Author: C. L. Anderson
Publisher: Spectra
Keywords: angels, bitter
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553592173
ISBN-13: 9780553592177
An Imploding Star System.A Murdered Galactic Spy.A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families is a slave of one kind or another. But the Guardians, a special-forces branch inside the United World Government for Earth, have deemed Erasmus a “hot spot.” Somehow, it is believed, this failing colony intends to launch a war upon the solar system.Ex-Field Commander Terese Drajeske, now a mother of three, has been called
Author: Ian Tregillis
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: seeds, bitter
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0765321505
ISBN-13: 9780765321503
It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilitiesa woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present
Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: harvest, bitter
Published: 1998
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743202783
ISBN-13: 9780743202787
Author: Charles N. Li
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: mao, china, coming, sea, bitter
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061709549
ISBN-13: 9780061709548
Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official. He saw his father jailed for treason and his family’s fortunes dashed when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists came to power in 1945. He watched from his aunt’s Shanghai apartment as the Communist army seized the city in 1948. He experienced the heady materialism of the decadent foreign "white ghosts" in British Hong Kong and starved within the harsh confines of a Communist reform school. Over the course of twenty-one tumultuous years, he went from Li Na, the dutiful Chin
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Axios Pre
Keywords: lemons, bitter
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1604190043
ISBN-13: 9781604190045
In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.
Author: Roopa Farooki
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: sweets, bitter
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312382065
ISBN-13: 9780312382063
With this spellbinding first novel about the destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family tell each other, Roopa Farooki adds a fresh new voice to the company of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arudhati Roy.Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer father never misses a business opportunity and whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. Ricky will learn the truth about his seductive bride, but the way is already paved for a future of double lives and deception--family tr
Author: Hans Bernd Gisevius
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: bitter
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 1998-08-22
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0306808692
ISBN-13: 9780306808692
"The most exhaustive and authentic-sounding account of the conspiracy to kill Hitler. . . . An intimate, unadorned history of the Third Reich and, entirely incidentally, a very exciting spy-and-counterspy story".--"The New Yorker".
