Espresso Tales: Latest from 44 Scotland Street
The second in the series of Alexander McCall Smith`s daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street.
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it...
A fantasy of heroic adventure, set in the kingdom of Delain. It involves a king who is poisoned, a young and beautiful queen, a prince locked in a high tower while his younger brother assumes the throne, and an evil...
Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting two years earlier. Unable to forget the connection they shared and helpless to resist it, romance quickly...
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in...
Fevre Dream (Fantasy Masterworks)
Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true - he has built the Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi. Abner hopes to race the boat some day, but his partner is making it hard for him to...
This is the dangerous fiction from the world-famous grand master of the supernatural stories with an interlacing of horror that capture the ever-growing dark corners of our century.
Firstborn (Time Odyssey, book 3)
With this epic tale of altered histories and different earths, a universe where Alexander`s empire prompted a different past, a world where strange alien `eyes` gaze upon a fractured reality, a time when man is...
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from...
From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt...
Five People You Meet in Heaven
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. The novel`s...
Five Great Novels of Philip K. Dick
This volume contains “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” (filmed as “Bladerunner”), “Martian Time Slip”, “Ubik”, “The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch” and “A Scanner Darkly”. Taken together they represent the...
Next year. Sea levels begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change predictions; metres a year. Within two years London, only 15 metres above the sea, is drowned. New York follows, the Pope gives...
Flow, My Tears, Policeman Said
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people - and he`s the prime-time idol of millions until,...
Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone`s jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal...
For One More Day (No.1 NY Times bestseller)
"This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone". So begins "For One More...
"Four Blondes" charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model scams rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can...
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (A)
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache...
From Dead to Worse (True Blood)
The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit in the up-north city of...
