'If you had not already realised it, this is a very strange house you are come to.' The Scions of the House of Werth are all born normal. It is what happens afterwards that sets them apart. It is not easy being the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead; Lord Werth is too ofte

With Inos married to the wrong man and Rap dying in a dungeon, obviously the cause is hopeless. Only Aunt Kade refuses to admit defeat . . .Dave Duncan, born in Scotland in 1933, is a Canadian citizen. He received his diploma from Dundee High School and got his college education at the University of

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Amon

What does a woman have to do to get a break? Ruth Cavanaugh has survived slavers and a traumatic transformation into a Mage. Now she finds herself on an alien planet, connected to one of the high nobles. It was a pretty slick trick for a woman who never believed in magic, aliens, or many of the th

Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair. This kinder, gentler detective-funny, smart and squeamish about violence-is the creation of master of the genre Howard Engel, whose enthusiastic fans include Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Julian Symons, and Tony Hillerman. His readers stretch now to thi

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**The acclaimed Russian novelist's epic morality tale of a young man's horrifying crime and his struggle for redemption.** Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man living in St. Petersburg, devises a gruesome experiment in morality. Theorizing that men of exceptional intelligence have license to kill oth

SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet

Asher Logan has been a lot of things: runaway, guitarist, cage fighter, cowboy, but the one thing hes always avoided was being a father to his young son. Now faced with returning to his families ranch, hes forced to deal with the knowledge that the move would put him right down the road from Shawn.

MY PENGUIN BOOKS BY THE GREATS, COVERS BY YOU. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional

BLURB Asher Logan is a bartender and a pretty wicked guitar player, when he isnt wrecking his hands fighting in a cage. With a past he keeps hoping to outrun, Ashers been on a downward spiral for longer than he can remember. When his sister-in-law leaves Rory, his eight-year-old nephew, in his

SUMMARY: Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the "Starship Enterprise(TM)" has just one chance to evacuate the eeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations wi