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1) Hyperion
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Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there awaits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who've vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion...
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Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
In the continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, the far future is resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same
3) Black Hills
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Language
English
Description
Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy--on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.
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Series
Summer of night volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly...
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English
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"In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus--his three-year absence after Reichenbach...
7) Ilium
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Series
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The first installment of a new saga based on themes from "The Iliad" and "The Tempest" places classical characters and gods in such settings as the Plains of Ilium, the terraformed oceans of Mars, and Jupiter space.
8) Olympos
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Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectator mission to discover the underlying...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley,...
11) Endymion
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
It is 274 years after the Fall and the universe is in chaos. Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, is chosen as a pawn in a cosmic game whose outcome will determine the fate of humanity. Selected as a bodyguard to the next messiah, Endymion will cross time, space, and the very fabric of reality as her protector, lover, and finally disciple. At the same time, the enigmatic Shrike, part monster, part killing machine, part avenging...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
America, 2036. Powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs ex-cop Nick Bottom's services, and, in particular, his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura's son, Bottom's flashbacks hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career. But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to his wife's death, it is not only Hiroshi Nakamura who wants...
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Series
Joe Kurtz novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Joe Kurtz finds himself targeted by the Farino crime family and learns that the person who committed the crime for which he was imprisoned for eleven years is being protected.
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The men on board the HMS TERROR are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations and a dwindling coal supply. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
17) Hard as nails
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Series
Joe Kurtz novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
18) Drood: a novel
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens finds the fifty-three-year-old literary master irrevocably changed when a train journey with his mistress ends in violence.
20) Hardcase
Author
Series
Joe Kurtz novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Former private detective Joe Kurtz finds himself in over his head when semi-retired crime boss Don Byron Farino hires him to find the New York mob's missing accountant, a man with far too much knowledge of the Family business.