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Ruan
By Bryher. 2017
In this remarkable novel, Bryher takes the reader into sixth century Britain—Cornwall, the Scillys, Ireland and Wales. Arthur is dead…
and the uneasy peace which he established is drawing to its close. Young Ruan, nephew of a high priest, is destined for the priesthood. Turbulent and restless for adventure, he feels caged and longs for the high seas. At last he breaks free and sets out on the quest for those islands which are to him both an image and reality. The sights, sounds, passions and ordeals of Celtic Britain filter through Bryher’s haunting prose. With Ruan’s eyes we see the throngs at the Cornish fair, the religious ritual, the burial of the king on the mysterious Scilly Isles. With him we experience the mariners’ winter camp in Ireland and with him we flee for life through an Irish bog.Canton Barrier
By Andrew Clare Geer. 2017
Against a colorful and violent background, Andrew Geer tells the story of Jeff Jordan, who, in addition to being a…
flying mercenary, was also a strangely reckless man in search of his own kind of personal security. It is also the story of an extraordinary group of adventurers, men and women of mixed morals and various (but always human) motives—the most important of these being a missionary doctor and a beautiful Eurasian girl, two individuals who understood Jordan a lot better than he did himself.The story moves through the cities of Peking, Nanking, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Canton and Macao. It does not dwell on politics except insofar as the China of 1949 (the Communists were sweeping south to Canton) provides a dramatic background and a test of human behavior. It is a story of a struggle for survival on one level, and for personal salvation on another. It includes tremendous scenes of panic and bravery during the retreat to the South, as well as the minutiae of the personal drama which grips Jordan and the individuals caught with him in this swift and dangerous stream of history.Thunderball (James Bond Ser. #9)
By Ian Fleming. 1989
THUNDERBALL presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history.James Bond is in…
disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime—and thereby minutely upsets the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.Who is SPECTER? What are its plans? Alas, the organization is all too realistically described, its plans all too contemporary for comfort. Of all James Bond’s adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts the darkest shadow.The Diamond Smugglers
By Ian Fleming. 2013
HAILED BY THE PRESS AS: “THE GREATEST SPY STORY SINCE WORLD WAR II”The chilling, spy-studded story of a carefully organized,…
private intelligence army—and the master operative who ingeniously commanded it.IAN FLEMING AT THIS INTRIGUING BESTThe glitter of espionage, the lure of easy money, the fever of men and women trapped by the temptations of “hot ice”..all interwoven in a nerve-tightening web of intrigue and violence. A web that winds from the depths of an African diamond mine, right op to Moscow—and the Top!“A BREATHTAKING STORY”—The Evansville Press“ADVENTURE WITH A WALLOP”—Omaha World-Herald“TANTALIZING”—The New York Times“MAKES FOR FINE READING...SECOND TO NONE”—San Francisco Call Bulletin“INTRIGUING, FASCINATING”—Philadelphia InquirerThe Spy Who Loved Me: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond Ser. #10)
By Ian Fleming. 2006
“THE SPY WHO LOVED ME was called James Bond and the night on which he loved me was a night…
of screaming terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the north of New York State.“This is the story of who I am and how I came through a nightmare of torture and the threat of rape and death to a dawn of ecstasy...”So writes Vivienne Michel—”the most attractive of Bond’s heroines to date.” (Sunday Times)“Ian Fleming keeps you riveted. His narrative pulls with the smooth power of Bond’s Thunderbird, and the way he gets inside the skin of his heroine is masterly.”—Sunday Telegraph“Muscularly brilliant…not for prudes”—Evening StandardThe Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond 007 Ser.)
By Ian Fleming. 2008
Bond goes to the Caribbean and track down Francisco Scaramanga, who has built a deadly laser for the express purpose…
of killing. With his gold-plated Colt.45 and his deadeye accuracy, Scaramanga is deemed too deadly to live.James Bond—’twisted like a dying animal on the ground and iron in his hand cracked viciously…’‘Pistols’ Scaramanga—professional assassin for the KGB and other criminal organisations. A paranoiac and sexual fetishist, he used a gold-plated Colt with silver bullets to avenge himself upon humanity.Mary Goodnight—’a naked arm smelling of Chanel No. 5 snaked round Bond’s neck, and warm lips kissed the corner of his mouth.’“Fleming keeps you riveted.”—Sunday Telegraph“Some of the best ingredients of the Bond sagas”—Bristol Evening NewsOn Her Majesty’s Secret Service: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond 007 Ser.)
By Ian Fleming. 2012
In a closely guarded bastion of evil high in the Swiss Alps.ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD puts the finishing touches to a…
most fiendish plot involving ten beautiful and ingenuous girls…to a most diabolical plot for murder on a mass scale. Only one man can stop him and that man is Blofeld’s archenemy secret agent JAMES BOND.IAN FLEMING’S ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICEThe superlative thriller that pits the secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE’s archfiend Bloefeld, architect of a nefarious scheme to destroy the free world…the thriller in which 007 falls in love with the lovely Tracy, daughter of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Union Corse….“The hottest sleuth in the suspense field, James Pond, really tops himself in this new Ian Fleming thriller.’—St. Paul Dispatch.“James Bond, 007, the best-known spy of our times, now by public acclaim one of the master-spies of the cloak-and-dagger fantasy. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is packed with danger, mystery, crime, and wild pursuit, to which the author has added sear in generous proportions.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune.“One of Bond’s most ominous and chilling adventures.”—Newsweek.“Solid Fleming.”—New York Herald Tribune.Live and Let Die: James Bond 007 (Macmillan Readers Ser. #2)
By Ian Fleming. 1975
When 007 goes to Harlem, it’s not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr Big, black…
master of crime, voodoo baron, senior partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death.Those he cannot possess, he crushes;those who cross him will meet painful ends.Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire.And her lover, James Bond.Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York’s black underworld to the shark-infested island in the sun that Mr Bier calls his own…‘Speed…tremendous zest communicated excitement. Brrh! How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes ‘—JULIAN SYMONS, SUNDAY TIMESOctopussy and The Living Daylights (Coronet Bks.)
By Ian Fleming. 1989
From the legacy of Ian Fleming come these two recently discovered short novels—superb examples ofJAMES BOND AT HIS BESTThey were…
written by 007’s creator before his death and are published here in book form for the first time.OCTOPUSSYis set in Fleming’s favourite pleasure paradise, Jamaica in the British West Indies.THE LIVING DAYLIGHTStakes place in, what is for Fleming, a new kind of locale: the border territory that divides East and West Berlin. In both novellas Fleming gives the audacious Bond the power of life—or death—over two very different adversaries.Bond’s first quarry is a rather odd Englishman, the very proper Major Dexter Smythe. Smythe is a retired officer of the Royal Marines. He is a man of no visible wealth, yet he lives in luxurious idleness. His pet diversion—indeed his obsession—is a dangerous experiment that he is conducting with a predator of the deep, with a many-tentacled beauty whom he fondly has named Octopussy....Bond’s second target is one of Fleming’s most tantalizing villains, a person whom Bond, and the reader, glimpses but never meets. M. sends Bond to West Berlin to safeguard the escape of Number 272, a British agent who is privy to Russia’s top-secret atomic plans. Agent 272 is to make his break for freedom across the East Berlin frontier. The big trouble is: the KGB knows the escape plan and that plan cannot be changed. They have assigned their best sniper, Trigger, to shoot 272 on the run, on a certain street, at a certain time. Armed with a .308-caliber International Experimental Target rifle, Bond must stake out the sniper and kill him before he kills 272...Diamonds are Forever (James Bond 007 Ser. #4)
By Ian Fleming. 2012
JAMES BOND JOINS THE WORLD’S MOST RUTHLESS JEWEL RING…“We’re going to find out who you are and who you work…
for and what you know....IF you think you can hold out on us you’re wrong, dead wrong.”Jack Spang spoke to James Bond gently...menacingly.Two hooded men entered the room and sat opposite the secret agent. They put down football boots beside them and started to unlace their shoes.Spang spoke again. “We’ll make it a Brooklyn stomping. Eighty per center. Okay with you...Mr. Bond?”The Spangled Mob hires undercover agent James Bond to smuggle diamonds into America, and the ace British spy finds himself partners in crime with the most tantalizing female he’s ever encountered—Tiffany Case, hotter than stolen “ice,” as surprising as sudden death.From Russia, With Love (Modern Classics Ser.)
By Ian Fleming. 2012
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSThe Russians wanted to liquidate James Bond—ace British secret agent—in a way that would embarrass England.…
So they lined up their best team to pull off the job!Tatiana Romanova—an alluring brunette seductress who looks like Garbo although her heart belongs to the State.Red Grant—a renegade Irish hired assassin, who likes to kill for kicks.Rosa Klebb—head of Otydel II, department of torture and death, a hideous woman with a lust for inflicting excruciating torment.The master conspirators devise a trap designed to eliminate Bond on a perilous journey from Istanbul to Paris via the lush Orient Express. A trip on which Bond makes passionate love to one of his captors as he fights desperately to protect his life from the others, while the train speeds towards its ultimate, awful rendezvous with death!JAMES BOND becomes the target of theRUSSIAN MURDER ORGANIZATION, SMERSH…The deadly and sinister SMERSH sets a trap to catch and kill James Bond, ace British spy with a weakness for women and wine, and they bait it with a beautiful brunette. But they don’t count on her falling in love with her victim…after she has seduced him!!“One of the most outrageously entertaining thrillers ever contrived.”—New York World Telegram and Sun.Dr. No (Coronet Bks. #6)
By Ian Fleming. 1989
It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather…
belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turning slightly inwards, the head to one side as she examined the things in her hand.M called this case a soft option. Bond can’t quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing.But they are both part of the empire of Dr. No.The doctor is a worthy adversary, with a mind as hard and cold as his solid steel hands.Dr. No’s obsession is power. His only gifts are strictly pain-shaped.‘Masterful...beautifully written.’—Raymond Chandler, The Sunday Times.‘The essence of a James Bond thriller is its speed, its knowingness...Dr. No has a full quota of every ingredient. Bond is better than ever.’—Evening Standard.‘Wildly thrilling, packed with convincing technical detail.’—C. Day Lewis, BBC World of Books.‘Pace, brilliant descriptive powers, superb imagination...sheer entertainment.’—Spectator.For Your Eyes Only: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond Novels (playaway) Ser. #8)
By Ian Fleming. 2012
“MOVE AN INCH AND I’LL KILL YOU.”It had been a girl’s voice, but a voice that fiercely meant what it…
said.Bond, his heart thumping, stared up the shaft of the steel arrow whose blue-tempered triangular tip parted the grass stalks eighteen inches from his head.The girl was dressed in ragged coat and trousers. The beauty of her face was wild and animal, with a wide, sensuous mouth, high cheekbones and silvery gray, disdainful eyes. There was the blood of scratches on her forearms and down one cheek. She looked like a dangerous customer who knew wild country and forests and was not afraid of them.Bond thought she was wonderful. He smiled at her…”I suppose you’re Robin Hood. My name’s James Bond...”BOND IS BACK!007 deals a deathblow to international crime as he tracks gunrunners in the blue Caribbean, unearths a thorny nest of spies in a French forest, smashes smugglers in sunny Italy and teams up with an untamed huntress on a mission of vengeance in Vermont.Ohio Town: A Portrait of Xenia
By Helen Hooven Santmyer. 2017
“I wanted to tell the truth about the small town.”Xenia, Ohio: The young among us sometimes rebel in their inexperience,…
saying “nothing ever happens here.” They say it because they do not know the old houses. If they live long enough they will learn that everything has happened here, and may happen again. The town is Winesburg and Spoon River, it is Highbury and Cranford, it is even Illyria and Elsinore. Little that mankind knows and endures but has been here known and endured: even battles and sieges—Shiloh and Vicksburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and all the others, before and since—have been fought here, in the minds of women who waited and the memories of soldiers who came home again.For all of her 90 years Helen Hooven Santmyer—critically acclaimed author of “...And Ladies of the Club”—has been carrying on a love affair with her hometown of Xenia. Her OHIO TOWN is a microcosm of a century of America. The history, heartache, and hilarity of small-town life...The sights and sounds, like the locomotive whistle, imprinted in our memories...The unsung heroes of Americana: Miss Harper, the rigorous, unforgettable sixth grade teacher; Dr. Will, the unfailingly patient family practitioner; Miss McElwain, the librarian for 50 years. All are celebrated in this award-winning, heart-warming memoir of an America that will live forever in our hearts.First published in 1956, Ohio Town received widespread critical recognition as a stirring, magical blend of history and memoir.“Miss Santmyer writes beautifully”—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD“A new gem in the crown of Ohio’s classics. The theme is the beauty of Midwest America, the closeness of a small town to the countryside and, therefore, to the world, to poetry, and to the enlightened mind.”—TOLEDO BLADE“A lively history pulsating with memories.”—HISTORY NEWSGrowing Up with a City
By Louise Dekoven Bowen. 2017
Louise de Koven Bowen grew up in a Chicago caught between frontier and urbanity—a young city struggling to wipe the…
mud from its boots. Born into privilege and comfort, she demonstrated from an early age an extraordinary sense of social responsibility and alertness to how she could improve the circumstances of those around her.Smart, savvy, and bracingly candid, Growing Up with a City offers a rare portrait of Chicago and its growing pains from a woman’s perspective. More than a record of her accomplishments, Bowen’s memoir is a disarmingly witty narrative of an enthusiastic, generous, and perpetually optimistic benefactor—with herself often the target of her own wry humor.Invigorating and endearing, her story lets us see how women made a difference in Chicago.“A charming record of [Bowen’s] contributions to building 19th and 20th century Chicago... [Bowen] had a taste for stirring things up, a strong social conscience, seemingly unlimited energy and formidable administrative talent.”—Chicago Sun-Times-Print ed.The Highland Hawk
By Leslie Turner White. 2017
First published in 1952, this book by acclaimed author Leslie Turner White is set in seventeenth-century Scotland when Cromwell tries…
to win over the Highlands to the Parliamentary cause.From his first battle, Davy Dugald was a marked man. Masquerading in the royal kilts of his dead master he saved the day for the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell. But Davy knew that the secret of his lowly birth and his assumed title of Ian, Lord of Lochbogie, would someday be discovered.He also dreaded the time when his fierce clansmen learned that Davy himself had killed their lord, his master.That time drew closer when Davy was sent on a secret mission into the wild mountains of Scotland. There he had to face a lifelong and deadly enemy. But there also he found the passionate woman who shared his secret…Here is a story of wenching and fighting, adventures and romance. It tells of a lovable rogue who rose from stable boy to colonel, and how his flashing sword and notorious loves made him the toast of the wild Scotch Highlands!Blaze of Glory
By Agatha Young. 2017
First published in 1950, this book from the author of Light in the Sky tells the story of a beautiful,…
imperious, thoroughly spoiled young woman; her ambitions, loves and jealousies, all magnificently displayed against a panorama of New York society and theatrical life in the 1880s.Willow Cleveland left her husband and came to New York determined to be the star of the stage. Backed by the unlimited wealth of an admiring millionaire, she achieved her ambition only to find that it took more to make a great actress than a mere desire to bask in a blaze of glory.Meanwhile her dynamic young husband came to New York determined to break her spirit and bring her back to his home. And a theatrical producer, who was clever enough to see the talent beneath the willful surface, was equally determined to make her into a truly great actress.How Willow Cleveland’s husband fought a financial battle with her rich admirer and fell in love with his niece; how Willow learned the hard way to humble her pride and work for success in the theatre is the theme of this brilliant new novel, set against a background of gaslights and hansom cabs, of dinners at Delmonico’s and tempests and triumphs behind the footlights.Dark Boundary
By Anne Purdy. 2017
First published in 1954, this book is an intriguing glimpse into the early days of the Alaskan village of Eagle,…
along the Yukon River. Anne Purdy, author of bestselling book Tisha, tells the story surrounding the lives of the Eagle Village Indians. She describes the end of the Gold Rush era changes that took place in the early part of the twentieth century, painting a vivid picture of life’s struggles here and of a woman who reaches out to those in desperate need of love and care.A tale of joy and sadness, with a final twist.Stern: A Novel
By Bruce Jay Friedman. 2001
First published in 1962, Bruce Jay Friedman’s acclaimed first fiction novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man…
who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.“An iridescent tour de force...Mr. Friedman’s style is pure delight-supple, carnal, humorous and at times slightly surrealistic.”—The New York Times Book Review“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois... What makes him more important is that he writes out of viscera instead of cerebrum.”—Nelson Algren in The Nation“A strange and touching novel...funny and sad at the same time...in the tradition of a Charlie Chaplin movie.”—TimeNights of Love and Laughter
By Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth. 2017
America’s Most Unusual Writer…In this fascinating volume, devoted to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual…
living American writers, you will find many eloquent and moving tales by Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and many other books.Miller’s frank and original expression of the most intimate thoughts and feelings of men and women, his unique style of writing and his acute observations on modern civilization have brought him international fame. Among the many eminent writers and critics who praise his work are T. S. Eliot, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, Aldous Huxley, Edmund Wilson, and H. L. Mencken.All who enjoy and appreciate good writing will find this brilliant collection of Miller’s stories a new and unforgettable reading experience.“His is one of the most beautiful styles today.”—H. L. Mencken“...a literary live wire.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch“Mr. Miller’s love goes out to the little people, men whom the world has never noticed.”—Nashville Tennessean