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In Robert B. Parker's most popular series, an unsolved thirty-year-old-murder draws the victim's daughter out of the shadows for overdue justice--and lures Spenser into his own past, old crimes, and dangerous lives.

Harry Bosch: Book 1

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Joined with a seductive FBI agent and pitted against enemies in his own department, Detective Harry Bosch must choose between justice and vengeance, as he tracks a killer whose true face will shock him. Reissue.

March to the Stars (Prince Roger Series, Book 3)

March to the Stars (Prince Roger Series, Book 3)

by David Weber, John Ringo

Prince Roger MacClintock, Heir to the Throne of Man, was a spoiled rotten arrogant, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt. But that was before the royal Brat and his Marine bodyguards had their starship sabotaged, and all were marooned on the enemy-occupied planet of Marduk. Before they had to march half way around the entire planet, through steaming jungles, damnbeasts, Capetoads, and killerpillars. Before... (more)

The Warmasters

by David Drake

Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" by David Weber: Before she saved the galaxy, she was "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington," and then an encounter with "pirates" who were more than they seemed began Honor Harrington's Brilliant Career. Choosing Sides by David Drake: Lieutenant Huber stepped off the starship into an ambush - but Slammers aren't supposed to get ambushed. Huber can save his career if he survives a suiclde... (more)

The Far Side of the Stars (Lt. Leary)

by David Drake

While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, the corvette in which they carved their reputations in letters of fire, has been sold as a private yacht, but she still has her guns, her missiles, and her veteran crew.... (more)

Flinx's Folly (Adventures of Pip and Flinx)

Pip and Flinx: Book 8

Flinx's Folly (Adventures of Pip and Flinx)

by Alan Dean Foster

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers the eagerly awaited new Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Sure to delight longtime fans and win new ones, Flinx’s Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. It is a quest that forces... (more)

The Kidd Series: Book 4

The Hanged Man's Song

by John Sandford

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the phenomenal Prey novels returns with The Hanged Man's Song .

The Dispossessed

An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the... (more)

The Sinister Pig

by Tony Hillerman

The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle. Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the... (more)

Pompeii: A Novel

by Robert Harris

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The... (more)

The Firefly

by Peter T. Deutermann

According to the DC cops, the fiery destruction of an upscale plastic surgery clinic and its staff is just business as usual. With the whole city on high alert because of the upcoming presidential inauguration, the Secret Service can afford to let it go. Retired agent Swamp Morgan pulls what appears to be a "firefly" case-until he digs deeper. Facts don't add up. A German man, the clinic's last client, has... (more)

Alex Cross: Book 9

The Big Bad Wolf

by James Patterson

Alex Cross' family is in terrible danger--at the same time that his new job with the FBI brings him the scariest case of his career. A team of kidnappers has been snatching successful, upstanding men and women right before their families' eyes--possibly to sell them into slavery. Alex's knowledge of the D.C. streets, together with his unique insights into criminal psychology, make this mindbending case one that... (more)

Jenny Casey Trilogy: Book 1

Hammered

by Elizabeth Bear

Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far... (more)

Extremes: A Retrieval Artist Novel (Retrieval Artist Novels)

Extremes: A Retrieval Artist Novel (Retrieval Artist Novels)

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Retired cop Miles Flint is now a Retrieval Artist--that is, someone who tracks down members of the Disappeared, a category of outlaws wanted for crimes against aliens. His first job is investigating the death of another Artist, who supposedly died of a viral infection. While he is doing that, a young woman dies during the moon's celebrated Extreme Marathon, a fine display of low-gravity sports. Her death is at... (more)

The Double-Cross Program

by Chris Bunch

M'chel Riss and the Star Risk, Ltd. team find themselves in the middle of a strange assignment: a staged bank robbery that involves putting money back. But the job soon takes an even stranger turn when they get caught up in a full-fledged war over an addictive new consumer product. The roguish mercenaries will need to rely on every resource possible to make a buck and make it out alive-in this fast-paced tale of... (more)

Orphanage

by Robert Buettner

Description: When earth needs heroes, whom will we call to valor? When flares streaking across the sky herald massive destruction, who will defend us? When mankind’s enemy is beyond our worst imagination, who will be our champions? Will we pick the brightest and the toughest? Or the ones with nothing left to lose? Mankind’s first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede,... (more)

A Fistful of Rain

by Greg Rucka

Greg Rucka has earned the kind of reputation that all thriller writers envy: his crime fiction grabs readers by the throat and compels them to read as if their own lives were at stake. Now, in an electrifying departure, Rucka creates a new kind of hero: a damaged young woman in free fall who’s not only in danger—but dangerous. A Fistful of Rain Mim Bracca is riding the fast lane straight off the end of the... (more)

The Anvil of the World

by Kage Baker

Kage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue, and pointed social commentary with a light touch. The Anvil of the World is her first fantasy novel, a journey across a fantastic landscape filled with bizarre creatures, human and otherwise. It is the tale of Smith, of the large extended... (more)

Second Chances

by Susan Shwartz

Second Chances is a well-loved tale in an unconventional setting, nothing less than an homage to Joseph Conrad. Just as Conrad, with Lord Jim , explored the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost honor and guilt, expiation and heroism, Shwartz has created in her Jim a man haunted by guilt over an act of supposed cowardice and his lifelong efforts to atone for that action. Jim is a professional soldier whose time... (more)

Heroics for Beginners

by John Moore

Prince Kevin Timberline must retrieve Ancient Artifact Model Seven from the clutches of the evil Lord Voltmeter--He Who Must Be Named--before said evil Lord unleashes his Diabolical Plan. Luckily, Kevin wields a secret weapon that will cause the forces of Darkness to tremble: The Handbook of Practical Heroics .

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by Robert B. Parker

by Michael Connelly

by David Weber, John Ringo

by David Drake

by David Drake

by Alan Dean Foster

by John Sandford

An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

by Tony Hillerman

by Robert Harris

by Peter T. Deutermann

by James Patterson

by Elizabeth Bear

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

by Chris Bunch

by Robert Buettner

by Greg Rucka

by Kage Baker

by Susan Shwartz

by John Moore