A coup is nearly successful leaving ruler Dr. Famaron Venge to deciver what went wrong. He also has the added charge of taking care of his friend's kids, as they are besieged on all sides by murderers. And his world of Parscan suddenly has all the trappings of an all out civil war, with rival factions fighting for control.Famaron Venge the ruler of Parscan agrees to take care of his friend's kids Ohgood and Ratie begrudgingly. They decide to go to the realm known as the Caristic, to see if Ohgood is the one who can unlock it. The Caristic is a massive wonder and magic filled world inside the world, that was sealed and never to be unlocked unless the right person were to try. And every person on their 18th birthday goes and sees if they are indeed the one. Before long they learn of a coup attempt as Famaron has all he can do to keep himself and Ohgood and Ratie alive. They find deception at every turn with many of his own soldiers being a part of the coup. Famaron uses the bulk of his magical abilities to keep the murderers at bay, as spells take the place of guns. They finally get themselves a dragon to survey the wreckage of what was once Parscan, and everywhere they look death and total choas ensue. It is a time of friends in breathing and no more.

Contains: Not Long Before the End What Good is a Glass Dagger? The Magic Goes Away Unfinished Story #1 and: The Magic May Return Notes for a Series of Stories to be Set in the Fantasy World of The Magic Goes Away

Crilshar has risen. Titan has fallen. The Alignment is at war. Following the horrors of Erebus, Anna Berenguer and Antal Justus return home. One to Titan, the other to Earth. Reunited with his old crew, Justus is driven by the guilt of losing Peter Marx, and races headlong into a fight with an enemy beyond his wildest nightmares.Volume II of the Gilaxiad SeriesCrilshar has risen. Titan has fallen. The Alignment is at war. Following the horrors of Erebus, Anna Berenguer and Antal Justus return home. One to Titan, the other to Earth. Reunited with his old crew, Justus is driven by the guilt of losing Peter Marx, and races headlong into a fight with an enemy beyond his wildest nightmares. The Dark Lord Malizar lives. Sinister, methodical, and hauntingly formidable, Malizar envisages a single future: one ablaze with war. With the help of allies, old and new, Anna and Justus prepare to face the greatest threat. Only, the menace which looms is not the enemy they thought. A darkness and silence is approaching.

Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.

In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed. Party Discipline is a Tor.com Original from bestselling author Cory Doctorow. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fleet Marine Striker Battalion command has conceived a plan that could turn the tide of the war. To bring that plan to fruition they need the android prototypes from top secret research facility RD3-Omega. When the facility comes under attack by enemy forces that plan is thrown into jeopardy. Sgt. Massey must evacuate the prototypes and deliver them safely to the FMSB.Blake hates the world. He failed miserably in life, and has broken up with his girlfriend, Gillian, whom he claims to love and now he doesn't know what to do. He then meets Serena--seemingly crazy, big lover of life but deep Serena who changes his world for good. But there's a catch. Of course there is. Serena is leaving.In this tale of love found, lost, and everything else in between, Blake and Serena find out what love really is about and what it means to come home.

History is a thing we make—in more senses than one. And from more directions. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Betrayal is the third book in the eight-volume series Allies and Adversaries.Conflict explodes on the Novan landscape, as the TELREC seek control of all Novan. Alliances are formed, then fractured by traitors and fools. Friendships are built and broken, as the stress of final realization settles in; war is coming.Is it safe to rob a bank with a couple of guys your gal met at a bar? Is it a better idea to trust your gal, when you also met her at a bar? Maybe yes, maybe no. But when the going gets tough, the tough get tougher. Or, at least, they start to have a little fun. Right?Sometimes brutal, sometimes comic--there's little to be said for second chances, and even less for second guesses. For one man, though, it's really all about the thrill of the chase, the taste of adrenaline...and the smell of smoking rubber.Eau de Smoking Rubber is approximately 800 words.

In a world where matter transportation is a reality how would countries protect their borders? Follow Bob, an aging Border Patrol officer, as he shows his new trainee Samuel exactly what it takes to keep the country safe from an avalanche of illegal immigrants.Mrs Tall Small lives in Fizzy Wizzy land with her best friend Fairy Flutter. They spend their time saving fairies and elves from the wicked antics of Evil Witch Green. This is the first book in the Mrs Tall Small series. In 'The Day of the Crystal Raindrops' Mrs Tall Small is busy feeding Rupert her pet giraffe and becomes concerned that she has not seen her best friend Fairy Flutter. A visit to Fairy Flutter's cottage leads Mrs Tall Small, Fairy Flutter and their friends on a daring rescue mission to find Violette who has been captured by Evil Witch Green.Suitable for children from 3 - 8 years.

Wonder what happened to the little girl that Derek saved at the beginning of Wasteland Rules: Kill or Be Killed? Now she is all grown up and kicking butt thanks to his timely intervention. She now resides in the remains of Vegas and fights to stop the flow of illegal slaves into the Strip. This story takes place approximately six years after the original book.Did you wonder what happened to the little girl that Derek saved at the beginning of Wasteland Rules: Kill or Be Killed? Now she is all grown up and kicking butt thanks to his timely intervention. She now resides in the remains of Vegas and fights to stop the flow of illegal slaves into the Strip. This story takes place approximately six years after the original book but also explores how she became the woman she is today.Approximately 17,000 words in length. No DRM.If you like this story you can get full length books on Amazon to experience more of the World After. Book 1, Wasteland Rules: Kill or Be Killed, is available and Book 2, Wasteland Rules: Born to Fight is also now available.

How do you handle a Cup Final when the two teams come from planets with different conditions? Taw Braley, a socially challenged robotics expert, finds out the hard way in this short piece of SF comedy when his football-crazy girlfriend drags him along because a team from Earth is involved.How do you handle a Cup Final when the two teams come from planets with different conditions? Taw Braley, a socially challenged robotics expert, finds out the hard way in this short piece of SF comedy when his football-crazy girlfriend drags him along because a team from Earth is involved. As the hapless Taw does his best to get to grips with the complicated nuances of an interplanetary football match, disaster strikes the robot officials and it's up to Taw to save the day.

The Egg-Shaped Room :oR: Blood on Mouth and Mourning Dress, part of the Floating Body series, is about the three Tone siblings whose faces force people to forget them: Eudaemonia, a professional mourner; Oa, a professional killer; and Missy, who uses cosmetic means to force people to remember her. Their reunion becomes dangerous when Missy's fiancé invites them to test out his new invention.The Egg-Shaped Room :oR: Blood on Mouth and Mourning Dress, part of the Floating Body series, is about the three Tone siblings whose faces, based on some accident of birth, force people to forget them like hypnosis: Eudaemonia, a professional mourner who is addicted to suffering; Oa, a professional killer who claims to kill only bad people and lives in others' houses like a ghost; and Missy, who sleeps with rich men and uses cosmetic means to force people to remember her. They reunite when Eudaemonia goes to her own father's funeral by accident, but their reunion becomes dangerous when Missy's fiancé invites them to test out his new invention, an egg-shaped room that is supposed to extend the life span to 200 years.

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and* Musicophilia, * a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.

The seventeenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the Reunion system and, without a word, melted a major section of Reunion Station with a single pass. These refugees, who were rescued through the combined efforts of an allied group of humans and atevi and brought to safety at Alpha, are now desperate with fear. Bren Cameron—brilliant human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi political leader on the mainland below, and also the appointee of the human president of the island nation of Mospheira—is the obvious choice of representative to be sent up to deal with both the panicked refugees and the incoming alien ship. As a member of the spacefaring delegation who rescued the refugees, Bren has talked to kyo before—and even won their trust by saving one of their kind from a Reunioner prison. Because of his remarkable diplomatic and linguistic abilities, Bren managed to communicate with that grateful kyo individual on a limited basis, and he has evidence that that same kyo is on the ship heading to defenseless Alpha Station. But no one can predict what an alien race might do, or what their motivations could be. And Bren Cameron, the only human ever to be accepted into atevi society, is now the one individual with a hope of successfully interacting with the crew of the incoming ship. But Bren knows it will take putting himself in the hands of the kyo. Can Bren count on the gratitude of one individual alien to save his life and the lives of thousands on Alpha Station?

“Finding someone to finish a series after five novels from five different authors is no easy task. He’s got to be willing to find all the open roads the others have left for him. He’s got to do his homework, and quickly. And given the quality of his predecessors’ work, he’s got to be good . . . Enter Paul Kemp. Whew! Writers like this don’t come along every day.” –R.A. Salvatore The New York Times best-selling author of The Two Swords THE SPIDER QUEEN LIVES AGAIN But something is different, something her priestesses can hear in the winds, feel in their spirits, and for a select few see with their own eyes. The Demonweb Pits, removed from the Abyss to take its place among the lower planes, is more dangerous, more horrifying than anyone has ever imagined. Teeming with feral spiders bent on ripping each other to pieces– killing, eating, and killing again–the blasted landscape of Lolth’s personal hell is still forming. Quenthel Baenre, with the tattered remnants of her expedition continuing to plot against her, crosses that spider-infested killing ground in hopes of answering the call of her reborn goddess. If she can make it to Lolth’s side, can she even imagine what plans the Queen of the Demonweb Pits has had for her all along? The final novel in an epic six-part series from the fertile imaginations of R.A. Salvatore, and a select group of the newest, most exciting authors in the genre. Join them as they bring an end to a devastating war, and give birth to the greatest horror the Realms has ever known. Danifae Yauntyrr, former battle-captive of House Melarn, has come too far to stop now. She has regained her freedom after years of servitude, but has yet to exact her revenge. Though she has gained much, grown in both power and ambition, and enjoys the protection of the powerful draegloth Jeggred Baenre, Danifae still needs to kill Halisstra Melarn. But how can she when she’s followed Quenthel and Pharaun into the heart of Lolth’s reformed domain, a hellish world of demonic spiders bent on eating each other, and anything else stupid enough to get in their way–including the chosen vessel of Lolth herself. While Danifae wonders how she’ll ever take vengeance on a woman she left behind on the surface of Faerûn, the very target of her burning hatred is close on her heals. Halisstra has come to the Demonweb Pits with a very different agenda. In her hands she holds the fabled Crescent Blade, a sword she believes will grant her the power to kill Lolth herself–but only if they find her before she fully completes her own mysterious RESURRECTION The War of the Spider Queen comes to an end.