Who Needs a Friend,When You Have a Familiar?Animals have been our companions since the dawn of time, but in science fiction and fantasy, often that bond is taken one magical—or technological—step further. In FAMILIARS we asked authors to put their own unique spin on this idea, resulting in this collection of fifteen stories that explore the range of familiar bonds—from cats to caterpillars, squids to squirrels, and everything in between. With settings from fantasy to scienc...

Stop right there!If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with perhaps a pinch of silliness in the witchcraft, then these fourteen delicious sweetmeats of sword and sorcery will prove right up your alley. And it will be a dank, twisting, fetid alley, ...

**"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION**An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splittin...

愛倫坡終身大師獎得主、紐約犯罪風景的行吟詩人——勞倫斯‧卜洛克冷硬派偵探系列代表作神啊，請讓我保持清醒，但不是現在；請讓我不起偷盜之心，但不是現在；請讓我慷慨、勤奮、無私無我，但不是現在……朱天心x朱天文x李桐豪x唐諾x冬陽x張國立x陳雪x個人意見 陳祺勳x臥斧x傅月庵x劉梓潔x駱以軍x顏忠賢──齊聲推薦「在這一杯酒與下一杯之間，橫亙著綿長的時間。」我常在想，如果生命拐個彎的話，我會是什麼樣的景況。一九八二年，馬修．史卡德正在對抗他的心魔。他被迫離開紐約市警察局，他也放棄了喝酒。他的身心狀態面臨嚴重的衝擊，與女友珍的關係也岌岌可危。這時他碰上了傑克．艾勒里，一個童年時在布朗克斯跟他一起長大的玩伴。 他們像是硬幣的兩面：史卡德曾經偵破的案件，卻是艾勒里犯下的。 在史卡德身上，艾勒里看到自己曾有機會變成的善良公民。在艾勒里身上，史卡德看到他期望獲得卻來之不易的清醒。然後，艾勒里死了，就在一瞬之間，彷彿是要...

Giallo - romanzo breve (58 pagine) - Un intrigo tutto americano per Sherlock Holmes e il dottor Watson.Ritiratosi a vita privata, Sherlock Holmes trascorre una vita tranquilla e piuttosto noiosa nella sua casa di campagna del Sussex, lontano dal trambusto londinese e dai pericolosi ed eccitanti casi criminali della capitale britannica. Per distrarlo, Watson gli propone di trascorrere un periodo di vacanza negli Stati Uniti ma, preceduto dalla sua fama, non appena g...

Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's world may lead him right back to the bar...

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to f...

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to f...

THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS!On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meetMARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with...MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds...LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by...CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda...

She was every man’s dream—and one man’s nightmare. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover—and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay …

About The BookHard Truths is a story about what happens when brokenness is no longer something you can ignore. Caleb, Daniel, and Evelyn are three lives pulled into the aftermath of past wounds—each carrying pain that quietly defines their choices, their relationships, and their sense of self.Caleb used to be someone else—driven, full of promise—but that version of him has been buried by guilt and rage. What remains is a man on the edge of disappearing comp...

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