As Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with a gorgeous filmstar on his arm, surely the worst of his worries is that back at Headquarters, an ambitious new colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory at Skinner's expense. But when a frightening shot-gun attack sends Skinner and his old flame Louise Banks diving for cover, it seems danger has zeroed in on him once again...
Canadia: 2056 This entertaining sci-fi comedy series is written by one of Canada’s best-loved comedy writers, Matt Watts. The United States has launched an armada to destroy an alien threat. Canada sends the nation’s only publicly-funded spacecraft, The Canadia - a ship with a single purpose - to plunge the Americans’ toilets.
As an adult, John Audubon was the best known wildlife artist of the 19th century, and his book, Birds of America, is the standard against which all subsequent bird art has been measured. In this story about the artist's childhood in the West Indies and France, John's love of drawing sends him into the fields and woods near his country house in pursuit of winged models.
Added by: winnie | Karma: 83.75 | Fiction literature | 21 September 2007
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Robert Asprin - Phule's Company - 4 Books
Meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of
military rejects able to do more damage before 9 A.M. than most people
do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule
and his soldiers to a distant planet. But now, the aliens have chosen a
new target of war . . . Phule's Company.
