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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.   

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A memoir of a year immersed in nature on a New England farm, by the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.  After a nearly fatal bout of appendicitis, Hal Borland decided to leave the city behind and move with his wife to a farmhouse in rural Connecticut. Their new home on one hundred acres inspired Borland to return to nature. In this masterpiece of American nature writing, he describes such wonders as the peace of a sky full of stars, the breathless beauty of blossoming plants, the way rain swishes as it hits a river, and the invigorating renewal brought by the changing seasons. The delights of nature as Borland observes them seem boundless, and his sense of awe is contagious.

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Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genresfrom Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Mieville, and many more.   Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional pulp forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Mieville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.

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Kelly Link, Elizabeth Hand, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, Peter Straub, Bradford Morrow

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Dennis McFarlands acclaimed debut novel, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a rare pleasure . . . Remarkable from its beginning to its surprising, satisfying endMusician Marty Lamberts life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes everything. His brother, Perry, has killed himself in New York, and Martywith his marriage on the rocks and his record company sliding into insolvencydecides to leave San Francisco to investigate exactly what went wrong. His trip sends him headlong into the life his only brother left behindhis pleasures and disappointments, his friends, his lovely girlfriend, Janeand finally, to the home they shared growing up in Virginia. Along the way, through memories and dreams, Marty relives their complicated upbringing as the children of talented, volatile musicians and alcoholics. Through the tragedy, Marty finally faces the demons of his past, ones he pretended he had buried long ago, to emerge on the other side of grief, toward solace and a more hopeful future.

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When two students are found dead in their small Florida hometown, an aging brother and sister are forced to confront their own dark past while on the hunt for a murdererAs a successful news photographer, Francis Brimm has lived a life of adventure, traveling the world and accumulating little baggageeither material or personal. Now nearing retirement, he has decided to move back to his Florida hometown, where his sister, Muriel, by her own admission, has led a much less fulfilling existence. As children of an alcoholic father and an icy, withholding mother, the siblings have found that the wounds of childhood remain well into adulthood. The scars of their past come into stark relief when Francis and Muriel find the bones of two children, both students of the nearby school for the blind. In the search for the killer, they are both forced to reexamine the long-ago trauma that shaped their lives.Suspenseful and psychologically astute, School for the Blind is a masterwork of literary fiction by bestselling author Dennis McFarland.

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Motor Citys criminal underworld comes to life in the first three Detroit novels from the pithy, punchy four-time Shamus Award winner (The New York Times Book Review).  In Edsel, it has only been two decades since Connie Minor was on top, but it feels like centuries. Once a journalist, Minor spent Prohibition with his finger on ganglands pulse, a confidant of every rumrunner, boss, and triggerman in Detroit. But as the gangsters fell, Minor went with them, replaced by a generation of reporters more interested in the Nazi Party than the inner workings of the Purple Gang. Now its the 1950s, and after years writing mindless ad copy, Minor fears that his brain may be permanently atrophiedthat is, until an exciting new job drops on his desk. Minor is hired to sell Fords most original creation, the Edsel, meant to take America by storm. But the job quickly reintroduces him to some ugly old Detroit faces. When he uncovers a conspiracy, his reporters instincts kick in. Its been years since Minor gabbed with mobsters, but its never too late for an old newspaperman to get whacked. In Stress, for Paul Kubicek and the city of Detroit, 1972 ends in a haze of blood. A police officer in need of extra work, Kubicek spends New Years Eve moonlighting as a security guard at an upscale party. Just before midnight, he sees three black men, a shotgun, and a pistol. He takes out the would-be burglars in less than a minute. Only after they are all dead does he realize one man was unarmed. The police department asks Charlie Battle, one of its few African American officers, to head up the investigation into Kubiceks shooting. As racial tensions threaten to tear Detroit apart, Battle tries to break through the departments code of silence, fighting for truth in a city where lies are a way of life. And in Motown, rage simmers beneath the tranquil surface of 1960s Detroit. As the auto industry enjoys its last moments of prosperity, widespread discrimination infuriates the citys black middle class. One of the most destructive riots of the twentieth century is around the corner, and Rick Amery is going to be right in the middle. A longtime cop forced out of the department on trumped-up graft charges, Amery shares Detroits obsession with muscle cars. It was the temptation of a white 64 Thunderbird that cost him his badge, and it is for the sake of General Motors that he takes his first job as a private investigator, digging up dirt on a consumer advocate who calls GM cars death traps. Amery must work quickly, for no hot rod on Earth is fast enough to outrun the trouble thats gaining on the Motor City. 

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An Equal Opportunity Death, The Bohemian Connection, and The Last Annual Slugfest

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A special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlaps Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police cant crackIn An Equal Opportunity Death, Vejay Haskell is playing hooky from her job as an electric-meter reader in Henderson, California. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Franks Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum, they have an argument and she storms out into the pouring rain. But by the time she gets back to Franks bar to apologize, he is dead. Vejay was seen leaving Franks house in a huff, and her lack of an alibi combined with her suspicious sick day make her the number-one suspect. As the police close in on her, Vejay turns detective in search of Franks real killer. Its a perilous task, but she has one advantage when she puts on her work clothes: Nobody ever notices the meter reader.In The Bohemian Connection, a clique of powerful conservatives called the Bohemian Club gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworkers missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain. The sheriff calls it an accident, but Vejay suspects the girls death was connected to the Bohemian Clubs unquenchable desire for drugs, booze, and prostitutes. Finding the killer will mean going head to head with the nations fiercest politicians.And in The Last Annual Slugfest, its time for Hendersons regional festival honoring the normally detested California banana slug. Rather than eat crow, the areas local politicians atone for their sins by eating slug hot dogs, slug chili, and slug pie. This year, one dish will prove murderously foul. Edwina Henderson is the last of her family to live in the town that bears their name. A committed environmentalist, she is also the woman responsible for this years slugfest, and will take her place at the judges table. When a slug pizza knocks her flat, the crowd assumes it was just an especially gross slice. But when she doesnt get up, meter reader Vejay Haskell must confront the devious murder of the towns leading treehugger.

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Dangerous Illusions, Dangerous Games, Dangerous Angels, and Dangerous Lady

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Soldiers, strangers, and spieslove is a dangerous game in this collection of four Regency romances by a USA Todaybestselling author!  In Dangerous Illusions, Lady Daintry Tarrant is dismayed when a war hero returns, introducing himself as her fiance, Lord Penthorpe. She cherishes her independence and has turned away many suitors, but this one she must marry. Penthorpe is completely captivated by Lady Daintrybut hes not who he claims to be. In Dangerous Games, Melissa Seacourts father auctions her off to pay his gambling debts, but she vows that she will be no mans bought bride. Desperate to escape her fate shackled to someone she could never love, Melissa instead is forced to honor and obey the seductive stranger who comes to her rescue. In Dangerous Angels, Charlotte Tarrant is traveling across Cornwall in her luxurious coach when a shots ring out and her carriage goes over a cliffs edge. As she clings to the rocks, a savior appears. When they meet again, Charley recognizes him instantly. But she doesnt yet realize that the stranger who saved her lifethe handsome aristocrat who now vies for her hand in marriageis Englands most notorious spy. In Dangerous Lady, Lady Letitia Deverill comes to London to serve as maid of honor to the young Queen Victoria. An impassioned Tory in a sea of Whigs, Letty has no intention of changing her political views. The headstrong noblewoman soon discovers she has enemies at court, and none more formidable than the powerfuland irresistibleViscount Justin Raventhorpe.

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Lovers and Liars, Danger Zones, and Sextet

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A special three-in-one edition of Sally Beaumans passionate and suspenseful Lovers and Liars TrilogyIn Lovers and Liars, just after New Years, four small parcels are delivered to Paris, Venice, New York, and London. Photojournalist Pascal Lamartine is sent a womans left-handed black leather glove. Reporter Gini Hunter receives a pair of handcuffs. They soon discover that the anonymous packages may be linked to a breaking sex scandal that could rock the worlds political stage. Who sent the packages, and why? As the dogged journalists delve into a sordid world of lies and deceit, call girls and secret trysts, Gini and Pascal rekindle their own passionate affair. The truth goes back farther than they imagine . . . to the other side of the world and a long-awaited revenge.In Danger Zones, after a wild night of partying, one teenage girl is dead and another has vanished. Dashing journalist Rowland McGuire thinks he knows who the culprit is, but his colleague Lindsay Drummond uncovers a connection that blows the case into something much bigger. With an innocent life on the line and an enraged killer on the loose, a love affair blossoms and a menacing plot unravels. Master storyteller Sally Beauman delivers a gripping and seductive novel in which no secret is safe . . . and the human heart can be the most dangerous place of all.And in Sextet, expertly weaving a cast of compelling characters with a moody, multilayered plot, Sally Beauman once again shows why shes the reigning mistress of drama and suspense. Part mystery, part allegory, and part love story, Sextet reveals the yearnings and dangerous desires of the human heart as it hurtles to a stunning climax.

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Bestselling author Dennis McFarlands masterful novel about three peoples struggles to reclaim their lives in the wake of unfathomable tragedyIn a moment of senseless violence, Malcolm Vaughns life is ripped away from him, leaving his wife and child to make sense of the shattered existence that remains. Sarah, a lab scientist and Malcolms widow, retreats into herself, refusing to return to work when even the most mundane activities require enormous effort. Malcolms son, Harry, just eight years old, goes cold, detaching from the grief that is rippling around him. Meanwhile, Vietnam vet Deckard Jones, Malcolms best friend, is forced to come to terms with yet another loss. Sarah, Harry, and Deckard must each find a way to go on while everything around them appears to be crumbling.Stunning and elegant, Singing Boy is a richly drawn novel of mourning, remembrance, and recovery, and a nuanced look at three individuals slow march toward healing.

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A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramon Mercaderthe obedient assassinRamon Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.As Ramon is trained for the task and assumes a new identity, he lives a lush life in Paris, befriending Frida Kahlo and other artists of the time. He falls in love with a left-leaning Jewish woman whom he is ordered to seduce as a means of getting at Trotsky.From Barcelona to Paris and New York to Mexico City, the group controlling Ramonincluding Ramons mother and her loverguides the assassin on the inevitable resolution of his grim task as he must penetrate Trotskys compound.

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Mother Earth Father Sky, My Sister the Moon, and Brother Wind

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Now in one volume, the sweeping Native American trilogy set at the dawn of human civilization in Alaska, from an international-bestselling author. Following the lives of three incredible Aleut women in prehistoric Alaska, the Ivory Carver Trilogy has been hailed as more successful than Clan of the Cave Bear by the Washington Post Book World and moving and credible by the New York Times Book Review. Now, experience all three insightful and touching novels in this one epic volume.  Mother Earth Father Sky: After her tribe is slaughtered, a young woman, Chagak, is left alone to care for her infant brother. With nothing left to lose, she sets out on a dangerous quest for survivaland revengeamong the icy waters, vicious enemies, and frozen tundra of Alaska.  My Sister the Moon: Kiin has been betrothed to the son of the tribal chief since birth, but her heart belongs to his brother. When she is suddenly taken from her people, hardships, love, and chance will change Kiinand ultimately lead her to a new destiny.  Brother Wind: Finally content with her hard-won life, Kiin is devastated when shes thrust back into the nightmares of her past. Across the land, Kukutux, the wife of a Whale Hunter, faces starvation and hostility when she finds herself widowed. As their paths converge, the two women must find the strength in their hearts to withstand the cruelties of man, nature, and fate.   Filled with impeccable research and extraordinary characters, the Ivory Carver Trilogy is an unforgettable, must-read saga of family, love, survival, and history.   

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Jaran, An Earthly Crown, His Conquering Sword, and The Law of Becoming

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All four novels in the saga of a young woman caught between a rebellious nomadic people and their alien oppressors: Truly an epic masterpiece (SF Site). In Jaran, the Earth of the future is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her brother, Charles, rebelled against them and was rewarded by being elevated into their interstellar system. Struggling to find her place in the world, Tess sneaks aboard a shuttle bound for Rhui, one of her brothers planets. On the ground, she joins up with the native jaran people, becoming immersed in their nomadic society and customs. As she grows ever closer to the charismatic jaran ruler, Ilyawho is inflamed by an urgent mission of his ownTess must choose between her feelings for him and her loyalty to her brother. In An Earthly Crown, the nomadic tribes of the jaran are uniting the settled cities of their homeland one by one. Their charismatic leader, Ilya Bakhtiian, has his loyal wife by his side, but there is something about her he doesnt know: Tess Soerensen is a human. Back home, her brother, Charles, led an unsuccessful revolt against the all-powerful Chapalii empire. Charless insistence that Tess join him is as strong as Ilyas reluctance to part with his beloved wifeand neither considers that Tess may have her own plans for the future. As three fiercely independent spirits struggle for a solution, the fates of both the human race and the jaran hang in the balance. In His Conquering Sword, the jaran have been taking over towns and bending all non-jaran to the law of their rule. With Ilya Bakhtiian in charge, the nomadic fighters are now preparing an assault on the royal city of Karkand. But within the campaign, another struggle looms. Charles, the brother of Ilyas wife, Tess, is still driven by thoughts of revolt. Charles travels to Rhui for key information about the past, hoping to bring back his sisterhis only heir. And in The Law of Becoming, Charles Soerensens revolutionary inclinations have been reignited. In this final book, the story of Tess, Ilya, and Charles comes to its stunning conclusion as new generations get involved in the intrigue, Earths exiled jaran people resurface, and the Chapalii overlords make one last, unexpected move. 

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Border Bride, Border Fire, and Border Storm

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Three romances in one from the USA Todaybestselling author of The Reluctant Highlander, filled with the rebellious passion of Scotlands restless border.   Set on the turbulent border between Scotland and England in the sixteenth century, these meticulously researched novels offer enthralling love stories set against a backdrop of historical conflict.   In Border Bride, Mary Kate MacPherson, a proud Highland beauty wages a battle against arrogant borderer Sir Adam Douglas. Borderer men may consider their wives possessions, but Mary Kate intends to show the seductive knave her father promised her to that a Highland lass is no mans furniture.   In Border Fire, highwayman Rabbie Redcloak has caused nothing but trouble for the English with his raiding and fighting. But when hes captured, Janet Graham is determined to prevent the hanging of the silver-tongued Rabbie before Truce Day. And her decision has nothing to do with the way her body heats just at the thought of him . . .   And in Border Storm, Lady Laurie Halliot, the rebellious daughter of a Scottish march warden, knows what marriage is about: money, power, and little else. When her runaway sister is accused of murdering an English soldier, however, Laurie offers herself as a hostage until the accused is found. And to preserve Lauries reputation while in captivity, she agrees to a handfast wedding to the devastatingly handsome, yet equally reluctant, groom, Sir Hugh Graham.  

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Sinai Tapestry, Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic

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A special four-in-one edition of Edward Whittemores epic Jerusalem QuartetIn Sinai Tapestry, it is 1840, and Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sexand the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire.In Jerusalem Poker, on New Years Eve, 1921, three men sit down to a poker game. The Great Jerusalem Poker Game, as its eventually known, continues for the next twelve years. The players are as exotic as the game: Cairo Martyr, a one-time African slave, now the Middle Easts chief supplier of aphrodisiac mummy dust; Joe OSullivan Beare, an Irish tradesman with a specialty in sacred phallic amulets; and Munk Szondi, an Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army colonel turned dedicated Zionist. And they are playing for no less than the control of Jerusalem itself.In Nile Shadows, in 1941, a hand grenade explodes in a Cairo bar, taking the life of Stern, a petty gunrunner and morphine addict. His death could easily go unnoticed as Rommels tanks charge through the desert in an attempt to open the Middle East to Hitlers forces. Yet the mystery behind Sterns death is a top priority for intelligence experts. Master spies from three countries converge on Joe OSullivan Beare, who is closer to Stern than anyone, in an effort to unravel the disturbing puzzle. The search for the truth about Stern leads OSullivan Beare through the slums of Cairo to a decaying former brothel called the Hotel Babylon.And in Jericho Mosaic, Yossi is an ideal agent for the Mossad. Hes recruited by an agent named Tajar, and code-named the Runner. Thus begins the longest-running and most successful operation in the history of Israeli intelligence. Meanwhile, in the desert oasis of Jericho, Abu Musa, an Arab patriarch, and Moses the Ethiopian, meet each day over games of shesh-besh and glasses of Arak to ponder history and humanity. We learn about the friendship of Yossis son, Assaf, an Israeli soldier badly wounded during the Six Day War, and Yousef, a young Arab teacher who, in support of the Palestinian cause, decides to live as an exile in the Judean wilderness.

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The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming

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Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection. In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Wills most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family. But Wills days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the familys ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamies sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home. And in The Second Coming, now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successful career on Wall Street and from the inheritance of his deceased wifes estate, Will is universally admired at the club where he spends his days golfing in the North Carolina sun. But everything begins to unravel when, without warning, Wills golf shots begin landing in the rough, and he is struck with bouts of losing his balance and falling over. Just when Will appears doomed to share the fate of his fatherwhose suicide has haunted him his whole lifea mental hospital escapee named Allison might prove to be the only one who can save him. From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Moviegoer, these novels have been acclaimed by Time magazine for irony, understatement, and compassion and praised by the New York Times as wonderfully good reading.   