After seeing the film "The human centipede," a psychopathic loner decides to create his own human centipede using twelve people.

"Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy. As a young man in the Seventies, Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age, he begins to feel an intense regret, a longing for the world and the people he left behind, which he might not be able to recover, even after returning. Set in Magna Graecia, the sun-drenched land where ancient...

""The girl's slim neck was exposed above the low neckline of her dress, and it glowed nearly white in the light of the moon. A stream of icy fear ran through my chest as the man grabbed the other end of the cord and held it taut before him. "Watch out," I shouted uselessly. She could not hear me, after all. I was not there, and this had already happened, maybe a few months ago, maybe hundreds of years." Anna is a loner who only hangs out with her...

Glory, Glory : For Glory Parsons, "home for the holidays" wasn't exactly the stuff of sing-a-longs and sleigh rides. In fact, she dreaded it. Dreaded having to face the things she'd lost--her brother, a casualty of war ; and Jesse Bainbridge, a casualty of her own weakness. She'd never been able to tell Jesse the reason she'd left him abruptly ten years ago, after she'd promised to love him forever. And he certainly didn't seem open to talking about...

Chino is a loner, a fighter, a proud and willful half breed Mexican/Indian who raises legendary horses in the high country of New Mexico.

Cold sweat: A man takes revenge on a powerful drug dealer who has kidnapped his wife ; Chino: Chino is a loner, a fighter, a proud and willful half breed Mexican/Indian who raises legendary horses in the high country of New Mexico.

The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavík's underworld. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband, and an unexplained death. When a homeless man he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and...