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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000259 EndHTML:0000013012 StartFragment:0000003067 EndFragment:0000012976 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/twk/Desktop/00_2015newversionebooks/Taji's%20Syndrome_yarbro_new-id5.5/bookfiles/Taji%E2%80%99s%20Syndrome-metadata.doc Taji’s Syndrome By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Price: $5.49 eISBN: Published: June 18, 2015 Imprint: Event Horizon EBooks/Event Horizon Publishing Group Copyright © 2015 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Cover Image: © Dmytro Tolokonov Original Print Copyright © 1988 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro PRINT HISTORY: Popular Library-Warner Books, Inc./March 1988 Print Pages: 439 Description: It began with six innocent children—and the terror they would bring to life ... A human error, an unreported lab accident. Six pregnant women, six unknown children spreading a plague far deadlier than any doctors have ever seen before—a horror that splits lovers and friends, parents and children. The bravest and brightest men and women in medicine are fighting to stem the deadly tide. Their only hope for a cure lies with the precious few who have lived through the onslaught. But the survivors of Taji’s Syndrome have mysteriously disappeared—and the tasks facing the champions of humanity are far greater than anyone could have imagined ... HARPER ROSS: He had seen it destroy his son and tear apart his family. Now he is obsessed with hunting down the carriers of the disease—and terrified by the answers he finds. MAXIMILLIAN KLAUSEN: He was the old-fashioned doctor who had lost everyone he ever loved to the syndrome. Now he’s fighting to find its cure—and he’s running out of time. IRENE CHANNING: She was the strong, beautiful woman who was the first known survivor of Taji’s Syndrome—and the first to discover the bizarre and powerful changes it had left behind. JEFF TAJI: He must discover the cause of the plague and stop it. But then he faces an even more baffling mystery . . . what is happening to the survivors? ... Acknowledgments: The writer wishes to thank the following people for their generous assistance in the preparation of this novel: Mr. R. Burr Dr. N. T. Denning Dr. O. Galt Ms. A. E. Oldani Ms. D. L. Pedderson Dr. T. Ryan Mr. J. Santiago Dr. R. Whitty Any errors in fact or procedure are those of the writer, not these most helpful persons. Review Quotes: “Beguiling plots and living characters ... Quinn has great gifts!” — James Tiptree, Jr. “One of the most respected of the horror writers.” — Peter Straub Bio: A professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing - in 1961-2 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet. After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers. She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories. In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. In 2006 the International Horror Guild enrolled her among their Living Legends, the first woman to be so honored; the Horror Writers Association gave her a Life Achievement Award in 2009. A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco. She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and an experienced seamstress. The rest is catch-as-catch-can. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with two cats: the irrepressible Butterscotch and Crumpet, the Gang of Two. When not busy writing, she enjoys the symphony or opera. Views: 68
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This original novel is based on the hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". In this book, Buffy, Oz, and Angel are Europe-bound, traveling limbo's "ghost roads" in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of the world's monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gateeven if it means trading the power-laden Spear of Longinus to the wicked vampires holding Jacques. Buffy's friends, Willow, Xander, Cordelia and Giles are also in trouble. However, Buffy will need everyone's assistance once she locates Jacques and uncovers the shocking plans of the Sons of Entropyplans that, if successful, will destroy the world and create a horrible new realm ruled by monsters. Views: 68
A blood-curdling original novella from the world of the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son! This short novella stars the Spook's seventh apprentice, a boy named Will Johnson.Will is a seventh son of a seventh son, the perfect candidate to train as the Spook's apprentice . . . but Will is lazy. Mr. Gregory is giving him one last chance to shape up or be sent home. When Mr. Gregory leaves to deal with some boggarts, he tells Will to catch up on his notes, practice throwing his silver chain, and not to take on any spook business of his own—under any circumstances. But when the pig butcher's son rings the Spook's bell, panicked because a witch has his father, can Will really ignore him?In The Seventh Apprentice, Joseph Delaney packs all of the terror and gore of the Last Apprentice series into a short novella. The Last Apprentice series is soon to be a major motion picture, Seventh... Views: 68
It's Christmas time and all Mel wants to do is spend it at home with her friends. But quiet isn't in the cards when she sees a woman get murdered during the Christmas Parade. But without a body, no one believes Mel, and it's up to her to prove not only that a murder took place, but who the killer is. Can she solve the mystery in time for Christmas dinner? Views: 68
The third book in Tanith Lee's compelling series based on alchemy and the elements focuses on the element of earth. It is a haunting journey to a parallel version of sixteenth-century Venice, where a fierce territorial rivalry between two noble families-the della Scorpias and the Barbarons-unearths a supernatural force from beneath the placid surface of the canals and rotting understructure of the city. The struggle between the two families for space on the Isle of the Dead, the overcrowded burial ground for generations of Venetian nobility, becomes more and more heated, and fourteen-year-old Meralda della Scorpia is forced to pay the ultimate price. But as the years pass on, parties complicit in her disappearance-from both houses-begin to suffer the consequences in a series of shocking deaths that could emanate from none other than a supernatural foe. As these bizarre events throw the city into a panic, a humble apprentice gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries-an effort that will enable him to unearth the secrets of his own shadowy past. Views: 68
Jack Sigler, call sign “King,” field leader for a black ops organization known as Endgame, is accustomed to feeling capable of handling most any situation. It is a confidence forged in the fires of battle against both monsters and madmen. But the introduction of Asya, a sister he never knew existed, and the kidnapping of his parents has him reeling. Using Endgame’s resources, King and his Chess Team (Queen, Rook, Bishop, and Knight) scour the planet for his parents, tracking a man known to the world as Alexander Diotrephes, but known to King by another name. A masked man walks past their secret headquarters’ defenses, sits himself down in the director’s chair, and waits. He’s Richard Ridley, the team’s oldest and most dangerous enemy, who is supposed to be dead. But he isn’t Ridley. He is a clone in search of his master, the real Ridley, who yet lives and is being held captive by the same man that is holding King’s parents. Views: 68
The second volume in the Captive Prince trilogy. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master Prince Laurent must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secrets from both their pasts is poised to deal them the crowning death blow . . . Views: 68
