Fantasy Annual III

Fantasy Annual III

Terry Carr (Ed. )

Terry Carr (Ed. )

JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN • • •“COLLABORATING”—Michael BishopA young man bom with two heads discovers that it’s hard work competing for one body— especially when one of him falls in love….“FATE’S PURSE”—Russell KirkIf money is the root of all evil, perhaps it is also the cause of terror? After all, people sometimes murder for money … why shouldn’t spirits?“RENT CONTROL”—Walter TevisAn affluent New York couple realizes that they can make time stand still when they make love —with chilling consequences… .“THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGESOF AMÉLIE BERTRAND”—Joanna RussA passenger in a French railway station, hurrying for his train, enters a passageway—and discovers the gateway to another world… .
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Rescued by Love

Rescued by Love

Joan Vincent

Joan Vincent

Sisters Sarita and Deborah, Reverend Durham’s daughters, live in a remote Sussex rectory where tyrannical Lord Pergrine keeps them impoverished and in danger. But the breakdown of a coach brings spritely Lady Phillippa, plump Lady Imogene, and haughty Lady Brienne to the rescue. In their search for adventure, these three elderly ladies caused mayhem—and matchmaking. Georgian Romance by Joan Vincent; originally published by Dell Candlelight
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Byzantium Endures: Pyat Quartet

Byzantium Endures: Pyat Quartet

Michael Moorcock

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Literature & Fiction

Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg, he is deflected into more immediate concerns, caught up in the rip-tide of history.
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One Million Centuries

One Million Centuries

Richard A. Lupoff

Richard A. Lupoff

RAZOR-TIPPED ARROWS, A SWORD OF TEMPERED STEEL AND AN UNSHAKABLE COURAGE WERE HIS WEAPONS …ROBERT PARKER—Naval chopper pilot whose crash in the frigid Antarctic catapults him into a mysterious future world where he must fight to survive.KAETHA—the lovely, statuesque Relori woman who could hold Parker a prisoner to her love, but would risk her life to help him find his way back in time.VOULA—an exotic young beauty from the fabulous land of Par’z, her magic samra seeds had the power to rob Parker of all desire to escape.CAPTAIN BYERYAS—a Terasian with a twisted soul, who took Parker prisoner and set a monstrous price on his freedom.NISSRAL—dreaded high priest of the evil Terasians, he planned a gruesome death for Parker and for all who befriended him.
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SCI FI

SCI FI

William Marshall

William Marshall

Hong Kong is used to strange sights, but none as extraordinary as those served up by the annual All-Asia Science Fiction and Horror Movie festival.  The streets are jammed with fans decked out in costumes such as Spiderman, The Green Slime, Star Wars extra-terrestrials, and, most terrifying of all, The Spaceman, who carries a ray gun that proves capable of instantly incinerating real objects, including people. Nothing that Harry Feiffer's cops have confronted before could have prepared them for what they find when they reach the end of The Spaceman's trail of charred bodies.Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer's Yellowthread Street cops may operate out of a shabby station in the back alleys of Hong Kong, but in their devotion to solving crimes they are as British as the best that Scotland Yard can muster.  "These Yellowthread Street books constitute an exotic type of procedural, and Marshall has maintained a high standard in all of them." - The New York Times Book ReviewHong Kong is used to strange sights, but non as extraordinary as those served up by the annual All-Asia Science Fiction and Horror Movie festival.  The streets are jammed with fans decked out in costumes such as Spiderman, The Green Slime, Star Wars extra-terrestrials, and, most terrifying of all, The Spaceman, who carries a ray gun that proves capable of instantly incinerating real objects, including people.  Nothing that Harry Feiffer's cops have confronted before could have prepared them for what they find when they reach the end of The Spaceman's trail of charred bodies.
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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Martin Kemp

Martin Kemp

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over the centuries, he has become one of the most famous people in the history of visual culture. Spring 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death in May 1519, with exhibitions and events planned across Europe and the United States. This lavishly illustrated volume by Martin Kemp—one of the world's leading authorities on da Vinci—offers a fresh way of looking at the master's work. Kemp focuses on 100 key, broadly chronological milestones that cover an extraordinary range of topic across Leonardo's many fields of discipline: painting, where he brought new levels of formal and emotional grandeur to his works, including The Last Supper and Portrait of...
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The Secret Countess

The Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson

Children's Books / Young Adult / Romance

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion. The staff and the family are sure there is something not quite right about their new maid - but she soon wins them over with her warmth and dedication. Then the young Earl returns home from the war - and Anna falls hopelessly in love. But they can never be together: Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel - and anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks...
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The Brownstone

The Brownstone

Ken Eulo

Ken Eulo

The classic occult thriller that has sold over 1,200,000 copies. In book #1 of Ken Eulo's "Stone Trilogy" a striving young actress, Chandal Knight, and her theater director husband, Justin, are planning to leave Manhattan to find stardom in Hollywood when two old ladies on her block offer them the opportunity of a lifetime—to take over the entire ground floor of their brownstone, rent-free for the first six months! For a couple who is struggling financially the offer seems like a miracle and the old sisters are so kind and eager for them to move in, Chandal gives in and the couple stays in New York. Chantal adores their new home, with its high ceilings, fireplaces and large rooms, but it is not long before she begins to hear voices, see shadows moving out of the corner of her eye, and notice that the old sisters are very... well, strange. Justin seems to be drifting away into a new passion, photography, which takes him into the darkness in the basement for hours on end,...
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