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Delusion
by Peter AbrahamsThe monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville. It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder. Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau identified Alvin "Pirate" DuPree as the murderer who killed her boyfriend right in front of her--and she later went on to marry the detective, now the police chief, who made the arrest. She and Clay raised a daughter and had a happy life--but now Pirate is free, leaving Nell haunted by doubt, guilt, fear . . . and troubling hints that a rot may be festering at her own family's core. For the sake of her sanity, her marriage, and the safety of those she loves, Nell must uncover the truth about a nightmare that will not end. But the search is leading her into twisting dark alleys she might never escape from . . . where a wild card ex-con waits in the shadows.
Delusion: A Mystery (Peter Zak Mysteries #3)
by G. H. EphronFrom the acclaimed author of Amnesia and Addiction comes the story of a paranoid man accused of killing his wife-is he ill, or is he a great actor trying to get away with murder?Forensic neuropsychologist at Boston's prestigious Pearce Psychiatric Center and expert defense witness Peter Zak regularly testifies at murder trials on issues like a defendant's conception of right and wrong or the reliability of a witness's memory. This time a lawyer calls Peter to the scene of a crime-Nick Babikian has just found his wife brutally stabbed and floating in their backyard pool. The lawyer wants Peter to assess Nick's state of mind. A brilliant but paranoid man who's made millions inventing and marketing his own computer role-playing game, he was working in the house while his wife was stabbed, and he's certain to be accused of wielding the knife. Nick claims his innocence, but he has no proof, though certainly some of what he claims seems true. For example, there are signs his wife was having an affair. And oddly, the longer they work together, the more Peter relates to Nick's feelings. For Peter himself becomes more and more convinced that his own wife's killer, a man who's supposed to be serving life in prison, is somehow tormenting him at home and at work.It's up to Peter to separate fact from fiction in this chilling entry in a masterful series.
Delusion: A Tom Fox Enovella
by Tom FoxHow much dare you believe? Fans of Dan Brown's Origin, Robert Harris and Simon Toyne will love this gripping prequel to electrifying conspiracy thriller, The Seventh Commandment.In the heart of Rome, one man will kill another - and touch evil.When Father Laurence de Luca receives a mysterious letter, everything changes in an instant. The handwritten note is signed by D and M, two nameless strangers who claim to know the disillusioned priest - and understand the despair he has been hiding for years.Who are these two men, who promise so much?And, as Laurence is increasingly drawn into their dark world of ritual and experiences he can't explain, he finds himself tested like never before... Available exclusively in ebook, this is the prequel to Tom Fox's electrifying novel, The Seventh Commandment. Readers love Tom Fox's gripping conspiracy thrillers: 'Entertaining and well researched... ideal holiday read''Tom Fox is hitting his stride... hugely entertaining, fast-moving stories''Another fine mystery thriller that is both well written and as intriguing as it is exciting, and its Rome setting is excellent!'
Delusion
by Ms Laura L. SullivanOpening-night jitters are nothing new for seventeen-year-old Phil and her sister Fee, who come from a centuries-old line of stage illusionists. The girls love to dazzle London audiences, but in the aftermath of the Blitz they're shipped off to the countryside, away from the bombs and Nazis. Phil, however, wants to fight for her country, and when she stumbles upon a hidden college of real magicians led by the devastatingly handsome Arden, all she wants to do is persuade them to help England win the war. She'll risk anything to give her country a fighting chance, even if it means losing her heart ...or her life.
Delusion in Death (In Death #35)
by J. D. Robb'What would cause someone to want so many people, surely many of them strangers, to slaughter each other?'The scene that greets Lieutenant Eve Dallas one terrible evening in New York is more shocking than she has ever witnessed. The downtown bar is strewn with bodies - office workers who have been sliced, bludgeoned or hacked to death with the nearest weapon available, turning on each other in a desperate blinding rage.As Eve and her husband Roarke - who owns the bar among his many properties - investigate the city, they link the attacks back to the Urban Wars and the chemical warfare used all those years ago. With another slaughter imminent, Eve must turn to unexpected sources to stop a killer pursuing revenge by creating mass carnage . . .
Delusion in Death (In Death #35)
by J. D. RobbIt was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown--until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things--monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity--if not kill them outright. But that doesn't explain who would unleash such horror--or why. Eve's husband, Roarke, happens to own the bar, but he's convinced the attack wasn't directed at him. It's bigger than that. And if Eve can't figure it out fast, it could happen again, anytime, anywhere. Because it's airborne...
Delusion World
by Gordon R. DicksonThere had to be a reason why that isolated human colony had been able to survive mankind's implacable enemies. But nobody had been able to get to the quaintly named Dunroamin to find out. If they had a secret defense, it could be the answer to a hundred planets' prayers. And Feliz Gebrod realized as he came in for a crash landing that he'd know the secret sooner than he'd expected. Except that what he encountered was a life-and-death riddle that had nothing to do with stellar defense. It was this: how can two mutually irreconcilable Utopias occupy the same space at the same time?
Delusion World
by Gordon R DicksonThere had to be a reason why that isolated human colony had been able to survive mankind's implacable enemies. But nobody had been able to get to the quaintly named Dunroamin to find out.If they had a secret defence, it could be the answer to a hundred planets' prayers. And Feliz Gebrod realized as he came in for a crash landing that he'd know the secret sooner than he'd expected.Except that what he encountered was a life-and-death riddle that had nothing to do with stellar defence. It was this: how can two mutually irreconcilable Utopias occupy the same space at the same time?
Delusione: Il Respiro di Lucy
by Jerry BaderIn una fredda mattina di novembre a New York City nel 1953, uno scienziato che lavorava per la CIA su esperimenti psicotropi di controllo della mente si allontanò dal balcone del decimo piano dello Statler Hotel. Era diventato sempre più disincantato dal lavoro bizzarro e incredibilmente pericoloso che stava facendo al servizio della sicurezza nazionale. Nonostante il suo patriottismo, lo scienziato sentiva che il lavoro della sua vita era immorale e sicuramente illegale. Voleva uscirne, purtroppo, sapeva troppo, e sapere troppo è una posizione molto precaria in cui trovarsi se si lavora per un'operazione clandestina gestita dalla versione americana di Josef Mengele, l'angelo della morte. Lo scienziato ha insistito per tirarsi fuori ed è uscito dalla finestra del balcone dello Statler Hotel in quella frizzante mattina d'autunno a Manhattan. Fu il suicidio la sua soluzione per terminare il suo patto con il diavolo o fu il diavolo a farlo fuori? È impossibile dirlo. Le prove, anche se in piena vista, sono torbide e offuscate dal tempo e dall'autoconservazione dei responsabili. So cosa state pensando, non della mia America, non dei miei amati Stati Uniti, non della casa dei coraggiosi e della terra della libertà. Ma purtroppo è successo; è il tipo di cose che succedono quando i governi sentono una minaccia esistenziale. L'America ha un grosso difetto, un tallone d'Achille di prospettiva e di atteggiamento; non riesce a capire la storia e il suo posto in essa. Questo concetto è racchiuso nelle parole del filosofo George Santayana: "Coloro che non possono ricordare il passato sono condannati a ripeterlo". Se credete che non possa accadere qui, vi esorto a dare un'occhiata a The Wall Street Putsch del 1933, e al nome di uno dei partecipanti. Potreste trovarlo informativo. Potrebbe accadere di nuovo. L'America è sotto assedio da una serie di minacce esistenziali. Non è una teoria del complotto da strapazzo; è storia. La d
Delusion's Master (Flat Earth #3)
by Tanith LeeA recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won numerous awards for her craft, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.Delusion’s Master is the third book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. A long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Chuz, Prince of Madness, third of the Lords of Darkness—beauty on one side, foul corruption on the other—“takes pity” on the world. In his gentle, soft embrace, mortal minds repose in a tide of illusion and twisted desire. Yet no one is immune from the sweetest madness of all, and even immortals fall at the cast of the bone dice….Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love. Discover the wonder that is the Flat Earth.
Delusions of Grandma
by Carrie FisherHollywood screenwriter Cora Sharpe has what her friends call a "big loud life." She has a romantic relationship with Ray which has its ups and downs and creates a baby; her writing partner and confidant Bus has and is on a bipolar roller coaster; and she takes care of her friend William in his last months as he dies of AIDS. She, her mother and Bud kidnap her Alzheimer-stricken grandfather and take him to his birthplace in Texas. Adult because of profanity and sexual situations.
Delusions of the Dead (The Necrophobe Series #2)
by T.C. ArmstrongFirst came segregation. Then separation. Then extermination . . . The taut, terrifying followup to Notes from a Necrophobe.Swarm intelligence, observed in ant colonies and beehives, was found in its most dangerous form at the microbial level–and it was this collective intelligence that brought on the apocalypse.Only ten people made it out of the Mclean High School Refugee Center alive. They enjoy their celebrity status–until they discover they’ve been infected with the same parasites that reanimate the dead. Soon they find themselves on the run, hunted by the very institution that saved them from the apocalypse. Now, as they continue to fight external forces, they’re struggling against the commands from the parasites in their brains: Scratch. Bite. Kill. Repeat . . .
The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms
by Jacob WeisbergThe Bush era has been a special time -- for the deficit (back, and larger than ever), for the countries formerly known as our allies, and for the English language. Here it all is, straight from the horse's, er, mouth. With new Bushisms coming fast and furious in this election season, ace Bushism editor Jacob Weisberg offers a must-read compendium and "explanation" of the first term. Read President Bush's eye-popping description of his economic policy:"See, without the tax relief package, there would ha...
dem (Black Arts Movement Ser.)
by William Melvin KelleyA searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America.Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and his toddler son, Jake, has become a disappointment. He feels trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life and though domestic violence is not in Mitchell's character, it is never very far away. Mitchell withdraws to a fantasy world where he can act out his unfulfilled sexual desires. Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household. The twins that Tam is carrying are a result of superfecundation--the fertilization of two separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him take his baby. In the tradition of Brer Rabbit trickster tales, dem enacts a modern-day fable of the turning the tables on the white oppressor and inverting the history of miscegenation and subjugation of African Americans.
dem (Black Arts Movement Ser.)
by William Melvin Kelley'A master at using humour to underscore the horror of racism, William Melvin Kelley is a writer whose work, decades later, continues to shed light on that which millions of people would rather remain hidden'MATEO ASKARIPOUR, AUTHOR OF BLACK BUCKA searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America.Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his toddler son, Jake. Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it is never very far away, either.Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick up the family's black maid, Opal, for a date. Cooley it turns out is not a stranger to the household. The twins that Tam is carrying are a result of superfecundation--the fertilization of two separate ova by two different males. So when one child is born black and the other white, Mitchell goes on a quest to find Cooley and make him take his baby.In the tradition of Brer Rabbit trickster tales, dem enacts a modern-day fable of turning the tables on the white oppressor and inverting the history of miscegenation and subjugation of African Americans.
Demand: Inside Out (Careless Whispers #2)
by Lisa Renee JonesThe sexy, breathtaking mystery continues in New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones’s stunning second novel in the suspenseful Careless Whispers series—where shocking revelations will reveal themselves and nothing, and no one, will ever be the same.Still struggling with amnesia, Ella questions everything she’s known about Kayden Wilkens—the alluring stranger who claims to have found her unconscious in an alleyway a month earlier. But was he truly a stranger—or did Kayden know her before his supposed rescue? Tormented by the potential betrayal he denies, with fleeting memories of a bombshell in her recent past, Ella must face a hard reality. Every action has consequences . . . and trusting Kayden, the one thing she most desires, might result in the direst consequences of all. New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones, whose searing novels generate “enough heat . . . to start a fire” (RT Book Reviews), dares you to fall in love with her irresistibly surprising and sexy new series.
Demand of the Dragon
by Kristin MillerDespite their attraction, dragon shifter Caleb Rycroft always saw Lucy Sheffield as off-limits. Now, three years after mysteriously disappearing, Caleb has returned and wants nothing more than to show Lucy the ecstasy that can be shared between dragon and rider. But Lucy is set to claim another dragon at her brother's demand... In order to stop the arranged claiming, he and Lucy must embark on a frantic mission to find her brother and extinguish a growing threat to their entire isle. If they fail, the island of Feralon will perish...along with any hopes Caleb had to explore his forbidden desire for Lucy...
Demanding His Brother's Heirs (Billionaires and Babies #27)
by Michelle CelmerTwins mean double the trouble! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Celmer! Is Holly Shay seeing a ghost? The man on her doorstep is the spitting image of her baby twins' late father, but when he explains who he is, she feels relief and attraction...not necessarily in that order. When he hears that his troubled twin brother has died, Jason Cavanaugh rushes in to help his nephews. And if staking his claim on the kids means claiming Holly as his own, he's game-up to a point. Because there's a time bomb ticking inside Jason that could blow his chances with Holly right out of the water...
Demanding His Desert Queen (Royal Brides For Desert Brothers Ser. #2)
by Annie WestDuty bound at the altar…Passionately reunited in his bed!Desert prince Karim needs a bride to ensure his smooth ascension to the throne. Intelligent, captivating Queen Safiyah is the perfect choice, yet the pain of their broken engagement remains.This time Karim’s demands are simple: a diplomatic agreement, nothing more, for their country’s sake. But Safiyah’s reunion with Karim, the man she was forbidden from loving, is anything but convenient! Duty may have brought them back together, but it’s their undeniable bond that will force them to confront a still-burning desire…
Demanding His Hidden Heir (Secret Heirs of Billionaires #26)
by Jackie AshendenA sizzling weekend changes the Italian billionaire’s life—forever—in this “enjoyable and sexy ‘secret baby’ second chance romance” (Harlequin Junkie).Enzo Cardinali had never known a passion like the one he shared with Matilda St. George during their red-hot Caribbean fling. Beautiful, irresistible Matilda made brooding Enzo crave something more for the first time. But when she left abruptly, he vowed to forget her, rebuilding the walls around his damaged heart. Now Matilda has reappeared—with his son! Enzo demands his heir, but will he claim vibrant Matilda, too?Feel the heat in this tantalizing tale—with a hidden heir twist!
Demanding His Secret Son (Secret Heirs of Billionaires)
by Louise Fuller“You want to get married—again?” He’ll do anything to secure his shock child!By the time Theodora realized she was pregnant, her turbulent marriage to Greek hotel magnate Aristotle Leonidas was already over. Since then, she’s zealously guarded her secret… Until Aristotle discovers his heir—and demands Teddie marry him again! But even with their chemistry as red-hot as ever, Teddie wants more this time. Now to claim his son, Aristo must reclaim his wife!A reunion romance with a secret baby twist.
Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book
by Paul LopesHow is it that comic books—the once reviled form of lowbrow popular culture—are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for bestselling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art and subculture to provide a social history of the American comic book over the last 75 years. Lopes analyzes the cultural production, reception, and consumption of American comic books throughout American history. He charts the rise of superheroes, the proliferation of serials, and the emergence of graphic novels. Demanding Respect explores how comic books born in the 1930s were perceived as a “menace” in the 1950s, only to later become collectors’ items and eventually “hip” fiction in the 1980s through today. Using a theoretical framework to examine the construction of comic book culture—the artists, publishers, readers and fans—Lopes explains how and why comic books have captured the public’s imagination and gained a fanatic cult following.
The Demands (Tom Thorne Ser. #10)
by Mark BillinghamThe Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate. The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?
The Demas Revelation
by Shane JohnsonDuring a dig in Rome, Dr. Anna Meridian--an archaeologist and woman of faith--uncovers the find of a lifetime: ancient documents dating to the time of the apostles, confessions that the early Christians are perpetrating a falsehood. She decides she must keep the documents' existence a secret, but word eventually leaks out. Many turn from their faith as another earth shattering discovery sheds more light on the validity of the manuscripts. The archaeologist searches for meaning in it all--why did these manuscripts come to light and what is her part in God's plan?