This is the second book in the Fionavar trilogy. It finds the evil Rakoth threatening the existence of Fionavar. To stop him, Kimberly Ford and her companions from Earth must summon the Warrior. But desperate measures can have desperate consequences when curses and prophecies are involved.

Quand j'étais môme et que ma bonne vieille Félicie m'emmenait en vacances à la montagne, dans le Jura, j'adorais fureter du côté de la scierie. J'ai toujours aimé l'odeur du bois fraîchement coupé et le grincement plaintif des scies mécaniques mordant le sapin… Non, ne croyez pas que je cherche à vous pondre de la Haute Littérature, ni que le bucolique (néphrétique) soit à l'ordre du jour, car je vous jure que cette passion de mon enfance, je l'ai perdue… A tout jamais… Car présentement, je me trouve lié sur une de ces scies qui faisaient mon admiration… Et c'est moi qui fais le rondin. La lame se trouve très exactement à 1 mm de mon buste et je ne dispose plus que d'un centième de seconde pour agir… C'est ce qui s'appelle avoir du pain sur la planche !

New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don’t come back. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It’s hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different. Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow. That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings—the only boy Ember has ever loved.

COMO PERDER A UN NOVIO EN TRES MESES Cuando el guapo Will McCaffrey preparó un contrato matrimonial entre Jane Singleton y él, ella supuso que sólo estaba bromeando. Pero no pensó lo mismo cuando seis años más tarde Will se presentó en su puerta para formalizarlo. ¿Qué podía hacer ella para desanimarlo? Primer paso: irse a vivir con él. Jane exigió un anillo de bodas. Pero Will la recibió con brazos abiertos no sólo en su casa, sino también en su cama… ¡y le compró además un diamante! Segundo paso: prepararle hígado para cenar. Ni siquiera el perro podría tragarse las cenas de Jane; aun así, Will se lo comía todo sin protestar, ¡y además la quería a ella como postre! Tercer paso: redecorar la casa en color rosa. Ni las toallas rosas, ni los cojines rosas ni las cortinas rosas desconcertaron a Will.

Security expert Declan Quinn knows he has a way with women. So when he's assigned the job of guarding radio sex-pert Rachel Merrell, he figures he'll get her cooperation by charming his way into her good graces. And if she's as gorgeous as her photo, maybe her bed, too… Only, the lady doesn't need any persuading… Because of Rachel's so-called "expertise," her life has become all talk and no action. And she's still managed to acquire a stalker. She needs protection-and great sex- badly! And Declan is the perfect guy to take care of both. After all, he says he won't leave her side. So what's wrong with showing him what else he could do with her body while he's guarding it?

Baley nyomozó a Földről érkezett a Hajnal bolygóra, hogy kiderítse egy rejtélyes gyilkosság okait, és bebizonyítsa dr. Fastolfe ártatlanságát. De valóban gyilkosságnak számít-e egy ember formájú robot megrongálása? Kinek állhatott érdekében, hogy megsemmisítse? Egyáltalán ki tehette, ha a gyanúsított is azt hiszi, rajta kívül senkinek sem lett volna erre módja, s mi több, tehetsége. Az ember formájú robot meggyilkolása mögött olyan hatalmi harc áll, mely nemcsak Baley nyomozó karrierjét, de a túlnépesedett Föld sorsát is meghatározhatja. Hiszen nem mindegy, hogy emberek vagy ember formájú robotok lesznek-e az új telepesek a Világegyetemben. Ennek eldöntése új reményt adhat a Földnek, de ez okozhatja végzetét is. Végül a bűnügyi történetek szabályainak megfelelően Fastolfe tisztázódik a vád alól, és remélhetőleg a Föld is megmenekül a katasztrófától. Az Asimov-sorozat második darabja ez a könyv, amelyben az izgalmas bűnügy mellett egy furcsa szerelem történetével is megismerkedhet az olvasó.

Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction's most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal-one who has had 20 years to plan the world's most horrendous crime?

Knabenmärchen aus Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811).

When readers last saw renovator Tish Amble she was running for her life, her boyfriend Brad left wounded and at the mercy of drug lords in northern Michigan. On Brad's advice, Tish heads for Del Gloria, California, to hide out with an old friend of his-professor Denton Braddock. Tish tries to start a normal life, enrolling in college and working on restoring a block of homes, but her past is catching up with her. Someone is sabotaging her work, and Brad hasn't called in months. Should she return to Michigan to find out what has happened? Or would a homecoming be more painful-and deadly-than she's ready for? Full of the fast-paced action and nail-biting suspense readers have come to expect from author Nicole Young, Kiss Me If You Dare is the thrilling conclusion to the Patricia Amble Mysteries.

In Stars and Stripes Forever, Harry Harrison began the story of the war that never was, but might so easily have happened: the war of the 1860s between the United States of America and the British Empire. It began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an ill-considered letter to Abraham Lincoln, and continued with an ill-starred invasion of the territory of the USA by an incensed British government. The first modern war — with iron-clad ships, rapid-firing guns, trenches, mass armies and massive casualties, was taking place, not between the industrial northern states and the agricultural southern ones, but between the two great English-speaking nations. Who happened also to be the two most powerful nations on the planet. In the stunning conclusion to this series, the Irish become involved and a most surprising ending is the culmination of the ill-fated war.

“Eccentric characters, complex but gripping plots and a nice wit… Vargas weaves her story expertly.” – Toronto Sun “Bizarre and fascinating.” – Edmonton Journal “Vargas has a wonderfully offbeat imagination that makes each of her novels a refreshing delight.” – The Observer “A gripping chase thriller.” – The Economist “There is a haunting quality to Vargas’s writing.” – Scotland on Sunday *** Internationally acclaimed and bestselling crime writer Fred Vargas will be published for the first time in Canada in hardcover by Knopf Canada. In this remarkable addition to the Commissaire Adamsberg series, has a serial killer followed Adamsberg to Canada on his training mission? Between 1943 and 2003, nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crime and were sentenced to life. One slightly worrying detail: all the presumed murderers lost consciousness during the night of the crime and cannot remember whether they actually did it or not. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person: the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help. History now repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered his young lover. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence. The heir to Maigret, Commissaire Adamsberg is back in a new investigation that will keep the reader spellbound until the very last word.

In the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault. As the only space ship currently available to the Human-Adar Alliance, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to find out what happened to the colony, rescue any survivors and learn the identity of the attackers. With new complexities added to the universe started in the novel Into the Looking Glass and continued in Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe continues the tradition of non-stop action, valorous if quirky characters and rigorous science drawn from the frontiers of current theory. The odd-ball crew of the Vorpal Blade is an unlikely savior of earth, but none dare say they quail at engaging the Manxome Foe.

As a human immune to magic, Sophie Lawson can help everyone from banshee to zombie transition into normal, everyday San Francisco life. With a handsome werewolf as her UDA boss and a fashionista vampire for a roommate, Sophie knows everything there is to know about the undead, the unseen, and the uncanny. Until a rash of gruesome murders has demons and mortals running for cover, and Sophie finds herself playing sidekick to detective Parker Hayes. Dodging ranging bloodsuckers, bad-tempered faires, and love-struck trolls is one thing. But when Sophie discovers parker isn't what he seems, she's only got one chance to figure out whom to trust. Because an evil hiding in plain sight is closing in...and about to make one wisecracking human it means to ultimate power.