Red Limit Freeway s-2

Red Limit Freeway s-2

John Dechancie

John Dechancie

Jake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must outrun the most detestable vermin and roadbugs in the galaxy and the only thing separating him from them is his tattered starrig. In the lawless region of space Jake must keep his rig running if he knows what’s good for him. He has something that everyone wants and they will stop at nothing to get it. But how long can he keep going on the road where there is no relief for light years?
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This Old Bill

This Old Bill

Loren D. Estleman

Mystery & Thrillers / Western

His eyes had seen the glory—of the wild, wild, West... The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer of Tall Bull and Yellow Hand—he saved Wild Bill Hickok's life, and beat the paths that made way for the railroad and the nation in America's rugged frontier. But now, in his final hours, old Bill Cody faces the last great challenge of his life, as the legendary glory flares—the fades in a new era...Review"Estleman has no rival - not even Louis L'Amour - in evoking the American Southwest." -- Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Review )
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Warday

Warday

Whitley Streiber

Whitley Streiber

The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what’s left of America. New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between. It was a “limited” nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers’ communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization. Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United States, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses and embittered people they meet. In an eerie blend of fact and imagination, Strieber (author of “The Wolfen” and “The Hunger”) and Kunetka (author of “City of Fire: Los Alamos and The Atomic Age”, “1943–1945” and “Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk”) cut through the doublespeak of military bureaucracy and the rhetoric of the 1980’s peace movement to portray America after Warday. [Best viewed with CoolReader.]
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The Winning Side

The Winning Side

Peter Corris

Peter Corris

Charlie Thomas, born in a humpy camp in the 1920s, learns to fight early. He fights in the backblocks of Queensland during the Depression, and in the Middle East and the Pacific in World War Two.Charlie Thomas, decorated veteran, fights on in the cities and the country against racial prejudice, authority and his own weaknesses. He has to fight. White Australia tries to keep him on the losing side in the boxing tents, pubs and gaols.Charlie Thomas fights for education, justice, hope and love, to make his side the winning side.Peter Corris is one of Australia's most popular authors, and his Cliff Hardy detective stories have gained a large cult following.
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Adam and Eva

Adam and Eva

Sandra Kitt

Sandra Kitt

When Eva Duncan flees to the Virgin Islands to heal from the double tragedy that took the lives of her husband and young daughter, she meets the most remarkably self-possessed little girl on the plane. Her father is just as irresistible...if only he weren't so bossy and overbearing.Still recovering from the pain of his recent divorce, Adam Maxwell is reluctant to open his heart to another woman. Then he starts spending time with his daughter's new friend in this tropical Eden and Adam's burgeoning desire has the single dad yearning to be a family again, to have and to hold Eva in his arms forever....
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The Miser's Sister

The Miser's Sister

Carola Dunn

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance

Lady Ruth Penderric lives with her miserly brother and selfish sister in a moldering castle. But when she is kidnapped for ransom, Oliver Pardoe, a banker’s son, rescues her. His offer of assistance leads her to London, where she is courted by a lord. Her heart has been won by the gallant Oliver—but his scruples keep him from declaring himself. Regency Romance by Carola Dunn; originally published by Walker
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The Strangers

The Strangers

Mort Castle

Mort Castle

You see him at PTA meetings, selling peanuts for Kiwanis, mowing his lawn. Michael Louden is your ever-so-average nice guy, your neighbor, your friend--except he wants to kill you and your family and your dog. He's the next door serial psycho, Jack the Ripper in Willy Loman's well shined shoes--and John Wayne Gacy in his clown costume. And he's not alone. Michael Louden and others like him, Strangers, are just waiting for their moment of history--to destroy any hope of the future. "THE STRANGERS offers one of the most unsettling and true representations of evil that you're likely to experience in a horror novel" --From the Introduction by Marc Paoletti THE STRANGERS, Mort Castle's 1984 cult classic of hard driving horror, is back in print in this trade paperback. This wonderfully creepy, yet disturbing tale will have you looking around at your friends, family, and neighbors in a way you never suspected. THE STRANGERS has been optioned by Whitewater Films in 2005.
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Night-Bloom

Night-Bloom

Herbert Lieberman

Herbert Lieberman

This is the story of a psycho killer loose in New York, with the cop personally drawn into the search. He is sometimes hampered, by a hypochondriacal medical genius who is the oustanding character in the book.
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Lady Lucy's Lover

Lady Lucy's Lover

M C Beaton

Mystery / Suspense / Romance

Poor Lucy was living a dream. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunkard. And she refused to admit that his frequent overnight absences were of any significance. The sting came when it was revealed that Lucy's parents had bought her husband for her. And then one night at a ball, Lucy met the charismatic Duke of Habard and suddenly anything seemed possible.
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The Time of My Life

The Time of My Life

Bryan Woolley

Bryan Woolley

A collection of personal essays written between 1976 and 1983 for The Dallas Times Herald. They have a universality and a timelessness that makes them suitable for a much wider audience than the population of one urban area of Texas. What jumps out in these essays is not so much the actions within, so much as Bryan Woolley's reactions to these actions and events.
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Magnetic Field(s)

Magnetic Field(s)

Ron Loewinsohn

Ron Loewinsohn

Organised around the idea that "you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it," Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspective of a burglar in the midst of a robbery, and travels through the thoughts and experiences (both real and imaginary) of a group of characters whose lives are connected both coincidentally and intimately. All of the characters have a common desire to imagine and invent rather horrifying stories about the lives of people around them. As the novel develops, certain phrasings and images recur improbably, drawing the reader into a subtle linguistic game that calls into question the nature of authorship, the ways we inhabit and invade each other's lives, and the shape of fiction itself.**
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