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The Armageddon Box by Robert Weinberg The sequel to The Devil's Auction. A friend's brutal murder brought the seemingly worthless book into Alex Warner's possession. He had no idea that it held the secret to an age-old mystery and key to unimaginable power. But he discovered that quick enough as he found himself the target of a secret religious cult and a strange Neo-Nazi superman with incredible powers. With Valerie Lancaster, Alex must follow the trail of the book from...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Bizarre tentacled things are prowling the front. Neither animal, vegetable, or insect, they somehow combine elements of all three! Yet these marauding giants also possess near-humanlike intelligence-for their unstoppable tentacles seek to snare and crush only Allied warplanes.... What are The Death Monsters? Why do they fight for Germany? What fiendish brain controls them? These are the questions G-8 and his fighting comrades must answer-or the war will be lost! Go with America's Flying Spy...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Ein großer Roman über die Einsamkeit der menschlichen Existenz. Eines Tages verschwindet der Bildhauer Jang Unhyong beinahe spurlos. Er hinterlässt seine faszinierenden Gipsabdrücke von Händen und Körpern – und ein bewegendes Tagebuch, das seine lebenslange Suche nach Nähe und Wahrhaftigkeit in aller Welt voller Masken schildert. "Han Kang erzählt zugleich mit großer Brutalität und großer Poesie – eine Mischung, die nur wenigen Schriftstellern gelingt." Stern. "Man kann sich...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In her eye-opening and heartrending fourth novel, award winning author Tanya J. Peterson takes us inside the anguished mind of Isaac Bittman-an average family man whose mysterious and progressively violent mood swings, many of which he cannot remember, begin to unravel the lives of those closest to him. After a series of bizarre encounters, including losing his job and waking up half-dead in the wilds of Idaho, he begins treatment at a revolutionary mental health facility, where the childhood...
| Автор | Таня Петерсон |
Caught in the cross-hairs of a twisted fanatic… Poverty, broken families and a system ill-equipped to help innocent and impressionable children combine to create an ideal breeding ground for Usman who is recruiting and training missionaries for mass destruction. While completing her thesis in India, Tina Matthew, a young doctoral student from the United States, unwittingly gets thrown into the center of this madman’s demented plot built upon religious fanaticism. She quickly learns what the...
| Автор | Annu Subramanian |
In the fictional coastal town of Cumberland, Georgia, fifteen-year-old twin sisters Ansel and Isabel Mackenzie have lived with their eccentric grandmother since a car accident killed their parents and paralyzed Isabel. Over the past seven years the responsibility of caring for her sister has fallen increasingly on Ansel. However, as she cultivates a romantic relationship with a local boy, as well as an artistic apprenticeship with a visiting photographer, Ansel's growing desire for...
| Автор | Megan Gannon |
When life throws you overboard, learn to float. Will Larkin teaches algebra and has been married 2.92 years (he never rounds off). He has no children, two friends and one dog. His life is perfectly routine until he loses his wife, job, dog, boat and even his freedom all in one spectacularly hard year. He also didn’t plan on falling in love with vet tech named Parker Cool. Float Plan is a contemporary novel featuring a chainsaw attack on a gazebo, a basset hound named Dean and a...
| Автор | Rob Hiaasen |
Welcome to the real and imagined worlds of D. R. Belz, where you’ll find: a practicing white witch kindergarten teacher whose practical joke brings a strange consequence; a young priest-in-training who encounters a literal femme fatale; a homeless man who finds a baby in a trash bin on Christmas morning-and something more; a catalog of bizarre mail-order products you won’t find anywhere else in the universe; an agency in Washington where a million monkeys type out Shakespeare; a suburban doctor...
| Автор | D. R. Belz |
When a child’s skeleton is discovered during the excavation of the site for a new charter school being built in the Bronx, former teacher Sylvia Jensen is certain of only two things. She is sure that the remains are those of eight-year-old Markus LeMeur, her third-grade student who disappeared in the violent and tumultuous fall of 1968. And she is sure that his death was no accident. Determined to find out who killed Markus and why, Sylvia again joins forces with investigative reporter J. B....
| Автор | Dorothy Van Soest |
No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies-the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won't have to wait long to...
| Автор | Alan Dean Foster |
Banjo Man tells the story of Susan Willson Reese, a widow, retired schoolteacher, and accomplished bluegrass and old-time banjo picker. A native of the fictional community of Willson’s Cove in the North Carolina mountains, she has been trying to find one of the many handcrafted fretless banjos her grandpa, Luther Willson, built back in the early 1900s. Her quest has been a twenty-year search of futility. Grandpa had been a well-known luthier and musician in the mountains of North Carolina,...
| Автор | June Titus |
