My name is Piper and I’m—or at least I was—a Viking of Svalbard. I had seen nineteen winters when I left my home with Jericho Johnson to aid him in the quest to save his world.My name is Piper and I’m—or at least I was—a Viking of Svalbard. I had seen nineteen winters when I left my home with Jericho Johnson to aid him in the quest to save his world. They tell me that I’m twenty-two now although at times I feel ancient and that I’m barely hanging on to my sanity in this place that the old gods seem to have forgotten. I’ve been stranded here in this frozen wasteland for over three years, swept away from everything normal in my life and dropped into what seems to be the remains of a war-torn world covered in snow and ice.

There is a rash of electricity-related murders being committed across the city. All signs point to Maria Jones, but she's safely locked away. The Heroes have a case, a cult, and echoes of the past to confront.Every time the month of October came around in the small town of Hellon the townspeople knew it was going to be a hell of a month and when I mean hell I mean hell for them all. The way it all began was when a man by the name of old man Lester who never gave anybody any trouble was being constantly picked on by the townspeople finally snapped one day and decided if his life should end he would come back from the dead and turn the town upside down to let them never forget what they did to him.

His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. Western civilization had not yet impinged on either the human psyche or the social structure, and neither poverty, disease, nor hunger seemed able to quell the native spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Angels opened there secret a few years before Alyssa was born and now help the earth by saving people in accidents. Kellen the world’s most famous angel star and the hottest angel ever is going to be having his first save and when Alyssa gets picked an angel murder starts killing off innocent angels. Will Alyssa figure out who this angel murder is before it gets to her? Or will she be murdered……Angels opened there secret a few years before Alyssa was born and now help the earth by saving people in accidents. Kellen the world’s most famous angel star and the hottest angel ever is going to be having his first save and when Alyssa gets picked an angel murder starts killing off innocent angels. Will Alyssa figure out who this angel murder is before it gets to her? Or will the help of her friends and angels help her catch the murder? Or will she be murdered… At the same time her 18th birthday is coming up and her uncle has been keeping a secret from her for her whole life about what she really is. But this year the secret is spilled and she finally finds out her true self emotionally and physically.

The Advantage is the first episode of Reign of Resurgence, the first thrilling volume of the fantasy thriller Kingdom of Destiny short story series. A recent college graduate finds himself in an alternate world he never knew existed. Dealing with castles, kings, and betrayal, he will have to use his considerable wits if he is going to face his fate in the Kingdom of Destiny.A fantasy thriller short story series, the Kingdom of Destiny series will feature three volumes. Reign of Resurgence, the first thrilling volume of the series, is comprised of five episodes. The series sees its launch with this first episode, The Advantage. A recent college graduate finds himself in an alternate world he never knew existed. Dealing with castles, kings, and betrayal, he will have to use his considerable wits if he is going to face his fate in the Kingdom of Destiny.Struggling at a crossroads in his life, Tristan has no idea who or what he wants to be. Until he is mysteriously thrown into the baffling but extraordinary kingdom of Barico. When a sudden and unexpected battle for the crown propels the kingdom into turmoil, Tristan finds himself uniquely qualified to aid the royal family in their Reign of Resurgence. In the city of Lochlain, the heart of Barico, Tristan inadvertently thwarts an assassination attempt. In doing so, he finds favor with the royal family. But when a deep cutting betrayal strikes, Tristan struggles to survive the ripples of destruction.

Raife Crenshaw is tasked with taking down the world's most powerful and brutal intellect: Cain, a lab-created monster of a man who's poised to murder tens of millions. But Raife's handlers want Cain brought back alive. Can an ingenious disguise make the difference in time, or will it be Raife's ultimate undoing?They were coming, and no one could stop them.The Yellowstone Caldera has exploded, and survivors who fled the devastation made their way east. Cities such as Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. prepared for their arrival. It meant rationing – and rational thought. People on both sides would face tests of their nerve and resilience.Only those with strong nerves would survive.Refugees, a part of David Dalglish’s 2010 anthology A Land of Ash under the author’s former pseudonym, is now complete with its original opening as well as foreword from Dalglish.

Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.(less)

Detective Isaac Bell returns in the remarkable new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known, men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness . . . who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way.

Sam is a quiet and lonely boy who had the misfortune to be born a few years before World War II. Finding shelter from German bomber planes is almost a daily part of his life now but he wonders when his luck will run out...The world's #1 (if not only) Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely (if not impossible) adventure. This time things that should never move are apparently moving, and hidden dangers are lurking just beneath the surface. Part Freakonomics, part Sherlock Holmes, part Doctor Who, part Errol Flynn, but 100% completely absurd, with a complicated reverse-polyamorous situation thrown into the mix, The Outlier series continues with "The Outlier #2, Migrants" another Dillon Sharif Tall Tale.

After the crash of his ship, 'The Kolibri', Captain Gillitzer's luck seemed to be changing for the better. When his new craft becomes the first to travel beyond the fabled 'Minute Zero', he and his crew seize the chance to complete their ultimate mission, and restore his battered reputation. However, they soon find themselves battling the forces of fate, when they encounter the 'Hertzog Effect'...Sequel to 'The Bergmann Protocol'.After the crash of his ship, 'The Kolibri', Captain Gillitzer's luck seemed to be changing for the better. When his new craft becomes the first to travel beyond the fabled 'Minute Zero', he and his crew seize the opportunity to complete their ultimate mission, and restore his battered reputation. However, they soon find themselves locked in a life and death struggle against the forces of fate, when they encounter the 'Hertzog Effect’...Follow the misadventures of the unluckiest time-travellers in history...before they change it!

You are welcome to follow the adventures of two courageous girls across the fantastic and mystic Continent. The first book describes their quest for a stolen statuette, in order to finally stop a horrible war. But the search holds many dangers and the statue hides mystic secrets...When wars last for generations, it doesn't matter how they began......it only matters how they end. And this one seems that it could end only by their defeat. Waeryehenian troops are getting closer to the capital city every day. The kingdom of Ahleyn, ruled by Queen Natya and controlled completely by women, had lost more than a half of its territory. Besides that, Zal attacks from the savage land of Ro-Oth are also getting more frequent. Ahleas can't even seem to control male rebellions any more. A great kingdom is falling apart, both from inside and out...People of Ahleyn keep in memory the first glorious years of war, when they were the ones winning the battles. One stupid mistake made the course of war to turn around. But they can now hardly even remember the days of peace, when the Great Continental pact with Waeryehen and Koron was a guarantee of peace. It was also broken by just a few foolish acts of only one person...Unfotunately, all this horror has made almost everyone on the Continent to completely forget that even greater danger had existed in ancient times and that it can happen again...

A short novel about a princess and a brigade of knights that must defeat a mysterious dragon living at their kingdom's border.For years the kingdom of Mendolon has had a dragon living at its border, guarding his territory. He has tended to live quietly and not directly threaten anyone… until now. As of late the dragon has been breathing fire into the edges of the kingdom and striking fear into the hearts of the people. The realm’s chief knight, Michael de Bolbec, wants to lead a brigade of knights into the dragon’s territory to hunt down the creature and destroy him. Mendolon’s king, Sebastian, is hesitant with the plan, but will only agree to it on one condition… his prized daughter, Belle, must accompany the brigade of knights and claim the victory for the dragon’s death. The plan seems simple, but things are not always as they appear… Join the adventure in this short suspense novel. It serves as a prequel to Tony Myers’ next full length adventure novel.

The battle is over, and the prophecy has come to pass, but is Nicholas prepared for what is to follow?This book of short verse and haiku was inspired by nature. Many of the poems reference the river and were written after visits to the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The book is dedicated to Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area in Spanish Lake, Missouri. Read, relax, enjoy!

Lizzy never desired to fall in love until she met the handsome stranger whom saved her brother's life and through him find her faith she thought had died with her father.This story captures the marriage, educational and spiritual life of a young university student who was caught in a deep longing to find God's will for him. In his school days, it became important as life, especially when his fiancee, Catherina Bordeaux seemed to see him as a jinx. Suddenly he meets Jack who equips him on the reality of God's will beyond the self-will if the fallen man. In the process of this gradual change, what would Bill's ideas about life lead him into? And would God's will really be his fiancee, Catherina, or his very close friend, Donna? Quickly find out!

Follow Sir Herman in the land of the Pharaohs. First ebook with logic and brain teasers games,quizzes and food. For those who love Egypt, its beauties and foodThe world was perfect. A blue and green Earth spinning on its axis with a billion people wandering its surface and deep in its oceans. But then technology found a fix for what was broken with society. Bots. The sophisticated super-human robot designed to make life easier... But then imagine a rebellious group, filled with disdain for this new technological development and the laziness of the masses. Imagine how they create a virus and infect the bots... Introducing the Killer Bots, known to the remaining human population as KBs. They slowly but surely have begun to take over the planet, killing without hesitation any human seen to cross their paths. They simply load their machine guns and fire. The survivors do what they can to keep a grasp on life. Ryan is one such lone survivor. He makes his way from place to place. He scavenges supplies from old stores and left-behind homes. He walks and ventures and journeys, all the while staying alert for errant KBs. He won't hesitate if he comes across a robot... He'll simply shoot and kill. That is, until he stumbles across Ami. But Ami is like no other robot he's ever known...