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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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The Beauty of the Beasts
Ralph Helfer
They're major stars who don't speak a word on-screen, yet are world-famous for their compelling performances. Who are they? The animal stars of the big screen, of course! In THE BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS, Ralph Hel...
Child of the Dawn
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 fantas...
Walker's Widow
Heidi Betts
Between Heaven and Hell lies Purgatory, Texas--a town with too few saints ... and too many sinners.
TO CATCH A THIEF
Clayton Walker had been sent to Purgatory…but it felt more like hell. Assign...
Eternity
Greg Bear
Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by ...
Dagger of Flesh
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 ...
The Cold War
Robert Vaughan
The launch of Sputnik. Rock 'n' roll fever. The struggle for civil rights. Robert Vaughan's seventh volume of the American Chronicles has America entering the fifties amidst the fright of a cold war with Rus...
Mastering the Business of Writing
Richard Curtis
One of the most comprehensive guides currently on the market, MASTERING THE BUSINESS OF WRITING is an insider's guide to the business of being a professional writer. All aspects of the publishing industry ar...
EMT Rescue
Pat Ivey
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first-hand experiences a...
Ratha's Courage
Clare Bell
"Screeching in pain and terror, the rogues backed off, but they didn't flee like the Un-Named raiders did. Something seemed to force them back into the fray, making them ignore their fright and their agony...
Smoked Out
Warren Murphy
Digger is an insurance investigator who drinks, chases women, asks smartass questions and gets help from his part-time hooker girlfriend. A humorous crime adventure series by the author of The Destroyer.
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Highland Bride
Hannah Howell
Journey to the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland in Hannah Howell's passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who ha...
The Bird of Time
George Alec Effinger
Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing ...
Dirty Tricks
George Alec Effinger
In these eleven short stories by speculative fiction master George Alec Effinger, New York's populace must deal with the realities of a bi-polar existence; patients' brains are cut to tiny pieces in a clinica...
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Manu Herbstein
Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name st...
The Silver Horse
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Seeing the Silver Horse as a cute toy, Susannah gives it to her brother, Niall, as a present. One night Susannah awakens and finds neither her brother nor the Silver Horse; racing to the park, she sees her brot...
Last month, we completely lost our patience waiting for Plastic Logic to reveal the name of the e-book reader it will be launching next year. “I don’t think the company’s directors realize how frustrating it is for us to refer to the surname but not the given name.” we wrote. “Our frustration has reached the tipping point. We don’t want to wait any more.” So, we invited readers to make up their own name and offered an award for the one we liked the most.
Today we have a winner. Chris Christoffersen (no relation that we’re aware of to the singer-actor, who spells his name Kris Kristofferson) coined the word “Teasle,” a truly creative blend of “Kindle” and “Tease.” Perhaps Plastic Logic hasn’t meant to tease us. Perhaps it truly hasn’t come up with a name. That’s fine. Until they do, we’re calling it The Teasle.
The naming of the gadget is no small matter. Barnes & Noble will be partnering with Plastic Logic to carry its e-books on the newly launched BN.com retail site. So it would be nice, to say the least, if the manufacturers could give BN.com a name to refer to. Meanwhile, for whatever it’s worth, a teasel (note the spelling) is an herbaceous plant. Some teasels have medicinal properties. Others, we are reliably informed, are pests.
If Plastic Logic adopts “Teasle” we expect a fat tip.
Richard Curtis
Last month, we completely lost our patience waiting for Plastic Logic to reveal the name of the e-book reader it will be launching next year. “I don’t think the company’s directors realize how frustrating it is for us to refer to the surname but not the given name.” we wrote. “Our frustration has reached the tipping point. We don’t want to wait any more.” So, we invited readers to make up their own name and offered an award for the one we liked the most.
If you go to Plastic Logic's Wikipedia page, there is a high resolution image of the reader displaying a fictitious report about the Plastic Logic 'Dossier'.