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Thin Air
George E. Simpson
It's a mystery that dates back to World War II--what happened to the USS Sturman and its crew. For Naval Investigator Nicholas Hammond, the search will challenge him…and the answers will, like bodies floa...
Shadow of Ashland
Terence M. Green
“THE BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ”–Entertainment Weekly
"Things have to be settled, or they never go away."
Only weeks before she dies in March, 1984, Leo Nolan’s mother shows her son a rose she says w...
The Longest Way Home
Robert Silverberg
"What wonders and adventures he has to tell us," is how Ursula K. LeGuin characterized the world of Robert Silverberg, and in The Longest Way Home, he takes readers on another dazzling odyssey.
Joseph, jus...
Marriage Is a Bad Habit
Ruth Dickson
When Ruth Dickson released her 1967 book MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, it went off like a bombshell. Defenders of the “sanctity” of marriage rose up to dismiss her frank, innovative, thoroughly resear...
Orion's Dagger
Paula Downing King
With ORION’S DAGGER, Paula E. Downing presents the thrilling final installment of THE CLOUDSHIPS OF ORION trilogy, which Starlog magazine called “special...a thoroughly engrossing story.” The trio wa...
Fair Warning
George E. Simpson
America is set to finally end World War II with a devastating act--dropping the atomic bomb over Japan. But what if a secret mission was set in place to alter the course of history? In this fast-paced, and i...
Rogues of the Black Fury
Travis Heermann
When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s little sister, Bella, from his care, his only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of special warriors, the Black Furies, led by C...
The Sudden Star
Pamela Sargent
The appearance of a white star bathing the world in a deadly glare turns Earth into a nightmare of fear and death. Rape and murder are as common as suicide. Medical help is allowed only for certain diseases, a...
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
John Lange
The sciences, as opposed to politics and religion, have their roots in philosophy. Philosophy has been spoken of as the mother of the sciences, although she is, in many cases, more of a grandmother or grea...
The Man in the Moon Must Die
Jeff Bredenberg
What do a cunning old man, a code-slopper gone rogue, a pair of lowlife tech-runners, a sexually frustrated AI, and a hermaphrodite underworld boss have in common? They're all out to get Benito Funcitti, ow...
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Love's Wild Desire
Jennifer Blake
It starts as a case of mistaken identity but it will slowly blossom into the union of two people so right for each other that all of New Orleans society will stand up and take notice. As soon as aristocratic R...
People of the Sky
Clare Bell
Old technology survives and even thrives on the challenges of a new planet populated by ancient human spirits.
Kesbe Temiya, a freelance flyer, accepts a commission to deliver an ancient-but-restored C-47 ...
Appointment in Jerusalem
Max I. Dimont
Biblical historian Max Dimont, author of the classic JEWS, GOD, AND HISTORY, explores the mystery surrounding the predictions Jesus made about his fate. Examining the gospel, Dimont recreates the drama in thr...
Highland Groom
Hannah Howell
Sir Diarmot MacEnroy, deciding his illegitimate children need a mother and his keep needs a proper lady, now stands before the altar with a gentle bride he hopes is too shy to disrupt his life or break his h...
Shatterday
Harlan Ellison
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership....
Snake Eye
William C. Dietz
FBI Special Agent Christina Rossi had it all—for a while: a loving family, a career on an upward track, the works. Then a takedown of some eco-terrorists turned unexpectedly bloody, questions are being as...
Alabama - Dangerous Masquerade
Janet Dailey
Shy and sweet, Laurie Evans looks a lot like her glamorous and impulsive cousin LaRaine . . . but their personalities are as different as night and day. And, now that LaRaine just landed her first movie role, ...
Colorado - After the Storm
Janet Dailey
Lainie MacLeod's mother wants only the best things in life for her beautiful daughter. And for a while, Lainie has it all, including the perfect husband. Rad MacLeod was the most handsome, nicest guy in Denver...
The Dream Compass
Jeff Bredenberg
Rulers of old nearly destroyed the planet. And the new "boss" may finish the job.Any day now, The Monitor will unleash his deadly secret upon a war-addled planet. What brutal dictator worth his salt would pa...
War Surf
M. M. Buckner
What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death?
You’d invent a thrill sport…
"An Innovative and exciting read. A treat."
– C.J. Cherryh...
Fractured Emerald: Ireland
Emily Hahn
The author of
The Soong Sisters and
China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft-troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial combination of historical research and keen personal o...
Blood in the Ashes
William W. Johnstone
A bloodthirsty religious cult called the Ninth Order is spreading a doctrine of hate across the land. They're soulless and sadistic, and they're sending their armies of fanatics against Raines and his Rebels ...
Blood Music
Greg Bear
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day ev...
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.
