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Fred Saberhagen

Merlin's Bones

<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>In post-Arthurian England, ten-year old Amby and the troupe of traveling players he belongs to are on the run from a conqueror. He has been gifted with second-sight, and when the troupe stumbles upon an unoccupied castle he is the only one in the group who senses the power that lies within the stone building. In the near future, the Fisher King, Mordred and Morgan le Fay seek to gain control of Dr. Elaine Brusen's hypostater, a machine capable of altering fundamental reality. Both Amby and Elaine are unwittingly drawn into a power struggle that spans centuries and spills into the realm of fairy and beyond. Saberhagen reworks Arthurian legend and puts Arthur's survival, the succession of New Camelot and Merlin's bones on the line with an exciting blend of romance, danger and adventure.</p><

Danielle Steel

Message From Nam

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>An audacious--and ill-conceived--departure from her usual glitzy settings, Steel's ( Daddy ; Star ) 25th novel focuses on the Vietnam War, though it merely skims the surface of that turbulent era. In an attempt at seriousness, Steel awkwardly shoehorns in a veritable almanac of historical facts and such painful milestones as the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. Her heroine, feisty Savannah native Paxton Andrews, disdains the role of a Southern belle and flees to UC Berkeley, where she pursues a journalism major and instantly falls in love with law student Peter Wilson, son of a newspaper tycoon. When Peter is killed in Vietnam, grief-stricken Paxton wangles a ticket to the front as a journalist, where, with an initial boost from a tough, fatherly AP correspondent, she knocks out an acclaimed column for seven years. Steel's undemanding style is too often marred by gushing, breathless prose that trivializes serious events. While the mega-selling author isn't at the top of her form, her fans will enjoy the emotional firestorm as Paxton reels from a series of tragic blows, some concerning her hotheaded lover, Sergeant Tony Campobello, a POW. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From the Publisher</h3><p>As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.</p><p>For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. </p><p>For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again. </p><

Angela Schiavone

Metanoia

In a world of routine, Gina Cassidy finds comfort in her friends and her fantasy books. Yet, she never imagined that the fantasy life she dreamed about was true. Soon, Gina finds herself in another land called Nythagié – a land where everyone things she is the lost queen. Gina has to come to terms with her crown, a past love, and the dangers that threaten to destroy her and the city.<

Dana Stabenow

Midnight come again

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (*Seattle Times*).Now in *Midnight Come Again*, all these elements come together for Stabenow's most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.A magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, *Midnight Come Again* is Dana Stabenow's best novel to date. SUMMARY: Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (Seattle Times).Now in Midnight Come Again, all these elements come together for Stabenow's most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.A magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, Midnight Come Again is Dana Stabenow's best novel to date.<

James Swain

Midnight Rambler

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Swain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (<em>Grift Sense</em>, etc.), avoids many of the clichés of the antisocial ex-cop novel in this chilling stand-alone. A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter is frozen out by the cop on the case, but help comes from an FBI agent whose daughter vanished years earlier. The tension rises as the investigation widens far beyond Skell. Well-defined characters and intricately woven subplots, one involving a nail-biting scene at Disney World, make this a page-turner. <em>12-city author tour. (Oct.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for James Swain and Midnight Rambler<br /></p><p>“Midnight Rambler is a heavy hitter, fast and spare. Travis McGee meets Philip Marlow.”<br />–Randy Wayne White, author of Hunter’s Moon<br /></p><p>“Moves like a bullet train on overdrive . . . I tore through this one without putting on the brakes. I guarantee you will, too!”<br />–Michael Connelly<br /></p><p>“Midnight Rambler kept me up all night long, and Jack Carpenter is as appealing a hero as I’ve ever met. The only problem with Swain’s riveting thrillers is they end.”<br />–Tess Gerritsen, author of The Bone Garden<br /></p><p>“Swain is one terrific writer.”<br />–The Wall Street Journal<br /></p><p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em></p><

John Saul

Midnight Voices

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>In a <em>Rosemary's Baby</em> meets <em>Hansel and Gretel</em> thriller, John Saul's <em>Midnight Voices</em> is packed with bump-in-the-night chills that will frighten and delight readers with its nostalgic nod to urban legends and campfire tales. With short, edgy chapters and all-too-vivid imagery, <em>Midnight Voices</em> begs to be enjoyed in one sitting, in the dark, huddled on the corner of your couch. As usual in Saul's world, strange things are afoot in the city, and the Evans family is the target. </p><p>At the heart of this spooky tale are the children, Laurie and Ryan Evans, who are unwittingly exposed to danger when their recently widowed mother marries widower Anthony Fleming. The too-good-to-be-anything-but-evil Fleming lives in the Rockwell, a building rumored to be inhabited by witches and vampires, that has the children in the neighborhood terrified:</p><blockquote><p>"Amber's eyes were still fixed on the building. They were just stories, she told herself once again. They weren't true. But even as she silently spoke the words to herself, a strange chill of apprehension ran through her and she turned away ... I'll die, she thought. If I go in there, I'll die." </p></blockquote><p>Of course, the newly married Caroline does not share the anxiety of her children, despite Fleming's Bluebeard-like determination to keep everyone out of his study, not to mention the horrible whispers and strange sounds coming from empty rooms in the middle of the night. It is this tension, and Caroline's dawning realization of her new husband's shortcomings, that drives the novel to its startling conclusion. </p><p>Saul uses familiar horror images--an ancient building with even older residents, creepy neighbors that are not quite right, whispers in your room after midnight--to spin a new tale of evil that will remind readers why one should always leave the closet light on. <em>--Daphne Durham</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Saul knows how to dish out thrills, and with a sly tribute to Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, as well as other horror classics, this latest pulp shocker should have fans lining up. Mother of two and widow of a murdered Central Park jogger, Caroline evans thinks she has found the answer to her prayers in her new husband, Anthony Fleming. The family moves into his apartment in the Rockwell, a storied old Upper West Side building. Ryan and Laurie, the children, quickly begin to have nightmares in which they are haunted by menacing voices, while Ryan realizes that he doesn't like his creepy stepfather. Elderly, eccentric neighbors bring them strangely flavored food. Laurie befriends ailing Rebecca, the foster child of a neighbor couple, who is mysteriously wasting away. Tension mounts when Rebecca's social worker, a close friend of Caroline's, can get no information from Rebecca's doctor - yet another elderly resident of the Rockwell - despite her threat to obtain a subpoena. Soon the social worker disappears, Rebecca follows on her heels and Laurie herself becomes ill with whatever Rebecca had. Meanwhile, the "niece" of an elderly neighbor, who looks suspiciously like a younger replica of the old woman, replaces her aunt in the Rockwell. Readers who appreciate Saul's homage to undead fiction will probably see the plot twists coming, but die-hard devotees should enjoy the chilling, sometimes gruesome goings-on at the Rockwell nonetheless.<br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. </p><

Mary Saums

Mighty Old Bones

M R Sellars

Miranda

Still reeling from the unsettling outcome of his most recent case with the Saint Louis police department's Major Case Squad, Rowan once again finds himself face to face with an unearthly incarnation of evil- Miranda, the spirit of a 19th century serial killer that simply refuses to remain dead. Old magick that Rowan believed he held in check is free, and Miranda's sadistic legacy has begun anew.<

Danielle Steel

Mirror Image

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Steel's 46th heartbreaker delves into the seemingly inexhaustible dramatic depths of <em>Titanic</em> lore, idyllic love, and delectable stars. Olivia and Victoria Henderson are beautiful, young, wealthy twins who live in upper-crust Croton-on-Hudson in upstate New York at the turn of the century. Despite their life of ease (playing tennis with the Astors, being courted by a Rockefeller), they do face the daily grind of caring for their beloved Pa, who has never recovered from Mrs. Henderson's death. Then along comes another forlorn widower, sexy Charles Dawson, whose wife perished at sea. "Damn shame she came back on the <em>Titanic</em>," says Mr. Henderson--who doesn't know what the <em>Lusitania</em> has in store for his family. As the plot thickens with the onset of World War I and the suffrage movement, Victoria--the demon seed of the dynamic duo--gets into a spot of trouble. Big enough that dutiful yet daring Olivia must bail her out in a way that it would spoil everything to reveal. If <em>A Farewell to Arms</em> was adapted to an ABC Monday night movie, it might bear a resemblance to <em>Mirror Image</em>. But in Hemingway, or on TV, there were never such devoted sisters. As the narrator puts it, reflecting on the feelings of one sister for the other, "She was her partner, her confidante, her friend, her cohort in all mischief ... the other side of her life, her heart ... the other side of the mirror." </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The raven-haired twins in Steel's (The Klone and I) latest romance wend their way through the social dilemmas and crises of conscience that abound in the lives of two motherless heiresses. Flitting around Edith Wharton's New York and its fashionable countryside (the family home, Henderson Manor, is in Croton-on-Hudson), Olivia and Victoria Henderson come of age in high style and predictable prose. Their physical resemblance (even their father is unable to distinguish between them) exaggerates their temperamental differences. The rebel Victoria?smoker, drinker and suffragette?recklessly gives herself to a married womanizer, Tobias Whitticomb. Olivia dutifully keeps her father's houses and acts as the anxious guardian to her "baby" sister. She also befriends nine-year-old Geoff Dawson, whose mother has died on the Titanic. When Henderson pere decides to marry the disgraced Victoria to Geoff's father, Charles, Olivia's heart quietly breaks and the plot thickens. The convenience of the sisters' carbon-copy looks allows Victoria to run off to help the Allied cause in France and Olivia secretly to take her sister's place. Although Steel stretches credibility as the marriage heats up (Charles didn't notice that his wife was virginal again?), the reader is too busy being moved by the powerful events to quibble. Steel doesn't flinch from the realities of childbirth and war and reliably produces yet another suspenseful tearjerker. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Mirrors and Mistakes

Jon Skovron

Misfit

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn #01 - The Final Empire

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Sanderson's eerie second fantasy (after 2005's <em>Elantris</em>), set in a mist-haunted, ash-ridden world, pits Kelsier, "the Survivor of Hathsin," against the immortal Lord Ruler's 1,000-year domination of both the Great Houses and their serflike "skaa." Through Allomancy acquired in the Ruler's most hellish prison, Kelsier can "burn" 10 metals internally, fueling superhuman powers he uses to assemble rebels in a loose plan to destroy the nobility, the empire and the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsier uses Vin, a street urchin with the same Mistborn powers Kelsier possesses, to infiltrate the Great Houses' society, where she falls in love with philosopher prince Elend Venture. This mystico-metallurgical fantasy combines Vin's coming-of-age-in-magic and its well-worn theme of revolt against oppression with copious mutilations, a large-scale cast of thieves, cutthroats, conniving nobles and exotic mutants. The fast-paced action scenes temper Vin's interminable ballroom intrigues, while the characters, though not profoundly drawn, have a raw stereotypic appeal. <em>(July)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>The Sliver of Infinity, the Lord Ruler, is the locus of religious and temporal order in a world in which the skaa are slaves or worse. Half-skaa erstwhile thief Kelsior is the only person to survive and escape the Lord Ruler's most brutal prison, in which, however, he discovered he has the powers of the Mistborn, which are based on the internal "burning" of certain metals, all of which the Mistborn can use, while most others can burn only one. Now Kelsior plans his most daring raid ever, into the center of the palace to discover the secret of the Lord Ruler's power. Beforehand, his band finds the half-skaa orphan Vin in another thieving crew, where she's useful because she brings good luck. She is also Mistborn and, if she can master and learn to trust her powers, will enable Kelsior's crew to infiltrate the nobility and possibly overthrow the status quo. Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh complexly in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters. <em>Regina Schroeder</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p> </div><

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn #02 - The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn #03 - The Hero of Ages

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy (after 2007's <em>The Well of Ascension</em>) to a dramatic and surprising climax. Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world from Ruin's deadly Inquisitors, the insidious lethal mists called the Deepness and the increasingly heavy falls of black ash that threaten to bury the land and starve its inhabitants. As the duo search for the last of the former emperor's cache of atium, source of the strongest Mistborn energies, they battle Ruin's forces as well as monsters and prophetic powers. Sanderson's saga of consequences offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility. <em>(Oct.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>The Lord Ruler is dead, and Elend Venture is working on consolidating his rule. But the mist is becoming actively dangerous, ash falls almost constantly, and brutal earthquakes are shaking the world apart. The subtle, nearly omniscient Ruin is infiltrating both Elend’s army and his opponents. Fortunately, the stubborn Vin vows to discover a way to destroy him. When failure seems imminent, help comes from unexpected quarters. Sanderson pulls loose ends together, explains vague prophecies, and produces the Hero of Ages, and the Mistborn trilogy (The Final Empire, 2006; The Well of Ascension, 2007; and this book) concludes satisfactorily. --Regina Schroeder </p> </div><

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn #04 - The Alloy of Law

Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time®, takes a break to return to the world of the bestselling Mistborn series.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.  After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.<

Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn 1-3

<div><p class="description">The New York Times bestselling series from Brandon Sanderson. This boxed set contains:</p><p class="description">Mistborn</p><p class="description">The Well of Ascension</p><p class="description">The Hero of Ages</p></div><

Alexei Sayle

Mister Roberts

Danielle Steel

Mixed Blessings

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The prolific Steel ( No Greater Love ) turns her attentions to a contemporary topic: infertility, and the desperate measures that couples resort to in the hope of biological parenthood. Steel's approach, however, is often maudlin and simplistic. Here, three California couples are married on the same day; none of the women proves able to conceive. The couples never meet, but Steel tracks their common fate with a vigor that rivals her characters' quest for children. Various partners consult fertility experts, and ultimately every conceivable aspect of reproductive medicine, including surrogate motherhood, is given its due. Steel explores the emotional strain on the couples: Diana and Andy, who previously led charmed lives; bubbleheaded would-be starlet Barbi and unexciting but wholesome Charlie; and 42-year-old Pilar, a successful attorney, and 61-year-old Bradford, a judge and widower who has two children. Marriages founder, but conventionally good characters find their way to happy endings. While Steel sets up potentially complex family relationships, she forgoes developing them; just as it wreaks havoc on the characters, the single-minded pursuit of babies damages the narrative. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From the Publisher</h3><p>After the wedding of Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas, Diana teases that theywill make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterward, she is still notpregnant. As Diana and Andrew wait out each month only to be bitterlydisappointed, they are forced to question just how much they are willing to gothrough to have a baby. </p><p>Charlie Winwood dreams of a house filled with children. His bride, party-girlactress Barbie Mason, has other ideas. When he discovers he is sterile,Charlie has to rethink his deepest values -- and his marriage to a woman whoshares none of his dreams.</p><p>After ten years of living together, Pilar Graham, a prominent Santa Barbaraattorney, marries Judge Brad Coleman, who is nineteen years her senior andfather of two grown children. They are happy with their comfortable lifetogether, à deux, until Pilar begins to wonder if she will somedayregret not having a baby with Brad. Are they crazy to begin now -- with Bradabout to become a grandfather and Pilar with a busy career, and in her earlyforties, possibly putting herself at risk?</p><p>Through the lives of these couples, Danielle Steel shows us the mixed blessingswe face as we build our families and live our modern lives. She touches uswith the triumphant people who prevail, their victories, their defeats, theirtragedies and joys, their compromises, their lives.<br /></p><

Roger Smith

Mixed Blood

John Sayles

A Moment in the Sun

Sir Walter Scott

The Monastery

Upton Sinclair

The Moneychangers

Laurie Sheck

A Monster's Notes

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Respected poet Sheck delivers a classic poet's first novel, a long, polyphonic, often directionless sprawl of unconventional narrative. In her poetry, Sheck has striven to mimic the kinesis of the modern mind: an entrapped being, self-consciously at odds with its literary predecessors. But in the shift to fiction, much of her trademark momentum is lost and her fervent brilliance stretched thin. The book takes the perspective of Frankenstein's monster and interweaves his œnotes on the human race with fictionalized letters of his creator, author Mary Shelley. (Sheck imagines Shelley to have met the monster as a little girl, sitting by her mother's grave.) It's an unwieldy project that, like the monster's body, feels off-kilter and ill-proportioned, while its organizational scheme (by topics of the monster's interest, such as John Cage's prepared piano or the ethics of genetic privacy) can make the reading experience feel rather encyclopedic. Still, Sheck's effulgent, elegant wisdom is impossible to deny. She may not yet be a storyteller, but she is a superb lyricist, and in this new work, she comes across as a fearless philosopher for our times. <em>(June)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From The New Yorker</h3><p>Rather as Michael Cunningham used “Mrs. Dalloway” in “The Hours,” the poet Laurie Sheck places Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” at the center of a varied and obsessively researched narrative canvas, encompassing such matters as early explorations of the Arctic Circle and the untimely deaths of Shelley’s mother, half sister, small children, and husband. The most successful set piece is an uncanny fable that portrays Frankenstein’s monster as an enigmatic but compassionate spirit who briefly appears to Shelley in her girlhood, takes umbrage at the violence of her novel, and survives into the present to observe the work’s long life in popular culture. Not all the digressions are equally gripping, but Sheck provides a provocative metaphor for spiritual and technological crisis: in the last pages, a being without identity cowers in a squalid room, hunting the Internet for a trace of its creator. </p><

John Steinbeck

The moon is down

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books *East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven*, and *Tortilla Flat*. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again. <

Alisa Sheckley

Moonburn

SUMMARY: In this sequel to "The Better to Hold You," Abra Barrow leaves her husband, who had infected her with the rare werewolf virus, for a new life in a small town. When she starts losing her temper and inhibitions, even in daylight, Abra finds herself releasing the beast in all the men around her. Original.<

Lydia Storm

Moonlight on Diamonds

<h3>Review</h3><p><em> </em><br />"Storm has written a book brimming with twists and turns."<em>    </em><br />--Romantic Times Book Reviews<br /></p><p><em> </em><br />"This is a book you will not be able to put down."<br /><em /> --You Gotta Read Reviews<br /></p><p><strong><br /><em>"Moonlight on Diamonds</em> was like an interactive game of Clue... full of surprises all a round."</strong> --Romance Junkies<br /></p><p><em> </em><br /><em>"Moonlight on Diamonds </em>is a pleasure to read, with layers of mystery that will keep you guessing to the end."<em> </em><br />--Long and Short Reviews<br /></p><p>"Anyone who loves a good thriller involving jewel thieves and romance would LOVE this book."<em> </em><br />--Between the Lines </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>As the Diamond Ball approaches, the world's greatest jewel thieves have assembled in Washington DC for one purpose: to steal the cursed Hope diamond which will hang around Veronica Rossmore's lovely neck. Former FBI agent, John Monroe, is hired to play bodyguard to Veronica. When she starts receiving threatening notes from the Ghost, the most infamous jewel thief in operation, John is forced to look into the society girl's mysterious past. As John uncovers the layers of her secret life, he finds himself falling in love with the seductive and enigmatic Veronica. On the eve of the ball, John is on a mission to protect Veronica and the Hope from the Ghost, but can he discover the notorious thief's identity in time? </p><

Alexander Mccall Smith

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Chuck Sampson

Moratorium

<p class="description">Some people would do anything to get even –even kill.<br><br>Moratorium is a tale of the backroom deals and political intrigue involved in the high stakes game of striking oil. <br><br>A deranged anarchist, Jeff Moon, fears Californians will vote to lift the moratorium on oil exploration, so he devises a plan to restore the “Earth Day” spirit of the sixties. Moon’s dangerous plan will kill thousands of oil workers and their families and desecrate the pristine Santa Barbara coastline.<br><br>Mike Tanner, senior editor of Ventura’s local paper, The Messenger, sympathizes with Moon’s hatred of oil companies. Angry at his oil baron father for the death of his mother, he supports the crazed anarchist’s activities with money and political propaganda.<br>Enter Maverick Duncan, a Russo-Asian and spy for the Chinese Ministry of Intelligence. Seeking revenge against Chevron Oil for their role in denying the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company their chance to own Unocal, he and the wily Bao Yang finance Moon’s scheme for their own purposes.<br><br>Dana Mathers, former world champion surfer, works for Chevron as a geophysicist. He discovers a large deposit of oil just off the coast of Santa Rosa Island. Unknown to Dana, his boss, Quinn Li, uses Mathers report as leverage against Boa Yang and CNOOC in a bid to further her own personal ambitions.<br><br>Innocent and oblivious to the impact of his discovery, Dana becomes a mark for oil foes and friends alike. Just after Dana proposes to Kelsey and she accepts, they find Mike washed up dead on the shores of Rincon Beach. Senior Detective Sergeant Cyrus Fleming takes charge of the murder investigation and based on a public fight Dana had with Mike, he arrests him for murder.<br><br>On the way to jail, Fleming's squad car flips over and bursts into flame. Dana risks his life to save Fleming from the twisted wreckage. Flemming, now convinced of his innocence, begins his quest to find Mike Tanner’s real killer, stop Jeff Moon, and save Santa Barbara.</p><

Theodore Sturgeon

More Than Human

<p>There's Lone, the simpletion who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Seperately, they are talented freaks.Together, they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race. In this genre-bending novel- among the first to have launched sci fi into the arena of literature -one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it. Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.</p><

Natalia Smirnova

Moscow Noir

Richard Stark

The Mourner

<p>The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn't interested in its sentimental value. The thief cared more about retrieving a certain gun that came with it, the one he had used in a previous crime that could incriminate him. By the time Parker comes face to face with the 16-inch-tall alabaster figurine called The Mourner, he knows that stealing it for a rich man and his beautiful, amoral daughter is the least of his worries. New players are coming in every minute, from strutting syndicate boys to a fat man with a heavy accent who is lighter on his feet than he looks. Now in a deadly, treacherous endgame, Parker will find out who intends to bury whom-and why no one will be crying over his grave.</p><

Susan Santangelo

Moving Can Be Murder

Empty nester Carol Andrews finally gives in to her Beloved Husband, Jim, and agrees to sell their home and move to an active adult community. The house sells, and Carol returns alone the night before the closing for a private pity party farewell tour. And finds the dead body of the buyer in her living room. Wow. Talk about seller's remorse!<

Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mr. Darcy's Bite

<p>Royal wives and royal widows, Queen Adeliza and her stepdaughter, Empress Matilda, are the only two women to be titled "Lady of the English," a title that does not come cheap. Adeliza, widowed queen and peacemaker, is married to a warrior who supports Stephen, grandson of the Conqueror. Matilda, daughter of the last king and a fierce fighter, is determined to win her inheritance against all odds and despite all men, including Stephen. Both are women who, in their different ways, will stand and fight for what they know is right. But for Matilda, pride comes before a fall. And for Adeliza, even the deepest love is no proof against fate.<

James Swain

Mr. Lucky

Peter Straub

Mr. X

Maj Sjowall

Murder at the Savoy

Michele Scott

Murder By the Glass

The poisoning of a Napa Valley bride has oenophile Nikki Sands researching what may have been a killer bottle of wine.<

Dell Shannon

Murder Most Strange

Michele Scott

Murder Uncorked

The murder of a top winemaker sours Nikki Sands's new job on a Napa Valley vineyard.<

Nalini Singh

Must Love Hellhounds

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Four well-known fantasy writers bring magical dogs into the plots of otherwise standard paranormal novellas. Harris's urban fantasy, The Britlingens Go to Hell, pits bodyguards Batanya and Clovache against demons, wolfwomen and two hellhounds guarding some unusual prisoners. In Singh's paranormal romance, Angels' Judgment, vampire trackers Sara and Deacon must discover who is murdering vampires; one suspect owns a hellhound. In Andrews's sexy Magic Mourns, Andrea, a knight who helps people with magic problems, links with a shape-shifter to find a stolen corpse, but first they must get by a three-headed dog. In Brook's page-turning romance Blind Spot, Maggie Wren, CIA operative turned vampire's personal assistant, teams up with a hellhound to find her boss's kidnapped niece. Only the most obsessive dog fanciers will be really enthralled by the passing mentions of canines. <em>(Sept.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>Four big names in paranormal-four adventures starring man's worst friend...</strong> <br></p><p>In these four original novellas, readers follow paranormal bodyguards into Lucifer's realm, where they'll encounter his fearsome four-legged pets; seek out a traitor in the midst of a guild of non-lethal vampire trackers, one who intends to eradicate the entire species of bloodsuckers; find out why the giant three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades has left the underworld for the real world; and embark on a perilous search for the kidnapped niece of a powerful vampire alongside her blind-and damn sexy-companion and a hellhound. </p></div><

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