#4 Book on The New York Times Monthly Business Bestseller List #9 Book on The New York Times Monthly Political Bestseller List #9 Book on The New York Times Weekly Nonfiction Bestseller List USA Today Bestseller In the early morning hours of February 19, 2006, a sudden blast shook a coal mine in northern Mexico, trapping sixty-five workers in a subterranean tunnel. Napoleón Gómez, head of the fiercely independent union that represented the workers, was appalled by what he found at the scene: labor department inspectors and the company operating the mine had ignored the egregiously hazardous state of the work site and were failing miserably at a rescue effort. Rather than focusing on saving lives, they were busy downplaying the company's role in the collapse and selling false hope to the families camped out at the mouth of the mine. Less than a week after the explosion, Mexico's labor secretary called off the... Views: 20
Roger Brook – 'wanted' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796. With him went his lovely Clarissa. And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted. Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced.Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon. Views: 20
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Camacho's Caballeros, the deadly mercenary force, plans to unveil the traitorous Black Dragon secret society and their scheme to destroy the Draconis Combine's Theodore Kurita--a scheme that could change the course of the entire Inner Sphere. A full-length BattleTech feature film is in development with New Line Cinema. Views: 20
'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday When animal-rights activists uncover a long-dead uniformed body in the grounds of Wanwood House, a research facility, Dalziel is presented with a seemingly insoluble mystery. And he is further perplexed when he's attracted to one of the campaigners – now implicated in a murderous assault. Meanwhile, the death of his grandmother has led Peter Pascoe to the battlefields of World War 1 and the enigma of who his grandfather was – and why he had to die. Views: 19
Caris Ismay is falling in love with a woman she dares not pursue, and at exactly the wrong time. She shares a perfect, passionate kiss she cannot stop thinking about. Can Caris move past the taboo of her attraction and find her path with this woman who seems all wrong on paper? Views: 19
Jay is a player–a typical college student with one thing on his mind–and that doesn’t change when he meets Betsy. He wants nothing more than to take her five ways from Sunday, and Betsy doesn’t seem to object. When she gives him a homemade advent calendar for Christmas, Jay discovers the real meaning of the phrase, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Views: 19
During the exciting days of the 1893 Chicago Exposition a young woman's social position forces her to make difficult choices. Views: 19
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict has come. The city is torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that man is weakened, become frail—has become their prey. Views: 19
Destitute following her father's death, young Mary Grace visits the handsome but lecherous mortician Hyde Fortune, who once promised her employment. It isn't too long before they are consummating their lust for each other and involving Fortune's housekeeper, the exotic Yu Ling, and his dark assistant Sebastian. When Fortune gets Mary a live-in position as a seamstress at Heaven's Gate -- a local Abbey -- she envisions a time of abstinence and piety. The monks, however, are a randy lot and her assigned roommate Sybil quickly teaches her the ins and outs of their erotic rituals -- much to the delight of Father Luc and her voyeur lover, Hyde Fortune. Views: 19
Lani Ward receives a mysterious lava stone in the mail and has erotic visions and nightmares about Cort Wayne, the construction boss of the site she must close down. Believing there isn’t anything in the ground but dirt, Cort refuses to let Lani, or any unlikely spirit, endanger his project—or his heart.Must he make peace with the goddess of fire to revel in the sizzling flames of her daughter? Views: 19
