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Neal Asher

Polity Universe #06 - Polity agent

<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>SCIENCE FICTION. From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions: Why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity? And, Why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes ...and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.</p><

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #07 - Line War

SUMMARY: The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus' worm ships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebus' attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself...<

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #08 - The Technician

SUMMARY: The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hitlist. Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity has been left uncured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race. The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too. Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons.<

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #09 - The Skinner

SUMMARY: To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome and only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms. Somewhere out there is Spatterjay Hoop himself, and monitor Keech cannot rest until he can bring this legendary renegade to justice for atrocious crimes committed centuries ago during the Prador Wars. Keech does not realise that Hoop's body is running free on an island wilderness, while his living head is confined in a box on an Old Captain's ships. Nor does he know that the most brutal Prador of all is about to pay a visit, intent on wiping out all evidence of his wartime atrocities. Which means major hell is about to erupt in this chaotic waterscape.<

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #10 - The Voyage of the Sable Keech

SUMMARY: Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the mans last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much moreadulation, power, controland will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison sprine that is crucial to immortality. If so, maybe Janer must find it and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone shell. Its much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal weapons, thicker armour. Hes going to need them.<

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #11 - Orbus

SUMMARY: This is a follow-up to The Voyage of the Sable Keech tracing the journey of an Old Captain, Orbus ' a sadist in charge of a crew of masochists - to a planetary wasteland called The Graveyard' lying between the Polity and the Prador Kingdom. An ancient war drone by the name of Sniper has stowed away aboard his spaceship, and the purpose of the journey is not entirely what the captain expected. Also heading in the same direction is the Prador king and the Prador Vrell. Vrell, having been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into something powerful and dangerous, has seized control of a Prador dreadnought, killing much of its crew, and is intent on heading back to the Prador Third Kingdom to exact vengeance on the King of the Prador, who tried to have him killed. All three ships are heading towards a climatic confrontation to The Graveyard, where underlying truths about the virus are revealed and an ancient menace to civilization reappears'Ś<

Neal Asher

Polity Universe #12 - Hilldiggers

During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide - but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers - giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ...<

Piers Anthony

Pornucopia #01 - Pornucopia

<div><h3>Review</h3><p>Extremely imaginative and sexually extrapolative, and very amusing. -- <em>Philip José Farmer</em> </p><p>Piers Anthony has really let it all hang out, and the results should please. -- <em>Norman Spinrad</em> </p><p>Pornucopia is an undiscovered classic, a hilarious, outrageous departure in erotic fantasy. Bizarre, horrific, deranged—and a lot of fun. -- <em>Charles Platt</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Prior Gross, the hero and sex object of this wild adventure, thinks his fantasies have all come true when a beautiful young woman seduces him on a public beach. She turns out to be a succubus, beginning his initiation into a realm populated by demons that are not merely horned, but horny. He encounters a perverse cast of characters that includes a satyr, a vampire, and a pair of luscious sisters, one of whom tricks him out of his manhood. So Prior Gross sets out on a perverse odyssey, taking him to a distant planet where he discovers the key to the return of his property and, ultimately, the origin of the universe itself. </p></div><

Piers Anthony

Pornucopia #02 - The Magic Fart

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The long awaited sequel to Pornucopia! "Picking up where Pornucopia left off, our hero Prior Gross receives word that his ideal woman, which he never knew existed, is in trouble! Off he goes to the Land of Fartingale where farts are magic! "A rollicking good time! </p></div><

Debra Anastasia

Poughkeepsie

Nathan Archer

Predator: Cold War

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When a Predator ship crashes in a frozen Russian wasteland, NYPD detective Shaefer reluctantly follows his orders to investigate, but upon his arrival a fiesty Russian female warrior challenges him to a deadly battle to claim the ship and its technology. </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p>Something was moving across the sky above the clouds, something that glowed brightly enough to be seen faintly even through the gray overcast.<br /></p><p>A new American plane, perhaps, testing the borders?  There had been rumors for years of a craft the Americans called "Aurora" that could evade every Russian defense--but that was supposed to be invisible from the ground, flying too high and too fast to be seen.<br /></p><p>The glow was brightening steadily, descending through the clouds and moving nearer at a fantastic speed.<br /></p><p>It had to be Aurora, Taro thought; what else could move so fast?  He had seen Russian planes many times, on patrol, on maneuvers, bringing in the men and equipment for the pipeline and the drilling sites and the pumping stations all along the Assyma section of the Yamal oil fields, and none of them had ever moved anywhere near so fast as this.<br /></p><p>And then the thing burst out of the clouds in a ball of brilliant orange flame, washing the pale landscape in vivid color.  It roared overhead before Taro could see it clearly; the air itself rippled visibly with the ferocity of the thing's passage.<br /></p><p>It was <em>huge</em>, and made a sound louder than anything Taro had ever before heard, far louder than the howl of the worst storm he could remember.  In its wake the air seemed warmer--but what sort of craft could warm the Siberian winter itself?  That had to be an illusion, Taro told himself.<br /></p><p>And then the thing crashed, with a boom that made the roar of its passage seem a mere whisper.<br /></p><p>Taro turned and stared after it.<br /></p><p>The horizon glowed orange, and again he thought he could feel heat, as if from an immense fire.<br /></p><p>That had been unmistakably a <em>crash</em>, not a mere landing.  If that had been the American Aurora spy plane, then it was down, and the authorities in Moscow would want to know--the long Cold War might be over, but that didn't mean the Russian authorities would pass up a chance to get a good close look at some top-secret American technology.  The Russian government wouldn't mind a chance to score a few moral points against the Americans, either--a polite complaint about Americans spying on peace-loving post-Communist Russia might coax a few face-saving trade concessions out of somebody.<br /></p><p>There might even be survivors, and a heroic rescue could be very good not just for Russia, but for Taro.  He might be famous, might be taken to Moscow and given a medal or something.  While he was reasonably content as a reindeer herder, he wouldn't mind a taste of city life, or at least a chance to pick up a few modern comforts.<br /></p><p>If he headed back to the village and the radio there was working, he could contact the army squad stationed at the Assyma pumping station, and they could send out a truck or helicopter--but that would take three hours back, and at least an hour for the truck or copter to find the crash site.<br /></p><p>If he headed for the site directly, though, he judged that he could reach it in an hour and a half to two hours.  If there were injured survivors that extra hour or two might be crucial.  If there were valuables to be salvaged, he wouldn't mind getting to them first rather than merely guiding in a bunch of soldiers.<br /></p><p>He set out across the ice, walking straight toward the orange glow and abandoning his hunt.  His lost reindeer would keep.<br /></p><p>In the Siberian cold <em>anything</em> would keep.<br /></p><p>After he had been walking for a little over an hour Taro began to notice the warmth more than ever.  At first he still told himself it was his imagination, that he was dreaming that cookfire heat; after all, the glow had faded away, and he was steering now by more ordinary landmarks.  He couldn't really be feeling any heat from the downed aircraft, not when he was still, so far as he could judge, about two kilometers away, and when the craft had been down for so long.<br /></p><p>Ten minutes later, though, he could no longer deny it; he was sweating in his heavy furs.  He threw back his hood, and meltwater dripped down his brow.<br /></p><p>He blinked it away and stopped in his tracks.<br /></p><p>He was still a kilometer or so from the long, crooked ravine that cut across the icy plain, but he could see it ahead.  That wasn't what troubled him; he had known the ravine was there.  No, he stopped because the ice between himself and the ravine didn't look right; it glistened, not with the hard crystalline glitter it ought to have, but with a slick wet gleam.<br /></p><p>Taro frowned, took several steps, then carefully knelt down.  He put a gloved finger to the ground, then picked it up and looked at it.<br /></p><p>The tanned leather of his glove had darkened with moisture.  The ice was wet.<br /></p><p>He wasn't dreaming the heat.  It was real.<br /></p><p>He didn't like that at all.  A thaw in the Siberian winter?  Something melting the permafrost?  Even the American Aurora superplane surely couldn't generate <em>that</em> much heat!<br /></p><p>The rifle he carried on his back was rarely used.  He had it not because he really needed it, but as a mark of status among his people, a reminder that his grandfather had fought the Nazis in the Great Patriotic War.  There were few predators to defend against out here on the ice, either human or beast; the stories of wolves prowling the vicinity dated mostly from his grandfather's time and might just be the lies of old men who wanted to reaffirm their own claims to manhood when they could no longer act as men.<br /></p><p>Taro had on occasion fired the rifle in celebration, he had fired it several times in target practice, and twice to put injured reindeer out of their suffering, but he had never used it in self-defense.  He had never had any need to defend himself with anything more than words or fists.<br /></p><p>Now, though, he pulled the weapon from its fur-lined sheath and checked it over carefully.  It seemed to be, as always, in perfect condition.<br /></p><p>With the rifle ready in his arms, he advanced cautiously toward the ravine, careful of his footing on the melt-slicked ice.<br /></p><p>The thing that had fallen from the sky in a fireball had landed inside the ravine ahead, he realized.  He frowned.  He knew that crevasse; he had lost a yearling there once.  It was a long, narrow, rocky canyon; in the summer thaws it carried a trickle of meltwater north to the sea.  In winter it was as dry and frozen as anywhere else, but too wide and deep for the snow to bury it completely.<br /></p><p>The edges of the canyon were treacherous--drifted snow and built-up ice would extend out beyond the supporting rock, and a man or reindeer who got too close might well tumble in and be unable to climb back up the icy sides.<br /></p><p>If the fallen object was down there, any investigation would be difficult. Taro frowned and slowed his pace.<br /></p><p>Something flickered, just at the edge of his vision.  He turned, startled, and brought the rifle to bear...<br /></p><p>On nothing.  There was nothing there, just the empty plain of ice.<br /></p><p>Taro blinked and thought he saw a shimmer in the air somewhere to one side.  He jerked the rifle over a few centimeters, thinking he must have caught a reflection on the ice--but a reflection of what?<br /></p><p>Then a light sparkled, three moving dots of red that skittered across the ice almost too fast to follow, then skimmed up his body and settled onto his forehead, the three of them wavering about until they settled into a tidy little triangle.  Taro could feel them as tiny spots of warmth, could see the red beams, but he could not make out where they were coming from, could not think what they could be.  They seemed to be coming from a patch of empty air.<br /></p><p>Then something flared blue-white, lighting the snow on all sides, and Taro knew no more. </p><

Martin Amis

The Pregnant Widow

Piers Anthony

Pretender

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The craft was in trouble. And the alien entity known as NK-2 was headed for an unscheduled landing on a backwater planet named Earth. To make matters worse, his enemy had reached the ground before him, and by now was probably already hidden among the primitive people of this place, a race of two-legged beings who called themselves the Babylonians. And now his host animal was dying, and unless he found another creature intelligent enough to take its place, he was doomed. If the enemy didn't get him first! </p><p>A grand adventure of science fiction and fantasy by the author of Hasan, Macroscope, and A Spell for Chameleon, illustrated with a wraparound cover and five interior illustrations by comicbook artist Larry Ortiz. </p></div><

Lynn Ames

The Price of Fame

<div><div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever. Jamison "Jay" Parker is an intensely career-driven Time magazine reporter; she has experienced love once, from afar, and given up on finding it again...That is, until circumstance and an assignment bring her into contact with her past. </p><p>Kate and Jay’s lives intertwine, leading them on a journey to love and happiness, until fate and fame threaten to tear them apart. What is the price of fame? For Kate the cost just might be everything. For Jay, the price could be the other half of her soul. </p> </div> <h3>Product Description</h3><p>When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever. Jamison "Jay" Parker is an intensely career-driven Time magazine reporter; she has experienced love once, from afar, and given up on finding it again...That is, until circumstance and an assignment bring her into contact with her past. Kate and Jay's lives intertwine, leading them on a journey to love and happiness, until fate and fame threaten to tear them apart. What is the price of fame? For Kate the cost just might be everything. For Jay, the price could be the other half of her soul. </p> </div><

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

SUMMARY: Elizabeth Bennett is young, clever, and attractive, but she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security in the shape of husbands. The arrival of the pleasant nice Mr. Bingley and the obscenely arrogant Mr. Darcy in the neighborhood turns all of their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity, and love.<

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

<h3>From Bookmarks Magazine</h3><p>It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austen’s novel. Zombies answer certain puzzling questions: Why were those troops stationed near Hertfordshire? Why did Charlotte Lucas actually marry Mr. Collins? (She had recently been bitten by zombies and wanted a husband who could be counted on to behead her—of course!) But critics also pointed out that this parody shows that Austen’s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead can’t spoil it.<br />Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with  “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn </p><

Jennifer Ashley

Primal Bonds

<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When a female Shifter comes to town seeking refuge, Feline Shifter Sean Morrissey claims the new arrival and finds a beautiful woman who looks him straight in the eye without fear, stirring the mating frenzy within him. To relocate to a new Shiftertown, half-Fae, half-Shifter Andrea Gray must accept a new mate. But Andrea's intense attraction to Sean is something she never expected-a perilous complication for a woman with a troubled past.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

A Prison Diary I

<p><p>On July 19, 2001, following a conviction for perjury, international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison. Prisoner FF8282, as Archer is now known, spent the first three weeks in the notorious HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison in South London, home to murderers, terrorists and some of Britain's most violent criminals.<br><br>On the last day of the trial, his mother dies, and the world's press accompany him to the funeral. On returning to prison, he's placed on the lifer's wing, where a cellmate sells his story to the tabloids. Prisoners and guards routinely line up outside his cell to ask for his autograph, to write letters, and to seek advice on their appeals.<br><br>For twenty-two days, Archer was locked in a cell with a murderer and a drug baron. He decided to use that time to write an hour-by-hour diary, detailing the worst three weeks of his life.<br><br>When <i>A Prison Diary</i> was published in England, it was condemned by the...<

Jeffrey Archer

A Prison Diary II Purgatory

<div class="blurb">The No 1. Bestseller and storyteller continues his forceful account of life inside the British penal system. On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. In this second installment of his diaries, Jeffrey Archer recounts the time he spent in Wayland Prison. </div><

Jeff Abbott

Promises of Home

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In a small Texas town, murder brings home the unforgotten past.<br />Twenty years ago, as Hurricane Althea lashed Central Texas, twelve-year-old Jordan Poteet and his friends decided to ride it out in their tree house. But in the still eye of the tempest, they raced for safety--and stumbled over the body of a beautiful girl.<br />Now, the six schoolmates who shared the grisly sight of death so long ago are being coolly murdered, one by one, day by day. By whom? Why? Unless Jordan and Police Chief Junebug Moncrief, another survivor of the storm, can answer those questions fast, it will be their turn to die. . . . </p><p><em>From the Paperback edition.</em></p><h3>From the Inside Flap</h3><p>In a small Texas town, murder brings home the unforgotten past.<br />Twenty years ago, as Hurricane Althea lashed Central Texas, twelve-year-old Jordan Poteet and his friends decided to ride it out in their tree house. But in the still eye of the tempest, they raced for safety--and stumbled over the body of a beautiful girl.<br />Now, the six schoolmates who shared the grisly sight of death so long ago are being coolly murdered, one by one, day by day. By whom? Why? Unless Jordan and Police Chief Junebug Moncrief, another survivor of the storm, can answer those questions fast, it will be their turn to die. . . . </p><

Lynn Austin

A Proper Pursuit

Piers Anthony

Prostho Plus

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>What's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists! </p><p>For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life--captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But luckily for the good dentist, Dillingham discovered that he liked zooming about the galaxy, solving unprecedented problems and making new and decidedly different acquaintances. And when he was offered the chance to apply to the Galactic University of Dentistry as Earth's first (and only) applicant, Dillingham had a choice to make: go back to his safe little world of bored housewives and miles of braces, or make a mark for mankind among the teeth of the stars. </p><p>It was really no choice at all. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Piers Anthony </strong>is one of the world's most popular fantasy authors, and a <em>New York Times</em> bestseller twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans. </p><p>In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other best-selling works. Piers Anthony lives in Inverness, Florida. </p></div><

Lloyd Alexander

Prydain #01 - The Book of Three

Taran, would-be hero and Assistant Pig-Keeper, assembles a group of companions to rescue the oracular pig Hen Wen from the forces of evil.<

Lloyd Alexander

Prydain #02 - The Black Cauldron

The Warriors of Prydain set out to find and destroy the Black Cauldron, the Death-Lord Arawn's chief instrument of evil.<

Lloyd Alexander

Prydain #03 - The Castle of Llyr

Princess Eilonwy is growing up and must learn to act like a lady rather than a heroine among heroes.<

Lloyd Alexander

Prydain #04 - Taran Wanderer

Taran faces a long and lonely search for his identity among the hills and marshes, farmers and common people of Prydain.<

Lloyd Alexander

Prydain #05 - The High King

The final struggle between good and evil dramatically concludes the fate of Prydain, and of Taran who wanted to be a hero.<

Poul Anderson

Psychotechnic League

Piers Anthony

Quest for the Fallen Star

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>With the death of her mentor, A'mond, the young elf Chentelle is the sole enchantress in Lone Valley. So when a message from the High Bishop arrives for A'mond, Chentelle accepts it in his place. Following orders, she sets off for the cave of A'stoc, the apprentice of the great wizard A'pon Boemarre, to escort him and his mighty Thunderstaff to the Holy City of Norivika. Along the way, Chentelle is joined by the exiled warrior Sulmar and the mighty fighter Lord Dacius Gemine, also summoned by the Bishop. Haunted by the memory of his experiences in the long-ago Wizards' War, A'stoc is reluctant to join the expedition, but Chentelle convinces him to come along. At Norivika, they learn that recent stories of a star fallen to earth are true. The disparate party must recover the Sphere of Ohnn from its hiding place on the secret island of Kennaru and then use it and the Thunderstaff to destroy the fallen star before the Dark One and his deformed Ill-creatures can use its power to take over the world. This is a by-the-numbers quest novel?but one that makes all the right moves, with plenty of action, magical pyrotechnics and narrow escapes. Fans of epic fantasy are sure to enjoy this grand, fast-paced adventure from Anthony (the Xanth series) and his coauthors, first novelists both. <br>Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Led by dreams and omens, an elven enchantress leaves her forest home and begins a journey that leads her to a reclusive wizard who holds the power to save the world from the ravages of the Dark One. The authors inject vitality and polish into a standard fantasy plot with a varied cast of engaging characters, including a poised and competent heroine, a compassionate holy man, and a goblin priest. This collaborative effort by veteran sf/fantasy author Anthony, first-time writer James Richey, and coauthor Alan Riggs belongs in most fantasy collections.<br>Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div><

Louise Allen

Ravished by the Rake

Donna Andrews

The Real Macaw

Piers Anthony

Realty Check

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In the second Anthony novel due out in May (see Muse of Art, reviewed above), an elderly couple, Penn and Chandelle, rent an expensively furnished house in Philadelphia for a vacation getaway. It turns out that the building is not only luxurious but allows its inhabitants to travel through time and space by simply walking out the back door. The couple invite their wild granddaughter Llynn, 15, to help them explore the houses wonders. They are soon joined by Llynns obnoxious, bright cousin, Lloyd, 13, and his dog. Then the adventures really begin: saving damsels in Moscow and communicating with aliens are two of the highlights. Considering its jolly, familial tone, the novel contains a surprising, and occasionally disconcerting, amount of sexual tension. Overall, however, this is an intergenerational as well as intergalactic charmer, hallmarked by fast pacing, strong characterizations and skillful prose. (May) now publishing original and reprint trade paperbacks on paper (with the books also available online at www.pulpless.com.) Other original May Pulpless.Com titles include The Land Beyond Summer by Brad Linaweaver, Other States of Being by John DeChancie, Book of the Monk by D.K. Kirts, The Microbotic Menace by Victor Koman (the first in his new Captain Anger series) and The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana by J. Neil Schulman.<br>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Piers Anthony, one of the best selling writers of science fiction and fantasy, displays all of his literary virtues in "Reality Check," a magnum opus of why Anthony is more than an entertaining writer. He is an important writer. </p><p>This novel builds bridges between generations as it builds them between worlds. There is a quality here of classic Heinlein. The main characters face the unknown with courage instead of fear. Encountering the fantastic makes them think better instead of not thinking at all. "Reality Check" is a celebration of life, and a love story between grandparents and a granddaughter, between cousins, and between friends. Most of all, "Reality Check" is the first novel to fully explore the impact of the internet on the American family, albeit in science-fiction terms. </p></div><

Poul Anderson

The Rebel Worlds

Elizabeth Ashtree

Reconcilable Differences

<p>Prosecutor Gwendolyn Haverty puts bad guys in jail...and <i>keeps them there.</i> That isn't easy when defense lawyers like Aaron Zimmerman try to spring them out again. Zimmerman is a rumpled do-gooder on a mission to free the innocent&#8212;which, of course, includes every single one of his clients behind bars!<p>His latest mission's success depends on convincing Gwen to listen to his witness. Fine. That ten minutes she gives Aaron to plead his case results in a ridiculous cell phone mix-up...and a playdate for their two boys? She's not sure how the line between professional and personal gets blurred so quickly. But it can't happen again. She can't let this man, no matter how compassionate, into her heart.<

Catherine Airlie

Red Lotus

Delson Armstrong

Red Serpent: The Falsifier

<div> <h3>Review</h3> <div> <span>"A sprawling epic...action packed and romantic...twists through vast swathes of time, space and metaphysics. A great read for sci-fi lovers everywhere." </span> --award winning filmmaker and author Martin Simpson<br><br>"This is a really interesting novel that touches on a number of subjects, including very ancient history, religion and racial prejudice. Yes, it's very much worth reading." --Dead Trees Review </div> <h3>Product Description</h3> <div> In the far future, the last free humans have fled to a massive space station in Earth's orbit. On the planet below lurk their oppressors: a race of vampires who seek to breed and harvest them like animals. Orphaned as a child, Alex grows to manhood in the shadow of his legendary father who united the scattered remnants of humanity. But as he takes up his father's banner, he uncovers a frightening secret about himself: he is the Falsifier, fated to bring down the Vampire Empire. As he struggles with his destiny, the vampires abduct him in a surprise raid. With humanity's survival at stake, Alex must find and fight his way back and take his place in history. </div> </div> <

Brenda Adcock

Redress of Grievances

<div>**Recipient of the 2008 award for Best Mystery from the Golden Crown Literary Society, the premier organization for the support and nourishment of quality lesbian literature. **<br><br>In the first of a series of psychological thrillers, Harriett Markham is a defense attorney in Austin, Texas, who lost everything eleven years earlier. She had been an associate with a Dallas firm and involved in an affair with a senior partner, Alexis Dunne. Harriett represented a rape/murder client named Jared Wilkes and got the charges dismissed on a technicality. When Wilkes committed a rape and murder after his release, Harriett was devastated. She resigned and moved to Austin, leaving everything behind, including her lover.<br><br>Despite lingering feelings for Alexis, Harriet becomes involved with a sex-offense investigator, Jessie Rains, a woman struggling with secrets of her own. Harriet thinks she might finally be happy, but then Alexis re-enters her life. She refers a case of multiple homicide allegedly committed by Sharon Taggart, a woman with no motive for the crimes. Harriett is creeped out by the brutal murders, but reluctantly agrees to handle the defense.<br><br>As Harriett's team prepares for trial, disturbing information comes to light. Sharon denies any involvement in the crimes, but the evidence against her seems overwhelming. Harriett is plunged into a case rife with twisty psychological motives, questionable sanity, and a client with a complex and disturbing life. Is she guilty or not? And will Harriet's legal defense bring about justice -or another Wilkes case? </div><

Tamera Alexander

Rekindled

Guy Adams

Restoration

Joelle Anthony

Restoring Harmony

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