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James Knapp

Element Zero

Revivors

<p>Technologically reanimated corpses are frontline soldiers engaged in a neverending war. Agent Nico Wachalowski uncovered a conspiracy that allowed Samuel Fawkes, the scientist who created them, to control them beyond the grave. And now Fawkes has infected untold thousands with new technology, creating an undetectable army that will obey his every command-a living army that just might represent the future of humanity…</p><

James Knapp

State of Decay

Revivors

James Knapp

The Silent Army

Revivors

James Patrick Kelly

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

<p>The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out sunglasses. Once radical, cyberpunk is nothing more than a brand. </p><p>These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook paradise, and the Queen of England attacked with the deadliest of forbidden technology: a working modem. You'll meet Manfred Macx, renegade meme-broker, Red Sonja, virtual reality sex-goddess, and Felix, humble sysadmin and post-apocalyptic hero. </p><p>Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology) have united cyberpunk visionaries William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan with the new post-cyberpunk vanguard including Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Jonathan Lethem. Including a canon-establishing introduction and excerpts from a hotly-contested online debate, Rewired is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks. </p><p>From the grittiness of Mirrorshades to the Singularity and beyond, it's time to revive the revolution. </p><

Jan Karon

In the Company of Others

<p>A stirring page-turner from the bestselling author of the Mitford Series.</p><p>Jan Karon's new series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post.</p><p>In this second novel, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry from the comfort of a charming fishing lodge. The charm, however, is broken entirely when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia's pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family.</p><p>In the Company of Others is a moving testament to the desperate struggle to hide the truth at any cost and the powerful need to confess. Of all her winning novels, Jan Karon says this "dark-haired child" is her favorite-a sentiment readers everywhere are certain to share.</p><

Jasper Kent

Thirteen Years Later

In the summer of 1812, before the Oprichniki came to the help of Mother Russia in her fight against Napoleon, one of their number overheard a conversation between his master, Zmyeevich, and another. He learned of a feud, an unholy grievance between Zmyeevich and the rulers of Russia, the Romanovs, that began a century earlier at the time of Peter the Great. Indeed, while the Oprichniki's primary reason for journeying to Russia is to stop the French, one of them takes a different path. For he has a different agenda, he is to be the nightmare instrument of revenge on the Romanovs. But thanks to the valiant efforts of Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, this maverick monster would not be able to begin to complete his task until thirteen years later. Now that time has come: it is 1825 and Russia once more stands on the brink of anarchy, and this time the threat comes from within…<

Jasper Kent

Twelve

Zmyeevich had remained standing and now began to speak in very precise, but very formal and strangely accented French. His voice had a darkness to it that seemed to emit not from his throat but from deep in his torso. Somewhere inside him it was as if giant millstones were turning against one another, or as though the lid were being slowly dragged aside to open a stone sarcophagus…On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's massive grande armee forded the River Niemen and so crossed the Rubicon – its invasion of Russia had begun. In the face of superior numbers and tactics, the imperial Russian army began its retreat. But a handful of Russian officers – veterans of Borodino – are charged with trying to slow the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow. Indeed, one of their number has already set the wheels of resistance in motion, having summoned the help of a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe.Comparing them to the once-feared Russian secret police – the Oprichniki – the name sticks. As rumours of plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians, the Oprichniki – but twelve in number – arrive.Preferring to work alone, and at night, the twelve prove brutally, shockingly effective against the French. But one amongst the Russians, Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, is unnerved by the Oprichniki's ruthlessness…as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst…Full of authentic historical detail and heart-stopping supernatural moments, and boasting a page-turning narrative, "Twelve" is storytelling at its most original and exciting.<

Jayne A Krentz

Desire

The owner of the Isle of Desire after her father's death, Lady Clare knows she must marry to protect her inheritance but nonetheless feels betrayed when her guardian chooses a fearsome knight, and not the poet she requested, to be her spouse.<

Jayne Ann Krentz

Copper Beach

Dark Legacy

<p>Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as has reappeared on the black market. </p><p>Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amber-"hot rocks." Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe. </p><

Jayne Ann Krentz

Corporate Affair

Under Kalinda Brady's cool silk surface was a smoldering heart waiting to beset afire. But she hadn't expected the sparks to fly with Rand Alastair,artist and fisherman, the stranger whose caresses left her yearning formore.<

Jayne Ann Krentz

Dawn in Eclipse Bay

Eclipse Bay

Jayne Ann Krentz

Don’t Look Back

Lake & March

Jayne Ann Krentz

Dream Eyes

Dark Legacy

Gwen Frazier, a psychic counsellor, learns that her friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a small town in the Oregon mountains. Gwen suspects that a long-dead serial killer who once stalked psychics — and who tried to murder her — may still be alive after all. She demands an investigation and turns to the powerful Coppersmith family of Copper Beach. The family sends Judson Coppersmith to assist her. Judson, recovering from a harrowing mission conducted for a clandestine government agency, is intensely attracted to Gwen. He is, however, haunted by a dark, recurring nightmare that relates to his near-death experience on his last mission ...<

Jayne Ann Krentz

In Too Deep

Looking Glass Trilogy

<p>When Fallon Jones took over the family business, he moved Jones & Jones headquarters to Scargill Cove, a secluded coastal town in Northern California. The Cove suits him just fine, as a confirmed recluse . . . and as an investigator of the paranormal. The Cove is a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town draws misfits and drifters like moths to a flame.</p><p>Isabella Valdez is used to changing apartments, jobs, even names and Social Security numbers at the drop of a hat — but this is too much. She's been framed by some very dangerous men. They may be behind the disappearance of her grandmother. And now they've sent their thugs after Isabella. She would be dead if her gift of intuition hadn't told her to run.</p><p>So she's fled to California — and found employment with Fallon Jones. It's been only a few days, but Fallon doesn't remember life before his new assistant. Isabella's already organized his pathologically chaotic office, and she doesn't bat an eye at the psychic aspect of his job. She's a kindred spirit, sanctuary from a world that considers his talents a form of madness. The surest sign that he's falling for her? He doesn't even mind her cheery personality.</p><p>But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused with dark energy, Fallon and Isabella are dragged into the secret history of Scargill Cove. Next thing they know, they're fighting for their lives in an abandoned underground lab — not exactly an ideal first date. Now their lives depend on the combined strength of their powers as they unravel a cutthroat conspiracy with roots in the Jones family business . . . and Isabella's family tree.</p><

Jayne Ann Krentz

Late For The Wedding

Lake & March

Jayne Ann Krentz

Summer in Eclipse Bay

Eclipse Bay

Jean Kwok

Girl in Translation

<p>Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.</p><p>When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.</p><p>Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.</p><

Jeanne Kalogridis

El secreto de Mona Lisa

La apasionante vida de la mujer que inspiró La Gioconda, en una intrigante trama llena de amor, traición y luchas de poder. La joven y hermosa Lisa di Gherardini es conducida por su padre al palacio Médici, donde la espera Lorenzo el Magnífico. Allí conoce a Leonardo da Vinci, con quien mantendrá una relación muy especial, y a Giuliano, el hijo menor de Lorenzo, de quien se enamorará perdidamente. Lisa y Giuliano se casan en secreto, pero al poco tiempo estalla una rebelión contra los Médici y Lisa da a su marido por muerto. Comienza una época turbulenta marcada por el terror religioso. La joven florentina tendrá que tomar partido en la contienda.<

Jeanne Kalogridis

En el tiempo de las Hogueras

<p>Carcasona, 1357. En los tiempos del papa Inocencio VI, en el sur de Francia, reina la peste y la Inquisición. La abadesa Marie Françoise va a ser juzgada bajo los cargos de herejía y brujería por haber realizado sanaciones mágicas y haber atentado contra el Papa. Para unos santa y para otros bruja.</p><p>El monje escriba Michel es el encargado de obtener su confesión antes de que sea condenada a la hoguera. Sin embargo, a medida que la abadesa avanza en su relato, Michel se va sumergiendo en un mundo mágico donde se enfrenta al bien y al mal, y en su corazón irá creciendo la imagen de una mujer santa, valiente y noble.</p><

Jeanne Kalogridis

Il Signore dei Vampiri

I diari della famiglia Dracula

<p>In questo libro conclusivo della sensualissima trilogia , Jeanne Kalogridis fonde brillantemente la sua appassionante storia della famiglia Tsepesh con quella narrata da Stoker, rivelando i retroscena del grande classico.</p><

Jeanne Kalogridis

Il patto con il Vampiro

I diari della famiglia Dracula

Per questo stupefacente debutto narrativo Jeanne Kalogridis ha scelto di confrontarsi con uno dei classici più avvincenti e terrificanti della letteratura dell’orrore: Dracula di Bram Stoker. Misterioso e sensuale, questo romanzo, scritto in forma di diario, pone l’inquietante figura di Dracula al centro di un puzzle particolarmente intricato. Partendo cinquant’anni prima dell’inizio del romanzo di Stoker, il patto con il Vampiro svela infatti l’esistenza di un antico e segreto accordo nella famiglia Dracula. Arkady, pronipote del principe Vlad Tsepesh, meglio conosciuto come Dracula, vive nell’incubo di una terribile minaccia, costretto a procurare sempre nuove vittime al suo adorato prozio per salvare la vita alle persone amate. Coinvolto in un abisso di morte e di sangue, Arkady oserà ribellarsi al suo tragico destino e sfidare Dracula, per il bene della sua famiglia.<

Jeanne Kalogridis

La Cautiva De Los Borgia

La inocencia de la joven Sancha de Aragón, así como el honor de su linaje, se ponen a prueba cuando su matrimonio con Jofre Borgia, el hijo menor del papa Alejandro VI, la arrastra al círculo íntimo de la familia más poderosa de Europa, la más intrigante y la que mayores suspicacias despierta. Un irresistible relato de conspiraciones, intrigas, pasión, deslealtades y codicia desde el punto de vista de una noble española obligada a vivir en un mundo brillante y muy peligroso.<

Jeanne Kalogridis

Painting Mona Lisa aka I, Mona Lisa

"Painting Mona Lisa" offers an explanation behind the mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the "Mona Lisa" with him until his death? It is April 26, 1478. Lorenzo De Medici, the head of the powerful Florentine Medici family is attacked. He survives, but his younger brother, Giuliano, dies beneath multiple dagger blows. Ten years later, a young Lisa Gherardini listens to her mother retell the story of Giuliano's death, sharing her mother's passion for the arts, and even attending some of the Medici gatherings. But, her father – a follower of the fanatical Dominican monk Fra Girolamo Savonarola – scorns the wicked paganism of the Medicis. Lisa becomes the lover of Lorenzo's son, Giuliano the younger, just as the French king arrives to banish the Medicis from Florence, beginning the reign of the fire-and-brimstone preacher. As they flee, she is forced to marry Francesco, a pious but cruel man. Florence's citizens rise up and hang Savonarola. But even after the friar's execution, the Medici remain banned. Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint Lisa's portrait. Having tasted Borgia politics, Leonardo is now acting as the Medici family's agent in Florence. He aims to discover the leaders of the Savonarola underground – working to reinstate their strict theocracy, but also intends to find the man involved in the 1478 murder of Giuliano de Medici the elder. Confessing his love for Lorenzo's brother to Lisa, he tells her that she has reignited the flame in his heart, for his lover's murderer was her the man she though was her father, not one of the conspirators, but a furious husband seeking revenge on his wife's lover. Lisa he helps Leonardo report her father's and husband's to the authorities and together they flee Francesco's revenge and travel to Rome and her half-brothers. Along the way, Lisa and Leonardo make love! Lisa yearns for another child, and Leonardo desperately longs to have his dead lover's child.<

Jeanne Kalogridis

The Borgia Bride

This sweeping historical novel tells the dramatic tale of that most intriguing of Renaissance women, Lucrezia Borgia. In 1502, the Borgia Terror is at its height. Pope Alexander VI and his infamous son, Cesare, have murdered their way to power: no one is safe. The poor are starving to death, the rich are terrified for their lives. Rome is under seige and the River Tiber is full of new bodies every day. Born into the most powerful and corrupt family at the heart of the snake-pit that is Renaissance Italy, Lucrezia Borgia is destined to be remembered by history as an evil, scheming seductress and poisoner. If a woman in Lucrezia's unenviable position is to survive, she must use the weapons at her disposal: sex, poison and intelligence. Having been raped by her father, the Pope, on her wedding night at the age of thirteen, Lucrezia is then faced with the murder of her first husband by her lecherous brother Cesare, who lusts after her himself. When a second marriage is proposed she fears she will be separated from her child, Giovanni, the result of her father's incestuous attentions. She is surprised and delighted to find herself falling in love with her second husband. But will she have the will and the courage to protect him when he becomes a threat to Alexander and Cesare's schemes?<

Jeanne Kalogridis

The Medici Queen aka The Devil’s Queen

The Medici Queen traces the evolution of Catherine de Medici – the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent – from an unloved, timid orphan to France's most cunning monarch, often blamed for the horrific 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. From childhood, Catherine is troubled by bloody visions of her adopted country's evil future, a future she struggles to prevent by practical and occult means. Three times she consults with the astrologer Nostradamus in an effort to learn how to prevent the coming scourge. But when she is unable to give her husband heirs to the French throne, she resorts to the darkest magic possible in order to conceive – only to discover, in the end, that her most beloved child, King Henri III, will be the author of the bloodshed she so fears unless she risks her life and kingdom to destroy him. The Medici Queen is the tale of a country torn apart by religious strife and the savage internecine wars of the royal Valois, Bourbon and Guise dynasties. <

Jerzy Kosiński

The Painted Bird

Jim Kelly

Death Toll

DI Shaw and DS Valentine

Jim Kelly

Death Watch

DI Shaw and DS Valentine

Jim Kelly

Death Wore White

DI Shaw and DS Valentine

Joan Kelly

Hungry for boys

Diary novel

Joan Kelly

Rape me!

Diary novel

Joe Kimball

Timecaster

John Katzenbach

Al calor del verano

Una excelente y asombrosa obra de suspense psicológico. Un asesino que tiene aterrorizado Miami elige como interlocutor a un reportero de uno de los periódicos más importantes de la ciudad. Se establece entonces una relación casi enfermiza en la que el reportero intenta ganarse la confianza del asesino sin que éste se aperciba, a la vez que pretende desenmascararlo.<

John Katzenbach

Dzień zapłaty

Małżeńskie szczęścia Duncana i Megan Richardsów pryska, gdy ich syn, upośledzony umysłowo Tom, zostaje uprowadzony. Porywaczką okazuje się Olivia Barrow, dawna członkini rewolucyjnego, hippisowskiego oddziału, do którego w latach sześćdziesiątych należeli także Richardsowie. Teraz przyjdzie im drogo zapłacić za błędy młodości…<

John Katzenbach

El Hombre Equivocado

Ashley Freeman, estudiante de historia del arte en Boston, tiene una relación de una noche con un desconocido llamado Michael O'Connell. Al principio prece tratarse simplemente de un admirador insistente, pero poco a poco O'Connell, un ingenioso hacker, va entrando en la vida no sólo de Ashley sino también de su padre, un serio profesor universitario, y de su madre, una prestigiosa abogada, demostrando ser un psicópata obsesionado por controlar la vida de Ashley. Todo se convierte en una pesadilla. No hay posibilidad de disuadirlo: ni los sobornos ni las amenazas lo detienen. Y cuando el investigador asignado al caso aparece muerto, la familia entera entiende que se enfrenta a algo mucho más serio de lo que han imaginado.<

John Katzenbach

El profesor

Adrian Thomas es un profesor universitario retirado, al que acaban de diagnosticarle una demencia degenerativa que lo llevará pronto a la muerte. Ha dedicado toda su vida a estudiar los procesos de la mente y a transmitir a sus alumnos todo su conocimiento. Ahora, jubilado, viudo y enfermo cree que lo mejor que puede hacer es quitarse la vida. Pero al salir del consultorio del médico es testigo involuntario del secuestro de Jennifer Riggins, una conflictiva adolescente de dieciséis años con un largo historial de huidas, que desaparece sin dejar rastro dentro de una camioneta conducida por una mujer rubia. El profesor Thomas se debate entre poner fin a su vida y ser útil una última vez antes de morir. Decide ayudar a encontrar a Jennifer, intentar darle la oportunidad de vivir su joven vida. Para eso debe sumergirse en el oscuro mundo de la pornografía en Internet, un mundo perverso y criminal donde todo su saber académico se pone en juego, y donde debe utilizar los pocos momentos de lucidez para avanzar en una investigación para la que hay muy poco tiempo?<

John Katzenbach

El psicoanalista

Feliz 53 cumpleaños, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte. Pertenezco a algún momento de su pasado. Usted arruinó mi vida. Quizá no sepa cómo por qué o cuándo, pero lo hizo. Llenó todos mis instantes de desastre y tristeza. Arruinó mi vida. Y ahora estoy decidido a arruinar la suya.- Así comienza el anónimo que recibe Fredrerick Starks, psicoanalista con una larga experiencia y una tranquila vida cotidiana. Starks tendrá que emplear toda su astucia y rapidez para, en quince días, averiguar quién es el autor de esa amenazadora misiva que promete hacerle la existencia imposible.<

John Katzenbach

Hart’s War

Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart's B-25 is shot out of the sky in 1942. Burdened with guilt as the only surviving crew-member, he is held captive at Stalag XIII in Bavaria. Routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a black American airman; when he is accused of murder, Hart is expected to defend him. <

John Katzenbach

Juegos De Ingenio

<p>En un futuro no muy lejano, las armas y los chalecos antibalas son algo habitual. Tal vez la excepción sea una comunidad de EE. UU que dice garantizar la protección de sus habitantes gracias al control que ejercen los agentes del Servicio de Seguridad del Estado, el futuro estado 51.</p><p>En este contexto del tiempo, Susan Clayton, que trabaja elaborando pasatiempos para una revista, recibe un mensaje cifrado que parece significar «Te he encontrado». La críptica nota es especialmente siniestra en un momento en que un asesino en serie acecha Florida, un asesino que puede ser el desaparecido padre de Susan y al que piden, a su hermano, ayude a encontrar. Su madre Diana, muer fuerte y, al tiempo con miedo esta con un cáncer terminal pero sabe que juntos deberán enfrentarse a la amenaza.</p><p>Su hermano Jeffrey, reputado criminalista y experto en asesinos en serie es reclutado por la policía del nuevo estado para encontrar a un asesino en serie del que piensan es su padre sin embargo, el va mas como cebo que como experto.</p><

John Katzenbach

Just Cause

Reporter Matt Cowart's explosive investigative journalism succeeds in freeing a convicted rapist and murderer. But has his dedication to freeing "an innocent man" actually turned a ruthless killer loose again?<

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