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Undercover Cat

Undercover Cat

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The Gordons

DC (short for Darn Cat) Randall is always in trouble. But this time it's really big. He's followed his nose to a salmon--and it belongs to some bank robbers! Suddenly D.C. is the F.B.I.'s favorite feline. He's the only undercover agent who knows where the suspects are--and he's not talking

Valdez Is Coming

Elmore Leonard

They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man's woman -- they beat They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem -- and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice -- and some money for the dead man's woman -- they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die... ...more

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

Vanity Row

W.R. Burnett

When Frank Hobart, nationally known lawyer, millionaire, and Administration favorite, was shot down in the street, it was Captain Roy Hargis--the Hangman, the Administration's private gunman--who was called in to keep the public from discovering Hobart's connection with the out-of-town wire services and to find a sitting duck to take the rap. He thought that he had one whe When Frank Hobart, nationally known lawyer, millionaire, and Administration favorite, was shot down in the street, it was Captain Roy Hargis--the Hangman, the Administration's private gunman--who was called in to keep the public from discovering Hobart's connection with the out-of-town wire services and to find a sitting duck to take the rap. He thought that he had one when Joe Sert put the finger on Ilona Vance, but what happened next was only to prove how dangerous a beautiful woman can be even to a tough, ruthless, unscrupulous, and unemotional cop used to walking a highwire with no net beneath him. Here is another swift, tense, spellbinding story of big-city corruption by an author who knows his way around the dark byways of crime and the criminal mind and who knows how to tell a story of suspense and action and make it utterly convincing.(Original jacket copy, 1952) ...more

A Very Private Gentleman

Martin Booth

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE AMERICAN, STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY AND DIRECTED BY ANTON CORBIJNThe locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is deadly, unbeknownst to the someti SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE AMERICAN, STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY AND DIRECTED BY ANTON CORBIJNThe locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is deadly, unbeknownst to the sometime brothel worker, Clara, with whom he sleeps.Of a certain age, and as his feelings for Clara intensify, Farfalla has resolved to make his next job his last--all the while sensing a treacherous circle closing in on him. ...more

Vespers in Vienna

Bruce Marshall

From the back cover:He was a military man - with a great respect for discipline and a habit of being obeyed. She was a woman of God - with unshakable ideas and a talent for running things her own way.When Colonel Nicobar marched his outfit into the convent, he had orders to carry out his job and let the nuns carry on with theirs. But neither the colonel nor the War Office From the back cover:He was a military man - with a great respect for discipline and a habit of being obeyed. She was a woman of God - with unshakable ideas and a talent for running things her own way.When Colonel Nicobar marched his outfit into the convent, he had orders to carry out his job and let the nuns carry on with theirs. But neither the colonel nor the War Office had bargained for Reverend Mother Auxilia. ...more

Victory

Joseph Conrad

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchest Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love. ...more

De vierde man

Gerard Reve

Na een lezing strandt de auteur in een vreemde stad waar een mysterieuze vrouw zich over hem ontfermt.

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense of justice; at the same time, a betrayal by his most trusted friend forces him to fight against the corruption that rules the land. Still as exciting and meaningful as it was when first published one hundred years ago, Owen Wister's epic tale of a man caught between his love for a woman and his quest for justice exemplifies one of the most significant and enduring themes in all of American literature. With remarkable character depth and vivid passages, The Virginian stands not only as the first great novel of American Western literature, but as a testament to the eternal struggle between good and evil in humanity. With an engaging new introduction by Gary Scharnhorst, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, this volume is an indispensable addition to the library of American Western literature. ...more

Voyage of the Damned

Gordon Thomas

El 13 de mayo de 1939 zarpaba de Hamburgo el trasatl

The Wages Of Fear

Georges Arnaud

Waltz into Darkness

Cornell Woolrich

In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiancee has died fifteen years ago on the eve of their wedding. Now Louis decides to take one more chance at love by marrying Julia Russell, a woman he knows only by correspondence. When she arrives on the day of their wedding, she is younger and more beautiful than he In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiancee has died fifteen years ago on the eve of their wedding. Now Louis decides to take one more chance at love by marrying Julia Russell, a woman he knows only by correspondence. When she arrives on the day of their wedding, she is younger and more beautiful than he expected--and far more deadly. Louis soon comes to realize that Julia is not who she claims to be--and they both embark on a waltz into darkness. ...more

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

With H.G. Wells

The Water Hole: A Western Story

Zane Grey

In 1925, widowed businessman Elijah Winters brings his daughter Cherry from Long Island to stay at a trading post in a remote area some distance from Flagstaff, Arizona. To entertain herself, Cherry flirts with several of the cowboys, not realizing that they are very different from the young men she knew in the East. Also very different is Stephen Heftral, a young archeolo In 1925, widowed businessman Elijah Winters brings his daughter Cherry from Long Island to stay at a trading post in a remote area some distance from Flagstaff, Arizona. To entertain herself, Cherry flirts with several of the cowboys, not realizing that they are very different from the young men she knew in the East. Also very different is Stephen Heftral, a young archeologist who is searching for an ancient and lost kiva of a primitive Indian tribe that disappeared centuries before in what became the land of the Navajos. Heftral believes that this lost kiva is most probably in a desert fastness called Beckyshibeta, the Navajo word for water hole. Elijah Winters colludes with Heftral to awaken Cherry to a new and healthier way of life by taking her, by force if necessary, to Beckyshibeta. Cherry comes to forget the luxury of her past in the beauty and dangers of the canons and the thrill of herself making an important archeological discovery." ...more

The Way West

The Big Sky

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A.B. Guthrie Jr.

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsent An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people. ...more

West of the Pecos

Zane Grey

From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son-- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor o From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son-- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill. Upon the arrival of the Civil War, Lambeth enlists in Lee's army, leaving behind his wife and tomboy daughter, with hopes to reconcile living in the shadow of his brother. By the time the war ends, Lambeth returns a colonel and his wife has passed. Tired of his old life as a cotton planter, he packs up with his tomboy daughter, Rill, and heads for the alluring western frontier to start anew. After they arrive in the West, the Colonel is brutally murdered. Rill, disguised as a youth of eighteen who rode with the toughest, is left to fend for herself in the Wild West swarming with outlaws. Enter the one they called Pecos Smith--a rugged desperado with a mysterious past and one bad reputation. Though, he may not be what he seems. Filled with adventure, bandits, and the beautiful landscape of America in its formative years, West of the Pecos is a classic tale by one of the greatest novelists of the American west. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns--books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians--are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L'Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. ...more

When Knighthood Was in Flower

Edwin Caskoden

Subtitled, "The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth," When Knighthood Was in Flower is a fascinating novel set against the historic backdrop of the palaces and political intrigues of England and France. Based on the memoir of Sir Edwin Caskoden.

The White Ship

Ian Cameron

CAVES OF ICE AND FIREIt was a treacherous undertaking -- an expedition toa glittering ice-capped Antarctic island, ravaged year-round by the primordial fury of the elements, seething with volcanoes ready to unleash their earth-shapingfire, and haunted by subterranean caves that echowith supernatural cries. A place of savage beauty --and unpredictable terror!They came in se CAVES OF ICE AND FIREIt was a treacherous undertaking -- an expedition toa glittering ice-capped Antarctic island, ravaged year-round by the primordial fury of the elements, seething with volcanoes ready to unleash their earth-shapingfire, and haunted by subterranean caves that echowith supernatural cries. A place of savage beauty --and unpredictable terror!They came in search of the legendary "golden" seals,but cut off from the outside world by the impenetrableice, they encountered a chilling vision of a ghost-shipon an ill-fated voyage and were forced to relive thepast in an ice-bound hell! "Utterly fascinating... will remain with the reader long after the book is put away." THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES ...more

The White Stallions of Vienna

Alois Podhajsky

Alois Podhajsky was the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria as well as an Olympic medal-winner in dressage, riding instructor, and writer. Founded in 1572, the school's main focus was the training of Lipizzan horses in the art of Classical dressage.

The Willing Flesh

Willi Heinrich

Cross of Iron is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they regain the German lines. But safety is only temporary. After the tension of wait Cross of Iron is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they regain the German lines. But safety is only temporary. After the tension of waiting for the last overwhelming Russian advance the platoon is forced into futile counter-attacks and murderous house-to-house fighting until its final decimation becomes inevitable.A modern classic of war fiction both as a book and a film, this is a strikingly realistic story of action on the Eastern Front, where the grimness of combat seems to have neither pity nor end.Author Willi Heinrich (1920-2005) served in the heavily mauled 101st Jager Division, and was himself wounded five times during the war.Cross of Iron was also made into a film of the same name by Sam Peckinpah in 1977. ...more

Wilt

Wilt

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Tom Sharpe

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm -for trans Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm -for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping Wilt's problem -although he's on the other side of the fence -is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground. ...more

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for childrenMeet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-cont One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for childrenMeet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie. This Penguin Classics edition features an appendix of the letters in which Grahame first related the exploits of Toad. ...more

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

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A.A. Milne

The Bear of Very Little Brain and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood have delighted generations of readers since Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926.Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illus The Bear of Very Little Brain and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood have delighted generations of readers since Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926.Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors.Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, as well as the two charming volumes of poems. Bright in color and true in spirit, these are books for giving--To Pooh fans of all ages. ...more

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date.Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) ar The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date.Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. But the house is all they have, and Ree's father would never forfeit it to the bond company unless something awful happened. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive, or else see her family turned out into the unforgiving cold.Sixteen-year-old Ree, who has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. She perseveres past obstacles of every kind and finally confronts the top figures in the family's hierarchy.Along the way to a shocking revelation, Ree discovers unexpected depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost. ...more

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck

The Witnesses

Anne Holden

Sylvia was really the only witness. From an upstairs window at night she had seen a man attack a young girl in the street below. Her duty was very obvious to her, but there was a positive snag in the path of carrying it out. This was the fact that the upstairs window in question belonged to the flat of her lover. It was rather difficult to see how she would make the report Sylvia was really the only witness. From an upstairs window at night she had seen a man attack a young girl in the street below. Her duty was very obvious to her, but there was a positive snag in the path of carrying it out. This was the fact that the upstairs window in question belonged to the flat of her lover. It was rather difficult to see how she would make the report to the police which might enable them to arrest the killer, without her husband and daughters hearing of her extra-marital adventure. Sylvia sent the police an anonymous letter. This did something to ease her conscience but when another girl was attacked and nearly killed near her lovers flat she came to the distressful conclusion that more action was needed. She persuaded her lover that he should go to the police himself. He had after all been in the flat with her at the time and might just as well have seen what she had seen. Thus he from the point of the police, became the witness. ...more

Woe to Live on

Daniel Woodrell

From Publishers WeeklyNarrator Jake Roedel is in his mid-teens when he joins the First Kansas Irregulars in 1861. During the next few years he sees, and commits, more than his share of Civil War atrocities. Most of the action takes place in Kansas and Missouri between the rebel Irregulars (bushwhackers) and the Union Jayhawkers, with some civilians caught in the crossfire. From Publishers WeeklyNarrator Jake Roedel is in his mid-teens when he joins the First Kansas Irregulars in 1861. During the next few years he sees, and commits, more than his share of Civil War atrocities. Most of the action takes place in Kansas and Missouri between the rebel Irregulars (bushwhackers) and the Union Jayhawkers, with some civilians caught in the crossfire. The studiedly cool Jake experiences loss (the deaths of his best friend, father and comrades) and love (the best friend's "widow"); he also learns about tolerance from his contact with a nobly reserved black Irregular. There's plenty of hard riding, drinking and shooting, most of it leading to bloodshed. Jake's loyalty to the "secesh" cause is unquestioning and doesn't quite gibe with his growing unease amid the gore, or with his departure in the midst of the war for Texas with wife and child. The prose is occasionally rather pretentious, but this is a generally enjoyable coming-of-age novel by the author of Under the Bright Lights. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc ...more

The Woman Chaser

Charles Willeford

Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, has a pimp's awareness of the ways women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter become 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history. ...more

The World of Henry Orient

Nora Johnson

The story is immediately recognizable in its theme and setting, but it exists in what seems to be another time and another place. Nora Johnson's The World of Henry Orient, published in 1958, is an amusing, affectionate satire of the last days of innocence in the lives of two New York girls, Marian "Gil" Gilbert and Valerie "Val" Boyd. The boredom and impatience of adolesce The story is immediately recognizable in its theme and setting, but it exists in what seems to be another time and another place. Nora Johnson's The World of Henry Orient, published in 1958, is an amusing, affectionate satire of the last days of innocence in the lives of two New York girls, Marian "Gil" Gilbert and Valerie "Val" Boyd. The boredom and impatience of adolescence are richly caught, even as they inspire crazy escapades that will eventually open up the world for these two bright but naive girls.Val and Gil have become friends at an age when friendship is the most important thing. Boys have not entered the picture yet, but childhood has begun to recede and the world is beckoning them. The girls are growing up in comfortable upper-middle-class homes in Manhattan, which creates a special kind of tension and stress in their lives. They are just old enough to have some independence, to play at being grownups, with the city as their playground. At a Carnegie Hall concert, they see a pianist named Henry Orient, and they are immediately smitten with him -- not in the sexual sense, but moonstruck nonetheless. Henry Orient becomes the focus of their lives. They follow him around Manhattan, observing his routine, his "world," unaware at first that they are observing the pianist bound up in a snarl of romantic liaisons. What happens to Val and Gil is what we now called "bonding," the kind of friendship that smoothes the transition from innocence to worldliness, from the certainties of childhood to the infinite possibilities of adulthood.Engaging and exuberant, The World of Henry Orient treats its heroines with affection and good humor. These are silly girls, it seems, doing little more than playing games, but a great deal goes on beneath the surface of their lives. Nora Johnson is sensitive to the delicate stresses that threaten the security adolescents have always known. ...more

The Wrong Box

Robert Louis Stevenson

A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member stands to receive a fortune. It is a farcical, eccentric and brilliantly written piece of work.

The Year of the Angry Rabbit

Russell Braddon

Mutant rabbits wreak havoc on Australia.

Young Man of Manhattan

Katharine Brush

Toby McLean and Ann Vaughn, two newspaper columnists, marry with high hopes and dizzying speed, but the real problems start once the vows are exchanged as careers clash and Toby finds himself the object of affection of a bored socialite called Puff Randolph.

Zazie in the Metro

Raymond Queneau

Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely success Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, 'Zazie in the Metro' remains as stylish and witty now as it did back then. ...more

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind.The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind.The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies the unnamed narrator to Crete to work in the narrator

Across 110th Street

Wally Ferris

Golden Key (Adventures of Buratino)

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

After Hours

Edwin Torres

Older and wiser after five years inside, Carlito Brigante, Puerto Rican heavy hitter and drug dealer is looking to slow down, maybe get out of the whole scene. But as a name with a rep to uphold it's tough, and Carlito needs to pull in some money somehow.

Aimez-vous Brahms?

Fran

Amos Judd

John Ames Mitchell

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. ...more

Amu

Shonali Bose

And Now Tomorrow

Rachel Field

Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time

Angels & Demons

Robert Langdon

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Dan Brown

The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.

L'ann

Christopher Frank

The Anointed (Classic Reprint)

Clyde Brion Davis

Excerpt from The AnointedThen he began to yell louder and to laugh so hard that some children and a woman coming down the path turned and went the other way. And pretty soon a policeman came hustling up and led the crazy man off.Now, I don't think that crazy man ever talked with God at all. I think he was only crazy and his poor head was crawling with crazy ideas.About the Excerpt from The AnointedThen he began to yell louder and to laugh so hard that some children and a woman coming down the path turned and went the other way. And pretty soon a policeman came hustling up and led the crazy man off.Now, I don't think that crazy man ever talked with God at all. I think he was only crazy and his poor head was crawling with crazy ideas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. ...more

Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

1-3

Hervey Allen

Child of fortune. Conceived in France, born in an Alpine village, reared in a great house of Italy, Anthony never knew his parents, never had a name of his own. But he was born of passion and it filled his blood.Volume 1. The Roots of the Tree Volume 2. The Other Bronze BoyVolume 3. The Lonely Twin

The Apocalypse Watch

Robert Ludlum

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Arouse and Beware

MacKinlay Kantor

MACKINLAY KANTORPulitzer Prize-winning author of AndersonvilleA Novel of Escape During the Civil WarBASIS FOR THE FILMTHE MAN FROM DAKOTAThis is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners.Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines MACKINLAY KANTORPulitzer Prize-winning author of AndersonvilleA Novel of Escape During the Civil WarBASIS FOR THE FILMTHE MAN FROM DAKOTAThis is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners.Two Yankee soldiers escape from Belle Island, the Confederate Prison, in 1864. As they make their way northward to the Union lines on the Rapidan they are joined by a woman who is fleeing from Richmond. The hazards of their painful flight are tremendous as they travel by night on roads as ominous as the incredible future awaiting them.Starvation and feasting, the swift beat of love, the primitive encounter, the hot cry of triumph-these elements are combined in this bold and valiant tale of sacrifice and high devotion.Arouse and Beware, first published in 1936, was widely praised by the critics and became a best seller. Now with the success of MacKinlay Kantor's great novel, Andersonville, and the enormous interest in the Civil War period, it is being re-issued again to be enjoyed by a whole new generation of readers. ...more

Assunta Spina

Salvatore Di Giacomo

Assunta Spina fidanzata con un macellaio di nome Michele Boccadifuoco ma anche corteggiata da Raffaele, il quale Assunta rifiuta senza remore. Per vendicarsi Raffaele invia una lettera anonima a Michele dicendo che la sua fidanzata quando lui lavora si consola con qualcun altro. Allora Michele decide di portare Assunta Spina a Napoli trovandole un lavoro in una lavande Assunta Spina fidanzata con un macellaio di nome Michele Boccadifuoco ma anche corteggiata da Raffaele, il quale Assunta rifiuta senza remore. Per vendicarsi Raffaele invia una lettera anonima a Michele dicendo che la sua fidanzata quando lui lavora si consola con qualcun altro. Allora Michele decide di portare Assunta Spina a Napoli trovandole un lavoro in una lavanderia vicino alla sua macelleria. Il giorno del compleanno di Assunta il fidanzato Michele la porta a Posillipo ma lui non le presta molte attenzioni, finch arriva anche Raffaele. Per ripicca, decide allora di ballare con Raffaele, e il dramma va in scena: Michele, accecato dall'ira, sfregia Assunta e viene successivamente arrestato. Durante il processo lei testimonia per salvarlo, affermando che Michele non l'aveva mai colpita, ma la giuria non le crede. Michele viene cos condannato per due anni. Assunta allora decide di accettare la proposta del vice-cancelliere Federigo Funelli, per far s che Michele stia nella pi vicina prigione di Napoli, ovvero diventare sua amante. Dal carcere Michele continua a scrivere delle lettere ad Assunta ma lei non gli risponder mai. Assunta capisce infatti di non essere pi innamorata di Michele. Dopo un anno e mezzo Boccadifuoco viene messo in libert e va subito a trovare la sua fidanzata alla lavanderia, ma capendo che Assunta non prova pi dei sentimenti per lui ma per un altro, esce ed uccide Federigo, del quale Assunta, diventata sua amante da tempo, si innamorata. Lei a quel punto si dichiara colpevole del delitto che non ha commesso davanti alla polizia. ...more

Atlantis

Gerhart Hauptmann

Frederick von Kammacher to whom the day before the Roland had been non-existent telegraphed from Paris to have a cabin on it reserved for him. Haste was imperative.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

Bad Girl

Vi

The Ballad Of Cat Ballou

Roy Chanslor

The Balland of Cat Ballou is the story of Cat and Clay, told with all the earthy simplicity of a folksong out of those forever banished days of six guns, frontier dance halls and blazing range wars between cattlman and farmer, the days when a sense of honor could sometimes make a man an outlaw.That was what started Cat's father Frankie Ballou on his career against the rail The Balland of Cat Ballou is the story of Cat and Clay, told with all the earthy simplicity of a folksong out of those forever banished days of six guns, frontier dance halls and blazing range wars between cattlman and farmer, the days when a sense of honor could sometimes make a man an outlaw.That was what started Cat's father Frankie Ballou on his career against the railroad which had ruined his family. But Cathy, the girl who was to be Cat's mother, was the prettierst school marm west of Cheyenne, and the first time Frankie saw her he swore never to rob again. He kept his word, too, but in the time it took to right himself with the law he and Cat's mother were forced to wait in the mountaintop Roost of Frankie and his men. It was there, one wildly stormy night, that Cat was born.She was not merely pretty, she was disturbingly beautiful; and she knew it and men knew it. But in her heart she wanted only one and waited for him, the bold young bandit Clay Boone. While she waited for Clay, others sought her. Among them was Abe Field, son of old Adam Field, the hated boss of the powerful Purple Valley Cattlemen's Association.There was already bad blood between the Fields and the Ballous, and when the fiery young Cat shamed Abe and sent him running off like a rabbit one day when he caught her swimming alone, Abe's desire for revenge began a world of trouble.And so it was that with passion and fire and courage, Cat Ballou and Clay Boone came together in the face of treachery and danger. Their story of daring and love was one to make men wonder at them and sing about them in days long, long after. ...more

The Ballad Of The Flim Flam Man

Guy Owen

With a quicksilver tongue, the hands of a grifter, and a heart full of pure larceny, Mordecai Jones is a con man of comic proportions. Where Mordecai and his apprentice Treadwell go, trouble follows: tobacco barns burn down, prize chickens get eaten, and greedy folks lose a few dollars.

The Ballad of the Running Man

Shelley Smith

Before the Fact

Francis Iles

Lina McLaidlaw waits until she is 30 before accepting a marriage proposal from the feckless and irresponsible Johnnie Aysgarth. As head of a fine household and guardian of both the morals and finances of the man she chose to marry, she finds her husband was, and perhaps still is, a killer.

Bellman and True

Desmond Lowden

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison. ...more

Benjamin Blake

Edison Marshall

The Big Heat

William P. McGivern

MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. A COP HAD KILLED HIMSELF, AND EVERY CROOK IN TOWN KNEW THAT WOULD BE SURE TO BRING ON THE BIG HEAT. Why did they fear a dead man Dave Bannion, homicide sergeant, fought for the answer to that question. The dead man was a police clerk who shot himself for no obvious reason. That was Bannion's first judgment, until a girl named Lucy presented a quite MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. A COP HAD KILLED HIMSELF, AND EVERY CROOK IN TOWN KNEW THAT WOULD BE SURE TO BRING ON THE BIG HEAT. Why did they fear a dead man Dave Bannion, homicide sergeant, fought for the answer to that question. The dead man was a police clerk who shot himself for no obvious reason. That was Bannion's first judgment, until a girl named Lucy presented a quite different picture of the dead man from the one he had shown to the world and to his fastidious, glacial wife. Bannion's chief, Lieutenant Wilks, wanted the case closed and speculation ended quickly and tightly. So did Max Stone and Lagana, who held the city in a sinister, underworld grip. But why Why did they all fear a dead man . . . ...more

The Bishop's Wife

Robert Nathan

Blaze of Noon

Ernest K. Gann

Blood On The Moon

Lloyd Hopkins

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James Ellroy

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can

Blue Fin

Colin Thiele

Twelve-year-old Steve Pascoe is nicknamed 'Snook' by everyone in Port Lincoln. He's thin and long-faced, like the fish he's named after. At school he's no good at sport and, at home, his father scorns him. Snook joins his father and fellow crewmen on a tuna-fishing expedition, when disaster strikes. It is up to Snook to save himself and his father from a desperate situatio Twelve-year-old Steve Pascoe is nicknamed 'Snook' by everyone in Port Lincoln. He's thin and long-faced, like the fish he's named after. At school he's no good at sport and, at home, his father scorns him. Snook joins his father and fellow crewmen on a tuna-fishing expedition, when disaster strikes. It is up to Snook to save himself and his father from a desperate situation. ...more

The Border Jumpers

Will C. Brown

The Bravados

Frank O'Rourke

Breakfast on Pluto

Patrick McCabe

Breakfast on Pluto is a Surreal romp...the writer imaginatively distills Northern Ireland's public horrors as he compels us to inhabit the actors private nightmare.

Brothers In Law

Henry Cecil

Buddwing

Evan Hunter

Call It Treason

George Howe

Canyon Passage

Ernest Haycox

Canyon Passage is one of the most famed novels of the West from the pen of Ernest Haycox. It is the powerful story of men drunk with gold fever, men who fought the land and one another to gouge riches from the mountain wilderness, and the story, too, of the women they loved along the way... From the time it first appeared as a serial, blazing from the pages of the Saturday Canyon Passage is one of the most famed novels of the West from the pen of Ernest Haycox. It is the powerful story of men drunk with gold fever, men who fought the land and one another to gouge riches from the mountain wilderness, and the story, too, of the women they loved along the way... From the time it first appeared as a serial, blazing from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, and later as an enormously successful movie, CANYON PASSAGE has been a bestseller among the great Western sagas. ...more

Careful He Might Hear You

Sumner Locke Elliott

The story of a bitter strugle between two women for the possession of a six-year-old boy, written with tenderness, humour and irony. First Paragraph:'P S,' they said. And 'Vanessa'. Or sometimes 'Ness'. PS. PS. PS. PS. Ness. Ness. Ness. It sounded through his half sleep like surreptitious mice foraging through tissue paper. It was as mysterious as the lateness of the hour The story of a bitter strugle between two women for the possession of a six-year-old boy, written with tenderness, humour and irony. First Paragraph:'P S,' they said. And 'Vanessa'. Or sometimes 'Ness'. PS. PS. PS. PS. Ness. Ness. Ness. It sounded through his half sleep like surreptitious mice foraging through tissue paper. It was as mysterious as the lateness of the hour

Cash McCall

Cameron Hawley

This is Cameron Hawley's revealing novel of business and the associated worlds of law and finance. Cash McCall is a vastly intriguing man, a 20th century adventurer who carries on his successful buying and selling of companies behind a suspiciously secret screen of anonymity. But this is more than a novel of high finance. It is no less an eloquent love story, a discerning This is Cameron Hawley's revealing novel of business and the associated worlds of law and finance. Cash McCall is a vastly intriguing man, a 20th century adventurer who carries on his successful buying and selling of companies behind a suspiciously secret screen of anonymity. But this is more than a novel of high finance. It is no less an eloquent love story, a discerning journey into the hearts and minds of business wives. Above all else, CASH MCCALL is an intelligent commentary on the morals and motives of our time. ...more

Charlie Chan Carries On

Charlie Chan

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Earl Derr Biggers

In Room 28 on the 3rd floor of Broome's super-respectable hotel in London, lay an American tourist, one Hugh Morris Drake, kindly automobile manufacturer from Detroit. He had been murdered in the night. Drake was a member of a round-the-world travel party, and before Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard could discover any convincing evidence, the group was moving on. By train a In Room 28 on the 3rd floor of Broome's super-respectable hotel in London, lay an American tourist, one Hugh Morris Drake, kindly automobile manufacturer from Detroit. He had been murdered in the night. Drake was a member of a round-the-world travel party, and before Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard could discover any convincing evidence, the group was moving on. By train and ship they widened the distance between themselves and Broome's Hotel, while Death hovered like a brooding hawk above, and Duff tried frantically to get the answer to the puzzle. How Charlie Chan comes into it, the reader will want to discover for himself. Suffice it to say that he does come in -- the same old Charlie with his fresh aphorisms and delicious mannerisms ... *** CONTENTS: CHAPTER I - RAIN IN PICCADILLYCHAPTER II - FOG AT BROOME'S HOTELCHAPTER III - THE MAN WITH A WEAK HEARTCHAPTER IV - DUFF OVERLOOKS A CLUECHAPTER V - LUNCHEON AT THE MONICOCHAPTER VI - TEN-FORTY-FIVE FROM VICTORIACHAPTER VII - AN ADMIRER OF SCOTLAND YARDCHAPTER VIII - FOG ON THE RIVIERACHAPTER IX - DUSK AT SAN REMOCHAPTER X - THE DEAFNESS OF MR. DRAKECHAPTER XI - THE GENOA EXPRESSCHAPTER XII - THE JEWELER IN CHOWWRINGHEE ROADCHAPTER XIII - A KNOCK AT CHARLIE'S DOORCHAPTER XIV - DINNER ON PUNCHBOWL HILLCHAPTER XV - BOUND EAST FROM HONOLULUCHAPTER XVI - THE MALACCA STICKCHAPTER XVII - THE GREAT EASTERN LABELCHAPTER XVIII - MAXY MINCHIN'S PARTYCHAPTER XIX - THE FRUITFUL TREECHAPTER XX - MISS PAMELA MAKES A LISTCHAPTER XXI - THE PROMENADE DES ANGLAISCHAPTER XXII - TIME TO FISHCHAPTER XXIII - TIME TO DRY THE NETS ...more

China Seas

Crosbie Garstin

Chocolat

Chocolat

1

Joanne Harris

When the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called

Christmas Holiday (W. Somerset Maugham) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

W. Somerset Maugham

Literary Thoughts edition presents Christmas Holidayby W. Somerset Maugham------ "Christmas Holiday" is a novel written in 1939 by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), just before the outbreak of World War II, and tells the story of Charley Mason, whose father granted him a trip to Paris with all expenses paid, and although it should have been a lark, on his first night Charle Literary Thoughts edition presents Christmas Holidayby W. Somerset Maugham------ "Christmas Holiday" is a novel written in 1939 by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), just before the outbreak of World War II, and tells the story of Charley Mason, whose father granted him a trip to Paris with all expenses paid, and although it should have been a lark, on his first night Charley meets a woman whose story will forever change his life. The story was later adapted in a movie of the same name.All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. Please visit our homepage www.literarythoughts.com to see our other publications. ...more

Cimarron

Edna Ferber

Cinderella Liberty

Darryl Ponicsan

Clean Break

Lionel White

A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people. The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person. Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people. The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person. Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to produce noir classic "The Killing." ...more

Code of the West

Zane Grey

Code B-I.The code of chivalry, a standard of honor between men and of loyalty and decency between a girl and a man. When Georgiana Stockwell came to the Tonto Basin from the East she had heard neither of chivalry nor of loyalty, she cared only to have the attention of as many men as possible and to have her own way with them.

Coins in the Fountain

John H. Secondari

The Colours of the Day

Romain Gary

Comrade Jacob

David Caute

The Constant Gardener

John le Carr

Tessa Quayle has been murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

Coroner Creek

Luke Short

After the Apache massacre, all that was left was the wreck of a stagecoach and a piece of white silk from a wedding dress. Danning is hell-bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a stagecoach. His fiancee was killed in the raid and a large army payroll was stolen. But the villain won't be easy to track down. He's a model citizen wi After the Apache massacre, all that was left was the wreck of a stagecoach and a piece of white silk from a wedding dress. Danning is hell-bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a stagecoach. His fiancee was killed in the raid and a large army payroll was stolen. But the villain won't be easy to track down. He's a model citizen with his fingers in several underhanded operations. Danning would find the cowardly murderer, and when he did, he'd kill him--but first, he'd strip him of everything he valued in life: his wealth, his honor and his power. ...more

Darby O'Gill and the Good People

Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most impor This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. ...more

Dark Passage

David Goodis

Sentenced to life in San Quentin for the alleged murder of his wife, Vince Parry escapes in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence. A fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair, he finds refuge with a beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish plot. First published as a magazine serial, Dark Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphr Sentenced to life in San Quentin for the alleged murder of his wife, Vince Parry escapes in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence. A fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair, he finds refuge with a beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish plot. First published as a magazine serial, Dark Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, it is regarded as a classic of noir filmmaking. ...more

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

John Brophy

Desert Fury

Tom "Bear" Wilson

A decorated war veteran accepts a job with a private foundation that protects the country from outside tyranny. His first assignment is to hunt down a rogue FBI agent who has been turned by the Russians. With the help of a beautiful geologist, he must also locate a missing author on nuclear arms waste. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that explains both the motive of th A decorated war veteran accepts a job with a private foundation that protects the country from outside tyranny. His first assignment is to hunt down a rogue FBI agent who has been turned by the Russians. With the help of a beautiful geologist, he must also locate a missing author on nuclear arms waste. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that explains both the motive of the ex-agent and the disappearance of the author--a secret stash of plutonium hidden in the desert. Now they must find a way to stop the agent's attempt to exact revenge on the foundation which may have deadly results for many! ...more

The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada

1

Lauren Weisberger

The Diamond Hunters

Wilbur Smith

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal.In a desperate bid to support Johnny, Tracey acquires for him the concession in the diamond-rich seabed round the coral islands of Thunderbolt and Suicide off the savage South West African coast, and Johnny throws all his resources into the construction of a vessel that will recover the stones from the ocean floor and repair his fortune at last. But Benedict, already involved in illegal diamond-dealing as a sideline, seizes this chance to attack his rival and, with a network of accomplices and some ingenious electronic tampering, plots to syphon off the diamonds. Johnny will not only be ruined by his liabilities, he will also be a laughing stock.However, Benedict's obsessive jealousy is his undoing. He cannot resist stripping his rival of his beautiful but bitchy wife Ruby as well, and when he then discards her, she takes her revenge, precipitating a climax of murder and destruction that consumes Benedict at last.Narrated with Wilbur Smith's irresistible driving thrust, The Diamond Hunters is a tale of brotherly hatred, redeemed only by the deepening love between Johnny and Tracey. It is set in London, Cape Town, on the thunderous seas around the ocean diamond fields and ends in a final confrontation between Johnny and Benedict in the blistering hyena-infested desert. ...more

Dirty Weekend

Helen Zahavi

A dark and brilliant novel about a woman who decides not to be a victim anymore. She takes her life and the law into her own hands, exacting her revenge with stunning finality.

The Disorientated Man

Peter Saxon

The Disorientated Man - The Story of a terror more than human ... Less than savage animal - more savage than death itself.

Doctor Slaughter

Paul Theroux

The Drums of Jeopardy

Harold MacGrath

A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon wool. The station lights had the visibility of stars, and like the stars were without refulgence . . . Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat. The high collar was up. The man wore a derby hat, well down upon his head, after the English A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon wool. The station lights had the visibility of stars, and like the stars were without refulgence . . . Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat. The high collar was up. The man wore a derby hat, well down upon his head, after the English mode. An English kitbag, battered and scarred, swung heavily from his hand. Away toward the far end of the platform there appeared a shadowy patch in the fog. It grew and presently took upon itself the shape of a man. For one so short and squat and thick his legs possessed remarkable agility, for he reached the street just as the other man stopped at the side of a taxicab. Sixteen thousand miles, always eastward, on horses, camels, donkeys, trains, and ships; the fog would serve as an impenetrable cloak. he was within three hours of his ultimate destination! He knew all about great cities. An hour after he left the train, if he so willed, he could lose himself for all time. ...more

The enemy below

D.A. Rayner

The Evening Star