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Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains. But when members of the Peoples Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chens solitary existence is shattered, and the delicate balance between humans and wolves is disrupted.

Publisher Comments: Published over ten years ago by Ace, Guilty Pleasures marked the debut of a series that was destined to grow from cult favorite to a major New York Times bestseller. Now, for long-time Anita Blake junkies and newfound fans, Guilty Pleasures makes its trade paperback debut. Readers will learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire destined to become not only her biggest nemesis, but her greatest lover... Review: "I was enthralled a departure from the usual type of vampire tale which will have a wide appeal to a reader hunting for both chills and fun." Andre Norton "You''ll want to read it in one sitting I did." P. N. Elrod This cult favorite makes its trade paperback debut and reminds fans how Anita Blake started raising the dead and killing the undead and how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire, destined to become not only her biggest nemesis, but her greatest lover. Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most people don''t even bat an eye at vampires since they''ve been given equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better she''s seen their victims....A serial killer is murdering vampires, however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita to find the killer. About the Author Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and mother. Her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels include Narcissus in Chains, Obsidian Butterfly, Blue Moon, Burnt Offerings, The Killing Dance, Bloody Bones, The Lunatic Cafe, Circus of the Damned, The Laughing Corpse, and Guilty Pleasures. She is also the author of A Kiss of Shadows and A Caress of Twilight. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.

"USA Today" bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson has enchanted readers everywhere with her delicious blend of wicked humor, sizzling sex, and totally unique vision of vampires and werewolves. In this collection of four novellas she brings her beloved Wyndham werewolves (featured in her acclaimed novel "Derek''s Bane") together with the vampires ruled by Betsy Taylor (from her bestselling "Undead" series). Filled with equal parts of spicy heat and laugh-out-loud moments, this collection will drive Davidson''s legion of fans wild with blood-pounding delight.

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance...

Anita is scared. Really scared. And not much gets under the skin of a US Marshall with jurisdiction over preternatural matters, who also happens to be a necromancer. Anita''s life is dangerous, and she wouldn''t have it any other way, but the scars - both mental and physical - are starting to show. You''d think that her connections with the vampire, werewolf and wereleopard communities would come in handy. However, as her powers grow and develop in new and uncharted ways, her links to both friends and lovers could endanger them all.

''I was to be offered up as a sacrifice to some heathen god an awful fate for a Free-kirk elder in the prime of life'' In ''The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn'' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan''s innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work. Selected with an introduction by GILES FODEN

YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' privacy at all costs. Even when detective Aidan Reagan demands a list of everyone she's treating. Even when the mounting danger threatens Tess herself. YOU CAN'T STOP WHAT I'M DOING. Reagan doesn't like anyone who stalls his cases. Still, he can't help but admire Tess's fierce loyalty to her patients, especially when it's obvious that a nameless, faceless enemy is set on destroying her career, her family, and finally, Tess herself. As Reagan and Tess race to stop the killer one thing becomes clear - the noose is tightening around Tess's neck. YOU CAN'T HIDE.

A gripping and twisting treat of a novel for fans of Tarantino and Elmore Leonard. Smoke Dugan, one-time bomb-maker for the mob, is on the run. It's not easy to keep a low profile when you've got your girlfriend (Lola), her best friend (Pamela) and a retired professional assassin (Cruz) with you; and if you're carrying $2.5 million in cash, you can be sure the people the money belongs to won't let the trail go cold. The tiny Caribbean island of Saint Mark's seems a safe bet, but that's reckoning without the unexpected presence of ex-Navy Seal Stone, an old enemy of Cruz. Stone has heard of the massive finder's fee placed on Cruz's head by Big Vito back in New York, so he's very motivated. Soon the rest of the mob is on the way and the scene is set for a game of cat and mouse amid the palm trees and on the high seas. Who will end up swimming with the sharks?

"The Wind from the East will sweep the reader away with its literary force, rhythm and narrative structure drawing you in with a distillation of human passions that are almost always in conflict with each other."-The European Internationally celebrated Almudena Grandes' finest work yet is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara GA3mes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to leave her godmother's home and return to live with her estranged parents in poverty. Tortured by resentment and the loneliness of belonging to neither place, she searches for solace in a coastal town. Parallel to Sara's story is the story of Juan and Damian Olmedo, brothers in love with the same woman. One night an argument incited by jealousy leads Damian to stumble down a flight of stairs and fall to his death. Suspected of murdering his younger brother, Juan flees to the same village that served as Sara's escape. Deftly engaging, The Wind from the East is an epic tale of love and redemption. Almudena Grandes' writing has been compared to the work of classic and contemporary voices such as the BrontA sisters and Isabel Allende.

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people. As the desires and fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular speech of the South, the author builds up an impression as epic as the old Testament, as earthly and comic as Chaucer, as American as HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn''t the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother''s house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn''t commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those responsible for his fate. No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

1793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts . . . The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters swarming with enemy ships of the line. Instructed to survey the French coastline, she''s soon in the thick of the action: cutlasses slash and bayonets skewer, cannons splinter decks and sever limbs. Onto the smoky deck strides young Lieutenant Charles Hayden. With an English father and a French mother, the Admiralty are reluctant to give Hayden his first command. Instead, he is to act as a bulwark between the Themis''s tyrannical Captain Hart and a mutinous crew. Steering a course between the cowardly captain and the treacherous crew, English common sense and French pride, Hayden must first master his wits before challenging the might of the French naval war machine.

Ivanhoe was the first of Scott''s novels to take place in the middle ages but it is far from being the fantastic, medievalist romance associated (in the critical imagination) with a visionary Britain that never was. This is the first novel in English to deal seriously with issues of race. At the same time, it provides an exciting read to a contemporary audience. Set in the twelfth century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric''s ward. Cedric, who is dedicated to the liberation of the Saxon people from Norman oppression and to the revival of the Saxon royal line, intends Rowena - a descendant of King Alfred - for the oafish Athelstane, and he banishes his son. Ivanhoe joins King Richard on his crusade in the Holy Land, and eventually the two men return secretly to England - Ivanhoe to regain his inheritance and the land of Rowena, Richard to secure his kingdom from his scheming brother John who has ruled in Richard''s absence. With a gallery of memorable characters, high and low, Ivanhoe is a powerful and exciting evocation of a medieval world of jousting, baronial rivalry, siege warfare and trial by combat, and makes no attempt to gloss over the violence and brutality that lay behind the chivalric ideals.

Jody wakes up in a San Francisco dumpster, after being attacked on her way home from work, and discovers that she is a vampire. Tommy, Nineteen-year-old Tommy takes her in and becomes her lover. However, Jody's vampire guide, Elijah Ben Sapir, is jealous of Tommy. The police target Tommy for the murders Elijah has been committing.

Janice hat alles, was eine Frau braucht: einen erfolgreichen Ehemann, zwei reizende Tochter, eine prachtige Villa vor den Toren San Franciscos. Und als ein genial eingefadelter Borsencoup ihres Mannes der Familie auf einen Schlag Millionen beschert, scheint ihr Gluck vollkommen zu sein. Doch Janice hat die Rechnung ohne ihren Gatten gemacht, und plotzlich sturzt ihr perfektes Leben ein wie ein Kartenhaus.

When Liz learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings are taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss, Charles Wetherby, Director of Counter Terrorism, immediately puts a surveillance operation into place. So Liz is surprised when Wetherby suddenly takes her off the case.