Sci-fi adventure from award-winning novelist Trevor Hoyle. Views: 14
Han Solo soars again--in this awesome trilogy of his extraordinary exploits. Ride with him as he rides to the rescue, narrowly escapes certain death, and foils evil in its ruthelss tracks!Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years! Views: 13
Book DescriptionIn July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In scene after unforgettable scene, he describes the agony and antic humor of the soldier's existence: the tedium of camp life, the savagery of the front, and the camaraderie shared by those who have been bloodied in battle.Kirkus ReviewThere is a deceptive quiet to the beginning of this recollection by Farley Mowat of the hell he and his comrades endured in the bloody Sicilian and Italian campaigns of World War II. And the undersized, baby-faced young man the author was three decades ago, eager to "get a damn good lick in at the Hun," seems, in the first few pages, unendurably callow, striking attitudes as false and dated as his slang. But he grows up fast and the battles he survived as a second lieutenant in the Canadian infantry are clamorously, jarringly real - justifying epigraphs from Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden. In 1940 at age 19 Mowat joined his father's old outfit, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, known as the Hasty Pees and made up of men from southeastern Ontario. A bird-watcher and something of a loner, he ends up in command of a platoon of hard cases and misfits, a iamb among lions. They were thrown into the invasion of Sicily in July of 1943 and Mowat soon loses the illusion that war is little more than an exciting form of battle game. "For the first time," he writes laconically, "I truly understood that the dead were dead." Then, as the Canadians are put through the meat grinder attempting to storm a German mountain-top fortress, he comes to know an unshakable fear; each time he finds it a little harder to blind himself to the death or mutilation he is certain awaits him. Mowat not only gets his emotional responses right, but he also makes the actual battle operations intelligible. A memorable book from a practiced hand.From The Back CoverOn September 2, 1939, Farley Mowat was painting the porch of his family’s home when his ebullient father drove into the driveway and shouted, “Farley, my lad, there’s big bloody news! The war is on!” Eighteen-year-old Farley responded with glee, but four years later, pinned down in the wintry mud of Italy, he saw a soldier “humping jerily away from his own leg, which had been severed at the thigh. In the instant I saw him, he gave one final bubbling shriek, collapsed and mercifully was still.” And No Birds Sang is Mowat’s gripping account of how a young man excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran. Views: 11
Amazon.com ReviewBack in the '70s, when the term "serial killer" wasn't yet popular, Shane Stevens wrote this long, exquisitely detailed novel about a psychopathic murderer. Thomas Bishop escapes from an insane asylum at age 25 and begins what he fully intends to be a historic career as a multiple murderer. He is meticulous, intelligent, conscious of what he is doing, and utterly amoral. And we are inside his head, every step of the way--a welcome approach compared to contemporary works that focus on a detective or reporter protagonist. The New York Times called it "violent realism . . . extremely effective." Review“One of the finest novels ever written about perfect evil . . . I recommend it unreservedly.” —Stephen King“Compelling and genuinely frightening. You have to keep remembering it’s only a story. You won’t be able to put it down.” —_The Boston Globe_“Extremely effective.” —_The New York Times_“Irresistible, unrelenting suspense . . . Stevens creates a ‘monster’ for our time.” —_Chicago Tribune_“One of the five greatest crime novels of the century.” —_Mystery Scene_“Pure entertainment at its thrilling best.” —_United Press International_“A classic thriller, a gripping suspense story, a massive mystery.” —_San Diego Union-Tribune_ Views: 11
James Bolivar diGriz, criminal-virtuoso-turned-undercover-agent, had never been one to quail in the face of danger. Therefore, when his lovely, larcenous wife, Angelina, was kidnapped by the cruelest organization in the galaxy—Interstellar Internal and External Revenue (IIER)—he wasted no time in formulating a scheme to free her. Unfortunately, even though he had the aid of his talented sons, James and Bolivar (whom he'd arranged to have graduate a little ahead of time from the Dorsky Military Boarding School and Penitentiary), things didn't go according to plan. The trio broke into IIER's headquarters easily enough, but they set off an alarm in the process—which not only meant 'that Angelina's rescue had to be postponed, but also that the boys had to wipe clean the family's tax records on their own while their father created an appropriate diversion. It was a thoroughly enjoyable escapade for the senior stainless steel rat, and “Slippery Jim's” exhilaration was not diminished when, some time later, he was taken into custody. But the fun stopped there. For instead of hauling him off to prison, diGriz's captors took him to an unfamiliar building across town…where his boss, Harold Inskipp—the hard-nosed, humorless head of the Interplanetary Special Corps—was waiting to hand him a tricky, very possibly suicidal assignment. After grudgingly assuring Jim that Angelina was out of jail, Inskipp outlined the much more serious problem currently facing the Corps. A satellite base which had been hosting a major meeting of the League Navy chiefs of staff had vanished without a trace, leaving League defenses in a dangerously disorganized state. It was up to diGriz to find out what had happened in the satellite, and who was responsible. The first part of the puzzle wasn't at all difficult for him to solve. A quick jump backward in time revealed that the satellite and its occupants had been swallowed by a huge, toothy something. But when it came to following the something back to its home base, the situation became a bit more hairy…or rather, scaly. Because the attack on the satellite was merely the first move in what was destined to become an all-out intergalactic war—between Mankind and an unholy union of slimy, stalk-eyed, multi-limbed and oozy-tentacled alien races…who had decided that human beings were just too dry and ugly to exist! Views: 10
From the inside flapAt Balgrummo Lodging, a great decaying house near Edinburgh, gather the grotesque members, old and young, of a curious society. Given names from the poems of T. S. Elliot, they are the disciples of Mr. Apollinax, possessor of occult powers. He has promised his followers an intensity of experience they never had known before—a kind of immortality to be attained in a mystical "timeless moment" of transcendant sensation.This rite is to be performed on Ash Wednesday, in the "Purgatory" that lives beneath Balgrummo Lodging: a pre-Christian and medieval maze sealed at the Pope's order in the sixteenth century. In this subterranean realm, to which ancient legends of diabolism cling, Apollinax will proclaim himself Lord of Time—with attendant horrors.Yet has Apollinax underestimated the sardonic old being called Archvicar Gerontion, once "a brutal and licentious soldier," who is present at the Lodging as Apollinax's necromancer? Has Apollinax left out of his reckoning a dead man of power, the last Lord Balgrummo, perhaps lingering with his murderous axe in the hollow dark?More than a yarn of occult adventure, LORD OF THE HOLLOW DARK is a parable, in which the actors shift from the world of the flesh to the world of the spirit—from infernal time to purgatorial time, and then to salvation—within the space of a few nights. The book's characters—the innocent Marina and her baby, the hard-bitten blunderer Sweeney, the obliging genteel tramp called Coriolan—are not puppets but real and deeply engaging people.This "mystical romance" penetrates into the terror of Time and into the greater mystery of what we call the Soul. Those brave ones who wind through the purgatorial labyrinth have baffled Time the Devourer.The author of twenty-two books, Russell Kirk is a scholar in several fields, and has received national awards for his ghostly tales, as well as for his historical and theoretical writings. His knowledge of a wide range of subjects, from the poems of T. S. Eliot to the history of sixteenth-century Scotland, contributes subtly to the peculiar sensibility that enlivens this startling novel.REVIEWS"LORD OF THE HOLLOW DARK should prove a feast for all lovers of fantasy. Once again, Russell Kirk proves himself adept at evoking timeless terrors and ancient evil."—Robert Bloch, author of PSYCHO"LORD OF THE HOLLOW DARK is a dramatic synthesis of terror and spiritual transcendence, in which Russell Kirk writes at novel-length on those themes central to his highly-praised ghostly stories... The book moves with tightly-paced escapes and encounters. An erudite, eerie, and exciting new novel."—Don Herron, co-editor. The Romantist"Most contemporary thrillers involve spies or detectives; Russell Kirk has written a spiritual thriller, a tale of 'Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts.' But also of Hope. In short the old-fashioned Romantic mixture."—William F Buckley, Jr."LORD OF THE HOLLOW DARK is an immense spiritual and social allegory of our epoch, when 'repressed evil things creep out of their old prison,' and when Antichrist himself can proclaim to his rabble (and how justly!) that 'modern science sustains our truths.' Occult themes are difficult, say what you will, to extend to full length novels. This book succeeds by virtue of the moral fire and very wide knowledge that sustain it."—Robert Aickman Views: 9
As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Put another way, it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet. He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive...The House of God is a wild and raunchily irreverent novel that teaches you the not-so-gentle arts of healing, and tells you what your doctor never wanted you to know. It is the best medicine since M*A*S*H, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war. Views: 8
MECHANIZED MAYHEM!
When millionaire industrialist Tony Stark first created the solar-charged steel-mesh armor he wears to become the Invincible IRON MAN, it was designed to support his damaged heart and save his very life!
But now, a helpless victim of the international crime cartel called A.I.M., Stark is forced to create a suit of armor even mightier than his own . . . a suit of armor expressly designed to destroy the Invincible . . .
IRON MAN: AND CALL MY KILLER . . . MODOK!
A sinister, deadly game of chess between the powers of good and evil, where all the rules keep changing . . . and nothing is ever as it appears!
AN INSTANT COLLECTOR’S ITEM: THE ARMORED AVENGER IN HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL! Views: 8
Along with his faithful dog Argos, eleven-year-old Hugh Copplestone decides to leave his Aunt and Uncle's house after one beating too many, and heads for Oxford to seek his fortune.
When he meets a group of strolling players along the way, Hugh joins them, becoming part of their acting troupe. A new life meeting jugglers, puppet players, quack doctors and ballard singers starts for Hugh as the Players travel the country, and, as one of the Dusty-Feet, Hugh also experiences the freedom and fellowship of life on the road.
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Garet Cambridge was the most compelling man Kathryn Summers had ever met. Tall, dark, commanding...and now blinded by a twist of fate. Kathryn was torn by regret and guilt for she had caused the unavoidable accident that had cost him his sight. She vowed to repay her debt to him and spent endless hours of work as his assistant. Kathryn knew if Garet discovered the truth, she'd lose him forever. But she was bound by a promise...and bound by love. Views: 7
