Nicholas Linnear, visionary hero of The Ninja, The Kaisho, and Floating City, returns in...Second SkinEric Lustbader's powerful novels have established him as "an author of authentic and engrossing Oriental intrigue second to none" (Ib Melchior, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now the international bestselling master storyteller brings us a globe-spanning new novel of epic adventure. Nicholas Linnear is back -- to confront his most formidable and hated enemy.Nicholas Linnear won a major battle with the apocalyptic destruction of Floating City. But his enemy has taken flight from the city's ruins in Vietnam to regroup and mount the assault that will solidify his ultimate power -- and destroy Linnear. Mick Leonforte, an international corporate power broker as well as a criminal czar, is preparing to take on Linnear, his sworn nemesis, on the battleground where business and warfare become one. With the help of seasoned New York City police detective Lew Croaker and the dazzling, cunning Vesper Arkham, Linnear pursues his prey -- placing Koei, the woman he loves above all else, in the vengeful path of a criminal genius. And it will plunge Nicholas into the depths of Kshira -- the terrible force that even the master who trained him in the mysteries of psychic warfare was powerless to escape.

A collection of short stories includes 'Time's Arrow,' 'The Road to the Sea,' 'The Sentinel,' and 'Silence Please.'

A collection of short stories spans the fictional crime genre from the grimly noir to the lightly humorous, in settings that range from contemporary London to territorial Arizona, with contributions by both veteran writers and talented newcomers. Read by Robert Forster, John Rubenstein, and others.

A compilation of the author's short fiction features appearances by detectives Lew Fonesca, Abraham Lieberman, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters. Readers include Joe Barrett and Juliet Mills.

In addition to the previously unpublished title story, a new collection of the author's most memorable works includes the melancholy horror, mythic fables, and hard science fiction of 'A Sepulchre of Songs,' 'Memories of My Head,' 'A Thousand Deaths,' 'A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon,' and 'St. Amy's Tale.' Read by Theodore Bikel, Robert Forster, Robert Foxworth, and others.

A quiet New England town is shocked by the apparent murder of a troubled adolescent girl, a crime Chief of Police Jesse Stone cannot let go unsolved or unpunished.

A new adventure for Midnight Louie, feline detective, and his human partner, Temple Barr, finds our protagonists involved in an mysterious case involving death threats, ghosts and the King himself: Elvis. Simultaneous.

Las Vegas feline sleuth Midnight Louie witnesses the appearance of a corpse in the pools around the Oasis Hotel, a dead man with ties to both boyfriends of his redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr.

An entertaining selection of original mystery tales features the works of Carole Nelson Douglas, Ed Gorman, Amanda Cross, Gillian Roberts, M. D. Lake, and others, read by Meredith MacRae, Mason Adams, Susan Anspach, Robert Forster, and other celebrities.

'Two senior historians of ancien râegime societies have deftly translated and introduced selected pages of this extraordinary diary left by a planter of old lineage who lived through momentous changes in Caribbean society and economy'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

An expert on water exercise and a physical therapist present a detailed water-exercise program for individuals of all fitness levels that is designed to promote health and enhance injury and postsurgical rehabilitation. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)