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Moon Over Tangier - A Francis Bacon...

Janice Law

Moon Over Tangier - A Francis Bacon Mystery 3 (Unabridged)

For artist Francis Bacon, life with David grows more dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis's paintings and threatening to gut the painter, too. When David leaves London for Morocco, Francis cannot help but follow this man whom he loves but can no longer trust. In Tangier, they find a thriving community of expats who guzzle champagne while revolutionaries gather in the desert. But in Morocco's International Zone, death does...

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Janice Law

The Coming of Cassidy - Hopalong Ca...

Clarence E. Mulford

The Coming of Cassidy - Hopalong Cassidy 6 (Unabridged)

Hopalong Cassidy is an iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, but immortalized in a series of films starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in the print novels, Cassidy was remade into a clean-cut hero who traveled the West with his sidekicks fighting villains who took advantage of the weak. Clarence E Mulford takes you back to the beginning by relating the stories (as told to him by Red and the boys of the BAR-20) of how Buck Peters started...

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Clarence E. Mulford

Doctor Who - Der Tag des Trolls (Un...

Ксюша Ангел

Doctor Who - Der Tag des Trolls (Ungekürzt)

Als der Doktor in ferner Zukunft auf der Erde landet, muss er entsetzt entdecken, dass der Planet von einer Hungersnot heimgesucht worden ist. England ist ein unfruchtbares Ödland geworden, und Wissenschaftler versuchen verzweifelt, neue Pflanzen wachsen zu lassen. Aber es scheint, als würde noch etwas viel Schlimmeres passieren. Karl Baring, der Besitzer der Forschungsanlage «The Grange», wurde mitten in der Nacht entführt. Seine Schwester Katy war bei ihm, als er verschwand, allerdings hat...

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Ксюша Ангел

Out of Their Minds

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Out of Their Minds

"Hey, what's up, come a little closer, I have something to tell you," God said to Cornelio. The deal was simple: God would be the silent partner in the norteño band that Cornelio had started with his best friend Ramon. Cornelio would sing and play the bajo sexto, Ramon the accordion, and God would write the songs. Cornelio agreed; he would sell his soul to God. Success and disaster followed. The band went from playing bars in Tijuana to playing the biggest stadiums in Mexico....

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Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Marah Chase and the Conqueror's Tom...

Ксюша Ангел

Marah Chase and the Conqueror's Tomb - Marah Chase, Book 1 (Unabridged)

Once a rising star in the field of archaeology, Marah Chase is now a black-market treasure hunter, her services available to the highest bidder. But when she's caught «rescuing» relics in Syria before they're destroyed by war, an MI6 officer named Joanna Mason approaches her with an offer she can't refuse: help save the world or rot in prison. All Chase has to do is find Alexander the Great's lost tomb, recover an ancient weapon of mass destruction he may have used to conquer...

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Ксюша Ангел

Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire

Poe Ballantine

Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire

"It’s impossible not to be charmed by Edgar Donahoe (Publishers Weekly)," and he’s back for another misguided adventure. When Edgar is expelled from college for drunkenly bellowing expletives from a dorm window at 3:00 am, he hitchhikes to Colorado and trains as a cook. A postcard arrives from Edgar’s college buddy, Mountain Moses, inviting him to a Caribbean island. Once there Edgar cooks at the local tourist resort and falls in love with Mountain’s...

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Poe Ballantine

The 8ight: Desperate Hour

Maxine Boone's McClendon

The 8ight: Desperate Hour

They're back! Fabian, Demi, Luke, Pepper, Jude, Tess, Emmitt, and little Silvia have had their families slaughtered, were held against their will by an evil, powerful organization in search of the secret of their wondrous and unique abilities, and discovered their ties to one another. The 8ight have survived the impossible and escaped the Company. Or have they? Determined to stay free at any cost, the 8ight struggle to remain off the Company's radar as they...

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Maxine Boone's McClendon

Red Star, Crescent Moon: A Muslim-J...

Robert A. Rosenstone

Red Star, Crescent Moon: A Muslim-Jewish Love Story

This book mixes contemporary and the historical worlds in a bold tale of clashing cultures. The love story between a Muslim and a Jew, documentary film director Aisha and historian Benjamin, is set in modern Spain against the vibrant and colorful background of a film festival, the location shoot of a Hollywood epic, the seductive intentions of a movie megastar, and the violent actions of terrorists who wish to reclaim that country for Islam. Telling its story in multiple voices, Red Star,...

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Robert A. Rosenstone

The Cayman Conspiracy

David Ph.D. Shibli

The Cayman Conspiracy

The year is 1989 and Joe LeRice, an expat Englishman has it all, a beautiful wife, a successful business and a peaceful life in the idyllic Cayman Islands. As he enjoys the fruits of his labor, he is disturbed to learn that the world of casino gambling has cast its eye on the country he now calls his home. A consortium from Las Vegas visits Grand Cayman where gambling is illegal and Joe observes as the wheels of politics, lubricated by lust and cash, threaten to turn this tranquil place into yet...

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David Ph.D. Shibli

Model Citizens: Riding for a Fall

Henry Pepper

Model Citizens: Riding for a Fall

Model Citizens is the wild, illegitimate, daughter of Melrose Place. This erotic thriller unfolds during one dramatic week in the exciting and dangerous world of the Super Model. When Angela Durand and Joanne Hart use sexual blackmail to win the world's most prestigious modelling competition, they become instant Super Models and overnight celebrities. The glamorous Los Angeles high life is at their fingertips. Multi-million dollar modelling...

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Henry Pepper

Talcon Star City

Gary Boone's Caplan

Talcon Star City

Talcon Star City has been honored as a "Finalist" of the 2012 International Book Awards in the "Fiction: Science Fiction" category. Somewhere in the future, the universe is filled with hundreds of wild, weird and completely diverse civilizations existing on a myriad of strange and wonderful planets. But amidst all these brave new worlds, are otherworldly enemies intent on control, no matter what it costs them or the universe, and all...

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Gary Boone's Caplan

The Luck of the Maya

Theodore Brazeau

The Luck of the Maya

About the story.... 'The Luck of the Mayaâ is an adventure with science fiction overtones and even a love interest. It takes place partly in the PetÃ©n jungle of southern MÃ©xico, partly in Houston and Austin with side trips to Chicago and New York and occasionally Las Vegas. The story is told from the perspective of 2017 and set mostly in the late 1970s, the important target date is December 21, 2012—the end...

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Theodore Brazeau

The Pink Sneakers Club

Christian Jr. Bertoni

The Pink Sneakers Club

At 3:05 pm the Chemical Plant across the river sounds its horn indicating a shift change . . . At that exact moment Belinda Johnson falls from the school roof, her Quarterback boyfriend Mark Harris becoming the police's number one suspect. Was it a suicide, murder, or an accident? Are the two incidents related? Randi, Caren, Kaye and Deirdre; four high school girls; will race to uncover the truth surrounding their classmates...

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Christian Jr. Bertoni

Tube World

David Inc. Swanson

Tube World

Did you know the center of the Earth was hollow? Do you know the words that can take you there, if you're under the covers in your swimming suit and prepared for the trip? Can you imagine traveling anywhere in the world where there's a swimming pool – and being home again in time for breakfast? If you haven't been to Tube World yet, this book will tell you the secrets you need to know. And it will tell you about some children who discovered Tube World and used...

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David Inc. Swanson

Troop 402

Donald Ph.D. Ladew

Troop 402

When a commuter plane crashes in a violent storm in the Canadian Rockies, four unlikely passengers must find a way to survive. Each will be tested in ways that can't imagine. Their chances seem impossible at the outset. A determined, obsessive boy scout, an arrogant 'Mr. America,' and old Italian deli man with a bad heart and a pretty flight attendant are thrown together on a Canadian mountainside. Before they can escape to...

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Donald Ph.D. Ladew

The Human Bullet

Joaquin De Torres

The Human Bullet

Billionaire, visionary, architect and engineer, Dr. Marko Marmilic, has changed the world in unimaginable ways. From his cutting-edge inventions in bio-genetics and cellular rejuvenation, to mechanical design and space-age metallurgy, he's been labeled "the Nikola Tesla of the modern age." But his newest technological breakthrough is, by far, his most ambitious, and most controversial. Marmilic has been commissioned to develop a machine that will...

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Joaquin De Torres

The Hidden Keys

Andre Alexis

The Hidden Keys

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle. A Japanese screen, a painting that plays...

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Andre Alexis

Only Gods Never Die

Karl Hudousek

Only Gods Never Die

A gripping adventure story based on real historic quests for the priceless buried treasures of ancient Egypt. How do you lose an army of fifty thousand without a trace? Napoleon's invasion of Egypt turned into a treasure hunt with ancient sites plundered to enhance France's museums and palaces. When, in 1799, Napoleon learned his position in Egypt was untenable due to the British blockade, Bonaparte ordered that the best gold and jewel...

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Karl Hudousek

JOURNEY TO CHILDREN OF BWOLA DANCES

AMAYA

JOURNEY TO CHILDREN OF BWOLA DANCES

The fiction thriller and suspense novel takes from recent history about a fanatical religious rebel group, called the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), fighting against the Ugandan Government with a reputation of using abducted children as highly effective but brutal army. The novel challenges how the Developed Western world would treat their children if they were caught up in a war in a foreign country where the child was forced to take up arms to fight to survive in what they, in the West, may then...

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AMAYA

Mercy 6

David Bajo

Mercy 6

In Mercy 6, David Bajo’s courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators  and of the world at large  for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The hospital...

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David Bajo

The People of the Broken Neck

Silas Dent Zobal

The People of the Broken Neck

From the woods where he hides with his nearly grown son Clarke and his young daughter King, ex-Army Ranger Dominick Sawyer watches Agent Charlie Basin’s flashlight beam bounce on the walls inside his cabin. Dom’s wife is missing. His post-trauma hallucinations rip at him explosively and bring him to his knees. And a local deputy sheriff is dead. When the FBI agents recede into the night, the Sawyers begin to run, across the country in stolen trucks, leaving a trail of blood...

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Silas Dent Zobal

Goudmyn

Уилбур Смит

Goudmyn

Toe Jak Stapelberg die pos van hoofbestuurder van die Sonderkloof-goudmyn aangebied word, weet hy dis te goed om waar te wees. Hy is te jonk en boonop beskik hy nie oor die nodige kwalifikasies nie. Sy vermoede word bevestig toe Manfred Steyner sy voorwaarde stel: Jak moet doen wat hy vra, sonder teenspraak. En Jak stem in, want dié kans gaan nie gou weer verbykom nie. As hy net eers die werk het, kan hy Manfred se opdrag mos weier. Nie Jak óf Manfred het rekening gehou met die eintlike magte...

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Уилбур Смит

Donderslag

Уилбур Смит

Donderslag

Wanneer Sean Courtney, die held van Witwatersrand, van ’n lang jagtog terugkom, loop hy hom vas in die geweld van die Anglo-Boereoorlog, sy broer Garrick se afgunstige haat, ’n volgende geslag kinders wat moeilikheid vir die Courtney-familie voorspel, en – bowenal – Ruth Friedman. Ruth slaan sy voete skoon onder hom uit. Vurig, jonk en… ’n ander man se vrou. Boonop raak haar man Sean se boesemvriend en beskermling in die oorlog! Die magte van die noodlot voer Sean telkens van hoop tot wanhoop,...

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Уилбур Смит

Black Sam - Prince of Pirates (Unab...

James Lewis

Black Sam - Prince of Pirates (Unabridged)

The War of Spanish Succession is over, many sailors are out of work, and the thriving American colonies are quickly becoming the place of opportunity. For Sam Bellamy it is the opportunity to become the captain of his own ship. When he falls in love with a rebellious New England debutante, he finds out very quickly that he needs more than a dream to win over her socialite parents. After a failed treasure salvaging expedition, Sam makes one last desperate attempt to change his economic standing...

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James Lewis

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