Comparable to The Voyage of the Short Serpent, VIKING SAGA is a pulse-pounding literary historical thriller, set in 793 AD, when Norway was ruled by many small kingdoms and folk still worshipped the old gods. Halfdan the Black -- a young fighter and beer-soaked poet, with a Norse father and African mother -- vows revenge for the killing of his king. Halfdan's fate leads him through actual historical events, such as the raid on England's Lindisfarne nunnery and the first Norse contacts with Christianity. This spare, cunningly ironic novel is set against a brutal backdrop of life in the "Dark Ages", and features violent action, a unique love-story, odd twists, cool humour, primitive poems and more. Well-researched and fast-moving, VIKING SAGA follows Halfdan the Black as he battles, boozes and rhymes his way to revenge, love, wisdom ... and becoming Norway's first king. Views: 13
Candlelight Wish Janice Bennett Blush: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content). When Phoebe Caldicot loses her much-needed job as an instructress at a select Bath seminary, she knows exactly whom to blame. Sir Miles Saunderton, the elder brother of one of her pupils, is managing, infuriating and the last man she ever wants to see again. As she gazes into a candle flame, she wishes for security. Marriage seems her only option, but where can a penniless ex-schoolmistress find a suitable husband? The rippling water in a silver bowl stills, and Lady Xanthe Simms and her huge white cat Titus see the image of the desperate young lady. But desperation and wishes are what keep life busy and entertaining for the resourceful fairy godmother. With a melodic hum—and the fluttering to the floor of one of her gold-tipped wing feathers—Lady Xanthe sets forth to grant Phoebe the opportunity to make her wish come true. But opportunities are never certainties… Publisher’s Note: Previously published elsewhere. Views: 13
Dan Binchy's first two novels were delightful stories of small town Ireland and filled with a range of eccentric and hilarious characters. Both books received warm praise—The Washington Post called The Neon Madonna "terrifically funny and a hilarious read." Booklist called The Last Resort "an endearing and entertaining combination of warmth and wit."The tiny village of Trabane is tucked far away in the west of Ireland. A coastal resort on the Atlantic Ocean, the rugged strip of land that separates it from the beach boasts a golf course designed more by nature than by man. On 'links' like this golf is much more than just a game to those that play it. It is a battlefield where scores are settled and every man and woman is equal. Anything further from the wealth and luxury of an exclusive country club would be hard to imagine.Yet to young Larry Lynch, nicknamed LOOPY, golf opens up new horizons and the chance of a better life.... Views: 13
Who is Alex Carruthers? That is the question Wicked fans have been asking for nearly six years. Spellbound, the fourth and seemingly final book in the Wicked series, originally published in 2003, left readers on the edge of their seats with a classic cliffhanger ending. But now, as new fans of the bind-up editions of the series begin to ask the same question, the true and final conclusion to the Wicked series will emerge. And all their questions will be answered in this heart-stopping, magical adventure about witches, destiny, and the beyond. Views: 13
Meet True Riley, a young and seductive cheerleader. Join her as she and her friends enjoy their not so innocent college experiences. Her first collegiate conquest happens to already have a girlfriend. However, everyone sees how she treats him except for him! Unlike her, True does more than just tease the poor guy. The sex between them is sizzling! Views: 13
David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer ever gets near. In the pages of his novels INFINITE JEST and THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and the collections GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR and A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I'LL NEVER DO AGAIN, he had created as unique a voice and vies as any writer at work today, rendering a dazzling array of interior states with delicious insight and humor. In this new collection, the author extends his range and craft in twenty-two stories that intertwine hilarity with an escalating disquiet to create almos unbearable tensions. Three stories venture inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognizable and utterly strange: a boy paralyzed by fear atop a high diving board ("Forever Overhead"), a poet lounging contented beside his pool ("Death Is Not the End"), a young couple experiencing sexual uncertainties ("Adult World"), a depressed woman soliciting comfort from her threadbare support network ("The Depressed Person", chosen for Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards). The series of stories from which the book takes its title is a tour de force sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at thier most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connection. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN gives us men and women, celebrity and bitter loneliness, sexual posturing and naked honesty, erudition and apeman babble - a world whose emotional complexity and outright comedy closely resemble our own. In these remarkable stories, David Foster Wallace reaffirms his reputation a a "passionate and deeply serious wrtier" (San Francisco Chronicle) who again expands our ideas of the pleasures of fiction can afford. Views: 13
The world of the Runelords has been combined by magic with another parallel world to form a new one, the beginning of a process that may unify all worlds into the one true world. This story picks up after the events of The Wyrmling Horde and follows two of Farland's well-known heroes, Borenson and Myrrima, on a quest to save their devastated land and the people of the new world from certain destruction. But the land is not the only thing that has been altered forever: in the change, Borenson has merged with a mighty and monstrous creature from the other world, Aaath Ulber.He begins to be a different person, a berserker warrior, as well as having a huge new body because of the transformation of worlds. Thousands have died, lands have sunk below the sea and, elsewhere, risen from it. The supernatural rulers of the world are part of a universal evil, yet play a Byzantine game of dark power politics among themselves. And Aaath Ulber is now the most... Views: 13
Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual, in a world where magic is real — and where death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you. But when an employee is murdered in front of her, Sylvie has had enough. After years of confounding the dark forces of the Magicus Mundi, she's closing up shop — until a man claiming to be the God of Justice wants Sylvie to find his lost lover. And he won't take no for an answer. Views: 13
"Chambers is adept at striking the perfect balance of darkness and light..." – Dark Wisdom They say Mooncat Jack takes the kids nobody is watching, the kids nobody wants. They say he takes them in the dark and smiles with teeth like black dice and eyes like pools of dead water waiting to suck them down to...someplace else... Darkness is everywhere. It lingers in the echoes of the past and dwells behind the closed doors of ordinary houses. It rises from the dead and hides behind the face of true love. Pretend you don’t see it, but you know it’s there. You know, sooner or later, a day will come when you feel its touch and see its face. "...Chambers writes stories that are paced fast enough to friction burn a reader’s eyeballs." – Horror Reader.com Now from one of dark fiction’s most powerful new voices comes this collection of nightmare visions of the things that live beyond the light. Sure, they say James Chambers is a normal guy. They say he doesn’t look like a horror writer. And yet he’s gazed into the dark and lived to tell these tales of madness and betrayal, shocking Lovecraftian mysteries, and terrifying journeys into history. Known for creating surprising twists and haunting characters, Chambers delivers atmospheric suspense mixed with disturbing, psychological dread. Consider these stories to be cautionary tales, warnings of the unseen horrors that lurk all around us, and read them if you dare. "This is one mean word jockey." – CJ Henderson Published here for the first time anywhere is Chamber’s chilling novelette of the New York City underworld: "Five Points."
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"Chambers is adept at striking the perfect balance of darkness and light..." --Dark Wisdom
"...Chambers writes stories that are paced fast enough to friction burn a reader's eyeballs." --Horror Reader
"This is one mean word jockey." --C.J. Henderson
About the Author
James Chambers is the author of numerous tales of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction, which have been published in more than 20 anthologies and magazines, including Bare Bone, Bad-Ass Faeries, the award-winning Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad, Breach the Hull, Crypto-Critters (Vol. 1 & 2), Cthulhu Sex, Dark Furies, The Dead Walk, The Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon, Hardboiled Cthulhu, Hear Them Roar, Allen K’s Inhuman, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak: Supernatural Sleuth, Lost Worlds of Space and Time (Vol. 1), No Longer Dreams, Sick: An Anthology of Illness, So It Begins, Warfear, and Weird Trails. His wrote the collection The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales in collaboration with illustrator Jason Whitley. He has also written numerous comic books, including Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals and “The Revenant” in Shadow House, and edited the graphic novel adaptation of From Dusk Till Dawn. He lives in New York and can be found online at www.jameschambersonline.com. Views: 13
'One of the best thrillers ever' SOPHIE HANNAHConsultant surgeon Tora Hamilton has moved to remote Shetland to be with her husband. To have a family. Not for this . . .In the peat soil near her new home she uncovers a perfectly preserved woman's body. Runic symbols are carved into her skin. Her heart has been cut out. But as Tora begins to ask questions around the island, she receives her first threat . . . Views: 13
Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As a Topgun instructor, Bio was responsible for teaching the best fighter pilots of the Navy and Marine Corps how to be even better. He schooled them in the classroom and then went head-to-head with them in the skies.Then, in August 1985, Bio was assigned to combine his day-to-day flight duties with participation in a Pentagon-blessed project to film action footage for a major Hollywood movie focusing on the lives, loves, heartbreaks, and triumphs of young fighter pilots: Top Gun.Bio soon found himself riding in limousines to attend gala premieres, and being singled out by giggling teenagers and awed schoolboys who... Views: 13
