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A deadly plague rages through Aksum, and only one boy can uncover the traitor who spreads the disease and threatens to destroy the kingdomTelemakos, a descendant of both British and Aksumite rulers, has always been an outcast, but his resolve, loyalty, and bravery have never failed his royal heritage. When a plague spreads through the kingdom of Aksum, his aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, calls upon Telemakos to travel to the Afar desert and discover who has been a traitor to the crown, spreading the plague through the shipment of salt from port to port.Traveling in disguise as a deaf-mute slave, Telemakos is captured and subjected to cruelty and suffering. Now more than ever, he must call on his extraordinary courage and his gift for silencefor if he fails, it will cost him his life.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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A Manhattan woman visits a Soho gallery and stumbles into a mystery in this novel by an Edgar Award winner who can build suspense to a sonic peak (Los Angeles Times).  It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find the perfect work of art to hang over their mantel.  Julies quest takes her to a trendy SoHo gallery where she meets an itinerant artist named Ralph Abel. Julie instantly falls in love with one of his paintings, Scarlet Night, and is stunned to discover that itcan be hersfor a mere one hundred dollars. But then the artist disappears and it becomes apparent that somebody else wants the painting . . . and will do whatever it takes to possess it.Scarlet Night is the second novel in Dorothy Salisbury Daviss Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in the Life, Lullaby of Murder, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories The Puppet and Justina in the collection In the Still of the Night. 

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Praised by the New Yorker as excellent, this mystery novel that features a cat as a murder suspect launched the acclaimed literary career of Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury DavisFor generations, bitter old Andy Mattson terrified the children of Hillside and puzzled his adult neighbors. How did the scowling old codger, who seemed to spend his life stroking his cat on the front porch, support himself? How did he pass the days? And why did he die such a gruesome death?The police find Andy dead on his sofa, covered in blood, eyes wide with fear. The most likely suspect is the dead mans cat, a howling beast that resembles a trapped badger. But as Chief of Police Waterman digs into the strange death, he finds that beneath Hillsides sunny surface runs a river of hate. An old man was murdered, and it seems many people in town had motives to commit the crime.

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Telemakos may have survived his capture in Afar, but his dangerous journey is far from over . . .Twelve-year-old Telemakosthe descendant of British and Aksumite royaltyis still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the Afar desert, where he uncovered the traitor who spread the plague through Aksum. But before Telemakos is fully healed, tragedy strikes. For their own safety, Telemakos and his infant sister, Athena, are sent to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyara longtime enemy turned ally of the Aksumites. Telemakoss aunt Goewin, British ambassador to Aksum, warns him that Abreha is kind but dangerous. Telemakos promises he will be mindfulbut he does not realize just how serious Goewins warnings will prove to be.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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Imprisoned by Abreha and forced to help plan Aksums invasion, Telemakos desperately tries to regain his freedomTelemakos, descendent of British and Aksumite royalty, has been accused of treason by Abreha, ruler of Himyar, and imprisoned on the upper levels of his twelve-story palace. Not only is Telemakos forbidden to see his beloved younger sister, Athena, but he is also forced to reproduce Aksumite maps in order to help Abreha plan an invasion. Lacking any way to communicate with his family in faraway Aksum, Telemakos must use all of his subtle talents to regain his freedom.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein including rare images from the authors personal collection.

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Edgar Award Finalist: Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis delivers a thrilling tale of Cold Warera espionage and murder. One afternoon in Manhattans Washington Square Park, Eric Mather is approached by two men, Tom and Jerry, with a business proposal: a bit of light espionage that may be considered treason. Erics friend and colleague, physics professor Peter Bradley, is on his way back from an international conference in Athens. In his briefcase is a roll of film that must be confiscated to keep the Cold War from turning hot. Bradley wont miss this little roll of film, they say, and nobody will get hurt. When Bradley is stabbed to death in an apartment on East Tenth Street, Eric realizes he has made a bargain with the wrong people. Desperate to make up for betraying his friend, he ventures into a shadowy world of danger and intrigue as he sets out to learn everything he can about Tom and Jerrytwo foreign agents engaged in an atomic game of cat and mouse.

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A tour de force of suspense, Shock Wave is the tense tale of a female reporter who, on assignment in a midwestern university town, finds she has stepped into an environment fused for violenceAfter two decades of covering riots, assassinations, and urban decay, Kate Osborn comes to Venice, Illinois, to profile Steve Higgins, an old-school Chicago-style politician. Although Higgins hews to tradition, the problems in Venice are thoroughly modern. Student unrest roils beneath the quiet surface of the university, kept in check only by the well-armed campus police, and in town, the white merchants and black coal miners are preparing to go to war. It takes all of Higginss strength to keep the town in checkbut two shocking murders tip the balance.Kate came to interview a politician, but she is about to get a firsthand look at a war zone right in the middle of Americas heartland.

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Death strikes in a coal mining town on the West Virginia border in this impressive mystery by an Edgar Awardwinning author (Chicago Sun-Times).  Phil McGovern, the sports editor of an Ohio newspaper, cannot help envying his friend Dick Coffee. Dick travels all over the world reporting on wars, labor strikes, and revolutions; wins Pulitzers; and has a beautiful wife, Margaret, from whom Phil tries to keep his distance because he fears he could fall in love with her too. But when tragedy strikes and Margaret needs him, Phil accompanies her to Winston, a mining town on the West Virginia border, to identify Dicks body.  No one knows what Dick was doing in Winston. No one knows if he jumped or was pushed off a cliff. With the inquest delayed and people saying Dick drank heavily and kept company with a local woman, Phil joins forces with Sheriff Sam Fields to determine if Dick was on the trail of another explosive story that might have blown the town apartand if he died by accident, suicide, or murder. 

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After a brutal assault, a reporter flees New York to look for her father in Ireland in a tale chockful of action from a crime-fiction master (Publishers Weekly).  Julie Hayes is finally making it as a reporterwith a column at the New York Daily under her own bylinewhen her husband, Jeff, tells her he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. Blinded by anger and hurt, she flees their Chelsea apartment. Before the night is over, she will be lying bound and gagged on the floor of a trailer, the victim of a sexual assault by two masked men.  Now a tabloid headline herself, Julie tries to help the police search for her assailants. But she is not the same woman anymore. She decides its time to uncover her mysterious past. Her birth certificate lists her father as Thomas Francis Mooney. Born in Ireland, whereabouts unknown. But danger stalks Julie across the Atlantic, where she is caught up in seething IRA tensions and sees strange connections between her past and present. Now she has an even more urgent goal: to get out of Ireland alive.The Habit of Fear is the fourth novel in Dorothy Salisbury Daviss Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in The Life, Scarlet Night, and Lullaby of Murder, as well as the stories The Puppet and Justina in the collection In the Still of the Night.

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An engrossing crime novel set in New Yorks Little Italy from Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury DavisThey are a secret society in New Yorks Little Italy. The Little Brothers swear to a strict code. While they carry out good works, they believe in using the Killing Eye on evildoers. When sixteen-year-old Angelo is put up for membership, he is not sure he wants to join. But the assignment the society demands of him sounds easyto put the Eye on an old shopkeeper named Grossman who is suspected of dealing heroin. Then Grossman is stabbed to death and the police have only one suspect: the Italian boy who spent the week outside his shop, watching and waiting for a stranger to die.Alongside Angelos story, a police investigation unfolds, led by Lieutenant Marks, a cop with a heart and a brain, who is willing to take risks in tracing a series of complicated Mafia connections to catch the true killer.

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On a snowy night in 1935, a decades-old secret begins with a killingWalter Stachiew has powerful arms, matinee-idol looks, and an easy charm that he uses to distract his neighbors in the Bronx from his bad habits, which include a love of liquor and a fondness for teenage boys. When he is found one night, beaten to death with a shovel, the natural suspect is his drinking buddy, Stanley Paycek, who is tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair. He is just a few minutes from death when his son Willie whispers the truth about who killed Walter Stachiew.Willie is a hateful boy, rat-faced and ostracized, but he and a few of his schoolmates know more about Stachiews death than they will ever tell. As they grow into men, finding success all over the globe, the secret of that night binds them together forever. As the hate festers in Willies heart, it threatens to one day destroy them all.

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Fifteen spine-tingling stories of murder, mayhem, and the macabre from one of Americas finest crime authorsDorothy Salisbury Davis has become known as one of Americas finest crime writers through such novels as A Gentle Murderer, The Clay Hand, and Death of an Old Sinner. Her short stories have also won acclaim since they first started to appear in 1952. Now, here are fifteen of them collected in one volume.Lost Generation is classic Dorothy Salisbury Davis: a chilling story of small-town policemen who cross the line between good and evil. In A Matter of Public Notice, a midwestern town is set on edge by three strangulations of women who live alone. Spring Fever introduces readers to a farmers wife who finds romance to be a fatal attraction. By the Scruff of the Soul presents a case of sibling rivalry turned deadly. And in Mrs. Norris Observes, the inimitable crime-solving housekeeper happens upon an explosive scene at the New York Public Library. These and ten other stories are sometimes comic, sometimes terrifying, but always rewarding.

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Before, during, and after World War II, three generations of men make their mark on the world in acclaimed author Dorothy Salisbury Daviss vibrant, thought-provoking novel that scrutinizes the conscience of men in a time of crisisAs Europe slides toward war, the faculty of a midwestern university fight a crusade of their ownthe campaign against Communism. The local publishing magnate has accused economics professor Jonathan Hogan of being a Red, and the scholar is forced to defend himself in front of the universitys elders. They spare him, for Hogan is no Communistmerely a free thinker, open and honest in an age when conformity is the norm. When war threatens the United States, he is one of those whom his country will need most.Jonathan goes into civil service during the war, advising the government on the economic impacts of the conflict. His son Marcus takes a different route, studying surgery in an attempt to heal those whom the savagery of war has maimed. And, years later, Jonathans grandson Tad will follow his own conscience, too, when he comes violently of age. But what are the consequences of standing by ones principles in an era when darkness threatens to overwhelm civilization?

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The best novel about American politics in our time. Willie MorrisSet deep in the heart of Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novelsThe Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, and Country Pleasureseach with a different protagonist. Unifying the stories is Texas governor Arthur Fenstemaker, a canny master politician modeled on Lyndon Johnson, for whom the author served as a press aide. The governor uses any means necessary to do what needs to be done, while the other characters struggle with their conflicts of marriage and family, love and lust.Originally published in 1961, The Gay Place withstands the test of timethe themes of power, money, and family are eternally resonant. At once a political novel and a character study, Billy Lee Brammers classic stands among the best novels about the Lone Star state.

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A collection of stories starring one of the most unique sleuths ever to crack a caseOliver Quade knows the record for most eggs laid by a single hen. He knows which state has the longest coastline. He knows why cats purr, who signed the Magna Carta, and who won the two-hundred-twenty-meter race in the 1896 Olympics. Oliver Quade is the Human Encyclopedia, with an answer to every question save one: When are you going to pay the rent?Hoping to solve this tricky problem, Quade heads to a poultry convention to sell some encyclopedias, and is just starting his sales pitch when a dead man is found in an incubator. Its a puzzle that Quade will have to solve if he wants to escape the conventionand hopefully scrounge up some rent money along the way.In this volume of stories, the Human Encyclopedia tangles with poisoned darts, dog show killers, and Civil War forgeries, but nothing proves quite so troublesome as the most dangerous villain of all: the landlord.

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Frank Gruber, Kevin Burton Smith, Keith Alan Deutsch

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In Manila, a circus performer commits what appears to be a very strange suicideJo Gar leans over the railing and watches the rope dangle above the bay. There are forty feet of it, and at the end is a dead body, swinging from the longest noose the Island detective has ever seen. The Filipino police rule the death a suicide, but Gar is not convinced that a man would choose such a long rope to end his life.The dead man, Gar learns, was a sharpshooter, who closed each nights performance by climbing a rope and shooting targets along the way. A newlywed, he had been married only ten days on the night he died, and his widow insists he was too happy to end it all. But who would strangle a sharpshooter? Finding out will take Gar into the underbelly of a traveling circusand may put his own neck on the line.

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Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

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This Hugo Awardwinning memoir is a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Awardwinning author of Neuromancer). With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings at the same Greenwich Village coffee shop as Bob Dylan and preparing shrimp curry for W. H. Auden and Chester Khalman, who have accepted an invitation that night for dinner, Delany takes a stab at writing science fiction. This young prodigy would complete and sell five novels before he turned twenty-two! (And then have a nervous breakdown . . .) This beautifully written memoir is a testament to a neighborhood where experimentation was a way of life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

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Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author Samuel R. Delanys epic fantasythe first in a seriesexplores power, gender, and the nature of civilization.   A boy of the bustling, colorful docks of port Kolhari, during a political coup, fifteen-year-old Gorgik, once his parents are killed, is taken a slave and transported to the government obsidian mines at the foot of the Faltha mountains. When, in the savagely primitive land of Neveryon, finally he wins his freedom, Gorgik is ready to lead a rebellion against the rulers of this barely civilized land. His is the through-story that, now in the background, now in the foreground, connects these first five stories, in Tales of Neveryonand, indeed, all the eleven stories, novellas, and novels that comprise Delanys epic fantasy series, Return to Neveryon, where we can watch civilization first develop money, writing, labor, and that grounding of all civilizations since: capital itself.    In these sagas of barbarism, new knowledge, and sex, youll find far more than in most sword-and-sorcery. They are an epic feat of language, an ironic analysis of the foundations of civilization, and a reminder that no weapon is more powerful than a well-honed legend.   This eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining (The Washington Post Book World) novel reads as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian (USA Today).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career. 

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In this far-future classic, sexual attraction is a science, gender is a whole new construct, and information is both precious and perilous . . . With a burst of radiation to the brain, an angry young man is transformed into a dim-witted slavesuitable only for the most brutal work. But the tragedy of Rat Korga is the prologue to the story of Marq Dyeth, an industrial diplomat, who travels from world to world in this exciting, sprawling future, solving problems that come with the spread of General Information. The greatest fear in this future is Cultural Fugue, a critical mass of shared knowledge that can destroy life over the surface of an entire world in hours. In this dizzyingly original novel, information is perilous, but without it a human is only a rat in a cage.   Campbell Award winner Jo Walton described this science fiction landmark as being like pop rocks for the brain. . . . Things sparkle and explode all over, and its not entirely comfortable but it is quite wonderful. This classic read predicted the Internet and is packed with themes that still resonate today.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career. 

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An exciting minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times). On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, two hundred thousand miles from Earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. With compromised engines and failing life-support systems, the crew was in incomparably grave danger. Faced with below-freezing temperatures, a seriously ill crewmember, and a dwindling water supply, a safe return seemed unlikely.Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth. Expanding on dispatches written for the New Yorker, Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. brings readers unparalleled detail on the moment-by-moment developments of one of NASAs most dramatic missions.   