Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks.
Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room.
The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer… Basrah… Lefarge.… Views: 230
Henry James, one of the great literary stylists, an incomparable analyst of human relations, and---who knew?---a startlingly prescient media critic. This little-known novel from one of his most fertile creative periods could have been written for today's news-hungry, celebrity-obsessed times.
Pretty American Francie Dosson travels to France with her father and less pretty sister. En route they meet scandal sheet journalist George Flack, who promptly falls for Francie. On their arrival in Paris he tours the Dosson sisters through its high society and bohemian circles, unwittingly introducing her to his rival Gaston Probert. Flack---a forerunner of a phone-hacker if ever there was one---is dismayed by this competition for the guileless Francie, but soon finds a way to turn the situation to his advantage, as well as that of his readers.
The Reverberator is James at his most incisive, not to mention most caustic, and perhaps funniest, and one of very few of his novels to win the praise of his harshest critic: his brother William James. It's also a remarkably timely take on privacy, press freedoms, and our own inquisitive natures.
ebook ISBN: 978-1-61219-157-7
From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 230
L'enfance de Jean-François Marie Mintié fut morose, auprès d'un père falot et d'une mère névrosée qui meurt prématurément. Plus tard, Paris le déçoit, ville malsaine où les femmes le dégoûtent. Il s'engage alors dans l'armée. Là, il découvre un monde de cruauté et de misère, et tue pour la première fois. De retour chez lui, il apprend la mort de son père. À Paris, Mintié, devenu écrivain, rencontre Juliette Roux dans l'atelier de son ami, le peintre Lirat, esprit fort et original. Pour celui-ci, Juliette est une femme entretenue, vicieuse et méprisable comme toutes les femmes. Mais le souvenir de Juliette hante Mintié : est-elle réellement dépravée? Et lui, que connaît-il de l'amour? Que fut sa vie, si ce n'est un échec?...La voix de Mirbeau est ici tout à fait particulière : réaliste, mais avec une ironie et un lyrisme douloureux, d'autant plus sincère qu'elle se rattache à l'autobiographie de l'auteur. Views: 230
Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot. Views: 230
An inspired story about the Man Who Listens - and the troubled strangers who seek comfort within his sanctuary. Through their very human experiences Miss Caldwell illuminates the spiritual crises of our time and brings into triumphant focus the power of faith in a world that puts faith in power. This dramatic and modern novel is a book for everyone in search of courage and peace of mind. Views: 230
A prize bull, a restaurateur's tacky publicity stunt, a family feud (among the bull's owners), and the death of a family scion pit Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin against a special breed of killer. Views: 229
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Long ago, the Peacelord of the Universe had prevented the robot battleships of Arkon from converting Talamon the Mounder’s fighter craft into a gas cloud. In doing so, he sowed the seeds of his own destruction, for 200 ships of the Mounder fleet are ready once again, armed, and ready to attack! And the most dreaded of the Galactic Traders, the Springers, have devised a scheme so hideous that for Perry Rhodan and the New Power annihilation seems a certainty...This is the stirring story of– PROJECT: EARTHSAVE! Views: 229
Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire - but that doesn't stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to 'Biscuit', Lord Biskerton, who doesn't have very much of the stuff and so he has to escape to Valley Fields to hide from his creditors. Meanwhile, his old schoolfriend Berry Conway, who is working for Frisby, himself falls for Ann - just as Biscuit falls for her friend Kitchie Valentine. In this typically hilarious novel by the master of light comedy, life can sometimes become a little complicated.
Oh, and Berry has been left a lot of shares in the Dream Come True copper mine. Of course they're worthless... aren't they? Views: 229
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.
No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them: nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality... Views: 229
Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure.
When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 229
Thrust naked and helpless at the moment of his death into a world he thinks is hell, a Turkish warrior chieftain discovers that this world, which is a strange recreation of his own, is inhabited by a race of humans known as Galactics. Reissue. Views: 229
"Phoebe Euphemia Brandon Brown hated the bows, frills, ruffles, sashes, and curls that were the fashion in 1904...The story of Phoebe's one-woman revolution and its outcome is sure to strike a spark in other little girls with minds of their own."--Booklist Views: 229
