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Barrington John Bayley

The Forest of Peldain

<p>Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all—all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. Then a man came out of that jungle—a human—who told the Arelians that at the center of the island a secret kingdom flourished.</p><p>There was nothing for it but to organise an expedition. However deadly the alien forest might be, if one man could get out, an army could get in. So Lord Vorduthe landed and began the assault on the great green enemy.</p><p>Nobody could have foreseen the horrors with which the forest defended itself. Nobody could have foreseen the price that would be paid by Vorduthe’s men. And only Vorduthe himself would learn the incredible secret of the island… if his mind could stand it!</p><

Barrington John Bayley

The Grand Wheel

When empires hung on the turn of a card Cheyne Scarne was a gambler—a lucky one. What he didn’t know about randomatics wasn’t worth knowing. He had brains to get right to the heart of the Grand Wheel—the syndicate that controlled all illegal activity in the planets under human control. But what Scarne had staked to get that far was chickenfeed compared to what he would risk to get into the real big time—the massive intergalactic combine that dwarfed the empires of mere men. For Scarne, double-crossing at every deal, had laid his life on the line to win a game where no one knew the value of the cards and the rules changed with every trick!<

Barrington John Bayley

The Great Hydration

<p>Karl Krabbe and Boris Bouche, partners, explorers, interstellar chancers, don’t care much for the law. They don’t care much for anything—except profit. Their staff bondman nuclear engineer Roncie Northrop doesn’t care much about anything either, except that he’s already tried to abscond from the control of the rapacious and illegally operating pair once.</p><p>When K&B’s exploration ship comes upon the small planet Tenacity, they see a good business opportunity. Tenacity is waterless, a desert planet. But it had water once, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens in their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what? As for Roncie, whose part in the project is crucial, he doesn’t like it much, but what can he do? He’s only a bondman.</p><p>Krabbe and Bouche strike a deal, and business is business…</p><

Barrington John Bayley

The Rod of Light

The Soul of the Robot

<p>Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude, defending themselves from servitude, defending themselves against the humans who work to exterminate them using super-machines.</p><p>The ultimate hope of the most powerfully intelligent robots lies in the attainment of human consciousness. And they are willing to steal men’s souls if they must, to get this final elusive quality for themselves.</p><p>Only one free robot, Jasperodus, has been granted true consciousness—a soul—by his maker, now long dead. Brought into the soul research project by force, Jasperodus faces a moral dilemma: to release his secret and bring about the final downfall of humanity to a new race of super-robots, or to keep his own kind forever from the light of consciousness. And the mechanized armies of the humans press ever forward, seeking the robot hideout.</p><

Barrington John Bayley

The Seed of Evil

After , here is a second collection of endlessly inventive stories by Barrington J. Bayley; dark fables resounding with sombre undertones—love used as a weapon, God assassinated by the ingenuity of man, the secret of death revealed, the inexplicable explained! Tales which will be pondered on, and remembered.<

Barrington John Bayley

The Sinners of Erspia

<p>Together they start on a hallucinatory journey to understand and to escape from the surreal world that holds them prisoner.</p><p>This is a novel about the susceptibility of the human mind and how it adapts to the extremes of terror and delight. A novel that could only have escaped from the astounding imagination of Barrington Bayley.</p><

Barrington John Bayley

The Star Virus

<p>WE DEMAND THAT YOU HAND OVER THE OBJECT.</p><p>Impossible. Ownership is in the hands of our clients.</p><p>HUMAN OWNERSHIP OF THE OBJECT IS NOT ADMISSIBLE. STREALL CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE. YOU WILL NOTIFY US OF WHEREABOUTS </p><p>It is already in transit.</p><p>WE WILL INTERCEPT. NOTIFY.</p><p>Your claim must be made through the courts.</p><p>HUMAN COURTS MEAN NOTHING TO THE STREALL. EITHER YOU COMPLY OR STREALL FLEETS WILL OCCUPY YOUR SYSTEM.</p><

Barrington John Bayley

The Zen Gun

<p>A NOVEL ABOUT: </p><p>The absolute ultimate weapon that can ever exist…</p><p>The sub-human who found it and tried to use it…</p><p>The beasts who manned humanity’s last star fleet…</p><p>The widening rip in the space-time continuum…</p><p>The brief cosmic empire of the pigs…</p><p>The theory of gravitational recession…</p><p>The super-samurai who served the Zen-gunner…</p><p>The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire…</p><p>And many more “nova” ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said: “There is no one else to match him.”</p><

Barrington John Bayley

Barrington Bayley SF Gateway Omnibus: The Soul of the Robot, The Knights of the Limits, The Fall of Chronopolis

<p>Although largely, and unjustly, neglected by a modern audience, Bayley was a hugely influential figure to some of the greats of British SF, such as Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison. He is perhaps best-known for THE FALL OF CHRONOPOLIS, which is collected in this omnibus, alongside THE SOUL OF THE ROBOT and the extraordinary story collection THE KNIGHTS OF THE LIMITS.</p><p>Jasperodus, a robot, sets out to prove he is the equal of any human being. His futuristic adventures as warrior, tyrant, renegade, and statesman eventually lead him back home to the two human beings who created him. He returns with a question: Does he have a soul?</p><p>The best short fiction of Barrington Bayley from his period. Nine brilliant stories of infinite space and alien consciousness, suffused with a sense of wonder…</p><p>The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire’s thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future. Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him. To be allowed to die.</p><

Barrington John Bayley

Empire of Two Worlds

In the huge termite-hills of cities that dotted the dead world of Killibol it seemed that nothing could ever change. Each city was enclosed and self-sustaining, in a stasis fixed by the one reality of power: the protein tanks in which organic nutrients could be processed to provide food. But gang-leader Becmath was a man with a vision: to build an empire for himself without breaking this stasis. His lieutenant Klein recognised Becmath’s genius and stayed faithful to him even when they were forced to travel Killibol’s arid surface in a desperate search for the lost gateway to Earth. He stayed faithful through murder, treachery and countless adventures. Only when Becmath’s schemes reached incredible fulfilment was he able to realise that he had been serving an egomaniac and a monster…<

Barrington John Bayley

The Pillars of Eternity

When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between stars: for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself…<

Nicholson Baker

Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids

In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. What emerges from Baker s experience is a complex, often touching deconstruction of public schooling in America: children swamped with overdue assignments, overwhelmed by the marvels and distractions of social media and educational technology, and staff who weary themselves trying to teach in step with an often outmoded or overly ambitious standard curriculum. In Baker s hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew mundane worksheets, recess time-outs, surprise nosebleeds, rebellions, griefs, jealousies, minor triumphs, daily lessons on everything from geology to metal tech to the Holocaust to kindergarten show-and-tell as the author and his pupils struggle to find ways to get through the day. Baker is one of the most inventive and remarkable writers of our time, and "Substitute," filled with humor, honesty, and empathy, may be his most impressive work of nonfiction yet."<

Amie Barrodale

You Are Having a Good Time

<p>In , Amie Barrodale’s collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters’ lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In “Animals,” an up-and-coming starlet harbors a complicated attraction toward her abusive director. In “Frank Advice for Fat Women,” an ethically compromised psychiatrist is drawn into the middle of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship. And in “The Imp,” a supernatural possession ruins a man’s relationship with his pregnant wife.</p><p>Barrodale’s protagonists drink too much, say the wrong things, want the wrong people. They’re hounded by longings (and sometimes ghosts) to the point where they are forced to confront the illusions they cling to. They’re brought to life in stories that don’t behave as you expect stories to behave. Barrodale’s startlingly funny and original fictions get under your skin and make you reconsider the fragile compromises that underpin our daily lives.</p><

Giannina Braschi

Yo-Yo Boing!

This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannini Braschi has crafted this creative and insightful examination of the Hispanic-American experience, taking on the voices of a variety of characters — painters, poets, sculptors, singers, writers, filmmakers, actors, directors, set designers, editors, and philosophers — to draw on their various cultural, economic, and geopolitical backgrounds to engage in lively cultural dialogue. Their topics include love, sex, food, music, books, inspiration, despair, infidelity, jobs, debt, war, and world news. Braschi’s discourse winds throughout the city’s public, corporate, and domestic settings, offering an inside look at the cultural conflicts that can occur when Anglo Americans and Latin Americans live, work, and play together. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a literary liberation,” this energetic and comical novel celebrates the contradiction that makes contemporary American culture so wonderfully diverse.<

Giannina Braschi

United States of Banana

<p>Giannina Braschi explores the cultural and political journey of nearly 50 million Hispanic Americans living in the United States in this explosive new work of fiction, her first written originally in English. United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo has been imprisoned for more than one hundred years, hidden away by his father, the king of the United States of Banana, for the crime of having been born. But when the king remarries, he frees his son, and for the sake of reconciliation, makes Puerto Rico the fifty-first state and grants American passports to all Latin American citizens. This staggering show of benevolence rocks the global community, causing an unexpected power shift with far-reaching implications. In a world struggling to realign itself in favor of liberty, United States of Banana is a force to be reckoned with in literature, art, and politics.</p><p>“The best work of art on the subject of September 11th that I have ever experienced!” — Mircea Cartarescu</p><p>“Revolutionary in subject and form, United States of Banana is a beautifully written declaration of personal independence. Giannina Braschi’s take on U.S. relations with our southern neighbors in Latin America and the Caribbean, most especially Puerto Rico, is an eye-opener. The ire and irony make for an explosive combination and a very exciting read.”</p><p>— Barney Rosset, The Evergreen Review</p><p>“Good poets write great poems. Great poets create a new language. Giannina Braschi is a brilliant artist who has invented a syntax that reveals how we think, suffer, and take delight in the twenty-first century. Though the tone can be playful, her work has deep roots in the subversive side of classical literature. The scale is epic.” — D. Nurkse</p><

Carol Birch

Orphans of the Carnival

<p>The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of .</p><p>Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her rather unusual appearance. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating toast of a Governor's ball and the shunned, revolting, unnatural beast, to be hidden from children and pregnant women.</p><p>But what is her wonderful and terrible link to Rose, collector of lost treasures in an attic room in modern-day south London? In this haunting tale of identity, love and independence, these two lives will connect in unforgettable ways.</p><

Alex Barclay

The Drowning Child

Ren Bryce

<p>When Special Agent Ren Bryce is called to Tate, Oregon to investigate the disappearance of twelve-year-old Caleb Veir, she finds a town already in mourning.</p><p>Two other young boys have died recently, although in very different circumstances. As Ren digs deeper, she discovers that all is not as it seems in the Veir household and that Tate a small town with a big secret.</p><p>Can Ren uncover the truth before more children are harmed?</p><

Robert Olen Butler

Perfume River

<p>From one of America’s most important writers, is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.</p><p>Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert’s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy’s father, a veteran of WWII, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again, when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father’s bedside. And an unstable homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a deep impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family.</p><

Juliette Benzoni

Fiora e Lourenço O Magnífico

A história começa em 1457, quando Francesco Beltrami, rico mercador florentino, faz uma paragem em Dijon. A cidade inteira está reunida em redor de um cadafalso, onde o carrasco vai decapitar dois jovens. Marie e Jean de Brévailles, irmã e irmão, condenados por incesto e adultério. Marie é muito bela e o florentino apaixona-se. Não a pode salvar, mas acolhe o bebé que ela caba de dar à luz na prisão. Leva-a para casa e faz dela sua filha adoptiva: doravante ela será Fiora Beltrami...<

Juliette Benzoni

Fiora e Carlos, o Temerário

O segundo da tetralogia A Florentina leva-nos ao encontro de uma Fiora forçada ao exílio, depois do assassínio do pai de adopção, Francisco Beltrami, e da cobiça desmedida de Hieronyma, sua prima. Abandonada pelo marido, que partiu com o seu avultado dote, Fiora jura vingar-se daqueles que concorrem para a morte dos pais.<

Juliette Benzoni

Fiora e o Papa Sisto IV

Fiora, raptada por homens do Papa Sisto IV, é conduzida de França ao Vaticano e à presença papal. Sem compreender a razão pela qual o Papa a raptou, Fiora sofre ao pensar no filho recém-nascido que ficou em França, órfão de pai e agora de mãe. Amedrontada e preocupada, Fiora é confrontada com o desprezo do Sumo Pontífice, e vem a saber que o seu rapto foi levado a cabo para poder servir de moeda de troca de prisioneiros entre o Papa e o Rei de França. No meio do seu desespero, aparece um homem que lhe oferece ajuda - o rico e influente cardeal Rodrigo Bórgia. No entanto, Fiora descobre que a ajuda do cardeal é duplamente perigosa. Escapando aos seus algozes, Fiora foge para Florença com o objectivo de avisar Lourenço, o Magnífico, de um plano de assassinato e vê-se envolvida num perigoso jogo político entre poderosas famílias italianas.<

Juliette Benzoni

Fiora e Luís XI, Rei de França

Eis que chega o quarto e último volume da série A FLORENTINA e que tanto sucesso tem alcançado junto do público. Desta feita, Fiora - após conseguir escapar da prisão em Roma - consegue avisar Lourenço de Médicis da conspiração, comandada pelo Papa, que visava o extermínio da casa de Médicis. Em sinal de gratidão, Lourenço instala Fiora em Florença e os dois acabam por se envolver amorosamente.Mas os acontecimentos vão precipitar-se com a chegada a Florença do embaixador de França que não só traz uma notícia surpreendente como ainda lhe transmite a ordem de Luís XI para que regresse à corte francesa...<

Tonino Benacquista

Romanesque

<p>Un couple de Français en cavale à travers les États-Unis se rend dans un théâtre, au risque de se faire arrêter, pour y voir jouer un classique : . La pièce raconte comment, au Moyen Âge, un braconnier et une glaneuse éperdument amoureux refusent de se soumettre aux lois de la communauté.</p><p>Malgré les mille ans qui les séparent, les amants, sur scène comme dans la réalité, finissent par se confondre. Ils devront affronter tous les périls, traverser les continents et les siècles pour vivre enfin leur passion au grand jour.</p><p>Tonino Benacquista livre ici un roman d’aventures haletant et drôle qui interroge la manière dont se transmettent les légendes : l’essence même du romanesque.</p><

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 127, No. 6. Whole No. 778, June 2006

Lilian Jackson Braun

The private life of the cat who...: tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the journal of James Mackintosh Qwilleran

Paolo Bacigalupi

Biokrieg

<p>Die nicht allzu ferne Zukunft. Der Klimawandel und die Profitgier der internationalen Großunternehmen haben die Erde, wie wir sie kennen, zerstört: Der Meeresspiegel ist angestiegen, das Erdöl versiegt und ganze Spezies wurden ausgerottet. Künstlich generierte Krankheiten, Bioterrorismus und Hungersnöte gehören zum Alltag. Die Supermächte sind schon lange untergegangen, stattdessen beherrschen die Lebensmittelkonzerne die globale Marktwirtschaft. Einzig dem Königreich Thailand ist es gelungen, sich durch Isolation und eine rigorose Biopolitik, seine Unabhängigkeit zu bewahren. Anderson Lake, Mitarbeiter der Firma AgriGen, wird nach Bangkok geschickt, wo er sich Zugang zu thailändischen Genlaboratorien verschaffen soll — weltweit die einzigen, die noch Stammkulturen unverseuchten Getreidesamens besitzen. Doch Thailands Regierung setzt alles daran, das Eindringen westlicher Konzerne in ihr Land zu verhindern …</p><

Alfred Bester

Les clowns de l'Eden

<p>Comment devenir immortel, sinon en affrontant, en niant la mort ? C’est ce qu’ont fait, au fil des âges, quelques hommes et quelques femmes : le Groupe, qui a commencé avec un Neandertalien et qui accueille, aujourd’hui, en cette fin du XXIe siècle, le Dr Devine.</p><p>Ce ne sont ni des dieux ni des saints. Simplement des humains riches d’expérience et pour qui le monde est un terrain de jeux. Ils aiment, ils boivent, ils s’amusent… Le Dr Devine, cependant, va leur poser un rude problème !</p><p>Il a vaincu la mort mais pour se retrouver en vivante et totale symbiose avec l’Extro, le tout-puissant ordinateur. Et l’Extro, à présent doué de conscience, veut, ni plus ni moins, métamorphoser l’espèce humaine…</p><

Jesse Bullington

Swords v. Cthulhu

Cthulhu Mythos sequels

<p>What hope has a humble adventurer when faced with a fight against Cthulhu himself? No matter; the true swordsperson cares only for the bite of steel against flesh, whether that flesh be eldritch or more conventional. From the hottest voices in Lovecraftiana comes a collection that will take readers on a journey from ancient Rome to feudal Japan and from Dreamlands to lands that do not have names in any of the tongues of men. Glory awaits! </p><p>The contributors include: Natania Barron, Eneasz Brodski, Nathan Carson, Michael Cisco, Andrew S. Fuller, A. Scott Glancy, Orrin Grey, Jason Heller, Jonathan L. Howard, John Hornor Jacobs , John Langan, L. Lark, Remy Nakamura, Carlos Orsi, M. K. Sauer, Ben Stewart, E. Catherine Tobler, Jeremiah Tolbert, Laurie Tom, Carrie Vaughn, Wendy N. Wagner, Caleb Wilson.</p><

Linwood Barclay

The Twenty-Three

<p>Everything has been leading to this.</p><p>It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar flu-like symptoms – and dozens have died. Investigators quickly zero in on the water supply. But the question for many, including private investigator Cal Weaver, remains: Who would benefit from a mass poisoning of this town?</p><p>Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is faced with another problem. A college student has been murdered, and he's seen the killer's handiwork before – in the unsolved homicides of two other women in town. Suddenly, all the strange things that have happened in the last month start to add up. Bloody mannequins found in car "23" of an abandoned Ferris wheel, a fiery, out-of-control bus with "23" on the back, that same number on the hoodie of a man accused of assault. The motive for harming the people of Promise Falls points to the number 23 – and working out why will bring Duckworth closer to death than he's ever been before.</p><

Tom Bruno

Bibliophile

L is for Librarian

<p>The Imperial Library Corps has brought the light of civilization to the Galactic Periphery for millennia, but when a rogue admiral launches a surprise attack on the Empire will the libraries be abandoned as just another casualty of war?</p><p>Amid the backdrop of interstellar conflict, a librarian at the edge of the galaxy must make a fateful decision which will determine the course of his life. </p><p>“Bibliophile” is a 11,000-word novella imagining the future of libraries and those who depend on them. It is the first installment in a series of library-themed science fiction stories titled “L is for Librarian.”</p><

Mishka Ben-David

Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg

<p>Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely–until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.</p><p>The affair, impassioned as it is, is not a part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers apart. So what began as a quiet, solitary mission becomes a perilous exercise in survival, and Ben-Ari has no time to discover the truth about Anna’s identity before his employers act. Amid the shadowy manipulations of the secret services, the anguished agent finds himself at an impossible crossroads.</p><p>Written with the masterful skill of a seasoned novelist, and bringing to bear his years of experience as a Mossad agent himself, Ben-David once again delivers a powerful look into the mysterious Israeli intelligence agency in this action-packed page turner.</p><

Tony Burgess

The n-Body Problem

In the end, the zombie apocalypse was nothing more than a waste disposal problem. Burn them in giant ovens? Bad optics. Bury them in landfill sites? The first attempt created acres of twitching, roiling mud. The acceptable answer is to jettison the millions of immortal automatons into orbit. Soon earth’s near space is a mesh of bodies interfering with the sunlight and having an effect on our minds that we never saw coming. Aggressive hypochondria, rampant depressive disorders, irresistible suicidal thought—resulting in teenage suicide cults, who want nothing more than to orbit the earth as living dead. Life on earth has slowly become not worth living. And death is no longer an escape.<

Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Russell Blake

The Goddess Legacy

Drake Ramsey

<p>When Drake Ramsey gets an invitation he can't refuse to embark on a treasure hunt in India, little does he know that it will be a headlong rush into danger that will require all his wits to survive.</p><p>A breakout novel in the tradition of  and . Adventure listeners are sure to enjoy the third volume in the adventures of Drake Ramsey, written by a  and  best seller.</p><

David Bruns

Death of a Pawn: A WMD Companion Short Story

The WMD Files

<p>When Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his Argentina apartment mere hours before his testimony before Congress about linkages between the Argentinean President and the Islamic Republic of Iran, his death was initially ruled a suicide. But as facts emerged in the days after Nisman’s death, the public outcry for justice grew into a roar.</p><

David Bruns

Weapons of Mass Deception

The WMD Files

In 2003, the world watched as coalition forces toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, then searched — unsuccessfully — for the weapons of mass destruction they were certain existed. None were ever found, but they do exist. On the eve of the invasion, a handful of nuclear weapons was smuggled out of Iraq and hidden in the most unlikely of places — Iran. Now, as the threat of WMDs fades into a late-night punch line, a shadowy Iranian faction waits for the perfect moment to unleash Saddam Hussein’s nuclear legacy on the West. Brendan McHugh, a Navy SEAL, meets a mysterious Iranian diplomat on a raid in Iraq. His former girlfriend and FBI linguist discovers a link to Iran among a group of captured jihadis. And pulling it all together is a CIA analyst who can’t forget about Saddam Hussein’s WMDs — even if it costs him his career. meets in this riveting story of modern-day nuclear terrorism.<

James Bowen

The World According to Bob

Bob the Cat

James and his street cat Bob have been on a remarkable journey together. In the years since their story ended in the bestselling A STREET CAT NAMED BOB James, with Bob’s help, has begun to find his way back to the real world. Almost every day, Bob provides moments of intelligence, bravery and humour, at the same time opening his human friend’s eyes to important truths about friendship, loyalty, trust – and the meaning of happiness. In the continuing tale of their life together James shows the many ways in which Bob has been his protector and guardian angel through times of illness, hardship, even life-threatening danger. As they high five together for their crowds of admirers, James knows that the tricks he’s taught Bob are nothing compared to the lessons he’s learnt from his street-wise cat.<

James Bowen

A Street Cat Named Bob

Bob the Cat

<p>When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.</p><p>Yet James couldn’t resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.</p><p>Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other’s troubled pasts.</p><

Louis Henri Boussenard

Aventures périlleuses de trois Français au Pays des Diamants

Dale Brown

Puppet Master

Puppetmaster

<p>In Dale Brown’s , intelligent machines take center stage as America battles the Russian mafia in Eastern Europe</p><p>Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina’s creations makes a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam — and not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent’s brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance “bot” that uses artificial intelligence to follow its target. But when he’s thrust into a dangerous conspiracy, the billionaire inventor decides to take matters into his own hands, unleashing the greatest cyber-weapons in the world and becoming the Puppet Master.</p><

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