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It's all she's ever wanted to be, but it couldn't be further from her grasp... Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she's had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl — she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie. Soon, Dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to Ethan, the hot Fae guy Dana figures she'll never have a chance with... until she does. Caught between two worlds, Dana isn't sure where she'll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again... Views: 13
A provocative collection of short fiction, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula award winning `"Rachel in Love'' and Ursula LeGuin's wonderful "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.'' At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. Views: 13
The last person on Earth….At least, Sarah Wright is fairly sure she’s the last person left alive. Every man, woman, and child in her tiny mountain town of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, died of a terrible fever more than two months earlier, and since then, she hasn’t seen another living soul. Her former neighbor’s ham radio is silent, and the power has been out for months. With winter closing in, she has to decide whether to shelter in place at the historic hotel that’s become her refuge, or head down the mountain in the hope that she’ll somehow manage to find someone. Anyone. But when gorgeous survivor Cameron shows up on her literal doorstep, all of Sarah’s plans change. Will they share an enchanted Christmas together, or will his secrets tear them apart?Note: Although Illuminated is Book 8 of the Djinn Wars series, it’s a completely standalone holiday novella and can be read on its own. Views: 13
Jacob John Smith is tired of getting into trouble. He's fed up with being pushed around and hassled by Blocker – the school bully. But then he discovers he has a power. Will he use his power to be a superhero? Or perhaps a supervillain? Either way, life for Jacob is never going to be the same again. A mind-bending adventure.The Super Freak is bestselling and award-winning New Zealand author Brian Falkner's third novel. This fun page-turner about bullying and superpowers was short-listed in the Junior Fiction category of the 2006 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Read about the other strange things happening at Glenfield High in The Flea Thing and The Real Thing. Visit Brian's website to learn more about the author and his books: brianfalkner.com/ Views: 13
Jimmy Blackburn grows up in the Midwest believing the things that adults tell him. He questions his teachers and they lie to him. He questions his parents and his father beats him. He questions the world and it hurts him.And so Jimmy Blackburn becomes a killer.In this novel we meet many of Blackburn's twenty-one victims. They include law enforcers, writers, adulterers, auto mechanics, and other liars.This is an exceptional novel, at once riotously funny and searingly potent: a vision of America through the eyes of the central bogeyman of our culture. Views: 13
In novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova has been telling the stories of the wars and rivalries, the outsize individuals, public crusades, and private passions that will drive us as we expand into the Solar System and make use of its vast resources. And throughout, Bova has shown our cosmic neighborhood as we know it to be, giving us a sense of Venus and Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt and Mars that's as up-to-date as the latest observations. For the last two decades have been a golden age of near-Earth astronomy and observation, and in his novels Bova has made dramatic use of our newest knowledge.But during that time Bova has also written short fiction about some of the same events and characters—-Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus Fuchs, Dan Randolph, the Asteroid Wars. Now, in Tales of the Grand Tour,... Views: 13
A new, thrilling adventure from Lisle is set in the same fantasy world as the popular Secret Texts trilogy--a world where a sorcery called Dragon Magic draws its powers from the agony of slaves who are killed for sorcerous fuel until three heroes challenge this inhuman cruelty. Views: 13
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Chess Team Series ***A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and *contagious *strain of the disease, the Chess TeamKing, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishopare assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain: the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle. Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnam’s Special Forces unit, the team’s flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globeeven as it threatens both the mission and their lives. Views: 13
