From Publishers WeeklyIn this affecting, if oddly flat, crime novel from Edgar-winner Cook (The Chatham School Affair), Eric Moore, a prosperous businessman, watches his safe, solid world disintegrate. When eight-year-old Amy Giordano, whom Eric's teenage son, Keith, was babysitting, disappears from her family's house, many believe Keith is an obvious suspect, and not even his parents are completely convinced that he wasn't somehow involved. As time passes without Amy being found, a corrosive suspicion seeps into every aspect of Eric's life. That suspicion is fed by Eric's shaky family history-a father whose failed plans led from moderate ...
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she’s been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit— a far more threatening one— and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
There had long been a feud between the gentiles and the Mormons in Utah, a feud that Jane Withersteen, daughter of a prominent Mormon leader, chooses to ignore. When Elder Tull discovers that the woman he meant to make one of his wives has offered hospitality to an outsider, he vows vengeance. But Tull underestimates Jane’s courage and the determination of the riders of the beautiful—and dangerous—plains of the old west.
The novel of the blockbuster hit filmFor two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine from the future, a machine who can take--or save--lives, capable of enormous violence and destruction, these films are the quintessential action thrillers of the new millennium.Now, twelve years after, Schwarzenegger is back in a new Terminator film that is even more exciting and action-packed than the first two films. With incredible new computer-generated imagery and an enormous arsenal of new effects, , is a roller-coaster ride that moviegoers won't be ...
Long po?me h?ro?-comique en 46 chants et 38 736 vers, 'Roland furieux' reprend la l?gende o? le 'Roland amoureux 'de Mateo Maria Boiardo l'avait laiss?. Le h?ros devient fou de col?re lorsqu'il s'aper?oit qu'Ang?lique aime M?dor, un simple soldat sarrasin. L'action, tr?s complexe et qui passe du tragique au burlesque, se d?roule sur fond de lutte entre Chr?tiens et Sarrasins.
Long po?me h?ro?-comique en 46 chants et 38 736 vers, 'Roland furieux' reprend la l?gende o? le 'Roland amoureux 'de Mateo Maria Boiardo l'avait laiss?. Le h?ros devient fou de col?re lorsqu'il s'aper?oit qu'Ang?lique aime M?dor, un simple soldat sarrasin. L'action, tr?s complexe et qui passe du tragique au burlesque, se d?roule sur fond de lutte entre Chr?tiens et Sarrasins.
Brannigan's Brigands are patrolling the Afghanistan/Iran border in high-tech vehicles when they meet a mobile corps of Iranian Special Forces who have their own agenda-to conquer. Now, Brannigan and his SEALs are targeted to be the first infidels to die in the terrorists' quest to establish no less than a modern day Persian Empire.
Three Kingdoms is a classic historical novel. It was also the first Chinese novel with each chapter headed by a couplet giving the gist of the content. It describes the power struggles among the kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, headed by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, respectively, in the period known to Chinese history as that of the Three Kingdoms (220 – 280). It highlights the sharp and complicated political and military conflicts of that time, and had a far-reaching influence on the political and military strategies of later ages. The novel vividly portrays the individuality of the historical ...
October 'Toby' Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a 'normal' life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas. The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer.
