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Agent 007 finds himself trying to expose an elaborate diamond smuggling operation.
Epifania is glamorous, clever...and also the richest woman in the world. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months.
From dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian seances and haunted houses -- not far beneath London's everyday bustle and glitter there has long been a fascinatingly rich underworld of criminality, superstition, scand...
"THE UNIVERSE IS OLDER AND MORE ALIEN THAN WE CAN EVER UNDERSTAND. We were not alone. The farther we push into the universe, the more obvious it becomes. The signs are everywhere: canals and pyramids on Mars, old roads on the moons of Jupiter, ruined cities on worlds about the ne...
Storm of the century: When a murder shakes the island of Little Tall, the local constable must stop the evil that is growing as quickly as the snowstorm.
Jack finds himself adrift after his father, legendary Coach Davis, cuts him from his renowned soccer club. Estranged from his dad, at odds with his brother and desperate for purpose, he turns to his ex-girlfriend Sofia. Inspired by her tough love and unwavering pursuit to become ...
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look ar...
When leading actress Clarissa Lisle receives threats on her life, she hires a young detective, Cordelia Gray to accompany her to a private island where she is to star in The Duchess of Malfi. The highly intelligent private investigator finds herself in a ghastly country house on ...
Elegant period maps and compelling crime analysis illuminate this disquieting volume, which reexamines the most captivating and intriguing homicides of the nineteenth century. Organized geographically, the elements of each murder--from the prior movements of both killer and victi...
Sent behind enemy lines to free five Allied generals by being imprisoned with them, Harry Frigg uses his hilarious talent for escape and his new rank of Major General (he's promoted from private overnight) to create havoc for friend and foe.
Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exp...
"Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father -- and possible suspect -- now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There's more to this case than meets the ...
Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC batt...