Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escapedthe penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent onrevenge, he's going back to where he began--Blewer County,Texas... Born deaf, lately widowed, Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranchthat is her son's birthright, unaware that she is at the center ofHerbold's horrific scheme--and that her world of self-imposedisolation is about to explode... Drifter Jack Sawyer arrives at Anna's ranch asking for work,hoping to protect the innocent woman and her son from Herbold'srage. But Sawyer can't outrun the secrets that stalk him--or theday of reckoning awaiting them all...
That's ,how long it's been since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played hero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch or even held, much less fired, a gun. But all that is about to change...because of a promisWhen he stops two neighborhood high school girls from getting into a car with a drunk driver, Myron makes them promise to call him if they are ever in a bind and need some-one tO pick them up--someone who is not their parents.Several nights later, the call comes at two in the morning.The next day, a girl is missing and Myron is the last person to have seen her. Now, in a desperate attempt to fulfill a well-intentioned promise gone nightmarishly wrong, Myron must become a hero again to save a young girl's life.
A beautifully polished, utterly knowing and palpitatingbook. TIME Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate thesecret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who haverisen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of themall is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into thismaze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knowsRoper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. NowPersonal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help themen at Whitehall try to bring Roper down.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaperand the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-timethief. When asked to write an expose about her notorious father,Sophie quits and goes to work at a small newspaper, covering localpersonalities such as William Harrington, the 5K runner whosetrademark is red socks. Those socks--with Sophie's business cardtucked inside--are practically all that's found after Harrington iskilled near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, seemingly in a brutal polar bearattack. Sophie heads north to investigate, but danger follows inher wake. After one attempt on her life, she's assigned brash butsexy Jack MacAlister as a bodyguard. But Sophie and Jack will soonbe fighting more than their growing passion for each other.Powerful forces will stop at nothing to prevent the exposure of thesinister conspiracy Sophie and Jack are about to uncover.
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale ...
The Dark Tower saga builds to an explosive climax... In November 2003, the fifth Dark Tower book hits stores for the first time-followed by books six and seven. This #1 bestseller heralds the beginning of the end.
Sound so visual you're literally engulfed by its bonechillingterror! Stephen King's sinister imagination and the miracle of 3-Dsound transport you to a sleepy all-American town. It's a hot, lazyday, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange darkclouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends asabruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes themist...creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles andwaits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cutoff from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seethingwith unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror?Was it the Arrowhead Project---the top secret government operationthat everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And whathappens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to makeyour escape, edging blindly through the dim light? The Mist has youin it grip, and this masterpiece of 3-D sound engineering surroundsyou with horror so real that you'll be grabbing y
The world of an early 19th century Kentucky farm proves to betoo small a place for a boy with a vision. His wanderlust takes himto the Ohio River and into the fierce business world of old St.Louis, where he meets a veteran trapper. Filled with the trapper'sstories, he plans to set out to experience the wilderness lorefirsthand.
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ...The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
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
He has waited for this moment. "He has planned his every move. "He has made it onto the jury in the most explosive trial of the century. "Now the verdict belongs to him. . . . They are at the center of a multimillion dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now that the jury must make a decision in the most explosive trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him... He is known only as Juror #2. But he has a name, a past, and he has planned his every move with the help of a beautiful woman on the outside. Now, while a corporate empire hands in the balance, while a grieving family waits, and while lawyers are plunged into a battle for their careers, the truth about Juror #2 is about to explode, in a cross fire of greed
Faking her own death to escape her murderous husband, RainieHall takes refuge in the rural community of Crystal Falls, whereshe finds work as a bookkeeper on a horse ranch run by dangerouslygood-looking Parker Harrigan. But as their initial attractionblossoms, Rainie fears she can never escape retribution from theman who has sworn to kill heraand that her mere presence couldjeopardize everything the Harrigan family holds dear.
The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed.Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat.But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding.
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.
