The stories collected here, written between August of 1987 and May of 1990, demonstrate that I still believe in the classical unities. Of course, what seems to us a unity now might not have appeared that way when H.G. Wells was writing his wonderful stories in the nineteenth century. Wells might have argued that my 'To the Promised Land' is built around two speculative fantastic assumptions, one that the Biblical Exodus from Egypt never happened, the other that it is possible to send rocketships to other worlds. But in fact we've sent plenty of rocketships to other worlds by now, so only my story's alternative-world speculation remains fantasy today. Technically speaking the space-travel element of the plot has become part of the given; it's the other big assumption that forms the central matter of the story. --Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction Table of Contents Introduction The Dead Man's Eyes Enter A Soldier. Later: Enter Another To The Promised Land Chip Runner A Sleep And A Forgetting In Another Country The Asenion Solution We Are For The Dark Lion Time in Timbuctoo A Tip On A Turtle

Altogether original, at once searing and amusing, this darkly comic novel confronts Harold Klein, now in his infirm seventies, with a strange malady -- the loss of his "inner voice" -- and introduces him to the steamy world of Internet sex. Inexplicably bereft of the mental faculty that would under normal circumstances keep him from blurting out, uncensored, the first thought that pops into his head, art connoisseur Klein wanders one evening into a pornographic Web site, Angelica's Grotto. An ongoing on-line dialogue, totally without verbal inhibition on Klein's part, eventually brings him face-to-face with the brains behind the grotto, an academic sex researcher named Melissa Bottomley. Harold Klein's erotic odyssey takes him not only through unimagined erogenous zones but also into arcane corners of the art world, as he seeks to meet Melissa's need for funding and she his for sexual gratification. As Klein strives to reconcile new desires with old habits, author Russell Hoban compellingly explores the dark relations between art and pornography, acts virtual and real, culture and politics, revelation and privacy.

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a companion to Belly Up and Poached—which Kirkus Reviews called a “thrill-ride of a mystery.”When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle’s pregnant (and endangered) white rhinoceros, the zoo steps up security measures in order to protect this rare animal and her baby. But the extra security isn’t enough—someone is still getting too close for comfort. Teddy and company start to suspect that whoever is after Rhonda is really after her horn, which is worth a lot of money on the black market. For the first time ever, the head of the zoo enlists Teddy for help—for once, he doesn’t have to sneak around in order to investigate—and the results are even more wacky, and even more dangerous, than ever before.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny -- or did he?Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny -- or did he?

Jenny and her friends are dealing with the aftermath of the events of the first book. No one believes them about their friend's death and the paper house is still missing. When they finally find the paper house it is ripped to shreds and they don't know if Julian was released or not. All is soon reveled and they begin a new deadly game where Jenny's friends are disappearing one by one. This book wasn't nearly as good as the first one. The first half of the book is pretty dull. The action does pick up but it's barley enough to make up for the first half. I did like how we got to know the characters better but I didn't like how little Julian there was. The book kind of struck me as a filler book but I'm sure the last in the series will be much better.

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Five Little Peppers at School By Margaret Sidney

The author's poems about subjects that are important to her, varying in style and subject matter.24 Christian and secular poems, including three haikus, an abecedarian poem, and three traditional rhyming poems, among others.

On Earth, everyone is a soldier. Like all humans Jadeth was trained from birth to kill. Humans are the best soldiers in the galaxy and they fight for whoever pays the most. With no family, no country, no tribe, their lives and their loyalty belong to High Command. But when Jadeth meets Ilyan, a man they call The Prophet, he learns he’s been lied to all his life.Brilliant intelligence analyst, Ilyan, is certain humanity and Earth itself is in imminent danger. High Command refuses to believe it, forcing Ilyan to go on the run, desperate to spread the truth. If he can’t make High Command believe in the threat, then he will take his message to the soldiers on the ground.Infantryman Jadeth is one of those soldiers. He doesn’t know if it’s accident or fate that has brought him to Ilyan, but he knows he has only one mission now. He must protect Ilyan and his small band of followers as they travel through hostile territory, spreading the truth. High Command has betrayed humanity, and Jadeth has nothing left to believe in—except The Prophet. Ilyan is determined to reach Earth’s mercenary army, scattered across the galaxy fighting other people’s wars. His new guardian Jadeth must keep him safe from agents of High Command determined to silence him. If Jadeth fails he will have nothing left. If that happens Earth will learn how far a man can go when everything he believed in is lost.

A substance which change the outlooks of all the students present in the chemistry lab at the time of that unfortunate accident. Now they are fighting with their own devils everyday even after years has passed. They are hating themselves and the world. Two of those has already committed suicides and rest are dying every-day. A conquest of mind and needs where the whole town is losing sanity.Constantly moving as she grew up, Taylor had learned the hard way how to blend in wherever she went. But when she moves to VanCamp University for her freshman year of college, she immediately finds herself at the center of attention of nearly everyone she encounters. From the charismatic and mysterious Evans twins, to her quirky, clingy roommate Hannah, it seems that the people in Taylor's new college life have no intention of letting her be the wallflower.It's not just blending in that Taylor has to worry about, though. At VanCamp University, there is more to the staff and students than meets the eye. While trying to adjust to her new life on campus, she finds herself in a world where fairy tales and reality collide, where gargoyles and leprechauns mingle with humans and vampires, and where nothing is as it first appears.And as she discovers the truth of her own unusual heritage, Taylor learns that fairy tales are just the beginning.

What's tasty, good for you, and only takes sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And it's making the Yeerks more than a little crazy. Now Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right?

Summer in Breezewater, Georgia, equals sun, sand, and sweet drama. Now that California college kid Sarah Towson is back home for the summer, she finds a relationship with an old amigo she never knew she had, Joel Sealet. Together Sarah and Joel discover that this one summer they share will better define their futures, and even if they have to let it go, they'll understand it was well worth it...Summer has set in the small coastal town of Breezewater, Georgia, and nineteen-year-old Sarah Towson has returned home from college in California. In the midst of her fresh return, she finds her family and friends are much adjusted to life without her. On the other side of town, Joel Sealet, who went to high school with Sarah, uncovers a sad truth about his own family. And unlike the high school valedictorian, Joel stayed close to home, a place he has discovered might be suffocating him.While neither is looking for love, the two meet and discover that the Earth revolves no matter what others do to them. And this one summer... Sadly, they'll have to let it go.

Luna, a tech savvy teenager, struggles to write an essay about her deceased grandmother. After frustration with her computer, she turns it off and goes for a walk. She follows the creepy librarian into the library, where she discovers books, like the ones that her grandmother used to read. Luna finds herself returning to read the dusty tomes, but the library is condemned. Can she save the library?Seven years after the death of her grandmother, Luna Robbins faced a dreadful task. She has to write about her grandmother. It was an easy task. There was only one problem... she cannot remember her dear old grandmother. Out of frustration, Luna walks out of the house and found herself following the scary old Mrs. Chandler from across the street. Mrs. Chandler lead Luna to a rundown building known as the Library. After reading a familiar book, voices, images, and sensations came to life in the thirteen-year old girl's mind. Eventually, she found refuge in the wreckage of books governed by a tyrant.

grandma learns to use a computer with the help of her grandson. her memories are a source of pleasure and inspiration to each of them as they develop their relationship.‘it’s amazing how much you can learn from the family archives ,’ david explains to his mum.grandma learns to use a computer with the help of her grandson. her memories are a source of pleasure and inspiration to each of them as they develop their relationship.in the past edna has developed a system to keep her memoirs in order. she stores them in boxes. david uses this habit to improve her understanding of saving data in computer files. this helps with his school work and with grandma’s computer course at the local library. ‘it’s amazing how much you can learn from the family archives ,’ david explains to his mum.

It’s 1979, and geologist Susan Engen has finally received her grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the Beardmore Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains for the super-concentrations of fossil fuels she is certain are there. While her work seems innocuous enough to the NSF, it is her intention to use her discovery to stop the inevitable exploitation to come.It’s 1979, and geologist Susan Engen has finally received her grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the Beardmore Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains for the super-concentrations of fossil fuels she is certain are there. While her work seems innocuous enough to the NSF, it is her intention to use her discovery to drive the movement to have the continent placed off limits for exploitation once and for all. And then the unthinkable happens. The fall of the Shaw of Iran, another energy crisis in America… the vulnerability of the worlds petroleum resources again comes into focus and it is determined in Washington that all possible sources of oil should be explored. When Susan Engen’s abstract surfaces, Lieutenant Richards, an Air Force scientist whose job with NASA is to explore the feasibility of mining for water on the moon, is sent to accompany her on her expedition. Though Susan has resolved to stonewall this inconvenient lieutenant and resist the new threat to the ecology, events unfold that allow her to see this man as a person and not just what he represents. Their short but torrid romance ends abruptly, the gulf between their worlds being just too far to bridge, but through this and other experiences Susan is forced to acknowledge that her goals are more self-serving than altruistic. A series of events with consequences that reach far beyond the mountains and glaciers of the southern continent force Susan to see her own ambitions for what they are, and to make the choice between self-interest in the name of serving a greater cause, and assisting an individual who truly needs it though doing so may derail her own aspirations.

Friday September 15th, 1916. Just before dawn a young soldier from Okeford goes over the top, advancing into enemy machine gun fire. It's the first day of the second battle of the Somme.In the deepest, darkest midnight of her soul, acclaimed poet Gabriella Carmichael writes a horror novel, pours all her pain into a paranormal mystery about demons. Then one of them crawls up out of the pages into her life. A deranged fan who believes he is The Beast of Babylon from her novel turns up at a book signing and stalks her, determined to claim her as his bride. And to sacrifice her son, Ty, as a blood offering to seal their union. Yesheb al Tobbanoft is a man with the kind of obscene wealth that means he can do anything he wants and get away with it, and the kind of soul-less insanity that means there’s absolutely nothing he won’t do. Gabriella, Ty and Ty's grandfather, Theo—a crusty old stand-up comic called Slap Yo Mama Carmichael—run from the lunatic back to the only place in Gabriella's life where she ever felt truly safe. But once in the solitude of the Rocky Mountains, she discovers that facing the demons from her past may be more difficult and dangerous than facing the one who stalks her. What happened the summer her family spent on Mt. Antero when she was 8 years old—that killed one brother and set the other on an inexorable path to self-destruction—had it really been her fault? And the rest of what happened on the mountainside that day, the magical part—was it real or merely a fantasy born of the loneliness of two child prodigies? Gabriella didn’t come to the cabin called St. Elmo’s Fire looking for answers to those questions. Or did she? Or is it that the answers have finally, after all these years, come looking for her? Yesheb is desperate to find her, to corner his prey the same way the Beast of Babylon cornered his in the pages of Gabriella’s novel—under a full moon as lightning dances in the velvet darkness behind the mountains. If he succeeds, all their lives and demons will collide in a final, apocalyptic celebration of one man's madness. Then Gabriella's only hope will lie in the great mystery of her childhood—the unexplainable power of a 2,000-year-old tree. Is its magic strong enough to save them? Can a single, perfect bristlecone pine somehow determine the fate of them all?

First Chapters is a selection of sleeper gems by new and talented indie authors brought to you by eNovel Authors at Work (www.enovelauthorsatwork.com).First Chapters is a selection of sleeper gems by new and talented indie authors brought to you by eNovel Authors at Work (www.enovelauthorsatwork.com).In First Chapters you will discover Pete Barber’s sweeping thriller, NanoStrike. The pages turn themselves. The Broken Saint by Mike Markel, is a police procedural that will knock your socks off and Hoodoo Money by Sharon Pennington, a romantic mystery set in New Orleans is so finely crafted you will taste the Beignets at the Café du Monde, fall in love with Zydeco and never set foot in a graveyard again. Dianne Greenlay’s Quintspinner - a Pirate’s Quest will keep you enthralled in High Seas adventure and action that treks across two continents. Lorrie Farrelly’s Terms of Surrender is a Civil War tale that will wrench your heart and have you taking sides. Trucking in English is the true story of a single mother’s moxie and humor as she learns to man-handle semi-tractors and trailers in order to take care of her own. More laughter comes your way in Jackie Weger’s romantic adventure, The Reluctant Hero who cannot abide women and children, but finds himself responsible for their safety in this wintery romance that will warm your heart. Sisters of the Night by Linda Lee Williams is a strikingly unusual paranormal romance. Return of the Runaway Bride by Donna Fasano is a masterful romance of love gone awry, funny and realistic. Mazie Baby, by Julie Frayn will keep you rooting for the heroine as she outwits and escapes an abusive relationship. For wonderful family fun for all ages and hours of entertainment dip into Rich Meyer’s Five Star Trivia, 600 fab questions with all of the answers at your fingertips.

The Psalms of Mortality are a thematically organized collection of aphorisms that border poetry in literature style. The chapters are rich in metaphors and powerfully expressive in the existential- and psychological thoughts on liberty, elevation of self-worth, love and value of life, while placing strong critique on cultural values that suppress psychological- and social freedom.The Psalms of Mortality are a thematically organized collection of aphorisms that border poetry in literature style. The chapters are rich in metaphors and powerfully expressive in the existential- and psychological thoughts on liberty, elevation of self-worth, love and value of life, while placing strong critique on cultural values that suppress psychological- and social freedom. The theme of the story follows a mythological figure, Chronos Art, who has prayed from an unknown god to never be immortal, holy, enlightened or saintly, and to be granted freely to wander through all the kingdoms of thought. The Psalms of Mortality is completely psychological, where all the reality of the story takes place.

Unfulfilled by the zombie lifestyle, one of the walking dead spends a day at the park finding joy and meaning in nature.G.R. Agent 102498 loves his job. "Collecting lives" is what he was made to do. He has worked hard to climb up from the bottom, but lately he feels stuck.He has been a Level 2 Agent for long time now, and he feels he is ready to be promoted to Level 3: Random Works.When he happens across a couple, whose son is just days from turning three, he knows he has finally found the Collection that will convince his superiors to promote him.His boss agrees to the collection, but adds some treacherous conditions of his own. And to make matters worse, a beautiful Agent shows up in his hunting grounds looking for a promotion of her own.This story is approximately 11,000 words long.