Jerry: 2552 books

High quality reprint of “the Reign of the Super-man,” the very first “superman” story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment....

New York Times**–bestselling author: “In the art of true-crime reportage, Jerry Bledsoe is the best in the country . . . Before He Wakes has the suspense of a novel” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).** Barbara Stager was known as a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader...

Phil und ich hielten uns seit sechs Tagen in Chicago auf, um einem gerissenen Gangsterboss namens Nick Jordan endlich das Handwerk zu legen. Als eine anonyme Anruferin dem FBI einen Mord in Jordans Umfeld meldete, kam Bewegung in unseren Fall. Doch die Leiche des angeblichen Mordopfers blieb unauffindbar....

Im Plain Dealer, Clevelands größter Tageszeitung, erschien ein reißerischer Artikel, der sich mit dem nie aufgeklärten Mord an Sarah Grey, der Tochter eines Senators, beschäftigte. Darin tauchte eine Information auf, die die Ermittlungsbehörden seinerzeit nicht veröffentlicht hatten und die...

When the recess experience at an Albuquerque grade school exposes religious differences, the children must work out on their own just what that means. The more they attempt find agreement, the more they recognize diversity. What's more important in the final year of elementary school, scoring goals, memorizing lessons, or calling God by the correct name - or any name?

A NEW YORK TIMES "NOTABLE" MYSTERY THRILLER. Here is the book that launched journalist turned crime novelist, Jerry Oster's, meteoric literary career and introduced his most unforgettable character, the sad-sack detective, Jake Neuman. When Neuman and his partner, Bobby Redfield,...

"Jerry Oster brings a unique touch to the thriller. His stories are jolting and the action flows confidently through scenes of intense dialogue. The tension builds, the text becomes thick, ... and then comes the ending, both shocking and brutal.... Characters collide left and right, allegiances...

"A humdinger of a suspense novel. Oster writes adroitly, with humor, irony wonderful plot twists... Rarely has a city been brought alive as the New York of Nowhere Man." — Publishers Weekly NYPD Detective Jake Neuman is back in action in this hip, funny and exciting new suspense...

FIRST PUBLICATION OF NEW JOE CULLEN MYSTERY Prize-winning crime writer, Jerry Oster brings back one of his most unforgettable characters, Joe Cullen of the hardcover and paperback bestseller Internal Affairs. The fuse for this explosive new thriller is lit when a woman is gang-raped while a...

Despised by his co-workers and even his family, the odious and paranoid Dr. Curtis Sheridan is brain dead, lingering on life support, just waiting for someone to pull the plug. But wait... what are those impossible squiggles on his EEG... and what evil plans are going on in Dr. Sheridan's mind,...

It was too nightmarish to be real... All of them, the whole town, wordlessly climbing into trucks in the middle of the night and going off—where? And now, his own wife had joined them, and she seemed not to hear when he screamed his pleas for her to come back. None of them heard.It had to...

What is a HAPLOID?Maybe the woman in your office is one.Maybe your sister is one.Maybe you're married to one.MAYBE YOU ARE ONE.But even if you are, we think you can be handled.We think we've got you licked—But we don't know for sure!"Jerry Sohl undoubtedly...

Seven college buddies meet for their annual reunion — then suddenly the members begin to commit suicide in the most peculiar ways. Or is it suicide? One of the men sets out to investigate, and suddenly the nicest guys become feared and hated. What's happening to the group, and why?A...

THE MASTER PLANNERS—AND THE SCHEME THAT COULD CHANGE THE SHAPE OF HUMAN EXISTENCEFar beyond the searching eye of any creature, in the darkness and emptiness of space itself, the ship dispatched a capsule. No sooner had it effected this than it vanished among the stars, lost in the outer reaches.Then...