"It's transfixing — At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving." — The Times
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our...
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Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
Does the light just go out and that’s that — the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?” Mary Roach trains her...
The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep…
She loves her husband.
She’s obsessed by a stranger.
She’s a devoted mother.
She’s prepared to...
Автор: Миллер Джон Джексон
Серия: Lost Tribe of the Sith #6
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Cast into slavery by the machinations of the Sith, Ori Kitai believes she’s found her way back into the Lost Tribe — and perhaps a whole lot more. Ori’s discovery of a second starship gives her the opportunity to avenge the humiliations heaped...
April 1986. The Cold War is nearly over.
Or is it?
Wealthy business mogul Tobias Keane is dead in an apparent suicide. Ethan Tannor, a detective on the scene and nephew of Keane, suspects something else. In his effort to...
Enjoy this free short story from my collection "Geeks Rule". "Storyman" provides a bit of backstory for one of my main protagonists, Kharzai Ghiassi. It a little bit of the pre-CIA personality that pushed him to become the "Hitman With a Smile"...
They should've let him go.
They should've let him retire in peace.
They should've left his woman out of it.
Kharzai Ghiassi has served the US Government his entire adult life. The best infiltration agent they've...
At sixty-five degrees below zero exposed human flesh freezes solid within three minutes.
Retired Marine Master Sergeant Marcus Johnson returned to his family homestead in rural Alaska after twenty years chasing bad men. Now he wants...
Автор: Сон Нам Хи , Sung Nam Hee
Серия: Legendary Moonlight Sculptor #14
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Lee Hyun, a debt-ridden teenage orphan, puts his account of the top-level avatar in the Continent of Magic up for auction. Once the news is spread nationwide, a fierce competition to win his avatar breaks out, making him a multimillionaire...