This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town offNevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest.
New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martinireturns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web ofterror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacredand secretive institution—the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour—a literaryprovocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gonetoo far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S.Constitution—and hints about an explosive missing letter of ThomasJefferson's—may be enough to cause an irreparable tear in thefabric of the nation . . . and perhaps drove a volatile youth tohomicide. But Paul Madriani thinks a troubled young man with darkconnections has been chosen as a scapegoat to cover up somethingfar deadlier that festers in America's political heart. And in thewake of the strange disappearance of a Supreme Court judge,Madriani must survive long enough to find the devastating answershidden in the shadow of power.
The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.
The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others.It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother,a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.But these plays are not about fate,and not about irnoy.They are about character,choice and consequence.In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law ,and die for it ,rather than transgress the eternal ,unwritten laws of the gods.Oedipus the Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those qualities-pride,determination and belief in his own ablitities-which made him ruler in the first place.Finally,in Oedipus at Colonus,written late in Sophocles' life,the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation,but at a cost-a son who will die in battle against his country,and a daughter who will die burying her brother.
Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. Ajob at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as aplane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes.And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. TotalDanger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global,the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give hisfamily the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into adeadly game. He is about to disappear-leaving behind a wife whomust sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wantsto know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBIagent who wants to know it all...
In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he endured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. Yet throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority. He prefaced his Jornal with the disclaimer that it has nothing to recommend it but truth.It is a plain unvarnished tale,withort any pretensions of any kind Park's truthfulness and lack of pretension will endear him to nodern readers.
Fire investigator Reena Hale steps into an inferno of madnessas she tries desperately to trace the origins of the taunting phonecalls she's receiving, the fires, and the hatred aimed in herdirection.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake of unhelpful school officials and a blackmail conspiracy.
Talk about a change of pace! Renowned suspense writer and EdgarAwardwinner James Patterson, author of suchbestsellers-turned-blockbuster-movies asAlong Came a Spider andKiss the Girls, exposes his sensitive sidein his new novel,Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. Katie Wilkinson'sboyfriend Matt dumpsher; not a total cad, he leaves her a gift, a diary kept bySuzanne,his first wife, for their son Nicholas. Though it's not exactlythediamond ring Katie was hoping for, she's unable to make herselfdestroy thediary--against her better judgment, Katie begins toread.Drawn against her will into the other woman's world, Katielearns of physicianSuzanne's heart attack at age 35 and herdecision to slow down, accomplished bya move to Martha's Vineyardand a new job as a simple country doctor. When lovecomes knocking,in the form of housepainter-cum-poet Matt Harrison, Suzanne isreadyto listen to her newly repaired heart. Though painful for Katie,shebegins to know and like Suzanne and her infant son Nicholas.Suzanne's devotionto Ma
What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross ...only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall...
There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moonbrings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct'scitizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and"Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's beenbrutally attacking women. Meanwhile, a pair of cops with the surfersobriquets Flotsam and Jetsam are on the lookout for asmooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker.But something bigger, more high-tech, and much more deadly is aboutto go down. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases,the cops discover that they've stumbled upon a complex web of crimewhere even the criminals aren't sure who's conning whom. And forsome of the men and women in blue, public duty will exact theheaviest of tolls.
Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America's wealth and power, seeking to "erase" himself. Eat me, America, he prays, and give me peace.But fury is all around him. Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of New York. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel.
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.
Lovely, idealistic Tracy Whitney is framed into a fifteen year sentence in an escape-proof penitentiary. With dazzling ingenuity she fights back to destroy the untouchable crime lords who put her there. With her intelligence and beauty as her only weapons, Tracy embarks on a series of extraordinary escapades that sweep her across the globe. In an explosive confrontation Tracy meets her equal in irresistible Jeff Stevens, whose past is as colorful as Tracy's.
Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t
The inspiration for the film starring Kathy Bates and JenniferJason Leigh.
Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economicstruggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionatedepiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations.Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to thewealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies withhis cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert’sbrother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to apotentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?
Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck.Hiseighteen-month-old daughter is sick,and neither Ben nor his wifecan afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side oftown with no cash and no hope,there's only one thing to do: becomea con-testant on one of the Network's Games,shows where you can winmore money than you've ever dreamed of--or die trying. Now Ben'sgoing prime-time on the Network's highest-ratedviewer-participation show. And he's about to become prey for themasses
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the 'Ubermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed,the book also had a profound influence on early twentiety-century writers such as Shaw,Mann,Gide,Lawrence and Sartre.It remains,to this day,a beacon of origiinal thought.
