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In the near future, the U.S. is approaching full-scale anarchy, with Miami becoming a prisonlike wasteland. Police detective Tom Wilner…
catches a murder case, but he soon realizes there's a serial killer at large, and to catch him, Tom will need to go into Miami. And if that's not scary enough, the killer is not human - he's the undead. Sequel to "The Human Disguise". Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.
Recognizing that teen girls spend much of their time trying to please their friends, parents, and teachers, Primicerio encourages these…
girls to stop performing for the world and start dancing for the One who matters. 2006.
It's 1880, and the atmosphere is explosive in the South African province of the Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds has…
bred greed and violence, while British forces contend with murderous bePedi tribesmen and subversive Boer farmers. Former army captain Simon Fonthill has had his fill of conflict. But when he hears an old friend has been kidnapped by diamond smugglers, he and his servant '352' Jenkins embark on a rescue mission. Yet this is only the beginning. For when the acclaimed General Wolseley decides to lead his column against the bePedi stronghold, Fonthill and Jenkins once again find themselves marching to war. Sequel to "The road to Kandahar", followed by "Last stand at Majuba Hill". 2006.
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilization - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the…
fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth century, and World War II in the twentieth century - this novel follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation, Oliver de Noyen a poet and Julian Bareuve an intellectual who joins the Vichy government. 2002.
The Van der Byl diamond company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, is a bequest of hatred, couched…
in terms to offer him the means to destroy his bitterest rival. "Destroy Johnny" is the old man's implacable message and so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in pursuit of this goal and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder. 1992.
In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke set out to Melbourne at the head of the…
most ambitious expedition of his age. Up until this point Australia had remained a truly dark continent, but times were changing. On 20 August Burke and his team of eighteen men made a confident start - journeying north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to cross the continent. Meanwhile, John McDouall Stuart, a dour Scotsman with a fondness for the bottle, was already trekking north from Adelaide. The race was on. 2003.
This comprehensive survey of the interaction between domestic and international politics shows how public opinion, interest groups, the media, the…
intelligence establishment, and the different branches of American government influence U.S. foreign policy formulation, with a special emphasis on national security issues in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. 2004.
It was a freak accident. The man suddenly stepped into the road. The brakes failed and Clare could only steer…
wildly, the car finally crashing into a tree. Now her brother Rob was dead, slumped against the passenger door. But his right arm is missing - severed but no longer to be found. Someone has taken it! 1987.
A djinn is trapped in a bottle made of glass known as "nightingale's eye", until the day an English woman…
frees him, unleashing his strength and discovering her own. This story forms the centrepiece to a collection of fairytales. 1994.
A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.
Suspecting a cover-up when told that her microbiologist husband has committed suicide, microbiology doctoral student Stacy Richardson goes undercover to…
find out about the work he was doing at Fort Detrick, Maryland. She links up with a former war hero, alcoholic hobo Lucky Cunningham, to stop a bio-weapons scheme. Strong language and violence. 1999.
Twelve essays which address great anomalies of the natural world, such as the properties of water, crowd behaviour, left-handedness, and…
the missing link between apes and humans. Written in a jargon-free, anecdotal style. 1987.
New Years Eve, 1999 and Washington D.C. is under siege by a madman. If 20 million dollars is not paid…
by midnight, random massacres will proceed every four hours. It is up to bookish document analyst Parker Kincaid to decipher the clues in the ransom note to identify and defeat the killer. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.
The apparently routine task of taking up soap and water (or not) is the starting point for an exploration of…
Western culture, which yields insights into our notions of privacy, health, individuality, religion and sexuality. Charts the history of human hygiene, describing those who either didn't wash at all (medieval Europeans) or who did with almost ritualistic fervour (ancient Romans and Greeks). 2008, c2007.
Nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan is the youngest member of his strict, extensive and eccentric Irish-Catholic clan in Newfoundland. Told from…
his point of view, the book describes his experiences with black Irish humour. Amidst his struggles with daily life, the hapless boy is obsessed with Montreal Canadiens hockey, erotic dreams, and recurring visions of his deceased father. Some descriptions of sex. 1990.
A dragon is stalking King Mildred's land, and the king has promised half his kingdom and his daughter's hand in…
marriage to the person who can slay the dragon. Only the old squire, Elizar, and a young page, Brian, are willing to try. But unbeknown to them, the king's daughter, Wilhelmina, has also set out to kill the dragon. Grades 4-7. 1994.
T.C. Steele is called out of retirement by the National Security Agency when one of its recruiters, beautiful Rebecca Townsend,…
seems to have gone over to the other side. He finds that she is working not for another government but for a mysterious group called the Disciples. Loyal to no nation, the Disciples buy and sell secrets to influence the balance of power, which leads to the end of the cold war. Strong language, descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1993.
Herb and Rybys work in system CY30-CY30B until Rybys contracts multiple sclerosis. Ancient Elias informs Rybys, a virgin, that she…
is pregnant by the god Yah and that her illness is a sign that she should return to the evil-ruled Earth in time for the Second Coming. An accident takes Rybys's life and leaves Herb in cryonic suspension, but the fetus lives, protected by Elias. Sequel to "Valis" (DC11947). Followed by "Transmigration of Timothy Archer" (DC29247). Strong language. 1991. (Valis ; 2)
In the 1930s, Count Ulric von Bek has been harried and imprisoned by the Nazis for a black sword which…
is part of his family's history - and for the Grail, which his cousin Gaynor believes is also in his care. Almost dead, he is rescued from Sachsenhausen concentration camp by two unknown figures - and Englishman called Bastable and an albino girl, Oona. With them, he journeys to a strange, underground world. There he meets a figure known to him only from dreams, in which they are somehow the same person, yet separate. 2002.