Product Description: "Checkmate Run" is a real-life thriller that chronicles the author s life as a writer, medical student, and physician in Moscow during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s and his struggle to survive the brutal Soviet regime.Alex Loevsky is a medical student and an inspiringly rebellious poet who becomes enmeshed in a battle against the rampant cruelty of the communist rule, where the simple desire to think freely is a crime on par with treason, and being born Jewish is more than a mere hindrance...read more

Product Description: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki] Checkmate Run is a real-life thriller that chronicles the author's life as a writer, medical student, and physician in Moscow during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s and his struggle to survive the brutal Soviet regime...read more

Product Description: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission yet: matrimony. An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, but he's not the kind of guy a woman would marry unless she has to in order to maintain an ingenious cover...read more

Product Description: In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission yet: matrimony.An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, but he's not the kind of guy a woman would marry--unless she has to in order to maintain an ingenious cover...read more

Product Description: [Directed by Claire Bloom][Read by Stefan Rudnicki]Crime fiction readers know Quarry--the ruthless killer-for-hire from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels--but where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the bestselling author of Road to Perdition takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful young students is the least of his sins...read more

Product Description: Crime fiction readers know Quarry--the ruthless killer for hire from Max Allan Collins acclaimed novels--but where did Quarry s story start? For first time ever, the bestselling author of "Road to Perdition" takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry s first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful young students is the least of his sins...read more

Product Description: A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for legendary agent Matt Helm--until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to finishing off lures him into a strange trek in the wilds of northern Mexico. And when a Russian missile is smuggled out of Cuba, it falls into the hands of a political fanatic much too close to home...read more

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Product Description: [Translated by Boleslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski] [Directed by Claire Bloom] [Read by Stefan Rudnicki] A provocative study of the Greek tragedy In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective...read more

From one of the most brilliant imaginations in science fiction comes Flinx Transcendent, Alan Dean Foster’s thrilling conclusion to the series that began over thirty-five years ago – the epic adventures of Flinx and his flying minidrag companion, Pip. Flinx is the only one with even the tiniest chance of stopping the evil colossus barreling in to destroy the Humanx Commonwealth (and everything else in the Milky Way). With time running out, Flinx is a man in search of a solution and in search of himself. His efforts take him to the land of his mortal enemies, the bloodthirsty AAnn, where chances are excellent that Flinx’s discovery – and summary execution – will eliminate all his demons and doubts in one masterstroke. The way Flinx is feeling, that might not be the worst imaginable end. After years of searching for his father, he finally has – and must bear – the truth. And now he must also seek out an ancient sentient weapons platform wandering around somewhere in the galaxy and then communicate with it, a powwow that could very well fry his already frazzled brain. Then there are the oblivion-craving assassins determined to stop Flinx before he can prevent total annihilation. With a future that rosy, it’s no surprise he’s flirting with disaster. Still, Flinx is no quitter, and he’s got something else going for him – an uncanny ability to improvise and triumph (or at least survive) in impossible situations. He’s certainly been through enough of them, and now he’s going to need every ounce of that know-how, because he’s venturing to places where the laws of physics fear to tread, where no one’s ever been, to do what no one’s ever done, and where his deadliest enemy is so close it’s invisible.

Product Description: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki] In this groundbreaking science fiction classic by Henry Kuttner, a descendant of survivors living on Venus seeks revenge on the decadant society that exiled him. Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps - fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth...read more

Product Description: Barry N. Malzberg s daring and controversial debut novelIn the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov, Barry N. Malzberg draws his readers over the precipice of rationality into a realm where dreams are real a realm in which the hero, a humble investigator for the New York City Welfare Department, finds himself married to Sophia Loren, seducing Elizabeth Taylor, and seduced by Brigitte Bardot all in one tortured weekend...read more

Product Description: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki] Barry N. Malzberg's daring and controversial debut novel. In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov, Barry N. Malzberg draws his readers over the precipice of rationality into a realm where dreams are real - a realm in which the hero, a humble investigator for the New York City Welfare Department, can obtain sexual satisfaction only by projecting himself into fantasies evoked by the cinema...read more

Product Description: At a critical time in American life, Parker J. Palmer looks with realism and hope at how to deal with our political tensions for the sake of the common good―without the shouting, blaming, or defaming so common in our politics today...read more

Product Description: From the bestselling author of Road to Perdition comes another action-packed adventure featuring the killer for hire known as Quarry. Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the mysterious man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent south to remove a traitor in the ranks...read more

Product Description: From the bestselling author of Road to Perdition comes another action-packed adventure featuring the killer for hire known as Quarry. Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the mysterious man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent south to remove a traitor in the ranks...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions...read more