Spartans do it with discipline.Times Square on New Year-s Eve. A million partiers chanting the final seconds. This year, it-s a countdown to death.My name is Twyla Tafel and I-ve uncovered an insane plot to unleash berserk vampires...
In this exhilarating, moving new work, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which history—whether of a culture or a family—refuses to be buried.Ned Marriner, fifteen years old, has accompanied his photographer father to...
When scandal threatens the star of his network, media baron Maximilian Hart whisks beautiful Chloe away from the prying paparazzi. Where better to hide this innocent beauty than the Hart mansion.?But the handsome tycoon's plan isn't just...
HEARTFIRE The Tales of Alvin Maker, Part 5(c) 1998 by Orson Scott Cardv1.1(Jan-24-1999) If you find and correct errors in the text, please update the version number by 0.1 and...
Elena Estes's stubborn risk taking has cost her dearly: her job, her confidence, her career in the Miami PD and, most importantly, the life of a fellow cop. Now in retreat in Florida with only the soothing presence of horses for company, Elena...
The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those...
One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain , this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and...
"Imperial Lady, although it is a work of fantasy, is based on an historical incident that has become one of the most beloved of Chinese tales and has served as the inspiration for countless poems and stories: the life of Chao Chun, the concubine who...
When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reaction is to ridicule the idea - but he is not able to back out of doing the story. To his own surprise,...