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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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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...
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...
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...
Bodyguard
William C. Dietz
Max Maxon is an ex-marine who makes his living with a gun. Sasha Casad is a rich teenager trying to catch the next spaceship home. Max's job is to get her there alive. Somebody's trying to stop them--somebod...
Strip for Murder
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott, a not-so-private investigator, has a new type of case; he has to bare it all. But this case requires no fancy P.I. accessories...in fact, it doesn’t require any accessories: he’s got to find...
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...
Panglor
Jeffrey A. Carver
In this prequel to Jeffrey A. Carver's STAR RIGGER Universe, we find Panglor Balef, space pilot, on the edge of sanity. Forced to embark upon a hopeless mission, the life-weary pilot suddenly finds himsel...
Past Imperative
Dave Duncan
The Great Game of Gods is afoot.
In a world on the brink of madness...
In the summer of 1914, a young man of reputation beyond reproach awakens under police guard--grievously injured and accused of hei...
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
T.R. Fehrenbach
T.R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever publis...
Cluster
Piers Anthony
The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Sphere Sol is about 100 light years in diameter, centered on the Earth’s sun. Surrounding this sphere ...
Watchtower
Elizabeth A. Lynn
In a land brought to life by warriors and lovers, war and honor, the legendary tower, Tornor Keep, is invaded by raiders. No longer the watchtower at the winter end of a summer land, Tornor turns to a young ...
Alone in the Ashes
William W. Johnstone
America the beautiful has gone hellishly awry. Nuclear war has descended on Main St. USA and left two things in its horrible wake: apocalyptic anarchy and Ben Raines, a lone patriot with a compulsion for ...
No Quarter Asked
Janet Dailey
Janet Dailey wrote her first novel, No Quarter Asked in 1974 after her husband, Bill, urged her to back up her claim that she could write a better romance novel than the ones she had read. The book was accep...
Stage Door Canteen
Maggie Davis
New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men--a gunner from a B-17 bomber who‘s a national hero, a magaz...
Circle September 28th in red on your calendar. That may be the last day of Barnes & Noble as we know it.
September 28th is the day of the company’s shareholders meeting. The fate of the world’s largest bookstore chain will be decided when its founder Leonard Riggio and the second biggest shareholder, billionaire Ronald Burkle, duke it out for control of the firm. You would not believe the contriving, conniving, jockeying and maneuvering going on as these sumos confront each other with hate in their eyes.
Hard as it may be to believe, because of sagging financial performance against its relentless rival Amazon, Riggio stands to be ousted from his own company’s managing board. If he is, what will happen to the company and some 1357 trade and college bookstores? No one knows, because Burkle’s intentions are unclear. He has been articulate about what he doesn’t want – Riggio and his policies – but far from clear about what he will do with B&N if he gets his mitts on it. (See What Does This Investor See in B&N That We Don’t See?). Burkle has not evinced much love for books, but he loves money passionately and he obviously sees plenty of value in B&N. Or is it the land that B&N’s stores sit on.
For a in-depth analysis of both men and the empire they are fighting over, read Andrew Rice’s splendid New York magazine profile The Billionaire and the Book Lover.
Richard Curtis
Every Blogger owes a debt of gratitude to newspapers and magazines. This posting relies on original research and reporting performed by New York magazine.
