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The Road to Victory
David Colley
The Red Ball Operation, the vital train of supplies improvised by American troops during the invasion of Europe, was one of the GIs' bravest exploits, without which World War II would have dragged on at a terri...
Murder by Manicure
Nancy J. Cohen
Both Nancy J. Cohen's debut title PERMED TO DEATH, and her follow-up, HAIR RAISER, have wowed fans and critics alike. Now, in this eagerly anticipated third entry in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series, stylist...
Always Leave 'Em Dying
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and sex and violence on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs ...
Anvil of Stars
Greg Bear
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking ...
South of Heaven
Jim Thompson
Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas pipeline with a motley work crew of hoboes, alcoholics,...
Alone in the Ashes
William W. Johnstone
America the beautiful has gone hellishly awry. Nuclear war has descended on Main St. USA and left two things in its horrible wake: apocalyptic anarchy and Ben Raines, a lone patriot with a compulsion for pul...
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
T.R. Fehrenbach
T.R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever publishe...
Courting an Angel
Patricia Grasso
There was a familiar feel in the air. She knew it well, knew exactly by whom that sensation had been provoked. But could it be? Could it really be he? He was the one man who set her soul on fire. He was also th...
This Kind of War
T.R. Fehrenbach
THIS KIND OF WAR is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Korean-American conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting United States' foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this en...
Anvil of Stars
Greg Bear
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking ...
War Surf
M. M. Buckner
What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death?
You’d invent a thrill sport…
"An Innovative and exciting read. A treat."
– C.J. Cherryh
Sounding
Hank Searls
"He had a brain biologically identical to man’s but seven times its weight and volume," writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man’s attacks on his kind driv...
Love's Wild Desire
Jennifer Blake
It starts as a case of mistaken identity but it will slowly blossom into the union of two people so right for each other that all of New Orleans society will stand up and take notice. As soon as aristocratic Ra...
After the Storm
Janet Dailey
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a differ...
Snake Eye
William C. Dietz
FBI Special Agent Christina Rossi had it all—for a while: a loving family, a career on an upward track, the works. Then a takedown of some eco-terrorists turned unexpectedly bloody, questions are being aske...
No Quarter Asked
Janet Dailey
Janet Dailey wrote her first novel, No Quarter Asked in 1974 after her husband, Bill, urged her to back up her claim that she could write a better romance novel than the ones she had read. The book was accept...
Publishers Lunch Deluxe, picking up on a story in PRNewswire, reports that Discovery Communications has filed a patent infringement lawsuit alleging that Discovery’s founder, John S. Hendricks, invented and patented a Kindle-like e-book delivery system back in the 1990s.
Discovery hasn’t sought an injunction, but simply seeks compensation. They have not (yet, at any rate), sued Sony or other e-book device manufacturers or service providers. That includes the inventors of the Rocket Book, the putative mother of all e-books, which has been around for eleven years.
What took Discovery so long to file its suit? That will undoubtedly come out in the wash, so watch these pages for updates.
RC
Publishers Lunch Deluxe, picking up on a story in PRNewswire, reports that Discovery Communications has filed a patent infringement lawsuit alleging that Discovery’s founder, John S. Hendricks, invented and patented a Kindle-like e-book delivery system back in the 1990s.
