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Super Spy
by Matt KindtFrom New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes this deluxe hardcover edition of the meta-spy thriller exploring the geography of espionage through interconnected short stories that can be read sequentially and out-of-order.Super Spy is Pulp Fiction meets James Bond—fifty-two interwoven short stories about cyanide, pen-guns, heartbreak, and betrayal. Each story follows the life of a spy during World War II. Spanning the globe from Spain to France and Germany, this book takes the reader on a tour of the everyday life of the spy. From the small lies and deceptions to the larger secrets that everyone hides, Super Spy reveals the nature of espionage and how an individual can be lost and also find redemption. A children&’s book is something more than it seems...a woman swims the English Channel to deliver a deadly secret...a German spy desperately seeks escape for herself and her daughter...and a spy continues to serve his country even beyond death. This deluxe edition also collects Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers: a "secret spy activity book for grown-ups" including comics, toys, codes, sketches, diagrams, annotations to the original Super Spy, deleted scenes, standalone spy stories, sketchbook pages, 3-D comics, spy gadget diagrams, keys to unlock secret codes hidden throughout the original book, toys and stories for you to cut out and assemble! PLUS: illustrations, photos, and commentary from Matt explaining the real-world spy origins of his stories and techniques and also featuring a brand new cover illustrated by Matt Kindt. Collects Super Spy Volume 1 and Super Spy: The Lost Dossiers.
Super in the City (The Zephyr Books #1)
by Daphne UvillerIn this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door--and a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys. In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big break--though it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parents' Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs, unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenants--from a smoky-voiced Frenchwoman who entertains throngs of unsavory visitors to a moody musician who just has to be hiding something--and realizing that her new reality is far more intriguing than her imagination.Soon Zephyr has sussed out wrongs that stretch from losers on the Internet to art fraud and an international crime ring. The mob thinks she's in the FBI, and the FBI thinks she's in the mob--a predicament she needs to clear up fast. But perhaps not before the cute, surly exterminator helps her solve the mystery of what to do with the rest of her life....From the Trade Paperback edition.
Super-Cannes: A Novel
by J. G. BallardIn this acclaimed speculative novel, the author of Crash imagines an exclusive business park that hides a ghastly mystery: “One of his finest” (San Francisco Chronicle).For forty years, J.G. Ballard has shared his unnervingly prescient vision of where civilization was headed. He kept his unflinching eye on the point where technological progress has worn away our humanity. And Super-Cannes is Ballard at his best: “Rarely has his vision been so total, his creation so complete” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park. Isolated and secure, overlooking the French Riviera, it is a virtual city-state offering the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Yet one day Dr. Greenwood from Eden-Olympia’s clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and she and her husband, Paul, are given Dr. Greenwood’s house as a residence.Convalescing after an accident, Paul becomes fascinated with Dr. Greenwood and his shocking crimes. Clues in the house lead him to question Eden-Olympia’s official account. While Jane is lured deeper into Eden-Olympia’s inner workings, Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain its smoothly running surface. Soon he finds himself in race against crushing forces that may be beyond anyone’s control.
SuperJack (A Billy Rucker Crime Thriller)
by Adam BaronA footballer can&’t outrun the truth in this non-stop crime thriller from the author of Hold Back the Night. &“Baron is a writer to watch.&” —The Sunday Telegraph Only hours after meeting footballer Jack Draper—&“SuperJack&” to his adoring fans—Billy Rucker is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison. A girl who, it appears, was Jack Draper&’s mistress. Jack had wanted Billy to catch his stalker. But now all the evidence points to SuperJack being a cold-blooded killer. With the footballer on the run, his career in tatters, his wife hires Billy to hunt down the truth, however devastating it might be . . . SuperJack is a crime thriller that won&’t let go, perfect for fans of Robert Bryndza and Stuart MacBride. Praise for the writing of Adam Baron &“Urban noir has found a twenty-first century champion in hot new writer Adam Baron, and his street-smart, brutal and unfeasibly attractive hero . . . An unmissable series.&” —Shine Magazine &“Classy and able thriller, with crunchy London backgrounds . . . An agile and ingenious plot . . . (The) forecast for the series is excellent.&” —Literary Review &“Rucker is an intelligent, reflective hero, a man well worth keeping an eye on.&” —Donna Leon, New York Times–bestselling author &“It is Rucker&’s disillusioned monologue that makes Shut Eye stand out . . . An accomplished first novel.&” —The Times
Superb and Sexy (Sky High Air #3)
by Jill ShalvisA pilot springs into action to protect a coworker in danger in this romantic suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Strong and Sexy. Despite his brooding bad-boy attitude, Brody&’s luxury charter airline, Sky High, provides the perfect escape route whenever things get complicated. And lately, things have become very complicated, thanks to the insanely passionate, or perhaps just insane, kiss he shared with Sky High&’s gorgeous, wisecracking concierge, Maddie. He&’s tried to keep his distance, but now Maddie desperately needs help, and it&’s triggering alpha-male urges Brody didn't even know he had—especially after he finds out that Maddie and her twin sister Leena are in big-time trouble. To save Leena, Maddie and Brody must pose as husband and wife. Good plan, except it&’s hard to tell if the heat in bed is acting or something too good to be true . . .Praise for Jill Shalvis and her novels&“Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.&” —Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author&“Hot, sweet, fun, and romantic! Pure pleasure!&” —Robyn Carr, New York Times bestselling author&“Witty, fun and sexy—the perfect romance!&” —Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author&“Jill Shalvis sweeps you away.&” —Cherry Adair, New York Times bestselling author
Superb and Sexy: A fun, feel-good office romance! (Sky High Air)
by Jill ShalvisHaving a SUPERB AND SEXY boss can be an irresistible distraction... A classic Jill Shalvis fun and sexy romance!If you love Holly Martin, Jill Mansell and Debbie Macomber, you'll LOVE Jill Shalvis and her irresistible trademark gift for humour, warmth and romance!'Perfect, feel-good fiction' Sarah Morgan on The Lemon SistersJill's books are guaranteed to make you smile:'You can't go wrong with a Jill Shalvis book' 5* reader review'A heartwarming read with all the feels' 5* reader review'Another winner... I cannot wait for more' 5* reader review'A riveting and comforting romance' 5* reader reviewDespite his brooding bad-boy attitude, Brody knows life has treated him pretty well. His luxury charter airline, Sky High, has given him financial security and the means to take to the skies whenever things on the ground get complicated. And lately, things have become very complicated, thanks to the insanely passionate, or perhaps just insane, kiss he shared with Sky High's gorgeous, wisecracking concierge, Maddie. He's tried to keep his distance, but now Maddie desperately needs help, and it's triggering protective alpha-male urges Brody didn't even know he had...For months, Maddie hid her crush on sexy, exasperating Brody behind a cool, kick-ass exterior...and then blew that to smithereens by jumping him in the lobby. She's tried to break her ties with Sky High, but Brody won't let her walk away - especially now that he knows that Maddie and her twin sister Leena are in big-time trouble. To save Leena, Maddie and Brody must pose as husband and wife, and Maddie is amazed that the man she thought was oblivious to her existence knows her very well indeed. But that's nothing compared to the way she's about to get to know him - intimately, in depth, and over and over again...Want more warm, funny romance? Check out all of Jill's feel-good series!- Wildstone- Heartbreaker Bay- Cedar Ridge- Lucky Harbor- Animal Magnetism- Sky High Air- Wilderas well as her standalones Aussie Rules and Get a Clue!
Superfluous Death (Mrs. Malory Mysteries #6)
by Hazel HoltThe sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judging character and unmasking murderers is as impressive as her knowledge of nineteenth-century literature. Mrs. Malory’s sleuthing talents are tested once again when she comes upon the body of one of her friends, a sweet elderly lady. Miss Graham’s death by poison is quite convenient for a local doctor of dubious reputation; the dead woman’s refusal to move thwarted Dr. Cowley’s plans to build a nursing home. But Mrs. Malory knows that nothing is as simple as it seems, especially when it is revealed that Miss Graham left a considerable fortune. Another suspicious death during a fireworks display further complicates matters. These two very different murders—one furtive, the other violent—can’t possibly be related. Or can they? Superfluous Death is the sixth of Hazel Holt’s Mrs. Malory mysteries.
Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple #22)
by Carola DunnThe Honorable Daisy Dalrymple-Fletcher is on a convalescent trip in the countryside, visiting old school friends. The three of them, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of 'superfluous women', brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - are invited for Sunday lunch, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below the house which remains resolutely locked. Alec picks the lock but when he eventually opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch becomes a much darker affair. Now Daisy's three friends are the suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness.. So before the local detective, DI Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.Critical Praise for The Daisy Dalrymple novels by Carola Dunn: "The period sense remains vivid, the characterizations are excellent, and the mysteries are, if anything, more perplexing than ever." The Oregonian on Rattle His Bones "Styx and Stones is a swift, deeply enjoyable read. While Dunn's influences are many, she ultimately makes this territory her own." The Register-Guard "Reading like an Agatha Christie thriller, Rattle His Bones is a charming look at life after the first World War." Romantic Times "Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place, and with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure." Publisher's Weekly on The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
Supergirl: An Origin Story (DC Super Heroes Origins)
by Steve BrezenoffHow did Supergirl become one of the Earth's greatest super heroes? Discover the story behind Kara Danvers' journey from Superman's kid cousin to full-fledged Justice League member, including the source of her out-of-this-world superpowers. With action-packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.
Superior Collision: Crossing Forces Book Five (Crossing Forces Ser. #5)
by C. A. SzarekColliding on the path to catch a killer… Special Agent Taylor Carrigan takes “control freak” to the extreme. Her need for structured rigidity rules her life—and her job at the FBI. She doesn’t do emotion, so when her fiancé is murdered, she doesn’t know how to deal with the internal fallout. Antioch Police Sergeant Shannon Crowley has been intrigued with the uptight FBI agent for months. When he looks at Taylor, he sees more than the mask she hides behind. She doesn’t have time for the cop who won’t quit chasing her—she’s got chasing to do of her own. Taylor admits he calms her, but he’s a distraction she can’t afford. She’s playing a dangerous game, riding the line between revenge and justice. Keeping Shannon close could give Taylor the balance she desperately needs, but it would put something more than her case in jeopardy: her heart. With so much on the line, is she capable of handling it?
Superior Death (Lake Superior Mystery #1)
by Matthew WilliamsSmall-town reporter Vince Marshall faces looming deadlines, an over-the-edge boss, a wife he suspects is cheating, and the challenge of balancing his career while raising a toddler. The last thing he needs is for his mother to become the suspect in a mysterious woman's death. Vince searches for answers and runs up against the town's irascible police chief, an untouchable influential family, and a rogue detective. Even more mystifying is his usually opinionated mother's infuriating silence. The harder he tries to uncover the truth, the more he realizes just how deep the levels of secrecy in this small Lake Superior town really go. With each exposed lie, Vince risks losing everything: his family, friends, and reputation. As Apostle Bay which is already divided by contentious union negotiations and teenage drug use struggles to survive the scandal, Vince must decide just how far he's willing to delve into a world of deception, deceit, and self-discovery.
Superior Deception (Lake Superior Mystery #2)
by Matthew WilliamsSmall-town reporter Vince Marshall has a plan to be a better dad wean himself from his cell phone and a 24/7 work mentality and spend more time with his toddler. But when his daughter discovers the local judge swinging from a noose at the playground and Vince's friend becomes a murder suspect, that plan unravels. With toddler in tow, Vince knocks heads with a coworker out for his beat and a mayor with questionable motives while chasing clues left by a senile grave robber. Meanwhile, arson, vandalism, domestic violence, and a contested election have the normally staid residents of Apostle Bay a quaint harbor town on the southern shore of Lake Superior at odds. Add Vince's wife Deb to the mix, leading a contentious protest at City Hall, and Vince finds his life once again out of control. Restoring order and saving his friend will require following a trail of deception to the solution of a 150-year-old mystery.
Superior Dilemma (Lake Superior Mystery #3)
by Matthew WilliamsEarl Parsons is a champion musher with a notorious past; he left Apostle Bay as a pariah, and his return for a sled dog race opens both old and new wounds in the community. Ex-FBI agent Steve Olsen is obsessed by the one case he couldn't close, spending his retirement stalking the prime suspect and seeking redemption. Gina Holt's daughter disappeared fourteen years ago and is presumed dead. Friends can't understand why she's bent on helping the man who was responsible--a second time. And someone is booby-trapping community trails, endangering tourists and snowmobilers. Only a vigilante group that police loathe may have the manpower to prevent the next attack. Reporter Vince Marshall is possibly the only one who can solve all these dilemmas, yet he's more concerned about his wife's mysterious illness than solving riddles of Apostle Bay's past. A Lake Superior winter brings with it some snow and a good dose of mayhem to this Vince Marshall thriller.
Superluminal: A Novel of Interplanetary Civil War
by Tony DanielA sci-fantasy with “an awesomely weird yet logical future . . . Utterly fascinating. . . . This is one entrancing web from which escape is hardly desirable.” —Washington Post Book WorldThe future is at war for the soul of humankind . . . It is a time when civilization has extended itself far into the outer reaches of the solar system, and in doing so has developed into something remarkable. But humanity's progeny—the nanotechnological artificial intelligences called “free converts”—face extermination at the hands of the tyrant Amés and his invincible armies, and once the Napoleonesque Director develops superluminal flight, his “Final Solution” will be all but assured.But hope remains alive in the outer system. From the fleeing refugees of a dozen moons and asteroids, General Roger Sherman has amassed an effective and adaptable military force, already forged into a formidable weapon in the fires of battle.However, time is a commodity the courageous Federal Army lacks, as total war erupts between the vast cloudships of the outer system and the deadly armada of the Met, a glorious and terrible conflict that will rage among the stars . . . and within the hearts and minds of every human being.“Spectacular.” —Publishers Weekly“Gripping.” —Booklist
Supernatural Born Killers
by Casey DanielsFormer cemetery tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin is thrilled when she gets her job back--with a promotion. But her new position is turning out to be more than she can handle, especially with the dead clamoring for her attention... As Garden View Cemetery's new community relations manager, Pepper is feeling overwhelmed with planning the annual party to attract new sponsors. Luckily, some of the cemetery's permanent residents have volunteered to give Pepper a ghostly hand, and she's not about to turn away the help. But when a murdered ghost starts leaving puddles everywhere, Pepper quickly finds her newly acquired free time occupied. The dead man is her ex-boyfriend Quinn's former partner Jack Haggarty--and he isn't going away until Pepper figures out the real reason behind his murder. And while Quinn recently had a brush with the afterlife, he still isn't ready to accept Pepper's abilities--or offer his skills as a detective. Now, Pepper has to convince Quinn she's the real deal and investigate Jack's death--before someone else meets their end in a watery grave...
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Classics To Go)
by Howard Phillips LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incalculable influence on all the horror-story writing of recent decades. Although his supernatural fiction has of late been enjoying an unprecedented fame, it is still not widely known that he wrote a critical history of supernatural horror in literature that has yet to be superseded as the finest historical discussion of the genre. This extraordinary work is presented in this volume in its final, revised text.With incisive penetration and power, Lovecraft here formulates the aesthetics of supernatural horror, and summarizes in masterful fashion the range of its literary expression from primitive folklore to the tales of his own 20th-century masters. Following a discussion of terror-literature in ancient, medieval and renaissance culture, he launches on a critical survey of the whole history of horror fiction from the Gothic school of the 18th century (when supernatural horror finally found its own genre) to the time of De la Mare and M. R. James. The Castle of Otranto, Radcliffe, "Monk" Lewis, Fathek, Charles Brockden Brown, Melmoth the Wanderer, Frankenstein, Bulwer-Lytton, Fongué's Undine, Wuthering Heights, Poe (an entire chapter), The House of the Seven Gables, de Maupassant's Horla, Bierce, The Turn of the Screw, M. P. Shiel, W. H. Hodgson, Machen, Blackwood, and Dunsany are among the authors and works discussed in depth. Lovecraft also notices a host of lesser supernatural writers — enough to draw up an extensive reading list.By charting so completely the background for his own concepts of horror and literary techniques, Lovecraft throws light on his own fiction as well as on the horror literature which has followed in his influential wake. For this reason this book will be especially intriguing to those who have read and enjoyed Lovecraft's fiction as an isolated phenomenon. These and other readers, searching for a guide through the inadequately marked region of literary horror, need search no further. New introduction by E. F. Bleiler.
Supernatural Noir
by Lucius Shepard Tom Piccirilli John Langan Jeffrey Ford Elizabeth Bear Gregory Frost Nick Mamatas Joe R. Lansdale Laird Barron Melanie Tem Brian Evenson Lee Thomas Caitlín R. Kiernan Richard Bowes Paul G. Tremblay Nate SouthardSixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction—from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others. Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives—but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous stalk their prey. At the behest of a beautiful blonde client, a small-town East Texas private eye is drawn into a case of grave robbing by someone—or something—with an unholy interest in &“Dead Sister&” by Joe R. Lansdale. Elizabeth Bear&’s &“The Romance&” takes partygoers on a wild ride when the centerpiece of a birthday celebration turns out to be a haunted merry-go-round. After robbing a pawnshop, a group of small-time crooks get their shocking comeuppance as they flee the scene in &“The Getaway&” by Paul G. Tremblay. &“Little Shit&” by Melanie Tem follows a college student with a very unique skill set as she makes money on the side taking down criminals.Supernatural Noir also includes bone-chilling tales from Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Brian Evenson, Gregory Frost, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Lee Thomas, Tom Piccirilli, Nate Southard, Nick Mamatas, and John Langan. &“This anthology has some of the most exciting fiction published in 2011. This is fiction that will make you uncomfortable, that will haunt you, that will show up in your dreams. . . . Horrifyingly wonderful.&” —Fantasy Literature
Supernatural Tales: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by He FengYuLiang"Hell is empty, the devil is in the world."The story is based on the folklore, the secret story of the Dragon Locking Well in Beixin Bridge in Beijing, the event of the cat-faced old lady in Northeast China, the story of Xiangxi Corpse Bandage, the story of the red-clothed boy in Shancheng, the incident of Penggamu Luobo …
Supernatural Tales: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by He FengYuLiang"Hell is empty, the devil is in the world."The story is based on the folklore, the secret story of the Dragon Locking Well in Beixin Bridge in Beijing, the event of the cat-faced old lady in Northeast China, the story of Xiangxi Corpse Bandage, the story of the red-clothed boy in Shancheng, the incident of Penggamu Luobo …
Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon
by Keith R. A. DecandidoA Supernatural novel that reveals a previously unseen adventure for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series! When renegade angel Castiel alerts Sam and Dean to a series of particularly brutal killings in San Francisco's Chinatown, they realise the Heart of the Dragon, an ancient evil of unspeakable power, is back! John Winchester faced the terrifying spirit 20 years ago, and the Campbell family fought it 20 years before that - can the boys succeed where their parents and grandparents failed?
Supernotes
by John Cullen Luigi Carletti Agent KasperIn the Cambodian hinterlands, a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot, muddy, interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs, he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming for him.This is Agent Kasper, a man with a staggering résumé: commercial airline pilot, firearms expert, highly accomplished practitioner of several of the martial arts, a secret agent par excellence. It is this incredible competence that will be his undoing. While investigating Mafia money laundering in Phnom Penh, Kasper is approached by the CIA to track down the source of the so-called supernotes--illegal U.S. banknotes counterfeited so perfectly that they are undetectable, even by sophisticated machines--that are flooding Southeast Asia. With patience, skill, and courage, Kasper uncovers the explosive secret behind them and is badly burned by the truth.Meanwhile, back in Rome, a sharp, scrappy lawyer named Barbara Belli has been hired by Kasper's family to work for his release. She has contacts in the foreign ministry, and while officials make sweeping claims about moving heaven and earth, nothing happens. It's more than just creaking bureaucracy. Kasper has really pissed off the wrong people.Based on true events in the life of a former spy, Kasper's journey makes for a shocking and spellbinding page-turner of petty corruption, high-level betrayal, and state secrets so powerful that governments will protect them by any means.From the Hardcover edition.
Superposition (Superposition Ser.)
by David WaltonA QUANTUM PHYSICS MURDER MYSTERY.A Mind-Bending, Near-Future, Science Fiction Technothriller.Jacob Kelley's family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker...apparently murdered the night he appeared at Jacob's house. Jacob is arrested for the murder and put on trial. As the details of the crime slowly come to light, the weave of reality becomes ever more tangled, twisted by a miraculous new technology and a quantum creature unconstrained by the normal limits of space and matter. With the help of his daughter, Alessandra, Jacob must find the true murderer before the creature destroys his family and everything he loves.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Superstar Watch (Boxcar Children #121)
by Gertrude Chandler Warner Robert PappThe Wundermutt dog food company is searching for a very special dog to be in their commercials, and the Aldens bring their dog, Watch, to the tryouts! But plenty of other dog owners are hoping their dogs get the job, too--including a dog that's already famous. Does Watch have what it takes to be a star?
Superstition
by David AmbroseFirmly in the tradition of horror masters like Stephen King and John Saul, this new novel brings a new touch of terror to the old-fashioned ghost story. In Superstition, a spirit spawned in the too-fertile imaginations of a group of individuals begins to wreak brutal vengeance on its creators.
Superstition
by Karen RobardsNicky Sullivan starts looking for a story for her failing investigative news program, and turns to the local psychic, her mother Leonora James, for help. The only problem is that her mother, who agreed to a live broadcast, is having problems with her ability to communicate with the dead, and Nicky is worried that the show will be a bust rather than a ratings booster. American Library Association