On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat ofengineering ever encountered. A place of untold technologicalwonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of themost beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost;Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beingsbrought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld.Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft arebeing destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires aremassing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone daresapproach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Nowit looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who willsit on the Ringworld Throne? "Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, andthis book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique iswonderfully polished, his characters and their situations arenicely drawn . .
If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offendingothers and back down too easily...explain too much when asked forinformation....or "poll" your friends and colleagues before makinga decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions andignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not beaware of it, girlish behaviors such as these are sabotaging yourcareer! Dr. Lois Frankel reveals why some women roar ahead in theircareers while others stagnate. She's spotted a unique set ofbehaviors--101 in all--that women learn in girlhood that sabotagethem as adults. Now, in this groudbreaking guide, she helps youeliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding youback--and offers invaluable coaching tips you can easilyincorporate into your social and business skills. If you recognizeand change the behaviors that say "girl" not "woman", the resultswill pay off in carrer opportunites you never thought possible--andin an image that identifies you as someone with the power a
This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town offNevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest.
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the CostaBrava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, doubleagent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There wasnothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in onefrantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sawhis Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S.and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautifulbetrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by atop-level mole with the world in his fist-- Parsifal.
Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerousman in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has aplan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the worldfrom her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who isworking under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stophim, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerfutriumph on earth.
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singletonas type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judyaloving best friend riding shotgunabut no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
You'll lose a lot of sleep ...Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon ...
Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on theShore—“daringly original,” wrote Steven Moore in The WashingtonPost Book World, “and compulsively readable”—comes a collectionthat generously expresses Murakami’s mastery. From the surreal tothe mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform thefull range of human experience in ways that are instructive,surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder haswritten in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “He addresses thefantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity andlightness.” Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, aswell as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for.Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile inGreece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life,Murakami’s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or theglow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those whoought to be the closest of all. “While
Ex-detective Macmillan has a taste for bad girls, but his lastlover really took the cake-and his humanity. Now a half-demon,Mac's lost his friends, his family, and his job. Then a beguilingvampire asks for his help to find her son. Suddenly, Mac has a caseto work-one that leads him deeps into the supernatural prison whereMac learns that cracking the case will cost him his last scrap ofhumanity.
But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle,racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past intoa bizarre world of murderous conspirators -- led by Carlos, theworld's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bournebut the woman who once wanted to escape him.
With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print,Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (neeBloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new" "Shopaholic novel Becky'slife is blooming She's working at London's newest big store, TheLook, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a ShoeRoom)...and she's pregnant She couldn't be moreoverjoyed--especially since discovering that shopping cures morningsickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from thedesigner nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity,must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turnsout to be Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky'sperfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but arethere three in her marriage?
An environmental fable that "evok es] the power of NativeAmerican moods and mythologies" (Lloyd Alexander).
Praise for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best …tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that youwill be hooked within a few pages’ The Times ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasywriters away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct theTwelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous theycould eat the Borgias’ Guardian ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicatingcomplexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in hisimaginary world … The writing is always powerful …' SFX
Faced with a custody battle for her daughter, monster-killerAshe Carver has hung up her stakes and taken a job at the publiclibrary. But then after centuries guarding a supernatural prison,the dashing Captain Reynard strides into her world. He has onlyweeks to live unless Ashe finds the thief who took his soul-andhe's too drop-dead gorgeous to die...
Handsome, strong, and just a little bit dangerous, hald-ComancheChase Wolf is used to getting what he wants. So when he seesFranny-a golden- haired angel with deep green eyes, delicatefeatures, and the sweetest smile-he sets out to make her his. ButFranny is far from the innocent she seems. And the truth may bemore than Chase can bear...
The latest tale in the "charming" (Publishers Weekly) BeatrixPotter series! In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplaneare disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey. Miss BeatrixPotter can barely hear herself think-which she needs to do for thenew case she's just taken up. Her friend Grace Lythecoe has beenreceiving some anonymous letters, threatening her good name. Now Beatrix must proceed quietly, so as not to arouse villagegossip. And while her visit to Near Sawrey has proven to beanything but quiet, there is yet another piece of business forBeatrix to address: that of her own future. When she's offered asecond chance at love, she decides that sometimes causing adisturbance can be well worth the trouble.
Only two rival spies—and one mysterious woman—can stop them:Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius forespionage—and a life of terror and explosive violence. Swornenemies, they have vowed to terminate each other—yet now they mustbecome allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills andice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle ofkillers, the Matarese.
The Stephen King Amusement Park - an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory. A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is here with a powerful collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination will take you on a roller coaster to places you've never been before. You will lose sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.
“After Dark is a streamlined, hushed ensemble piece. …Standing above the common gloom, Murakami detects phosphorescence everywhere, but chiefly in the auras around people, which glow brightest at night and when combined.” The New York Times Book Review A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle international bestsellers, with a surprising infusion of heart, Murakami has produced one of his most enchanting fictions yet. “Murakami is masterful with symbolism.. . . Night. . . can’t blacken the ever-shifting shutter speeds of Murakami’s cockeyed Kodak.. . . It is straight- ahead jazz with a quiet grace.” The Los Angeles Times
The name on the computer screen is James BarbousMatlock. Vietnam veteran. Collegeprofessor. He's Washington's choice to stop afar-reaching conspiracy, an undercover assignment destined to putMatlock's neck against the razor's edge of danger. Andthe faceless men in Washington don't care if it means savaging thewomen Matlock loves, or trapping Matlock in a maze of unrelentingterror. They care about just one thing: that Matlock isthe perfect man for the job...for a reason that is disturbing,violent, and extremely deadly.
