It's just another job...right?Nicco Salarum is a thief, and a good one. In the rough-and-tumble city of Azbatha, where every street hustler has an enchantment in his back pocket, Nicco prides himself on using his skills—and the best technology money can buy—to get him into the houses and boardrooms of the wealthy.But Nicco's last job went sour, leaving him in debt to a powerful gang boss, and deep in trouble. When a foreign magician offers him a vast sum for a visiting diplomat's trinket, he leaps at the opportunity.But nothing happens in a vacuum. Caught in a game where the futures of whole nations are at stake, Nicco finds himself racing against time to right his wrongs...and save his own skin. Views: 68
In Listen to the Lambs byDaniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the lifestyle of affluence and social status he once knew. Longing for a freedom of the soul that theworld of capitalism cannot provide, Lazarus leaves all that he knows—including his wife and children—to achieve the ultimate level of peace and silence livingas a homeless man. When his quest causes him to cross paths with four other wanderers, all of whom later call themselves "the family," a shocking, brutal act leaves Lazarus in a dire position and his newfound family must struggle tosave him. By doing so, both families—past and present—are redeemed and consequently learn the beauty of sacrificiallove. Views: 68
Consultant surgeon Daniel Ashwood has come to Australia to find the woman he loved and lost a year ago. Unfortunately, he is currently Louise Andrews's patient, rather than her colleague. Nevertheless, he's determined to see if she'll give their relationship another try. Louise has a surprise for him, too– a three-month-old surprise! After first overcoming his shock, Daniel realises that baby Declan could actually be the miracle he thought would never happen. Now all he needs is another miracle– to convince Louise she can trust him with her heart. Views: 68
An island off the Irish coast deserted but for the Druid remains at the top of a hill, an island from which the inhabitants have long since fled. To this island come S a mystical teacher and eight young followers. S. and his group turn a number of broken down cottages in the Deserted Village into roughly habitable buildings and convert the deconsecrated church into a place of meditation. And then Rosemary dies mysteriously. No one knows why, nor why S had her burned on a funeral pyre. Or was Ursula right: had she merely been in a trance? Had she been burned alive? The groups arrival has awakened long dormant malignant forces from the past, resurrected an ancient evil. The island itself begins to come alive... And it wants revenge. S and his group must confront these forces if they are to survive. Views: 68
V5An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world’s great languages has rarely been examined. ‘Empires of the Word’ is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations – in education, culture and diplomacy – devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of invasions; the progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the struggle that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English. Besides these epic achievements, language failures are equally fascinating: why did Germany get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed’s Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, given that the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India? As this book engagingly reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real characters of peoples; it also shows that the language of the future will, like the languages of the past, be full of surprises. Views: 68
Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.SyFy Wire—9 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels to Read in FebruaryThe Verge—18 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in FebruaryUnbound Worlds—Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of February 2018Kirkus—The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in FebruaryColonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits... Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 68
A collection of erotic gay short stories. Views: 68
With only his oldest friend and his trusty long rifle for company, Davy Crockett explored the wild frontier, looking for adventure ... and finding it. The courageous pioneer had the strength and cunning to get out of any scrape and face any enemy, no matter where his gallivanting might take him. But even he might have met his match when he got caught between two warring tribes on one side and a dangerous band of white men on the other—all of them willing to die—and kill—for a captive woman. It was up to Crockett to save the woman, his friend, and his own hide if he wanted to live to explore another day. Views: 68
In the enticing new novel from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Candace Camp's "poignant, sensual, emotion-packed" (RT Book Reviews) Regency romance series, Secrets of the Loch, an unlikely duo discovers love may be the greatest prize of all when they join an exciting treasure hunt through the Scottish Highlands.When Coll Munro finds himself supervising an archaeological dig on the sprawling Highlands estate of Duncally, the handsome Scot's only worry is his former crofter friends, who seem to delight in making his job as hard as possible. Little does he know his biggest problem comes in a much smaller package. Gorgeous Violet Thornhill is an exasperating, meddling bluestocking who came to the site to examine the ruins and instead finds herself studying Coll. The unyielding Highlander and the headstrong English beauty clash at every turn. But when a midnight intruder threatens Violet and the excavation itself, these polar opposites must work... Views: 68
Product DescriptionFifteen-year-old Mia is not exactly thrilled when she gets the news that her parents are shipping her off to boarding school. It's not like she did anything that bad -- all she did was wreck her dad's car and max out her step mum's credit cards. So, off she goes, from Chicago to Bard Academy, an exclusive prep school that treats troubled teenagers with a healthy dose of higher learning and old-fashioned discipline. But all is not what it seems at this educational institute, and Mia and her classmates soon discover that the teachers are actually ghosts, stuck in limbo, some of them famous authors who died before their time, including Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Charlotte Bronte. And what's even more disturbing is that not all the ghosts have good intentions. Mia and her friends must stop one evil instructor's plan to bring down the school -- and the entire student body with it. About the AuthorCara Lockwood is also the author of I Do (But I Don't), which was made into a Lifetime movie, as well as Pink Slip Party and Dixieland Sushi, and Every Demon Has His Day, all available from Downtown Press. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a journalist in Austin, and is now married and living in Chicago. Her husband is not a rock star, but he does play the guitar -- poorly. Views: 68
His troublesome toothache must be put on hold when one-man police force Hamish Macbeth discovers the local dentist dead of nicotine poisoning, despite the fact that he was a non-smoker. Views: 68
