World War II seethes across the planet. Hostilities spread in ever-widening circles of destruction: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Britain, France, Japan, Italy Africa - the fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy arrives. Out of the skies comes an invasion force the like of which Earth has never known - and worldwar is truly joined. The invaders are inhuman and they are unstoppable. Their weaponry is overwhelming and their goal is simple: Fleetlord Atvar has arrived to claim Earth for the Empire.'The wizard of If.' Chicago Sun-Times'The standard-bearer for alternate history.' USA Today

Worldwar : In the Balance

Literature & Fiction

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Genre Fiction

No Exit Press

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Robbins,Tom

Robert B. Parker's Debt to Pay

Robert B. Parker's Debt To Pay

Coleman, Reed Farrel

Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and still howling for Ray Boy's blood. When the chips are down and the gun is drawn, Conway finds that he doesn't have murder in him. Thus begins a spiral of self-loathing and soul-searching into which he is joined by Alessandra, a failed actress caring for her widowed father, and Eugene, Ray Boy's hellbound nephew. Ray Boy Calabrese is back in Gravesend: some people worship him, some want him dead . . . but none more so than the ex-con himself.'Boyle's writing is raw, poetic, unflinching, nostalgic, and perverse. Urgency inhabits his pages, and the characters live on weeks after you put the book down. Gravesend is a novel read in a day, and then again, slowly' - LA Review of Books'Like all the best crime writers, Boyle is both a masterful storyteller and a powerful stylist...He has a sense of humour and a sense of place. Most of all, though, he has the true novelist's true feeling for his characters' - North Dakota Quarterly'Gravesend is a taut exploration of the ways we hurt and save (or try to save) one another. With unforgettable characters, a fist for a plot, and a deeply evocative setting, Boyle navigates alleys and streets with the best of them, Lehane, Price, and Pelecanos' - Tom Franklin, NYT bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and winner of the LA Times Book Prize

Gravesend

Boyle, William

From the LA Times Book Prize-winning author comes a suspenseful and mind-bending novel about Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope now a major TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen MolChance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence; a tale told amid the back streets of California s Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean.The antihero of this book, Dr. Eldon Chance, a neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into Dr. Chance s blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused, attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her; or is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isn t quite sure and soon finds himself up against her husband, Raymond, a formidable and dangerous adversary.Meanwhile, Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio of unique and dangerous individuals that long-guarded secrets begin to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctor s carefully arranged life comes to the brink of implosion.Chance is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down head trip through the fun house of fate; it's not pretty, it's not sweet, but it is disturbing and unforgettable. 'Chance takes place in the twilit world of noir, where people and things are never what they seem...For all the mayhem - its ending is delicately funny' - New York Times Book Review'Is it too much to compare Kem Nunn to Raymond Chandler Like Chandler, Nunn s great subject is what lies beneath the surface, the desolation that infuses us at every turn..

Chance

Nunn, Kem.

Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last.Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment.But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser's card.A self-proclaimed military hotshot, Welles had been a frequent guest on national news shows speaking with authority about politics and world events. But when he disappears, he leaves not only a jilted lover but a growing list of angry investors, duped cops, and a team of paramilitary contractors looking for revenge.Enter Spenser, who quickly discovers that everything about Welles is phony. His name, his resume, and his client list are nothing but an elaborate fraud. But uncovering the truth won't be easy, as he'll have to keep the mystery man alive long enough to get back his client's money. As the trail winds from Boston to backroads Georgia, Spenser will need help from trusted allies Hawk and Teddy Sapp to make sure Welles's next con is his last.'Robert B Parker's Spenser is one of the best private detectives in fiction' - Sunday Telegraph'Spenser is as tough and funny as ever, and Atkins has become a worthy successor' - Booklist

Little White Lies: A Spenser Novel

Atkins, Mr Ace

Among The Ruins

Zehanat Khan, Ausma

Amid a global crisis, one woman searches for justice...
The Syrian refugee crisis just became personal for Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty.
NGO worker Audrey Clare, sister of Khattak's childhood friend, is missing.
In her wake, a French Interpol Agent and a young Syrian man are found dead at the Greek refugee camp where she worked.
Khattak and Getty travel to Greece to trace Audrey's last movements in a desperate attempt to find her. In doing so, they learn that her work in Greece had strayed well beyond the remit of her NGO...
Had Audrey been on the edge of exposing a dangerous secret at the heart of the refugee crisis - one that ultimately put a target on her own back?
No Place of Refuge is a highly topical, moving mystery in which Khan sensitively exposes the very worst and best of humanity. Fans of the series will love this latest instalment.
Find out where it all began catch up on the rest of the Detective Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty series: The Unquiet Dead, The Language of Secrets, A Death in Sarajevo (a novella) and Among the Ruins.

No Place of Refuge

Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Emperor Of Shoes

Spencer Wise

Contemporary

'It's the women who make this novel such a great read. They are glorious and mad, vulnerable, so human, and very, very funny' - Roddy Doyle
Thelma and Louise meets Goodfellas when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts.
After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes an unwanted move on her, she retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged daughter, Adrienne, and her granddaughter, Lucia, only to be turned away at the door. Their neighbor, Lacey 'Wolfie' Wolfstein, a one-time Golden Age porn star and retired Florida Suncoast grifter, takes Rena in and befriends her. When Lucia discovers that Adrienne is planning to hit the road with her ex-boyfriend, she figures Rena is her only way out of a life on the run with a mother she can't stand. The stage is set for an explosion that will propel Rena, Wolfie, and Lucia down a strange path, each woman running from their demons, no matter what the cost.
A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself is a novel about finding friendship and family where you least expect it, in which William Boyle again draws readers into the familiar - and sometimes frightening - world in the shadows at the edges of New York's neighborhoods.
'A thunderous locomotive of a novel, driven by remarkable characters and sparkling dialogue. A treat for fans of neo-noir, it's brimming with dark wit and piercing insight. Highly recommended' - Stuart Neville, author of The Twelve
'The three wondrous and resilient women at its center are so richly etched, so powerfully voiced, you'll find yourself wanting to pull up to the dinner table with them, grab a glass, and tuck in' - Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me and The Fever
'Wolfie Wolfstein is as comfortably intact a creature as any crime writer of recent vintage has put together' - Barry Gifford, author of Sailor &amp; Lula:The Complete Novels and The Cuban Club
'A brilliant and nasty piece of joyful ambiguity that I loved deeply. What a marvelous and unexpected bunch of female characters, in particular. With this one, William Boyle vaults into the big time, or he damn sure should' - Joe R. Lansdale

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself

William Boyle

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