The Dragon Man

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder--"his."

The Dragon Men

Author: Steven Harper
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504096851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
In this steampunk sequel to The Impossible Cube, two adventurers must find a way inside a kingdom on the brink of war to save themselves and the world. As Gavin Ennock pilots his airship, the Lady of Liberty, to China, his fiancée, Lady Alice Michaels prays they make it in time. The Clockwork Plague consumes Gavin’s body and mind, driving him increasingly mad—and driving a wedge between him and Alice. Their only hope lies in China with the Dragon Men. But a power-hungry general has seized the Chinese throne, intending to conquer Asia, Britain, and the world. He has also closed the country’s borders to foreigners. Meanwhile, the former ruling dynasty is plotting to return the throne’s rightful heir to power. Seeing their opportunity, the two travelers dive into a political power struggle where one false move could spell doom for Gavin and the entire world. “[The Dragon Men] continues to demonstrate its original premise and to showcase the inventive pair who strive to save a world.” —Library Journal “My favorite book in the series yet. I’m not sure whether that’s because I’ve become so enamored with the world of the Clockwork Empire as a whole, or that the action sequences are nearly relentless, which a definite plus in this case.” —That’s What I’m Talking About

Kittyhawk Down

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921145455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. This sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. Challis finds some aerial possesion in the possession of his friend, Kitty, that link her to the murders.

Dragon Bound

Author: Thea Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101514396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ELDER RACES SERIES! Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful—and passionate—of the Elder races. As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in each other. Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave—although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul...

Return to Dragon Mountain

Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144062027X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
“Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic) Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of rule, was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Zhang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final forty years recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule before the violent upheaval of its collapse. This absorbing tale of Zhang Dai’s life illuminates the transformation of a culture and reveals how China’s history affects its place in the world today.

Facing the Dragon

Author: David Parnell
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757315232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
After more than 23 years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. Here he chronicles how that desperate act pulled him out of his personal hell.

The Eagle and the Dragon

Author: Chris Duffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544501949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"The world may know Chris Duffin as 'The Mad Scientist of Strength,' but you wouldn't have ever guessed that if you saw the scrawny kid skinning rattlesnakes and chasing dragonflies in the early '80s. The story of his unconventional life will take you from ... tales of murder, trauma, heartbreak, and survival deep in the Pacific Northwest wilderness all the way to an idealization of the self-made man--still flawed, but never broken"--Dust jacket fla

Dragonman

Author: Ted Lazaris
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781626466654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
A series of savage and brutal murders is taking place by a killer that might not be human. A secret brotherhood first discovered this baffling mix of man and God in 1970. Now, this Son of God, or Satan, is about to proclaim its divinity, through a ritualistic series of slayings. Can Luke Starr, aka DragonMan, a new superhero for our times, stop its relentless threat to mankind? Only time will tell...

Paper Mache Dragons

Author: Dan Reeder
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781501037092
Category : Dragons in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
People will tell you that dragons are imaginary, that they don't exist. Yet it seems that dragon lore appears in every culture in every part of the world. There's just something about these flying, flame throwing, fantastical animals that runs deep in the human psyche. We love them. We want them. And we shall have them?

The Dragon Book

Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742754406
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Nineteen fiery dragon stories from the world’s best fantasy writers Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors who ride them, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. In modern times, they can be found far from their medieval settings in locales as mundane as suburbia or as barren as post-apocalyptic landscapes - and in THE DRAGON BOOK, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire with legendary tales that will consume readers' imaginations.With stories by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams and Tad Williams as well as tales by Naomi Novik, Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan and Bruce Coville.