He wasn't called The Hawk for nothingRachel saw David Griffin as a ruthless predator who swooped down on the defenseless and carried them off. Now he'd come to claim Jamie, his infant son and Rachel's ward. Even Rachel's love for her deceased stepsister's baby was powerless against him.Rachel accepted the job he offered as nursemaid at his home in the Catskills--it was the only way to stay with Jamie. But it also meant she'd be easy prey to The Hawk's overwhelming sensuality.And then she wondered, to her horror, if she'd be a willing victim .... Views: 31
FREEDOM’S PERIL
Nearly a hundred years after Russia’s thermonuclear first strike turned America into a radioactive wasteland, the brave survivors and fierce FreeFighters of that shattered nation have forced the brutal Sov invader to the peace table. But a new and unexpected danger suddenly appears in the skies over America—from orbit. Someone is reactivating the ancient space systems of the 1980s . . . one by one the nuke-armed space missiles of the past change orbit to threaten every major population center of the world.
Ted Rockson—the ultimate soldier of survival known as the Doomsday Warrior—knows there’s just one way to defend mankind from fiery annihilation: secure the old satellite-killer X-17A spaceplane and ride up to destroy the damned satellites. But when Rockson maneuvers the powerful ramjet alongside a bizarre, jerry-rigged orbital space station, he discovers a strange breed of space survivors—and an old archenemy with the power to turn Earth into radioactive cinders.
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Young Kasimir was the custodian of Stonecutter, the sword which could hew mountains or diamonds with equal ease. But now, Stonecutter has been stolen, and Kasimir must recover it before it causes irrevocable damage. "An entertainment of high order."--Publishers Weekly. Views: 31
A collection of short stories populated with heroes great and small, outsiders and inmates, disfigured, disenchanted, and quietly triumphant Views: 31
At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn't recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Ms. Right. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?From Library JournalSinger and guitarist Bad Blake was once a first-rate country-and-western star, but now he's 57, an alcoholic, a failure at four marriages, and playing in third-rate clubs. The biggest gig he can get is opening for Tommy Sweet, the kid Bad got started and whose career has now eclipsed Bad's. Bad meets Jean Craddock when she comes to interview him and they fall in love. Her little boy, Buddy, inspires Bad to search for his own long-lost son, but there's no happy ending there. And when Bad, hungry for a drink, loses Jean's son, things take a downturn, despite Bad's fling with AA. This first novel has the authentic patter and ambience of those seedy one-night-stands, but the plot is thin and the ending is very downbeat. There will be heavy promotion and advertising, so requests may warrant purchase. Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Cty. Lib., Seaside, Cal.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review“You can almost hear the whining twang of a pedal steel guitar and the droning of a mournful singer while reading Crazy Heart.” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram ) “Crazy Heart is a beautiful book….The characters are cut cleanly out of America….Bad Blake is a man you will not soon forget.” (Washington Times ) “In producing as nearly a masterpiece as the subject has yet attracted, Cobb seems to have triumphed….Cobb has created an unforgettable character who engages not only your interest but your emotion…and who proceeds to take you on a roller-coaster ride through his tawdrily tumultuous life.” (Chicago Tribune ) “[Cobb’s] picture of the scraggly underside of Western music is brutally convincing.” (The New Yorker ) “Thomas Cobb’s marvelous first novel doesn’t just play on your heartstrings, it breaks them.” (San Francisco Examiner ) “This is a heartfelt book: the descriptions of writing songs and playing them, of finding love and ruining it, of sweet, painful memories. There’s nothing startling in the plot or the characters, but they are alive.” (Houston Chronicle ) “Crazy Heart just might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none.” (Houston Post ) “Blake’s dedication to, and integrity towards, his country music is more than matched by Cobb’s moving, respectful evocation of the world of country music, and the life and times of Bad Blake.” (Boston Herald ) “Thomas Cobb has produced a piercing, keenly observed chronicle of modern Americana, getting across the current mores and attitudes as experience by C&W musician Blake.” (Los Angeles Times ) “Thomas Cobb has written a bitter, witty psychological profile of an aging genius that is also a wonderful celebration of country music. Bad Blake lives at the poor end of the rainbow, but you’ll never forget him. Crazy Heart is a splendid achievement.” (Donald Barthelme ) “A measure of Thomas Cobb’s talent is that he can make Bad Blake’s story amusing even as we watch him fall. Bad is entirely sympathetic, and this crazy heart is vivid; the milieu is as resonant as a steel guitar, and the plot moves along without skipping a beat.” (New York Times Book Review ) Views: 31
After the kidnapping of the Hardy Boys' father, criminals hold New York City ransom under the threat of a city-wide fatal virus infection. Views: 30
Down on his luck, a writer takes a ghostwriting job for a troubled comedianStewart Hoag’s first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Merilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset hound. But when writer’s block sunk his second novel, his friends, money, and wife all disappeared. Only Lulu stuck by him. The only opportunity left is ghostwriting—an undignified profession that still beats dental school. His first client is Sonny Day, an aging comic who was the king of slapstick three decades ago. Since he and his partner had a falling out in the late 1950s, Day has grown embittered and poor, until the only thing left for him to do is write a memoir. Hoagy and Lulu fly to Hollywood expecting a few months of sunshine and easy living. Instead they find Day’s corpse, and a murder rap with Hoagy’s name on it. Views: 30
London is gripped by the bloodiest outbreak of gang warfare ever seen.Shootings in the street, kidnappings, bombs and car chases have become commonplace. The gutters are running red with blood and the Police are powerless to stop it. Frank Harrison had ruled gangland unopposed for more than two years and yet someone is out to wipe him and his men from the face of the earth. Who and why? The answer, when it comes, will test not just Harrison's courage but his sanity too. For him, there is only one way to fight back against an enemy he can barely believe he faces. So, into this world of violence, corruption, madness and death comes the Assassin. A force more powerful than vengeance, more lethal than a lorry full of high velocity weapons and more terrifying than any nightmare..."Britain's greatest living horror author."-Dark Side"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages."-Time Out"Hutson writes grippingly."-SFX Magazine'The one that writes what others only dare imagine.' SUNDAY TIMES Views: 30
The Booker Prize-winning novel-now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent-a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms-could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. Views: 30
From the Back Cover
From a history book
about the stately isolated summer mansions of upstate New York:
Built between
the years 1884 and 1890 by Sarah Balfram, the daughter of an industrialist and
railroad tycoon, LakeHouse is believed to be the largest of the great
camps in the Adirondacks. It is thought to
contain at least 160 rooms. One of the more intriguing features of the house
is the peculiarity of its wildly Victorian design, abounding with staircases
that lead nowhere, rooms with skewed proportions, and miles of meandering
hallways…
But the
strangest thing about LakeHouse is the
extraordinary amount of bloodshed that has taken place within its walls. Only
months after the house’s completion, Sarah Balfram’s fiance, Viktor Oelrich,
was shot to death there. In 1923, Hollywood
director Desmond Hunt was stabbed to death during a party given at the house by
silent-film star Mae Norman. Since then a remarkable number of other murders
have occurred at the house: the Krafft family massacre in 1929, the Ponzi
murders in 1937, the shooting of Ann and Marie Rouchard by an unknown assailant
in 1952, the bludgeoning death': of Wall Street commodities broker Sol Morgenthau
and family in 1964…
This summer Lake House
has new tenants: pretty Lauren Ransom, who has just married the man of her
dreams; Stephen Ransom, her famous and wealthy new husband; and Lauren’s
eleven-year-old son by a first marriage, Garrett, a science buff who knows such
alarming facts as “Only animals that hunt at night have eyes that glow in the
dark when a beam of light hits them.”
The Ransoms are
hoping to enjoy a summer they will never forget, and LakeHouse
does not plan on disappointing them. For concealed within its walls are many,
many surprises, and most of them come out only at night…
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The femme was fatal She was rich, red-haired and ready for anything. Her name was Fidelia and she was a tempting bit of woman even without the three million dollars she was to inherit. Only wherever she went—and she went everywhere—murder seemed to follow. That's how I came into the picture. My name is Joe Puma. I'm a private investigator. She hired me to scare off the wolves. I'm big for my age, handy with my fists and a fool for trouble—especially when it looks at me the way Fidelia did. It wasn't any picnic, though. Three million bucks wrapped in a prize package like Fidelia was powerful bait. Deadly, in fact. But some guys were just too greedy. They wouldn't give up even if it killed them—or me. Views: 29
She could never, looking backwards, remember a time when she had not known that a woman's failure or success in life depended entirely upon whether or not she succeeded in getting a husband When in the company of a young man a dutiful daughter should immediately assume an air of fresh, sparkling enjoyment. She should not speak of "being friends" with him-a young man is either eligible or he is not-and never, but never, should she get herself talked about, for a young girl who does so is doomed. "Men may dance with her, or flirt with her, but they don't propose." It would be quite a coup for a girl to find a husband during her first season, but if, God forbid, three seasons pass without success, she must join the ranks of those sad women who are a great embarrassment to society and, above all, to their disappointed mothers . . . With such thoughts in mind, how can Monica fail to look forward to her first ball? Views: 29
