DescriptionYoung Ricky Alleyn had come to the island to try to write, but village life was tedious, until he saw the stable-hand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump. It might have ended there had Ricky not noticed some strange and puzzling things. But Ricky's father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, had been discreetly summoned to the scene, and when Ricky disappeared, it was the last straw.
DescriptionIn this high-stakes caper set in the art world, anything goes. First, a young art student follows the trail of an undiscovered masterpiece by painter Modigliani. Then, 2 disgruntled artists plot to expose the hypocrisy of the art world. Finally, there is the ambitious owner of a new gallery, who will stop at nothing to assure the success of his enterprise. These forces combine to form The Modigliani Scandal, another tightly-plotted best selling thriller from master suspense author Ken Follett.
DescriptionIn this sequel to At the Earth's Core, David Innes vows revenge and returns to the Inner World of Pellucidar to rescue the beautiful Dian, who had been torn from his arms by trickery. However, his return trip places him far from the land of his beloved and he is forced to undertake a desperate journey thousands of miles across the fierce inner earth to reach her. David's epic voyage takes him through the many strange lands of Pellucidar, including the pendant moon and Land of Awful Shadow. His heart pounding encounters with primeval beasts and extraordinary peoples makes Pellucidar one of the best adventure stories ever penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
DescriptionSet on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches". Nearly a decade ago, Diamant found an account of an abandoned rural backwater near the Massachu…
DescriptionIf Bangladesh and Fremont, California have the same number of people per square mile, why didn't George Harrison hold a concert benefiting suburban Californians? And why, if government regulation is the answer to pollution, are the most government-regulated countries the most polluted? Best selling political humorist P.J. O'Rourke tackles the "fashionable worries" - enormous global problems that are endlessly in the news and constantly on our minds but about which we mostly don't have a clue in this hilarious, thought-provoking audiobook.
