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It’s the fall of 1942, and the U.S. hospital ship Benevolence is cruising the waters of the South Pacific when it is torpedoed by the Japanese. Only nine people survive, and they eventually wash up on an island: the captain Joshua, and his wife, Isabelle, a nurse; Isabelle’s sister Annie and a woman named Scarlet, both nurses; Ratu, a teenage Fijian stowaway; Jake, a black engineer; Nathan and Roger, two officers; and Akira, a wounded Japanese soldier. The group knows it’s only a matter of time before the Japanese war machine reaches their shores, so they valiantly prepare for battle. As they do so, each man and woman struggles with his or her own personal demons. Add to that Annie’s fascination with Akira, and the fact that one survivor is secretly radioing the Japanese from deep in the jungle. Following his well-received debut, Beneath a Marble Sky (2004), Shors’ second novel is an astounding work. Poetic and cinematic as it illuminates the dark corners of human behavior, it is destined to be this decade’s The English Patient (1992). --Hilary Hatton
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The Magnificent New Novel By The Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Other Side Of Midnight And Morning, Noon And Night. He Wanted Power, She Wanted Revenge& Dear Diary: This Morning I Met The Man I Am Going To Marry. It Was A Simple Enough Entry In A Young Woman S Diary Which Gave Not The Slightest Portent Of The Elaborate Chain Of Events That Was About To Occur. The Best Laid Plans Tells The Explosive Story Of The Beautiful And Ambitious Leslie Stewart, Who Learns That For Some Men Power Is The Greatest Aphrodisiac; And Of Oliver Russell, The Handsome Governor Of A Small Southern State, Who Finds Out Why Hell Has No Fury Like A Woman Scorned. With The Unexpected Twists And Turns That Are The Hallmarks Of His Mega Best-Selling Novels, Sidney Sheldon Spins A Tale Of Two Equally Determined People Headed On A Collision Course. Oliver Has A Strategy To Win The White House; Leslie Has A Scheme To Make Him Wish He D Never Been Born. They Both Should Have Known That Even The Best Laid Plans Can Go Dangerously Astray&In A Deadly Dangerous Way.<
Product Description
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains five works by 20th century
science fiction writer Clifford Donald Simak. Simak (1904-1988) wrote
during the pulp era and during the Golden Age of Science Fiction,
achieving a following for his stories based on super science and what he
called "realistic fiction."
During his career, Simak received
three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, and was named the third Grand
Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.
This ebook includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
Empire Hellhounds of the Cosmos Project Mastodon The Street that Wasn’t There The World that Couldn't Be
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THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school
sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken
wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and
neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world.
When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor
who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has
made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.
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There are the small betrayals: the unkind word, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong sweet light of day into bitter dust.
When Evie Johnson started at Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, her life changed in ways she couldn't possibly have envisioned: the discovery of her link with Lady Agnes, her special bond with Helen and Sarah, and their sisterhood in the astonishing secrets of the Mystic Way. Above all, Evie's love for Sebastian has turned her world upside down.
Now Evie returns to Wyldcliffe for another term and more danger. Surrounded by enemies, she lives every day in fear that Sebastian will fall into the darkness of servitude to the Unconquered Lords. The Wyldcliffe coven is plotting to destroy Evie and use Sebastian to secure their own immortality. Evie and her sisters must master the power of the Talisman before it is too late. But could it be Sebastian himself who will ultimately betray Evie?
In this companion to Gillian Shields's dazzling Immortal, magic and sweeping romance cross the bounds of time to deliver heart-stopping emotion and suspense.
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SUMMARY:
“The sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author.” –Neil Gaiman
SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.
Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.
But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld.
Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isn’t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.<
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
"Alaska's finest mystery writer" (*Anchorage Daily News*) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.
SUMMARY:
"Alaska's finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.<
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that...<
About the Author
Lisa Shearin Contrary to popular belief, most authors do have day jobs just like everyone else. I'm happily ensconced at an advertising agency as an editor/proofreader. In my previous corporate life I've been a magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and writer of corporate marketing materials of every description. Writing's what I love, so writing's what I do. And I consider myself blessed beyond belief that I get to do what I love and get paid to do it.
One thing many writers find is that they have little time for anything that doesn't involve writing (especially when there's a deadline looming). Not a problem really, since we spend most of our time attached to a laptop or a notebook & pen because we love it. But when I'm not at my desk, I like to read (when I can make the time) and sing in my church's choir and ensemble. And I've made some of my closest friends over crossed blades. My Olympic fencing weapons of choice are the foil and epée. Though nothing says fun like a good rapier & dagger duel. My husband and I have spent some great times with our fencing club buddies doing demos at museums, schools, movie premiers, the Biltmore House, and Renaissance faires.
I'm a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the North Carolina Writers' Network. I live in North Carolina with my always patient and ever-encouraging husband, two cats, two spoiled-rotten retired racing greyhounds, and a Jack Russell terrier who rules us all.
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Conceived and begun at the height of Spillane's creative powers in the 1960's, and set in that tumultuous period as well, THE BIG BANG marks the return of vintage Spillane.<
Había terminado la segunda guerra mundial. La política del New Deal de Roosevelt había cambiado los Estados Unidos: los impuestos eran muy altos, y las bombas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki auguraban una aniquilación total. La libertad estaba en crisis, y muchos no se resignaron a perderla.Entre ellos, un soñador, un inmigrante que salió de la más profunda pobreza y se convirtió en una de las personas más ricas y admiradas del mundo; Andrew Ryan. Él pensaba que los hombres y mujeres más importantes merecían algo mejor, y por eso decidió crear una utopía libre de gobiernos, de censura, de restricciones morales para la ciencia, donde se da lo mismo que recibes. Creó Rapture, la brillante ciudad bajo el mar. Pero esta utopía acabó en una gran tragedia.<
A novella of the 5th Empire.
On a sad, spent world, life long ago went underground. The subterranean society of Linnet depends on a planetary systems controller, Sys, for all their wants and needs. As the tide of fundamentalism washes over the galactic empire and the remote colony on Linnet, a barbarian princess commissions a ship for her escape. The people of Linnet, and their once-great shipworks, will never be the same.<
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