Revolution is in the air. The king's court sorcerer is beingeyed with suspicion. Not for dabbling in the black arts...not forconsorting with a demon...not for having a dragon as a pet...noteven for being mobbed up. But for the greatest crime of all:raising taxes. Who is this terrible tyrant? None other than Skeevethe Great. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenaryKate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to dowith. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide,thatas saying a lot. But when Kateas werewolf friend Derek isdiscovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challengeyet.
Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946",this book is a key volume in Kerouac's lifework, the series ofautobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. Awonderfully unassuming look back at the origins of his career--aprehistory of the Beat era, written from the perspective of thepsychedelic '60s.
The latest "New York Times" bestseller by "America's mostpopular suspense novelist" ("Rolling Stone") is the story ofHollywood's most dazzling star whose perfectly ordered life isunder siege by an insidious killer.
This true account of coming of age in an English boardingschool, by an acclaimed young writer, is reminiscent of such booksas A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye. "Strong andevocative. . . smoothly written. . . romantic."--The New York TimesBook Review.
"In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long,nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when abrutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's mostattractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if theculprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right nextdoor." Burned out by a whirlwind career, world-famous concertviolinist Caroline Waverly arrives in Innocence looking for alittle peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at herlate grandmother's house--the one with a covered porch just madefor soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs.But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: handsome,charming Tucker Longstreet. Tucker is known for keeping hisromances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tuckerrealizes that she is unlike any other woman he's met. The coollyreserved Caroline feels an unexpected thrill at his ardentadvances. But when she discovers a third murder victim in the murkywaters behind her ho
A long-awaited collection of stories about the real heroes ofthe frontier--the survivors--from America's favorite storyteller ofthe authentic West. They came West to stay, risking their blood todig for gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out alegacy of freedom. Reissue.
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor ofThe No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause forcelebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comicnovels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane andrarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of theInstitute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in anever-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due–aquest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learnsto play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel thatresults in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Irelandwhere he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaicIrishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentistfatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, thefirst merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous.
Hailed as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(RollingStone) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writingcareer that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, andpopular work yet. At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won theacclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fansthe world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of ourtime into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotionalresonance. Now, with the stunning depth and virtuosity of his storytelling, hebrings to readers one of his most gripping and richly imaginednovels to date—an intoxicating story of adventure and suspense,mystery and revelation, told with humor, heart, and high art.
His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontzbrings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettablecast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling andemotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror thatwill mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes arethe most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, athousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortalenemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to findthis enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is bornfrom a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty andthe man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeonsremove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As
Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival ofa mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins adesperate battle against something unknown -- and unknowable. Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morningerupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in aheartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolatedMontana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worstnightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy,from which no one -- living or dead -- is safe.
Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intenselyhuman story. --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrativegrips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembersharrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaboratevengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tellsit all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum andsheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it isequally a wistful hymn to another age." --The Washington Post Book World "A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in itsemotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, butbiblical in its passion and scope." --People "SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of agein Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of thebrutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbinglysatisfying--climax worthy of
With this new thriller, The New York Times bestselling authorTami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere:Don't turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From thegritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves ofprestige and power to the ruthless glamour of Hollywood, a killerstalks his prey. A killer so merciless no one in his way issafe—not even the innocent. At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messengerJace Damon has one last drop to make. But en route to delivering apackage for one of L.A.'s sleaziest defense attorneys, he's nearlyrun down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot at. Onlythe instincts acquired while growing up on the streets of L.A.allow him to escape with his life—and with the package someonewants badly enough to kill for. Jace returns to Lenny Lowell's office only to find the copsthere, the lawyer dead, and Jace himself considered the primesuspect in the savage murder. Suddenly he's on
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,earlymorning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? Fornearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberatedthroughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks andshaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, andwitty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yetit is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugelyentertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnantof the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of alandmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkablecharacters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman'sCard Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless reclusewho owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man,woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern bellewho is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariouslyfunny black drag queen; the acerbic and ar
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakablycerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who wanttheir awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- andzoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventureand danger, ecstasy and peril.
Book De*ion "Moves like a roller coaster without brakes...Koontz is America'sNo.1 author of thrillers. One of his finest novels." -------Denver Pos We have your wife. You can get her back for two millioncash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modestmeans, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. the caller isdead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind ofmoney. He's confident that Mitch will find a way, If he loves hiswife enough... Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself.He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million bythen. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is athriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist,every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, afterall. And there's no other experience quite like it. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm)10.6
"Good riddance", is the response of every Pecan Springsresident to the murder of local real estate shark Edgar Coleman. itdoesn't take long for China to learn that Coleman was havingnumerous affairs -- and was blackmailing City Council members fortheir votes on a bad land development deal. With her fianceimmersed in the murder investigation -- and the suspect listgrowing longer by the minute -- China can forget about a honeymoon,unless she can find the killer...
Book De*ion Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local s
Every so often a character so captures the hearts andimaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his ownlong after the final page is turned. For such a character, one bookis not enough--readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontzreturns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With theemotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are histrademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique younghero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal partssuspense and terror, adventure and mystery--and altogetherirresistibly odd. We're all a little odd beneath the surface. He'sthe most unlikely hero you'll ever meet--an ordinary guy with amodest job you might never look at twice. But there's so much moreto any of us than meets the eye--and that goes triple for OddThomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small deserttown of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everydayevents. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead--it'ssomething
