 | Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Release Date: September 18, 2012On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose a...
 |  | Lima Nights: A Novel
Release Date: July 13, 2010Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: He attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, and has the occasional, fleeting assignation. Then he meets Maria Fernandez, a dancer at a tango bar in a rough part of town. The beautiful fifteen-year-old intoxicates him. An indigenous dark-skinned Peruvian, she represents everything his safe white world does not, and soon he can’t get her out of his mind. They begin a passionate affair, one that will destroy his marriage and shatter the only reality he...
|  | That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3)
Release Date: May 6, 2003The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gainin...
|  | Double Jeopardy (The McClain Brothers, Book 2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #109)
Publication Date: July 8, 2008Witness to a brutal murder, Anne Jones bravely agrees to testify. She is given a new name, a new history and is advised not to get too close to anyone. But she does--and with good reason. Somehow, her identity has been compromised. Someone knows who--and where--she is. Anne's handsome boss, Patrick McClain, is himself witness to the scare tactics being used against her and vows to keep her safe. Yet she will have to disappear all over again, lest she put both their lives in jeopardy.... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Cause of Death (Patricia Cornwell)
Release Date: July 2, 1996The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigativereporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car leadmedical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain PeteMarino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group. 1,200,000 firstprinting. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main. ...
|  | The Stone Elephant
Publication Date: October 20, 2000The author's naval career included staff assignments at four major hospitals; a hospital ship, the USS Repose off VietNam '68-'69; and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He then returned to Norfolk, Virginia and continued his neurosurgical career in private practice and as Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School.From his challenging and extensive experience he transcends the too often impersonal world of medicine with honed skill, mixing poignancy and humor, to tell the story of a marine intelligence offi...
|  | The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend: A Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless Mystery (Maney, Mabel)
Publication Date: November 30, 2005| Series: Maney, Mabel If you know the specific gravity of gold, travel with the Nurses’ Guide to Snakes, or can get a raisin pie stain out of a pink poplin frock, you’ll fit right in with Nancy Clue and her gay chums on a road trip from sleepy Pleasantville, Idaho, to sparkling River Depths, Illinois, where Hannah, Nancy’s beloved housekeeper, stands wrongfully accused of murder! Nurse Cherry Aimless, who fell head-over-penny-loafers for the world-famous girl detective in The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, must help her new sweetheart cle...
|  | The Big Book of Urban Legends (The Big book Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1995This collection of strange and bizarre anecdotal tales drawn (ostensibly) from real life contains 200 stories that have circulated across metropolitan areas--all invariably sworn to be true. "The Poodle in the Microwave, " "The Mouse in the Coke Bottle, " and "The Accidental Cannibals" are just a few of the legends presented in this volume. Illustrated by artists from DC Comics. Mature readers. ...
|  | Churchill: Plays One
Publication Date: May 29, 1985The plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene with Cloud Nine. The volume also contains a new introduction by the author as well as short prefaces to each play. ...
|  | Alexander Pushkin (Everyman's Poetry)
Publication Date: June 15, 1997Russias greatest poet Puskin led a short but turbulent life. His poetry tacklesthe great themes of the human condition: Love and sex nature and art the individual and social. ...
|  | Paroles (French Edition) (Folio)
Publication Date: September 10, 1976| Series: Folio (Book 762) Traces d'usages, l...
|  | A Dangerous Thing: The Adrien English Mysteries (Volume 2)
Publication Date: May 14, 2012In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared. ...
|  | Archive 17: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: February 28, 2012Stalin’s most trusted secret agent, the legendary Inspector Pekkala, is on his deadliest mission—one that could save his country . . . or plunge it into the abyss. It is 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his regime, Stalin orders a search for the legendary missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II. For this task, he chooses Pekkala, the former investigator for the Tsar. To accomplish his mission, Pekkala will go undercover, returning to Siberia and the nightmare of his own past, whe...
|  | Force of Eagles
Release Date: March 1, 1991A tiny nation has been transformed into a devastating threat to global peace by the awesome technology of war. The lives of three hundred captured Americans dangle by threads clutched in the fist of a ruthless despot. Diplomacy is futile when dealing with an unrepentant madman and his minions. The time has come for the use of force, led by a superb and dedicated fighter pilot named Jack Locke.Force of Eagles is an electrifying novel of a Superpower pushed to the breaking point, of courageous exploits and vengeance meted out by able men in magnificent machines of wa...
|  | Black Widow Joins the Mighty Avengers
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|  | When Bear Stole the Chinook
Publication Date: October 30, 1997| Grade Level: P and up In this story from the Siksika (formerly known as the Blackfoot), spring fails to come to the land. A boy discovers the reason--Bear has stolen the chinook. Then the boy and his friends set out in pursuit of Bear. When they locate his den, they encounter problems freeing the chinook from the fierce animal. But thanks to the boy's ingenuity, the group prevails. Full color. ...
|  | Stunt Bicycle Riding (Extreme Sports)
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|  | In the Pocket: Johnny Unitas and Me
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: P and up Billy wants to be a great quarterback like his hero, Johnny Unitas, but his coach is worried he'll get hurt. When Billy meets his hero, the legendary football star tells him about his own challenges. And after watching Johnny's amazing performance inthe 1958 National Football League championship, Billy is more determined than ever to beat the odds. ...
|  | Evander Holyfield: Heavyweight Champion (Reading Power)
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|  | Bernard Wants a Baby
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up Bernard can't wait for his mother to come home from the hospital with his new baby. He had told his mother the exact kind of baby he wanted: a baby that doesn't cry or spit up. Above all, he wanted a baby brother. Waiting for his mother to bring his baby brother home seems like an eternity to Bernard. When the big day arrives, Bernard gets more than he wished for -- a lot more. Joan Elizabeth Goodman and Dominic Catalano have created the perfect book for any child whose world suddenly changes with the arrival of a n...
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