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Empress of Light
James C. Glass
In this sequel to SHANJI, Kati has used the light of creation to win a war bringing her to the throne as Empress of her planet, and she has forged new alliances with former enemies. Her daughter Yesui is born w...
Hôtel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first mee...
Mother's Choice
Elizabeth Mansfield
It's a Mother's Duty To Protect Her Daughter
Cassandra Beringer would never allow her daughter Cicely to repeat her mistake and marry a man twenty years her senior--even if he is the handsome Viscount Inge...
Pock's World
Dave Duncan
In this thrilling story of adventure and suspense by master storyteller Dave Duncan, five flawed individuals must decide the fate of an entire world.
On the outskirts of the Ayne Sector sits Pock’s Worl...
Time Slave
John Norman
Dr. Brenda Hamilton--a Ph.D. mathematician from Cal Tech--is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensu...
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
Bill McWilliams
Using long established historical records and contemporary journals as well as recently-released war-time documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day that Will ...
Lord of the Fire Lands
Dave Duncan
Raider and Wasp have spent five years at Ironhall studying to become Blades, expert swordsmen whose talents stand unmatched. Magic both enhances the Blades' fighting skills and binds them in lifelong duty....
Miscalculations
Elizabeth Mansfield
His Woman Of Affairs
Jane Douglas had a sharp wit, a brilliant mind, and an extraordinary knack for numbers. As financial advisor to Lady Martha Kettering, she was able to provide for herself, her sister ...
The Girl With the Persian Shawl
Elizabeth Mansfield
An Arrogant Spinster, a Dashing Rake, and an Unsigned Painting
The Girl With Persian Shawl was a strangely bewitching masterpiece that had hung in the Rendell household for generations. Kate Rendell graci...
A Thousand Deaths
George Alec Effinger
While George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser known novel THE WOLVES OF MEMORY remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Couran...
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Shards of Empire
Susan Shwartz
In the tenth century, the center of the world is not Rome, but Byzantium--a glorious empire, upon which the sun never sets. Constantinople, the center of this mighty dynasty, is starting to unravel. The great...
Daughter of the Reef
Clare Coleman
From Jean M. Auel's THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR to Linda Lay Shuler's SHE WHO REMEMBERS, novels set among pre-historic cultures have shown a very strong appeal to readers of all types from fans of genre fant...
Destined to Love
Suzanne Elizabeth
Dr. Josie Reed has been thrown back in time to 1881 to discover her soul mate, but it turns out he is a sexy outlaw from the Wild West. Although she desperately tries to keep her emotions in check while tend...
The Genesis Quest
Don Moffitt
After intercepting a message from Earth, Nar scientists have learned the secret of human life. The alien species understands everything about human technology and culture and uses this knowledge to build on ...
The Coin-Giver
M. M. Buckner
In the 23rd century, the Earth's surface is devastated by global warming, and corporations exploit billions of poverty-stricken employees whose lifetime contracts they own? Richter Jedes, the rich powerful C...
Darling, It's Death
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters ...
Thirty-Three Teeth
Colin Cotterill
Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstandi...
LockeStep
Jack Barnao
Professional bodyguard John Locke is in no mood to baby-sit Greg Amadeo, a drug dealer turncoat who wants to visit his wife in Mexico, collect some cash and settle debts before testifying in the States, but...
Fire in the Ashes
William W. Johnstone
The year is 1999 and the world is a smoldering shell of its former self, ravaged by the tragic spoils of nuclear warfare. Amid the holocaust, there are survivors. Although few, there are enough to rebuild a...
Tangled Vines
Janet Dailey
Elegant 90-year-old Katherine Rutledge runs her family's Napa Valley winery. Her estranged son runs a rival winery and an alcoholic neighbor, Len Dougherty, lives on 10 acres of the Rutledge vineyard given...
In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis
Isaac Asimov
In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis Creation. The beginning of time. The origin of life. In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. One is the Bibli...
Demon Rider
Dave Duncan
All of Europe is ruled by the Khan, whose Golden Horde swept its conquering way across Europe in 1244. The Scottish outlaw Toby Strangerson, known as Longdirk, is ruled by an even harsher master. He is pos...
The Psychic Power of Animals
Bill D. Schul
Pets are more than companions. The animals we share our lives with are channels to another world. Documentation exists that proves animals do indeed possess a sixth sense. Discover the mysterious and fantastic...
Boss Man From Ogallala
Janet Dailey
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a diff...
The Mommy Chronicles
Leslie Tonner
Follow the adventures of Charlie, an urban three-year-old on the fast track, and his slow-track mommy. In this hilarious volume, Charlie gets a haircut like Sting's, runs up a tab at a baseball game, and pref...
Suspicion of Innocence
Barbara Parker
Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana make a combustible mix on many levels. Passionately attracted to each other on a personal level, they are equally passionate defenders of their clients even when their int...
Publishers Lunch, the book industry’s leading online trade report, speculates that Barnes & Noble may be contemplating a move back into digibooks. No smoking gun to speak of, but transfer of B&N’s Mike Ferrari from one executive position to “director, digital content” was enough to send some tongues wagging about a second assault on the ramparts of the e-book industry.
B&N jumped into e-books with both feet at the turn of the new century, but both feet got cold by 2003 and the company abruptly discontinued its involvement. It can be argued (by me at any rate) that their abandonment of e-books set the industry’s progress back by a couple of years. In any event, Lunch’s ruminations sent me back down memory lane to the genesis of the e-book industry early in the new century, and I found an article on PC World which I’ve excerpted below:
Electronic books are about to get a serious boost from Barnes & Noble.com.
The company has launched a new electronic publishing division, aimed at encouraging writers to write eBooks and at encouraging readers to buy them. Barnes & Noble Digital will offer writers editorial support, online sales monitoring, and publicity while linking them with readers.
The company will develop original eBook titles from well-known authors, such as best-selling novelist Koontz. He has been tapped as the first author to create an original eBook, The Book of Counted Sorrows, for Barnes & Noble Digital. The first eBook titles are expected out in the first half of this year…
Using eBook devices, readers can take notes while reading, bookmark a page, highlight text, search for particular words and phrases, create drawings, and use a dictionary to look up meanings of words as they read. They also have the option of downloading eBooks onto portable devices. Barnes & Noble Digital hopes to create eBooks that include images and audio, as well as links to other sites…
Barnes & Noble Digital will also give authors a larger share of income from their work, and sell eBooks at lower retail prices. Authors will receive a 35 percent royalty of the retail price of books sold either directly through Barnes & Noble.com’s eBookStore or any one of its affiliate network of more than 400,000 Web sites…
EBooks will be available in all existing formats, including Microsoft Reader, the RCA REB 1100 portable device, and Glassbook Reader from Glassbook.
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Publishers Lunch, the book industry’s leading online trade report, speculates that Barnes & Noble may be contemplating a move back into digibooks. No smoking gun to speak of, but transfer of B&N’s Mike Ferrari from one executive position to “director, digital content” was enough to send some tongues wagging about a second assault on the ramparts of the e-book industry.
