How to Speak Southern

A tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Southern words and phrases  offers an hilarious spoof of the Southern accent. Book available.

Humor & Entertainment

Steve Mitchell

Sam C. Rawls

Humor

Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Trinities

The Mafia, Asian drug-lords, and Wall Street financiers wage an  all-out war for control of the world's multi-billion-dollar heroin  trade, while a lawman fights a battle for his own soul. 75,000 first  printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Nick Tosches

Mystery

The Great Game of Business

Business & Money

Jack Stock

Finance

Eighty personal accounts by individuals who believe they have met Jesus relate experiences of miraculous healing, near-death experiences, and gentle reminders, and focus on a central theme of spiritual growth and divine intervention.

I am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters with Jesus

Sparrow, G. Scott

Religion & Spirituality

From two of the greatest imaginations of our time comes a magnificent novel of adventure and magic...SHADOW MOON: First in the Chronicles of the ShadowWar.The genius of Star Wars(r) creator George Lucas and the vision of Chris Claremont, the author of the phenomenally bestselling The UncannyX-Men adventures, merge in what must be the fantasy event of the year.In Shadow Moon, war and chaos have gripped the land of Tir Asleen. An ancient prophecy reveals one hope: a savior princess who will ascend to the throne when the time is right.  But first, a Nelwyn wanderer must face forces of unimaginable malevolence and dangerous, forbidden rites of necromancy thatcould bring back a powerful warrior from soulless sleep. George Lucas reshaped filmmaking in the '70s and '80s with his Star Wars and Indiana Jones films.  When Bantam Books asked Lucas if he had any stories he would like to develop as novels rather than as films, Lucas turned to his 1988 fantasy film, Willow.  "When I wrote the story for Willow, I began with the pre-story," Lucas said, "but the full story was yet to be told."  Now, Lucas's vision is being fulfilled with the talented help of Chris Claremont. Having previously taken the reins of what was for a decade the bestselling comic in the western hemisphere (The Uncanny X-Men) Claremont assumes the reponsibility of foster parent to Lucas's creation.On sale in hardcover now, and available on BDD Audio Cassette as well, SHADOW MOON is a momentous new adventure for readers looking to spend part of thissummer in a fantastic world.  SHADOW MOON is one of Bantam Spectra's most exciting publishing events in 1995, the year we celebrate our 10th Anniversary as the premiere publishing imprint of books of speculative fiction.From the Paperback edition.

Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

CHRIS CLAREMONT

GEORGE LUCAS

Fantasy

BBC Radio presents four more vintage episodes of John Mortimer's long-running PBS series, Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, brilliant comic and barrister extraordinaire, recounts a stunning career full of murder cases, legal anecdotes, and triumphs and disasters in the courts of law.   Rumpole always gets to the heart of the mystery in these four irresistible tales.   The program includes the episodes "Rumpole and the Defence of Guthrie Featherstone," "Rumpole and the Stage Folk," "Rumpole and the Fascist Beast," and "Rumpole and the Age for Retirement."

BBC Radio Presents Rumpole 2

John Mortimer

Who else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's howThe New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes that Wambaugh--and Floaters is his sharpest yet.Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds manage to cruise above the standard police stress-pools of coffee and Pepto-Bismol--they're water cops in the "Club Harbor Unit," manning a patrol boat on San Diego's Mission Bay. A typically rough day's detail consists of scoping out body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, jeering at lifeguards, and hauling in the occasional floater who comes to the surface.But now their days are anything but typical, because the America's Cup international sailing regattas have come to town and suddenly San Diego is swarming with yacht crazies of every nationality, the cuppies who want to love them, and the looky-look tourists, racing spies, scam artists, and hookers who all want their piece of the action. It's the outstanding body and jaunty smile--full of mischief, full of hell--of one cuppie, a particularly fiery redhead named Blaze, that gets Leeds and Fortney's attention. First Leeds drowns in frustratingly unrequited boozy love from afar. Then, with her increasingly odd behavior, Blaze tweaks every one of their cop instincts, alerting them that something's not quite right on the waterfront.Indeed, Blaze will soon lead Detective Anne Zorn and Mick Fortney along a bizarre criminal trail that would be hilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty as it gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of the biggest sailing race of all.Filled with all of Joseph Wambaugh's trademark skills--laugh-out-loud writing, crackling dialogue, outrageous excitement, and, of course, plenty of raunchyveteran cops who leap off the page--Floaters is Wambaugh at the very to of his form.From the Paperback edition.

Floaters

JOSEPH WAMBAUGH

A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up. From the Hardcover edition.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham -1963

Teen & Young Adult

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Literature & Fiction

Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything--including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...

Death on the Nile (BBC Radio Presents)

CHRISTIE,AGATHA

Radio

The extraordinary novel that is taking the publishing and film worlds by storm, A Dry Spell is at once a powerful love story, a chilling portrayal of nature unleashed, and a mesmerizing thriller reminiscent of early Stephen King. A town of wide open prairies and endless skies, Goodlands, North Dakota, seemed the perfect place to farm and raise a family--until four years without rain brought the town to its knees.  Now darkness has descended on Goodlands: fires are singeing the already parched land, suspicious crimes are on the rise and an ever-increasing sense of doom is enveloping the town.  Goodlands is being held in the grip of something beyond weather.  And only a stranger can set it free.Tom Keatley has pulled rain from the sky in town after arid town.  A loner, a drifter, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth.  But to Karen Grange, an outsider like Tom, he is her only hope to save the dying town.  For Tom Keatley, inextricably drawn to Goodlands and to Karen, the storm is just beginning.  Because beneath the hard, cracked earth is a shattering secret that only he can uncover.  And in the hot, dry air, a sinister force is gathering strength, ready to wage a war for the soul of the town.With its unforgettable characters, tautly woven human dramas and harrowing portrait of the power of nature, A Dry Spell weaves a spell all its own.  It is an epic story of evil and redemption, and of lives transformed in a dying town.

A Dry Spell

Susie Moloney

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