Search Results: Titles starting with E from Darleen Billy

This is a real cookDana Crumb (R. Crumb's ex-wife) and her friend Shery Cohen. Heavily illustrated by underground comix artist Robert Crumb.

From the roots of an ancient witchcraft ... a new terror to destroy.With billions of dollars at stake, every scientist in America is fighting to discover the next Prozac, the latest 'feel good' drug.Edward Armstrong believes he has hit the jackpot. He has isolated a stunningly effective anti-depressant from a bacterial mould first uncovered over two hundred years ago.But there is more to the drug than anyone could have imagined. When Edward turns violent and the corpses of mutilated animals appear near the laboratory, his girlfriend decides to investigate the truth about this new 'miracle' drug. Before it claims any more innocent lives...From the best-selling doctor whose high-voltage thrillers regularly quicken readers' pulses comes a harrowing tale of greed, abandoned ethics, and ambition run awry in the newest area of medical intervention: cosmetic psychopharmacology.Prozac-like drugs are being prescribed not only for their original purposes but increasingly to alter individual personalities to… Read More

Lets young readers take a journey through swamps, ocean shores, and rocky hillsides without leaving home, vividly describing and illustrating the different mammals that can be found throughout the continent.

Keith Korman envisions a dark future for America in this chilling apocalyptic thriller.
What is happening to the country-and the planet?
A government bio-lab experiment goes hideously wrong, infecting people with scientifically-programmed madness . . .
Random kidnappings of women and girls proliferate throughout the land . . .
Some people suddenly succumb to horrifically-virulent viruses while others become able to read minds . . .
Mysteriously summoned to confront these frightening questions, three people are thrown together on a bizarre cross-country quest: Cheryl Gibson, an LA cop; Billy Howahkan, a Lakota Sioux with seeming supernatural gifts; and Bhakti Singh, a distinguished space scientist. This unlikely group must track down a pair of children with extraordinary powers, children who will determine humanity's fate-obliteration or salvation.
As the three set out across America, a blood-dimmed tide is unleashed. Anarchy, terror, and death stalk the land in Keith Korman's End Time.

IT MIGHT BE A STEP BEYOND STAR WARS... AND ONE STEP CLOSER TO WORLD WAR IIIIt is the near future. With its power and influence waning, the Soviet Union has launched Valentina Tereshkova, a giant space station capable of housing 12,000 citizens, into orbit around the earth.But is the colossal off-world colony the peaceful Utopian experiment it's alleged to be? Or is it the last desperate weapon of a crumbling superpower bent on global domination? U.S. computer scientist Paula Bryce and agent Lew McCain are sent to learn the truth--only to find themselves trapped in the station's awesome prison facility. With a brilliant and eccentric group of dissident inmates. Bryce and McCain seek to unlock from within the secret of the mysterious station. But how will they ever report their findings?In an international powder keg, even unconfirmed suspicions could force a terrifying first strike ... while the only hope for mankind rests with two Americans trapped in a prison they can't possibly escape...

Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them ogether, the three join forces in a daring scheme that may lead to freedom and glory...or dire consequences.

This is a nice anthology of three good science fiction novellas with religious themes. The Feast of St. Dionysus by Robert Silverberg is a somewhat metaphysical survivors' guilt tale with an unsatisfying ending. My Brother Leopold by Edgar Pangborn is a good post-apocalyptic story with an interesting twist and clever insight. My favorite is the Roger Zelazny novella, 'Kjwalll'kje'k'koothailll'kje'k, a title which is difficult to type and I'll bet no one has ever managed to pronounce it correctly three times in a row rapidly, with or without ice cubes in their mouth. It's a religious dolphin story and a very well done private-eye mystery; a very memorable and thought-provoking story and not just because of the title.

Following Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes, here is the third exciting volume in the Conclave of Shadows trilogy from the acclaimed author "in the forefront of contemporary fantasy adventure" (Library Journal)
Tal Hawkins has succeeded in wreaking revenge on Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko. Banished to a distant land, Kaspar begins a journey that will take him halfway around the world. Reduced to the role of farm-hand, then common laborer, the former ruler endures dangers and horrors beyond his imagination as he struggles to return home.
But fate, or some dark agency, has more in store for the man who was once tyrant of Olasko. As he travels, he is chosen to play a part in a much larger drama, a struggle between good and evil ages in the making. Dark powers are again in motion, and Kaspar discovers the herald of a threat not seen across the land since the legendary Riftwar and Serpentwar: A dark empire in a distant realm seeks entrance to Midkemia and Kaspar has unwittingly discovered the… Read More

"An Expert in Murder" is the first in a new series which features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character, placing her in the richly peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life. It's March 1934, and Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of her celebrated play, Richard of Bordeaux. However, a seemingly senseless murder puts her reputation, and even her life, under threat. Cleverly blending fact and fiction, "An Expert in Murder" is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers of crime and an atmospheric detective novel in its own right.

HE WILL POSSESS HERPort Flannery is a harbor town off the coast of Washington state--quiet, picturesque, and just big enough to hide in for a while. At least that's what Emma Sands hopes when she takes a room above the local cafe. In Port Flannery, no one knows why Emma and her young daughter fled New Orleans. No one can guess how terrified she is that the danger she and Gracie left behind is drawing nearer every day.Emma's right to be scared. Even as she finds new friends and an unexpected ally in the rugged, compelling Sheriff Donnelly, her old life is waiting to intrude. Because the obsession that drove her from New Orleans will track her down anywhere, even a place as remote as this. And this time, there will be nowhere left to run. . .