Gardner: 1155 books

The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes. "Gardner has created a modern P.I. in time honored tradition, and the result is both fresh and grounded. Lennox Cooper,...

The quiet seaside town of Barnacle Bay holds a secret, and six year old Sasha longs to embrace it. Sasha is a short prologue to the novel Pouraka, an underwater romance

"The Games End" is a Hollywood and African novel about Ahmed, a massive tusk elephant in Kenya who captivated Hollywood throughout the 1950's and 1970's. (Ahmed is stuffed and stands in front of the Nairobi Museum in Kenya . Former President Kenyatta issued a degree to protect him when he...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents The Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza - Katherine Perdue Jewel/Gem Offering - Emily McIntyre This Side...

Young athlete scores big win for high school football team. For Bo Bohannon, single and loving it sports reporter at a small Alabama TV station, the news is a golden opportunity. The boy's father is stationed overseas at a remote air force base. He should see his only son's moment of triumph....

Grek is a cook on a spaceship. A very bad cook. Grek is also one of the last humans in the universe. And a very bad representation of humans.But Grek's bad cooking and bad . . . human-ing might be the least of his ship captain's concerns.Grek is a science fiction short story as quirky, pungent, and unexpected as any of Grek's entrées.

Laura Prescott is a city girl. She lives in Melbourne and enjoys the life of a single girl in 1970, with no intention of marrying any time soon, if at all. She has no desire to live the life she sees her mother has, with a house full of children. Things change suddenly after she loses her job and...

Jo Corbould's life is turned upside down when her long-term boyfriend Tim dumps her for a younger woman. She is devastated but feels she has a chance for a new life when she inherits an old cottage from her great-uncle. Rose Cottage seems ideal; it feels like home to Jo immediately. The view, overlooking...

In 2493 there are two very different civilizations surviving in a world so damaged no-one can go outside in daylight. The Thrallians are a high tech civilization, unaware of the existence of the Centrals, who live in a deserted subway. That is until Derek and Patric discover a girl locked in the Supers' quarter. A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, unlike anyone in Thrallia.

A grumpy teddy bear runs away from the toy shop and meets an old woman at the bus stop. He insists she help him get away from the toy shop, which is not only boring, but dangerous!

When her grandmother dies, Gabby discovers an old letter concealed in a secret compartment in the roll-top desk made four generations earlier. The secrets it reveals belong to an even earlier generation—the first members of Gabby's family to cross the ocean from Britain to Australia, over 150 years...

Didie is a baby dragon, made of clay, who sleeps on top of the heater in her family's loungeroom. She's always been content, cosy and warm, with no desire to move from her comfortable heater, until one night, when her family's away, something happens . . .

After growing up in the outback, with dreams of travel and independence, Milly at last has a career and an income of her own. She finds herself increasingly attracted to her employer, George, an older man who is separated from his wife. Their affair is scandalous enough in their small community but...

It’s been ten years since the world feel into darkness. Hell is now on earth and zombies have taken over. Humanity is all but gone except for a few safe havens. One of those havens is located in West Virginia and is nicknamed Compound Z. The military structure of Compound Z was built inside an old...