[Cloakmaster 01] • Beyond the Moons

[Cloakmaster 01] • Beyond the Moons

Cook, David

Cook, David

Little did Teldin Moore know there was life beyond Krynn's moons--until a crashed spelljamming ship demolished his farm and changed his life. With a dying alien's magical cloak and cryptic words, Teldin quickly discovers that he's a popular fellow with killers and cutthroats.
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Sunrays Among Shadows

Sunrays Among Shadows

H. Dawn Hunter

H. Dawn Hunter

The Present: After an abduction left them without memories of their childhood, Lily and Liam Howell have led a quiet life. For twenty years, they've avoided the topic of their disappearance, carefully tiptoeing around each other in fear of what they might expose or discover. Until Lily remembers something. Then she's willing to do anything to recover their lost year. But there's a reason they were made to forget. The Past: Jasper Behrtram has a task to complete, and through the use of charm and wit, he has successfully managed to abduct numerous children from another world. But even he doesn't know why he's received these orders. He only knows that the punishment for failure far exceeds the struggles of his ensuing moral dilemma.Until he meets Lily. Then he starts to think that, just this once, it might be worth it to disobey.But the consequences of his defiance will affect everyone around him ... including the Howell...
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Seducing His Fate

Seducing His Fate

E. R. Aitken

E. R. Aitken

She's on the run. He's on the hunt. When fate entwines their lives, will their secrets be their undoing? On the run from her dangerous family, Dakota seeks shelter in the untamed town of Predator Peak, crafting a new identity to evade her father's sinister schemes. But even after over a year, is she truly safe? Konner has spent his entire life paying the debts of his father, but the bear shifter has only one job left: hunt down the elusive princess of the cougar shifter mafia to liberate his family from their shackles. But a seemingly straightforward assignment takes an unforeseen turn. They are fated mates. There's no way they can be together. A bear and a cougar don't make sense, especially when lives hang in the balance. But as their desire becomes undeniable, they have no choice but to surrender to the intoxicating pull of their destiny. Yet, beneath the surface of their...
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Reprisal

Reprisal

F. Paul Wilson

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Horror

In Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world.
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Wilder than Fire

Wilder than Fire

Olivia Noble

Olivia Noble

What's so hot about firefighters anyway? Ginny is very annoyed to be forced to work on reporting fluff pieces about shirtless local firemen hugging kittens for the animal shelter. Until the worst wildfires in recent memory begin to sweep through the forests north of Snowflake Creek, Minnesota, blanketing the town with smoke and ash. As the fires rage on, it's up to the firefighters to save the town, and Ginny must apologize to the annoying man with the great abs for offending him... Because she will need his help to save her hometown...
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Alchymic Journals

Alchymic Journals

Evan S. Connell

Evan S. Connell

Capturing the spirit of arcane writing, Evan S. Connell delivers spectacular and esoteric prose as he imagines the journals of seven alchemists. The first is Paracelsus, the famous sixteenth-century alchemist, who is followed by an array of distinct voices: physicians, historians, alchemists, and philosophers. Each employs a unique personality and point of view in a world of pre-scientific thought, of the western world about to step into modernity.Though this historical recreation is medieval in style, Connell succeeds in infusing his diarists with alchemic wisdom, ancient appeal, and felt humanness. A work of rigid art and astute mimicry, Connell's work is intelligent and remarkable, medieval yet applicable to modernity. Alchymic Journals is, at its core, a study of humanity from the mind of one of America's greatest writers.
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Hard News

Hard News

Jeffery Deaver

Mystery / Fiction / Thriller

Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, *Current Events* -- and she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Rune can't say exactly why, but she's sure he's innocent. If she can prove it, *Current Events* won't merely report the news, it'll make news -- and Rune's career. But what she could be writing is Randy Boggs's epitaph -- and her own. Rune's newly discovered witness soon turns up dead. A hit man from Miami is on Rune's trail, and Boggs is finding prison even more dangerous than before. Someone wants this story killed, and it could be the girl with the camera who ends up on the cutting room floor.
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The Mystery of the Jade Tiger

The Mystery of the Jade Tiger

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

Nancy's in California to investigate a series of break-ins at the home of her father's friend Terry Kirkland. A Vietnam vet, Terry came away from the conflict with a trunk full of memories. But unknown to him, the trunk also holds a mystery—an exotic secret that now threatens to destroy his family. A twisted trail of intrigue and corruption leads Nancy to a shocking revelation. The truth behind the burglaries rests with a soldier who vanished on a top-secret mission. But the trail of the tiger doesn't end in the jungle—it leads right to Terry's door.
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A Handful of Heaven

A Handful of Heaven

Kristin Hannah

Literature & Fiction

Yukon Territory was a gold miner's heaven, and Devon O'Shea had come to claim her share. But instead of a thriving store in a boom town, Devon discovered she was part owner of a filthy, disorganized tent with a bunch of gold diggers and a mountainous slap of animosity for a partner: Stone Man McKenna. Gathering mop, pail and sheer determination, Devon vowed to make this post the best in the Yukon Territory. Stone Man didn't scare her. But his kiss -- a gruff attempt to convince her that the Yukon was no place for a lady -- left her feeling, for the first time in her life, feminine and alive . . .
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[What Might Have Been 03] Alternate Wars

[What Might Have Been 03] Alternate Wars

Anthology

War / Military Fiction / History

What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different. "And Wild for to Hold" (Nancy Kress) "Tundra Moss" (F. M. Busby) "When Free Men Shall Stand" (Poul Anderson) "Arms and the Woman" (James Morrow) "Ready for the Fatherland" (Harry Turtledove) "The Tomb" (Jack McDevitt) "Turpentine" (Barry N. Malzberg) "Goddard's People" (Allen Steele) "Manassas, Again" (Gregory Benford) "The Number of the Sand" (George Zebrowski) "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" (Winston S. Churchill) "Over There" (Mike Resnick)
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Grounded!

Grounded!

Claremont, Chris

Claremont, Chris

Reassigned to a safer job on Earth following a nightmare mission battling space pirates, Lt. Nicole Shea must act as a liaison between the Air Force and aliens, who are attempting to construct a high-powered aircraft
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Scandal

Scandal

Amanda Quick

Romance

From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London society comes an exquisite tale of an elfin beauty, a vengeful lord, and a wild, sweet love that is sheer poetry. With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood–until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitive, intelligent, and high-minded, her noble pen pal seems to embody everything Emily has ever dreamed of in a man. But Simon Augustus Traherne, the mysterious Earl of Blade, is not at all what he seems. Driven by dark, smoldering passions and a tragic secret buried deep within his soul, Blade has all of London cowering at his feet, but not Emily . . . never Emily. For even as she surrenders to his seductive charms, she knows the real reason for his amorous suit. And she knows that she must reach the heart of this golden-eyed dragon before the avenging demons of their entwined pasts destroy the only love she has ever known. From the Paperback edition.
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Engaging Samantha

Engaging Samantha

Remi Carrington

Remi Carrington

Road trips are fun ... until you throw in snow, lies, fire, and a deer.Samantha Perkins is determined to spend the holidays in San Antonio with her best friend, but bad weather and canceled flights make that difficult. Taking a road trip with a stranger is her best option of making it home.Garrison Haverford didn't want to lie, but if Samantha knew who he was, she'd never have gotten in the car. Declining a blind date in an email had more to do with him, and nothing to do with her. If anything, she's enough to make him question his no-dating policy.Getting to Texas isn't as easy as they thought it would be. Getting along is just as complicated. Previously published as Road Trip with the Billionaire by Remi Carrington
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