![]() ![]() It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. ![]() ![]() The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The latest release by this international sensation is the hefty, nearly 400-page novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Fortunately, in Murakami’s case, they coincide.) (Not to mention bestseller lists, which are of course entirely different things. Surrounded by the likes of Death From Above 1979, Cold Specks, and assorted late summer music festivals, Murakami has entered the ranks of those all-too-few writers who live to see their names emblazoned in hypercolour font on billboards 15 feet high (in this he joins the dubious company of the authors of Harry Potter and Fifty Shades of Grey).īut if the billboards paint his name in letters twice the size of the average person, it’s an appropriate reflection of his stature in world literature. In early August, the flashy promotional billboards of downtown Toronto proclaimed its coming: the latest novel by Haruki Murakami. ![]() ![]() The Night Fire (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel #22) (Paperback): Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel #20) (Hardcover):ĭark Sacred Night (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel #21) (Paperback): The Wrong Side of Goodbye (A Harry Bosch Novel #19) (Hardcover): The Burning Room (A Harry Bosch Novel #17) (Large Print / Hardcover): The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Novel #16) (Large Print / Hardcover): ![]() ![]() The Drop (A Harry Bosch Novel #15) (Hardcover): Nine Dragons (A Harry Bosch Novel #14) (Hardcover): The Overlook (A Harry Bosch Novel #13) (Mass Market): The Closers (A Harry Bosch Novel #11) (Large Print / Hardcover):Įcho Park (A Harry Bosch Novel #12) (Large Print / Hardcover): The Narrows (A Harry Bosch Novel #10) (Large Print / Hardcover): Lost Light (A Harry Bosch Novel #9) (Large Print / Hardcover): Trunk Music (A Harry Bosch Novel #5) (Mass Market):Īngels Flight (A Harry Bosch Novel #6) (Mass Market):Ī Darkness More Than Night (A Harry Bosch Novel #7) (Mass Market):Ĭity of Bones (A Harry Bosch Novel #8) (Large Print / Hardcover): The Last Coyote (A Harry Bosch Novel #4) (Hardcover): The Concrete Blonde (A Harry Bosch Novel #3) (Hardcover): The Black Ice (A Harry Bosch Novel #2) (Hardcover): The Black Echo: A Novel (A Harry Bosch Novel #1) (Large Print / Paperback): ![]() ![]() This is book number 18 in the A Harry Bosch Novel series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he’s not ruling out future surprises WWE appearances. Rumors swirled with frenzy that the native Texan would appear at WrestleMania 39 earlier this month, but filming conflicts didn’t allow him enough time to get into wrestling shape. “I live my life as Steve Austin, and so I’m not trying to be ‘Stone Cold’ in this show.”īut that doesn’t mean his alter ego is gone forever. “For the first few episodes, there was a little bit of an identity crisis on my part,” explained the three-time Royal Rumble champion. Hollywood recognized his gravitas, and he went on to star in 2007’s “The Condemned,” and joined the ensemble cast that included Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis in 2010’s “The Expendables.” In recent years, he beefed up his reality TV experience by hosting the “WWE Tough Enough” reality competition as well as several seasons of CMT’s “Redneck Island.”īut if fans expect to see the tough guy in the black wrestling trunks, black leather vest with a scowled face while he’s learning new jobs, they might be disappointed. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. ![]() A freelance security systems designer, her own protection is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. In her stunning 200th novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts proves why no one is better “when it comes to flawlessly fusing high-stakes suspense with red-hot romance" ( Booklist, starred review).ĭaughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The many-colored omnibuses which pass outside of the docks were discharging, every minute, their load of sight-seers the whole city seemed to care for nothing except watching the departure of the Forward. The workingmen of the neighboring wharves had abandoned their tasks, tradesmen had left their gloomy shops, and the merchants their empty warehouses. Nevertheless, from early morning on the 6th of April, a large crowd collected on the quays of the New Prince's Docks all the sailors of the place seemed to have assembled there. Who would take notice of it in so great a throng of ships of all sizes and of every country, that dry-docks covering two leagues scarcely contain them? The sailing of a brig is not a matter of great importance for the chief commercial city of England. This announcement appeared in the Liverpool Herald of April 5, 1860. Z., captain, Richard Shandon, mate, will clear from New Prince's Docks destination unknown." ![]() "To-morrow, at the turn of the tide, the brig Forward, K. ![]() ![]() With her friends as knights supporting her, Ari must fight for freedom from Mercer. Along with Ari, Merlin discovers new reasons to rebel against the system and protect the now cherished bonds he forged along the way. ![]() Their lives are changed forever when Ari pulls a sword from a tree, waking up the mage Merlin, who hopes to help train yet another Arthur and break the cycle that’s lasted for centuries on end. Mercer rules all human life with its monopoly on resources and has practically unlimited power. She and her brother Kay are on the run from a giant corporation called Mercer due to their unknown vendetta against Ari. The book in question is “ Once and Future” by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy, and it’s about the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur, Ari. It has a medieval tale, reincarnation, magic, and spaceships, a s well as a plethora of LGBTQIAP+ representation among the characters.Īnd it all comes together in a cohesive story, which I think is an astounding feat to accomplish. ![]() ![]() “Once and Future” by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy is a book that retells the story of Arthur and the Round Table with a futuristic twist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later, Michael had become one of eBay's most successful entrepreneurs-and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women.With down-to-earth wit, Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent, from eBay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Hermes to part with one of these precious bags. Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and an Hermes scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. ![]() Unless, of course, she happens to know Michael Tonello. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities, there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermes, and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. An insider's hilarious, whirlwind account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the BirkinFor more than twenty years, the Hermes Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. ![]() ![]() His novel The Watch Below is considered by some aficionados to be his finest work - a claustrophobic book describing the travails of parallel survivors of war (human) and accident (alien). The short-story collection The Aliens Among Us (1969) is also related to the Sector General series, since it includes the Sector General story "Countercharm" and the quasi-Sector General story "Occupation: Warrior". The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last published posthumously in 1999. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were written as full-length novels. He is probably best-known as the author of the Sector General series of novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending early years in Canada. ![]() James White was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories, and novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and worked in Brand PR for a variety of household brands. ![]() Her short fiction has been published in a wide variety of magazines and has been sh Sarah Pearse lives by the sea in South Devon with her husband and two daughters. Sarah has always been drawn to the dark and creepy - remote spaces and abandoned places - so when she read an article in a local Swiss magazine about the history of sanatoriums in the area, she knew she’d found the spark of the idea for her debut novel, The Sanatorium. After moving to Switzerland in her twenties, she spent every spare moment exploring the mountains and the Swiss Alpine town of Crans Montana, the dramatic setting that inspired her novel. Sarah Pearse lives by the sea in South Devon with her husband and two daughters. ![]() |