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Mikhail Bulgakov

Notes on the Cuff and Other Stories

<div><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>This book translates several of Bulgakov's early short stories and feuilletons for the first time. They effectively present Bulgakov's personal struggle with the idiocies of Moscow's bureaucracy, including the morning he went to work only to discover that his office had simply disappeared overnight! In diverse feature articles written for Russian emigres in Berlin, Bulgakov offers a personal look at post-revolutionary Russia. For instance, he writes both about a friend who shrewdly "remodels" his apartment to befuddle the new Soviet housing authorities and reports the trial of a mass murderer: a cab-driver who kills peasant horse traders for a living. His vivid and often humorous sketches of 1920s Moscow bring this era to life. Capably translated, these stories are recommended for most libraries.<br><em>- Ruth M. Ross, Olympic Coll. Lib., Bremerton, Wash.</em><br>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Language Notes</h3><p>Text: English (translation)<br>Original Language: Russian </p></div><

Julian Barnes

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. In this virtuosic memoir, Barnes (_Arthur &amp; George_) makes little mention of his personal or professional life, allowing his audience very limited ingress into his philosophical musings on mortality. But like Alice tumbling through the rabbit hole, readers will find themselves granted access to an unexpectedly large world, populated with Barnes's daily companions and his chosen ancestors (most of them dead, and quite a few of them French, like Jules Renard, Flaubert, Zola). This is not 'my autobiography,' Barnes emphasizes in this hilariously unsentimental portrait of his family and childhood. Part of what I'm doing—which may seem unnecessary—is trying to work out how dead they are. And in this exploration of what remains, the author sifts through unreliable memory to summon up how his ancestors—real and assumed—contemplated death and grappled with the perils and pleasures of pit-gazing. If Barnes's self-professed amateur philosophical rambling feels occasionally self-indulgent, his vivid description delights. <em>(Sept.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Bookmarks Magazine</h3><p>Most critics strongly recommended Julian Barnes's reflections on mortality. However, perhaps reluctant to embrace his disbelief, they seemed more impressed by his descriptive skill in depicting his family—in particular, his emotionally remote brother—even though a few critics cited the author himself as emotionally closed in his personal writing. Reviewers also praised the scope of Barnes's literary erudition more than any actual insight into the subject of death. A few reviewers felt that this dance around the subject makes <em>Nothing to Be Frightened Of</em> weaker than Barnes's other books. But most embraced the book's novelistic ambiguity, enjoying the story even if the author himself does not know how it will end.<br />Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC </p><

Alexandra Benedict

The Notorious Scoundrel

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Like an irresistible siren, the veiled dancer with the bewitching green eyes lures dukes and earls down into London's underworld to see her dance—and succumb to her spell. Some say she's a princess, but only one man knows her darkest secret. She is Amy Peel, an orphan from the city's rookeries, and she believes the bold rogue who unmasks her to be nothing but a scoundrel—albeit a dangerously handsome one. He may have rescued her from an attempted kidnapping, but she will not give in to his sensual seduction or to the wicked desire she begins to feel . . . He is Edmund Hawkins, swashbuckling pirate turned reluctant gentleman, and he will not let the lovely Amy slip through his grasp, especially when he learns she's in greater peril than she could possibly know. He will do everything in his power to protect her—for this notorious scoundrel has truly, unbelievably, lost his heart . . .<

Malorie Blackman

Noughts And Crosses

Adam Braver

November 22, 1963

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>With a captivating mix of fact and fiction, Braver (<em>Mr. Lincoln's Wars</em>) chronicles the events surrounding JFK's assassination to moving effect. The event is no stranger to the literary world, but Braver's recreation, owing to small and often previously off-camera details, remains hauntingly original. Some of these details, like the ones that open the book and dwell on Jackie's fashion preferences, present a factual backdrop against which later scenes--e.g., where Jackie refuses to remove her blood-splattered pink suit--tragically play out. Others, like the way JFK's eyes keep popping open during the autopsy, underscore the grisly reality of his death. While the accumulation of small moments gives the book its weightiness, the stories of people peripherally associated with the assassination make the book sing; through the experiences of the Texan who sold the government Kennedy's casket, the mechanic in charge of the limousine in which Kennedy was shot and numerous others, Braver reveals the tragedy of a national story that decades later can still be acutely felt. <em>(Nov.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"Braver's collection is a piercing portrait of those who experienced the Kennedy assassination first-hand."— Steve Almond, author of <em>My Life in Heavy Metal</em><br /></p><p>"I had thought that Don DeLillo's <em>Libra</em> was the last fictional word on the JFK assassination, but I was wrong. Like a sublime actor, Adam Braver inhabits these characters, especially Jacqueline Kennedy, in a way that seems brave and heartbroken and true. This is a haunting history play, of private agonies wrenched onto the public stage."<br />— April Bernard, author of <em>Swan Electric</em><br /></p><p>"I would never have thought there was a new way to view a moment so thoroughly dissected. Turns out there is. Quite an achievement."<br />— Suzanne Kleid, KQED<br /></p><p>"<em>November 22, 1963</em> is more than an intricately imagined microhistory of the primary American trauma of the late 20th century; it's also an affecting portrait of the then First Lady, simultaneously devastated and resilient as she moves from embodying her country's image of someone who controls fortune to someone who's been flattened by it."<br />— Jim Shepard, author of <em>Like You'd Understand, Anyway</em><br /></p><p>“This extraordinary reconstruction blends fact and imagination with a subtlety that utterly dissolves the line between public and private. It's the intimacy, the closeness we come to these (mostly) well-known protagonists, that is so shocking and moving. Adam Braver has pulled off quite a feat, realigning all our notions and expectations of historical fiction.”<br />— Phillip Lopate, author of <em>Waterfront</em> and <em>Portrait of my Body</em><br /></p><p>"Adam Braver has a wonderfully rich imagination and his grasp of historical characters and settings is both deep and natural. I would gladly read anything he writes."<br />— Dan Chaon, author of <em>You Remind Me of Me</em> and the National Book Award Finalist Among the Missing<br /></p><p>"With a captivating mix of fact and fiction, Braver chronicles the events surrounding JFK’s assassination to moving effect. The event is no stranger to the literary world, but Braver’s recreation, owing to small and often previously off-camera details, remains hauntingly original. Some of these details, like the ones that open the book and dwell on Jackie’s fashion preferences, present a factual backdrop against which later scenes—e.g., where Jackie refuses to remove her blood-splattered pink suit—tragically play out. Others, like the way JFK’s eyes keep popping open during the autopsy, underscore the grisly reality of his death. While the accumulation of small moments gives the book its weightiness, the stories of people peripherally associated with the assassination make the book sing; through the experiences of the Texan who sold the government Kennedy’s casket, the mechanic in charge of the limousine in which Kennedy was shot and numerous others, Braver reveals the tragedy of a national story that decades later can still be acutely felt."<br />— <em>Publisher's Weekly</em><br /></p><p>"This terse, tense, tough novel is absolutely riveting...Every rose petal, drop of blood and splatter of brain, every movement and comment resonates with history as if trapped within a claustrophobic nightmare. Braver keeps this solemn and somber tone throughout, his brisk, often lyrical declarative sentences as direct and translucent as the characters are unable to be."—Sam Coale, <em>The Providence Journal</em><br /></p><p>“Braver is a terrific writer, an observer of the most acute details; throughout the book, he traces the subtle interactions of his characters as they collide and move apart. One of the most moving interactions here takes place between Jackie and an ambulance driver named Al Rike as they share cigarettes outside the trauma room where her husband's body lies...in this tiny glimmer of connection, whole universes of emotion are uncovered.”—David Ulin, <em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em><br /></p><p>"This is fiction of course, but it has the ring of truth...And it is both painful and fascinating, like rubbernecking at an accident, to watch. With an audacity of confidence and a sure sense of fiction's ability to tell eternal truths better than history, Braver re-creates the day the world changed." —Jay Strafford, Richmond <em>Times-Dispatch</em><br /></p><p>"Beautifully written, November 22, 1963 blurs the line between novel and journalism into something more powerful than either—a visceral story of an unthinkable event that continues to touch millions, 45 years later."—Michael E. Young, <em>The Dallas Morning News</em><br /></p><p>"Adam Braver's November 22, 1963 focuses on the singular event of President Kennedy's assassination, fusing fiction and fact from eyewitnesses and other sources to make for a blazingly original, brilliantly concretized historical novelfrom the author of Mr. Lincoln's War."—<em>ELLE</em><br /></p><p>“Braver has achieved more than a skillful retelling of a particularly morbid moment in American history. With its collage-like structure and postmodern blend of fact and fiction, <em>November 22, 1963</em> raises fascinating questions about how we perceive history and the ways in which personal and collective experience intersect.”<br />—Alexis Nelson, <em>The Oregonian</em><br /></p><p>"A literary piece that blends fact and fiction, making protagonists of real people and asking very deep questions about the history, nostalgia and loss."—Kel Munger, <em>Sacramento News &amp; Review</em><br /></p><p>"You would think that by now every and any thing that could have been written about the murder of the president has been said a dozen times over...Yet this outstanding piece of non-fiction fiction from Adam Braver manages to do so, and thus makes the book very much worth the time and money to buy and read." —Neil Flowers, Feminist Review<br /></p><p>"Braver’s use of multiple viewpoints, engaging personal insight, and short blocks of prose propel readers through this impressive example of historical fiction."—<em>Library Journal</em><br /></p><p>"Adam Braver has done something that might have seemed impossible not long ago—he's created a fresh look at the events of November 22, 1963...Braver has found a way to once again dip into this event that shattered a nation, and reminds us of how devastating a day it was without simply re-hashing what others have written before. It's a bold task for a writer, begin to write about something that every reader picking the ball up already thinks they know the ending to, but Braver was more than up to the task."—Dan Wickett, Emerging Writers Network<br /></p><p>"This is historical fiction at its best: intensely researched and beautifully written."—Erika D., Book Bargain Reviews<br /></p><p>"With a captivating mix of fact and fiction, Braver chronicles the events surrounding JFK's assassination to moving effect." —<em>Fort Dodge Today</em><br /></p><p>"One may feel drawn into the experience of various characters, while simultaneously treading above some darker, plunging depth. At other moments, there is only the residue of memory, the granite presence of fact...[Braver] writes with the seductive concision of an alternate commission, a tautness that gives authority to speculation and authenticity to the emotional valences, retrained as they are." — Ron Slate, On the Seawall<br /></p><p>"The successes of <em>November 22, 1963</em> lie in Braver’s ability to gently and respectfully reside, like a professional surgeon might, in the stomachs and minds of the people who lived through that day...Halfway through <em>November 22, 1963</em>, you realize the novel is somehow not about JFK at all, but about us. A lesser writer would have failed at piecing this story together in such a way that we are okay reliving that monumentally awful day, but in Braver’s hands, we come back to the present wiser versions of ourselv</p><

S J Bolton

Now You See Me

Despite her fascination with Jack the Ripper, Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a big case or seen a dead body up close. Until nowÖ As she leaves a south London estate one night, she is horrified to find a woman has been viciously stabbed, right next to Laceyís car. Thrown headlong into her first murder hunt, Laceyís quiet life changes overnight. Then Lacey receives a familiar hand-delivered letter, written in red blood, and it is clear the police have a Ripper copycat on their hands. Lacey must be the bait if they are to prevent a second, brutal murder. But can this inexperienced DC outwit a killer whose infamous role model has never been found?...<

C J Box

Nowhere to Run

Ray Bradbury

The October Country

Kealan Patrick Burke

Offline

Welcome to the digital age. Cell phones and text messaging allows us to keep in touch with each other no matter where we are... Instant messaging has brought us closer together... Social networking allows anyone not only to contact you whenever they want, but to learn everything they need to know about you too. When it's the right person, it can be wonderful. When it isn't, it can be murder.<

Honore De Balzac

Old Man Goriot

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer�s dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot�s fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac�s acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Com�die Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.<

Arnold Bennett

The Old Wives' Tale

<p class="description">Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867March 27, 1931). He was born in Hanley, StokeonTrent, Staffordshire, one of six towns in the area known as the Potteries where many of his novels were set.</p><

Marie Therese Browne

Olga

Based on a true story, Olga Browney born in Jamaica into a large close-knit, coloured Catholic family was a kind, naïve, gentle girl who came to London in 1939 intending to stay only six months with her malevolent, alcoholic aunt. But world events, personal tragedy and malicious intent prevented her from returning home to Jamaica until over half a century later when her past caught up with her.<

Richard Lee Byers

On a Darkling Plain

Sebastian Barry

On Canaan’s Side

E D Baker

Once Upon a Curse

<div><p>Many years ago a slighted fairy placed a curse on a beautiful young princess—a curse that caused her and all her female descendants to turn into mean, ugly witches if they ever touched a flower after turning sixteen. Now, Princess Emma, who is about to turn sixteen herself, is determined to break the spell once and for all. Emma travels back in time to the day the curse was placed on her ancestor in the hope of preventing the curse from being cast. Unfortunately she isn't successful in her efforts, but she does learn how to break it. Armed with this knowledge, Emma returns to her own time full of hope. But disaster ensues and Emma is about to give up completely—until true love shows itself in the most unexpected place of all.</p><p> </p><p>Advertising</p></div><

Elizabeth Berg

Once Upon a Time, There Was You

Elizabeth Beacon

One Final Season

Lawrence Block

One Night Stands and Lost weekends

SUMMARY: In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller—and years before his first Edgar Award—a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned between 1958 and 1962 by a budding young master and soon-to-be Grand Master—an essential slice of genre history, and more fun than a high-speed police chase following a bank job gone bad.<

Lauren Barnholdt

One Night That Changes Everything

David Baldacci

One Summer

<p>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.<br><br><b>ONE SUMMER</b><br><br> It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one...</p><

Eric Blehm

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The early, relatively heroic days of the conflict in Afghanistan are memorialized in this engrossing if glamorized war saga. Blehm (<em>The Last Season,</em> a B&amp;N Discover Award winner) follows the exploits of Capt. Jason Amerine's Special Forces team Alpha 574, which choppered into Afghanistan in November 2001 to help future Afghan president Hamid Karzai organize anti-Taliban insurgents in the south. The team's mission—to turn chaotic and perpetually stoned Pashtun tribesmen into effective soldiers—seems impossible and, ultimately, proved unnecessary. Indeed, according to Blehm's account, the Green Berets' worst enemies were other Americans: meddling CIA honchos and army brass, a do-nothing Marine officer, and the air force spotter who mistakenly called in an air strike on 574's position, with ghastly results. The author overplays the comradely bond between Karzai and Amerine, who come off as a latter-day Washington and Lafayette, but doesn't quite succeed in wringing a military epic out of what was essentially a turkey shoot. Still, Blehm's warts-and-all account of the U.S. military machine in action is full of tension, color, and real pathos. 16 pages of b&amp;w photos. <em>(Jan.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>“Eric Blehm has written a literary masterpiece about modern war. The whole witches’ brew is here: valor, honor, heroism, cowardice, incompetence, stupidity, triumph, blood, death and despair. That America has soldiers like these should fill every American heart with pride. Read this book!” (Stephen Coonts, bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder and The Disciple )<br></p><p>“The greatest story of a small unit’s battle through an untamed land since Lawrence of Arabia.” (Adam Makos, editor of Valor Magazine )<br></p><p>“The Only Thing Worth Dying For is not only brilliant, it’s the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” (Former Congressman Charlie Wilson )<br></p><p>“A skillfully reported and masterfully written account of one of the most crucial moments of the War Against Terror. Blehm reminds us of the perils, the triumphs and the sacrifices made in the name of freedom.” (Bob Woodruff, ABC News correspondent )<br></p><p>“No other book has gone to such depths in research, nor been so descriptive in recounting this critical mission during the earliest days after 9/11 when the US Army Special Forces successfully waged unconventional warfare in Afghanistan.” (Sergeant Major Billy Waugh, author of Hunting The Jackal and Isaac Camacho, An American Hero )<br></p><p>“Through careful reporting and crisp narrative pacing, Eric Blehm has given us a thrilling, forgotten drama from the opening chapter of the war in Afghanistan. The Only Thing Worth Dying For will become an enduring classic of this extraordinary theater, where so much hangs in the balance.” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder )<br></p><p>“A captivating account of our heroic warriors-a remarkable U.S. Army Special Forces unit’s hard-fought success against incredible odds. It reads with the thrill of fiction-but this is the damned deadly real deal.” (W.E.B. Griffin &amp; William E. Butterworth IV, best-selling authors of The Traffickers and The Honor of Spies )<br></p><p>“Blehm provides powerful and unflinching insight into a real-life mission that ended in tragedy but left an indelible mark on history. From the comic moments to the bleakest hour, it’s a testament to how a small team of well-trained men can shape a nation’s destiny.” (Stephen Grey, award-winning author of Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA's Torture Program and Operation Snakebite: The Story of an Afghan Desert Siege ) </p></div><

Ben Bova

Orion #01 - Orion

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Orion #02 - Vengeance of Orion

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Orion #03 - Orion in the Dying Time

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Orion #05 - Orion Among the Stars

Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

SUMMARY: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard.... Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.<

Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

Anya Bast

OtherKin: Tranquility

Roane leaves the Fury werewolf pack to make room for the new alpha. He settles in a town called Tranquility and immediately raises the hackles of the local pack leader. Things get worse when Roane sees Scarlet, the pack leader's sister, and will do anything to possess her. This is part two of a two-part series. Fury is part one. These titles are erotic. 18 and over.<

M C Beaton

Our Lady of Pain

<p>Lady Rose Summer prides herself on not being a jealous woman - and she knows her engagement to Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ruse to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval - French, curvaceous, flirtatious - starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything. In a fit of temper Rose threatens Dolores - only to be found the very next day standing over her dead body. Only Harry can clear Rose's name - and to do that he has to put the real murderer behind bars...</p><

C J Box

Out of Range

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In Box's taut, suspenseful fifth Joe Picket novel (after 2004's <em>Trophy Hunt</em>), the Wyoming game warden is temporarily transferred from his backwater base, Saddlestring, to Jackson, a sophisticated tourist mecca, to replace warden Will Jensen, who apparently shot himself to death. Joe has his doubts about Will's "suicide," but little time to investigate given other distractions: a vast and remote territory to patrol, questionable practices by a hunting outfitter, pressure to approve an exclusive housing development on a wildlife trail and protests by animal rights activists. At home, Joe's contentious wife, Marybeth, deals with mysterious threats and daughter Sheridan's teenage angst. To complicate matters further, Joe's reputation as a hardheaded law enforcer, unwilling to play politics, precedes him. Unusual for the genre, the skillfully orchestrated climax doesn't include a chase and the conclusion is ambivalent. Adept at setting his scenes, physically and psychologically, Box approaches Nevada Barr in his ability to describe the West's natural beauty. With each book he creates plots of greater complexity, but in contrast to his ever more nuanced male characters, his women remain too often flirtatious or angry. <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> When a fellow game warden kills himself, Joe Pickett is transferred to Jackson Hole--"Wyoming's very own California"--where the new and old Wests collide head-on. Pickett investigates the suicide, meanwhile angering both a hotheaded developer and an irascible outfitter--and attracting the developer's beautiful wife. (Back home in Saddlestring, Joe's wife, Marybeth, calls family friend Nate Romanowski for help with threatening phone calls and finds herself tempted, too.) Contemporary issues are always integral to Box's books, and here he examines the modern quest for authenticity through something called the "Good Meat Movement." In the fifth installment of any series, even one this good, one might reasonably expect a creeping sense of routine. But, if anything, Box is getting better. Incorporating his own natural curiosity into his characters' opinions, he strides a Teton-sharp line between the hard-boiled ethos, where concepts of right and wrong are almost meaningless given the world's ways, and a western sensibility, where a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do--Joe eventually delivers the line: "I just killed the only man in Jackson Hole I really understood." But although Pickett is a laconic western archetype, there's no mythmaking here. He's a family man, likably flawed, and evolving every year. Recommended for practically everybody. <em>Keir Graff</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p></div><

Cheryl Brooks

Outcast

<h3>Review</h3><p>Ms. Brooks has a way of carrying the reader off into the stars where they discover worlds with amazing creatures and unique, exciting landscapes. (Sandra <em>The Romance Studio</em> 20090518) </p><p>Cheryl Brooks has created a world full of varying species that seem to blend effortlessly and allows readers to feel like you could easily fit in amongst them. Besides what woman wouldn't want to find herself loved by a man who's every desire is to please his mate. (Chrissy Dionne <em>Romance Junkies</em> 20090519) </p><p>The fourth novel in Cheryl Brooks' Cat Star Chronicles, <em>Outcast</em> will satisfy any one who is already a fan of this series and could possible create a few converts. (Jackie Morgan <em>Literary Escapism</em> 20090519) </p><p>I mean seriously, what's better than alien sex?!... I love the Zetithian race that Cheryl has created. They're captivating and sexy, not to mention loyal servants to those they love. (Shawn Remfrey <em>Maymay's Memos</em> 20090520) </p><p>[T]alk about sizzling... the story was so good I would still recommend this book to other romance lovers. (Debbie Suzuki <em>Debbie's World</em> 20090522) </p><p>Cheryl Brooks is at the top of her game with this excellent entry that will have her fans purring for more. (Harriet Klausner <em>Genre-Go-Round Reviews</em> 20090526) </p><p>Where else can you experience a man who purrs with such orgasmic results? It's a rich world and Ms. Brooks is making it better and better with each installment. I look forward to more. (Xeranthemum <em>Whipped Cream Erotic Reviews</em> 20090527) </p><p>Oh my God...this book is sexy... very different from any other romances I've ever read, no vampires or werewolves or the usual paranormal fair... more of a SciFi/Fantasy twist and I really Love it!! (Amy Castellano <em>Chic Book Reviews</em> 20090529) </p><p>It really is a series of which I have never read the likes of before. (Nikki Heffernan <em>A Blog of Books</em> 20090603) </p><p>[F]ans of scifi romantica should love this one and if they haven't been following the whole series I suggest they get on it soon. (Rhianna Walker <em>Rhi Reading</em> 20090604) </p><p>I can't say enough good about this series. It's just too much fun, full of imagination and did I mention the book is downright HOT? (Marta Hoelscher <em>Marta's Meanderings</em> 20090608) </p><p>Not only can you see the chemistry between the two main characters but you get to watch their relationship develop out of mistrust and hurt and into the love and care many people would be envious of. It will not only draw you into the story, the journey will also captivate you as they find themselves and each other. (Lyda <em>Bitten By Books</em> 20090608) </p><p>[T}here is a real upbeat and positive feel to this series, particularly how people whose planet has been destroyed and who have been scattered around the galaxy can find love as well as finding their old friends... enjoyable and interesting. (<em>Curled Up with a Good Book</em> 20090609) </p><p>Ms. Brooks knows how to write romance but she's also an expert at conveying what it means to love! (Kerensa Wilson <em>Crave More Romance</em> 20090824) </p><p>I enjoyed <em>Outcast</em>. It hit me on an emotional level that the other books never did... The best in the series yet! (Ames <em>The Book Binge</em> ) </p><p>[D]efinitely a great romance novel. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves romance and sci-fi books! (Christine Plaisted <em>Books 4 Moms</em> ) </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p><em>This fourth installment in The Cat Star Chronicles series maintains the qualities of excitement, world-building, sizzling romance, and great imagination that made Slave such a resounding success.</em></p><p>Sold into slavery when his planet was destroyed, Lynx was enslaved in a harem. He is a favorite due to his feline gene, which gives him remarkable sexual powers, but after ten years, Lynx is exhausted.</p><p>Thrown out without a penny, Lynx is bitter and anti-female. He emigrates to a new planet but can only find a job with a female rancher. </p><p>Bonnie's boyfriend has left with all their money and she needs help with the ranch. Lynx is cynical, but honest, and though he has made it clear that he wants no part of a romantic relationship, Bonnie can't resist him. She finds out about his impotence and becomes determined not to let such a beautiful and sensual young man go to waste...</p><p>PRAISE FOR CHERYL BROOKS:</p><p>"Brooks presents a nice futuristic story with some interesting worlds and Aliens in this Cat Star Chronicles offering. Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance... the hero is quite interesting, and the heroine a strong, independent woman." <br /><strong>The Romantic Times</strong></p><p>(20090506) </p><

Kelly Boyce

The Outlaw Bride

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Outlaw of Torn

<p class="description">"This Peter of Colfax shall be looked to," growled Norman of Torn. "And as you have refused his heart and hand, his head shall be yours for the asking. You have but to command, Bertrade de Montfort." "Very well," she laughed, thinking it but the idle boasting so much indulged in in those days. "You may bring me his head upon a golden dish..." ~ ~ ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The Outlaw of Torn, first published in 1927, is considered one of Burroughs' best adventure yarns, a Robin Hood-esque tale of the rescue of young Prince Richard, Henry III's son, from the nefarious clutches of Sir Jules de Vac by Norman of Torn, who becomes a great swordsman and legendary outlaw. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.</p><

Adam Baker

Outpost

<h3>Review</h3><p>'It had me on the edge of my seat from page one.' -- Stephen Leather 'An original and pacy debut' -- Daily Mail 'What many people, including me, are raving about right now is Adam Baker's OUTPOST... a stunning debut novel ... you will want to be one of the first people to experience it.' -- Books Monthly 'While ramping up the tension and confusion, Adam Baker also ramps up the action and despite the limited canvas of the Arctic landscape, manages to devise an impressive variety of situations for the characters' -- The British Fantasy Society 'It's the relentless pace, merging SF and horror elements, that makes Outpost such a compelling end-of-the-world story' -- Sunday Canberra Times 'Outpost manages to satisfy with its mix of well drawn characters and action to deliver an interesting take on an overused genre' -- British Fantasy Society Journal </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Before writing Outpost, Adam Baker was a gravedigger, a film projectionist and worked on a cancer ward. </p><

Lyman Frank Baum

Oz #01 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

Oz #02 - The Marvelous Land of Oz

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Marvelous Land of Oz, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is the only book in the series in which Dorothy Gale does not appear. This and the next 34 Oz books of the famous forty were illustrated by John R. Neill. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Author** Lyman Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works (55 novels in total, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, into a devout Methodist family of German (father's side) and Scots-Irish (mother's side) origin, the fifth of six children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only three of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. *(Quote from wikipedia.org)* **About the Publisher** Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mytholo<

Lyman Frank Baum

Oz #03 - Ozma of Oz

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is *never* satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man. Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas? Ozma of Oz has delighted children and adults for over eighty years, and now new generations can enjoy the unforgettable characters and the surprising and funny story in this deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition, featuring forty-two of John R. Neill's full-color plates and twenty-one two- color illustrations, as well as a colorful pictorial binding.Afterword by Peter Glassman. New generations can enjoy this surprising and funny story of the rescue of the royal family of Ev from the evil Nome King in a deluxe facsimile of the rare first edition. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.<

Lyman Frank Baum

Oz #04 - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz! A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. *Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz* was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. Now a new generation can discover these superb adventures for themselves. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers.Afterword by Peter Glassman. A deluxe facsimile of the fourth Oz adventure--originally published in 1908--when Dorothy and the Wizard meet the Mangaboos. A Books of Wonder(R) Classic.<

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