 | The Sisterhood
Release Date: December 1, 1994Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicable, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life-to dedicated young nurse unknowingly holds the and the answers. Together they will discover that no one is from... ...
 |  | Necessary Evil
Release Date: April 1, 2001In this stunning psychological thriller, David Dun demonstrates that he is that rare breed of author who brings to his very first book, not just enormous talent, but the skill and polish that will remind readers of some of today's most seasoned writers. Like the earlier books of New York Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver, "Necessary Evil" hurtles along at breakneck speed, packing an intense, action-filled story into a period of time so short it leaves us breathless.During a savage snowstorm, a private jet slams into the rugged California high country. In its wake lie...
|  | Pedigree (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: July 20, 2010| Series: New York Review Books Classics Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to André Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the centu...
|  | Red Storm Rising
Release Date: August 7, 1986Tom Clancy's second classic No 1 bestselling thriller -- a chillingly authentic vision of modern war -- now reissued in a new cover.Three Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petrochemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III.Desperately short of oil, the Kremlin hawks see only one way of solving their problem: seize supplies in the Persian Gulf. To do that, they must first neutralise NATO's forces and eliminate their response -- and so they develop Red...
|  | Matt Jensen: Last Mountain Man 4 - Savage Territory
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Matt Jensen: Last Mountain Man It was a duty to a dead man. Matt Jensen had promised his friend, slain by an outlaw named Pogue Willis, that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis. But Matt's search leads him from St. Louis to Arizona Territory, and into the company of a rich Easterner and his beautiful young wife. For Matt, the schemes of some citified land prospectors don't mean much, until the young woman is seized by renegade Apaches and it's up to Matt to save her life from brutal death...Soon, Matt Jensen is learning a lesson in courag...
|  | The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: July 8, 2003| Series: Vintage Classics Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation ofThe Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even befo...
|  | A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Publication Date: December 23, 2011In 1542, a Spanish Dominican friar named Bartolome de las Casas wrote an account of the abuses enacted against the indigenous population of the New World by Spanish explorers. Fearing both for the souls of his own countrymen, and for the souls of the native peoples whom they had so brutally subjugated, de las Casas sent the document to Prince Philip II of Spain. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies was responsible for a new set of laws abolishing native slavery in the Spanish colonies. ...
|  | News from the Empire (Latin American Literature)
Publication Date: April 7, 2009One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Simultaneously intimate and panoramic, the narrative flows from Carlota's fevered memories of her husband's ill-fated empire to the multiple and conflicting accounts of a broad cast of characters who bore witness to the events that first placed the hapless couple on their puppet thrones, and then as swiftly removed them. St...
|  | Fairy Tradition in Britain
Publication Date: July 1995Contents:The Fairies of England, Scotland, Wales, The Isle of Man, and Ireland; Nomenclature and Description; Appearance and Costume; The Fairy Life; The Relation of Fairies with Mankind; The Belief in Fairy Changelings; The Abduction of Adults by Fairies; Fairyland; The Fairylands of the Celts; The Fairy Cult and Ritual.Illustrated. ...
|  | Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains
Publication Date: April 16, 2007Since he was a youngster, W. C. Jameson has hiked, explored, and been captivated by the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas and southeast New Mexico, just southwest of Carlsbad. He has searched the caves in the mountains (even finding a few gold nuggets tucked away years earlier by an unknown prospector) and visited with longtime residents in the local cafes and taverns, and on their ranches. He spent hours listening to them share historical events of the Guadalupes as well as the legends.Sometimes the people of the mountains talked about buried treasures and ot...
|  | Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0140437355 | ISBN-13: 978-0140437355The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. "Pragmatism" grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with "The Meaning of Truth", "Psychology", "The Will to Believe", and "Talks to Teachers on Psychology". ...
|  | Tough Enough: The Cowboy\The Cougar\Murder at Last Chance Ranch (Hqn)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Hqn In these timeless romances from bestselling authors Jayne Ann Krentz, Lindsay McKenna and B.J. Daniels, three women will discover that the West has never been so wild…The CowboyAfter their disastrous parting, Margaret Lark thought she was through with Rafe Cassidy. So when he shows up on her doorstep a year later with a shocking proposal, Margaret has no choice but to put her heart on the line again—even if it means winning back the cowboy who stole it in the first place.The CougarJim Cunningham's Arizona ranching family has been fe...
|  | Flowertown
Release Date: June 19, 2012When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, scores of people died. Those who survived contamination were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Dosed with powerful drugs to combat the poison, their bodies give off a sickly sweet smell and the containment zone becomes known simply as Flowertown. Seven years later, the infrastructure is crumbling, supplies are dwindling, and nobody is getting clean. Ellie Cauley doesn’t care anymore. Despite her paranoid best friend's insistence that conspiracie...
|  | Gumbo Justice
Publication Date: June 5, 2009Gumbo Justice won the 2011 PSWA First Place award for Best Published Fiction in the Novel category.New Orleans prosecutor Ryan Murphy likes her Tequila cold and her cops hot.Battling demons from her past and checking her self-destructive streak take a back seat to her ambition, and she's not above skating the line just a little to get what she wants. If she snags a detective or two in the process, well, that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble. Life should be good. Enter a demented psycho, with a plan to ruin Ryan's life before he ultimately kills he...
|  | Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond
Publication Date: April 1996Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007. Fleming's wide-ranging and exciting life inevitably provided the plausible backdrop for his Bond novels. Highly regarded in British naval intelligence for his international contacts, he master-minded numerous top secret operations, including ''Golden Eye,'' which is uncovered here for the first time. He was also fundamental in shaping the prototype CIA. Two ...
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|  | If I Were a Phoenix Sun
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|  | The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition
Publication Date: July 16, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up First published in 1882, this is a wealth of projects and games, with practical directions on how to make them, by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. The ultimate pre-TV, anti-couch potato activity book, it answers the question, "What's there to do?" ...
|  | Four Ghost Stories
Publication Date: July 1, 2011A ghost? "One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead."I myself have never seen a ghost (I am by no means sure that I wish ever to do so), but I have a friend whose experience in this respect has been less limited than mine. Till lately, however, I had never heard the details of Lady Farquhar's adventure, though the fact of there being a ghost story which she could, if she chose, relate with the authority of an eye-witness, had been more than once alluded to before me. Living at extreme ends of the country, it is but seldom my friend and I are able...
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