Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi
A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.
andquot; Michener is America's best writer, and he proves itonce again in CENTENNIAL.andquot; THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunningpanorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration ofour country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of theAmerican past that only bestselling author James Michener couldbring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migratingwhite men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a storyof trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, andhunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflictsthat shaped the destiny of our legendary West.
The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by alegendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is thenext to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for DavidWebb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone elsehas taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the worldwill pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Onceagain, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again,like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn fromhis life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover anexplosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey intothe espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not beenough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.
In this novel, symptomatic of Lawrence's later work, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the country. As she becomes involved with Don Ramon and General Cipriano, her perceptions change. Caught up in the plans of these two men to revive the old Aztec religion and political order, she submits to the 'blood-consciousness' and phallic power that they represent.
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteerfireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks tosave lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bringhimself to make: he can't fall in love. For all his adult years,Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leavesas soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts tobecome truly intimate. When a raging storm hits his small Southerntown, single mother Denise Holton's car skids off the road. Theyoung mom is with her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severelearning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything.Taylor McAden finds her unconscious and bleeding, but does not findKyle. When Denise wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to bothof them: Kyle is gone. During the search for Kyle, the connectionbetween Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that thisrescue will be different from all the others, demanding far morethan raw physical courage. It will lead him to the
Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris,where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers- and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a placeto stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan tomake a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women whomysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot.Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In thecity nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of hisdepth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never haveimagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry,where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. Amiddle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond thecertificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are hisdaily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of ananonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, SenhorJose sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to thewoman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and abouthimself, than he would ever have wished. The loneliness of people'slives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce inthis extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of JoseSaramago in brilliant form.
In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced. A Clash Of Kings A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of t
The Lost Symbol is the long awaited sequel to Dan Brown's TheDa Vinci Code . The Da Vinci Code was an international phenomenonwith 81 million copies in print worldwide. In Britain it was eventhe best-selling Paperback ever. The filming was also a hugesuccess. Since May 2009, is Angels and Demons worldwide intheaters. In his new book, The Lost icon again Robert Langdon is the hero.Readers will cheer again from the first page of Robert Langdon,when they accompanied him on an exciting journey of discovery fullof surprises - and all in just 12 hours time for action. DanBrown's talent for storytelling interwoven with historicalelements, codes and intrigue make the new thriller once again atrue "Paget Uri. This novel was a strange and wonderful trip," Dan Brown himselfsays "The result of five years of research into a 12-hour actionwas to weave and stimulating challenge. Robert Langdon's lifestrides definitely faster than my own.
No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughlyengrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behaviorand the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman,the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People).Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware andhomicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursionyet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runscold. It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve andMichaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish onthe way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of themare found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrifiedafter a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: Thecouple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant andsubjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation andassault. But before long, doubts arise a
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The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez'sdaring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired thecritically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, andco-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the Americanembassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics stillreverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected tothe crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officernamed Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky planto rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by acast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents,and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehranunder the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fictionfilm called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect filmbackdrops, Mendez and a
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Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more thana decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever CommissarioGuido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover thethreads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integritywhile maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption,and intrigue. In "A Noble Radiance" a new landowner is summonedurgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentallyunearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, buta ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens aninfamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's mostaristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel theclues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice andthat of a family grieving for their abducted son.
