Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: rain, thrillers, storm, john
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451215508
ISBN-13: 9780451215505
John Rain flees to Brazil to find peace-but inevitably finds himself with a new assignment: take out an arms dealer in Southeast Asia.
Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: rain, thrillers, john, hard
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451212460
ISBN-13: 9780451212467
In his critically acclaimed Rain Fall, Barry Eisler introduced half Japanese-half American freelance hit man John Rain, a "dashing and dangerous hero...as likable as he is lethal."* Now Eisler’s back. So is Rain, the master of death by "natural causes" whose new target threatens the fragile political balance of an entire country.
Author: S.J. Roza
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: rain
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0385339240
ISBN-13: 9780385339247
Three years ago, a childs death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattans lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter, and from the city he once knew so well. But for Joe, everything changes when a womans murder and a teenagers rooftop freefall rip open old woundsand reveal a shocking layer of rage and deception.It is Joes former partner, beautiful, hard-charging investigator Ann Montgomery, who first sees the lies, forcing Joe out of his self-imposed
Author: Manya Stojic
Publisher: Dragonfly Book
Keywords: rain
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0385737297
ISBN-13: 9780385737296
As the red soil of the African savanna becomes parched and cracked, the porcupine SMELLS the rain coming. She tells the zebras, who SEE the rain coming and gallop off to tell the baboons. The baboons HEAR the rain coming. The rhino FEELS it. And the lion TASTES the rain. All the animals use their senses to predict the change of weather. Soon, the sky opens and it rains and rains and rains until every river gushes and gurgles. When it stops, green buds and grasses sprout and the animals find shelter in the shade of the big leaves and the cool, squelchy mud and relish the "fresh, juicy fruit fro
Author: Tan Twan Eng
Publisher: Weinstein Book
Keywords: novel, rain, gift
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1602860742
ISBN-13: 9781602860742
The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng’s debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang’s great trading families-feels alienate
Author: Chuck Loga
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: rain
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060570199
ISBN-13: 9780060570194
Headlights off, a panel truck drives by moonlight across an open field, following tracks that have been there for decades ... Nina Pryce and her husband, Phil Broker, couldn’t have more opposite views of the military. Broker’s loyalty to the men he served with in Vietnam is matched only by his certainty that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Nina, though, is a new breed, a decorated and ambitious vet of the first Gulf War. As Nina proceeds along her chosen career path, Broker -- until his recent "retirement," Minnesota’s most effective, unorthodox, and
Author: Arturo Isla
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: god, rain
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0380763931
ISBN-13: 9780380763931
Already a Southwestern classic as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself Arturo Islas’s The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lu
