John Keith Laumer (1925–1993) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. This collection containes 9 classic tales...more than 400 pages of great reading! Included are:GREYLORNTHE FROZEN PLANETGAMBLER'S WORLDTHE YILLIAN WAYIT COULD BE ANYTHINGEND AS A HEROA BAD DAY FOR VERMINA TRACE OF MEMORYDOORSTEPIf you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction — and much, much more! Views: 140
A Greek noblewoman in a foreign land. The Pharaoh's highest general preparing for battle.Beholden to duty, Ismene marries Pharaoh’s top military officer. But she’s determined to remain true to the man she left behind. Right as her new husband departs for battle, threats of violence arise. Amidst heightening attacks culminating in death threats and evidence of a spy in her household, the safety of Ismene and the entire ruling class hangs in the balance. Views: 140
My name is Tess Turner—at least, that's what I've always been told.I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in, to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied.It never occurred to me that everyone else was lying too.Fifteen-year-old Tess doesn't mean to become mute. At first, she's just too shocked to speak. And who wouldn't be? Discovering your whole life has been a lie because your dad isn't your real father is a pretty big deal. Terrified of the truth, Tess retreats into silence. Reeling from her family's betrayal, Tess sets out to discover the identity of her real father. He could be anyone—even the familiar-looking teacher at her school. Tess continues to investigate, uncovering a secret that could ruin multiple lives. It all may be too much for Tess to handle, but how can she ask for help when she's... Views: 140
Janette Oke's signature series of gentle prairie romances follows the lives of one family through three generations, offering a portrait of love enduring through trials.
Includes:
1. Love Comes Softly
2. Love's Enduring Promise
3. Love's Long Journey
4. Love's Abiding Joy
5. Love's Unending Legacy
6. Love's Unfolding Dream
7. Love Takes Wing
8. Love Finds a Home Views: 140
To read Loren Eiseley is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. In this brilliant collection he considers the cosmological significance and ultimate meanings of our evolutionary history, offering a series of profound, lyrical meditations on the origins and possible futures of humankind against the backdrop of the Apollo landings. As Western civilization attains new heights of scientific awareness and technological skill, he asks, is it also blind to its own limits and destructive capacities? Always a fond observer of the natural world, Eiseley makes a newly urgent, environmentalist plea in The Invisible Pyramid: we must protect the fragile "world island" against our unchecked power to pollute and consume it. Views: 140
The Corpus Hermeticum are Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the divine, the cosmos, mind, and nature. Some touch upon alchemy, astrology, and related concepts. Views: 140
The arrangement was simple. One year, no drama, no feelings, and definitely no sex.
When Army Ranger Miles Warren started making plans for his future outside of the military, a marriage wasn’t anywhere near the top of the list. However, his parents aren’t leaving that decision up to him. If he wants access to his parent’s fortune, he has to play by their rules. One-night-Warren will have to trade in his playboy status if he wants to build the business of his dreams and break free from his parent’s control once and for all.
Penelope “Penny” Laken is a firecracker with ambitions outside of the socialite circle she was raised in. For as long as she can remember, her greatest passion has been revealed behind the lens of a camera. She’s put the rest of her life on hold until she can finish her art book and launch a new career for herself. She has big dreams and two amazing friends to back her up. She doesn’t want or need a man thank-you-very-much.
Miles and Penny meet at his parent’s annual holiday gala, neither of them is looking for anything more than a hot hook-up, but months later, when their paths cross again, Penny is shocked by what Miles wants next.
It’s trust fund trouble, times two, and Miles and Penny will need to play nice if they’re going to walk away with their futures secured and their hearts intact.
Miles is a novel length contemporary email order bride romance with an HEA! Views: 140
The boys are back, and just in time for Season 3 of the Hap and Leonard TV series, starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire) and James Purefoy (Altered Carbon).Hap Collins looks like a good 'ol boy, but his lefty politics don't match. His buddy, Vietnam veteran Leonard Pine, is even more complicated: black, conservative, gay . . . and an occasional arsonist. With Hap and Leonard on the job, small-time crooks all on the way on up to the Dixie Mafia are extremely nervous.Everyone's favorite ass-kicking Texan duo are further immortalized in this expanded collection of tall tales, slick nonfiction, and two full-length novellas. Views: 140
The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels, now they return with their own stories…PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEMSuperstar Elle Bostwick is kidnapped in London. But who has kidnapped her? NINA, a ruthless, powerful organization of opportunists who will do anything to anyone anywhere to gain access to something Elle has that they want? The CIA, who is equally determined to prevent NINA from gaining that desired access? Why kidnap a superstar singer? Why Elle? And why does she not know what they're after?Elle mysteriously appears at a Shadow Watcher's wedding reception, and Nick Sloan is ordered to keep her safe indefinitely. Yet the Top Secret entity issuing the orders doesn't say safe from what or who is pursuing Elle. Not even why, which is atypical. Why is this happening now?OLD WOUNDS RUN... Views: 140
When the beautiful American debutante, Miss Kathleen Hawks, arrives for the London season, the last thing she expects is an attraction to the scandalous Baron Billingsley. He’s the kind of aristocrat she detests, one who only cares for his pleasures.Andrew Grainger is handsome, young and very wealthy. He loves carousing with his pack of friends from his schooldays. When he stumbles across the prim, yet charming Miss Hawks, he should avoid her at any cost. After all, she’s an innocent, barely out of the schoolroom. But…there’s just something about her he finds irresistible.When a chance encounter leads to scandal for the pair, they must choose to brave the Beau Monde, or give into its dictates. Is there any possibility that what appears to be a match made in Hades, could turn into a match made in heaven? Views: 139
