rewarding.

Comic book. Indy, a certified yoga master at the age of 18, comes from a small town to study the theory of magic in college. Currently, Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26, in the house of her mother, Tesha. Tesha, a pretty and attractive woman, experienced an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness just as Indy was reading aloud from "The Great Book of Yoga." Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, working at a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness earned her the nickname "Witch."

Meanwhile: A secret community, masquerading as a carrot farm, is searching for someone with a special power they need. They suspect someone but aren't sure. This person might be taken to a special facility for examination, even against their will. If they're correct, the community will gain access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel.

At the same time: A radical militarized group known as the "Liberators" suffers damage to its electronic spy system due to a brief visit by an unknown person (Indy?). They must vacate a building in secret to avoid detection. Right after they left, the building collapsed, attracting media attention and curiosity about the mysterious renters who vanished at the last moment. Tesha accidentally took pictures of the "Liberators," and those pictures need to be retrieved by visiting her house. The "Liberators" could do that...

Meanwhile: The college administration is concerned about the disappearance of a college professor and begins search efforts. Mysteriously, the professor reappears unconscious on a parking lot bench the same day.

Indy, the certified yoga master, discovers his power to control machines (or so it seems) while teaching yoga. Tesha, despite being a very pretty woman, is saddened by some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she hasn't experienced love for about two years and becomes depressed until she meets young men who claim to be... angels.

And more things happened...