On his return from Jamaica, Viscount Iverbrook learns that his sister-in-law, Selena Whitton, has been made guardian of his brother’s son. With every intention of restoring the child to the family estate, Iverbrook appears at Milford Manor where Selena, her mother, sister and young Peter compose a delightful household. Would it be fair to remove the child—and why has Iverbrook grown so fond of pretty, outspoken Selena? Regency Romance by Carola Dunn; originally published by Walker Views: 18
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Tempting the millionaire Independent and with a successful career, Whitney Morgan is on a mission to get the man she's been in love with for years to notice her... She has a lot to thank millionaire Hawk for; without him she wouldn't have anything. But Hawk still seems to think of her as his best friend's child who he'd agreed to care for when her father died. Whitney has grown into so much more than that and is determined to make Hawk see her as the woman she's become... Originally published in 1986 Views: 17
Having survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been lost. Accompanied by marines, Ripley is going to find out why. Views: 16
At 6'6" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission. Views: 16
At a New Year’s Eve party in their hotel in Frecklemarsh, the guests can sense an uneasy tension between their hosts, Oliver and his second wife Nancy Pendrick. Growing resentment in their marriage, caused by Nancy’s independence and commitment to her London-based catering business, is evident in the fraught family relationships which extends to two wilful stepchildren. To add fuel to the fire, old flames are returning to the sleepy village, memories of Oliver’s first wife, the beautiful yet troubled Avis, refuse to fade and gossip flies around the small community. All in all when the festive season is over and Nancy returns to London it is a relief…until she doesn’t return… When a female corpse is discovered on a lonely road in Chedbury and eventually identified as Mrs Pendrick, there is universal shock, horror and multiple unanswered questions. With all the guests at the New Year’s Eve party potential suspects, CID Webb has his work cut out to track down the killer, and when he fits the pieces of the puzzle together, it forms a picture he would never have expected to see… ‘A Necessary End’ is a gripping crime thriller from bestselling author Anthea Fraser. Praise for Anthea Fraser: “A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist “Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times “A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story” - Birmingham Post “Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings” - Yorkshire Post Anthea Fraser has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include ‘The Seven Stars’, ‘The Ten Commandments’, ‘Death Speaks Softly’ and ‘Pretty Maids All in a Row’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now. ** Views: 16
First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction in Sep 1986. Later published as part of Escape from Kathmandu collection (Tor Books, 1989). Views: 15
Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987. Views: 15
THE ZONE 4
• SKY STRIKE
A NATO air assault hurtles towards a vital
Warsaw Pact rail junction and marshalling yard. Betrayed,
waiting for them is a mass of enemy anti-aircraft guns and
missiles. The battle becomes one of survival as Major Revells’
men have to fight their way home across the Zone.
SYNOPSIS
Aboard helicopter transports bristling with weaponry and with a powerful escort
of gunships, an airborne NATO assault group crosses the Zone to attack and
destroy a Warsaw Pact rail junction and marshalling yard. But the attack force
has been betrayed and the already powerful anti-aircraft defences have been
massively reinforced. Faced with batteries of missiles, massed cannons and
Shilka flak tanks the attack is scattered and brutally clawed from the sky.
Surviving the slaughter Revells’ Special Combat Force finds itself deep inside
enemy territory and has to engage in a running battle to carve a path through
the enemy forces. Using stolen enemy vehicles they have to fight every inch of
the way to return to the NATO lines.
PUBLISHED
First NEL Paperback Edition July 1981
First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005
First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition
April 2007 Views: 15
Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania. The narrative of these travels has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunn's 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary traveler's story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, and an updated bibliography, Dunn's classic interprets Ibn Battuta's adventures and places them within the rich, trans-hemispheric cultural setting of medieval Islam.Review"It is not surprising that this book was required reading."--Pragati: the Indian National Interest ReviewAbout the AuthorRoss E. Dunn is Professor of History, San Diego State University, and the editor of The New World History: A Teacher's Companion (2000). Views: 14
SHE RAN AWAY FROM THE ALTAR -- INTO THE ARMS OF A HOT-BLOODED GYPSY His name was Mateo. Magnificently sexy. Totally charming. Bursting with life in a way that set Charlotte's blood on fire. From the first moment she saw him, performing in a dazzling Gypsy show in the small circus town where she was alone and penniless, Charlotte knew she had found the one roan for her. But fate tore them apart before they could even come together, as Charlotte was kidnapped by another Gypsy man and told that tradition decreed they must marry! How could Charlotte marry anyone but Mateo? He surely returned her ardor, but he was no more free than Charlotte. The victim of an ancient curse that caused him to go mad beneath the fiery light of the Gypsy moon, Mateo could only break that spell by marrying a Gypsy woman.... Views: 14
CAFÉ NEVO is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians—both Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction—and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel in its pioneering heyday. Views: 14
