Murderer or innocent victim? Sarah Neville is telling her story to Dr. Serena Raymond, the woman who has waited years to hear it. From her husband's abuse to the years before her marriage, it makes for grim listening that is made all the harder by Barnaby's return from the dead. But is it really her dead husband, or has Sarah's mind at last deserted her?

Trapped on the infamous Cannibal Island of Bajea, Captain Hartwell must lead his evolving crew of cybernetic pirates through the cannibalsê jungle to safety. With danger all around, is this the time to be concerned with his relationship with the alien cyborg Lady Mechatronic? The adventures of the steampunked pirates take a turn to the dark side. Can Hartwell lead them all to the light?

Bailey is a troubled girl. Ever since childhood she has enjoyed manipulating people in order to get her own way. If that doesn't work, she has no trouble taking it by force. Once in college, she realizes she may be a sociopath. Instead of scaring her, she found the new revelation empowering. While perfecting her killer instinct, Bailey develops a taste for human flesh. Can she feed her every growing appetite while staying below the authorities' radar? Or will her thirst for blood be her undoing?

Rendered frightened and penniless by her husband's mysterious violent death, Rosalie reluctantly taps her clairvoyant skills in order to support herself in post-apartheid South Africa, an endeavor during which she pursues answers. By the award-winning author of Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

French novelist Hervé Guilbert's 1991 novel, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, is about a narrator named Hervé Guilbert who, after his close friend Muzil (really, Michel Foucault) dies of AIDS, begins to realize his symptoms are the same. In this same tradition of fictionalized memoir, this novel's narrator, called Catherine Mavrikakis, explores the perspective not of dying, but of the one left behind. In the book, a series of Mavrikakis's friends die, many of AIDS. As each person becomes a Hervé to her, she begins to explore the idea of death as a universal yet individual experience. Furious, relieved, terrified and confused, the novel's narrator confronts the way people think about and respond to death, and quiet mourning is replaced by a series of encounters between the living and the dead. Drawing on Deleuze, Freud, Foucault and, of course, Guilbert, Mavrikakis creates a kind of living mausoleum where those unable to speak can still be heard, and where their voices challenge our passivity in the face of death.

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The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him. In 1876, Wickham smuggled 70,000 rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds-and the history-making consequences-is the stuff of legend. The Thief at the End of the World is an exciting true story of reckless courage and ambition that perfectly captures the essential nature of Great Britain's colonial adventure in South America.