• Home
  • Books for 2010 year

The Bones of Hillside

This short story was originally published in A Shadow of Autumn: An Anthology of Fall and Halloween Tales. Robin Thomas is cursed with a terrible lifelong task, and Halloween is the darkest night of the year...
Views: 35

The Steam Pig

"James McClure's first novel arrives like a slam in the kidneys . . . a gripping style, real characters, and an exotic locale. . . . The Steam Pig will not only keep the reader's nose to the page, it will also make [him] think."--The New York Times Book Review In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? James McClure was born in Johannesburg. Je published eight wildly successful books in the Kramer and Zondi series. He died on June 17, 2006.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Views: 35

The Secret of Chanel No. 5

The unauthorized biography of the world's most famous, seductive, and successful perfumeWith its rich golden hue, art deco--inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel No. 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as le monstre--the monster--it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Yet how did this pioneering celebrity fragrance, introduced in the early 1920s, eventually take on a life of its own, becoming a cultural monument celebrated by millions of devoted consumers? The Secret of Chanel No. 5 is Tilar J. Mazzeo's far-ranging and fascinating search beyond the stuff of legend to uncover the full story of No. 5's creation, iconic status, and extraordinary success. Mazzeo goes back through time and deep into the life of Coco Chanel, the brilliant, controversial, and steel-willed businesswoman at the heart of the...
Views: 35

Class Is Not Dismissed!

In this hilarious follow-up to School of Fear, eccentric headmaster Mrs. Wellington demands requests the presence of Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, and Garrison for a mandatory summer of retraining after discovering that each of her former students has secretly regressed. Facing their fears was terrifying enough, but when the foursome learns they'll be joined by a fifth student, things start to get even scarier.To make matters worse, the students quickly find themselves tasked with saving their school. And because failing means spending the rest of their lives with unresolved phobias, this is one test they all plan to ace.
Views: 35

Game Over

We've all done it a time or two. Played a video game - either alone or with our kids. But have you ever wondered what goes on with those pixillated characters when you hit Pause? Or when you turn the game off for the night? You may be quite surprised. Take a peek behind the programming at the lusty adventures going on inside your tv screen...
Views: 35

Zhe #02 - Chains of Tartarus

Elysium is burning. In the deep levels, the Habs seethe with violence. In the streets, mobs proclaim the ascendancy of Simeon Blaire to the throne of God-Emperor. And below them all, in the teknomantic hades of the R.T., an alien experiment goes horribly awry. Now a shadow which has stalked beside humanity since the dawn of sentience is clothed in flesh - and the Forge might just give it the power to bring about Hell on Earth. Only a tiny group of disparate souls stand in its path - the alien Technician Zhe, the genecrafted warriors Abdulafia and CeeAn, Subcity miscreants Jaq and Kaito... and other, even stranger allies thrown together by chance. And while the city is torn apart from within, an even greater peril is falling in toward the sun, the cold, calculating planet-killer Everdark, herald of the Motherbrain... 'Chains of Tartarus' concludes the story begun in 'Elysian Fields'in spectacularly destructive fashion, creating an apocalypse-opera that makes Gotterdammerung look like a teddy bears' picnic.
Views: 35

Shotgun Opera

Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling.  Mike’s nephew Andrew needs to disappear, and he needs to do it yesterday. Hanging with the wrong kind of friends, he’s seen something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s running for his life with an assassin on his trail. The consummate professional hit woman, Nikki Enders is the most lethal of a deadly sisterhood. And Andrew Foley is next on her extermination list. Unless Uncle Mike can stop her. As kill teams descend on Foley’s farm, one pissed-off ex—tough guy is about to take a final, all-or-nothing stand with shotguns blazing....
Views: 35

The Glass Flower

Science Fiction/Fantasy. 16229 words long. First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1986
Views: 35