In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side’s social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see–through personal, social, and moral complexity–more clearly into the heart of things. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Sith Empire is in flux. The Emperor is missing, presumed dead, and an ambitious Sith lord’s attempt to seize the throne has ended fatally. Still, Darth Karrid, commander of the fearsome Imperial battle cruiser Ascendant Spear, continues her relentless efforts to achieve total Sith domination of the galaxy. But Karrid’s ruthless determination is more than matched in the steely resolve of Theron Shan, whose unfinished business with the Empire could change the course of the war for good. Though the son of a Jedi master, Theron does not wield the Force—but like his renowned mother, the spirit of rebellion is in his blood. As a top covert agent for the Republic, he struck a crucial blow against the Empire by exposing and destroying a Sith superweapon arsenal—which makes him the ideal operative for a daring and dangerous mission to end Ascendant Spear’s reign of terror. Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff’ith, with whom he has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid’s former master, Theron must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short. And if they don’t seize their one chance to succeed, they will surely have countless opportunities to die.

Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion returns in the form of Michael Kane, a brilliant Earthman stranded on the treacherous deserts of Ancient Mars! In this sweeping, epic sword-and-planet adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kane and his blue giant companion Hool Haji must travel to the far reaches of the Red Planet to halt the hideous Green Death, an unstoppable disease that rots the mind as well as the body. From gorgeous Karnala, City of Green Mists, to the empty streets of tainted Cend-Amrid to the forgotten weird-science laboratories of the lost, highly advanced Yaksha culture, Masters of the Pit promises stunning locales, disgusting Martian creatures, and relentless action from the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning creator of Elric of Melniboné! Cover Illustration and Frontispiece: Richard Hescox

Meena has a secret guarded closely by her family—a secret as dangerous as the sea and buried just as deep. When court-appointed community-service workers are assigned to Flukes, the family-owned animal sanctuary, everyone is on high alert. It doesn’t help that Meena finds herself attracted to sexy-as-sin Blake Weathering, one of the new workers. If he wasn’t so distracting, she might be able to land Flukes a much-needed cruise-line contract. Blake Weathering, the first in his family to attend public school, has developed a tough image. Unfortunately, it lands him in trouble. Now banned from his high school graduation ceremony, getting his diploma is dependent upon a community-service gig cleaning up fish crap. No diploma, no trust fund fortune—and no way to escape his overbearing father. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a mysterious girl with teal eyes who pulls at his heartstrings. When Blake discovers Meena’s secret, they are both thrown into a desperate search for information about her past. Two worlds pull them in opposite directions, and they will have to fight to hold on to all that really matters.

Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P. I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong point. The missing demo and Julie's murder are just two of the problems besetting Miranda Daniels, a pint-sized singer with Texas-sized talent. She's the prize in a tug-of-war between two music hotshots who want to manage her career. One has a habit of making bad things happen to people he doesn't like. The other has just vanished without a trace. As Tres looks into the dirty dealings surrounding Miranda, it becomes clear he's stepped into a rattlesnakes' nest of greed, double cross, and murder—and he may be the next to be snakebit.

A D'Artagnyn story.A young Gascon woman goes to Paris, with little more than her mother’s sword, a letter of introduction and a burning desire to be a musketeer. That is if the Three Inseparables Athys, Porthys and Armays don’t kill her in duels first. Kings to save, plotting cardinals to counter, killers to catch, battles to win—for all!A Gender Switch Adventure.Empire is the first book of the In Her Name: Redemption trilogy, and is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war against the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race. Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by fate and a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born.If you’re new to the In Her Name series, here is the author’s recommended reading order:The Last War Trilogy— First Contact— Legend Of The Sword— Dead SoulThe Redemption Trilogy— Empire— Confederation— Final BattleThe First Empress Trilogy— From Chaos Born— Forged In Flame— Mistress Of The Ages

5 bestselling novels by 5 bestselling authors (& bonus excerpt) bring you Five Shades of Fantasy. 5 complete novels from some of today's most exciting authors. Each shade is a different genre of the fantasy and romance you love the most. A star-studded anthology of thrilling, action-packed and totally swoon-worthy first books from five different fantasy series by your favorite female authors.5 thrilling full length fantasy/romance novels in one volume - 5 sexy heroes 5 strong heroines 5 bestselling novels by 5 bestselling authors with a bonus excerpt bring you Five Shades of Fantasy. This is five complete novels from some of today's most exciting authors. Each shade is a different genre of the fantasy and romance you love the most. A star-studded anthology of thrilling, action-packed and totally swoon-worthy first books from five different fantasy series by your favorite female authors.Shade 1 - YA Fantasy with Paranormal Powers Blurb: What if you fall in love with the one person you are destined to kill?Ignite by bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis.Shade 2 - YA Paranormal RomanceBlurb: lurks in the dead of night...Blur by bestselling author Kristen Middleton (who hit #4 as a ranked author in horror).Shade 3 – YA Fantasy with Paranormal Powers Blurb: The sins of the father are the sins of the son, or in this case the daughter.Rae of Hope by bestselling author WJ May Shade 4 - New Adult Urban Fantasy RomanceBlurb: Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Nothing could stop her from changing.Element by bestselling author CM DoportoShade 5 – Paranormal romance and fantasy adventure.Blurb: Never marry a stranger...even if he is a drop-dead gorgeous immortal king. Never pretend to be a princess.Eternal Vows by bestselling author Chrissy Peebles of more than ten novels including the popular series The Zombie Chronicles.Bonus excerptKeeper from Amazon’s award winning quarter semifinalist Tiffany Evans

At the Angler’s Nest, Mr. Mulliner tells his amazing tales. Here you can discover what happened to The Man Who Gave up Smoking, and experience the dreadful Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court.

Elasa contacts the very special Awares, folk who attune so perfectly to their environment that they can disappear, literally and figuratively. She needs to work with them to try to save Earth from being eaten by huge telepathic galactic maggots.

Morgan's saga continues in this double-length, stand alone SWEEP book. Moira's Story will shoot readers forward through time, where we will meet Morgan's daughter-raised as a blood witch-and follow her adventures as the progeny of one of the most powerful blood witches the Seven Great Clans have ever known.

War ravages the globe. One man becomes the center of a manhunt, the face of a movement, and starts down a path that none of us are equipped to handle. We all fantasize about being a fuckin hero. It's never like that though. When the shit hits the fan, the guilt sets in. We save one person, ten more die. How does a man make those choices?When Connor Jeffries finds himself in the middle of an attack at a department store, his heroic actions set him down a path that no man could have prepared for. A heat of the moment decision forces Connor to run. He flees with few resources and even less time, in order to draw the might of a massive army away from the city. Within hours he is being hailed as a hero, a seemingly inconsequential radio interview ignites a movement. Somehow he has become the symbolic leader of a group of freedom fighters called The Resistance. The group recognizes no authority, but their General's. Little do they know, this man is quickly developing a dependency on pain killers and his mind is crumbling under the weight of his burden. Will he be able to pull it together and help his resistance turn the tide of this new war, or will he end up being a junky with a target on his back?

From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales.

Zac Zombie is back in the second thrilling book of this popular novella series.Zac Zombie is back in the second thrilling book of this popular novella series. Along with Michelle and Alex, Zac sets out to find survivors in a world ruled by the undead, and possibly locate his mother.The third book in this series will be available from May 2014.

In the third Dragons of Starlight volume, Jason and Koren continue to fight the dragon rulers, while also trying to save the slaves around them.

A twenty-eight page informal newsletter about the alternate history subgenre of science fiction and related science fiction topics. This issue has an excerpt from a Work In Process called There Will Always Be An England, mini-essays on alternate World War II and Space Programs, along with commentary on a range of science fiction topics, including Steve Stirling's Dies The Fire.In a desperate measure to add excitement to Sam’s boring and crumbling marriage, he arranges an exotic sailing adventure, but it’s more than he bargained for when he and his family are abducted in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing them to endure a nightmare to escape their fate awaiting them in a foreign land.

It's 2013 and the world ended weeks ago. Lacey's world just ended, though - she's been cast out of the safe bunker she called home with her husband and sister-wives. Now she's got to figure out where she should go and who she can trust to stay alive in post-apocalyptic Utah.The town wall in the middle of a frigid January night is no place for a scared kid to be. But Mikey understands his town faces many threats. The man who approaches the perimeter wearing a dark, ragged cloak surely can't be all that dangerous. But he gets the creeping sense that this is no ordinary stranger.

Redmond Quain is on a mission to save the world by going back in time to stop the assassination of a man who was regarded as the biggest monster in all of Earths history. Somehow it had been determined that this was the key event that would destroy earth of the future.But Redmond wasn't prepared when he discovered who the assassin had been, and it threatened to blow his whole world apart.On the last day of the third world’s third age, a mountain appeared in the sky. The next morning, exactly a day after its arrival, the mountain disappeared, and not a single memory of its existence remained. Not even the Elden who braved the golden barrier surrounding it recalled its presence. This is a tale of that lost day, and of the beings involved with it.'Fractured Melody' is a stand alone short story. Some day in the far future, it may become the prelude to a longer fantasy series.

Tripartite is about a young man who, by a twisted turn of events, introduced to a world of magic and demons. While having the time of his life with his new found friends in a school for training newbie mages, dark secrets begin to arise. When students start to dissapear, Lance and his friends take it into their own hands to end the unknown threat.Lance is a young man who is arrested for an accidental hit and run. But, When he is rescued from prison by a man who proved himself to be a Mage, His world is tipped upside down. The man takes Lance to a school of magic and it seems that all of Lance's childhood dreams are coming true. But, there is no such thing as perfect. There begin to be sightings of monsters around the school, and students start disappearing. It soon falls to Lance and his two friends to save not only the Magi Colledge, but the Magical counterpart of Earth, Terra. As if that wasn't enough, Lance starts hearing a voice in his head. And that voice unleashes something terrible, that will show Lance that some dreams are actually Nightmares in disguise.

Steven Clark delivers 52 original poems, including the favorites "Used To Think", "One with God", "Just Another Memory" and "Just One Time (the John Denver Poem)". These poems will make you fall in love all over again as well as renew your faith.Steven Clark delivers 52 original poems, including the favorites "Used To Think", "One with God", "Just Another Memory" and "Just One More Time (the John Denver Poem)". These poems will make you fall in love all over again as well as renew your faith. For You: Poems of Faith, Hope and Love is a collection of poems by Steven Clark. Written with simple clarity, these poems will take you on a journey of nature's wonders plus love and inspiration. Once read, you will want to share these poems with your family and friends. This book of poems was written For You.

On a rainy night, a man in a desperate hurry nearly hits another. He swerves, saving the other man's life, but consequently totals his own car. Luckily, the other's car is nearby and he is happy to give the other a ride, but soon enough, strange events begin to happen, both in and out of the car, and suspicions begin to grow between the two.Scarecrows have a creepy mystique about them. They’re lifeless, yet resemble us. Despite their positive utility (I assume they do keep birds from eating crops though I haven’t observed a scarecrow long enough to really know firsthand), a person will usually stumble upon one that appears neglected, tattered and worn. They’re often spotted from afar in lonely, desolate, out-of-the-way places and their eyes seem to follow passersby. Did its head turn, too, or was it just that its head and neck have loosened from its stranglehold upon the post it was hung from? Their bodies are often discovered unnaturally twisted -- victimized by the elements, birds or other hungry, curious animals. Doesn’t it sometimes look that like they tried to wriggle free?Coming across a scarecrow can really help bring out the imagination! Imagine being lost or stranded with no sign of civilization around and coming across a scarecrow whose better days are far behind him. It almost looks desperate, hanging up there, angry, with nothing to lose. Patiently waiting to escape, life can’t get much worse than a scarecrow’s version of being nailed to a post eerily resembling a crucifix. The buzzing of insects and the brushing together of the wheat and corn in the swaying wind are the only sounds you hear for miles. You are more than aware that you are alone and as vulnerable as that poor bag of twisted, tormented, human straw staring down at you.You approach cautiously, then its sunken eyes suddenly open, and it comes alive. Anger lights up his suddenly human eyes. The expression on its face turns into a twisted smile. You step back, dumbfounded, as the scarecrow tears itself from its cross with one thing on its mind -- revenge. Halloween and Indian folklore can definitely make for an interesting combination!