John R: 1297 books

Daniel Corbett is playing piano in a Toronto restaurant during Sunday brunch and dreaming of his daughter, who just turned fourteen but whom he hasn’t seen for a decade. That’s because Corbett isn’t just a piano player. He’s also a parolee, a former heart surgeon who, ten years before, was convicted...

Nothin Short of Dyin is the long awaited 14th book in the Garth Ryland mystery series. Called an exemplary series hero by Publishers Weekly, Ryland lives and works in the small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin (Lake Woebegone made sinister) where passions run high, secrets go deep, and nothing is ever quite...

Early in the 19th Century, expanding markets for Pennsylvania's anthracite coal created a smaller scale prelude to the later California gold rush. It was an era as wild as any the West ever knew-yet it has been rarely depicted in history. A native of the Coal Region and avid student of its history,...

much madness is the eighteenth and final book in the Garth Ryland mystery series, which has taken him from the graves of Navoe Cemetery to the wilds of Mitchells Woods to the cave of Matatomah to the edge of Wamplers pit, and in and out of the arms of some of Oakallas most beautiful, intriguing, and...

In late 1942, Operation Kinder-B is secretly developed by SS officers to support Operation Bernhard, Germany’s attempt to produce counterfeit banknotes intended to destabilize the British economy. But as a bomber takes off from Holland to make a special delivery to German agents operating in England,...

Nobody's talking. But something has gone terribly wrong. Seven researchers are sealed inside Solarium-3, a huge self-sustaining science complex, to see if life can survive in a completely closed, man-made environment. But after a few weeks, something goes wrong. Their air inside turns foul and will quickly...

The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of...

Two Came Running is a depiction of heroism, talent, and geniusall embodied in one family. A war heros prodigious son and daughter cope with multiple tragedies in their youth but rise to prominence on the world scene. Separately they perform vital roles in the struggle against the twentieth century's...

One of WWIIs most successful weapons was the Norden bombsight. Nazis coveted them the most from downed US bombers. American flyboys were taught to destroy the bombsights with thermal grenades, which caused them to melt into a molten mass rather than let them fall into enemy hands. When Hitler learns...

Following the English colonists arrival to Americas shores, Indian tribes strived to achieve peace and coexistence with themand simultaneously retain their homelands, hunting grounds, native culture, and religion. Those early colonists were followed by thousands more, then millions, who advanced the...

The sequel to Alias, The Kansas Kid ... The Kansas Kid is back in the saddle, hunting for a new “Kansas Kid” — The Oklahoma Kid — some tin-horn trading off his notorious reputation. Everybody’s gotta grow up some time, and when The Kid meets up with his would-be successor, the knock-off...

Karn is from another planet very similar to Earth which is about to be destroyed by an Asteroid colliding with it. He along with 2000 others travel millions of miles to Aqua, a planet very much like theirs but...

I have done some traveling to the tropics and became infatuated with the climate and the terrain of rain forests. I went to Costa Rica, to the Bahamas and later to Indonesia. These travels inspired this book.