Life. Possibility. Choice. All taken from Adelice by the Guild—until she took them back. But amid the splendid ruins of Earth, Adelice discovers how dangerous freedom can be. Hunted by soulless Remnants sent by Cormac Patton and the Guild, Adelice finds a world that’s far from deserted. Although allies are easy to find on Earth, knowing who to trust isn’t. Because everyone has secrets, especially those Adelice loves most. Secrets they would kill to protect. Secrets that will redefine each of them. Torn between two brothers and two worlds, Adelice must choose what to fight for. In this thrilling sequel to Crewel , Adelice is about to learn how tangled up her past and future really are. Her parents ran to protect her, but nothing can save her from her destiny, and once she uncovers the truth, it will change everything. Views: 39
A stepfather and stepdaughter will engage in a forbidden tryst with devastating consequences... Views: 39
It seemed like a good idea at the time.Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the bachelor from hell at her sister's wedding in India, Lina panics and blurts out, "I'm engaged!" Because what's the harm in a little lie?Who's sari now?Lina scrambles to find a real fiancé because Auntie Kiki will be coming to America soon to approve the match. But date after disastrous date gets her no closer to her prince -- until an actual prince arrives on her doorstep. Lina hasn't been able to stop fantasizing about traditional but dashing Raja Prasad since she met him in India. In fact, her imaginary fiancé has begun to resemble him! Now Raja is in San Francisco and wants Lina to find a suitable bride for his brother. Though they l... Views: 39
With The Machinery of Light, David J. Williams completes his furiously paced, stunningly imagined trilogy - a work of vision, beauty, and pulse-pounding futuristic action. September 26, 2110. 10:22 GMT. Following the assassination of the American president, the generals who have seized power initiate World War Three, launching a surprise attack against the Eurasian Coalition's forces throughout the Earth-Moon system. Across the orbits, tens of thousands of particle beams and lasers blast away at one another. The goal: crush the other side's weaponry, paving the way for nuclear bombardment of the cities. As inferno becomes Armageddon, the rogue commando unit Autumn Rain embarks on one last run. Matthew Sinclair, an imprisoned spymaster, plots his escape. And his former protégé Claire Haskell, capable of hacking into both nets and minds, is realizing that all her powers may merely be playing into Sinclair's plans. For even as Claire evades the soldiers of East and West amid carnage in the lunar tunnels, the surviving members of the Rain converge upon the Moon, one step ahead of the Eurasian fleets but one step behind the mastermind who created Autumn Rain - and his terrible final secret. Views: 39
Satirical military space opera, #1 of 11-book series. Compulsive gambler Joey Czerinski must escape Old Earth fast to elude the bad-ass loan shark gunning for him. Desperate, he borrows funds from a shady Foreign Legion ATM, then gets shipped across space to fight a spider-like alien species. But one lucky roll of the dice could put him back in the game - if he can manage to stay alive! Views: 39
"The British campaigns in the Sudan in the closing years of Queen Victoria's reign are a tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. Evoking images of broken squares, jammed Gatling guns, ferocious 'Fuzzy Wuzzies', British gunboats on the Nile, the Camel Corps and the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, the story also brings together a cast of larger-than-life characters - Gordon, Wolseley, Kitchener, Gladstone, Churchill, the Mahdi, the Khalifa Abdallahi and many others." "The story begins with the massacre of the eleven-thousand-strong Hicks Pasha column at Shaykan in 1883 - an event that sent shock waves through the Western world. Dispatched to evacuate the country, British national hero Charles 'Chinese' Gordon was surrounded in Khartoum by a vast army of dervishes commanded by the Mahdi, the Expected Guide. Gordon held out for months, hoping from day to day to be rescued, but was eventually killed and the city sacked in an orgy of murder, rape and pillage. Wolseley's relief mission, having fought its way across the desert on camels and sailed up the Nile in steamers, arrived two days too late. This caused a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government." "The Mahdi's successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, established the world's first radical Islamic state, becoming, in the process, a paranoid tyrant who ruled by fear. It was left to the brilliant Herbert Kitchener to strike back. Achieving the impossible, he built a railway across the arid Nubian Desert to transport his troops to the final devastating confrontation at Omdurman in 1898." "Desert explorer and author Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale of the British Empire's ultimate adventure in vivid detail. Having covered every inch of the ground, and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence to question several accepted aspects of the story. Far from being the 'lunatic' he was labelled at the time, for instance, Gordon was a brave and gifted man; contrary to popular myth, he did not die a passive martyr's death, but was cut down fighting heroically to the last." "Drawing on an intimate knowledge of Sudanese culture, Asher has produced an account of the Nile campaigns of 1883-98 that, for the first time, examines the story both from the point of view of the British and of the tribes taking part. He sheds new light on the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times."--BOOK JACKET. Views: 39
Los Angeles has no ghettos, according to some. And that is nearly true. But even behind the sun-kissed facade of privilege in its Black upper middle class is a harsher reality.In Search of Pretty Young Black Men is the tale of Dorian Moore, a mysterious and seductive young man who provides comfort to the moneyed, the neglected, the lost, and the lonely in an elegant hilltop community in Southern California.Among the women is Maggie Lester-Allegro, who, disillusioned by a loveless marriage, finds support in her small circle of women friends and sexual healing in Dorian's arms. The blessing brought by this pretty black man soon becomes a fatal curse, as terrible truths come to light. Maggie's husband, Lamont, seeks sexual solace outside of their picture-perfect marriage as well. He lives in the shadow of his larger-than-life father, a member of the Baldwin Hills gentry, and under the weight of secrets and lies that threaten to tumble the walls of his carefully guard... Views: 39
With Wizard’s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself . . . if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real. Views: 39
