Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 12 November 2010
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Iron Tiger
Jack Drummond is an adventurer -- a tough ex-naval pilot who is fed up with too many hot countries and strange cities. He resolves to fly only one more mission. Dropping off an illegal shipment of arms in Tibet (his last), Drummond is suddenly caught up in a bloody border war. To escape he must fly a boy king and a very beautiful woman to safety
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 10 November 2010
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The Second Time Around
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found.
Award-winning author Nevada Barr is a perennial New York Times best-seller whose immensely popular Anna Pigeon series delights mystery fans around the world. This time, just married Anna is bound for Rocky Mountain National Park and a new post as Park Ranger. But no sooner does she arrive that she finds herself involved in the vanishing case of three young girls. When two of the girls suddenly reappear claiming to know nothing of the whereabouts of the third, Anna begins to suspect an evil presence lurking within the tranquil mountain sanctuary.
And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
This legendary book was first published in English in 1990. It has been re-translated and extensively revised, including material not found in the original translation. It is Altshuller's most popular book in Russia on how to become an inventor, and how to solve technical problems. The translator, Lev Shulyak, is himself an accomplished inventor, engineer and TRIZ expert.
Returning to L'Escala, the idyllic Spanish village where they were once so happy, Oz Blackstone and Primavera Phillips are looking to forget the past, but old ghosts are not so easy to placate, and the shade of Oz's childhood sweetheart Jan, now tragically dead, is threatening to turn their relationship into a seething cauldron of recrimination. Until a body turns up face down in the swimming pool of their new villa, and suddenly they are very much back in harness again. Faced with the indifference of the local police, Oz and Prim are forced to investigate themselves...