Johnny Jerome is a hard-nosed Private Detective in a city plagued with crime
and vice. When a simple missing person case suddenly escalates into a run in
with the local mob and a whole heap of trouble… And that’s when the...
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A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions — fear, jealousy, desire — that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a...
'Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum… a true work of art' Sunday...
On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his...
Автор: Бэнвилл Джон
Серия: The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1994
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A group of strangers, passengers on a day-boat that runs aground, are washed up on an island. Shaken and sodden, they nonetheless make quick work of the situation at hand. But what is the situation? They've invaded the closely protected enclave...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School
Автор: Уинтерс Бен , Borgenicht David
Серия: Worst-Case Scenario
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Homework, hormones, heartache… middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facing—or just about to face—this big transitional...
Автор: Уинтерс Бен , Borgenicht David
Серия: Worst-Case Scenario
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Escape a stalled subway car or a swarm of pigeons; stop a runaway hot dog cart; defeat cockroaches—what every native and visitor needs to survive in the Big...
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There...
Recent congressional actions have attacked full funding of the remarkable Stealth bomber. But sinister forces in the world apparently think more highly of this advanced weapons system than does the Congress. During a special training exercise,...
There has been a shocking crime at Mary Todd Lincoln Middle School.
In a glass case in the front hall, a trophy—the trophy, the first trophy ever won in the school’s lackluster competitive history—has been stolen.
Even more...