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Lake Wobegon Days

by Garrison Keillor

A collection of humorous stories which focus on the fictional American Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon. From the author of WOBEGON BOY, LEAVING HOME and WE ARE STILL MARRIED.

Hercule Poirot Mystery: Book 26

The Labors of Hercules

by Agatha Christie

What do a lost Pekinese, a reputation poisoned by gossip, a man spiraling into madness, and a Russian countess in love have in common? Hercule Poirot.

20th Anniversary Edition With a foreword by Ward Carroll and an added preface and epilogue by the author "Flight of the Intruder will join the classics…once begun, it cannot be laid aside."--John Lehman in the Wall Street Journal "Bristles with the same authenticity that helped catapult The Hunt for Red October to the top of the best-seller list . . . Coonts’ pilots are the real McCoy and his compassion... (more)

Crystal Singer

by Anne McCaffrey

Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....

Telempath

by Spider Robinson

Isham Stone, the world's second-best assassin, goes into the ruins of a city after the greatest killer of all time, Wendall Morgan Carlson. But Carlson is guarded by ghosts--beings from an ancient civilization that shared the Earth with humans for millions of years, and who have now declared war on the human race, all thanks to the man Isham has come to kill.

Independent: Book 1

Silver Tower

by Dale Brown

America has developed the most devastating weapon ever created-a laser defense system that will change the balance of power forever. And now, it's about to be tested in battle.

Split Images

by Elmore Leonard

Quintessential Elmore Leonard, Split Images stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. He's the kind of guy who gets away with everything -- even murder -- until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. When this millionaire reptile reveals the psychopath beneath his slippery skin, Hurd finds out this is one helluva way for an out-of-town lawman to spend his vacation.

Touch

by Elmore Leonard

A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coincidence, but Bill Hill -- who used to run the spectacular Uni-Faith Ministry in Dalton, Georgia, and now sells RVs -- can see dollar signs when he looks at this kid with the magic "touch." The trouble is that others see them also, including a wacko fundamentalist fascist with his own... (more)

Dinner at Deviant's Palace

by Tim Powers

First published in 1985, this legendary and still distinctive novel may attract new fans, although the postnuclear-war theme has become somewhat dated. Technology has vanished in a barbaric, 22nd-century California run by a Sidney Greenstreet lookalike messiah, Norton Jaybush, who boasts a fancifully colossal "night club of the damned" in Venice and his own Holy City in Irvine. His young hippie followers, aka... (more)

Labyrinth of Dreams (G.O.D. Inc. No. 1)

by Jack L. Chalker

Unavailable for five years, this series tells of a small multi-universe corporation whose inhabitants discovered long ago the pathways to alternate universes--and the resulting profits from such knowledge. "Chalker shows that an old idea can indeed learn new tricks."--The Milwaukee Journal.

The Brass Dragon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Flight of the Horse

by Larry Niven

Surface ActionDavid Drake

Surface Action

by David Drake

Earth has been destroyed by the nuclear folly of her children, and mankind's remnant now lives in dome-enclosed colonies on Venus. Will history repeat itself as warring factions threaten to reintroduce the scourge of nuclear weapons? Not if Johnnie Gordon can help it. In this poor example of juvenile pulp fiction, our 19-year-old hero joins his uncle's mercenary fleet on the planet's inhospitable surface, and... (more)

Hammers Slammers

by David Drake

Athabasca

by Alistair MacLean

SABOTAGE!THE VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the other in Alaska.THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity - deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan pipeline.THE RESULTCatastrophe.One man, Jim Brady, is called in to save the life-blood of the world as unerringly, the chosen targets fall at the hands of a... (more)

The Nemesis Mission

by Dean Ing

U.S. agent West Hardin teams up with a gorgeous pilot in a solar-powered, high-tech spy plane to nail a Colombian drug kingpin and make off with the loot. Reprint. K. PW.

The Nagasaki Vector

by L. Neil Smith

Dinosaur BeachKeith Laumer

Dinosaur Beach

by Keith Laumer

Passenger, The

by Patrick A. Davis

A military Learjet crashes, and Washington insiders scramble to cover their tracks, in an exciting new military thriller from the author of The General . Colonel John Quinn was a young, ambitious Air Force pilot who loved to fly--until an Iraqi missile nearly ended his career and his life. Three surgeries and four years later, Quinn is functional, but not good enough to fly. Assigned to the Pentagon, he's... (more)

See You Later Alligator

by Jr. William F. Buckley

President John F. Kennedy listens to the secret proposal and approves Operation Alligator. Can anyone tread the deadly, delicate waters of diplomacy between Cuba and the United States better than Blackford Oakes? Oakes is sent to negotiate a trade and noninvasion agreement initiated by Che Guevara. The story takes off when everyone--the Cuban leaders, the Russians, everyone, that is except Oakes, discovers that... (more)

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by Garrison Keillor

by Agatha Christie

by Stephen Coonts

by Anne McCaffrey

by Spider Robinson

by Dale Brown

by Elmore Leonard

by Elmore Leonard

by Tim Powers

by Jack L. Chalker

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

by Larry Niven

by David Drake

by David Drake

by Alistair MacLean

by Dean Ing

by L. Neil Smith

by Keith Laumer

by Patrick A. Davis

by Jr. William F. Buckley