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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...
| Автор | AMAYA |
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...
| Автор | David Bajo |
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...
| Автор | Silas Dent Zobal |
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...
| Автор | Уилбур Смит |
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,...
| Автор | Уилбур Смит |
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...
| Автор | James Lewis |
Erick S. Gray cemented his reputation as a hip-hop writing legend with Crave All, Lose All. Now, in this explosive sequel, Gray returns to characters Soul and America just as Soul is leaving his four-year stretch in prison for drug charges. America expects Soul to straighten up and fly right, but Soul has other ideas. As Soul once again becomes embroiled in the Queens drug scene — a landscape rife with greed, betrayal, violence, and politics — America and Soul find their love...
| Автор | Erick S Gray |
Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an envious life, not with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind. And now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one–except Eugenie–seems willing to find out why. Eugenie has spilled plenty of fey blood in her...
| Автор | Richelle Mead |
Dying is the best way to revive your musical career … even if you’re not really dead. It’s all slipping away from Roc Molotov – his band, his girlfriend, and worst of all, his ability to play the game demanded by the star-making machinery of the music business. When the best record he’s ever made is about to pass unnoticed, his oldest friend and manager, Uncle Strange, concocts the perfect scheme. Roc will fake his death, on MTV, in front of millions of viewers, assuring massive success on his...
| Автор | Christopher Ward |
A country to kill for … The career of Claire Marcoux, a young naval officer, threatens to come crashing down after she orders the ship under her command to return fire on a boat that she was supposed to rescue. The quiet life of Daniel Ritter, a new professor in a new town, is turned upside down when the celebrity entrepreneur he was unexpectedly invited to meet is found murdered. Thrown together by chance, Claire and Daniel discover that they are involved in the same fight against an unknown...
| Автор | Russell Fralich |
Sweeping historical novel of espionage, betrayal and identity. When Q was first published in 1999, it was an international sensation; returning to the same world of that extraordinary novel, Altaiis a captivating story of betrayal, beliefs and the clash of civilizations. When a fire breaks out in the Arsenal of Venice in 1569, everyone suspects Joseph Nasi, number-one enemy of the republic. But it is the enigmatic emmanuele De Zante, spy catcher and agent of the Venetian secret service, who...
| Автор | Wu Ming |
Thirteen-year-old Kate is without her dad, lonely and depressed. Her family is broken and her world has lost its color and energy. One day, she is drawn by a crow into a land of uncommon beauty and love. But Kate soon discovers this new land is under siege by the rebel Grod Vurmis, who is causing freak storms and environmental disasters. Vurmis is turning the inhabitants into shadows, looting the kingdom libraries, and changing the stories so the people will no longer remember who they are. ...
| Автор | Karl Petersen |
SET AGAINST THE DECAYING HALLS of a San Diego rest home in the 1970s, God Clobbers Us All is the shimmering, hysterical, and melancholy account of eighteen-year-old surfer-boy orderly, Edgar Donahoe, and his struggles with romance, death, friendship, and an ill-advised affair with the wife of a maladjusted war veteran. All of Edgar's problems become mundane, however, when he and his lesbian Blackfoot nurse's aide best friend become responsible for the disappearance of their fellow...
| Автор | Poe Ballantine |
The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda hopes to reach the seaside where she was born before she dies of cancer. Allen, her husband, earns their way back by golf hustling, working the links en route. Outside of Tucson, the two meet up with a Pima Indian also headed toward the Cape to help a distant relative who has...
| Автор | Toby Olson |
This fast paced adventure is like The Bible Code meets The Chariots of the Gods. It weaves together the fascinating themes of ancient astronauts, angel visitations, hidden Bible codes and end time prophecies, with an international conspiracy thrown in.<br><br>The story follows the quest of cynical lawyer John Marshall to locate the Tree of Knowledge and then to pass on the key to it to the one called the Son of Man.<br><br>Marshall unwittingly becomes the last custodian...
| Автор | Svensk Jr. Ã?ob |
From the unforgiving surf of Costa Rica to hidden vineyards in the South of France, the stories in Perfect Conditions span the globe, and the characters often struggle to find control in unrelenting circumstances: a deep sea fisherman discovers he may not be allowed to return home when his contract expires; a young woman mourns the death of a dear friend she cannot save; a newlywed couple embark on a disastrous honeymoon. Unflinching stories from an award-winning writer. Vanessa...
| Автор | Vanessa Blakeslee |
"A delightful fantasy adventure with a YA spirit, a PG rating, and a rich introduction to Arabian mythology." — Kirkus Reviews Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official...
| Автор | Saad Z. Hossain |
Together for the first time in one omnibus binding are all ten of the original Tarzan Novels that cemented Tarzan’s name in the annals of heroic fiction. That’s more than one thousand pages of pulse pounding adventure. Almost a million words! Plus superb color illustrations from some of the original titles. Return to a simpler more exciting time with Tarzan and his adventures. If you enjoyed this book, you’ll want to search on “Positronic Super Pack” and check out all our other...
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Fern Michaels is a national treasure, and her latest in the Sisterhood series finds the stalwart friends bringing justice—and hope—to families devastated by a greedy con artist.]  The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.   When Alexis...
| Автор | Fern Michaels |
Nowa powieść jednego z najlepszych współczesnych pisarzy – Kena Folletta. Historia poprzedzająca wydarzenia opisane w Filarach Ziemi, osadzona w Anglii u zarania nowej epoki: średniowiecza. Jest rok 997 naszej ery, koniec wieków barbarzyństwa. Anglia na zachodzie mierzy się z atakami Walijczyków, a na wschodzie – wikingów. Lokalni przywódcy naginają królewskie zarządzenia do swoich celów, sprzeciwiając się władzy i nie dbając o los prostych ludzi. Ponieważ w kraju nie ma ściśle wytyczonego...
| Автор | Ken Follett |
Книга Андрея Домановского «Франкская империя Карла Великого» – это история о диких необузданных племенах франков и их войнах с римлянами; о создании жестоким и хитрым королем Хлодвигом франкского королевства; «ленивых королях» династии Меровингов и могущественных майордомах, а также о завоеваниях земель, дипломатии и внутренней политике коронованного императорской короной Карла Великого; о достижениях прекрасного и величественного Каролингского Возрождения, оставившего глубокий след в...
| Автор | Андрей Домановский |
Some lies never stay buried…Betsy Jakes was having nightmares, nightmares that could solve a decades-old mystery. And for someone in her small town, that meant she had to die.When Sam Jakes returns home to help his brother solve their mother's murder, two things shake him to the core. This crime is clearly the work of a serial killer who has struck twice before. And…Lainey Pickett is still in town. The woman he walked away from without an explanation years ago has just walked back into his...
| Автор | Sharon Sala |
At the mercy of a treacherous sea… Claire Britten's training never prepared her for this—the forensic psychology curriculum didn't cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter—and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.When the bedraggled...
| Автор | Karen Harper |
"I'll pay you one million dollars to find my wife and son."Ex-cop turned bounty hunter Michael Sullivan doesn't think any woman is worth that kind of money, but a job is a job.All he has to do is make the phone call…Just drop in the quarter and tell his client he's earned his money. Lily Webster and her son are in New Orleans, where she's working as a waitress. One phone call and he can collect a cool million bucks…and forget the beautiful woman who seems to be hiding...
| Автор | Metsy Hingle |