Beartrix Potter(1866-1943) - is one of the most notable authors of children's literature. Fairy tales, those created by her about animals, which were self-illustrated with graceful and tender water colors, are notable for delicate lyricism and...
Editorial Reviews Ingram Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from...
Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth...
THEY KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO DIE....Surrounded by Cuban "advisors," and "Nationalist Front" native Marxists, they knew that if they fought on they would be annihilated. If they surrendered there would be a show-trial first, but death lay at the end...
The novel forms part of Pournelle’s Future History known as the CoDominium series. Chronologically, it is second to last in the series, contemporaneous with events in The Mote in God’s Eye.In content it resembles Pournelle’s military...
Professor Andrew Hale rejoins Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1963 after receiving a coded message, quickly finding himself entangled in a plot involving the biblical Ark and the fall of the Iron...