Austin: 1740 books

They watched their sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to fight a growing menace across the seas. And when their nation asked, they answered the call as well. Virginia longs to find a purpose beyond others' expectations. Helen is driven by a loneliness money can't fulfill. Rosa is desperate...

It seems a perfect backdrop for what Violet Hayes longs to experience: a little mystery, a little romance. To be honest, it is more than a little mystery. She schemed her way to Chicago to discover the mother she barely remembered. As for romance--well, with the help of her grandmother and...

Metropolis wasn’t a bad place, but it wasn’t a good one either. THESE MEAN STREETS, DARKLY is the prequel to the cyberpunk, detective series, LIQUID COOL. It’s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy,...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Bangkok is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Shop for anything and everything at Chatuchak Weekend Market, learn to make zesty...

 *   H2O* is a contemporary crossover women’s novel that tells the story of Kate Pepper, a successful young business woman in Seattle whose life is suddenly—and strangely—turned upside down. Unexplainable visions torment her every time she gets wet. Sinking into despair, frantic to avoid...

A street magician needs more than sleight-of-hand to survive in this dark, edgy crime thriller . . .   After years of chasing fame and hedonistic excess in the bright lights of Las Vegas, Rusty “The Raven” Diamond has returned home to Ocean City, Maryland, to piece his life back together....

Jack and Sarah investigate a series of gruesome deaths in a small farm town in Texas, but something has Sarah spooked as their investigation digs up more than they bargained for. Join the mythical hunting duo as Sarah must finally face her past and the fears which still lay within. Can Jack finally help his younger sibling or will Sarah give in to her childhood nightmare? 

This account of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers “a brilliant insight into men at war” (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon). Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have...

From The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle, a collection of short stories about an engaging crook and literary agent who cycles everywhere, no matter the scam...

To every woman there comes a day (and that all too soon) when she receives the first hint that Time, the harvester, has not passed her by unnoticed. The waning of actual youth may have passed with but the faintest regret, if any; regret for the lost bud being merged in the...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...

If you like the hit US TV series supernatural then you’ll love this new series created by the new master of horror. Sarah and Jack Carter are a brother and sister on a quest. They work for the FBI’s secret service and take on the cases that can only be deemed as strange. They hunt the mythical...

The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Frontier Justice Runs in the Family Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West--and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own--and it's about to...

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of...