Artifact of the System: The Black Hole Travel Agency Book 2

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Jack McKinney

Fantasy

Ballantine Books, Inc.

Escape on Venus 4

EDGAR BURROUGHS

The Fate

With his gold stolen and his daughter kidnapped, Drogovich has  no choice but to call on sheriff and doctor Santiago Toole, whose  investigation uncovers a secret connection between Drogovich and the  robbers.

Literature & Fiction

Rebecca S. Wheeler

Genre Fiction

Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters written by members of the Austen family,this sympathetic and probing biography enters the private world of Jane Austen,  revealing experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility. Austen's childhood is recreated, sketching her devotion to her ambitious parents and drawing a lively picture of Jane's two brothers—one of whom served with Nelson's navy at Trafalgar—and of Jane's closest confidante, her elder sister Cassandra. Set against a backdrop of rural Hampshire and Bath, Austen's life moves between a closely observed domestic setting with family and friends to descriptions of dances and parties, social mores, and malice. This account brings new insights into her checkered love life, her moments of loneliness and frustration, and her ironic appreciation of her situation as an intelligent, economically dependent woman.

Jane Austen: Her Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Park Honan

Arts & Literature

<p>When cowboy artist Willie Russell is murdered on the Branding Iron Ranch, Sheriff Charles Matthews faces a mystery that seems built on the bones of the past. Willie Russell leaves behind sketches that illustrate a century-old legend of a brutal outlaw, a beautiful young woman, and the lost Santiago Crucifix, a three-foot-tall cross of solid gold. With only the sketches, the footprints of Johnny Brentwood, and very little else, Charles focuses on the eerie links between past and present events. Were Willie's sketches the story of the past, or a portent of the future?</p>

The Sheriff and the Branding Iron Murders

D. R. Meredith

Children's Books

Clan of the Warlord

Elizabeth H. Boyer

Ken MacKay's career in space was going nowhere. The decrepit trading ship he served on was also going nowhere: the Rustam's Slipper was grounded on Schuyler's World, a backwater planet lacking even a good bar. For diversion, Schuyler's offered bad bars, cute yet conniving aliens called Rodents, and Catarina -- a mysterious, beautiful, unsettlingly smart woman. Catarina Wanted a berth on the Slipper; the Slipper needed a crew member. She Was hired.But Ken soon discovered that Catarina was more than a vamp with a razor-sharp wit. First was her case of McLendon's Syndrome, an obscure little contagious disease treatable only with chocolate-chip cookies. Then there were all the secrets she was hiding. So she wasn't the most trustworthy ally a guy could want as the Slipper hurried straight into murder, mayhem, intrigue, and an interspecies war -- but she was all Ken had. And unless she helped Ken whip the crew into shape and muster the misfits and malcontents of Schuyler's World, it would be the shortest war on record...Del Rey DiscoveryExperience the wonder of discovery with Del Rey's newest authors!

Mclendon's Syndrome (Del Rey Discovery)

Robert A. Frezza

To a Highland Nation (The Fenrille Books)

Christopher Rowley

World War 3

Ian Slater

Arctic Front (World War 3)

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