Princess Sabine Katerina Annaatje of Dulce is outside the safety of the castle walls, on the run from a vicious invader who has killed her family and usurped her throne. With only one man at arms and a faithful handmaiden, she barely escapes the Invader's clutches. But only for so long - he has vowed to leave no blood heir alive. Stumbling into a camp of itinerant performers, Sabine hides her identity, becoming Katerin of Aimsbury. She learns to trust the leader of the traveling circus, Ros Adamsson, a bawdy woman who is half rogue and half gentlewoman. Trust may eventually blossom into more if Katerin can overcome her fear and conservative upbringing. Meanwhile, the Invader still searches for her. A rumored uprising in the Dulce Province, a royal summons for the Adamsson Circus, and a traitorous servant all collide to reveal a secret even deeper than Katerin's identity. Views: 34
- O'Malley sets a haunting local mystery against the tense backdrop of a country tormented by bloodshed and deep schisms.- In the tradition of Seamus Deane and John McGahern, a stirring, beautifully written, but unsentimental portrait of an Irish boyhood.- Thomas O'Malley's work has appeared in literary journals such as "Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Shenandoah, Gulf Stream, and "Blue Mesa Review. Views: 34
At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic and bloody struggle. In the end, as John Keegan notes, contemporaries felt that Napoleon's defeat had "reversed the tide of European history." Even 190 years later, the name Waterloo resounds. Italian historian Alessandro Barbero's majestic new account stands apart from previous British and French histories by giving voice to all the nationalities that took part. Invoking the memories of British, French, and Prussian soldiers, Barbero meticulously re-creates the conflict as it unfolded, from General Reille's early afternoon assault on the chateau of Hougoumont, to the desperate last charge of Napoleon's Imperial Guard as evening settled in. From privates to generals, Barbero recounts individual miracles and tragedies, moments of courage and foolhardiness, skillfully blending them into the larger narrative of the battle's extraordinary ebb and flow. One is left with... Views: 34
They fight for their survival, they fight for their love, and they fight for the human race.Euan left his home whole, only to return broken, battered, and partially blind. He has endured the torments inflicted upon him by monster and man, but they are nothing compared to the consequences of betraying Nick and Kira. Incapacitated, he has no choice but to concede leadership to the man he considered his enemy, and is powerless as the distance between him and those he loves deepens and grows.But his recovery time is short lived. The commander of destruction still lurks in the shadows, determined to dominate and control what is left of the human race. The final battle is upon them. They need a champion, a hero for humanity. There is no where left to run, and there is only one person who can provide the ultimate catalyst for change: A little, blonde sun-sprite, with crystal blue eyes. Views: 34
Wayne and Clarissa are a young London couple whose immediate families are about to meet for the first time. Trying to create harmony between the parents is hard enough, but in this case there are eight parents, step-parents, and partners to cope with. Wayne comes from a working class background and Clarissa, an upper-middle class one. They are deeply in love but tensions arising from the forthcoming gathering have created a rift, and it's touch and go whether their relationship is strong enough to survive the event. With more than just an engagement on the line, can these two families come together – or will their differences rip them all apart? Views: 34
The Horus Heresy is over, the traitors have been defeated and the Sons of Horus are a dying Legion. Views: 34
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are mere footnotes in history, the west finally banished from the Middle East as a powerful new Caliphate unites the Islamic world to form the super-state of Arabia. While Europe wallows in a deep economic depression, rising food and oil prices spark growing social unrest across the continent. In Downing Street, Prime Minister Harry Beecham struggles with a country in crisis. Desperate to find a way out and seeking to forge new ties with an isolated America, Harry is summoned to an urgent security meeting and informed that a large number of surveillance targets have suddenly disappeared off the grid. Something was happening, but what?Elsewhere, on a busy street in south London, Hishi Khan, a British intelligence operative, is frantically trying to reacquire one such surveillance target. He has been tracking the man for some time but now the target has shrugged off his surveillance and escaped on foot after a brutal shooting outside an underground station.For Kirsty Moore, the day has been spent recovering after partying too hard the previous evening. She's relaxing on her third-floor balcony in west London when a van rolls quietly to a stop behind her apartment block. Overhead, a British Airways jet drowns out her screams as surface-to-air missiles are launched into the summer sky...Operation Swift Sword has begun. The initial assaults are carried out by sleeper teams, heavily-armed deep-cover operatives whose tasks include neutralizing police and military units, seizing power plants and media stations and spreading chaos and anarchy across the continent. Their actions would create a power vacuum, one that will be filled by the Islamic armies that have just received the order to advance. Their destination, Europe itself.Trapped in Whitehall by the sudden and devastating chaos, Harry is herded into the basement beneath Number Ten and told the most terrible news - Britain is under attack. Power has been cut to the city, communications are down, there's no command structure and the armed forces are in disarray. The only option left is to escape the city before it falls. Fleeing through an emergency tunnel system with a team of Special Forces soldiers, Harry and the survivors attempt to reach Alternate One, the highly secret crisis management complex where refuge must surely be found. Yet as Europe buckles under the Islamic onslaught it becomes increasingly clear that sanctuary must lie elsewhere, far to the north, where the final battle for survival will trigger the largest evacuation ever witnessed as war erupts along the Scottish border.The face of Europe is about to change, moulded by a series of events that will have repercussions far into the future. Views: 34
Issue #36 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rodello Santos and T.F. Davenport. Views: 34
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Nothing prepares Tyler Blake for the fast-paced living of New York City. A small-town girl from Georgia, she quickly gets caught up in the glamorous entertainment industry. While pursuing her dream of becoming an actress, Tyler continually gets sidetracked by men who promise to help her and finds herself going from one dysfunctional relationship to another. Just when Tyler finally believes she has found her ideal man, in hip-hop producer Brian McCall, everything begins to go horribly wrong. Trapped in a nightmarish relationship, Tyler is determined not to go down without a fight. Views: 34
The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards.Often included in discussions of Nobel Prize contenders, Shishkin is a master prose writer in the breathtakingly beautiful style of the greatest Russian authors, known for complex, allusive novels about universal and emotional themes. Shishkin's stories read like modern versions of the eternal literature written by his greatest inspirations: Boris Pasternak, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov.Shishkin's short fiction is the perfect introduction to his breathtaking oeuvre, his stories touch on the same big themes as his novels, spanning discussions of love and loss, death and eternal life, emigration and exile.Calligraphy Lesson spans Shishkin's entire writing career, including his first published story, the 1993 Debut Prize–winning "Calligraphy... Views: 34
