ARISEN*Hope Never Dies.*With over 175,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military ZA series returns to the fall of man - and the war after the fall. Readers call the ARISEN series: "the wildest and best rollercoaster I've ever been on" ... "Pulse-pounding action at a relentless pace" ... "THE ABSOLUTE BEST FREAKING SERIES IN THIS GENRE" ... "the most unputdownable military zombie apocalypse arc ever" ... "for adrenaline junkies only" ... "A full-on express elevator to hell!!!" ... "A one-of-a-kind ZA opus. The indomitable warrior spirit shines through from start to finish" ... "the best I have ever read in apocalypse fiction of any kind" ... "Riveting. Full of horror and beauty" ... "These guys are the juggernauts of their genre" ... "the best of the best! Sweeping, epic, engaging, and thrilling" ... "keeps on delivering action, thrills & destruction at every turn" ... "Just one more page, I say, then it's 2am again" ... "Another literary heart attack" Africa Wasn't Ready. Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground. Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity.NEMESIS**** Views: 23
Scaly skin, family fights...it's tough being a teenage dragon.Jennifer was just starting to get comfortable in her own skin, scaly as it is. She should have known that, as half-weredragon, half-beaststalker, things don't stay normal for too long... Views: 23
E-Book extras: ONE: An Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund: "The Ship of My Book"; TWO: Author's Note: "The Surprise and Pleasure of It"; THREE: Reading Group Guide: Discussion Points.The famous international bestseller is now a special-features-packed e-book. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe — an epic-scale, enthralling, and deliciously readable saga, spanning the full, rich, eventful, and dramatic life of one Una Spenser, for whom "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." Illustrated throughout by world-renowned artist Christopher Wormell. Views: 23
At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice?As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating virtue while exposing the social, fiscal, and moral frauds that are the underpinnings of terrifying rectitude. Views: 23
Jeff Dawkins's last partner left him with a mortgage he can't afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month's vacation in Europe. Despite a reluctance to travel, Jeff decides to go on the trip anyway. After all, he's already paid for it. He packs a Kindle loaded with gay romance novels and arrives in Venice full of trepidation. There he meets the handsome and charming expat Cleve Prieto, who offers to serve as his tour guide. Jeff has serious misgivings - he wasn't born yesterday, and something about Cleve doesn't sit right - but anything is better than wandering the canals alone. With Cleve's help, Jeff falls in love with Venice and begins to reconcile with his past. For the first time, Jeff finds himself developing strong feelings for someone else. But he can't be sure who that person is because Cleve's background remains a mystery embroidered with lies. Then a dark figure from Cleve's past appears, and Jeff must choose whether to let Cleve flee alone or to join him on a desperate run through central Europe. Maybe Jeff will finally be able to see behind Cleve's masks - if he survives the journey. Views: 23
Winning a high-profile case has given a huge boost to New York attorney DeAngelo Di Meglio's career--and his love life. Too bad fame hasn't helped him win the woman he's been infatuated with for years. Tired of waiting and wondering, Angelo books a trip to the singles-only Bahamas resort where Peyton Mahoney is celebrating her thirtieth birthday. And just as he hoped, when they finally connect, the chemistry is mind-blowing....Two weeks in paradise has given Peyton some sizzling memories. That's all she expects--or wants--from a legendary player like Angelo. Having grown up on Chicago's South Side, she is worlds away from his life of privilege. Then a controversial case puts them on opposing sides. And as sexual tension spills over from the courtroom to the bedroom, there's no way they can ignore the undeniable attraction.... Views: 23
Now available as an ebook for the first time. Once there was a hare - a joyful, dancing hare. Kings, queens, witches, giants, even a vampire, have seen this clever creature - but no one can catch him. Whoever is lucky enough to see the magic never, ever forgets. This book includes 12 stories of encounters with the magic hare. Views: 23
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s, the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever.Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart and fathering eleven children by her. He even dreams a history of the world as a chronicle of sexual frustration.A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint.Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. His first novel, Tamarisk Row, was published in 1974. It was followed by A Lifetime on Clouds, The Plains and five other works of fiction, the most recent of which is A History of Books. In 1999 he won the Patrick White Award. Ten years later he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature.textpublishing.com.au'Unquestionably one of the... Views: 23
