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Perfect for fans of The Illuminae Files and The 100, in this heart-racing sequel to The Final Six the teen astronauts must figure out the truth about Europa before it's too late.It was hard enough for Naomi to leave Leo, a fellow Final Six contestant, behind on a dying Earth. Now she doesn't know who to trust.The International Space Training Camp continues to dodge every question about its past failed mission, and Naomi is suspicious that not everything is as it seems on her own mission to Europa. With just one shot at Jupiter's moon, Naomi is determined to find out if there is dangerous alien life on Europa before she and her crew get there. Leo, back on Earth, has been working with renegade scientist Dr. Greta Wagner, who promises to fly him to space where he can dock with Naomi's ship. And if Wagner's hypothesis is right, it isn't a possibility of coming in contact with extraterrestrial life on Europa—it's a definite, and it's up... Views: 439
Madeline de Montalia, the perpetually youthful and beautiful vampire, once beloved of the Count Saint-Germain, comes to America in the 1840\'s to live with and study the native tribes of America, desiring to document their culture and knowledge before these are changed forever and unalterably by contact with the White Man. She had not expected she would fall in love with San Francisco Banker and US Army officer William Tecumseh Sherman in the 1850\'s. Now, living among the Choctaw in Georgia in the 1860\'s, she knows that Sherman\'s armies are marching through; and what will she say when they meet again after these many years? And how will she survive through some of the most horrifying events of the Civil War? Views: 438
Sexual slavery, black widow murderer, blindness, forced marriage, overthrow of monarchy Views: 438
Five inter-connected stories set in a mythical past focus on the experiences of the slave Gorgik and deal with aspects of the beginning of civilization.
Contents:
"The Tale of Gorgik"
"The Tale of Old Venn"
"The Tale of Small Sarg"
"The Tale of Potters and Dragons"
"The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers." Views: 438
It's the zombie apocalypse and the living have been separated from the undead. However, life still goes on as normal. Normal means there're some who prefer to be on the spotlight more than others. But, to what length can people go to to make themselves known.A short story.The Spark That Ignites The Flame.Seventeen years ago an entire generation of aliens were sent to Earth in order to save their home planet and integrate into the human population. Now, those aliens are being hunted.Amery Jones is finally allowed to go to camp for the summer. With her best friend Lola by her side, she is expecting awesome times ahead.Unfortunately, Lochie, her charming mortal enemy and the only guy who can get under her skin, seems to have made it his mission to annoy her for the entire summer.When one of the campers goes missing, Amery finds herself teamed up with Lochie in the search mission. Now, more than ever, her alien status has to remain a secret.Also in the Project Integrate Series:Ignite (Short Prequel)UniteDivideConquerSoarRiseBroken Views: 438
Mystery and suspense readers are in for a rare treat
with The Black Mask Murders, a unique achievement in the art of
sophisticated action entertainment. It is the first in a series featuring the
three seminal authors of the American private eye novel-Dashiell Hammett,
Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner-each, in turn, as himself, the
detective-hero. In the first of this delightfully offbeat mystery series, "Dash"
Hammett is the narrator, with the other two in subsidiary roles; their turns
will come in subsequent books. The reader encounters high-stakes crime and
corruption in a dazzling murder case in the chic glitter-world of Hollywood
during its golden age. Colorful sequences extend from New York to San
Francisco's Chinatown to Southern California's Big Bear Lake country.
Authentically recreated, the legendary masters of
suspense fiction live again as they follow a complex, danger-filled blood trail
in pursuit of a fabled jeweled treasure-the real-life inspiration for Hammett's
classic novel. The Maltese Falcon.
Gritty and glamorous, fascinating and fast-paced, bold
and brilliantly conceived, here is a compulsive read for those who seek the
unusual in the best of mystery and suspense. There's never been a novel quite
like The Black Mask Murders.
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From Publishers Weekly
Veteran author Nolan (Logan's Run) launches a
series to be narrated by those crime writers he calls "The Black Mask
Boys"-Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner. Hammett leads
off this 1935 plot, jam-packed with movie stars and moguls, gangsters,
blackmailers, nasty pre-Miranda cops and even a gem-encrusted human skull dating
from the Crusades. Readers will be reminded less of The Maltese Falcon
than of Hammett's early pulp fiction. This tale, featuring some incredibly
daring sleuthing by all three writers-made-characters, moves along like a
crumpled cocktail napkin caught up in the windstorm and seems to have about the
same weight in the end. Cameo appearances include those by Scott Fitzgerald and
Heinie Faust, who wrote as Max Brand (and other names). Nolan dredges up some
pretty portentous prose in this plumbing of the past (an encounter with
Fitzgerald leaves Dash ruminating: "All that talent-and all that booze. A bad
combination."). Of interest as a period piece and for its insider allusions,
this is no hard-boiled tale.
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From Booklist
Dashiell Hammett was a real-life detective as well as the
author of several classic detective novels, including The Maltese Falcon. Now
he's also a fictional character, the narrator of this series debut that also
features two of Hammett's fellow contributors to Black Mask magazine, Erle
Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. The real author, William Nolan, is a
scholar of Black Mask-era fiction and the author of Hammett: Life at
the Edge (1987). Set in Hollywood shortly before the appearance of the
Falcon movie, the story finds Hammett asked to deliver a jewel-encrusted ruby to
a local mobster. A shootout occurs, and the bad guy gets the icon and the girl
for which it was to serve as ransom. Hammett, Gardner, and Chandler work to
recover both the jewel and the girl. Nolan mixes as many biographical facts into
the narrative as possible, serving up a healthy portion of literary history
along with the action. There's gunplay, humor, and just enough realism to
humanize Hammett and his cronies. The premise may ultimately wear thin, but for
now, it's perfectly good fun for the hard-boiled crowd.
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"A talented original."
-Ross MacDonald
"William F. Nolan is a hell of a writer! I have real
admiration for his stories."
-Peter Straub
"I envy Bill Nolan's successful productivity, and I also
envy the incredible spectrum of his work-fantasy, science fiction, mystery,
suspense-Nolan is a fine writer."
-Richard Matheson
"Nolan's scholarship is impeccable, his organization of
material flawless… his work belongs on every serious mystery reader's
shelf."
-Joe Gores
"Mr. Nolan has considerable skills… His stories are
bright and individual."
-The New York Times
"A gifted writer… intriguing and imaginative."
-The Los Angeles Times Views: 438
"I don't know what blood tastes like to a human. I'd never even licked a tiny drop of it from a pricked finger, let alone suck on a bleeding cut. The shedding of blood, my own, or anyone else's, always made me scream or panic in fear and revulsion. Now it's my only food source." Ellie is not a typical teen vampire. She still has her humanity and conscience. And the same distaste for blood.What if you found out your whole life was a lie, and that was after you were turned into a vampire?"I don't know what blood tastes like to a human. I'd never even licked a tiny drop of it from a pricked finger, let alone suck on a bleeding cut. Now it's my only food source." Meet teenage runaway Ellie. She's snarky, witty, funny, and has issues with her mother, just like any other 17-year-old girl.She's also a vampire.Days before her 18th birthday, the mysterious and handsome immortal Christian, turned her into a creature that she loathes, forcing her to leave her old life behind forever and move to London. Thrust into the supernatural world, full of magic and danger, Ellie doesn't want to be a killer.She doesn't even like to drink blood.But Christian wasn't completely honest about why he'd taken a romantic interest in her, and he wasn't the only one keeping things from her, either.Her mother was hiding the same secret.Truth is: Ellie was never an ordinary teenager, and now, she's no ordinary teen vampire. When she discovers why she's not like others of her kind, why she protects humans instead of hunting them, she realises that her life is about to change all over again.And the world as she knows it will never be the same...Poison Blood, Book 2: Absolution is also free to download and answers some of the questions raised in Book 1, while asking many more...What Readers Said About Poison Blood, Book 1: Revelation'What great book' 5-stars~ B&N Nook Review'This is definitely not a soppy vampire romance! As usual with Neha Yazmin's novels, things are never as they seem.' 5-stars~ Amazon UK Review'Awesome. This was great, couldn't put it down.' 5-stars~ iBooks Australia Review'I am definitely hooked on the Poison Blood series. This is a character-driven story. Neha's characters' depths are what drive her stories, each with their hidden secrets.' 5-stars~ Smashwords ReviewBook Details:Length: A 29,000-word paranormal urban fantasy novel with added bonus contentGenre: Teen & YA Paranormal Romance / YA Vampire Romance / Teen Paranormal Fantasy / YA Urban Fantasy / Young Adult & Teen Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy Romance / Paranormal Urban Fantasy / Supernatural Romance / Supernatural & Fantasy Mood: Dark / Humorous / Coming of ageContent: No violence / No explicit sex scenes / No eroticaAudience: For Teens / Young Adults / New Adults / AdultsRecommended for: Readers that love all things vampires, slayers and witches!This book is suitable for fans of Twilight, The Mortal Instruments and A Shade of Vampire and readers that love all things related to the Chosen One, vampires, slayers and witches! Views: 438
He's back. By (and in some cases, despite) popular demand, Sir Apropos of Nothing once again stalks the pages of literature, leaving unmistakable footprints wherever he treads. Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways - as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen. She tells Apropos that it's not true. Thus the medieval era's most notorious antihero suddenly finds himself once again in the middle of events of which he wants no part. Apropos, a helpless cog in destiny's gear mechanism, is hauled into the middle of another unlikely adventure that finds him dying of thirst and exhaustion in the gods-forsaken desert known as the Tragic Waste. But death is far too simple a fate for Apropos. When he awakens, he is astounded to discover that he is now a fearsome scourge of the land known as Wuin...a deadly and despised 'peacelord' (the politically correct term for 'warlord') with tens of thousands of troops at his command, cities filled with helpless people trembling before him, and an adoring and sexy consort. How he came to this, what he will do once he discovers the terrible price attached to his new station in life, and how the mystic gem called the Eye of the Beholder fits into all of it are just a few of the challenges our reluctant hero will encounter along the Woad to Wuin. Views: 438
All I've ever tried to do is keep the people in my life safe. That's gotten me into hot water more times than I can count. Hell, the last time got me four years behind bars.So when my favorite barista tells her mom that I'm her boyfriend to stop the woman's endless criticism, I can't stop myself from helping her out. But she's too innocent and I'm too damaged for this to ever be the real deal. I can't allow myself to touch her, not when making her mine will drag her into my world and drown her in my messed up life. What I really need to do is stay away. Except every touch and every accidental kiss breaks my control. I want her. Then I find out her dad is the detective who put me away...and he's trying to take down my family. I don't blame him. The secrets I'm keeping are big enough to destroy everything. Views: 438
Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the “short-short” form (these days called flash fiction)—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. This volume contains 27 of his stories, including the classics "The Waveries," "Honeymoon in Hell," "Cartoonist," and many more! Views: 438
Provence, in the south of France, is a part of the world that has been—and continues to be—called a paradise. But one of the lessons that history teaches is that paradise is coveted and fought over. Successive waves of invaders have claimed—or tried to claim—those vineyards, rivers, olive groves, and hills.
In Guy Gavriel Kay’s new novel, Ysabel, this duality—of exquisite beauty and violent history—is explored in a work that marks a departure from Kay’s historical fantasies set in various analogues of the past.
Ysabel takes place in the world of today: in a modern springtime, in and around the celebrated city of Aix-en-Provence near Marseilles. Dangerous, mythic figures from the Celtic and Roman conflicts of the past erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.
The protagonist is Ned Marriner, the fifteen year-old son of a well-known photographer. Ned has accompanied his father, Edward Marriner, and a team of assistants to Provence for a six week “shoot.” Views: 438
