Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in STARRIGGER and RED LIMIT FREEWAY, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe dont seem to apply, Jake con

Am Starnberger See wird die Leiche eines polnischen Bauarbeiters gefunden. Der frisch aus Hamburg zugezogene Kriminalrat Madsen stößt auf geheime Veranstaltungen der Oberschicht, bei denen man sich zum Amüsement bis auf den Tod bekämpft. Madsen schleust sich undercover in die Szene ein - und muss

### From Gr. 1^-2. This appealing book offers beginning readers a monosyllabic text, a witty story, and brightly colored, cartoonlike artwork. When Hen discovers a huge egg among her little ones, she puts all her eggs in one carriage and wheels it around, asking the other animals if the big egg is

Richard Matheson, the _New York Times_ bestselling author of I Am Legend, has inspired a generation of storytellers. Now an outstanding cast of top writers pays tribute to his legacy with an all-new collection of original stories set in Matheson's own fictional universes, including sequels, prequels

At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out-of-bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off-or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take

A centuries-old grudge... A power feared beyond all others...A frigid spring morning at a Native American archaeological dig erupts into sudden and brutal violence, leaving five people dead and one man gravely wounded. And in a hospital, with archaeologist Annja Creed at his side, the last survivor

**Its not crazy its just love.** When James almost hits a homeless man on the side of the highway, drenching him in a spray of puddle water, he doesnt know what to do so he just drives off. He feels guilty but figures the guy will be fine. Besides, hell never see him again. Until the man s

Necromancer Isyllt Iskaldur finances revolutionaries who would overthrow the corrupt Imperial government, but finds herself torn between her new friends and her sense of duty as her home is beset by increasingly violent uprisings.

Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the il

After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence--with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods. As the Blue Blood enclav

François Mitterrand, le pape, une île grecque, Romain Gary, la rue Copernic, Edith Piaf, les communistes, l'amour, la Toscane, le bonheur... Voici un aide-mémoire, ou plutôt un spectacle de notre univers, plein de passion et d'intelligence. Ces chroniques sont les instants de vie, de portraits, des

"It was a dark and stormy night." Paul Clifford leads a double life. By day he is a fashionable man about town, the toast of genteel society. By night, he is 'Captain Lovett', a dashing masked highwayman, robbing unsuspecting travellers on moonlit roads with his band of fellow brigands. When Cliffor

With a theme reminiscent of _Coma_ , here is Robin Cook at his disturbing, electrifying best. Set in Manhattan, _Blindsight_ tells of city forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie Montgomery's battle to foil a plot of unimaginable evil. When a series of unrelated yuppie deaths by cocaine overdose are report

*The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011* contains twenty unforgettable stories selected from hundreds of literary magazines. The winning tales take place in such far-flung locales as Madagascar, Nantucket, a Midwestern meth lab, Antarctica, and a post-apocalyptic England, and feature a fascinating arra