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Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington by Bill Gutman

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy-five. Interviewing Duke's friends, fans and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the (read more...)

Cross and Crescent by Susan Shwartz

The center of the greatest empire in the world, the seat of Christianity, Byzantium is a revered city. Marked by gargantuan monuments to God and peopled by the most royal of princes, and the most affluent citizens, Byzantium cannot possibly ever fall. Now under siege by Islam, the Byzantine Empire must (read more...)

April of Enchantment by Jennifer Blake

Laura Nichols is always up for a challenge and the job Justin Roman has offered her is the perfect showcase for her talents. Not only is he dubious of her ability to complete the restoration of his Louisiana mansion in time for his wedding, but she is also (read more...)

The Dancers of Arun (Book Two of The Chronicles of Tornor Trilogy) by Elizabeth A. Lynn

As the scholar and scribe of Tornor, Kerris has been in training for the past seventeen years. But it's not until his brother Kel of the Cheari culture teaches him the psychic art of patterning, that the city of Elath comes under attack and Kerris must draw upon these new (read more...)

The Bird of Time by 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 on the cake. It had been a long time since that first (read more...)

No Name Girl by Linda Cargill

She wakes up in the darkness of a car trunk bumping along the highway. She smells gasoline. She hears the car radio blaring. Ropes tie her wrists and her ankles. The next thing she knows she is in a car repair shop. Two teenage boys are talking. She knocks on the trunk to gain their attention. But when they (read more...)

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Clemente! by Kal Wagenheim

Roberto Clemente, one of history's greatest and most memorable Hispanic baseball stars, led a remarkable professional and personal life, until he met an untimely death in 1972 in a plane crash while on a mission of mercy to the site of a disastrous earthquake in Nicaragua. The first Latin American player to be recognized by (read more...)

The Cloud Gatherer (Book 1 of the Oas Cycle) by John F. D. Taff

Oas. A city in the middle of a great desert, yet blessed with an abundance of water. This water is coaxed out of the skies by the Gatherers, an ancient guild of pilots who use barely understood technology to seed the clouds. The rain they bring is collected in Oas' grand system of fountains and (read more...)

Californio! by Virginia Meyers

Don Francisco, a suave señor who seeks to dominate early California. Petra, the unyielding señorita, will not give up her land so easily to Francisco. She will teach Don Francisco that he cannot just bounce into town and take what he wants like some id-ridden child, but then she sees (read more...)

The Cursed by Dave Duncan

The world was desperate. Since the empire had fallen a hundred years ago, Gwin and her people had nearly given up hope that the Renewer would come? Gwin had lost everything. Her husband was killed in one of the wars. Her children died of Star Sickness. Even her work at (read more...)

The Big One by Harrison Arnston

The people of Los Angeles have always been famous for their obliviousness but little did they know how close they were to oblivion. In a mere three weeks, the swaying palms and studded stucco of Southern California would be reduced to burning embers and rusty rubble. "The Big One" had always been a distant (read more...)

Ambush at Amboseli (Anika Scott Series) by Karen Rispin

Being twelve isn't easy. But Anika Scott, who has joined her parents as a missionary in Kenya, uses her faith and trust in God as guidance to help her through many challenging experiences. Join Anika in her exciting and often dangerous (read more...)

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Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend by Kal Wagenheim

The most famous baseball player in history, and the most enduring legend, Babe Ruth is remembered for his dramatic heroism not only on the baseball diamond but also in his life. Kal Wagenheim illustrates this larger-than-life athlete in his (read more...)

Bloodsongs (A "Frost" Novel by Robin W. Bailey

Everyone, even Frost, thought that she was an ordinary mother and wife. But she begins a quest to find out who she is after the unforgiving grip of death snatches her husband and two sons from her loving arms. Her identity found, this mother and wife turned witch and swordswoman vows to (read more...)

Calling Crow (Book 1 of the Calling Crow series) by Paul Clayton

To his people, Calling Crow is a chief and leader, but to the Spaniards who invaded his land he is a slave. In 1535, the Spanish conquistadors arrived with their armies and claimed the land that would later become known as (read more...)

Midsummer Murder by Shelley Freydont

When she's invited to teach at the elegant Easton Arts Retreat's 50th anniversary celebration, Lindy Haggerty happily accepts. After all, this prestigious institution is set in bucolic upstate New York in a gigantic mansion and is practically synonymous with (read more...)

Against The Odds by Gwyneth Atlee

In the aftermath of the Civil War, a shattered America begins to heal. Three Union soldiers-once prisoners of war-head home aboard the steamboat Sultana. For these brothers-in-arms, the war may be over…but the fight for (read more...)

Hard Questions by Ian Watson

Meet Qua, the quantum computer with immense capabilities that tunes into pathways in parallel universes to operate at lightning speed. But, with such power comes the threat of catastrophe, and as government agents, cult disciples, and computer criminals learn what this computer (read more...)

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Heart of Oak by Tristan Jones

World War II helped to define Tristan Jones as an adventurous Welsh youth. After losing his parents, he spent much of his life working on sailing barges and so he is no stranger to the seas when he’s called to fight for Britain during the Blitz in 1940. Tristan Jones is not only caught in the middle of arduous (read more...)

The Rip-Off by Jim Thompson

In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many strange things occur, Britt Rainstar begins to have second thoughts about his (read more...)

Grey Wolf, Grey Sea by E. B. Gasaway

The history of one of World War II’s most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through (read more...)

All Those Wonderful Names by J. N. Hook

Ever wonder what the most popular and unpopular baby names are? And how certain people and places got their names? Or are you just looking for guidance in choosing your child’s name? All Those Wonderful Names is an amusing exploration of (read more...)

West Wandering Wind by Bill Garwood

With a six-gun in his holster and a Bowie knife in his boot, Judge Roy Bean leaves Mexico on the Spanish Trail heading for California in search of a woman and buried gold. But which one was he willing to fight for more? The American Frontier promises adventure for Bean, but not without the threat of (read more...)

Lens of the World (Book 1 in the Lens of the World Trilogy) by R. A. MacAvoy

This is the story of Nazhuret, an outcast, the dwarfish offspring of unknown parents. Yet his story is a great one, filled with surprising rewards and amazing adventures. By the hands of Powl, mentor, madman, and lens grinder, Nazhuret is put to extreme mental and physical (read more...)

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Hang Loose by Linda Cargill

Mattie Sullivan is an enthusiastic member of her community, the charming St. Simon's Island. That's why she takes a job at the island lighthouse, giving guided tours. But on her 17th birthday a frightening surprise awaits her at the lighthouse. Opening a closet door on the usual tour, she discovers, with a scream, a horrific (read more...)

Once and Always by Alyssa Deane

A clandestine love affair is the last thing Roxane Sheffield expects from her trip to India--a reunion with her long-estranged father is troublesome enough. But when she arrives in Calcutta alone, the only person to offer aid is breathtakingly handsome British infantry Captain Collier Harrison. As he introduces her to the exotic countryside, he awakens (read more...)

The Baxter Trust by J. P. Hailey

When out-of-work lawyer Steve Winslow enlists himself as a New York City cab driver to pay the bills, he thinks he's hit rock-bottom. That is, until Sheila Benton, heir to a multi-million dollar fortune, finds his number in the Yellow Pages and calls upon Steve to defend her. Of course, her case is only a (read more...)

Calling Crow (Book 1 of the Calling Crow series by Paul Clayton

To his people, Calling Crow is a chief and leader, but to the Spaniards who invaded his land he is a slave. In 1535, the Spanish conquistadors arrived with their armies and claimed the land that would later become known as Georgia and South Carolina. The peaceful native Muskogee tribe was conquered, bound into slavery and forced off (read more...)

Parsival or A Knight’s Tale by Richard Monaco

Richard Monaco has taken a slice of the Arthurian legend and created a thoroughly modern-minded re-imagining of the classic tale. Colorful medieval settings blend with a hard-edged look at human foibles and a romantic story of love and loss is narrated with a (read more...)

The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt

The Lunar Observatory on Earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for Earth. An immense object is rushing toward the Solar System, traveling nearly at the speed of light, its intense nuclear radiation sure to kill all (read more...)

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What Entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger

Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forward using (read more...)

Alone in the Valley by Kenneth Waymon Baker

Alone in the Valley tells the story of 19-year-old Daniel Perdue and his year as a grunt, pursuing an elusive enemy through the steamy jungles of the Central Vietnamese Highlands. From the moment the boy soldier touches down until he is (read more...)

A Whisper of Time by Paula Downing King

She was found alone, lost in the stately ruins of an alien city. And when they hunted for the child's people, and found no clue that would lead them to the truth, they adopted her as humanity's first alien. Medoret grows up with the archaeologist who discovered (read more...)

Captain Quad by Sean Costello

Peter Gardner has all the qualities of a renaissance man until a tragic accident leaves him paralyzed from the neck down. Trapped inside the prison of his immobile body, the former prodigy of music, sports and flying is confined to his hospital bed where the only passion he feels is (read more...)

Patterns by Jane Verby

Susan is married to successful fashion industry player Edward Thorwald, traveling all over Europe and mingling with the most glamorous and exciting people. Yet she and her husband are growing apart as Edward becomes more and more wrapped up with his work and their high-powered lifestyle. Susan's resentment adds to (read more...)

Act of Passion by Harrison Arnston

Ann Cohen knew her marriage to Marty was never a fairytale romance. After all, a mistress is a character unfamiliar to Cinderella stories. Yet even after the infidelity and wrath that plagued Ann and Marty’s relationship, Ann could never have brought herself to commit (read more...)

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Dragon Sim 13 (The Green Berets by Bob Mayer

Military simulations occur every day without any worry or danger, right? Well, not exactly. In order to test the U.S. Special Operations Command's ability to respond swiftly and efficiently, the computer genius Meng created a simulated strike against China--""Dragon Sim 13."" Meng's plan changes after the atrocious slaughter of democratic protestors in Tiananmen Square. He seeks to bring (read more...)

Mind Over Golf by Don Sauers and Tom Nieporte

There’s an interesting point at which the psychological and technical sides of golf meet--and Tom Nieporte and Don Sauers discover this by talking with America’s leading golf professionals. The tips provided in this book will help golfers of any level discover or regain confidence that will drop strokes off of every golfer’s score. Any golfer must know how to master the (read more...)

An English Rose by Deborah Satinwood

Blue-blooded London lawyer Beau St. James is in a precarious position. A powerful client has threatened to ruin his marriageable daughter´s name in society-unless Beau secures for him a sought-after piece of woodland property known as Solitude. Used to playing-and winning-such reckless games, Beau sets off for the country, to find the only thing more enchanting than Solitude is (read more...)

Tintagel by Paul Cook

A virus created for biological warfare is overtaking humanity, threatening the very fabric of society as its victims are transported, by the emotional power of music, to a seductive dream world. Francis Lanier is one of the few "stalkers", a person immune to the virus and able to travel through its dream world in order to rescue others. The book follows him through a series of adventures, as he becomes more (read more...)

Night Passage by Carol Davis Luce

Puzzling secrets, eerie atmosphere, vicious murders, these surround the Nevada town of Eagleton, where Roni Mayfield is trapped, compelled to investigate the brutal slaughter of her mentor Caroline Holt. While rumored a suicide, Roni knows that Caroline's death is a result of sinister foul play. As a reporter who needs to investigate all happenings exhaustively and as a friend who demands revenge, she seeks to (read more...)

Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris

Raven (a.k.a. Micah of Greenfarm), the young son of a poor tenant farmer, lives just outside of Camelot. Like other poor farmers, he has no interaction with the reigning monarch, the great King Arthur, but his station means nothing to him when some of King Arthur's knights rape and murder (read more...)

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No, He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape and He's My Son by Hester Mundis

This book answers the question that's on everybody's mind: "What's it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?" Hester Mundis's hilarious memoir No He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape And He's My Son is the complete guide to raising a chimp in the heart of urban America. Join Hester, her husband, their terrifying attack dog Ahab, and the funniest monkey -- excuse us (read more...)

Muhammad, The Messenger of God by Betty Kelen

Muhammad is one of the world's great religious teachers. His story is one of struggle with his own people, with the Jews--a primary and tragic player in this Arab drama--and with the world and its incredulity. His is also the story of a man who wept over the death of his baby son, who loved his child bride with undeniable tenderness and complete understanding, and who would "laugh until his back teeth showed." His are the words that swept across (read more...)

Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions Edited by Jeff Gelb & Michael Garret
Discover what happens in the dark, where secret fantasies and sensual abandon take a dangerous turn, slipping into a terrifying realm of primal fear, treacherous temptations, and fatal attractions. Welcome to the party! Unleash your wildest passions. Surrender to forbidden cravings. And give in to your darkest desires as some of today's hottest masters of the macabre take you to (read more...)

The Abducted Heart by Maxine Patrick

When Anne Matthews discovers she's accidentally become a stowaway on a private flight to Mexico she is devastated. What started out as a task as simple as delivering a catered dinner has turned into a disaster. Ramon Castillo is immediately suspicious of the stowaway. Sure that she is just another money-grubbing rip-off artist, he dismisses her with just an angry glare, ordering her (read more...)

Archangel by Michael Conner

Nebula-award winning author Mike Conner presents a novel about a world that all of us can recognize, a world of what might have been. In Minneapolis in the 1930's, the deadly plague that ended the First World War is decimating the population. The only people who seem to be immune to its effects are black people. What does this mean for the future of (read more...)

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs

The Face In The Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control. A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom--a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Both he and an improbable adventurer (read more...)

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Lone Star: A History of Texas and The Texans by 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 published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who (read more...)

Jasmine Moon by Frances Patton Statham

Lili innocently thought her disguise as a servant was a harmless way to find out what the man she married was really like. She didn't consider that her husband would force her to become his mistress and then sell her as a slave before she could reveal her true identity. Before she can utter a sound, Lili is (read more...)

Kampus by James Gunn

The college of the future has just one purpose: endless battle. Political organizations urge ruthless combat with an invisible opponent and each student is challenged to be more extreme than the rest. One man finds his fame by kidnapping and killing a professor. Instantly he is immersed into (read more...)

The Jews in America by Max I. Dimont

The Jews in the United States are the inheritors of a four-thousand-year-old culture. Into their willing--or unwilling--hands, history has placed the symbolic scepter of this heritage. Will this Jewish culture--entrusted to the American Jews either by blind permutations of events or by a manifest destiny--wither in a wasteland of indifference? Or will there be a (read more...)

Made for Each Other by Niqui Stanhope

Sometimes nothing goes your way. Interior decorator Summer Stevens knows that all too well. In the course of one short week Summer has lost her job, discovered her fiancé is sleeping with her best friend and found out she's adopted. Acting on impulse, Summer takes a job decorating a Jamaican summer home. All she wanted was (read more...)

King and Raven by Cary James

Raven (a.k.a. Micah of Greenfarm), the young son of a poor tenant farmer, lives just outside of Camelot. Like other poor farmers, he has no interaction with the reigning monarch, the great King Arthur, but his station means nothing to him when some of King Arthur's knights rape and murder (read more...)

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Kill Him Twice (A Shell Scott Mystery) by Richard S. Prather

It was a bright and shiny Beverly Hills afternoon when Shell Scott opened his door to find intrigue lying at the foot of his apartment...in the form of a corpse! Just another day in the sun for the private eye with a nose for danger. He’s got to dodge bullets and bounce Beverly Hills beauties in his search for the thug that interrupted his afternoon nap before someone (read more...)


To The Vanishing Point by Alan Dean Foster

The Sonderberg family doesn’t know it yet, but this isn’t going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must (read more...)


Savage Night by Jim Thompson

First-class criminal Carl Bigelow has a difficult job ahead of him. How can he kill one-time hoodlum Jake Winroy without making it look like a hit? The man is about to turn evidence in to the authorities, threatening to bring the law down on the powerful crime syndicate that runs the city. Allowing Jake Winroy to live could be very bad for the career of Carl's boss, not to mention (read more...)


The Secret of Mirror House by Jennifer Blake

After Amelia Harveston loses her mother under tragic circumstances, she fears she will be forced into poverty and the position of a desperate woman. Luckily, some distant relatives step forward and invite her to live with them at the plantation home built by her grandfather. She dreams happily of the warm family embrace that will soon keep her loved and protected. But the reality is actually (read more...)


Phases of Gravity by 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 passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood and the loss he experienced during the death-flight of the Challenger. The most difficult exploration of his life is not the (read more...)


A Place for Alfreda by Elizabeth Chater

She went from rags to riches in the blink of an eye. Alfreda has never felt like she belonged, but when she discovers that she was switched at birth and is the rightful heir to an Earl's estate she is flabbergasted. Nobody ever expected this mousy, plain girl to be of noble blood, especially Mark Savage. Mark has always infuriated Alfreda with his ceaseless mocking, but (read more...)

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Converts by Ian Watson

He is a financial giant but the Sponsor wants more; he wants to become a super human, to be the modern-day Adam, father to a new generation of humans with heightened DNA. He had the viral injection to change himself, the will to do it, and now all he needs is (read more...)


When Destiny Calls by Suzanne Elizabeth

Grief-stricken after the death of her father, the last member of her family, Kristen Ford finds herself thrust into the past, literally swept into the Old West. Her interest piqued by the rough, untrusting Parrish, this San Francisco cop can't contain herself. These two lovers will (read more...)


Earl Mindell’s Vitamin Bible for the 21st Century by Earl Mindell

Introducing the new and improved Vitamin Bible by nutrition expert, Earl Mindell. Discover how to enhance your energy, put the zing back in your sex life and expand your life using this world-renowned guide to the correct use of vitamins, supplements and alternative therapies. In this updated edition (read more...)


Now and On Earth by Jim Thompson

America's low-key high priest of human vice and violently wounded psyches, Jim Thompson emerged from the darkness with this, his first novel. Now And On Earth is proof that Thompson has always been the bleak and compassionate teller of tawdry terror that critics and fans have (read more...)


The Last Ghost & Other Stories by Stephen Goldin

The Last Ghost And Other Stories is the first comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's short fiction. Some of the stories have been reprinted before, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams, Melissa." Others will be (read more...)


The Drifter (The Last Gunfighter 1) by William W. Johnstone
In The Drifter, farmer Frank Morgan was an honest man with a future and a family before a barbarous baron pushed him off his hard-earned Colorado homestead. Now drifting through the New Mexico territory, Frank has given up his future and embraced his past: as a gunfighter (read more...)

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The Eternity Brigade by Stephen Goldin

Hundreds of human bodies have been placed in coffins in a military warehouse. But they are not dead, merely frozen in a cryogenic process meant to preserve an army of men to be restored to life if ever they are needed. The Earth they arise to inhabit is a world completely (read more...)


Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico by T. R. Fehrenbach
The author of many critically acclaimed books, military historian T.R. Fehrenbach provides the reader with this exciting and timely history of the territory that is today known as Mexico. His book sweeps us from the great civilizations of the Olmecs and the Aztecs to the (read more...)


Generations Of The Heart by Viqui Litman

"When Ryan Plummer asked Darlene Kindalia to have his baby, Darlene didn't remind him that they had already done the horizontal hokie-pokie and that procreation had never been their goal..." So begins the raucous follow-up to Viqui Litman's highly praised novel, THE LADIES FARM, as she returns (read more...)


The Harder They Fall by Jill Shalvis

The good doctor Hunter Adams’ steady life is suddenly wracked by a whirlwind. Trisha Malloy, vixen, lingerie saleswoman and magnet for disaster, has entered Hunter’s life and begun to destroy everything. His notorious cool and calm demeanor, steady life and sound head are all thrown into chaos when (read more...)


How To Be an Effective Group Leader by Bill D. Schul

Armed with Bill Schul’s guidance, even the shyest person can become a powerful and effective leader. Learn goal-setting methods, keys for maximizing group participation, and the do's and don’ts of leadership. This how-to also covers the best ways to establish your (read more...)


The Sunspacers Trilogy by George Zebrowski

The Sunspacers Trilogy (Sunspacer, Stars Will Speak, Behind The Stars) is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. Young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the (read more...)

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The Hunger Of Time by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes
Technology has started to accelerate at a terrifying rate. By mid-21st century, we might see a Singularity: a convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced nanotechnologies for building things at the atomic scale, precise genomics, other wonders. What happens after that? Will the descendents of (read more...)


The Battle of Anzio by T. R. Fehrenbach

The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T.R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axis powers. In one of the turning points of the war, the allies clung (read more...)


Dance On The Wind by Brenda K. Jernigan

Desperate but determined, lovely Brandy answers an advertisement for a mail order bride, hoping to build a new life out West for herself and the five orphans she's taken under her wing. She needs a guide to reach Fort Laramie by wagon train and turns to Thunder, a Cheyenne scout, for help. When he curtly refuses (read more...)


Harry's Absence by Jonathan Scott

On February 1, 1960, Harry Scott, conscientious objector, psychologist, and mountaineer, was killed while climbing Mt. Cook. Thirty-five years later, his son set out to look for him. Funny, moving, and beautifully written, this is the story of a father's absence, told partly through the rich and exciting mix of (read more...)


Heritage of Flight by Susan Shwartz

Humanity is inextricably torn in an interplanetary war that could lead to the death of human society. Project Seedcorn is probably the last and best hope for the human race. A small group of refugees, scraping out an existence on the edge of human-occupied territory, has been given orders to (read more...)


In The Blood by Stephen Gresham

United by fierce family loyalty and a murky confederate he