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Forged From Ash - Book #7 of the Skinners Series

Narrowly avoiding extinction at the hands of the Full Bloods, mankind had its eyes brutally ripped open to the truth of what lies in the darkness. A fight for survival has begun on a global scale. The Skinners were dealt an almost crippling blow with the rise of the shapeshifters and have scattered. Some have joined forces with the Inhuman Response Division. Terror rules this land...
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Glyph

In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel TheNew York Times praised as "both a treatise and a romp"

Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib—but they don't include staring at a mobile. Aided by his mother, he reads voraciously: "All of Swift, all of Sterne, Invisible Man, Baldwin, Joyce, Balzac, Auden, Roethke," along with a generous helping of philosophy, semiotics, and trashy thrillers. He's also fond of writing poems and stories (in crayon). But Ralph has limits. He's mute by choice and can't drive, so in his own estimation he's not a genius. Unfortunately for him, everyone else disagrees. His psychiatrist kidnaps him for testing, and once his brilliance is quantified (IQ: 475), a Pentagon officer also abducts him. Diabolically funny and lacerating in...

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Lethal Payload

ROGUE'S GALLERYA rescue mission in the South Pacific turns up a wild card that puts Mack Bolan on the trail of an elusive enemy mounting a horrific and ingenious attack against the U.S.--one that involves traitors deep inside one of the world's most elite and powerful groups of soldiers: the French foreign legion.Bolan's hard probe takes him halfway across the globe to French Guiana, where a faceless enemy is in deadly pursuit. The stakes get higher when Bolan makes the connection between the country's state-of-the-art satellite launch facility and a terrorist plot poised to send shock waves around the world.With the situation spinning out of control, the Executioner plays long odds for his very survival. But this time he's betting the farm.
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Sun Alley

Sal, the protagonist of Sun Alley, is an exceptionally intelligent 12-year-old boy, experiencing his first love. One summer afternoon, on his way to see his girlfriend Emi, he is caught in a rain shower and shelters in the hallway of a block of flats. Led by a strong odor, he goes down into the basement, where he comes upon the corpse of a young and very beautiful woman. Little by little, Sal will attempt to discover the mystery of this body and, at the same time, will pursue his amorous relationship with Emi; a strange liaison which unfolds in parallel with the adulterous affair of an adult couple whose path Sal repeatedly crosses. As his love story with Emi evolves, Sal tries his best to hide it, not only from the cynical eyes of his friends in the neighborhood, but also from his parents—whose intervention might well shatter his bliss—thereby developing a veritably adulterous mindset. The connections between adults and the two children, on the one hand, and...
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The Fall to Power

THE SECOND BOOK IN THE GRAEME STONE SAGA:Two centuries have passed since Graeme Stone first landed in this world with no memory of who he was or how he'd come to be here.The darkness of his past has caught up with Stone and turned him from the path of the Shaman as taught to him by Master Wrynn.Stone is now Invictus; the Barbarian King, an immortal ruler with nigh-limitless power. His every whim is a command. Every pleasure his for the taking.With the seductive Seeress Ceceline, the snarling Huntmaster Kurnos, the handsome and jovial General Bavard and the lethal assassin Memphias by his sides, the godking spares no thoughts for the plight of his people, content to enjoy himself, safe in the knowledge that he is unasailable in the stone towers of Pen-Merethia.But there are stirrings upon the breeze... ancient spirits, long since banished from the land, whisper of change. In the far north, a simple woodsman summons the disillusioned people to arms. Closer to home, the smell of long-forbidden Spirit-craft is afoot.Invictus' rule is to be challenged.But as long as he has the backing of his dark patrons Beyond the Veil, he has nothing to worry about... does he?Find out in this, The Fall to Power, the second book in the Graeme Stone Saga.==The God-King took a step back as the Golem strode into the room, each leaden, automaton footstep causing the ground to tremble, motes of dust to fall from the ceiling. The beast rose to its full height, eight feet, nine, no ten, looming, a monster, a giant, dwarfing even the mighty form of the Barbarian King, who opened his mouth, half smiling, unable to be anything other than impressed by this crude, yet effective instrument of war.The keening, scratching noise again, the dry rustling of a trapped spirit, and, as Invictus looked into the monster’s artlessly chiselled eyes, he could see now the raging torment of the trapped djinn within. Somehow, the Sand Lords, the desert sorcerers of this region, had managed to trap this restless spirit within the construct, forcing it to serve them for all of eternity.                           The God-King grinned, for he saw the evil genius of the idea, but at the same time he saw its folly; for you do not send a spirit against Invictus, for he was an avatar of a power beyond that of the elements. With a thought, he bade the anguished spirit to go, to fleeA moment passed, then the Golem took another thunderous step towards him, the stone of the floor splintering beneath its tremendous weight.                           Ah, he thought. A spirit can’t flee if it’s bound, no more than a man could flee if tied to a ball and chain. Fair enough, there’s more than one way to skin a Golem...
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Money to Burn

Translation of "Plata Quemada" 1997
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Motherlode

COERCION VORTEX  The cost of living disintegrated after America's nuclear cull, and a life in Deathlands—any life—is dirt cheap. But those few who manage to stay alive in the savage new reality must travel the hellgrounds any way they can. For Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivors, that means denying the pull toward savagery, and clinging to what little humanity they have left, when they can afford it.  SEEDS OF SUSTAINABLITY  Desperately short of supplies, Ryan and his companions are forced to seek help at the prosperous-looking ville of Amity Springs. Hired on to retrieve a stolen relic, they quickly become caught up in an escalating power struggle between two strong-willed lady barons. Each woman covets the cache of predark goods buried in the ville's backyard. But they are not alone in their desire. And all that stands between a motherlode of buried bounty and the destructive power of unchecked greed is Ryan's grim determination to survive another day.  The final frontier isn't in space…it's in Deathlands.**
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Falling to Pieces

When Joe walks out of Rose's life, she can't imagine life without him. But with support from her friends - and an unexpected person - Rose finds her way to climb out of her despair. After his father's blackmail forces him to leave the love of his life to protect her, Joe is thrown into the race for Arkansas State Senate. But while Rose has people to help her grieve, Joe finds himself completely alone - except the one person he detests is the only person who's offering comfort.
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Robyn Hood: A Girl's Tale

The ballads lie. Robin Hood, the Bold and Brave Outlaw of Sherwood Forest, is cowardly, spineless, and a girl. Robyn unwittingly starts the Robin Hood farce when she is mistaken for a male while saving her friend, Marian, from two foresters. Forced into hiding, Robyn unwillingly collects "Merry Men" while grudgingly robbing from the rich fools that wander through Sherwood. What starts as small scale robbery blows up into complex heists when Little John and Will Scarlet join her team, and the idiotic Prince John and his legion of soldiers comes to town. However, Robyn can't stop the theft—not when King Richard is being held ransom.Cowardly Robyn’s best chance to raise money for King Richard’s release is to rob his brother, Prince John. Will she survive the heist, or swing in the gallows?
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Everything You Need to Know

Welcome to Need to Know--Because a Woman Can't Be Too InformedDating in D.C. is like navigating an apocalyptic wasteland populated by men in expensive suits with zero mating potential. Need to Know provides all the information a savvy single woman like you needs to avoid dating disasters.By night, Jordan McAdam is the proprietor of a popular website that rates D.C.'s hottest bachelors--everything from how quick they are to email you back, to their skills in the sack. She's been burned once too often to accept any man at face value. By day, her job as an office temp puts her in the perfect position to do a little fact-checking on her rich and powerful subjects. When her latest assignment brings her face-to-face with the sexy but mysterious Forest Redder, Jordan decides to do a little "hands-on" research of her own. To Jordan, he seems like the perfect man--but she knows there is no such thing. Moreover, there's a big problem: Forest knows Jordan's...
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