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Imperium Restored: A Novel of the Praxis (A Novel of the Praxis #3)
by Walter Jon Williams“Interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” —George R.R. MartinBlending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the third and final volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall series, comes a tale of blood, courage, adventure, and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of two lovers.Shattered VictoryStar-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula have decisively beaten the forces of the corrupt Zanshaa government. It seems all there’s left to do is to travel to the capital of Zanshaa to reunite the empire under the banner of the Restoration. Before they can sweep up the pieces, though, it’s revealed that any advance would spring an enemy trap. To make things worse, their opponents have more resources than Martinez and Sula could have imagined, and a superior force is now aimed at the heart of the Restoration.Shattered LoveBut before Martinez and Sula can contend with the gathering enemy forces, a surprising act of violence on Sula’s part threatens their relationship—and damages their trust. Hurt and confused, Martinez sends Sula into exile while he tries to recover from his broken heart. Somehow, these two lovers must repair their relationship in order to defeat this new enemy threat... especially when more than love is at stake.
Impersonations: A Story Of The Praxis
by Walter Jon WilliamsNew York Times-Bestselling, Nebula Award–Winning Author: “One of the great space opera series of all time continues . . . [a] masterful writer.” —James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award–winning author of The First Law of ThermodynamicsHaving offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity’s home world.Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn’t want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And that’s all before someone tries to kill her . . . If she’s going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.“Well-drawn characters, and excellent wordsmithing . . . It feels like Williams is having a great time with Impersonations.” —Locus“Readers will savor this intriguing glimpse into the life of a woman who struggles with her own identity and the price of her action.” —Publishers Weekly“Interstellar adventure has a new king.” —George R.R. Martin
The Impetuous Amazon
by Sandy JamesBook two of Alliance of the AmazonsMegan Feurer is strong and impetuous, like the Fire element she represents. She is an Amazon, sworn to protect humanity from demons, demigods and all manner of supernatural beings who wish ill upon the world. But her fire burns hot and fast, and her unpredictable control of the element brings into question her fitness as an Amazon.Johann Herrmann chose the life of a Sentinel-a trainer of the four Amazons-to save his sister's life. Now bound to the patron goddess Rhiannon, he knows his duty demands a solitary existence. But when he's assigned to evaluate the Fire Amazon, his sacrifice becomes much more difficult.Megan's passions ignite a flame that neither she nor Johann can control, and the goddess Freya has reason to fan those flames. A mysterious force is gaining power, and Megan and Johann must join together to fight. And once a passionate fire has started, it's nearly impossible to stop...Find out how it all began in The Reluctant Amazon.91,000 words
The Impetuous Bride (Nearlyweds)
by Caroline AndersonIt should have been the happiest day of her life, but as Lydia slipped into her wedding gown, she knew she had to stop the wedding. Jake’s whirlwind proposal had been thrilling, but all she wanted was to hear him say he loved her!A year later, Lydia finds herself at the altar with Jake again-this time as a bridesmaid instead of a bride! Jake is the best man-and he’s still the only man for Lydia. But can he finally convince his impetuous bride to say "I do"?
Implacable (The Lost Fleet: Outlands #3)
by Jack CampbellAdmiral John &“Black Jack&” Geary fears the greatest threat to humanity may be itself in this gripping continuation of the New York Times bestselling series.As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives.His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity&’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.Only the most serious danger comes from an unexpected source.Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken, but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must invoke the power that his long-revered name holds--even though this might endanger his entire fleet, tear apart the Alliance, and destroy everything he has fought for.
Implacable Alpha (Team Psi #2)
by W. Michael GearNew York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels.Called the 'Ennoia,' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes? Meanwhile, Bill Stevens has his own agenda, and his goons have already crossed blades with Psi Team. Now they are coming for Alpha, and all the revenge they can get. Because just as things seemed like they could get no worse, Alpha is back. And this time, she's coming for blood.
Implant
by Barbara M. Patrizi Liliana MarchesiThe second chapter of a Dystopian saga built on the belief that man knows about and uses only a fraction of the brain's real ability. A saga in which heart and mind collide against a backdrop of unrest, passions, plotting, and extreme actions. A story that will shock you! After being torn from a life that she believed hers, Kendall finds herself immersed in a world completely different from what she believed. And just as she was about to discover the origin of the bond between her and Trevor, the leader of the Orphans, a succession of unpredictable events forced them apart. Kendall is now in the hands of Axel, who more than anyone want to resurrect her lost memories so that he can get hold of the information he desperately craves. But how will he convince her to cooperate? What effect will the Root implant have on her? Will the days spent at the Mind's headquarters change her view on the Orphans? Or will she do everything in her power to find a way to return to the Mausoleum and to Trevor? Can you really lose yourself in someone else's eyes? Well, that's what just happened to me. Sucked into an ocean in which warm and cold currents swirl into an incredible blue giving life to a unique color, I was incapable of resurfacing. Or maybe I simply didn't want to. It was as if my soul had migrated towards that magnetic gaze and had no intention of returning. Who was that man? And why was he staring at me with such an intensity I wanted to cry? To find out more about the R.I.G. Saga and about the author herself, please stop by her website: www.lilianamarchesi.it
Implante
by Liliana Marchesi Marcela Gutiérrez BravoEl segundo capítulo de una Saga Distópica, construida sobre la creencia de que el hombre conoce y utiliza solamente una mínima parte de la capacidad del cerebro. Una Saga en la que el corazón y la mente se encontrarán en un escenario de trastornos, placeres, complots y actos extremos. Una historia que trastornará tu mente. Después de haber sido atrapada en una vida que creía suya, Kendall se encuentra inmersa en un mundo completamente diverso de lo que era hasta aquel momento. Y justo cuando estaba a punto de descubrir el origen de lo que la liga a Trevor, el Líder de los Huérfanos, una sucesión de eventos imprevistos la obligan a separarse de él. Kendall ahora está en las manos de Axel, que más que otra cosa, desea buscar en sus recuerdos perdidos para poseer la información que desesperadamente anhela. Pero ¿Cómo la convencerá para colaborar? ¿Qué efecto tendrá la Raíz en ella? ¿Los días que transcurrirá en la sede de La Mente comprometerán la opinión que se había hecho de los Huérfanos? ¿O hará lo posible por encontrar el modo de volver al Mausoleo de Trevor?
Implanted
by Lauren C. TeffeauThe data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller. <p><p>When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new employers exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.
Implied Spaces
by Walter Jon Williams[from inside flaps] "When mankind's every need is serviced by artificial intelligence, and death itself is only a minor inconvenience, what does it mean to be human? The answer lies hidden, deep within the Implied Spaces. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction."
Implosion
by D. F. JonesBreeding machines and fertility camps. When a foreign power puts a sterility drug in Britain's reservoirs, the result is all too predictable. The birth-rate plummets and the country's future looks bleak. There is only one way to save the nation; all women with a natural immunity to the drug must be placed in special camps where they can be bred from like prize cattle. They must be given special hormone treatment and artificial insemination so that they can produce triplets, quads, quins time after time until they die of exhaustion. They must become Nation Mums, the sole hope of a desperate people. They must be pampered and disciplined to accept their role. Even if one of them happens to be the wife of the Minister in charge of the whole terrifying affair...
Implosion (Panther Science Fiction Ser.)
by D. F. JonesBreeding machines and fertility camps. When a foreign power puts a sterility drug in Britain's reservoirs, the result is all too predictable. The birth-rate plummets and the country's future looks bleak. There is only one way to save the nation; all women with a natural immunity to the drug must be placed in special camps where they can be bred from like prize cattle. They must be given special hormone treatment and artificial insemination so that they can produce triplets, quads, quins time after time until they die of exhaustion. They must become Nation Mums, the sole hope of a desperate people. They must be pampered and disciplined to accept their role. Even if one of them happens to be the wife of the Minister in charge of the whole terrifying affair...
Implosion: Part 2 of the Colliding Worlds Trilogy
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea’s world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she’s good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea’s people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader’s plan could lead to his people’s extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea’s participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who’d enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Implosion: Part 2 of the Colliding Worlds Trilogy
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea’s world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she’s good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea’s people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader’s plan could lead to his people’s extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea’s participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who’d enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Implosion
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea's world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she's good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea's people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader's plan could lead to his people's extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea's participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who'd enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
An Import of Intrigue: A Novel Of The Maradaine Constabulary (Maradaine Constabulary #2)
by Marshall Ryan MarescaThis second novel in the Maradaine Constabulary series blends high fantasy, murder mystery, and gritty urban magic...The neighborhood of the Little East is a collision of cultures, languages, and traditions, hidden away in the city of Maradaine. A set of streets to be avoided or ignored. When a foreign dignitary is murdered, solving the crime falls to the most unpopular inspectors in the Maradaine Constabulary: exposed fraud Satrine Rainey, and Uncircled mage Minox Welling.With a murder scene deliberately constructed to point blame toward the rival groups resident in this exotic section of Maradaine, Rainey is forced to confront her former life, while Welling's ignorance of his own power threatens to consume him. And the conflicts erupting in the Little East will spark a citywide war unless the Constabulary solves the case quickly.
The Importance of Being Kennedy: A Novel
by Laurie GrahamFrom the fictitious diary of the equally fictitious Kennedy nanny comes an inside look into the early years of the dynasty—with all the juicy bits intact. Newly arrived from Ireland, Nora Brennan finds a position as nursery maid to the Kennedys of Brookline, Massachusetts—and lands at the heart of American history. In charge of nine children practically from the minute they're born—including Joe Jr., Jack, Bobby, Teddy, vivacious "Kick," and tragic Rosemary—she sees the boys coached at their father's knee to believe everything they'll ever want in life can be bought. She sees the girls trained by mother Rose to be good Catholic wives. With her sharp eye and her quiet common sense, Nora is the perfect candidate to report on an empire in the making. Then World War II changes everything.
Important Mission: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xiao YuGenius teenager chen hao through their own opportunities in a rookie competition to get the corresponding good results all the way into the rookie competition top eight just when he secretly happy but found his body appeared a strange and this strange with the auction to sell that black jade jet is the name of the face there is a very powerful he gave the morning s son a lot of benefits but at the moment he was lost in a bad situation need to consume a morning haosantian force of jing yuan to recover but the morning s son didn t promise because he didn t know this have any effect on the back of the game
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #2)
by Malka OlderInvestigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders called “an utter triumph.”Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing person’s case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity's exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.The Investigations of Mossa and PleitiThe Mimicking of Known SuccessesThe Imposition of Unnecessary ObstaclesThe Centenal CycleInfomocracyNull StatesState TectonicsAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Impossible
by Casper GrahamGalen Lykaios has been a cupid for nearly 4,600 years. He definitely doesn't volunteer to be one. It's a punishment because he carries a ton of bitterness and grudges after death toward an ex-lover who betrayed his trust. For thousands of years, he has to watch as most of his charges get their happily ever after. Then he encounters Dion Angelos during one of his assignments, and he senses a spark between them.Dion owns Angelos Funeral Home. He enjoys working on dead bodies because he can keep his interaction with the living down to a bare minimum. People can be stupid and irritating. However, he doesn't mind when they return as spirits because he enjoys most of their conversations. Then he encounters an ancient demon who seems hell-bent on killing him.Can Galen and Dion form a relationship while battling against the ancient demon?
Impossible
by Nancy WerlinA beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning author Nancy Werlin Inspired by the classic folk ballad "Scarborough Fair," this is a wonderfully riveting novel of suspense, romance, and fantasy. Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family curse that requires her to complete three seemingly impossible tasks or risk falling into madness and passing the curse on to the next generation. Unlike her ancestors, though, Lucy has family, friends, and other modern resources to help her out. But will it be enough to conquer this age-old evil?
The Impossible Bird
by Patrick O'LearyThere is a place--a world--where famine and poverty do not exist. Nor sickness nor misery nor unhappiness of any kind. Is it Heaven? As two brothers are about to discover, it's more like Hell. Michael Glynn is a hotshot director addicted to a there's-no-success-like-excess hedonism. Daniel Glynn is a professor of literature, devoted husband, and doting father with a quietly buttoned-down life. Brothers bound by blood. But brothers waging a private civil war--an emotional feud of lies and deceit and dark secrets buried but not forgotten. But all that is about to change. One day the brothers are visited simultaneously by gun-wielding strangers claiming to be agents of an elite government security agency. Each brother is questioned about the whereabouts of the other. What they want is "the code." The strangers are convinced one of the brothers possesses the code, but they aren't sure which. Having maintained only sporadic contact, Michael and Daniel can be of no assistance. Or so they think. The strangers will not take no for an answer. Their instructions are simple: find your brother or die. But what begins as a cross-country manhunt--brother converging on brother--turns into an odyssey of discovery neither could have imagined. It is a journey that will take them to a world of perfect human happiness. A world purged of suffering. A world without death. A world where a life can be relived and mistakes corrected. Both have been given a second chance. The question is, is a second chance what they really need? For Michael and Daniel the answer to that question will be found by unraveling the mystery of the impossible bird.