Product DescriptionHeiress Tessa Carpenter enlists the aid of Frank and Joe Hardy to protect her when it appears that the legendary curse of the Borgia dagger - part of her family's art collection - is threatening her life. Views: 43
Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia. The loss of both of his parents during childhood was the prelude to a series of incidents which made his life as highly coloured as any of his great works of fiction. Whether as a dissolute layabout in the gambling saloons and brothels of Moscow and St Petersburg, as an artillery officer in the Crimean War or as an enlightened landowner educating his peasants and working in the fields, he had abundant energy and was in all areas a giant. Yet he was full of paradoxes, most clearly seen in his tempestuous marriage to Sofya Behrs - one of the most closely documented and perhaps one of the most painful, human relationships in history. Views: 43
Manta was a crazed mutant with a lust for power, the latest threat to the free people of ravaged North America. He had taken over Seattle and was thirsting for more conquest. Before Manta could extend his empire, the Warriors had to penetrate his fortress and enforce their own brand of justice. Views: 43
David Adams Richards' Governor General's Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards' acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who live there, including: Joe Walsh, isolated and strong in the face of a drinking problem; his wife, Rita, willing to believe the best about people; and their teenage daughter Adele, whose nature is rebellious and wise, and whose love for her father wars with her desire for independence. Richards' unforgettable characters are linked together in conflict, and in articulate love and understanding. Their plight as human beings is one we share.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 43
This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all …' Views: 43
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Murphy was a good cop. He had the toughest beat in the toughest precinct in a tough city. He had a fine family, good friends, and a new partner. Then a bunch of lowlifes blew him away.
Only Murphy didn’t completely die. He came back in a body of steel—big, invincible, and deadly . . . back to the streets where the bad guys ruled. But no more. Behind the badge is a cop that can’t be killed. A super cop out to find the punks who shot him. And stop crime. Dead. Views: 42
A harrowing medical nightmare on the cutting edge of genetic research, Mortal Fear goes into the controversial future of modern medicine. At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins… Views: 42
Enjoy this classic romance with an edge of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, now available for the first time in ebook!In town for a family reunion, Lucia Lorenzo crashes into bed at her cousin's condo...but wakes up next to someone who is definitely not her cousin. It's Ryan Dandridge, the infuriating ex who still sets her aflame. Dealing with Ryan amid the antics of the extended Lorenzo clan is hard enough, and then disturbing events suggest Lucia has a dangerous stalker. Maybe it's a good thing Ryan is at her side, after all...Originally published in 1988 Views: 42
Reid Bennett, police chief of tiny Murphy's Harbour in Canada, is looking forward to a month's vacation. He plans to spend time with his girlfriend Freda and he might even get to go fishing with his dog, Sam. But then Norma Michaels, the wife of a rich businessman, turns up with a $25,000 offer: find her 20-year-old son, Jason. He has run off with some mercenaries to train for overseas service and she's afraid she has lost him forever. Even though he's of age, she wants him found and she'll pay handsomely. The mercenaries call themselves Freedom For Hire and their leader is a cashiered sergeant from the British paratroopers who now styles himself Colonel George Dunphy. He was court-martialed for brutality, forced out of the service and stands ready to brutalize a bunch of young men while stealing their pay. Since people like Dunphy annoy Reid he decides to take the job, despite the minor risk of a few ex-SAS men with automatic weapons, but he's more worried that the boy won't... Views: 41
After their daring run for freedom, Obi and Easter were separated in the confusion of the Civil War. But now that the war is over and the slaves are free, Easter sets out to find her old friend and take control of her life, in the powerful sequel to the Coretta Scott King Honor Book WHICH WAY FREEDOM? Views: 41
To her endlessly scheming family, lovely Liliane was a glittering prize to be traded. To Alexandre de Breuil, proud handsome Crusader, his golden-haired bride was the beginning of a treacherous game of war--a seductress who would win his heart but not his trust. Yet when he was called to distant battlefields, Liliane was drawn, as if to a fire, to follow. Views: 41
The evil wizard Klittichorn has discovered how to predict the Changewinds, granting him enormous power. Now, the evil of the Inner Hells could place the power of the Winds in Klittichorn's destructive hands, endangering all of Akahlar. Advertising in science fiction magazines. Views: 41
Sometimes evil refuses to die. Rowan’s great-aunt Queenie is dead. After all the misery she caused her family while she was alive, most of them are secretly relieved. But Queenie did not want to die, and she will do anything to live again…including possessing young Rowan. She haunts the child’s nightmares, taking her over bit by chilling bit. As her soul is drawn inexorably into a cold darkness, can Rowan hope to reclaim her life from the evil dead? This book has been previously published. Views: 41
Three lovely ladies provided Joe Coyle with his ticket to perdition.The first was a redhead: Ellie Lucas, who had a mind like a steel trap and had an insurance business that would require dirty work to save it.The second was a blonde: Toby Jessup, partner in a trucking deal that was ready to transfer Joe from the sunny side of heaven to the frigid side of hell.The third was a brunette: Bonita Jessup, who ran her corporation like a hard-shelled executive and her undercover business like a soft-bodied sharp-clawed panther.One of the three was dealing in murder—and Joe was to be her next victim! Views: 41
