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A classic Leonard thriller featuring Raylan Givens - the inspiration behind the hit show Justified. Palm Beach playboy Chip Ganz needs money - fast. He has spiralling debts, and his mother's gravy-train has just derailed. So he has a plan: He's going to find somebody rich, and take them hostage. With the help of an ex-con, a psycho gardener and the beautiful psychic Reverend Dawn, he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno as the lucky victim.

The evil world leader Nicolae Carpathia officially takes his place as the Antichrist and begins his three-and-a-half year reign of terror over the earth. Technology provides the means to place the mark of the beast on every human, and the Trib Force scrambles to survive.

Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic—written in time for the 1843 holiday season—sold out its initial printing of 6,000 copies in one day. It remains Dickens’ most widely read and best-loved work, guaranteed to warm and uplift with the simplicity of its message and the depth of its honest truths. Bah! Humbug! It’s Christmas Eve and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is in a foul temper—good cheer and joyful spending turn his very insides to vinegar.

L.A. Theatre Works' exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates' best selling novel shows a close-knit group of prestigious scholars in the affluent '80s blown apart by tragedy and scandal. A sophisticated, witty, and chilling tale.

At the turn of the century, the short story form gained enormous popularity. Against the frozen Alaskan landscape of "To Build a Fire", a miner struggles to survive the splintering whiteness of sub-zero temperatures. "Isle of Voices" captures the Hawaii of old, where magic transports a young man to an island of powerful spirits. "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" pits a mongoose against a cobra in the steamy beauty of an Indian garden. Recorded Books’ award-winning narrators turn these stories into absorbing productions.

On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the captain's "good" life was rotting away.

about growing up in a town that’s slowly fading away.

Homer and his close buddies, who call themselves the Rocket Boys, are high school seniors in 1959. Their rocket building experiments amaze the locals, thanks to top-quality moonshine for fuel, “liberated” materials, and Homer’s self-taught understanding of higher math. But no matter how brilliant their experiments are, they can do little to help preserve Coalwood’s way of life.

Before Lucas Davenport and the brilliant Prey novels, there was Kidd (artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal) and his sometimes partner/sometimes lover, LuEllen. The army left Kidd with a dislike for bureaucracy and the skills to do something about it, but it didn't prepare him for the day a woman would call and tell him his colleague Jack Morrison is dead.

Die Geschichte beginnt in Altenthann in der Oberpfalz mit einem vermeintlich dramatischen Ereignis und führt den Schlösslbauern mit seiner Tochter Barbara nach Amerika. Eindringlich und anschaulich beschreibt Gitta Frank den Abschied aus der Heimat, die Überfahrt, die Pionierleistung der Einwanderer und den glücklichen Weg zurück nach Altenthann. gesprochen von: Sprecherin: Brigitte März, Schlösselbäurin: Claudia Kisslinger, Barbara: Gitta Frank, Schlösselbauer: Max Rix, Pichlmeier: Werner Müller, Sepp: Max Rix, Schaffner: Werner Müller, Verkäufer: Werner Müller.

Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist on assignment to investigate religious fanatics in Jerusalem, stumbles upon a plot to bomb the Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze - as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantages that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle.

A convicted killer is broken out of maximum security in broad daylight. The price of his freedom? A secret that just may cost him his life.

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words.

From the most exciting writer of international thrillers since Robert Ludlum comes a riveting tale of intrigue that takes you right into the heart of the United Nations. Shock ripples through the U.N. at the stunning news: a special envoy has been murdered in the basement...

Actus, Ipietus und Lupites haben sich auf den Weg gemacht, den Zauberer, der das ganze Land unterjocht hat, zu finden und unschädlich zu machen. Auf dem beschwerlichen Weg treffen sie auf fremde, unbekannte Wesen, doch diese fremden Wesen sind nicht feindlich gesinnt. Sie wollen auch den Zauberer vernichten, da auch er vor den Völkern der Wesen nicht halt gemacht hat.

Nachdem Ivonne van der Burg, wie sich herausstellt, eine Viren und Genforscherin ist, dem Privatermittler Jan Hendrickson endlich die Wahrheit erzählt, wendet sich der Fall. Ivonne van der Burg hat Ihrem Mann Ronald einen Virus getestet. Dieser Virus verhält sich aber nicht wie gedacht. Ronald van der Burg verändert sich dramatisch. Er wird gefährlich. Nur mit Hilfe von Kriminalkommissar Martin Ziehkraut gelingt es, eine Katastrophe zu verhindern.

Abandon yourself to the spell of six short stories filled with thrills and dark suspense. Here are tales by the masters of mystery and horror - A. Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce - taking on a new energy and force through performances by Recorded Books’ critically-acclaimed narrators. Ranging from dungeons to drawing rooms, and peopled with extraordinary ghouls and doomed dowagers, the tales are guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck.

When a sample of smallpox from Russia's cache of bioweapons is smuggled into the United States, Jon Smith and his colleagues must unravel the mystery of the Cassandra Compact and recover or destroy the virus - before the power of Armageddon falls into the hands of a madman.

The author of the best selling Left Behind series, Jerry B. Jenkins is one of the most widely read and deeply admired novelists of our time. With Hometown Legend he has written an inspirational tale placed firmly in the nation's heartland, where football, family, and faith are everything, and where one town's greatest contest has begun.

Auf der Suche nach der entlaufenen Nachbarskatze wagt sich Marie bis in einen alten und verlassenen Teil der Stadt. Marie nimmt ihren Mut zusammen und betritt ein besonders baufälliges Haus. Hat sich die Katze dort versteckt? Doch von dem Tier fehlt jede Spur. Als die junge Frau diesen unheimlichen Ort verlassen will, nimmt sie eine Bewegung wahr – und erschrickt: In einer Ecke kauert ein großer Wolf, der sie mit hungrigen Augen beobachtet. Vor Angst kann sich Marie nicht mehr rühren. Der Wolf reißt sein Maul auf - aber nicht, um das Mädchen zu fressen.

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. No, it's an impossible tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words!