A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically acclaimed foray into light...
The Essential Christie: Agatha Christ...
Agatha ChristieA collection of Christie's best short stories--all unabridged! Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and a host of other sleuths crack cases of all stripes in this exciting collection of Christie's short story mysteries. Includes: Four and Twe...
The Secret Adversary: A Tommy and Tup...
Agatha ChristieFull of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the 'Young Adventurers,' and advertise themselves as willing to 'go anywhere and do anything.' Asked by a British Intelligence official to...
A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 66...
March Monroe and her daughter Olivia are going to college. Not together at the same school, of course, just at the same time. March knows that Olivia is going, naturally, since she and her husband have just made their first exorbitant...
Stephen Coonts' bestelling novels takes readers into the heart of harrowing, pulse-pounding action, whether on land, on sea, or in the air. Now, this master of full-tilt, blockbuster suspense turns into a lush setting 90 miles from U....
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Ri...
Susan CooperOn holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source o...
The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left ...
Dinesh D'SouzaIn this scathing indictment, conservative intellectual Dinesh D'Sousa accuses the American left of being largely to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. D'Sousa argues that the American Left is anti-religionist and culturally offensi...
John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back on the trail of Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist known as 'The Lion'. Corey and his partner, agent Kate Mayfield, track...
I ve always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was get this a vampire. But did I listen? No. Before you know it, I m being chased by an ugly thug with a gun, and a bullet blasts its...
Formerly released as "The Wild Woman Archetype." Myths stories about the instinctual nature of women. With every woman there is a wild creature, a powerful force filled with passion creativity. Helps you discover free you...
How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling...
Janet EvanovichIn a handbook for aspiring writers, the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum novels answers important questions about how she comes up with her plots, the creation of memorable characters, what the life of a full-time writer is l...
Describes the life of Marie Antionette from her betrothal as a fourteen-year-old girl to the future King Louis XVI, through her life in the French court, to her courage in the face of revolutionaries who sent her to the guillotine.
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on a...
Atul GawandeA brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with ...
[A]n exciting alternative history of the Civil War....Building on their strong first volume, Gingrich and Forstchen craft an original, dramatic and historically plausible 'what if?' story. Character depictions--of Lincoln, Grant and L...
Winner of the 2013 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook ProductionDespite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis...
Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher...
Kerry GreenwoodA very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly it's not another scene of glorious seduction - this time it's death. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, beautifully dressed i...
IIt's 1942. A Marine aviator, an Army paratrooper and demolitions expert, and a non-com radio man are on an impossible mission for the OSS - sabotaging the resupply of German ships and submarines - by any means necessary!First Lieute...
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washing...
William HogelandRunTime: 11 hrs, 9 CDs. A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, 'The Whiskey Rebellion' pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across th...
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenag...
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Re...
Ice-TFor readers of Sister Souljah's No Disrespect, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Monster by Sanyika Shakur comes the definitive memoir from Ice-T, the acclaimed rapper and actor known for telli...
In 1977, a man in a cowboy suit drove over the tent of two Yale students on a cross-country bicycling trip, and then went after them with an axe, severely injuring them both. The police failed to arrest the women's assailant, and in 1...
Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack
Garrison KeillorIPrairie Home Comedy and IGarrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.ibrPrairie Home Comedy Contents:brFreelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management As...
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie ...
Garrison KeillorIncludes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes.
A Betrayal Kari Baxter Jacobs is furious, hurt, and confused. Her husband, Tim, a respected professor of journalism, is having an affair with a student. Stunned, Kari returns home to the Baxter family to sort things out. But when an o...
Mortimer Moorecook, retired Wall Street raider, avid collector, is losing his fight against cancer. With weeks to live, a package arrives at the door of his hillside mansion—an artifact he paid millions for…a hominoid skull with e...
When Darkness Falls (Obsidian)
Mercedes LackeyThe Obsidian Trilogy concludes in this New York Times bestseller. Knight-Mage Kellen and his Elven allies, who are still seen as enemies by the human Mage Council, must find a way to shatter the Demons' hold on the human Mages or the ...
'Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered....' Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood...
When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas to start a new life in Boston, she had no regrets. The former Texas debutante, who never felt at home in her Southern skin, had found liberation-or so she thought. Until the day s...
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events, such as the Battle of Thermopylae, the Black Death of the 1340s, The Great Fire of London in 1666, the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI, The Death of Vice Admiral Nels...