<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Tanenbaum's done it again: "Resolved" is a complex, suspenseful tale of justice in the Big Apple, as a vengeful and sadistic killer sets his sights on the man who put him away -- New York Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp. The fifteenth installment in Robert K. Tanenbaum's blistering "New York Times" bestselling series sees Karp up against one of his most frightening tests, and the stakes have never been higher. A convicted killer named Felix Tighe has escaped from prison and has vowed to hunt down and execute the NYPD detectives who arrested him years ago. But there's more -- Tighe's also planning a fight to the death with Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, the man who put him away. Felix Tighe's laser-focused, obsessive hatred of Karp has simmered during his prison confinement, where he has spent time with Feisal Abdel Ridwan, a radical Islamic fundamentalist -- and their sordid connection only fuels his loathing of Karp. Now out of prison, with an assumed identity, and dangerously seeking payback, Felix stalks Karp to the very heart of his family as he plans a demonic assault on Karp's daughter, Lucy. Rippling with action, and full of Tanenbaum's trademark twists and turns, "Resolved" is a must-read novel which roils with post 9-11 malevolence and searing New York scenes. As Karp faces his toughest assignment yet -- and with his fearless and complex private detective wife Marlene Ciampi at his side -- "Resolved" builds to an almost unbearable climax at Karp's "office," Manhattan's central courthouse.</p><

SUMMARY: Is Manuela Aloe a gift from heaven or the girlfriend from hell? From the moment Britt Rainstar starts seeing the curvaceous heiress, he finds himself menaced by vicious dogs, stalked by pistol-packing skeletons, and attacked by an unseen assailant in a hospital lobby. Couldn't Manny just send flowers?<

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Delilah is a runaway – an escaped slave desperately seeking her freedom from a sadistic owner. Carson is a lonely sodbuster who finds Delilah’s unconscious body near the outskirts of his dying farm. Two desperate people brought together by chance and threatened by fate in the form of Delilah’s former owner. Can Delilah learn to trust Carson and convince him to help her finish her escape?<

The sky is dark. Neither the sun nor the moon have been seen in decades. The land is fruitless, and the seas are barren. In a land of darkness and despair, there is one shining light, an ancient prophecy that foretells of the coming king and his companion, the vanquisher of evil. Explore a vast continent where elves, dwarves, unicorns, fairies, demons, dragons, and man all exist.<

<div><em>Book one in the Lottery Brides Series<br><br>And the lucky groom is...</em><br><br>Sarah just wants a little freedom. What she gets is arrested for the murder of her father. The only thing she can do is agree to put her name into the bride lottery and hope for the best. At most it will spare her sisters from a similar fate. At worst? She'll end up with a man as abusive as her father was.<br><br>If only town deputy Riles James would put his name into the drawing... But are her wishes made to come true?</div><

Seabird takes the reader on a perilous adventure, where deadly creatures and magic untold wait at every turn. Three deadly sorcerers have been released from their imprisonment by the evil Lord Thaddis. The Three Peoples of Narenta are in need of a champion to defend them from the sorcerer's threat. They get their champion in the person of reluctant teenager Cara Marshall, who wants nothing more th<

<p>From the lead singer of the internationally acclaimed bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, a candid, outrageous manifesto reflecting on the subject and nature of sin<

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SUMMARY: First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, 'Shadows of the Apt', about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion. Stenwold and Che are Beetle-kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. Foremost is the deadly Mantis-kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands. Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . .<

SUMMARY: Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri, who claims he knows of magic that can grant eternal life. In Collegium, meanwhile, Stenwold is still trying to persuade the city magnates to take seriously the Wasp Empire's imminent threat to their survival. In a colourful drama involving mass warfare and personal combat, a small group of heroes must stand up against what seems like an unstoppable force. This volume continues the story that so brilliantly unfolded in Empire in Black and Gold - and the action is still non-stop.<

SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering over winter for their great offensive, gathering their soldiers and perfecting their new weapons. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather what allies they can before the Wasp armies march again, conquering everything in their path. If they cannot throw back the Wasps this spring then the imperial black-and-gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end. In Jerez begins a fierce struggle over the Shadow Box, as lake creatures, secret police and renegade magicians compete to take possession. If it falls into the hands of the Wasp Emperor, however, then no amount of fighting will suffice to save the world from his relentless ambition.<

SUMMARY: The vampiric sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual - a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality - but Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the Empire. The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must see which of his allies will stand now that the war has finally arrived. This time the Empire will not stop until a black and gold flag waves over Stenwold's own home city of Collegium. Tisamon the Weaponsmaster is faced with a terrible choice: a path that could lead him to abandon his friends and his daughter, to face degradation and loss, but that might possibly bring him before the Wasp Emperor with a blade in his hand - but is he being driven by Mantis-kinden honour, or manipulated by something more sinister?<

SUMMARY: The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease, seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities who refused to bow the knee to her, but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort, the former spymaster Thalric, knows the truth, and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again. Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both, with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones...<

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>A shadow is falling over Collegium. Despite the tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows that the Empire will return for his city. Even as he tries to prepare for the resurgence of the black and gold, a hidden threat is steadily working against his people. Ships that sail from Collegium's harbour are being attacked, sunk by pirates. Some just go missing ...Lulled by the spread of lies and false promises Stenwold's allies are falling away from him. He faces betrayal on every side, and the Empire is just waiting for the first sign of weakness to strike. But the Empire is not the only power that has its eyes on Collegium. And even the Wasp-kinden may be powerful enough to stave off the forces massing in the darkness and turning hungry eyes towards Stenwold's city. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son. This is the sixth novel in the Shadows of the Apt series following Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis, Salute the Dark and The Scarab Path. </p><

EDITORIAL REVIEW: In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with a supernatural curse placed upon an eccentric aristocrat and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron. But it is all in a days work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to ratiocinate another day.<

<h3>Review</h3><p>"This part of space ain't quite so friendly. From hot women in golden armour flashing sparking mauls as part of ritualised entertainment, to firefights with borrowed military munitions, we are in a frontier land."<em> - Rashbre</em><em /><br /></p><p>"I'm hooked on the story like a crack addict!"<em> - Eric B. Woodard </em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Siege of Titan is the first book in the epic five part science fiction series that chronicles humanity's first interstellar confederation that is torn apart by religious strife and extremism. <br /></p><p>In the first book of the Star Crusades series, the bloody struggle is told through the eyes of an illegal pit fighter named Spartan, who is forced to choose between incarceration or military service. Choosing the Confederate Marine Corps over servitude he begins his thirty long weeks of training. Together with his group of marines, they are honed into a force ready to be thrown into the meat grinder on the newest and greatest planet in the Confederacy, Proxima Prime. His term of service will soon become one of violence and carnage, as the entire sector is ripped apart by a brutal and virulent religious movement and its shocking plans.<br /></p><p>What starts as a series of suicide bombings and hijackings through the Confederacy quickly turns into a full-scale revolution on Prime that threatens the entire planet and quickly spreads to its orbital Naval Station and beyond. As every warship and military transport in the area is rushed to its defence, the fate of the planet and the entire sector lie in the hands of a small number of rookie marines.<br /></p><p>Siege of Titan is a classic work of realistic military science fiction set against the background of the first interstellar human empire.<br /></p><p>The Star Crusades Saga consists of:<br /></p><p>Book 1: Siege of Titan<br />Book 2: Tears of Kerberos<br />Book 3: Fires of Prometheus<br />Book 4: Battle for Proxima (Sept 2011)<br />Book 5: Fall of Terra Nova (Nov 2011) </p><

The West Barsetshire Pony Club are given six New Forest Ponies to break in. The six members who have the ponies are a very varied lot: from Noel who agonises over everything, to Richard who couldn't care less, and Evelyn and June who are convinced they know it all. Not everything goes to plan by a long way.<

<h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Although this is Australian author Tsiolkas’ fourth novel, it is the first to be published in the U.S. With its raw style, liberal use of profanity and racial epithets, and laserlike focus on the travails of suburban life, it is a down-and-dirty version of Tom Perrotta’s best-selling Little Children (2004). At a barbecue in a Melbourne suburb, a man loses his temper and slaps the child of the host’s friends. This incident unleashes a slew of divisive opinions, pitting friends and families against each other as the child’s parents take the man to court. Told from eight different viewpoints, the novel also deftly fills in disparate backstories encompassing young and old, single and married, gay and straight, as well as depicting how multiculturalism is increasingly impacting the traditional Aussie ethos. For good measure, the author also throws in male vanity, infidelity, and homophobia. Tsiolkas’ in-your-face style is sure to alienate some readers—the child’s parents, for example, are among the book’s most unlikable characters—but his novel, which won the 2009 Commonwealth Prize, fairly radiates with vitality as it depicts the messy complications of family life. --Joanne Wilkinson </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"A layered, briskly paced story about complex people. Think Tom Wolfe meets Philip Roth. Or 'The Sopranos' meets 'The Real Housewives of Orange County." <br />-Oscar Villalon, <em>Los Angeles Times</em> <br /></p><p>"Brilliant, beautiful, shockingly lucid and real, this is a novel as big as life built from small, secret, closely observed beats of the human heart. A cool, calm, irresistible masterpiece." <br />-Chris Cleave, author of <em>Little Bee</em> <br /></p><p>"<em>The Slap</em> is nothing short of a tour de force, and it confirms Christos Tsiolkas's reputation as one of the most significant contemporary storytellers at work today. In his new book, Tsiolkas puts a microscope to family life and presents us with a vision both of unflinching honesty and great tenderness. The luminosity of his prose and the brilliance of his characterisation render the ordinary quite extraordinary. Here is a novel of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's <em>The Corrections</em> and Don De Lillo's <em>Underworld</em>." <br />-Colm Toibin, author of <em>Brooklyn</em> and <em>The Master</em> <br /></p><p>"Like all Tsiolkas' work, it is wildly energetic and fearless, thrillingly about our lives now." <br />- Helen Garner, author of <em>The Spare Room</em> <br /></p><p>"This is a rich and engrossing novel, full of vivid incidents and intricate patterns...Tsiolkas's subtle character drawing, fast-moving narrative, and above all, fierce moral commitment make <em>The Slap</em> a worthy winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize." <br />-<em>The Telegraph</em> <br /></p><p>"Riveting from start to finish." <br />-Jane Smiley, author of <em>A Thousand Acres</em> and <em>Private Life</em> <br /></p><p>"Radiates with vitality as it depicts the messy complications of family life." <br />-<em>Booklist</em> <br /></p><p>"Complex and multilayered. ...intertwined lives and slowly revealed connections make for a singular reading experience." <br />-<em>Library Journal</em> <br /></p><p>"With <em>The Slap</em>, Christos Tsiolkas secures his place as one of Australia's most important novelists...It is thrilling to have our life reflected back at us so accurately...Tsiolkas has written an absolute ripper." <br />-<em>The Age</em> <br /></p><p>"The best politicians are those who can instinctively divine the zeitgeist of their country's centre. For the ones who can't, I would place <em>The Slap</em> as mandatory bedside table reading. It's a perfect social document... More importantly, it's also a hell of a read." <br />-<em>The Australian</em> <br /></p><p>"Strikingly tender...it claws into you with its freshness and truth." <br />-<em>Sydney Morning Herald</em> <br /></p><p>"A controversial and daring novel, <em>The Slap</em> uses the iconic scene of a suburban Australian barbecue to examine identities and personal relationships in a multicultural society. Offering points of view from eight different characters, it taps into universal tensions and dilemmas around family life and child-rearing. This book is sure to challenge readers and provoke debate." <br />-Committee for The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 </p><

<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Journeying to visit the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sister Fidelma and her companion Eadulf's ship is blown badly off course and the pair find themselves on the coast of the Welsh kingdom of Dyfe. Hosted by the king himself, Fidelma is presented with a mystery-an entire monastic community nearby has disappeared without a trace.</p><