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  • Audiobook

    The Fourth Durango

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Narrated by Robert Culp ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 23 min

    There's the Durango in Colorado, the one in Mexico, and the one in Spain; then there's the fourth one— the California town where the Franciscans forgot to fund a mission. Now, all it has going for it is the climate— and its hideout industry.Kelly Vines, a disbarred attorney, and his father-in-law Jack Adair, a former judge just released from prison, are in the market for some isolation— since ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light Science

    Physics and the Visual Arts

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    What is the nature of light? How does an artist’s selection and use of colorants determine how we experience a work of art? What can visual illusions tell us about the nature of perception? In what ways do the laws of optics manifest themselves in the visual arts?In this fully revised edition of the classic textbook, Rossing and Chiaverina present the science of light – that is, the science behind ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Birth of the Demonic Sword Part 3

    Full cast, Dramatized

    Series Audiobook 3 - Birth of the Demonic Sword

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Under the alias "Vance," Noah arrives in Elbas City to continue his relentless pursuit of strength. Joining the Hunters’ Guild provides the perfect cover to slaughter magical beasts and fuel his unorthodox cultivation methods, but anonymity is a luxury he cannot maintain for long.Noah soon finds himself ensnared in a dangerous political game between the ruling Elbas dynasty and a rising faction of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seersucker Whipsaw

    by Ross Thomas ...
    From the Edgar Award–winning author: “[A] highly readable novel of political adventure . . . a cracking good story and the Africa mentality is fascinating” (Kirkus Reviews).Clinton Shartelle doesn’t seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he’s American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Briarpatch

    A Novel

    by Ross Thomas ...
    A cop is car-bombed in Texas—and her brother comes from Capitol Hill to investigate—in this Edgar Award winner by "one of the best storytellers around" ( The New York Times Book Review).A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity—born on the same day exactly ten years later—has died in a car bomb explosion. She was a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    America changed through music

    Edited by Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith ...
    Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular visionof the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). Acollection of eighty-fourcommercial recordings of Americanvernacular and folkmusic originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclecticand idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • Funeral for a Dog

    A Novel

    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    "A smart and rewarding debut marked by accomplished writing, a slick translation, and intelligent takes on the absurdities of contemporary life." — Publishers WeeklyJournalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Backup Men

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo team up to help twin bodyguards in a thrilling crime caper from "America's best storyteller" ( The New York Times Book Review).The twins who walk into Mac McCorkle's bar look identical, despite their differing genders. Their names are Wanda and Walter Gothar, and from the steel in their eyes it's apparent that their business isn't the friendly kind. They've come ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • No Questions Asked

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Series Book 5 - The Philip St. Ives Mysteries
    With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare bookPhilip St. Ives has no love for New York’s drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Singapore Wink

    by Ross Thomas ...
    A stuntman searches for a colleague whom he thought he killed long agoTwo pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies.Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Cold War Swap

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - McCorkle and Padillo Mysteries
    The Edgar Award–winning debut novel from "America's best storyteller" about a man drawn into espionage by his mysterious business partner ( The New York Times Book Review ).At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on "business trips." McCorkle, his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Eighth Dwarf

    by Ross Thomas ...
    An ex-spy and his sidekick hunt for a rogue assassin of Nazi war criminals—"Thomas is without peer in American suspense" ( Los Angeles Times).Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World War II's end, beats the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD