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You Only Live Twice (James Bond Ser. #Grade 4)
Par Ian Fleming. 2012
James Bond is about to be cashiered out of Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The British agent whose exploits have been…
followed by millions of readers around the world, who has thwarted such arch-criminals as Dr. No and Goldfinger, now finds himself on a last-chance mission. Sick with grief over the death of Tracy, his beautiful wife of a day, Bond has bungled two important assignments. As You Only Live Twice opens, Bond faces an unspoken ultimatum. He must make good on a vital mission to Japan or his career in the service will be finished....In this latest adventure novel the inimitable Ian Fleming unfolds a spellbinding tale of the Orient—of sensuous pleasure and maniacal torture—of a suicide garden of sulphurous fumaroles and poisonous plants surrounding a pool of man-eating piranha—of a lissome beauty named Kissy Suzuki—and of James Bond’s appointment with destiny in a place of easy death.Moonraker (James Bond Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2004
Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate—THIS IS THE FACE OF HUGO DRAX,THE MYSTERY MAN BEHIND MOONRAKER.A…
stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain.A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!JAMES BOND has less than four days to discover the secret motive that is driving the mysterious HUGO DRAX to build MOONRAKER, the new super rocket that can blow the world sky high!!Is he a national hero out to save the universe? Or a diabolical fiend bent on destruction? The answer must be found before the zero hour—an hour that is rapidly drawing closer and closer—when Moonraker will be finished and ready for use!Thrilling Cities
Par Ian Fleming. 2013
‘On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas…one suitcase…and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities…
of the world…’In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.Casino Royale: There Is Only One Bond (Bull's-eye Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2008
JAMES BOND declares war on Le Chiffre, French Communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.The battle begins for…
the ace secret agent in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat...gains momentum in his fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy...and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist.The critics give a winning hand to Ian Fleming’s superlative thriller of espionage, adventure, intrigue and murder—CASINO ROYALE“Hums with tension...Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls.”—Time“A speed-breaker for thrills with a big dramatic scene set in a crowded casino.” Atlanta Journal Constitution“Excitement enough to intrigue the most hardened reader.”—Newark News“Mounting suspense on every page.”—Houston Chronicle“It’s superlative, everything such a story should be...One can only beg for more from Mr. Fleming.”—Pensacola News-JournalGoldfinger: James Bond 007 (James Bond Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2015
“Keep away from MR. AURIC GOLDFINGER. He is a most powerful man. If he wished to crush you, he would…
only have to roll over in his sleep to do so.”OPERATION GRAND SLAMSecret agent James Bond had been warned not to tangle with Goldfinger. But the super-criminal’s latest obsession was too strong, too dangerous. He had to be stopped.Goldfinger was determined to take possession of half the supply of mined gold in the world—to rob Fort Knox!For this incredible venture he had enlisted the aid of the top criminals in the U.S., including a bevy of beautiful thieves from the Bronx. And he had conceived so foolproof a plan that it would take all of Bond’s unique talents to make it fail—as fail it must.JAMES BOND challengesGOLDFINGER, THE MOST EVIL GENIUS HE HAS EVER FACED.He’s a phenomenal criminal who likes his women dressed only in gold paint. He’s a magnificent fiend who carries his cash in gold bars. He’s a powerful villain who plans to pull the biggest and boldest crime in history—the robbery of all the gold in Fort Knox.“It’s all marvellously intricate and polished storytelling, all absurdly impossible, all superlative fun.”—Cleveland News.“We recommend Goldfinger for just what it is: sophisticated, tongue-in-cheek entertainment par excellence.”—Playboy Magazine.“If you like heroes heroic, a woman who proves, finally, that she’s all woman, and a villain who is a dirty dog, then Goldfinger is for you.”—Detroit Sunday Times.Dostoevsky Portrayed by his Wife: The Diary and Reminiscences of Mme. Dostoevsky
Par Anna Gregorevna Dostoevsky, S. S. Koteliansky. 2017
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and…
philosopher. Dostoevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engaged with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. He became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers, including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.This book, first published in its present form in 1926, contains portions of the Diary of Dostoevsky’s second wife, Anna Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her Reminiscences, and copies of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s letters to her from 1866 to 1881. All of these, in her own handwriting, were found in August 1922 and delivered by the representative of the Commissar of Education in Georgia (in the Caucasus) to the directors of the Moscow Archives, and serve to provide a clear portrait of Dostoevsky’s wife during the last fourteen years of his life.“Mme. Dostoevsky, with her practical mind, abounding energy, indomitable will and capacity for seeing things through when once a decision was made, is here revealed as the true complement of Dostoevsky, who was rather incompetent in practical affairs.”—Prefatory NoteThe book is also beautifully illustrated with 4 full-page plates.Ruan
Par Bryher. 2017
In this remarkable novel, Bryher takes the reader into sixth century Britain—Cornwall, the Scillys, Ireland and Wales. Arthur is dead…
and the uneasy peace which he established is drawing to its close. Young Ruan, nephew of a high priest, is destined for the priesthood. Turbulent and restless for adventure, he feels caged and longs for the high seas. At last he breaks free and sets out on the quest for those islands which are to him both an image and reality. The sights, sounds, passions and ordeals of Celtic Britain filter through Bryher’s haunting prose. With Ruan’s eyes we see the throngs at the Cornish fair, the religious ritual, the burial of the king on the mysterious Scilly Isles. With him we experience the mariners’ winter camp in Ireland and with him we flee for life through an Irish bog.Canton Barrier
Par Andrew Clare Geer. 2017
Against a colorful and violent background, Andrew Geer tells the story of Jeff Jordan, who, in addition to being a…
flying mercenary, was also a strangely reckless man in search of his own kind of personal security. It is also the story of an extraordinary group of adventurers, men and women of mixed morals and various (but always human) motives—the most important of these being a missionary doctor and a beautiful Eurasian girl, two individuals who understood Jordan a lot better than he did himself.The story moves through the cities of Peking, Nanking, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Canton and Macao. It does not dwell on politics except insofar as the China of 1949 (the Communists were sweeping south to Canton) provides a dramatic background and a test of human behavior. It is a story of a struggle for survival on one level, and for personal salvation on another. It includes tremendous scenes of panic and bravery during the retreat to the South, as well as the minutiae of the personal drama which grips Jordan and the individuals caught with him in this swift and dangerous stream of history.Thunderball (James Bond Ser. #9)
Par Ian Fleming. 1989
THUNDERBALL presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history.James Bond is in…
disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime—and thereby minutely upsets the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.Who is SPECTER? What are its plans? Alas, the organization is all too realistically described, its plans all too contemporary for comfort. Of all James Bond’s adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts the darkest shadow.The Diamond Smugglers
Par Ian Fleming. 2013
HAILED BY THE PRESS AS: “THE GREATEST SPY STORY SINCE WORLD WAR II”The chilling, spy-studded story of a carefully organized,…
private intelligence army—and the master operative who ingeniously commanded it.IAN FLEMING AT THIS INTRIGUING BESTThe glitter of espionage, the lure of easy money, the fever of men and women trapped by the temptations of “hot ice”..all interwoven in a nerve-tightening web of intrigue and violence. A web that winds from the depths of an African diamond mine, right op to Moscow—and the Top!“A BREATHTAKING STORY”—The Evansville Press“ADVENTURE WITH A WALLOP”—Omaha World-Herald“TANTALIZING”—The New York Times“MAKES FOR FINE READING...SECOND TO NONE”—San Francisco Call Bulletin“INTRIGUING, FASCINATING”—Philadelphia InquirerThe Spy Who Loved Me: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond Ser. #10)
Par Ian Fleming. 2006
“THE SPY WHO LOVED ME was called James Bond and the night on which he loved me was a night…
of screaming terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the north of New York State.“This is the story of who I am and how I came through a nightmare of torture and the threat of rape and death to a dawn of ecstasy...”So writes Vivienne Michel—”the most attractive of Bond’s heroines to date.” (Sunday Times)“Ian Fleming keeps you riveted. His narrative pulls with the smooth power of Bond’s Thunderbird, and the way he gets inside the skin of his heroine is masterly.”—Sunday Telegraph“Muscularly brilliant…not for prudes”—Evening StandardThe Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond 007 Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2008
Bond goes to the Caribbean and track down Francisco Scaramanga, who has built a deadly laser for the express purpose…
of killing. With his gold-plated Colt.45 and his deadeye accuracy, Scaramanga is deemed too deadly to live.James Bond—’twisted like a dying animal on the ground and iron in his hand cracked viciously…’‘Pistols’ Scaramanga—professional assassin for the KGB and other criminal organisations. A paranoiac and sexual fetishist, he used a gold-plated Colt with silver bullets to avenge himself upon humanity.Mary Goodnight—’a naked arm smelling of Chanel No. 5 snaked round Bond’s neck, and warm lips kissed the corner of his mouth.’“Fleming keeps you riveted.”—Sunday Telegraph“Some of the best ingredients of the Bond sagas”—Bristol Evening NewsOn Her Majesty’s Secret Service: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond 007 Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2012
In a closely guarded bastion of evil high in the Swiss Alps.ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD puts the finishing touches to a…
most fiendish plot involving ten beautiful and ingenuous girls…to a most diabolical plot for murder on a mass scale. Only one man can stop him and that man is Blofeld’s archenemy secret agent JAMES BOND.IAN FLEMING’S ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICEThe superlative thriller that pits the secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE’s archfiend Bloefeld, architect of a nefarious scheme to destroy the free world…the thriller in which 007 falls in love with the lovely Tracy, daughter of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Union Corse….“The hottest sleuth in the suspense field, James Pond, really tops himself in this new Ian Fleming thriller.’—St. Paul Dispatch.“James Bond, 007, the best-known spy of our times, now by public acclaim one of the master-spies of the cloak-and-dagger fantasy. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is packed with danger, mystery, crime, and wild pursuit, to which the author has added sear in generous proportions.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune.“One of Bond’s most ominous and chilling adventures.”—Newsweek.“Solid Fleming.”—New York Herald Tribune.Live and Let Die: James Bond 007 (Macmillan Readers Ser. #2)
Par Ian Fleming. 1975
When 007 goes to Harlem, it’s not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr Big, black…
master of crime, voodoo baron, senior partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death.Those he cannot possess, he crushes;those who cross him will meet painful ends.Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire.And her lover, James Bond.Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York’s black underworld to the shark-infested island in the sun that Mr Bier calls his own…‘Speed…tremendous zest communicated excitement. Brrh! How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes ‘—JULIAN SYMONS, SUNDAY TIMESOctopussy and The Living Daylights (Coronet Bks.)
Par Ian Fleming. 1989
From the legacy of Ian Fleming come these two recently discovered short novels—superb examples ofJAMES BOND AT HIS BESTThey were…
written by 007’s creator before his death and are published here in book form for the first time.OCTOPUSSYis set in Fleming’s favourite pleasure paradise, Jamaica in the British West Indies.THE LIVING DAYLIGHTStakes place in, what is for Fleming, a new kind of locale: the border territory that divides East and West Berlin. In both novellas Fleming gives the audacious Bond the power of life—or death—over two very different adversaries.Bond’s first quarry is a rather odd Englishman, the very proper Major Dexter Smythe. Smythe is a retired officer of the Royal Marines. He is a man of no visible wealth, yet he lives in luxurious idleness. His pet diversion—indeed his obsession—is a dangerous experiment that he is conducting with a predator of the deep, with a many-tentacled beauty whom he fondly has named Octopussy....Bond’s second target is one of Fleming’s most tantalizing villains, a person whom Bond, and the reader, glimpses but never meets. M. sends Bond to West Berlin to safeguard the escape of Number 272, a British agent who is privy to Russia’s top-secret atomic plans. Agent 272 is to make his break for freedom across the East Berlin frontier. The big trouble is: the KGB knows the escape plan and that plan cannot be changed. They have assigned their best sniper, Trigger, to shoot 272 on the run, on a certain street, at a certain time. Armed with a .308-caliber International Experimental Target rifle, Bond must stake out the sniper and kill him before he kills 272...Diamonds are Forever (James Bond 007 Ser. #4)
Par Ian Fleming. 2012
JAMES BOND JOINS THE WORLD’S MOST RUTHLESS JEWEL RING…“We’re going to find out who you are and who you work…
for and what you know....IF you think you can hold out on us you’re wrong, dead wrong.”Jack Spang spoke to James Bond gently...menacingly.Two hooded men entered the room and sat opposite the secret agent. They put down football boots beside them and started to unlace their shoes.Spang spoke again. “We’ll make it a Brooklyn stomping. Eighty per center. Okay with you...Mr. Bond?”The Spangled Mob hires undercover agent James Bond to smuggle diamonds into America, and the ace British spy finds himself partners in crime with the most tantalizing female he’s ever encountered—Tiffany Case, hotter than stolen “ice,” as surprising as sudden death.From Russia, With Love (Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Ian Fleming. 2012
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSThe Russians wanted to liquidate James Bond—ace British secret agent—in a way that would embarrass England.…
So they lined up their best team to pull off the job!Tatiana Romanova—an alluring brunette seductress who looks like Garbo although her heart belongs to the State.Red Grant—a renegade Irish hired assassin, who likes to kill for kicks.Rosa Klebb—head of Otydel II, department of torture and death, a hideous woman with a lust for inflicting excruciating torment.The master conspirators devise a trap designed to eliminate Bond on a perilous journey from Istanbul to Paris via the lush Orient Express. A trip on which Bond makes passionate love to one of his captors as he fights desperately to protect his life from the others, while the train speeds towards its ultimate, awful rendezvous with death!JAMES BOND becomes the target of theRUSSIAN MURDER ORGANIZATION, SMERSH…The deadly and sinister SMERSH sets a trap to catch and kill James Bond, ace British spy with a weakness for women and wine, and they bait it with a beautiful brunette. But they don’t count on her falling in love with her victim…after she has seduced him!!“One of the most outrageously entertaining thrillers ever contrived.”—New York World Telegram and Sun.Dr. No (Coronet Bks. #6)
Par Ian Fleming. 1989
It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather…
belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turning slightly inwards, the head to one side as she examined the things in her hand.M called this case a soft option. Bond can’t quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing.But they are both part of the empire of Dr. No.The doctor is a worthy adversary, with a mind as hard and cold as his solid steel hands.Dr. No’s obsession is power. His only gifts are strictly pain-shaped.‘Masterful...beautifully written.’—Raymond Chandler, The Sunday Times.‘The essence of a James Bond thriller is its speed, its knowingness...Dr. No has a full quota of every ingredient. Bond is better than ever.’—Evening Standard.‘Wildly thrilling, packed with convincing technical detail.’—C. Day Lewis, BBC World of Books.‘Pace, brilliant descriptive powers, superb imagination...sheer entertainment.’—Spectator.For Your Eyes Only: There Is Only One Bond (James Bond Novels (playaway) Ser. #8)
Par Ian Fleming. 2012
“MOVE AN INCH AND I’LL KILL YOU.”It had been a girl’s voice, but a voice that fiercely meant what it…
said.Bond, his heart thumping, stared up the shaft of the steel arrow whose blue-tempered triangular tip parted the grass stalks eighteen inches from his head.The girl was dressed in ragged coat and trousers. The beauty of her face was wild and animal, with a wide, sensuous mouth, high cheekbones and silvery gray, disdainful eyes. There was the blood of scratches on her forearms and down one cheek. She looked like a dangerous customer who knew wild country and forests and was not afraid of them.Bond thought she was wonderful. He smiled at her…”I suppose you’re Robin Hood. My name’s James Bond...”BOND IS BACK!007 deals a deathblow to international crime as he tracks gunrunners in the blue Caribbean, unearths a thorny nest of spies in a French forest, smashes smugglers in sunny Italy and teams up with an untamed huntress on a mission of vengeance in Vermont.Ohio Town: A Portrait of Xenia
Par Helen Hooven Santmyer. 2017
“I wanted to tell the truth about the small town.”Xenia, Ohio: The young among us sometimes rebel in their inexperience,…
saying “nothing ever happens here.” They say it because they do not know the old houses. If they live long enough they will learn that everything has happened here, and may happen again. The town is Winesburg and Spoon River, it is Highbury and Cranford, it is even Illyria and Elsinore. Little that mankind knows and endures but has been here known and endured: even battles and sieges—Shiloh and Vicksburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and all the others, before and since—have been fought here, in the minds of women who waited and the memories of soldiers who came home again.For all of her 90 years Helen Hooven Santmyer—critically acclaimed author of “...And Ladies of the Club”—has been carrying on a love affair with her hometown of Xenia. Her OHIO TOWN is a microcosm of a century of America. The history, heartache, and hilarity of small-town life...The sights and sounds, like the locomotive whistle, imprinted in our memories...The unsung heroes of Americana: Miss Harper, the rigorous, unforgettable sixth grade teacher; Dr. Will, the unfailingly patient family practitioner; Miss McElwain, the librarian for 50 years. All are celebrated in this award-winning, heart-warming memoir of an America that will live forever in our hearts.First published in 1956, Ohio Town received widespread critical recognition as a stirring, magical blend of history and memoir.“Miss Santmyer writes beautifully”—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD“A new gem in the crown of Ohio’s classics. The theme is the beauty of Midwest America, the closeness of a small town to the countryside and, therefore, to the world, to poetry, and to the enlightened mind.”—TOLEDO BLADE“A lively history pulsating with memories.”—HISTORY NEWS