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Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Josh Smith

Strange Future

Thomas Gordon's life was going just fine, until a chain of inexplicable mishaps results in Thomas getting fired. Fed up, he starts the search for a better life. Along the way, he meets a group of scientists with an intriguing escape route: human cryogenic preservation. Thomas and his 2 companions emerge in the 23rd century, and quickly discover it isn't exactly the better world they expected...<

Sidney Sheldon

A Stranger in the Mirror

Clifford D Simak

Strangers in the Universe

<p class="description">Strangers in the Universe is a rich collection of offbeat stories from the pen of one of America's outstanding writers of science fiction. In The Answers for example Simak creates a world in which human beings finally find perfect peace and contentment- as the socila inferiors of dogs and spiders!..And in Target Generation, he transports the reader to a space ship in which over forty generations have lived and died - though it is still only en route to its destination!</p><

Dell Shannon

Streets of Death

Dorothy L Sayers

Striding Folly

<p>Lord Peter Wimsey's last three baffling cases all demonstrate his unique detction skills at their most spectacular. The engima of a house numbered thirteen in a street of even numbers; an indignant child accused of theft, a dream about a game of chess that uncovers the true story behind a violent death. Each of the stories introduces a different side of the twentieth century's most ingenious detective hero.</p><

Nyx Smith

Striper Assassin

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Maria V Snyder

The Study Series Bundle

Gail Steketee

Stuff

<p>What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house?<p>Randy Frost and Gail Steketee were the first to study hoarding when they began their work a decade ago; they expected to find a few sufferers but ended up treating hundreds of patients and fielding thousands of calls from the families of others. Now they explore the compulsion through a series of compelling case studies in the vein of Oliver Sacks. With vivid portraits that show us the traits by which you can identify a hoarder&#8212;piles on sofas and beds that make the furniture useless, houses that can be navigated only by following small paths called goat trails, vast piles of paper that the hoarders &#147;churn" but never discard, even collections of animals and garbage&#8212;Frost and Steketee illuminate the...<

John Saul

Suffer the Children

<h3>From the Publisher</h3><p>One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago. </p><h3>From the Inside Flap</h3><p>One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago. </p><

William Styron

The Suicide Run

Dan Simmons

Summer of Night

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Summer's End

<p>To their respective families, Jack Wells and Amy Legend are outsiders. A free-spirited man-of-all-trades, Jack takes life as it comes&#8212;not at all like his supremely organized mother, the admiral's widow, and his methodical lawyer sister. Amy, a professional athlete with exquisite taste and golden beauty, has a glamorous career a world apart from her bookish older siblings and college professor father. When Jack's mother marries Amy's widowed father, they invite all the children to spend the summer at the Legends' retreat in northern Minnesota. They never imagine just how well Jack and Amy are going to get along&#8212;as affection unexpectedly flares into a burning attraction that threatens to damage already fragile familial bonds. Agreeing to deny their desire until the vacation is over&#8212;caught between long-simmering conflicts and clashing personalities&#8212;Jack and Amy find, nonetheless, that they are falling deeply in love. And passion this strong couldn't...<

Charles Seife

Sun in a Bottle

Ken Scott

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow

Ashley Clark had given the whole of his working life to the Metropolitan Police. The 7/7 tube station bombings eventually broke his resolve and his love affair with London. He could have prevented the bombings, saved all those lives. He transfers back to Northumbria Police and his native Newcastle. During a routine disciplinary hearing, Ashley realises the job has changed and for once his temper gets the better of him. He is out of the job, back on Civvy Street. Within a few days, an old friend's mother begs him for help. Her son has disappeared off the face of the earth and the investigation points to Holy Island, a small hamlet off the north-east coast of England. Ashley goes undercover, like his hero Sherlock Holmes; why not? It was a role he played to the full in London and nobody does it better. He comes across a Freemason-type organisation, the Island Keepers, fiercely protective of the island and its historical and religious past. He encounters Claire Macbeth, a stunningly attractive hotel receptionist with a sinister secret, and he discovers an unusually high number of deaths originating from the island in recent years. He feels certain the Island Keepers know more than they are saying. He contacts his old allies in the police; they seem reluctant to get involved. Something is wrong - very wrong. And now Jacob Moor, Worshipful Master of the Island Keepers, has discovered Ashley Clark's undercover secret. The ex-policeman nosing around Holy Island is about to pay the ultimate price.<

Alexander Mccall Smith

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Randy D Smith

Sunday's Colt & Other Stories

<p>Step back into the exciting and humorous American West with several selected short stories and the novella, <i>Sunday’s Colt</i> from award winning Old West fiction and outdoor writer Randy D. Smith. Read fictional accounts of the death of the notorious man burner of the plains, Print Olive, and the first documented journey of the Santa Fe Trade in 1823.</p><

Gary Shteyngart

Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, **The Russian Debutante’s Handbook** and **Absurdistan**, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century—he totally loves books (or “printed, bound media artifacts,” as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness.After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork” effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny’s new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He’s going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect’s “hotness” and “sustainability” with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being.Wildly funny, rich, and humane, **Super Sad True Love Story** is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart.<

Joe Schreiber

Supernatural: The Unholy Cause

<h3>Review</h3><p>"If you're a fan of the show, this is something you'll really enjoy." --Dread Central </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Joe Schreiber</strong> is the author of several horror novels including <em>Chasing the Dead</em>, which received a starred review in <em>Publisher’s Weekly</em>, <em>Eat the Dark</em> and the fothcoming <em>No Doors, No Windows</em>. His stand-alone <em>Star Wars</em> novel <em>Death Troopers</em> will be published in hardcover in October 2009. When he is not writing, Joe works as an MRI tech. </p><

Les Stroud

Survive!

EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth. Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program *Survivorman* transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of *Survive!*, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival. Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to endure in any corner of the globe, along with a wealth of insider information born of his own experiences in the outdoors and unavailable in any other book. Readers will learn: How to make a survival shelter and why a lean-to is largely a waste of time. Why survival kits are important, and why you should make your own. Where to find water and why drinking contaminated water is sometimes warranted. How to locate and trap small animals and why the notion of tracking and hunting large game is largely a pipe dream. Whether seasoned in the outdoor arts or new to adventuring, all readers will learn something from *Survive!*. Stroud's many colorful anecdotes and cut-to-the-chase philosophy not only make for an entertaining read, but also enhance anyone's ability to focus on the main goal when everything else has gone wrong—survival.<

Francis Selwyn

SV - 03 - Sergeant Verity Presents His Compliments

<p>The sinking of HMS Birkenhead opens a third adventure for Sergeant Verity. His search involves a man who stole away with the ladies to escape death in the sinking, the girl also survived to tell and the murders committed to hide his guilt. <br></p><

Jonathan Strahan

Swords & Dark Magic

From Publishers Weekly Editors Strahan (Eclipse 3) and Anders (Fast Forward 2) present 17 original stories that recall the classic works of Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber. To earn the book's subtitle of The New Sword and Sorcery, Gene Wolfe puts on literary airs (Bloodsport); Tim Lebbon contributes some of the graphic horror and moral twists of the New Weird (The Deification of Dal Balmore); and Caitlín R. Kiernan introduces a complicated heroine rescued by the ostensible villain (The Sea Troll's Daughter). But most of the stories are more traditional tales of apprentice mages coming-of-age and down-on-their-luck mercenaries facing unexpected perils. Fans of the classics will appreciate the tie-ins to familiar series by Michael Moorcock, Glen Cook, and Robert Silverberg, plus a fully authorized Cugel the Clever cameo by Michael Shea. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Product Description Seventeen original tales of sword and sorcery penned by masters old and new Elric . . . the Black Company . . . Majipoor. For years, these have been some of the names that have captured the hearts of generations of readers and embodied the sword and sorcery genre. And now some of the most beloved and bestselling fantasy writers working today deliver stunning all-new sword and sorcery stories in an anthology of small stakes but high action, grim humor mixed with gritty violence, fierce monsters and fabulous treasures, and, of course, swordplay. Don't miss the adventure of the decade!<

Lillith Saintcrow

Taken

Jonathan Swift

A Tale of a Tub

Savannah Stuart

Taming the Alpha

<P>After a year of lusting after his sexy employee, werewolf pack-leader Grant broke his no-involvement-with-humans rule and made a move on Talia. A month later the sex is still red hot and everything between them is perfect. Or so he thought. Until the night he shows up at her place expecting their usual ritual of mind-blowing sex and finds out she has other plans. And they don’t include him.<BR><BR>When Talia announces she’s tired of being his last priority, Grant realizes he might lose the only woman he’s ever cared about. He has to do something fast to fix their relationship, but she’s completely unaware that he’s not human. He’s not above using sex to bind her to him, but when she wants more than that he has a risky decision to make. If he admits the truth he risks not only his heart, but the safety of his pack and the existence of all supernatural beings as well.<BR><BR><I>Taming the Alpha is an erotic paranormal romance novella of 20,000 words. </I><I></I></P><

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Tantalize

Jeffrey Stephens

Targets of Deception

Jeffrey Stephens

Targets of Opportunity

Martha Southgate

The Taste of Salt

Rafael Sabatini

The Tavern Knight

Product Description Eighteen years ago, Sir Crispin Galliard, the Tavern Knight in service of King Charles, was another man -- a man with another name, a man who had a life, a future, and a heritage -- including hereditary lands and titles that would come to him in time. Eighteen years ago, two foul neighbors -- Cromwell? About the Author Rafael Sabatini was born to an English mother and Italian father, both well-known opera singers. At seventeen Sabatini moved to England, where, after a brief stint in the business world, he started to write. His major breakthrough came with Scaramouche, which became an international bestseller and was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood. All his earlier books were then rushed into reprint. Many of his novels were subsequently adapted into classic films which appealed to both a male and female market with their drama, romance and action, set against a variety of historical settings. 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels' - Daily Telegraph<

Alexander Mccall Smith

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Alexander Mccall Smith

Tears of the Giraffe

<div><h3>Review</h3><p>“The Miss Marple of Botswana.” –_The New York Times Book Review </p><p><em>“Smart and sassy . . . Precious’ progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once.” –</em>Los Angeles Times_ </p><p>“I haven’t read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time.” –Anthony Daniels, <em>The Sunday Telegraph</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In <strong>Tears of the Giraffe</strong> she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two. </p></div><

Dwight Swain

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Maureen Smith

Tempt Me at Midnight

Savannah Stuart

Tempting Target

Jane Smiley

Ten Days in the Hills

Mark Schweizer

The Tenor Wore Tapshoes

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>(No. 3 in the Liturgical Mystery series) St. Germaine is usually a quiet little town in the mountains of North Carolina and the inhabitants like it that way. But, as All Saints' Day approaches, Hayden Konig (full-time Chief of Police, part-time Episcopal Choirmaster, and aspiring whodunit novelist) once again finds himself with a bad manuscript, a dead body, and a parish full of characters that only Raymond Chandler could love. </p><

Jeff Somers

The Terminal State

Terry Spear

Terry Spear’s Wolf Bundle

Matthew Stover

Test of Metal

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