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Bartle Bull
Bartle Bull was born in London and educated at Harvard University and Magdalen College, Oxford. A student of Africa for over thirty years, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Explorers Club. A former publisher of The Village Voice, Bull wrote an environmental column for the Voice and later for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He is the author of the widely praised novels, The White Rhino Hotel, A Café on the Nile, The Devil’s Oasis, We’ll Meet Again, Shanghai Station and China Star.
Praise for Bartle Bull
"Compared with Hemingway or Ruark ... Bull's knowledge of East Africa is profound." —Washington Post Book World
"Bartle Bull brilliantly brings to life post-WWI Shanghai. Great tale from a great writer." —Forbes
"You finish this book appreciative of Mr. Bull’s spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world." —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times, regarding A Cafe on the Nile
The White Rhino Hotel
“A genuine epic centered in Africa by a writer who knows how to write, who knows his terrain intimately, who knows how to paint his characters convincingly and who knows how to spin a good yarn.” —Forbes Magazine.
The White Rhino Hotel is a sweeping saga of love and revenge, of greed and loyalty, of pioneers struggling for a new life amidst the beauty and wildness of the African bush in the years immediately after World War I. . . .
Set against a background of colonial and natural history, The White Rhino Hotel could only be written by someone who knows and loves Africa and who can tell a stunning tale.
“The truest picture of colonial Kenya, circa 1918-1921, that you’re likely to find…. Compared with Ernest Hemingway and Robert Ruark…Bull’s knowledge of East Africa… is profound.” —Washington Post
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Shanghai Station
“Good fun, and considerably more intelligent entertainment than is customarily dished out by the robotic hacks whose novels find their way onto the bestsellers list.”
—Washington Post.
High adventure and romance in the most exciting city in the world, the crucible of East and West—Shanghai Station is the story of a young Russian aristocrat, Alexander Karlov, who flees the Communist revolution of 1917 only to find himself in a turbulent, exotic life of passion and violence and revenge. . . .
A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the success of his popular African novels A Café on the Nile and The Devil's Oasis with this equally rousing and romantic tale of historical adventure, political terror and personal revenge set dramatically against the backdrop of China's teeming port city of Shanghai.…
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China Star
“Palpably contrived although rich in ambience and marvelously entertaining, Bull's new erotic swashbuckler revisits Count Alexander Karlov...”—Publishers Weekly
The master of the exotic adventure novel returns with a tale of romance, vengeance and intrigue. The story begins in 1920s Paris, where Shanghai Station's Russian count, Alexander Karlov, and Viktor Polyak, the Soviet agent who killed Karlov's parents and abducted his twin sister Katerina, hunt each other through grand hotels, sewers, fashion houses and embassy parties. Soon after, Katerina sets sail with Alexander for Shanghai on the China Star.
China Star by Bartle Bull is a fast-paced historical adventure thriller full of romance, political intrigue, and international pursuit.
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We'll Meet Again
Written with what the New York Times has called, “Mr. Bull’s spirited, sensuous, hotblooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world,” Bartle Bull’s We’ll Meet Again is a powerful romantic novel set in Egypt and Jugoslavia during World War II.
It is 1942, and the American and British armies are landing in North Africa to fight the German army led by General Erwin Rommel. Underground resistance to German occupation is rising across Europe. In Jugoslavia, Communist and royalist resistance movements are fighting both the Germans and each other. American and British agents are parachuting into Jugoslavia from Egypt to assist them.
As Forbes magazine wrote about The White Rhino Hotel, “A genuine epic centered in Africa by a writer who knows how to write, who knows his terrain intimately, who knows his characters and who knows how to spin a good yarn.”
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The Heart Beneath the Badge by George T. Arnold
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award<br/
When Sheriff Heath Royal seeks relief for his tormented conscience by attending church services for the first time since his youth, he is beckoned to an empty seat by the wealthy, recently widowed Rebekka Korhenen Brando, and both are immediately, although unwittingly, stirred by an unintentional rekindling of the feelings that almost led to a marriage between them twenty-five years earlier.
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Lakota Cowboy by John Hafnor
2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner
“In Lakota Cowboy the last open range cowboy and last Native American ride across the Little Big Horn into a world of surprise endings.” —BookLife
“This book provides a beautifully human touch to the story of two cultures intersecting at dramatically different times in their histories.”—South Dakota Magazine
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Song of the Horseman by Mark Warren
2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award
Literary Fiction Finalist
"...Warren’s prose is magnificently rendered; the kind of writing that makes the reader put down their book for a moment and marvel."—Judge: Zoe Fishman
Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an “Editor’s Choice” by The Historical Novel Society
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Floating Moon by Robert Westbrook
Amazon #1 Bestseller in Native American Literature 2025
FLOATING MOON is a tale of murder, money, and secrets, as a memorable cast of characters search for what is real, and what is not in the bewitching enchantment of New Mexico.
"Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."
—Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time
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Last of the Autumn Rain by Diana Louise Webb
An engrossing tale of an uncanny and sometimes frightening life. —Kirkus Reviews
An unforgettable, tumultuous ride, Last of the Autumn Rain delivers an introspective and jaw-clenching tale, which not only rocks one’s moral compass, but invites a chilling question: in a world where the ground can literally fall out from under you, what else might be lurking beneath the surface?
"...this novel is an excellent read for fans of psychological thrillers." —Readers' Favorite
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King of Peru by Mark E. Scott
A Novel of Destiny and Delusion
Ex-Marine Matthew Obrodnick lives with two roommates in an apartment near campus in Oxford, Ohio. One is gentle and philosophical, the other aspires to be King of Peru. One is real, the other a figment of Matt’s imagination...
"Lovers of novels with a touch of history, mystery, dark humor, drama, and psychological thrills will find King of Peru by Mark E. Scott an enthralling read..." —Readers' Favorite
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Shielding the Fall by Nathan Powell
In the frozen skies over Europe, survival is never guaranteed. Walter Bennett, a young tail gunner from Michigan, flies with the crew of Easy, a B-24 Liberator in the 392nd Bomb Group. Each mission drives them into the heart of danger—flak tearing the skies, enemy fighters closing in, and the haunting truth that every flight could be their last. Through it all, Walter clings to his faith and the brotherhood forged in the air. ..
A story of survival, sacrifice, and faith in the final months of World War II.
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Sing to Me Billy the Kid by Frances Bonney Jenner
It's Wild West, Silver City, New Mexico, 1874. Almost 14, Billy can sing and dance better than anybody, but that won’t save his mother Catherine, who is deathly ill with consumption. When Catherine discovers Billy's plan to steal jewels to pay for medicine, she warns him that he’ll hang before he’s 21 if he doesn’t change. Guilt haunts Billy after her death. . .
Sing to Me Billy the Kid offers a new perspective on the famous outlaw. The call to fight injustice draws him powerfully into a web of destiny and a desire for redemption no outlaw can expect.
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E-Books
Tropical Doubts by David Myles Robinson
Some Honolulu lawyers called Pancho McMartin the best criminal defense attorney in the islands. He'd admit to being pretty damn good. But he was on a losing streak now―three guilty verdicts in a row―and his confidence was sinking fast. When one of his oldest friends, Giselle, was left comatose after surgery and her husband, Manny, pleaded with him to sue the doctors involved, Pancho couldn't find a way to avoid a new specialty: medical malpractice...
In Tropical Doubts, the third legal thriller from David Myles Robinson featuring colorful, fast-thinking Pancho McMartin, medical hijinks merge with murder as surprise twists build in this unpredictable courtroom drama.
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Leeward Run by Jonathan Herbert
A South Florida bank robbery sparks a cross-country manhunt. With the FBI closing in, Imus Lee is determined to find his estranged daughter living in Los Angeles.
On his trail is Butch Sands—relentless and unyielding. But when he uncovers a shocking truth—that the fugitive is dying—the chase hurtles toward a final collision where family, redemption, and survival all hang in the balance.
“...Leeward Run is an exciting breeze to read with its combination of action and heartfelt emotion.” —Readers’ Favorite 5-star review
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The Brotherhood of Barnabas by B. W. Jackson
In The Brotherhood of Barnabas, Book Two of The Rise of Lazarus, Aaron wanders even deeper into the hidden workings of the society of Lazarus. But just when Professor Freeman begins to uncover another eerie mystery, he suddenly goes missing, leaving Aaron and Grandpa Moshe and Miriam on a desperate mission to track him down. Along the way, they encounter the ancient origins of the Brotherhood of Barnabas and the rise of an enemy organization known as the Crimson Ribbon. Dubious clues lure them into a precarious adventure to the Old World, amidst the living history of Lazarus and Tabitha. But their quest is upended when a secret from the past is resurrected, challenging everything they thought they knew about the legend of Lazarus.
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DENIAL by Keith Ablow
BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PAIN,
DANGER AND DESIRE, LIFE AND DEATH, THERE IS...
DENIAL
Dr. Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes and can’t free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother. But it is precisely this injured psyche that allows him to understand the deranged behavior of the mental and emotional outcasts who cross his professional path...
"SPELLBINDING AND SHOCKING" —Nelson DeMille
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Audiobooks
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the Pattern deep in Castle Amber which defines the very structure of Reality, Corwin must contend with the powers of his eight immortal brothers, all Princes of Amber. His savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining — impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering Forces that challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.
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A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Zelazny manages to cleverly combine Jack (the Ripper), Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, and Dracula together with witches, werewolves, druids and many others in this amusing tale of an approaching confrontation that, on the Halloween of a full-moon, will change the cosmic balance of power between good and evil. Told through the eyes of Snuff, Jack's guard dog, who performs magical calculations in addition to accompanying his master on “collecting” expeditions into 19th century London.
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The Snatch by Bill Pronzini
In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of his own household. On the appointed evening, Nameless takes a briefcase that contains $300,000 in cash to a secluded location chosen by the kidnapper. Then all hell breaks loose.
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The Collection - Vol. 2 by Bentley Little
He's been hailed by Dean Koontz for his "rock-'em, jolt-'em, shock-'em contemporary terror fiction."
Now Little presents a 32-story collection that could only have come from an author with "a deft touch for the terrifying" (Publishers Weekly). Volume Two consists of 17 stories.
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