"An incredible storyteller."—Los Angeles Daily NewsALARIC The mighty Norman warrior destined for greatness—forced to take sides in a bloody battle for power and glory . . .FALLON The willful Saxon princess born into a land divided by blackest treachery—fighting for her life against the despised Norman invaders . . .He would rescue her from certain death. And she would flee, determined to resist this seductive enemy who vowed to conquer her with a passion that would turn her heart to fire . . ."Engrossing. Sexy." –Publishers Weekly Views: 24
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Suldrun's Garden by Jack VanceThe Green Pearl by Jack VanceMadouc by Jack Vance Views: 24
SUMMARY: Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" (The Washington Post) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" (St. Louis Post- Dispatch) Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again. Views: 24
Chameleon Enhanced Novella Collector's EditionT-FLAC/Psi Novella Originally Published 2010 as Temptation on IceNew York Times Best Selling Author Cherry Adair's Chameleon novella is an icy-hot two bite read. "Steamy" Publishers Weekly"Plenty of action and passion packed into a little package." SmexyBooksSHE KNEW SHE WAS ABOUT TO DIE . . .When paranormal T-FLAC operative Sebastian Tremayne heads to the Arctic Circle to neutralize red-hot physicist Michaela Giese, the polar ice cap isn't the only thing in danger of melting.SHE JUST DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS ORDERED TO KILL HER . . .This beautiful brainy woman is about to spark a nuclear disaster. He's there to stop her by any and all means. But what he can't prevent, what he can't resist, is the fiery passion between them. Even powerful magic might not save them.Praise for New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CHERRY ADAIR and her irresistible romantic suspense novels... Romantic TimesIf you enjoy... Views: 24
A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this gripping tale the thrilling climax of which takes place in the vaults of the Bodleian Library. Views: 23
The sixth novel in the Ryan Lock series. Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are in Los Angeles and on the trail of an unlikely cult who are planning on taking their message to the world in the most devastating fashion imaginable. "This series is ace. There are deservedly strong Lee Child comparisons as the author is also a Brit, his novels US-based, his character appealing, and his publisher the same." - Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller "This is a writer, and a hero, to watch." - Geoffrey Wansell, The Daily Mail "Black's style is supremely slick." - Jeremy Jehu, The Daily Telegraph "The pace of Lee Child, and the heart of Harlan Coben." - Joseph Finder, New York Times Bestseller (Paranoia, Buried Secrets) "The heir apparent to Lee Child" - Ken Bruen, Internationally Bestselling Author of The Guards 'Ryan Lock (is) a protagonist tough enough to take on the Jacks of this world (that's Bauer and Reacher)' - Russel McLean 'Black's star just keeps on rising.' - Evening TelegraphReview"Short sharp chapters make this an extremely exciting and fast paced read, the action very rarely lets up and I was loath to put this book down at times, even when my eyes just wouldn't stay open. Sean has now left me with the trouble of choosing between this and The Innocent for a place in my Top Ten Books of the Year which I am revealing on Christmas Eve. For fans of Lee Child and Matt Hilton yet to pick up a Sean Black book, what are you waiting for? Christmas is the best time to treat yourself and you will not regret it if you do." Book Addict Shaunbookaddictshaun.co.ukFrom the AuthorEXCERPT - All Rights ReservedChapter One Blood in, blood out. That was the deal. To join them, you had to take someone's life. To leave you had to surrender your own, or expect to have it taken from you. Not that anyone had ever left. Or even hinted that they wanted to. Why would they? Leaving would be an admission of defeat. It would involve returning to the life they'd had before, and that was no life at all. To go back to being a beta male? To return to the life of an AFC (average frustrated chump)? No. That wasn't even a possibility. Once you had taken the red pill, and embraced your inner alpha male, there was no going back. You saw the world differently. You saw it for what it was rather than what you had been conditioned to believe it was. But seeing wasn't enough. Not for Krank, anyway. Knowledge without action was worthless. Perhaps if he'd been selfish it might have been. After the San Diego lair, he'd had everything that most men desired - even if they weren't honest enough to admit it. Money, status, so many women it actually became a chore. But, like the other the men who had come before him, men who bent the world to their design, he had soon tired of the material, the external. He wanted to leave his mark. He knew that he had to embrace his destiny.To do that, he set out on a new course of study. He left the lair. He traveled to Europe, staying first in London, then moving south and east. From London he moved to Paris, then Rome and Prague and Budapest. All the while he read, devouring two, sometimes three books in a single day. History, politics, science, anthropology. A lot of anthropology. Before he'd left, Gretchen had given him a reading list culled from her study of feminism and gender studies. He had studied them with rigor, all the better to understand the enemy. He saw how the world had shifted. He identified the damage the shift had done. He identified those responsible. He began to formulate a plan of how balance might be restored. Not that he would be able to do it alone, or even with help. But, thought Krank, he could begin the change that was needed. He could light a flare of hope for the others who would undoubtedly follow. More time passed. His reading inched back toward more contemporary matters. That was when he stumbled upon the idea of blood initiation as practiced by street gangs in Los Angeles. Of course, this rite of passage had much deeper roots, any idiot knew that, but it could serve a higher calling than controlling foot soldiers who would sling dope. It could provide a strong, permanent bond. What Krank had in mind wasn't a criminal enterprise, even though that was how it would be regarded by this feminized society. No, thought Krank, he had a much nobler goal - the return of the natural order as it had been for thousands of years. Tonight was another initiation. Blood in. The third such ceremony since he had come home. Krank shifted a little in the driver's seat of the black 5-series BMW as they cruised through the midnight-blue streets of downtown Los Angeles. It was a little after three in the morning. The clubs were starting to empty. That was when he saw her. White. Blonde. Staggering a little uncertainly on high heels. Most important of all, alone, a calf separated from the herd. She reached down to tug at her skirt, and almost lost her balance. Her hand went up to the wall as she steadied herself. She opened her purse, took out her iPhone, no doubt ready to conjure up a cab using Uber or one of the competing apps that were driving taxi companies out of business. Krank pulled the BMW over to the curb. He took out his cell phone. He hit the call button. 'You see her?' he said into the phone. 'That's the one.' 'I see her,' came the reply. Tension in the voice. Nerves. It was one thing to talk about this stuff, and quite another when it came to game time. Not that Krank minded. Nerves were good. Nerves meant you were alive. 'Okay,' said Krank. 'Over to you. But don't be too obvious. Give it like a minute. Forty-five seconds minimum.' 'I know.' Krank smiled at the tetchiness in the reply. No, he thought, you don't know shit. You're a virgin when it comes to this. Everyone is. You only know afterward. Nothing prepares you for your first. It's like taking that red pill for the first time but multiplied by a hundred. With the rush comes the horror. Like how someone taking heroin for the first time usually gets sick.Blood in. Views: 23
Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal. The brand new Jack Reacher short story, Not A Drill, is now also available to pre-order exclusively as an ebook. Views: 23
