Lords of the Shadows

Lords of the Shadows

Robert Holdstock

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Raven Out of the bonds of slavery arose a beautiful warrior...Feared across the land, her blade was stained with the blood of thousands... Raven With her mysterious companion-mentor, Spellbinder, and a great black bird to watch over them, she was invincible. Together they would face the savage butchery of battle and the gathering forces of evil. Raven The Wall of Thought, barrier against the unknown, has been breached. Now the Ghost Lords of Uthganaar roam free. Half man and half beat, they hvae united an evil people to conquer the world! Only a mabion blade, a sword that defies magic, is potent against an army from Hell. And only a warrior such as Raven can hope to possess such a treacherous weapon... Lords of the Shadows
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The Ants are Coming

The Ants are Coming

Peter Tremayne

Mystery & Thrillers / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lopez could not discern which was the red mess of ants and which was blood. Sanchez was acrawl with the terrifying creatures. When Jane Sewell returns to the Brazilian jungle to help her anthropologist father in his work, it is not the happy reunion she is expecting. She doesn’t find the thriving village she remembers. Just a pile of bones… Human bones. Picked clean…
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Night of the Aurochs

Night of the Aurochs

Dalton Trumbo

Fiction

Dalton Trumbo’s posthumous work, this novel tells the story of an old unrepentant Nazi official named Grieben. Former chief of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the protagonist is motivated by a boundless desire for power & by what seems to be an inability to receive love. In autobiographical form, Grieben ensnares us in the sadism of his youth, the cruelty of his relationship with a woman who was half-Jewish & the indescribable horror of the Holocaust.
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The Kremlin Conspiracy

The Kremlin Conspiracy

Sean Flannery

Sean Flannery

CIA chief analyst for Soviet Activities Wallace Mahoney is tasked with finding a missing Russian laser before the American president arrives in Moscow for a diplomatic visit. Under dubious orders, Mahoney must work with KGB agents to find the missing weapon in a race against time.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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After the First Death

After the First Death

Robert Cormier

Literature & Fiction / Young Adult / Thriller

Sixteen-year-old Miro had instructions to kill the bus driver immediately. They would then take the busload of children to the bridge and begin the standoff. Artkin was Miro’s mentor; the mastermind behind this act of terrorism that would get the world’s attention.  But Artkin had told Miro that the bus driver would be an old man. Sixteen-year old Kate sometimes substituted for her uncle and drove his bus when he was ill. She even got a special license to do so, and she’d always liked kids. She wondered what was going on when the van in front of her stopped, but when the man and the boy with guns forced their way onto the bus, she knew her worst nightmare was beginning.
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Sonora Slaughter (An Apache Western #6)

Sonora Slaughter (An Apache Western #6)

William M James

William M James

Apache renegade Cuchillo Oro, in search of his hated enemy Captain Piner, becomes involved with a gang of Mexican bandits. They are holding captive the daughter of a rich Sonoran. Their plan is to ransom her and Cuchillo now becomes tangled up in the plan. His only way to escape with his life and famed knife is to go along with it ... with bloody consequences for all.
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Kindred

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother.
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Minnesota Strip

Minnesota Strip

Peter McCurtin

Peter McCurtin

Private investigator Pete Shay was down on his luck—if he'd ever had any to begin with—so when a battered deck hand from Duluth named Thomas Jannssen offered him seven hundred dollars to track down his missing daughter, Shay agreed.His search for the girl led him straight to that section of New York's 8th Avenue known as the Minnesota Strip, where teenage hookers and their pimps make the scene in a twilight world of booze, drugs, and violence.Shay thought he'd seen every kind of depravity known to man.It took this case to prove that he was wrong.
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The Dossier of Solar Pons

The Dossier of Solar Pons

Basil Copper

Mystery & Thrillers / Horror

August Derleth created in Solar Pons a detective whose genius cannot be matched, perhaps not even by Sherlock Holmes himself! Now the pen has passed into the hand of the noted British author Basil Copper. Here are six superbly crafted tales of suspense in the best tradition of Solar Pons. Come to Number 7B Praed Street, where the master awaits.Contents "The Adventure of the Perplexed Photographer" "The Adventure of the Sealed Spire" "The Adventure of the Six Gold Doubloons" "The Adventure of the Ipi Idol" "The Adventure of Buffington Old Grange" "The Adventure of the Hammer of Hate"
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So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

Fiction / Historical / Historical Fiction

In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent’s misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime’s regret. This Orange Inheritance Edition of So Long, See You Tomorrow is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Ann Patchett chose So Long, See You Tomorrow. "The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable."--Ann Patchett
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