The Price of Power

The Price of Power

Rose Estes

Rose Estes

GREYHAWK. . . The demon Maelfesh is angry. . . The beautiful Princess Julia has been changed into a most ill-tempered wolf. . . Her father, the island King, is a prisoner of his own power. . . Young shaman Mika, pride of the wolf Nomads, does not realize his deadly peril. . . Welcome to Greyhawk, land of magic and danger, where a perilous mission of honor is threatened by a never-ending onslaught of new and fantastic creatures—harpies and rust monsters, rabid troll wolves, the aboriginal Flannae folk, and invincible dark forces. . . The Price of Power is the fourth in the best-selling series of novels about the WORLD OF GREYHAWK™ game setting. Rose Estes is the creator of the classic ENDLESS QUEST™ series published by TSR, and the author of Master wolf, the first book In the continuing GREYHAWK™ Adventures saga of Mika, shaman of the wolf Nomads.
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Storm Glass

Storm Glass

Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart

With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart's dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband's estrangement; a grandmother makes a startling confession from her youth; a young woman discovers herself through the life of an Italian saint; and, in a spellbinding story of artistic jealousy, we enter the mind of poet Robert Browning at the end of his life. In these beautifully crafted stories, ordinary objects brim with meaning and memories radiate with significance as Jane Urquhart illuminates the things that lie just beneath the surface of our lives.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Agnes Day

Agnes Day

Lionel Fenn

Lionel Fenn

SUMMARY:Gideon, an unemployed ex-football player finds himself a hero and is needed by the town of Chey to destroy a wicked woman's threat to destruct everything to gain control. It's up to Gideon to win the game in the last two minutes.
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Larcenous Lady

Larcenous Lady

Joan Smith

Joan Smith

Deirdre Gower refused to marry her fiancé, Lord Belami, while her Aunt Charney was desperately ill with the ague. His lordship took offense at the continual delays and called the whole thing off. But they both wound up on the continent where they were supposed to have had their honeymoon, and where Belami pursued notorious counterfeiters—and Deirdre. New Epilogue added for ebook. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
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There are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union

There are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union

Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

A superb collection of short stories from Reginald Hill, the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels and 'the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' (Independent) In suburban Luton, a private detective on his first case discovers that curiosity can kill more than just the cat... Meanwhile, in wartime Boulogne, one officer will do anything to ensure that his men are ready to kill for their country... And in Stalinist Moscow, Inspector Chislenko must find out why three people have just witnessed a 50-year-old murder... From France to Russia, the 1830s to 1916 and the present day, Reginald Hill has crafted half a dozen tantalizing tales of the unexpected, featuring best-loved characters such as Joe Sixmith and, of course, Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe.
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Sign of chaos tcoa-8

Roger Joseph Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny

Following the cliffhanger ending of Blood of Amber, Merlin is stranded in surrealistic Alice in Wonderland-esque bar where the Mad Hatter serves cocktails. Managing to escape, Merlin meets new family members--one of whom is intent on killing him. As events escalates, Merlin finds himself surrounded by his worst enemies including his ex-girlfriend--back from the dead.
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Uncertain Destiny

Uncertain Destiny

Carole Mortimer

Romance / Contemporary / Fiction

Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Pregnant with her convenient husband's child... Caroline Maxwell knew when she married Justin de Wolfe that their marriage was one of convenience. But drawn to Justin by a fierce mutual passion, the usually sensible Caroline married him knowing that he couldn't love her—just as she couldn't help loving him. She accepts the hazards of a marriage to the arrogant, magnetic lawyer—his aversion to love, sudden changes in mood and his restless nightmares. But how will Justin react when Caroline announces she's pregnant with his baby...? Originally published in 1987
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The Complete Empire Trilogy

The Complete Empire Trilogy

Raymond E. Feist

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The critically acclaimed and bestselling Empire Trilogy by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, is now available in this ebook bundle. The bundle includes Daughter of the Empire (1), Servant of the Empire (2), and Mistress of the Empire (3). At age 17, Mara's ceremonial pledge of servantship to the goddess Lashima is interrupted by the news that her father and brother have been killed in battle on Trigia, the world through the rift. Now Ruling Lady of the Acoma, Mara finds that not only are her family's ancient enemies, the Minwanabi, responsible for the deaths of her loved ones, but her military forces have been decimated by the betrayal and House Acoma is now vulnerable to complete destruction… The bundle includes Daughter of the Empire (1), Servant of the Empire (2), and Mistress of the Empire (3).
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Doomsday Warrior 11 - American Eden

Doomsday Warrior 11 - American Eden

Ryder Stacy

Ryder Stacy

FREEDOM’S BANNER Following Russia’s thermonuclear first strike, America is a shattered wasteland, its survivors crushed under the iron fist of the brutal Soviet invader. But some have chosen to continue the fight for freedom’s cause under Ted Rockson, the ultimate soldier of survival. And when Rockson receives a strange visitor who is near death, a long-rumored legend suddenly comes alive. Built by American millionaires generations ago beneath a remote Mexican mountain range lies an underground city with artificial sunlight, forests and lakes known as Eden. Life is sustained by Factor Q—a new technology that could restore America’s nuke-ravaged eco-system. But the negative forces of Factor Q are capable of destroying mankind, and the Russians are as eager to obtain its secrets for their deadly reasons as Rockson is to save the world. It’s a race against time between the forces of good and evil—a race for the survival of the world that must be won by the . . . DOOMSDAY WARRIOR
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Journey to America

Journey to America

Sonia Levitin

Sonia Levitin

It's 1938, and terrible things are happening in Germany. Jews are being hounded with no laws: you must a wear a yellow star on your clothing; you cannot attend this school; you cannot go here...or there. The Nazis are in charge. Lisa Platt lives with her parents and two sisters. She doesn't fully know what is happening, but she is scared. Her father decides the family's only chance is to get to America. He'll have to go first to find a home and a job. Meanwhile, Lisa, her mother, and sisters will have to live Switzerland and wait to hear from him. And so they do, waiting, enuduring more hardships than any of them could ever have imagined.
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Woof!

Woof!

Allen Ahlberg

Children's Books

He felt a curious tingling in his hands and feet. He felt his nose becoming cold and wet, his ears becoming flappy. The thought in his mind was: 'I'm turning into a dog!'Eric is a perfectly ordinary boy. Perfectly ordinary that is, until the night when, in fifteen seconds flat, he turns into a dog! Eric and his best friend are determined to sniff out the truth - what makes an ordinary boy go 'woof'?
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Coward's Kiss

Coward's Kiss

Lawrence Block

Mystery & Thrillers / Fiction

Review"Block is one of the best!" -- Washington Post (_Washington Post, DC_ ) Product DescriptionA New York Times Bestselling AuthorNew York City private investigator Ed London has a problem - or rather, the problem is his brother-in-law's. Jack Enright's mistress, a woman with secrets of her own, has been shot to death in the apartment that he pays for. But when the body, moved by London to Central Park, is finally identified, London knows he must act quickly to find her killer - before the killer and the police find him.
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