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Yuma Prison is a fetid hellhole filled with the dregs of humanity — killers, thieves, and backstabbers who'd kill over a scrap of meat. Now it's home to Frank Morgan, who's posing as an inmate. A ruthless outlaw named Cicero McCoy has buried a fortune in stolen bank money in a harsh, desolate little piece of hell known as Ambush Valley. To get Cicero to lead him to the loot, Frank has become Cicero's new best friend behind bars — and co-plotter of a daring breakout. Until the time comes for Frank Morgan to make a fatal choice — and for one of them to die....

For Frank Morgan, a reunion with his estranged son brings back bittersweet memories of another time and place. Conrad Morgan is an Eastern businessman trying to build a railroad through an untamed corner of New Mexico Territory. Even though Frank has revenge-hungry killers on his trail, his kin needs him now. So with a gun-toting, hard-loving beauty named Rebel by their side, father and son ride straight into a pitched battle with hired killers and furious Apache warriors. It’s a firestorm more treacherous and evil than Frank Morgan has ever faced.

A young medical student named Fettes is assisting his professor in procuring cadavers to be dissected by his fellow students. He knows many of the bodies that are sold to him were stolen from graves—but he needs his job and keeps his silence. To remain silent, however, is to invite worse...

If there's anything better than coming home to Texas, it's getting paid to do it. For Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, always on the hunt for funds, the job is taking three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Tyler, Texas for trial. Little do they know that one of the criminals, the one that's a beautiful woman, is the most dangerous of all. Soon the journey home turns into a race for buried treasure, a shoot-out, and another double cross - until Scratch and Bo are making one last mad, bullet-sprayed dash through the land of their birth...or the land of their death....

On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more.... Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking help from Cullen’s old pal, Johnny Cross, who agrees to ride east to lend a bullet or two.

In 1866, the border between the U.S. and Mexico is a hotbed of gunrunners, mercenaries, and the Emperor of Mexico's spies, saboteurs and double agents. On top of which, West Texas is plagued by Comanche warriors. Into this mix ride two massive gangs of the meanest, most kill-happy bunch of bloodthirsty ravagers to ever draw a breath. Sam Heller and Johnny Cross have got the marauders in their sights, but they aren't ready for the slaughter and destruction the raiders unleash on Hangtree County. 

They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother.... A former pirate named “Black Terrance” Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird’s beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner — Conrad Morgan, son of the legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan.

William Boyd's Restless is a brilliant espionage audiobook and a vivid portrait of the life of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is listening at its finest. "I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk... ADELE: passionate, fierce, obstinate. The daughter of a bourgeois family in 1900s Vienna, she rails against the strictures of her class and longs for freedom. GERTRUDE: spirited...

Istanbul 1838. Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is hired to investigate him, but when the man turns up dead, there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, the investigator finds himself in a race against...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.

Zürich, im Oktober 1919: Die junge Witwe Josephine, deren soeben verstorbener Mann eine "Auskunftsstelle für vermisste Personen" betrieben hat, in dem auch sie tätig war, steht vor dem Nichts. Als sie am Abend nach der Beerdigung im verwaisten Büro überlegt, dieses aufzulösen, stürmt eine Frau herein und beauftragt sie mit der Suche nach ihrer verschwundenen Freundin. Diese ist Tänzerin im Cabaret Voltaire, der Wiege der DADA-Bewegung, wo auch die Auftraggeberin als Künstlerin arbeitet. Eigentlich will Josephine den Auftrag ablehnen.

Firenze, 1481. Uno spietato assassino, subito ribattezzato "Strappacuori", uccide le sue vittime dopo indicibili tormenti, strappando loro il cuore. Ser Pardo de' Giovannini, consigliere del Magnifico, ha bisogno di qualcuno che conduca le indagini in modo non ufficiale: le vittime sono molto vicine a Lorenzo de' Medici. Decide allora di avvalersi dell'ingegno del giovane Leonardo da Vinci.

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer - das Finale der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1989. Ria hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, lässt sich Ria unter einer Tarnidentität in das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit einschleusen.

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer - das Finale der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1989. Ria hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, lässt sich Ria unter einer Tarnidentität in das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit einschleusen.

Escócia, 1766. Condenado à miséria e à escravidão nas brutais minas de carvão, Mack McAsh inveja os homens livres, mas nunca teve esperança de ser como eles. Até que um dia ele recebe a carta de um advogado londrino que lhe revela a ilegalidade da escravidão dos mineiros e um novo horizonte se abre aos seus olhos. Porém, para realizar seu sonho, Mack precisará enfrentar todo tipo de opressão das autoridades que não estão acostumadas a serem questionadas. Mack logo descobre que se trata de uma mera mudança de continente, não de ares sociais.

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer — der zweite Teil der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1973. Die Weltfestspiele der Jugend verwandeln den Berliner Alexanderplatz in ein Festivalgelände mit acht Millionen Besuchern. Während vordergründig freie Liebe, lange Haare und buntes Chaos herrschen, sieht Oberleutnant der Staatssicherheit Eickhoff die Gelegenheit, sich an einer alten Feindin zu rächen: der Spionin Ria Nachtmann. Mit dem Versuch, Rias Tochter auf seine Seite zu ziehen, kommt er ihr gefährlich nahe.

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer — der zweite Teil der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie. 1973. Die Weltfestspiele der Jugend verwandeln den Berliner Alexanderplatz in ein Festivalgelände mit acht Millionen Besuchern. Während vordergründig freie Liebe, lange Haare und buntes Chaos herrschen, sieht Oberleutnant der Staatssicherheit Eickhoff die Gelegenheit, sich an einer alten Feindin zu rächen: der Spionin Ria Nachtmann. Mit dem Versuch, Rias Tochter auf seine Seite zu ziehen, kommt er ihr gefährlich nahe.

Abridged edition, read by Alex Jennings (The Undeclared War, This Is Going to Hurt). As the Nazis bring Denmark to its knees, a resistance forms – and make a discovery that could turn the tide of war. From the master storyteller Ken Follett, Hornet Flight is a startling thriller set amidst the...

His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk’s efforts doubly difficult, since he’s forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.