Pale As The Moon

On visits to the sandy Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina, a sixteenth-century Paspatank girl named Gray Squirrel befriends a wild pony, and together they fulfill their destiny of helping the English colonists on Roanoke Island.

Years ago, Joe Connally married Olivia Jones because it was the right thing to do. But when they lost the baby, there seemed to be no need to carry on the charade. Olivia put her broken heart on a shelf and set out to leave her past, and its pain, behind. As an interior designer, Olivia is just beginning to make her mark and has won the coveted job of restoring Mallenegua, a massive stone mansion situated on a private island off the coast of South Carolina. But unexpectedly she comes face-to- face with the husband she loved and lost—the project architect is Joe Connally. While the passion still lingers, so does the hurt and the fierce hostility of his scheming family, who will do anything to drive Olivia away. When strange things begin to happen at the old mansion, Olivia is drawn into a deadly scheme that could ultimately cost her her life.

Beautiful Rene+a7e d'Anton forms a risky, passionate alliance with Captain Starlight, a notorious highwayman who represents her only hope in a dangerous game of chance with a fortune in heirloom rubies at stake. Original.

Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series from Steven Erikson. The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand... Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Pale Yellow Moon is an exciting book of short stories that take place in some of Chicago's neighborhoods such as Pilsen, Wicker Park and Chinatown. Other short stories take place in Wyoming, Maple Park, Illinois; a town in New England; and another story is set in an imaginary town in New Mexico in the mid-1800s. Two of the stories take place in Mexico: one in Ciudad Juarez and another near Morelia, Michoac�n. Full of creativity and interesting characters, Pale Yellow Moon explores topics and genres and it makes for interesting reading in this first book by writer Antonio Zavala.

Jennifer Goode is a beautiful girl in her mid-twenties with blond hair. Jenn wants to be a fighter pilot, and she never does anything halfway. She fights her way to the top, flying the F-15E Strike Eagle, the most powerful fighter in the world. Jenn checks out as a flight leader better than most men ever dream of, just in time to fight the War on Terror. On a mission in Afghanistan, she finds herself assigned to save four Special Forces troopers and one CIA agent. Desperate men sent deep into enemy territory, they are surrounded by thousands of al-Qaeda fanatics that want to parade them on TV-dead. To keep them alive she has to pull out all the stops, break almost every rule in the book, and find a courage that few men have.

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.