Barry: 2877 books

PUNK IS IN DECLINE. ESPECIALLY THIS PUNK. On the platform at Holyhead I approach a uniformed man with a whistle. 'Is this the 6:55 to Auschwitz?' I ask. 'Enough of your cheek, lad.' 'Arbeit Macht Frei!' 'What?' 'It's Gaelic for thank you.' March, 1979. Sid Vicious is dead, Margaret Thatcher is very...

More of an environmental treatise than a talking animal story, Coming Home to Newfoundland is a story of a transplanted moose, long since acclimatized to New Zealand, who decides to make the lengthy and arduous journey home. Along the way she witnesses humanity’s destructive tendencies firsthand...

Sick to death of modern Democratic politics—politicians ceaselessly parroting the party line, the endless spin, the kowtowing to the big corporations, all those broken promises. Professor Gary Ironbark has come up with a new political system, one to replace the outmoded 19th Century methods of Representative...

Mary Ann or Ginger? Tonya or Lara? Betty or Veronica? For boys on their way to manhood or for men on their way back to boyhood, such complex choices in women have for centuries caused men to scratch their heads and wonder who is better: the bad girl, the good girl, or a mix of both? In his...

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological...

In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society’s indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce...

From Barry Reed, New York Times best-selling author of The Choice, The Indictment, and The Verdict, comes a suspenseful psychological thriller and courtroom drama involving medical malpractice and sexual intrigue. At seventeen, Donna DiTullio was a highly ranked tennis player with world-class...

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).   Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology”...

The book you hold before you is no ordinary Haggadah. If you’ve ever suffered through a Seder, you’re well aware of the fact that the entire evening can last as long as the exodus from Egypt itself. There are countless stories, dozens of blessings, and far too many handwashings while the meal...

Dead EndThey found Henry Gibson shot dead in his abandoned car on a dirt road. DEAD END.Then George Horner…and Noah Hamberger. Wait a minute…who’s depleting the population of Northeastern Ohio? Are these random murders or a sicko with an agenda? DEAD END.That was the problem facing homicide...

Allen boarded the elevator before he realized a hospital security guard was already aboard. He quickly faced the door as the elevator started up. Just before it reached the fifth floor, he heard the static of the guard’s walkie-talkie. An unintelligible message crackled. The elevator slowly came...

Dr. Ron Harris is engaged in a project which, if successful, will revolutionize fracture treatment. His mission takes him from the wooded jungles of Ecuador to the concrete jungles of Los Angeles. At every step along the way, his goal is sabotaged by persons unknown He is the target for devices ranging...

EDDIE HYDE lives in today's world. What the poor schnook lacks in brains, he makes up in kindness. Eddie's no saint: he's boosted cars and taken things that don't belong to him, and he's not without talent—it takes skill to pick those locks. But all that is behind him. Since he rolled out of Mansfield...

A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering electrocardiograms. The setting is 1931 when electrocardiography was a relatively new diagnostic tool.Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging...