 | Gone Bamboo
Publication Date: September 16, 2000Gone Bamboo pits Henry, a CIA-trained assassin, and Frances, his hard-nosed, hard-bodied wife against two governments and a cross-dressing mafioso. Henry and Frances have gone bamboo-living an idyllic, retired life in the Caribbean-but when Donnie, a powerful capo relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program, inadvertently jeopardizes their plan, all hell breaks loose. Despite the fact that Henry once tried to kill Donnie, the two join forces against the transvestite mob boss looking to ace Donnie. But things aren't going to be so easy...Written in ...
 |  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)
Release Date: December 1, 2000The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat-characters each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense. In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature. ...
|  | Sharpe's Story
Publication Date: November 15, 2007Sharpe's Story is Bernard Cornwell's own account of the Sharpe series; how it began and how it has evolved over nearly thirty years. ...
|  | Jedi Search (Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Vol. 1)
Release Date: February 1, 1994 ...
|  | Shalako/Catlow
Release Date: February 26, 2008ShalakoHe was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a loner who trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. But then Shalako came across a European hunting party, and a brave and beautiful woman, stranded and defenseless in the Sonoran Desert—the Apaches’ killing ground. Shalako knew he had to stay and help them survive. For somewhere out there a deadly Apache warrior had the worst kind of death in mind for them all.CatlowBen Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they became men, Catlow was an outlaw and Co...
|  | American Apocalypse Wastelands
Publication Date: August 9, 2011AS MILLIONS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN THE WASTELAND THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, A YOUNG MAN FIGHTS TO MAINTAIN ITS FOUNDING PROMISE.Starvation, violence and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps.When the military transforms Washington's life-saving food bank into a gun collection center in order to disarm all but the soldiers themselves, r...
|  | Snow (Everyman's Library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.))
Release Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Everyman's Library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) The Nobel Prize–winner’s second novel to appear in an Everyman edition is a spellbinding story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off from the world by a blizzard.Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant a...
|  | UPFALL
Publication Date: June 5, 2012What if a modern Israeli commando sayeret took on the German SS? While using a secret transport device designed for covert operations behind enemy lines, a team of elite Israeli commandos instead find themselves in Poland in 1942. Chased by a rogues gallery of authentic German SS men, the commandos raid death camps and battle Nazi combat groups, while keeping one step ahead of their own destruction. Rich in descriptions of both modern and World War II weaponry and tactics, mixing the styles of...
|  | Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Release Date: August 8, 2006It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet. In Sky Burial, Xinran has re-created Shu Wen’s journey, painting an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately ...
|  | Caspian Gates (Warrior of Rome 4)
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|  | I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Publication Date: December 1, 1991A young minister who has two years to live learns about the meaning of life when he is sent to an Indian parish in British Columbia. ...
|  | American Apocalypse IV: Rescue
Publication Date: April 25, 2011| Series: American Apocalypse Gardener made a promise to Carol to find her missing son, even though doing so may cost him his relationship with Night.After finding the boy, they end up in a Federal Zone where everything seems almost normal again.The roads are open, food is available, and the electricity is on.Is the crisis over? ...
|  | Percepliquis
Release Date: January 16, 2012IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS...THE ELVES HAVE CROSSED THE NIDWALDEN. TWO THIEVES WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE. "I saw a great journey. Ten upon the road, she who wears the light will lead the way. The road goes deep into the earth, and into despair. The voices of the dead guide your steps. You walk back in time. The three-thousand-year battle begins again. Cold grips the world, death comes to all, and a choice is before you." -- Fan Irlanu, Tenkin Seerer of Oudorro Village Percepliquis is the final installment of the epic fantasy, The Riyria Revelations. In thi...
|  | The Legend of Eli Monpress
Publication Date: February 24, 2012Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he's going to put his plan into effect.The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things. But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one wil...
|  | Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #11)
Release Date: August 21, 2007| ISBN-10: 0060561564 | ISBN-13: 978-0060561567| Edition: 1st pb ptgThe year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain except for the coastal city of Cádiz fallen to the invader, the French appear to have won their war. Raised in the gutters of London and taught to fight, Captain Richard Sharpe is in the Spanish capital on a mission for the British ambassador. But when a British attack on an enemy-held bridge goes disastrously wrong, he finds himself trapped in a city under siege, a hotbed of treachery, false...
|  | Bloodsworn (Ulrika the Vampire)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Ulrika the Vampire (Book 3) Returning to Nuln after her adventures in Praag, Ulrika finds the Lahmian vampires preparing for war. Across the Old World, their rivals, the sinister von Carsteins, attack their strongholds and lead the witch hunters to their hidden lairs. Spurned by her sisters, Ulrika forms an uneasy alliance with the von Carsteins in a plot to destabilise the Empire by striking at its very heart – they plan nothing less than the assassination of Emperor Karl Franz. With enemies on all sides and the Empire in flames, Ulrika must decide ...
|  | The Reluctant Hunter
Publication Date: September 10, 2012In the spring of 1992, as the formerly communist country of Yugoslavia begins to disintegrate into mayhem, Jusuf Pasalic, a college-age secular Muslim, is surprised by a thundering knock at his front door in the hamlet of Kljuc, Bosnia. Moments later, he is riding in a convoy of Serbian trucks transporting hundreds of Muslim men and boys to a concentration camp. After escaping, Jusuf is intent on returning home to save his mother, a devout Muslim, before she too is caught up in a region-wide campaign of ethnic cleansing. Jusuf, like his deceased father, is...
|  | Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt Adventure)
Release Date: October 26, 2004| Series: Dirk Pitt Adventure It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him. Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both hum...
|  | Comstock Lode
Release Date: February 1, 1982It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose...
|  | A Bomb Built in Hell: Wesley's Story (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: November 13, 2012| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Andrew Vachss' pre-Flood novel A Bomb Built in Hell was written in 1973. It was rejected by every publisher, one of whom described it as a "political horror story," others of whom berated it for its "lack of realism," including such things as Chinese youth gangs and the fall of Haiti. And the very idea of someone entering a high school with the intent of destroying every living person inside was just too ... ludicrous. Readers of Vachss' Burke series will immediately recognize Wesley, the main character o...
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