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Cat lovers and owners will delight in this charming and quirky collection of poems, stories and essays highlighting the humorous and touching moments arising from owning a cat at Christmas. This enjoyable anthology features timeless classics by James Herriot, Cleveland Amory, Rita Mae Brown and Willie Morris.
A woman is found abandoned on the side of the road. Screams of pain rip through the air as she tears her hair out by the roots. Sores on her skin ooze as her flesh is devoured at an unprecedented rate. Then, madness sets in.
In the darkened hallways of an emergency room, a young doctor on call must act quickly. Terrified by what he sees, he makes the call. But he already knows it’s too late.
It has no name or place of origin. It spreads like wildfire. The CDC has never seen anything like it. They have no treatment. Death is imminent. They tried to alert the world, but it was too late. It has been unleashed and worst of all, it’s airborne.
Will anyone be able to survive the VIRUS?
Dr. Paul Prye’s wedding was dramatically interrupted when Jane Stevens, a bridesmaid, became ill in the church vestibule. Some thought it was a convulsion. Prye knew it was poison. Jane’s brother Duncan, a smooth bully, didn’t care what it was. Duncan fancied himself as a great gentleman and a superior wit. Hence, it satisfied many people when he was found under most humiliating circumstances.
With one poisoning, one bashed several hysterical women, and a most amusing inebriated divorcée, THE DEVIL LOVES ME is completely suave and subtle. The appeal of Margaret Millar’s books is compounded of plot, humor, and characterization. This particular one is tops.
The thug ran his hand down the warm curve of her thigh, and it wasn’t until an impossibly strong hand gripped his arm that he realized the girl, was no girl at all. Still, if not for bad timing he might have left the room alive…
Things aren’t always as they seem. The girl in the box is unbelievably beautiful and while Ivan Petrovic knows she’s a Synthetic, he experiences cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile her appearance and what she actually is. That turns out to be a real problem when his cruel boss, Molenski, now the proud owner of the most advanced human form robot on the planet, leaves them alone together.
The more Ivan gets to know Inga, the less machine-like she seems. There are so many questions. Just who did Molenski have the stunning robot modelled upon and what did he plan to do with her? Surely, she wasn’t just to be a sexbot? Ivan has to know, but fears the answers will be terrifying.
Within hours of his boss’ special delivery things get very ugly, very fast and Ivan will be caught right in the middle of the murder and mayhem.
Don’t miss this adrenaline fueled, haunting near future thriller from the author who gave us the bestselling post-apocalyptic series, AMERICA FALLS.
It all began with an online date, which led Marina Peters into the ruthless world of international espionage.
This is a first novel from an experienced writer of non-fiction books. It describes how Marina Peters’ grandparents emigrated to England from Russia in the 1930s. She is a likeable and quietly ambitious single young woman working at the Royal Navy’s Portsmouth Base on the Dockyard Commodore’s staff. Nikolai Aldanov is a handsome 35-year old widower and a Lieutenant in the Russian Navy who has been corresponding with Marina through an online dating site. The pair have been sharing details of their lives, common interests and histories and have struck up quite a friendship. When Marina arranges to meet her Russian Lieutenant in person, she has no inkling of the unexpected consequences of her date, as she is introduced into the ruthless world of international espionage.
**Jack Ryan, Jr is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he's tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1** New York Times **bestselling series.** While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late. As she dies in his arms, she utters one word, "Sammler." When the police show up they are initially suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service. This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search to find out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way, he discovers that his old friend had secrets of her own--and some of them may have gotten her killed. Jack has never backed down from a challenge, but some prey may be too big for one man.
Troy Pearce and his elite team of drone experts are called in when rising tensions between China and Japan threaten to dramatically change the geopolitical climate of the world.
When China stakes a dubious claim in the hotly disputed waters of the East China Sea, the prime minister of Japan threatens to dispatch the country’s naval assets and tear up its antiwar constitution unless the Americans forcefully intervene. The war-weary Americans are reluctant to confront the powerful Chinese navy directly, but if the Japanese provoke a military conflict with their historic enemy, treaty obligations would draw the United States into the fight.
In order to deescalate the first foreign policy crisis of his administration, U.S. president Lane dispatches Troy Pearce and his team to Tokyo to defuse the situation. What they find is a quagmire of hawkish politicians, nationalistic fervor, special interests with their own hidden agendas, and possibly the greatest military threat that America has ever faced. In this treacherous atmosphere it will require all of Pearce’s cunning — and his team’s technological prowess — to separate the truth from misdirection, and prevent the world from plunging into war.
The first book in Ross Macdonald’s acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping.
As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
Contemporary MacDonald readers and Travis McGee fans will delight in recognizing these precursors to Travis McGee; and mystery readers who remember them when they first appeared will remark on that extraordinary talent for storytelling, which is as apparent in his early stories as it is in his recent novels.
Tallinn, March 1933.
Estonia, a small country trying to survive – caught between the jaws of Germany and Russia.
And political crisis looms when a senior policeman is found impaled on the roof of a kiosk.
Chief Inspector Jüri Hallmets, former schoolteacher and veteran of Estonia’s struggle for independence, builds a team to investigate the crime. His political masters demand a quick and easy resolution to the case. But Hallmets has principles.
Two journalists are looking into the case too, but their curiosity could prove their own worst enemy. Their fates become entwined with Hallmets’ investigation. And as Hallmets finds himself in a race against time, he uncovers a network of illegal activities.
After a bloody shoot-out, a plot unfolds which will threaten Estonia’s fragile democracy.
Recommended for fans of Alan Furst, Philip Kerr and Robert Harris.
Allan Martin is a former teacher and lecturer, who lives to the north of Glasgow. His first novel The Peat Dead was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Debut Award in 2019.
While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna’s chronic infertility. Following his father Sergey’s footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian at a prestigious university. Accompanying him is a wrapped parcel to be delivered to a Helen Dalrymple of Mount Evelyn; a task that proves to be anything but straightforward. Miscast and adrift in his new home, Vassili awaits Anna’s arrival. Bringing with her devastating news, it is not long until old resentments surface. At an idyllic guesthouse in the Dandenong Hills, the scene is set for a reckoning that will crack the secrets of the parcel Vassili’s father gave him, and blow the family apart.
****A missing Chinese scientist, unexplained noises emanating from under the Arctic ice, and a possible mole in American intelligence are just some of the problems that plague President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1* New York Times* bestselling series.****
Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system.
Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery--the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology out of their rivals' hands.
Finding Liu is too great an opportunity for any intelligence service to pass up, but there's one more problem. A high-level Chinese mole, codenamed Surveyor, has managed to infiltrate American Intelligence. President Jack Ryan has only one choice: send John Clark and his Campus team deep into China to find an old graduate student of the professor's who may hold the key to his whereabouts. It's a dangerous gamble, but with John Clark holding the cards, Jack Ryan is all in.
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Romane „Labirintas“, kuris buvo apdovanotas prestižine „British Book Award“ premija kaip geriausia 2006 m. knyga, susiedama dviejų moterų, atskirtų laiko, bet sujungtų bendros paslapties, gyvenimus, Kate Mosse pasakoja istoriją, persmelktą mistiškų istorinių ir religinių faktų. Knygos centre - paslaptis, susijusi su Katalikų bažnyčios eretikais paskelbtų katarų likimu ir jų saugotu Graliu.
Knygos centre – paslaptis, susijusi su Katalikų bažnyčios eretikais paskelbtų katarų likimu ir jų saugotu Graliu.
Varis Diri (Waris Dirie) pasakoja sukrečiančią gyvenimo istoriją. Vos dvylikos ji pabėgo iš suplanuotų savo vestuvių ir gimtųjų namų Somalyje. Po ilgų klajonių vargšei merginai nusišypsojo likimas ir ji tapo pasaulinio garso manekene. Tai buvo ir nuostabus sapnas, ir didžiausias košmaras. Pasiekusi savo karjeros viršūnę, per vieną interviu garsus supermodelis išdrįso prabilti apie mergaičių lytinių organų žalojimą, vykstantį daugelyje Afrikos genčių. Ji pati patyrė šį žiaurų ritualą sulaukusi vos penkerių.
Judith McNaugth - viena populiariausių Amerikos dabartinių rašytojų, puikiai įvaldžiusių pasakojimo meną. Jos gyvenimiškose istorijose rasi visko: ir neįtikėtinų nuotykių, ir nuostabiausių meilės akimirkų, ir detektyvo elementų. Jos veikėjai originalūs, spalvingi, neužmirštami. Rašytoja savo knygose įtikina, kad kilnūs, romantiški jausmai ir beprotiškos aistros tebėra būdingi ir šiuolaikiškoms moterims, o pakylėtos erotinės scenos tiesiog keri grožiu. Gal todėl jos knygos taip mėgstamos, jų tiražai jau siekia 20 milijonų egzempliorių, o iš 11 jos sukurtų romanų 8 yra tapę New York Times išrinktais bestseleriais. Judith McNaugth gyvena ir kuria Houstone, Teksase.
Paslaptingai besišypsantis Haris Sent Kleras nesunkiai įtikina žmones, kad yra velnio neštas ir pamestas, bet akušerė Bonė Makenzi nė akimirką neapsigauna. Haris Sent Kleras yra vienas geriausių gydytojų Pietų pusrutulyje, tačiau jo širdį slegia šiurpios paslaptys. Haris nusprendžia daugiau nebetempti šios naštos vienas...
Po smurtinės brolio mirties rašytojas Robertas Kardonė gauna pasakiško dydžio palikimą. Paaiškėja, kad tokie turtai – visų gerbiamo advokato Enriko šešėlinio verslo rezultatas. Roberto gyvybė pakimba ant labai plono plauko. Nes tie 382 milijonai iš tiesų priklauso mafijai, kuri dėl jų pasiryžusi pašalinti visus, stojančius skersai kelio.
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