DescriptionLorenzo Brown loves his work. As an officer for the Humane Society, it is his job to cruise the city streets looking for dogs that are being mistreated: underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps…
DescriptionFor years they thought it was just them. Irritated and tormented by everything around them from call centres to nose studs, from speed bumps to ring tones. Then along came the BBC2 series Grumpy Old Men, and the subsequent best-selling book, and th…
DescriptionAgatha Raisin has finally opened her own detective agency. But when it seems like all she's doing is looking for missing cats while being outclassed by her 67-year-old secretary, she wonders if she has finally bitten off more than she can chew. When the wealthy Mrs. Laggat-Brown walks in, claiming that her daughter is receiving death threats, Agatha realizes that this is the chance she's been waiting for. But as she careens through the case, flirting with the chief suspect and alienating her friends, Agatha herself begins to wonder if she will be able to solve this case.
DescriptionBrandon Vale is a career thief, the best there is. Of course, he is serving out a prison term for a robbery gone bad, albeit one that he didn't commit. But then he is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who frame…
DescriptionBirthright: The Book of Man is a brilliant novel of science fiction that carefully constructs a blueprint of mankind's history - social, political, economic, scientific, and religious - for the next 18, 000 years. Since Mike Resnick first wrote Birthright: The Book of Man in 1982, he has emerged as one of the most honored science fiction authors of his time, picking up some twenty-five Hugo and Nebula nominations and awards. He has set twenty-five novels and a novella in the future that was outlined in this book. For those who missed it the first time around, Birthright: The Book of Man is a mind-boggling, all-encompassing science-fiction book.
