The Good Guy
Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend's tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone...
Literature - Adventure
Quo vadis?
Historical novel, set in imperial Rome, in the time of St. Peter, St. Paul and Nero (63 AD), based on many documented historical facts. The title of the book derives from a Christian tradition: St. Peter...
The Secret Garden
A selfish and unbearable girl is sent for a country house in the Yorkshire, and left to herself. Starting to explore the house she finds out a sick boy hidden from her; and exploring the park, she discovers...
With Fire and Sword
The author of Quo Vadis wrote this historical novel, first of the Polish trilogy The Flood and Mr Wolodyjowski. In it he describes the Polish wars between 1648 and the end of the...
Criss Cross
Could a person from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? Mere hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A...
Murder Games
A criminal behavior expert teams up with an NYPD detective to track down a criminal in the novel that inspired the hit CBS TV series starring Alan Cumming.
Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on...
Star Wars: Queen's Peril
A Star Wars book that links to Episode I: The Phantom Menace but from the perspective of Padmé Amidala, a fourteen-year-old girl, elected Queen of Naboo.
It tells of her adventures in the palace...
The Australian Light Horse
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the Australian outback, had a special bond with their horses (...
The North Water
The perfect narrator for this story of redemption amid the brutality of a doomed nineteenth-century whaling trip. Keating's Irish-accented voice shifts to fit each of the motley characters who populate the...
The Last Man
Rickman orchestrated his own kidnapping, beating and “death” with the assistance of Akthar Durrani and Vazir Kassar, two corrupt employees from the Foreign Relations division of the Pakistani Inter-Service...