First published seven years ago, the explosive Battletech series continues with Wolves on the Border. In order to resolve a dispute between the Warden and Crusader factions, the Wolf Clan sends a group of Clan freeborn warriors to the Inner Sphere disguised as a mercenary unit--none other than Jamie Wolf's infamous Wolf's Dragoons. Views: 54
Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox arrives at her posting in the Cotswolds to be met by male hostility. She immediately has to solve the death of a wealthy local woman – not an accident, but murder. The car involved is found to belong to newspaper editor, Richard Gower. Kate, finding herself attracted to Richard, works hard to prove him innocent. British Mystery by Nancy Buckingham writing as Erica Quest; originally published as Death Walk by Doubleday for the Crime Club Views: 54
Selby, the only talking dog in Australia, and perhaps the world, is back with another collection of scintillating stories about the lovable pooch from Bogusville.Still trying to keep the fact he can talk a secret, Selby is determined to keep his trap shut — even if it kills him! And that is possible, as he:,∗ gets caught in a cage with Two-tooth Tina,∗ looks like getting sliced into Selby-salami by a giant saw blade that is whirring closer and closer,∗ makes a death-defying leap of Gumboot Gorge, and,∗ finds out what it is like inside a Super Computerised High-Pitched Ear-Piercing Brain-Scrambling Sound BlasterYikes! This is one canine with a nose for adventure. Get ready for a riotous read about everybody's favourite talking dog.Ages 7 - 12 Views: 53
Francine Prose's first collection of stories displays her gift for revealing the mysteries and contradictions at the heart of contemporary life. A young woman, disappointed by her lover, discovers that "what you'd hoped was the start of your life could turn out to be a scene from someone else's porn movie." A college professor is disturbed by his attraction to the physical therapist caring for his dying father. A Manhattan gallery owner baby-sitting her infant nephew watches herself pretending to be her suburban housewife sister. With wit and compassion, Prose's collection reminds us that nothing is as we've foreseen ... not even our own desires. Views: 53
Product DescriptionA realistic depiction of World War III combat follows Captain Sean Bannion and the tank soldiers of Team Yankee as they battle the Russian invasion force, from Hill 214 in West Germany to the ultimate cease-fire. Reissue. Views: 53
With an awesome list of stirring Westerns novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a master story teller. In The Shadow Man, he has achieved a new high of bringing alive the high drama and true-grit realities of the Western past.The time is 1846 with the United States and Mexico poised for war over the American Southwest. The place is New Mexico, where Jacob Tamarron has come after years as a legendary mountain man. Jacob is weary of mountain loneliness and brutal struggle for survival against Indians and fur thieves and comes to Santa Fe and hoping to find a woman and have a family. He finds the new life he is looking for in Petra, the proud and fiery Mexican woman. He woes and marries her. Then with savage suddenness, his new life is ripped apart by two of the most vicious men ever to ravage the West. James Kirker, a professional Indian killer out to make a fortune in blood money, and Simon Caverhill, a Texas senator, who with a handpicked killing crew and a master forger,... Views: 53
When two young women, Lily and Ida, meet on a flight to America they embark on a relationship that is to see them through two very different marriages and is to bring them comfort and distress, joy and tragedy, in equal measure as the years unfold. Views: 52
These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.From the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyThese 18 stories "are freighted with a magnificence of language that reveals Brodkey's singular ability to convey the truth and complexity of a moment in time, frequently as seen through the eyes of a child," found PW , noting the delicacy and sadness of the "exquisitely rendered narratives." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalSince 1958, when he published a book of short stories called First Love and Other Sorrows , Brodkey has become something of a mystery man. The present volume collects, in chronological order, magazine work of the past three decades. The stories are "classical" only in the sense that they avoid trendy experimentation: there isn't a trace of minimalism, metaficiton, or magic realism. Brodkey's subject is the Sturm und Drang of human relationships, especially sexual relationships. Acutely sensitive, intensely analytical, he writes with "the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event" (to quote one of his characters). No matter what the situation, the narrative voice is invariably eloquent and intelligenttoo much so, at times. An important book, but one best sampled in small doses. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los AngelesCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 52
"Just as Griffin suspected, there was a meeting in Levison's office without him." With this opening, we are taken into the mind and life of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. It is a mind full of paranoia, duplicity, and guile--and a life full of money, power, and fame. It is the movie business.Griffin Mill is ruthlessly ambitious, driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. Griffin listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment on their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer to whose pitch he responded so glibly is sending him postcards: "You said you'd get back to me. You didn't. And now in the name of all writers who get pushed around by studio executives I'm going to kill you." Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Griffin's deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his... Views: 52
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller. Shirley Jackson (1919-65) wrote several books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. For the last twenty years of her life, she lived in North Bennington, Vermont. One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting" and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Widely anthologized, "The Lottery" is today considered a classic work of short fiction.This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, combines "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual or unsettling tales. Taken together, these writings demonstrate Jackson's remarkable and commanding range—from the commonplace to the chilling, from the hilarious to the truly horrible—as a modern storyteller.This FSG Classics edition also features a new introduction to Jackson's work by A. M. Homes. "Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders."—Dorothy Parker, Esquire"[These] stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."—James Hilton, New York Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . She was unique."—Newsweek Views: 51
Publisher's WeeklyThis Australian writer is known for The Sundowners and 35 more novels, including the four featuring Inspector Scobie Malone of Sydney. Cleary's urbane wit blunts the sting in this story about the circumstances leading to the murder of Sister Mary Magdalene. The nun's body is found outside a luxurious brothel where Malone starts the investigation that leads to an artist known as Miss O'Keefe, who turns out to be Brigid Hourigan, the victim's mother. He learns that the young woman was illegitimate, unacknowledged by Bridgid's millionaire father, Fingal, and her brother, Archbishop Kerry Hourigan. The influential old man's associates, like a small army, form powerful barriers to the detective. But he digs deep, looking for clues in the nun's service to the needy in Nicaragua, in Fingal's early years in Chicago and the source of his fortune. The sad truth closes the case, one of the hero's most intricate and exciting. Mystery Guild featured alternate. (Feb.) Library JournalCleary's newest Australian thriller featuring Scobie Malone commences with the discovery of a murdered nun's body on the doorstep of an exclusive brothel. As Malone investigates the apparent bad joke, he finds that all clues point to zillionaire patriarch and Sydney businessman Fingal Hourigan (illegitimate grandfather of the dead nun). Various aspects of Fingal's sordid Chicago past, nefarious activities, and present Nicaraguan associates, along with flashbacks about the nun, her mother, and her uncle the archbishop, provide more than enough substantive grist for Cleary's narrative mill. Three parts family saga, then, for every one part intrigue, but solid entertainment.-- REK Views: 51
When their peregrine falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying rubies, the Hardy brothers find themselves involved with kidnappers. Views: 51
