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About Time (The Time Police #4)
by Jodi TaylorFrom the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL---Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life...After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces.An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered. And investigations are about to lead to the one place where no officer can legally tread.Worst of all, trouble is brewing for Luke, Jane and Matthew as a shocking revelation threatens to tear Team Weird apart for good.FOR FANS OF DOCTOR WHO, THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB AND JASPER FFORDE. Readers love the Time Police: 'This got five stars only because I couldn't give it six!''I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much reading a book''I am always gutted when I finish a Jodi Taylor book as I know I will have to wait for the next one''Joyous, breakneck-speed adventures''Lots more in this series please''This book is BRILLIANT''Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly written'(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
by Samuel R. DelanyAward-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.
Above
by Leah BobetAn extraordinary debut urban fantasy about dangers outside and in."ABOVE pulls off that rare trick of being convincing and utterly magical at the same time."- Emma Donoghue, NYT bestselling author of ROOM"Leah Bobet's ABOVE is that rarest of creatures, combining the outspoken honesty of a good first novel with the craft of a seasoned professional." - Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award-winning author of DUSTMatthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee's wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above--like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers. But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe's history and the shadows' attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home--not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before.ABOVE is the debut of an amazing new voice.
Above the Ether: A Novel
by Eric BarnesA mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world very like our own, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. In this prequel to Eric Barnes's acclaimed cli-fi novel The City Where We Once Lived, six sets of characters move through a landscape and a country just beginning to show the signs of cataclysmic change. A father and his young children fleeing a tsunami after a massive earthquake in the Gulf. A woman and her husband punishing themselves without relent for the loss of both their sons to addiction, while wildfires slowly burn closer to their family home. A brilliant investor, assessing opportunity in the risk to crops, homes, cities, industries, and infrastructure, working in the silent comfort of her office sixty floors up in the scorching air. A doctor and his wife stuck in a refugee camp for immigrants somewhere in a southern desert. Two young men working the rides for a roadside carnival, one escaping a brutal past, the other a racist present. The manager of a chain of nondescript fast-food restaurants in a city ravaged by the relentless wind.. While every night the news alternates images of tsunami destruction with the baseball scores, the characters converge on a city where the forces of change have already broken—a city half abandoned, with one part left to be scavenged as the levee system protecting it slowly fails—until, in their vehicles on the highway that runs through it, they witness the approach of what looks to be just one more violent storm.
Above the Heavens: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Heavens: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Cang QiongThe heaven and earth were clearly separated. Within the vast expanse of space, there were numerous geniuses. The king who ruled this world rushed out of his peak to intimidate the people of this world. The apocalypse failed to break into the human world, and a strange and novel life began after his rebirth. Sour and bitter, taste everything, love and hate, make people wish they were dead. The re-emergence of experts to unite the world was only to uncover the secret of his rebirth and to set up a trap.
Above the Snowline
by Steph SwainstonThis is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels.This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate.As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin.ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
Above the Snowline
by Steph SwainstonThis is the book Steph Swainston's fans have been waiting for. A prequel to the Castle novels.This is Jant Shira's life before the drugs took over, as a hunter in the mountains. Awian exiles are building a stronghold in the Darkling mountains, where the Rhydanne hunt. Their clash of interests soon leads to bloodshed and Shira Dellin, a Rhydanne huntress, appeals to the immortal Circle for justice. The Emperor sends Jant, half-Rhydanne, half-Awian, and all-confidence, to mediate.As Jant is drawn into the spiralling violence he is shaken into coming to terms with his own heritage and his feelings for the alien, intoxicating Dellin.ABOVE THE SNOWLINE tells the story of Jant's early years in the Circle and shows the Fourlands as you've never seen them before.
Above the Star: The 8th Island Trilogy, Book 1, A Novel (The 8th Island Trilogy)
by Alexis Marie ChuteWhen frumpy senior citizen Archie goes in search of his missing son in the Spanish Canary Islands, he stumbles upon a higher mission: locating a magical cure for his ailing fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Ella. Using a portal-jumping device called the Tillastrion, Archie and a stone-headed creature named Zeno are transported to Jarr-Wya, a magnificent yet terrifying island in a connected realm—along with Ella and her strong-willed mother, Tessa, who accidentally stow away on this not-so-secret quest. What they find on Jarr-Wya is an island tortured by a wicked Star anchored in the sea, and a raging three-way battle for dominion between the stone-wielding Bangols, the fiery Olearons, and the evil Millia sands. Ella&’s wit and resourcefulness emerge in this new world, while Tessa is forced to confront her long-buried secrets and a confusing new love triangle. When Ella is captured, Tessa and Archie—with the help of a company of peculiar allies—set out to save her and unravel the terrible mystery of her cure. A mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night adventure of three unlikely heroes, Above the Star reminds us that even the smallest act of bravery can transform our lives and the fates of the worlds around us.
Above the Veil (The Seventh Tower, Book #4)
by Garth NixPrepare to fight. The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the; Castle. But now they are going to be heard... Tal and Mille are no longer alone in their quest for the truth about their world. They have been joined by Crow, a rebel: Underfolk, and his band of conspirators.: They know many secrets about the Castle--and are on the verge of uncovering the greatest secret of all. The darkness is growing deeper. The shadows are growing stronger. And Tal and Milla are in greater danger than ever before.
Above World
by Jenn ReeseA suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony's survival is at risk. The Kampii's breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna's fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku's tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt - growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains - here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.
Abra-Ca-Doodle! #4 (The Doodles of Sam Dibble #4)
by J. PressSam's school is hosting a talent show to raise money for the Environmental Center. But Sam doesn't have a talent to perform! Or so he thinks. He tries juggling, but just can't get the hang of it. Plus, his arch-nemesis, Wax, decides to juggle in the talent show as well--and Wax is good. But in a moment of inspiration, Sam learns that sometimes you don't have to look very far to find out what you're really good at!
Abracadabra!
by Wong Herbert YeeMouse and Mole are very excited. Minkus the Magnificent is in town-ONE SHOW ONLY!-and they can't wait to sit in the front row and see his tricks. After the abracadabras happen, though, something goes a bit wrong-and Mole is very disappointed to discover that magic is sometimes not exactly what it seems. How will Mouse help her friend realize that there is magic happening right in front of their very eyes? Wong Herbert Yee gives readers another grand adventure with two best friends, Mouse and Mole, who, despite their different outlooks on life, manage to show each other that friendship itself is a magical event!
Abracadabra 1. Los magos rebeldes
by Neil Patrick HarrisDe la mano del galardonado actor Neil Patrick Harris llega el primer libro de la serie «Abracadabra». Unas serie que esconde un montón de ases bajo la manga. Carter, un chico flacucho de manos ágiles, huye de su tío, un ladrón que lo utiliza para robar a la gente, pero con tan mala suerte que cae en las garras de Bosso y su banda de secuaces. Por suerte, también se topará con el señor Vernon, quien le presentará a otros cinco chicos que, con ayuda de la magia, intentarán salvar a los habitantes de Mineral Wells de las garras del malvado Bosso.
Abracadabra! It's Alive!
by Peter LerangisWhen the Abracadabra Club visits the Museum of Natural History, Jessica, Max, Selena, and Quincy learn about the dinosaurs that died out in the Great Extinction. But what if all the dinosaurs didn't become extinct? What if one of them is still alive today -- and roaming the halls of Rebus Elementary School? Impossible? Maybe not ...
Abracadaver (Esther Diamond Novel #7)
by Laura ResnickR.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job.She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion -- especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job, in order to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop.But Esther's fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7--and, more to the point, on Lopez's new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting the city from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan...Corpses suddenly aren't staying quite as dead as they should.While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn's role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone's dinner plans one cold winter night...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Seth Grahame-SmithIndiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness.""My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler
by Steve Sheinkin Neil SwaabWARNING: DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ. Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened—till now. Time is getting twisted, and it’s up to two kids to straighten things out. When Abraham Lincoln overhears a classroom of kids say “history is boring,” he decides to teach them a lesson. Lincoln escapes from 1860—to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler! Now siblings Doc and Abby have to convince Lincoln to go back to Springfield, Illinois, and accept the presidency . . . before everything spins out of control! Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler is the first chapter book in the Time Twisters series from acclaimed author Steve Sheinkin. Also check out Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean!
Abraham's Boys
by Joe HillThe short story "Abraham's Boys" reminds us that all stories, at heart, are about taking the awesome, irreversible leap from innocence to knowledge - and about the terrible weight of the landingJoe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the co-author, with Stephen King, of In the Tall Grass.
El abrazo de la noche (Cazadores Oscuros #Volumen 3)
by Sherrilyn KenyonLa tercera novela de la serie romántica paranormal Cazadores Oscuros. La destrucción acecha y la pasión persiste... «Vivo bien, pero que muy bien. Tampoco me hacen falta muchas cosas. En cuanto el sol se pone, la noche es mía. Soy una de sus criaturas, un Cazador Oscuro. »Desde hace siglos custodio a los humanos para asegurarme de que estén a salvo en este mundo donde todo es incierto. A cambio solo pido una chica con un vestido rojo que no pretenda pasar más de una noche conmigo. Extravagante y vital, Sunshine es perfecta para mí. No le interesa verme mañana, no quiere ataduras y mucho menos un compromiso. Pero cada vez que la miro, comienzo a anhelar sueños que enterré tiempo atrás. No obstante, mi amor significaría su muerte. Sobre mí pesa una maldición que me impide conocer la paz y la felicidad.» Talon de los Morrigantes Reseña:«Sin lugar a dudas, estaes una de las series paranormales más cautivadoras, singulares y electrizantes del género.»Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine
El abrazo de la noche (Cazadores Oscuros #3)
by Sherrilyn KenyonVivo bien, pero que muy bien. Tampoco me hacen falta muchas cosas. En cuanto el sol se pone, la noche es mía. Soy una de sus criaturas, un Cazador Oscuro. Desde hace siglos custodio a los humanos para asegurarme de que estén a salvo en este mundo donde todo es incierto. A cambio solo pido una chica con un vestido rojo que no pretenda pasar más de una noche conmigo. Extravagante y vital, Sunshine es perfecta para mí. No le interesa verme mañana, no quiere ataduras y mucho menos un compromiso. Pero cada vez que la miro, comienzo a anhelar sueños que enterré tiempo atrás. No obstante, mi amor significaría su muerte. Sobre mí pesa una maldición que me impide conocer la paz y la felicidad Talon de los Morrigantes Sherrilyn Kenyon es una de las voces más frescas, divertidas, imaginativas y originales del género romántico. Su serie de los Cazadores Oscuros, que empieza con Placeres de la noche, se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno en su país, Estados Unidos. La destrucción acecha y la pasión persiste.
The Absconded Ambassador: Genrenauts Episode 2 (Genrenauts #2)
by Michael R. UnderwoodLast Week, She Was Working Open Mics. Now She’s Headed to Outer Space.Rookie Genrenaut Leah Tang gets her first taste of space flight when the team scrambles to fix a story breach in Science Fiction World, the domain of starships, weird aliens, and galactic intrigue.On the space station Ahura-3, Ambassador Kaylin Reed is on the verge of securing a peace treaty to guarantee the end of hostilities between some of the galaxy's most ferocious races. When Ambassador Reed is kidnapped the morning before the signing, it throws the station into chaos. So now it’s up to Leah and her team to save the day and put the story to rights. At any cost.The second episode of Genrenauts, a science fiction series in novellas. If you like Leverage, Redshirts, or Quantum Leap, check out Genrenauts for a brand-new adventure."If you like the TV show Leverage or the books of Jasper Fforde, Genrenauts is absolutely the series for you. Exploring genre tropes while saving the world has never been more fun." — Between the CoversAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.