When 007 turns up at a sleepy American backwoods motel, he soon realizes that Vivienne Michel is in a tight spot-and that Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant are hardened killers bent on destruction. Escaping from a past she doesn't want...
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Fleming, IanSummary: - Author:Aspe, PieterSummary:
When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe. To solve the case, Van In and the beautiful...
- Author:Handey, JackSummary:
The reliably unreliable narrator Jack Handey and his friend, Don--who might be familiar to fans of "Deep Thoughts"--go on a quest for the Golden Monkey that takes them into the mysterious and stinky foreign land of Honolulu....
- Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:
Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political...
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
When a NUMA research ship in the Indian Ocean is destroyed by a mysterious swarm of black particles, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, members of NUMA's Special Assignments division, are dispatched to examine the wreck. There they uncover a...
- Author:Anderle, Michael, Noffke, SarahSummary:
Some people won't rest until they get to the bottom of things. That's Liv Beaufont. And some want to kill her for her persistence. To try and keep Liv from finding out the truth, Adler brings back an ancient evil that the Warriors...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers—known as the Night Ninjas—recently...
- Author:Banas, DanielleSummary:
As witty as it is heart-pounding, this fresh take on the beloved superhero genre is all about finding your own way to shine even when it seems everyone else around you is, well... super. Never trust a guy in spandex. In Abby Hamilton...
- Author:Zander, JoakimSummary:
A deep-cover CIA agent, an operative once so dedicated that he abandoned his infant daughter, races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew.
- Author:Wyss, Johann DavidSummary:
Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals. Through small successes and disappointments, not only does this...
- Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:
As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists have been selected to live in a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. But as these "Terranauts" face increased scrutiny and a host of disasters, their mantra: "Nothing in,...
- Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women, priceless treasures and scandalous...
- Author:Dumas, Alexandre, Leloir, MauriceSummary:
When young d'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the ranks of the Musketeers, he soon finds himself challenged to three duals with Athos, Porthos and Aramis. However, the foursome is abruptly attacked by the evil Cardinal Richelieu's...
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
Both a prequel and a sequel to Clive Cussler's first bestselling phenomenon, Raise the Titanic!, the new Isaac Bell novel is a thrilling action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, Dirk...
- Author:Sapkowski, AndrzejSummary:
The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on a disguise. Both sides of the war have sent mercenaries to hunt her down. There is only one place left to run...
- Author:Fenady, Andrew J.Summary:
Four soldiers of fortune slip into Mexico to nab five million dollars in buried gold. Before they can get their hands on this fortune, however, the rugged band will have to face off against comancheros, hostile Indians--and Benito...
- Author:Perrault, E. G.Summary:
A Russian spy ship founders in a hurricane but dare not return to safety with the tug that is attempting to rescue it.
- Author:Tolkien, J. R. R.Summary:
The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring...
- Author:Lee, StanSummary:
This exciting new anthology has over a dozen original tales starring the vicious foes of Marvel's superheroes: Greg Cox's chronicle of the Super-Skrull's conflict with the Avengers, Michael Jan Friendman's story of evil Loki's latest...
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This gripping new anthology has over a dozen original tales starring the top-selling mutant heroes, the uncanny X-Men, dealing with their greatest foes as well as the day-to-day trials of being mutants-trying to protect the world they...
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