Informed by his doctor that he has merely a few months to live, Joe Flood, a hit man who prides himself on killing only those who deserve to die, puts out an open contract on his own life, but he soon discovers that the lab made a mistake and that he is in perfect health.

The Killer's Game

Literature & Fiction

Jay Bonansinga

Contemporary

Simon&Schuster

Based on The Walking Dead graphic novels/comic books and set in the world created by Robert Kirkman this standalone trilogy is fast-paced, action-packed storytelling about the lengths some men will go to survive.

The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

Robert Kirkman

Genre Fiction

TOR.

London: Macmillan

Bloodhound (hb) Bonansinga Jay R.

Macmillan

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The first book explained how the Governor was created; this thrilling sequel toThe New York Times bestsellerfurther reveals his ruthless, inhuman conquest of Woodbury The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia. At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary. Squatters barter services for food, people have roofs over their heads, and the barricade expands, growing stronger every day. Best of all, a mysterious self-proclaimed leader named Philip Blake keeps the citizens in line. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. . . . Blake, who has recently begun to call himself The Governor, has disturbing ideas about law and order. Ultimately, Lilly and a band of rebels open up a Pandora's box of mayhem and destruction when they challenge The Governor's reign . . . and the road to Woodbury becomes the highway to hell in this riveting follow-up toRobert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga'sNew York Times bestselling The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.

The Walking Dead: The Road To Woodbury (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

KIRKMAN, ROBERT

Turtleback Books

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this third book of the New York Times bestselling series, The Governor and Rick Grimes face off in an epic reimagining of their legendary conflict.

The Fall Of The Governor: Part One (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The Fall Of The Governor: Part Two (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkerton’s pivotal role in the Civil War and the birth of the Secret ServiceScottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which gained renown for solving train robberies in the 1850s and battling the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. But the central drama of his career, and the focus of this book, was his work as protector of President Abraham Lincoln and head of a network of Union spies (including himself!) who posed as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in a deadly cat-and-mouse game.
 As here told in riveting prose by author Jay Bonansinga, Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathies drew the attention of supporters of presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln—and Pinkerton was hired to act as his bodyguard. Pinkerton was asked to organize the U.S. government’s first “Secret Service,” and during the Civil War he managed a network of spies who worked behind confederate lines and tackled espionage at the highest levels in Washington. By war’s end, the agency’s reputation was so well established that it was often hired by the government to perform many of the same duties today assigned to the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, and, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security. 
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Bonansigna is also the author of the novelization of the huge hit television series The Walking Dead, a book titled The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.

Pinkerton's War: The Civil War's Greatest Spy and the Birth of the U.S. Secret Service

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

LYONS PRESS+

On July 24, 1915, the city of Chicago suffered a tragedy that was witnessed by nearly 10,000 bystanders and claimed more lives than the infamous Chicago Fire. But, unlike the Titanic three years before, the sinking of the steamship Eastland has been largely forgotten. Now award-winning writer and Chicagoan Jay Bonansinga has set out to discover why - and the result is a historical thriller.

The Sinking of the Eastland: America's Forgotten Tragedy

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Thorndike Press

The debut Dark Arts Books release compiles 12 "new and used" horror stories by four darkly humorous and horrifically dark Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson, and Martin Mundt. CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER includes Jay Bonansinga's short story "Stash," which inspired the movie of the same name featuring Marilyn Chambers and Tim Kazurinsky. It also includes one of John Everson's most popular erotic horror shorts, "Pumpkin Head," a modern "Great Pumpkin" patch fable with a femme fatale twist that has been reprinted several times and translated into French. Martin Mundt's disturbingly funny "A Perfect Plan" opens the book with a Very Bad Things-style descent into personal disaster and Bill Breedlove contributes his typically rapier-sharp wit in the boys shouldn't play with boys who play with dolls tale "The Lost Collection." The book also features eight more must-read stories by the four authors, and a nod-and-a-wink introduction by another lauded Chicago horror veteran, Mort Castle.

Candy in the Dumpster

John Everson

Martin Mundt

Bill Breedlove

Humor & Satire

Dark Arts Books

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