Tales
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Control over the elements is dull until a
man walks onto her world and makes her senses burn.
Vexaniali has spent her life in solitude,
finding ways to entertain herself on an empty world that has become her prison.
She was ordered to keep anyone from landing, but it was just a make-work job to
keep her out of the way.
Burn arrives and offers her a chance to use
her skills on a variety of worlds under the aegis of the Citadel Arcani.
Moving a cure around a world using her
mastery of air is time consuming and tiring but not difficult. It is a good
start, and when Burn offers himself to top up her flagging energies, how could
she refuse?
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Kira may have survived the eclipse, but her troubles are far from over. She's headed to Sonnyville with one goal in mind: to learn more about her parents. But with Luke and Tristan competing for her heart and Diana gunning for her head, time is running out on the search for her mother. And the closer Kira gets to answers, the more terrified she becomes. Views: 37
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. Views: 37
Re-release (2015) Secret Cravings PublishingSomewhere between Heaven and Hell a dreaded assassin slowly rises from the flames, his mission...to destroy the world! Hell's Hero from GLBT romance author Temple Madison is an action packed adventure that will keep you turning the pages of this contemporary fantasy romance.Dante, a cross between a devil and a superhero was created in Hell. Once he was complete, he woke up in a dark alleyway in the middle of NYC. He smelled of sulfur, and was dirty with coal dust. Stumbling along in a world he knew nothing about, he happened to meet a man called Fate, who became his ally. These two men were immediately drawn to each other sexually, and the longer Dante lived in the human world, the more he questioned his existence, until he began having graphic nightmares of his so-called birth. Eventually, he became aware that his creator was Satan, and that he was put on Earth to lead an army to destroy it. He struggled with this... Views: 37
In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian and Honor Harrington, Bennis's THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation's first female airship captain.They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back. On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. Bernat's own secret assignment is to catalog her every moment of weakness and indecision. So when the enemy makes an unprecedented move that could turn the tide of the war, can Josette deal with Bernat, rally her crew, and survive long enough to prove herself?"Full of sass and terrific characters. Great storytelling. Loved it." —Patricia... Views: 37
After receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Iraq, Commander Daniel V. Lenson's new orders read: take over as skipper of USS Thomas W. Horn. His mission: prepare the Tomahawk-equipped strike destroyer and her crew for the Red Sea, where she'll join an international task force searching for weapons of mass destruction. But this will be no routine deployment. Horn will be the first US Navy warship ever to deploy with an integrated male and female crew-a controversial and politically explosive experiment that will raise questions about morale, behavior, training, sexual attraction, and ultimately, performance under fire. Facing sandstorms, smugglers, and ambushes, Horn's increasingly polarized crew will conduct demanding, diplomatically sensitive search-and-seizure operations against foreign vessels attempting to smuggle arms to Iraq. But the real nightmare's brewing in Bahrain. There, the most dangerous bomb expert in Al-Qaeda has targeted Horn for attack- as the first step in a plan to redraw the map of the whole Middle East. With gripping action scenes and an explosive climax, The Command continues Dan Lenson's star-crossed career in a series that explores both global and deeply personal implications of honor, duty, power, and war. **Review"[An] explosive climax...the reader takes a well-informed cruise on a U.S. destroyer. Poyer knows the ship intimately. Vivid descriptions cover everything from knee knockers to combat information center, radar to computers, wardroom to enlisted quarters. Battle scenes in particular come alive with authenticity...and all that, and more, is in this latest chapter of Commander Daniel Lenson's contentious career."-Proceedings "Poyer packs story with both dense technical info and welcome local color. Unique Aisha merits a spinoff series."-Kirkus Reviews ""Plows fearlessly-though with hair-raising effect on occasion-through today's stormy international and social seas...the salvos of nautical expertise also lend flavor and authenticity...the author provides believable insights into Muslim thinking...Poyer's genius for description impresses on page after page. The vividness of his scene-setting grabs you."-Virginian-Pilot "Lovers of procedural military fiction wait for David Poyer's next installment of the career of Dan Lenson."-Roanoke Times From the Back CoverPraise for David Poyer's novels of the Modern Navy: Black Storm"No one writes gritty, realistic military fiction like David Poyer. No one."- Stephen Coonts, author of America "A gripping, gritty novel that reads like the real thing. You're with the marines every step of the way. Poyer knows his stuff."- Vince Flynn, author of Separation of Power "Exceptional...a straight-ahead adventure yarn, a frontal assault on the bestseller lists."- Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe China Sea"Vivid descriptions...an exciting story."- John Garst, Virginia Times Tomahawk"Imaginative, thought-provoking."- USA Today Views: 37
Shortlisted, Commonwealth Book Prize and the Queensland Literary Award 2012When Simon and his parents arrive in the small town of Reception and check in to the Ottoman Motel, things between them are tense but normal. Then, while Simon is asleep, his mother and father disappear. Are they lost? Has something terrible happened to them? Have they simply driven away and left him? All Simon knows is that he is alone in a strange town. Madaline, the local police constable, is kind. Ned Gale and his kids give Simon a place to stay. In the bar down at the Ottoman, Jack Tarden and the other locals are sympathetic. But why does it seem as if no one is trying to find Simon's parents? More than just an intriguing mystery, The Ottoman Motel is a novel about fear and loss, and human fallibility. With this assured, emotionally sophisticated debut, Christopher Currie proves himself to be one of the brightest young novelists in Australia. 'Disturbing and... Views: 37
