Title: A Good Day to Die
Author: Simon Kernick
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:Dennis Milne is back! A dark, gritty, utterly page-turning novel set in Londons meanest of mean streets: the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed debut, The Business of Dying. When Dennis Milne -- now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines -- hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home, and bring the murderer to book. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his friends at the Kings Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milnes search for the person behind his friends death leaves a trail of death and destruction that is more wide-reaching than even he could have expected. From the Hardcover edition.
Title: Surrounded
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:A Black Bat Mystery. A caper book, the second in a suspense series featuring Mike Tucker, art dealer, heir to a large fortune and professional thief. An early Koontz mystery using one of his pseudonyms.
Title: Doctor Who_ The Burning
Author: Justin Richards
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.
Title: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Author: Bruno Schulz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived. Weaving myth, fantasy, and reality, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is, to quote Schulz, an attempt at eliciting the history of a certain family . . . by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history. Language NotesText: English (translation)br Original Language: Polish
Title: The Gift
Author: Danielle Steel
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:From Publishers WeeklySet in the 1950s, Steel's account of a family coming to terms with a child's death spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. br 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. FromIn reviewing the last few Steel novels, Booklist has tried to make the argument that the author and her readers deserve more respect than they get. Steel does not exploit the romance genre for its racy, dark, or semipornographic underpinnings; she has taken one element of the medieval love-tale, adapted its gentle, loving, and hopeful outlook to the modern world, and produced a satisfying set of variations on her theme. The Gift is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy's little sister wrecks a family's happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{‚}ed, sentimental? Maybe, but Steel believes in the goodness of her characters and here, more than ever before, shows absolute faith in a simple tale of rewarded virtue. This is the author at her best: mature, to the point, refreshed by the tale of her young lovers. Not great art, perhaps, but in its own way almost perfect. Stuart Whitwell
Title: Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
Author: Victoria Laurie
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy:Detective
Description:From Publishers WeeklyIn Lauries frantically fun, if at times cartoonish, fifth Ghost Hunter mystery (after March 2010s Ghouls Gone Wild), M.J. Holliday and the Ghoul Getters cable TV show crew face some anxious moments at Dunlow, a haunted Irish castle, especially after their producer, Peter Gopher Gophner, goes missing. Treacherous tides can make it tricky to reach Dunlow, which is located on an island. Another challenge is the powerful castle phantom guarding the hidden treasure of Lord Ranald Dunnyvale, who ransomed some survivors of the Spanish Armada back in the 16th century for a hefty sum. Reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayers bunch, Lauries enthusiastic, punchy ghost busters make this paranormal series one teens can also enjoy. (Dec. 28) (c) PWxyz, LLC. When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show, Ghoul Getters, venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom wont push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom...
Title: Doctor Who_ To the Slaughter
Author: Stephen Cole
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxys next megastar designer on the future equivalent of Changing Planets?