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  The Radioactive Redhead - with...

  John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem

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  Everyone’s favorite sci-fi PI is back on the beat in this third Nuclear Bombshell mystery. Includes the prequel novella, The Peach-Blonde Bomber! 
   
  After a chance encounter at a Kabuki theater, Zach Johnson has reluctantly agreed to lend a hand to Sexy Sprockets, 2060’s most fabulously famous pop-singer. Sexy has received a slew of death threats from an obsessive fan intent on making sure her ascendant career is cut short. In the guise of Sexy’s bodyguard, Zach enters the dizzying world of showbiz to uncover Sexy’s stalker before he can make good on his threats. 
   
  Together with his sentient super-computer, HARV, and his psionic assistant, Carol, Zach must use all his PI wisdom to ensnare the would-be killer. At the same time, world famous media mogul Rupert Roundtree has positioned Zach as the unwilling star of his next great reality series, entitled Let’s Kill Zach. Zach will need to stay one step ahead of the murderous mogul if he’s going to save the imperiled pop singer. 
   
  Praise for the Nuclear Bombshell mysteries 
   
  “A wild and crazy adventure that blends noir detective fiction and far-out future SF to create a tongue-in-cheek, thoroughly enjoyable story.” —SF Site 
   
  “Surprisingly clever . . . spoofs the genre and everything else in sight.” —Science Fiction Chronicle 
   
  “Abbott and Costello meet a futuristic crime noir . . . readers will laugh until they cry.” —AllReaders.com 
   
  “A fun romp through cyberspace and the future Earth . . . I enjoyed this tongue-in-cheek look at the future of private investigation.” —MyShelf.com

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  The Player

  Michael Tolkien

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  The “shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel” that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (The New York Times Book Review).    Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America’s dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally threatening postcards.   Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Mill’s deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both.   “One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes.” —Los Angeles Times   “In its wry, acerbic description of life behind the studio gates Tolkin’s book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . and the vengeful comedy of Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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  Night Creeps 2

  Michael D'Ambrosio

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  In Night Creeps 2, Lamar and Johnny are once again faced with an alien insurgency as their success in Night Creeps 1 has a new race hoping to enslave humans to fight their galactic wars. Joined by new deputy Paula Mason and fiction magazine writer Sasha Bell, their biggest fear is realized when they become infected, and things aren’t what they used to be.

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  Hard Times

  Charles Dickens

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  Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom are beaten down by the city's utilitarian ideals and some of whom manage to rise above it. The novel was written in 1854 and was a scathing attack on then-current ideas of utilitarianism, which Dickens viewed as a selfish and at times oppressive philosophy. Perhaps the novel's best features are its clever, ironic narration and the larger-than-life characters that push the plot forward, such as the upper-class banker and hypocritical braggart, Josiah Bounderby, and the fact-driven schoolmaster, Thomas Gradgrind. (Summary by Rosalind Wills).

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  Gheratope ek Sandhyo Ashor :...

  Suchitra Bhattacharya

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  An upper-middle-class urban household is hosting a get-together among close friends over fine dining. The attendees are representatives of the upwardly mobile, educated class who brag about their general intelligence and bask in their self-belief that they understand anything under the sky ranging from the "Perestroika" to the "Swarovski" with equal elan. The freewheeling discussions during the party oscillate between the macabre of the agrarian distress, to the mellow of fine living, in the same breath. The attendees' empathetic interjections and sarcastic finger pointing at perceived systemic faults intermittently resonate with enthusiastic hoorah over raised toasts and mouth-watering gourmet delights.  
  Does this collective empathy of the full-bellied intelligentsia find convergence towards some solution to help uplift the have-nots?? Or, does the material comfort of the haves prove to impede channeling their thoughts in a meaningful way beyond their sophisticated eloquence?? 
  Tune in to this stinging jewel on the contemporary well-healed urban milieu from one of the most revered litterateur and foremost names in social fictions - celebrated Suchitra Bhattacharya in yet another classic composition from "My StoryGenie" Bengali Audiobooks series.

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  Symphony Under Siege

  Stephen Hall

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  512 years in the future. Not your typical Thursday morning. Five centuries from now, ex-navy officer Diana Singh commands the monumental luxury spaceliner the 'Symphony of the Stars'. None of her crew knows their ship is smuggling a treasure worth millions. None of them knows which one of them is the serial killer. As Captain Singh pilots the mighty cruise ship back to base, she races to unmask the murderer in their midst before they can kill again. So, not the most convenient time to be attacked by pirates... "I am Captain Salazar Sharp, here to claim what is wrongfully mine!" For the flamboyant leader of the pirates, infiltrating the 'Symphony' is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But the secret treasure that could make him and his crew filthy rich is only the beginning; his ultimate goal is a far greater prize... 'Symphony Under Siege' is a witty sci-fi adventure packed with heroic exploits, twists and turns, nail-biting cliffhangers, and daring escapes. If you like rollicking, fast-paced sci-fi with a sense of humour, then you'll love this exuberant debut novel from veteran TV comedy writer Stephen Hall. Buy 'Symphony Under Siege' today and get on board the adventure!

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