The Jugger

Author: Richard Stark
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226772853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The past can catch up to you—but if he can help it, Parker won’t let his. Sixth in the series praised as “a standout in the history of crime fiction” (AudioFile). Joe Sheer, a retired safecracker living in Nebraska who knows too many of Parker’s criminal secrets, says he’s in trouble. By the time Parker arrives on the scene, the safecracker is dead and a greedy cop, a nosy neighbor, and a gaudy crook are busy looking for a treasure the old man may never have even had. Parker is a pro with a past to protect and a future to consider—and the last thing he needs is a bunch of determined amateurs who know more than they should. And for this pro, killing is the only way out of town. Praise for the Parker novels of Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) “Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.” —William Grimes, The New York Times “Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.” —Lawrence Block “Richard Stark’s Parker . . . is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “One of the most original characters in mystery fiction has returned without a loss of step, savvy, sheer bravado, street smarts, or sense of survival.” —Mystery News

Mafalda, the Jugger's Daughter

Author: Bea Eschen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734743958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description

The Trials of the Black Rat

Author: G.D. Bartle
Publisher: G.D. Bartle
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The former Empire capital ship Renown is now the Black Rat, a privateer vessel, following a successful mutiny. An ill-considered act of piracy and the events of its aftermath almost provoke a conflict between nations, leading the Black Rat and her crew to be banished from their adopted state. Seeking somewhere else to call home amongst the Factions of the egg-shaped world of Erdreja, the leader of another nation offers citizenship if the Black Rat can prove her worth in a series of challenges. Unbeknownst to her crew, one who bears them ill-will is following their every move and plotting their destruction. Beset by trials both magical and mundane, the Black Rat prowls the southern oceans, an unwitting pawn in a shadow war where neither friends, nor enemies, nor allies are what they appear to be. Natural forces, elemental powers and creatures from the deep assail her. In the fantastical world of Erdreja, where magic is commonplace, gunpowder does not exist and the most advanced science is alchemy, will the Black Rat survive the machinations and manipulations of Factions on the brink of war, that her crew may find the homeland they so desire?

Doctor Who: Kerblam! (Target Collection)

Author: Pete McTighe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473533473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Ding Dong! The TARDIS is invaded. A plea for help delivered by robot summons the Doctor and her friends Yaz, Graham and Ryan to Kerblam - the biggest retailer in the galaxy. Posing as new recruits among the thousands of human workers, the TARDIS crew uncover a deadly plot that threatens the life of every person in the warehouse - and beyond. Who has sent for the Doctor? What is the dark secret at the heart of Kerblam's operations? And who will escape the merciless Postmen...?

The Green Box

Author: James F. Murphy, Jr.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 145661312X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
77-year-old Bill Sullivan, on a whim, drove through Newton, Mass. and stopped at Boyd Park to visit the Green Box. It was there, while WWII raged in Europe and the Pacific, that Sully and his friends waited eagerly for the park instructor to open the Green Box to the treasures of baseballs, gloves, bats, board games and a vast assortment of gems. The Green Box was the meeting place where lessons were learned about prejudice, justice, life, death and the pain of first love lost.

My Scrap Book

Author: Allan Octavian Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description

Odyssey of the Ascension Souls

Author: Bongani Prince Zwane
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9362695030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
The Ascension souls (Sheela, Skye, Ericuam, Ava, Bontle, Nemea, Gninekawa, Drew) are formidable beings of virtually endless power who are tasked with the onus of maintaining balance between order and chaos amongst the universes as they struggle to navigate being in human form for the first time and being subjected to the typical human tendencies, including the threat of being lost to their own madness.

The Mourner

Author: Richard Stark
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226772888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
The Mourner is a story of convergence—of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents. Hired by a shifty dame who has something he needs, Parker will find out just who intends to bury whom—and who he needs to kill to finish the job.

British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide

Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055758275X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Unlike their American colleagues, British suppliers were extremely slow to release their country's superb libraries of classic films for movie fans to purchase on either VHS tapes or DVD discs. In 2004, little over 100 titles were available. But now there are around 700, with promises of many more to come. This book details some of the best. Over 400 movies in all are described in either minute detail or in summary form! The quality (or lack of quality) in the DVD transfer is fearlessly indicated. The author's emphasis is on movies made before 1970, especially those with popular stars such as Glynis Johns, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Margaret Lockwood, Arthur Askey, Anna Neagle, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Will Hay, Tommy Trinder, Alec Guinness, Michael Wilding, Peter Finch, Christopher Lee, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, John Gregson, etc.

Apocalypse Any Day Now

Author: Tea Krulos
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613736444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the world—Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days. Along the way he meets doomsday preppers—people who stockpile supplies and learn survival skills—as well as religious prognosticators and climate scientists. He camps out with the Zombie Squad (who use a zombie apocalypse as a survival metaphor); tours the Survival Condos, a luxurious bunker built in an old Atlas missile silo; and attends Wasteland Weekend, where people party like the world has already ended. Frightening and funny, the ideas Krulos explores range from ridiculously outlandish to alarmingly near and present dangers.