Brave the Wild Wind

Brave the Wild Wind

Johanna Lindsey

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fantasy

As wild as the Wyoming frontier and a terror when spurned, Jessie Blair is furious when she over hears Chase Summers refusing her hand and vows to seduce the handsome drifter out of spite. Enraged by Jessie's arrogance yet haunted by her beauty, Chase is irresistibly drawn to the headstrong miss -- and into her troubles with the land-hungry villains who murdered her father. For his pride insists he tame the fiery temptress who toys with his emotions. And his passion won't be sated until the sensuous young hellion becomes a woman in his arms.
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The Master Sniper

The Master Sniper

Stephen Hunter

Mystery & Thrillers / Nonfiction

It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are  eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes,  including Jews and foreigners remaining in the  prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a  master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities  by taking a little target practice at the  remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man  escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery  of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his  plans for ending the war. Repp was  the master sniper whose deadly talent had come to  the notice of British Intelligence as the linchpin  of a desperate Nazi plot to reverse the fortunes  of the Third Reich at the eleventh hour. But what  was the nature of the weapon that Repp was to  aim--and who was to be his last target? Allied  Intelligence officers Leets, from the U.S., and  Outhwaite from England are dispatched to identify and  abort his lethal mission. And when they finally  learn the truth, the Second World War's deadliest  race against time is on.... From the Paperback edition.
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Fires of Winter

Fires of Winter

Johanna Lindsey

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fantasy

NEVER A VIKING'S CAPTIVE Lovely and dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, Lady Brenna vowed vengeance -- swearing no Viking brute would be her master...no barbarian would enslave her noble Celtic heart. FOREVER A VIKING'S LOVE Yet Garrick Haardrad, the proud and powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftan, claims her with a primitive abandon that leaves her breathless, igniting fires of passion that blaze through the cold Nordic nights and forge the unbreakable bonds of a fiery, eternal love.
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Lost Worlds

Lost Worlds

Lin Carter (ed. )

Lin Carter (ed. )

LIN CARTER WRITES:“Of all the worlds of fantasy literature,I seem most deeply fascinated by the lost lands of legend—by t hose far and mysterious realms and continents presumed by dreamers to have flourished in remote, prehistoric ages.“I think it is the unsolved mystery of these ’evening isles fantastical’ that teases my curiosity and captivates my imagination. Did the oceans drink down the shining cities of Atlantis?Did mighty Mu founder beneath the waves before history began? Was there ever a lost polar paradise of Hyperborea? Did the Seven Isles of Antiilia ever exist…?“Since we cannot look to science or history or archeology for the age-lost annals of Atlantis or Ultima Thule or Lemuria, we must turn to fantasy fiction to satisfy our thirst for their marvels…
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The Voice of the Night

The Voice of the Night

Dean Koontz

Thriller / Mystery / Science Fiction & Fantasy

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies’ man. Colin was fascinated by Roy — and Roy was fascinated with death. Then one day Roy asked his timid friend, “You ever killed anything?” And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine… and too irresistible to stop. Includes an afterword by the author.
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Brand of Vengeance (A Jubal Cade Western #11)

Brand of Vengeance (A Jubal Cade Western #11)

Charles R. Pike

Charles R. Pike

It's a hard, dusty haul from Wichita to the hick burg of Rawson. But Jubal Cade, ace medic, ace marksman, would ride to the ends of the earth to catch up with a certain gentleman. A big man who handles twin Colts real mean. A man with a four inch scar across his forehead. The man who gunned down Jubal's wife. And when the deadly doctor gets Scarface Kincaid in his sights, he's going to splatter his guts across the entire wide, wild West...
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Burnt Water

Burnt Water

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction / Essays

Urbane stories – almost all set in Mexico City. The weakest tales here simply exploit a single metaphor: in «Chac-Mool», a collector buys a pre-Columbian statue of a god, and the god turns into flesh; in «In a Flemish Garden», a Europeanized house is haunted by the Empress Carlotta. But the strongest of them take on Mexico City's schizoid energy in total. An old bachelor, mother-stifled, lives alone in a crumbling house and keeps to the genteel practices of 30 years before (wakes late, eats in one restaurant, wears spats and a bowler): he's eventually murdered by the street hustlers who are his cultural opposites. «The Two Elenas» portrays a young woman so desperate to be hip and ‘with-it’, decultured, that she becomes a mirror image of herself, her own bouncing infinity. And the final story, «The Son of Andres Aparacio», is perhaps the best: a rolling, careening, ashy tale of a young man without prospect who becomes involved with a neo-Fascist brigade of terrorists: here Fuentes is able to run without a leash what he knows best – disappointment. In general, however, stories are a less hospitable form for this writer than are novels, and the single ideas here mostly seem merely tantalizing, not a full measure.
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