Nancy Kress returns with the sequel of Tomorrow's Kin, part of an all-new hard SF trilogy based on a Nebula Award-winning novellaTen years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity has succeeded in building a ship, Friendship, in which to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected. No interplanetary culture, no industrial base—and no cure for the spore disease.A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred and far more than ten years have passed.Once again scientists find themselves in a race against time to save humanity and their kind from a deadly virus while a clock of a different sort runs down on a military solution no less deadly to all. Amid devastation and plague come stories of heroism and sacrifice and of genetic destiny and free choice, with its...

Mrs. Humphry Ward, the pen named used by Mary Augusta Ward, was a British novelist best known for Lady Rose's Daughter, a best seller in America.

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Roy Norton wrote The Plunderer and Mixed Faces.

Merry Christmas from Shine LeFlurBart returns to his home town to await an evil he can no longer avoid. As he waits, he questions the decisions he has made that have led him to this fate, and he wonders if perhaps he has sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of those he loves for the sake of a higher cause that may prove to be beyond him. For an ancient evil has fixed its eyes upon him, and its minions are coming to claim him.

Harold Edward Bindloss (1866 - December 30, 1945) was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada. Bindloss was born in Liverpool in 1866. According to his New York Times obituary: Mr Bindloss was more than 30 years old before he began writing. Previously he had roamed the world, farming in Canada and working in southern climes as a cargo heaver, a planter, and at other jobs. Broken by malaria he returned to England forty-five years ago and took up office work. But he lost his job when his health broke down and turned to writing in which he found his true vocation. He published some forty novels between the years 1902 and 1943. Many of his books had their locale in Canada. He returned to London. In 1898, he published his first book, a non-fiction account based on his travels in Africa, called In the Niger Country. This was followed by dozens of novels. He was a popular writer. One reviewer writes: A new book by Harold Bindloss is always welcome. He tells a story well indeed, but one likes his books best perhaps for the environment which he knows so well how to sketch. He has written charming stories of the Canadian Northwest and one remembers with pleasure his novels “Prescott of Saskatchewan” and “Winston of the Prairie”. The town of Bindloss, in the Canadian province of Alberta, was named after him. Bindloss died in Carlisle, England.

The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John De Morgan is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of John De Morgan then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is missing and the stakes are higher than ever before. Word count: ~3,900

Harley feels responsible for everything at home. Her twin brother gets away with murder, and her bitchy new stepsister's accustomed chore is dusting the TV! Her mum's getting remarried, and with shockingly little preparation. A thirteen-year-old girl can't organise a wedding - she can barely make toast, let alone *a* toast. Thing is, in a blended family, communication is key...Harley feels responsible for everything at home. Her twin brother gets away with murder, and her bitchy new stepsister's accustomed chore is dusting the TV! With two unpredictable Primary-schoolers and a happy couple already shirking chores, everything falls to Harley.Her mum's getting remarried, and with shockingly little preparation. It seems that booking the registry office is as far as her supposedly businesslike new hubby has thought. As usual, Harley takes the challenge, but a thirteen-year-old girl can't organise a wedding - she can barely make toast, let alone *a* toast. What with her friends arguing over the pettiest of attractions, it's almost a welcome break.Thing is, in a blended family, communication is key...

Rax Darkthorn was the greatest Knowhound in Nexi, the thief-city, and one of the few to ever escape it. When a friend dies, he returns to learn what can kill a god, even one reduced to selling miracles on the Street of Lost Gods.A 7000 word fantasy short story.The world's #1 Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely, if not impossible adventure. This time the wrong things are happening at the wrong times in the wrong places while pasts and futures hang in the balance. Part Freakonomics, part Sherlock Holmes, part Doctor Who, part somewhere on the spectrum and 100% completely absurd, The Outlier series continues with "The Outlier #3, Lost Souls, another Dillon Sharif Tall Tale.

An advertisement for specialists in different fields of research appears in newspapers. Eight scientists are hired, and all eight disappear. Another ad pops up for a fuel specialist, and that's when John Bentall, a physicist and counterespionage agent, is called in to find out what happened to the missing scientists and to unravel the sinister plot behind it all.

In this, the first of Marsh's justifiably famous theatre-mysteries, Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night by his journalist friend Nigel Bathgate. In the play, two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, on this particular performance, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks.

Holly Denver is the biggest gossip at Shadyside High. Her best friends Miriam Maryles and Ruth Carver are sure it's going to get her in big trouble someday. But Miriam and Ruth never thought Holly would wind up dead—strangled with her own scarf. Now the murderer thinks Holly told her friends what she heard—and will do anything to silence them forever.

Matt has been serving the Steelchild ogres, as a slave for seven years. His life as a slave is really hard. He has to do a lot of work and he gets very little to eat. On top of all this, Karen Steelchild, the ogre that runs the house, makes life miserable for him.His closest friend, Donna, another slave, doesn’t like her life either. She wants to escape and she wants Matt to join her.Matt has been serving the Steelchild ogres, as a slave for seven years. His life as a slave is really hard. He has to do a lot of work and he gets very little to eat. On top of all this, Karen Steelchild, the ogre that runs the house, makes life miserable for him.His closest friend, Donna, another slave, doesn’t like her life either. She wants to escape and she wants Matt to join her. Matt needs to make a quick decision. He can either continue living his miserable life with the ogres or he can escape into the dangerous forest…