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Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era:... (more)

The Widening Gyre (Spenser Novels (Dell))

The Widening Gyre (Spenser Novels (Dell))

by Robert B. Parker

The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon. ... (more)

Robert Langdon: Book 1

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Crimson Joy

by Robert B. Parker

They call him the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves one on the body of each woman he kills. But then the madman's eyes turn to Susan Silverman, and Spenser is on the case. For when Susan's life is in danger, Spenser becomes a hard-fisted, unstoppable locomotive--determined to bring the criminal to justice no matter what the odds!((Dell--Fiction)

Life's Little Instruction Book Volume II

Life's Little Instruction Book Volume II

by Jr. H. Jackson Brown

The author's followup to Life's Little Instruction Book advises readers to jump in a pile of leaves with someone you love and never drive while holding a cup of coffee between your knees, among other pithy, practical tips. Original.

The Worthing Series: Book 4

The Worthing Saga

by Orson Scott Card

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put... (more)

Icerigger

by Alan Dean Foster

Ethan Fortune was a simple salesman who certainly never thought of himself as a hero. Skua September, on the other hand, never thought of himself as anything else. When the two of them were suddenly stranded on a deadly frozen world, Ethan incredibly found himself cast in the role of the Leader! TP:Del Rey.

Invasion

by Robin Cook

A sudden outbreak defies diagnosis-because the causes are unlike anything humankind has ever seen... "Cook fans will revel in this story." ( Booklist )

Spycatcher

by Peter Wright

Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. Viii)

Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. Viii)

by J. E. Pournelle

From the bestselling author of Footfall, The Legacy of Heorot, and Lucifer's Hammer comes Pournelle's most apocalyptic work ever, a sweeping science fiction saga depicting the last days of humankind--in all its excitement and terror.

Polar City Blues : An Entertainment

by Katharine Kerr

The Fool's Run

by John Camp

Making his fiction debut under his own name--he used the pseudonym John Sandford for his detective novel Rules of Prey , published in July by Putnam--Camp offers a different brand of intrigue, with a multitalented hero as narrator. Artist, cat lover, student of karate and the tarot and freelance computer criminal, Kidd is jack of varied-enough trades to stoke many future adventures. In this one, he's hired by a... (more)

Homer : The Odyssey : Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, No 105)Homer

Homer : The Odyssey : Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, No 105)

by Homer

Odysseus, the most heroic of the ancient Greek warriors, journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

Perry Mason : The Case of the Reluctant Model

Perry Mason : The Case of the Reluctant Model

by Erle Stanley Gardner

It's always fun to watch a "Perry Mason" episode on TV, and this audio adaptation of two of Erle Stanley Gardner's classic stories is a successful transition to the spoken-word. After all, Mason's clients are always innocent, no matter how guilty they seem. And there is a great pleasure in learning how Gardner's super-attorney solves the mysteries, usually with the guilty person confessing to the crime or being... (more)

Chameleon

by William Diehl

"Explosive, extraordinary...The reader is left limp!" THE SAN DIEGO UNION The deadliest secret assassin to ever roam the globe. Now, crack reporters Frank O'Hara and Eliza Gunn are hot on his trail. To unmask him, they untangle a many-colored web of espionage and computer intrigue--amid the tantalizing Oriental arts of love and death....

Different Light/AElizabeth A. Lynn

Different Light/A

by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Future Earths: Under African Skies

by Michael D. Resnick, Gardner R. Dozois

A collection of science fiction tales set in a futuristic African continent features the writing of Vernor Vinge, Gregory Benford, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Waldrop, and Mike Resnick. Original.

Sir Apropos of Nothing: Book 3

Tong Lashing

by Peter David

It's hard to find a lesser man than Apropos: a con man, a knave, a scalawag...and those are his finer points. This time, Apropos winds up a stranger in a strange land called "Chinpan," populated by those who speak a different language and live by a code of honor, neither of which Apropos can comprehend. And yet it is here that he begins to examine his life and question whether he can aspire to become more than the... (more)

Airframe

There's Danger in the Skies

by Michael Crichton

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control: 'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs Forty ambulances on the runway. But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they... (more)

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