“IT MAKES SILENCE OF THE LAMBS LOOK LIKE MARY HAD A LITTLE ONE – IT NEVER LETS UP.” – Adrienne Dines, Author of The Jigsaw Maker Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. She never knew how tough until she returns to the desert military base for her high school […]
When Evan Delaneys father disappears, the cops think hes fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure hes been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence. As Evan hunts for clues, shes attacked by an armed man. The attacker ends up dead??and turns out to be a federal […]
Most of us spend our lives wrestling with day-to-day questions of right and wrong that are either unanswered or have no easy answers. The Difficulty of Being Good turns to the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, why be good? and it discovers that the epics world of moral haziness and uncertainty […]
This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such optimum use of available human and material […]
For decades they have remained close, sharing treasured recipes, honored customs, and the challenges of women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers who left India to start anew; daughters now grown and facing struggles of their own. For […]
PASSIONATE BRIDES Seduced… The Italian Dukes Wife The City-Girl Bride The Christmas Bride.
“Count Dracula” has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stokers original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. “Dracula” chronicles the vampires journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men […]
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twains story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers?? from Sherwood Anderson to Twains fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from […]
In a career spanning four decades, Ruskin Bond has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This omnibus edition brings together all his published fiction, remarkable for its charm and quiet wisdom. In addition to over fifty short stories, the selection includes all the longer works by Ruskin Bond: The Room on the Roof […]
Readers havent seen anything yet-new in the “fabulously imagined series” (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden […]
There are lots of reasons to raise the dead – some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my […]
Attending Camp Lone Wolf, the Bailey School kids encounter strange grown-up counselors, including a director whose hairy appearance makes him seem like a werewolf and a swim teacher who may be the Loch Ness monster.
1970s . The city is teeming with thousands of young men in search of work. Somnath Banerjee spends his days queuing up at the employment exchange. Unable to find a job despite his qualifications, Somnath decides to go into the order??supply business as a middleman. His ambition drives him to prostitute an innocent girl for […]