The Protector's War (Novel of the Change, #2) (Emberverse, #2)
by S M Stirling
It’s been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding society. In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, former pilot Michael Havel’s Bearkillers are warriors of renown. Their closest ally, the mystical Clan Mackenzie, is led by Wiccan folksinger Juniper Mackenzie. Their leadership has saved countless lives.But not ev...
Legends of the Flashback 3 (Legends of the Flashback: The Finished Saga, #3)
by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Wren Davis believes in going after her dreams, which is why she’s working as a legal messenger to pay for art school. She’s also been having some pretty hot dreams about successful artist Gregori Ivanov. A celebrity, he’s known as a wild man because of his Mohawk, tattoos, and because he loves women like cake. Only, after a passionate night together Wren realizes how good they could be together…if she can convince Gregori not to run. – Other Red-Hot Reads from Mills & Boon & Cosmo incl...
Ten years after his "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle), "unforgettable" (Newsday) bestselling debut novel, "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water", Michael Dorris returns to the family at the core of that work to write the rich score of the "full-blown, complex opera of his new novel, "Cloud Chamber" (Robb Forman Dew). Opening in late-nineteenth-century Ireland and moving to Kentucky and finally to the high plains of Montana, "Cloud Chamber" tells the extraordinary tale of Rose Mannion and her descendan...
From the author of Canada: A People’s History comes an epic story about the invention of our nation. In 1759 in Quebec, the battle for a continent took place between British forces commanded by a desperate, suicidal general and French forces commanded by a Marquis who was desperate to leave Quebec. The battle lasted less than thirty minutes. The continent was won, but the prize was still largely an abstraction. Two million square miles of the West were unmapped and unexplored. David Thompson, a...
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayal...
The thrilling climax to the Anne trilogy: the world of Philippa Gregory's White Queen is seen from the point of view of her greatest rival.As England tears itself apart in the War of the Roses, Anne de Bohun lives far from the intrigues of cities and courts.Once King Edward IV's mistress, Anne has found safety with their son in far-away Flanders. But now Edward himself is a hunted fugitive, and Anne's real father, King Henry VI rules again from Westminster.Summoned by an enigmatic message from...
Spoils of War (Hearts of Gold, #8) (Pontypridd S., v. 8)
by Catrin Collier
`A page-turner... a terrific read’ Susan Sallis "A powerful tale of survival and hardship, very well crafted and with strong characters" - Publishing News Spoils of War – Book Eight in the Hearts of Gold series by Catrin Collier It is 1946 and the soldiers who have been away for the war are beginning to return to Pontypridd. But not all the reunions are happy... Bethan's lingering feelings for an American officer make it hard for her to readjust to married life. Tony's fiancee, a German ref...
It is 1915, and Elspeth Gray is young, unmarried, heavily pregnant and destitute in a strange city. Having no one else to turn to, she throws herself on the mercy of a compassionate woman she once met briefly on a train. Helen Watson and her husband, themselves expecting a baby, gladly give the desperate girl a home. After Elspeth's son is born, however, Helen tragically loses her own child, and in her traumatised state transposes the two births in her mind. With the neighbours also believing th...
In village Ireland of the 1950s, Thomas and Ellen Kane's daughters are gullible young women. Then, into their lives slinks Dennis Sykes, a brilliant and driven man, with a secret history of emotional mayhem and scandal. The Kane girls, lovingly close in fear of their disturbed father, have no defences against this sexual terrorist.