We have proven that time travels are safe; the present is affected by changing the past. Nothing had changed—count your pseudopods! Views: 12
This work tells the tale of A.J. Raffles. Undoubtedly a gentleman, he lives in Piccadilly, and is one of England's finest cricketers. Courted by the great, the rich and the fashionable and invited to their houses, he robs them at night. Views: 12
A Medieval Pageant of Honor, Danger and Desire from the Queen of High Romance!“Exciting and absorbing.”—Book-of-the-Month Club News “…outstanding historical novels.”—Booklist Genre-defining medieval romances told in beautifully-realized settings by the legendary master storyteller of the high romance form, Roberta Gellis. Gellis is famed for her ability to create moving and dramatic stories with characters who are spot-on historical and a part and parcel of the stunning milieus they inhabit. She’s an acknowledged master of high romance, and the Queen of Medieval Historicals!These are the 11th century novels where it all began, the place where Roberta Gellis first brought the pageant of the past alive with her unique power to capture the details perfectly while telling a fascinating, harrowing, and ultimately fulfilling tale. Many have tried; few have succeeded so well as this Mistress of Historical Drama. The sumptuously recreated settings. The conflagration of danger and burning desire. Here are the four novels of Gellis’s first 11th century blossoming brought together for the first time in a stunning bouquet of story-telling majesty, fully edited and with a new introduction by the author. Included here are Bond of Blood, Knight’s Honor, The Sword and the Swan and The Dragon and the Rose. For a limited time, the package will be available for a swoon-inducing $18. Then, beginning in April, the bundle will separate and each book will be available for a still amazing $5.Journey back in time and into the lives of the men and women who lived, loved and forged a history that will never be forgotten!Knight's HonorRoger, Earl of Hereford, has had enough of wars. He has fought bravely for King Henry II in a brutal civil conflict, only to see his lord attempt a union with bitter enemies. Now Roger must turn to the very real task of securing his long-neglected lands and founding a family line with strong and loyal wife Elizabeth, who understands that she may not be married to the most considerate of men, but that she’s made a powerful match, all the same. Now Roger and Elizabeth must fight to master a dangerous world where mortal danger and intrigue constantly lurk and civilization has only the most tenuous of footholds. Views: 12
ON APRIL 15, 1960 A PLANE CRASHED IN THE UNTAMED AFRICAN JUNGLETHE SURVIVOR—A YOUNG GIRL
Raised by fierce cats, Luana grows up to be as savage as her jungle habitat.
And now she watches the winding overgrown paths for hapless humans on safari . . . Views: 12
Also published as Nightmare in Time . Views: 12
“YOU CANNOT ESCAPE, EARTHMAN”Curiously, Smith tried on the mysterious, silvery helmet he had discovered in the workshops of the deserted planet—then, in horror, he turned to face the charge of a giant, rat-faced alien space raider.Desperately, Smith cried “Stop”—and, amazed, he saw the alien halt, glaring. “What—why are you standing like that?” he asked.“You told me to stop. I cannot move,” the alien snarled.Then Smith realized . . . the “helmet” harnessed the incredible mental powers of a forgotten civilization. It had saved his life—and it would do still more for him....“Power,” he whispered. “Power . . . to rule the Universe!” Views: 12
Alexander Sutherland (1852–1902) was a Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher. Sutherland did a large amount of literary work. He was responsible for the first volume only of Victoria and its Metropolis, published in 1888, an interesting history of the first 50 years of the state of Victoria. In 1890 he published Thirty Short Poems , the cultured verse of an experienced literary man, but his most important book was The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct , which appeared in 1898 in two volumes. George Sutherland (1855–1905), a writer, was born in Scotland. He was taken to Australia in 1864 and graduated from the University of Melbourne. After teaching for some time he took up journalism and worked for the South Australian Register from 1881 to 1902, after which he joined the Melbourne Age. His works include: Tales of the Goldfields (1880), Australia; or, England in the South (1886), The South Australian Company (1898) and Twentieth Century Inventions (1901). With his brother, Alexander Sutherland, he wrote The History of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890 (1894), which attained a sale of 120,000 copies. Views: 12
Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding's ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe. Superintendent Andy Dalziel's holiday runs into trouble when he gets marooned by flood water. Rescued and taken to nearby Lake House, he discovers all is not well: the owner has just died tragically and the family fortunes are in decline. He also finds himself drawn to attractive widow, Bonnie Fielding. But several more deaths are to follow. And by the time Pascoe gets involved, it looks like the normally hard-headed Dalziel might have compromised himself beyond redemption. Views: 12
