Latest Additions

Take a look at the fifty latest titles that have been added to the E-Reads library.

Thorns (Science Fiction)
by Robert Silverberg

In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul, Duncan Chalk. Chalk feeds ...
Hot Sky at Midnight (Science Fiction)
by Robert Silverberg

Several decades into the future, a long series of corporate and government decisions has left the Earth in a state of disaster, almost uninhabitable. The icecaps have melted. The ozone layer is destroyed. A few...
Kingdoms of the Wall (Science Fiction)
by Robert Silverberg

The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annua...
Tower of Glass (Science Fiction)
by Robert Silverberg

Simeon Krug is a self-made man, fantastically wealthy, having built a huge fortune with his android "products," genetically-engineered human slaves who worship him as a God. Krug epitomizes self-aggrandizement,...
Clan Ground (Fantasy)
by Clare Bell

With her mastery over fire—known as “the Red Tongue”—Ratha now leads the Named, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats with their own language, traditions, and law. But, her control becomes threatened wit...
Jerusalem (Historical Fiction)
by Cecelia Holland

Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine Tuo da gloriam. “Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give glory.” This motto highlights the vows of chastity and humility taken by the Knights Templar. But, it also sp...
Wrath of the Grinning Ghost, The (Young Adult, Horror)
by John Bellairs and Brad Strickland

On a trip to Florida with his father, Johnny Dixon visits a fortuneteller, and receives an eerie premonition. Inside the crystal ball Johnny sees a ghost-white face with long white hair and black eyes like p...
Totems of Abydos, The (Fantasy)
by John Norman

In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on ...
Those Gentle Voices (Science Fiction)
by George Alec Effinger

THOSE GENTLE VOICES A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways "Because it's there..." That was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star, Wolf 359. In 1988, they ha...
Jovian (Science Fiction)
by Don Moffitt

Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to e...
Empress of Light (Science Fiction)
by 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 (Horror, Historical Fiction)
by 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 (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by 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 (Fantasy)
by 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 World....
Time Slave (Science Fiction, Erotic Literature)
by 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 (Non-Fiction, History )
by 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 (Fantasy)
by 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 (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by 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 ...
Girl With the Persian Shawl, The (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by 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...
Thousand Deaths, A (Science Fiction)
by 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 Courane,...
Dragon Season (Science Fiction)
by Michael Cassutt

Air Force lieutenant Rick Walsh has just gotten off a twelve-hour flight from Guam at the Tucson Airport. All he wants right now is too see his girlfriend Maia and maybe have a short rest before reassignment. W...
Mortality Bridge (Fantasy)
by Steven R. Boyett

Decades ago a young rock & blues guitarist and junkie named Niko signed in blood on the dotted line and in return became the stuff of music legend. But when the love of his damned life grows mortally and myster...
Death in Florence (Science Fiction)
by George Alec Effinger

DEATH IN FLORENCE was also published as UTOPIA 3 In a wild and crazy novel composed equally of black humor and deep, humane insight, George Alec Effinger strips away the veneer of civilization, revealing...
Relatives (Science Fiction, Fiction)
by George Alec Effinger

Ernest Weinraub, Ernst Weinraub, Ernst Weintraub—three slightly different versions of the same name, the same man. Each incarnation of Weintraub/Weinraub inhabits a slightly different version of our world: ...
Houdini: The Ultimate Spellbinder (Young Adult, Non-Fiction, History , Biography)
by Tom Lalicki

Originally published as: SPELLBINDER: The Life of Harry Houdini. He was born Ehrich Weiss but, at an early age, he chose another name for himself. He wanted a name to suit his career of magic and enter...
Mariners of Gor (Fantasy)
by John Norman

MARINERS OF GOR is a direct sequel to SWORDSMEN OF GOR and the action picks up immediately from the end of the earlier book. Many on Gor do not believe the great ship, the ship of Tersites, the lame, scor...
Ill Met in the Arena (Fantasy)
by Dave Duncan

Though Quirt’s name is little-known, his skills as a gladiator are quickly obvious and hard to match. In Aureity, noblemen battle in the arena circuit, using their powers of teleportation and telekinesis to p...
Five Minutes to Midnight (Thriller/Suspense)
by Sabi H. Shabtai

Originally published in 1980, FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT remains of great interest as a prophetic and frightening predictive vision of the threat of nuclear terrorism. As American Independence Day approach...
Bitching (Non-Fiction)
by Marion Meade

In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood--single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes--were often channeled through ...
Sybille (Historical Fiction, Fiction)
by Marion Meade

A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics. Sybille d'Astarac, born to pampered luxury, is a gifted female troubador. But her poems grow dark ...
Dead Men's Hearts (Mystery)
by Aaron Elkins

An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary film, he expects an undemanding week of movie star treatm...
Chessmen of Doom, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Professor Childermass’s brother Peregrine has left behind a huge inheritance--a mansion, ten million dollars and a cryptic riddle that might save the world from a madman. The only catch is that the profe...
Curse of the Blue Figurine, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Living with his grandparents gives Johnny Dixon a lot of time to find trouble. Or adventure. Or, is it both? In this, the first Johnny Dixon mystery, our young hero hears the spine-tingling story of Father...
Eyes of the Killer Robot, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Decades ago, Evaristus Sloane invented a baseball-playing robot. It could pitch a fastball at a hundred and ten miles per hour, but it also had big, vacant, blue glass eyes that gave Johnny Dixon’s grampa t...
Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

In this, the second book in the Johnny Dixon mystery series, Johnny must find the lost will of Mr. H. Bagwell Glomus, a man of great fortune and sinister witchcraft. Mr. Glomus’s widow is offering a $10,000 ...
Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Picking up right where THE SPELL OF THE SORCERER’S SKULL left off, this fourth book in the Johnny Dixon series finds Johnny acting very strangely. He has terrible dreams, he wakes up having sleepwalked and h...
Secret of the Underground Room, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Their friend Father Higgins is in trouble and it’s up to Johnny and Professor Childermass to save him from the forces of evil. In this, the eighth Johnny Dixon mystery, Johnny and the professor hear word of...
Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Johnny Dixon and Professor Childermass are visiting a New Hampshire inn and inside that inn is a clock. It’s called the Childermass Clock. Inside the clock there’s a tiny dollhouse room, an exact replica of...
Trolley to Yesterday, The (Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy)
by John Bellairs

Johnny and Fergie are worried. Professor Childermass has been acting weird. Very weird. In this sixth Johnny Dixon mystery, the two boys sneak over to the professor’s house to investigate, and what they fin...
Night Life (Thriller/Suspense, Horror)
by Ray Garton

NIGHT LIFE, a brilliant sequel to the classic novel of vampires re-imagined--LIVE GIRLS When Ray Garton’s LIVE GIRLS was published in 1987, it changed the face of vampire fiction. The gritty, urban sto...
Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz & Are You Loathsome Tonight? (Horror)
by Poppy Z. Brite

Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories were specifically chosen by the author Poppy Z. Brite and her fans as favorite examples of her work. MUSSOLINI AND THE AXEMAN’S JA...
Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything, The & Target: Berlin! (Science Fiction)
by George Alec Effinger

Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Award nominee George Alec Effinger, a singular talent in the wo...
Mummies of the Motorway & Scarborough Fair (Fantasy)
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories by author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough serve as an mystical introduction to her work. In MUMMIES OF THE MOTORWAY, a woman and her niec...
Calpa, The & Notes Pertaining to a Panel in Salon D (Fantasy)
by John Norman

Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories by John Norman show off the verbal flair and philosophical complexity that go into the author’s famous Gor Saga. THE CALPA attempt...
Ravenous (Thriller/Suspense, Horror)
by Ray Garton

When Emily Crane’s car breaks down on a dark, lonely road at night, she is attacked and raped by a man she kills in self defense. That night, the dead rapist walks out of the morgue. Later, Emily begins to ...
Shackled (Thriller/Suspense, Horror)
by Ray Garton

Children disappear all the time. It’s in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them? While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble acciden...
For My Lady's Heart (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by Laura Kinsale

In medieval Europe, vows and laws are as inflexible and confining as a suit of armor. For Ruck, a noble and honest knight, those rules provide an unwavering path. Even as his wife leaves him for the Church, ...
Shadowheart (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by Laura Kinsale

Elegant yet violent, breathtakingly handsome yet brutal, the assassin Allegreto has returned in this long-awaited sequel to Laura Kinsale’s FOR MY LADY’S HEART. SHADOWHEART won the Romance Writers of America Ri...
Panther's Prey (Romance, Historical Fiction)
by Doreen Owens Malek

Somewhere in the desert outside of Constantinople, Boston-bred Amy Ryder watches as two masked bandits approach on horseback. They demand everyone in her horse-drawn coach hand over their valuables. Apparen...
Meds (Thriller/Suspense)
by Ray Garton

One hot summer day, a man in a business suit running wildly down a busy street attacks a woman and her toddler, neither of whom have ever seen him before. ... As he waits in his pickup truck for his wif...
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Jennifer Blake
The winding Mississippi weaves wicked tales while New Orleans has always been a place of good and evil, of humid nights, heavy passions, sinister greed and tricky affairs. Angelica Carew's romantic entanglemen...
Monster Island
David Wellington
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A Promise of Roses
Heidi Betts
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The Dream Vessel
Jeff Bredenberg
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William W. Johnstone
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Dead in the Water
Ted Wood
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One Day, My Prince
Linda Winstead Jones
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Tea with the Black Dragon
R.A. MacAvoy
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Drifter
William C. Dietz
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Michael Prescott
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Hustle Sweet Love
Maggie Davis
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Suspicion of Innocence
Barbara Parker
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The Destiny of the Sword
Dave Duncan
Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together...
Trace
Warren Murphy
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Eon
Greg Bear
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Chaining the Lady
Piers Anthony
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Phases of Gravity
Dan Simmons
Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost in his pa...
After the Madness
Sol Wachtler
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