Humanity has built for itself a near-utopia with no more use for violence. Someone has to protect it. Sam Decker is a man without purpose. The perfect, strife-less techno-utopia into which he was born has left him feeling directionless and nihilistic. Without risk or conflict his life has no meaning. Until one day, af...
Ridley is the last of a powerful alien race. He is assigned a cybernetic guardian to protect him. Earth has been gone for over six hundred years. The ship he has possession of is an old relic Terrian war ship.
A man with a past, not tied to anyone makes a startling discovery that changes his life and his perceptions of it. Being alone Derrick found it calming, then he had a dream, or was it?
Twenty-five years ago the Vardeshi came to Earth. Then they vanished without a trace. Graduate student Avery Alcott always knew they would return. When they do, she's the only one who can speak their language. She's quickly recruited to join the crew of an 11-man starship on a one-year mission into the depths of space...
Trixie discovers a young female pilot with the head of a cat who is been washed up on the beach of her island home. The bedraggled pilot has no memory of who she is. What is the pilot hiding and What has tshe got to do with the notorious sky pirate Captain Kittyhawk? Soon Trixie is dragged into a desperate attempt t...
Story takes place in the 1920s This is the story Zorell Dupree, a young twenty year old nurse who moves to the city working for a prestigious hospital. She is a small time girl thrown into the fast-paced world of the city. Her childhood friend Leland Freeman learns of her appointment and asks for her help. The woman...
Set in Lille, France, in the years leading up to the second world war, Of Silence tells the story of a boy, Charles, and six other people - a baker, a teacher, a tailor, a hostage, an actress, and a soldier. The plot follows Charles from the day he's found on the streets of Lille as a young boy, as he grows and learns...
A dictionary to assist North Americans in understanding British novels. New and Improved! With more definitions as suggested by readers.
Swarthmoor, a small rural village in N.W. England is not the type of place you would associate with violent crime. Yet, in his first two years on the job, Robert McGee, the village policeman becomes entangled in two murder inquiries. Largely as a result of bad luck and policing errors McGee fouls up both investigation...
In 1825, ten-year-old Daniel Cholmondeley is suddenly orphaned and sent from a life of poverty and hunger in Paris to a life of solitude and order at Blisterford Abbey, where he is temporarily cared for by its nuns. Yet, just when he begins to settle in, Daniel is soon sent away again, this time to live with his mothe...
Book 1: The Green (chapters 1-104) Five dollars to mail a letter seems like a lot of money to shy farm girl Lily McMillian. When she's hired in the spring of 1860 by Old Man Lynch as a cook for his stagecoach and Pony Express station, she finds out why it's so expensive. Dropped into a whirlwind of rowdy men and boy...
Imorah has lived her entire life underground. She found a note this morning warning her to escape to the surface before it's too late... Above ground, in the desert wasteland, Liran has lived a life in hiding. There's a warrant out for his arrest - for future crimes he hasn't committed yet. One day his future catches...
On the day of James Robert Scott's 19th birthday, a man with a stainless steel briefcase cabled to his wrist waited outside his classroom door. The letter contained in the case was addressed to James and was postmarked 3 March 1888, 157 years in the past... It was from his grandfather who was lost somewhere in time. J...
Ginny is thrilled to return to her beloved Mabry's Ridge, but it won't stay the way she remembered it for long.