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World War I looms on the horizon. Beneath the airship- and flying-bicycle-filled skies of London, Peregrine Gallagher, apothecary clerk, labors on a device he calls a Visualiser - a computer interface decades before its time. The goal is to link Britain with "the Hun" in real-time via a colleague in Cologne and, in addition to making them both wealthy, stave off the war. If people can see that they're more alike than different, why would they let their leaders compel them to fight?In any event, Peregrine hopes his sometime lover, Lady Euterpe Gosling, whose husband is a diplomat, will be impressed enough by the Visualiser to become his patron. His work is interrupted by the abrupt arrival through a broken window of a frightened ginger cat who, as he watches, transforms into a freckled ginger girl. Or is it the other way around?While Euterpe is in Southampton watching the unsinkable Titanic sail, Peregrine draws out Xenia's story - of running away from a workhouse in Wales to adoption by a clan of Irish Travellers to a cruel accident that left her on the cobbles of London. But she's never turned into a cat before.Peregrine realizes a shapeshifting cat hiding behind the draperies would make a perfect spy, and presents her to Euterpe. If Xenia can learn to channel her shapeshifting, Euterpe can offer her an unimagined adventure as her traveling companion, from the conference halls of Berlin to the salons of Paris. Xenia wants one thing in return - for Peregrine to build a device that might save the life of someone she loves. Ailuranth serves up a little bit of cyberpunk, a background of alternate history, a generous dollop of magic, brief appearances by Lincoln, Churchill, and Bertrand Russell, not to mention a talking Octopus, and asks the question: Can a small ginger cat change the course of history?

Hieroglyphics and cuneiform have restored lost civilizations to us. One ancient civilization, however, has defied archaeologists and has remained beyond their reach: the 4,500 year-old Indus Valley in the Indian sub-continent. Sarasvati Desikan-Raman and Gordon Sutherland, the great-grandchildren of the archaeologists who worked on the site of the Indus Valley in the 1920s of our era, take up the search, undaunted by this awe-inspiring history of impossible dreams. They accompany archaeologist Galina Bogdanova and forensic anthropologist Warad-mur-raman to the ancient ruins of Hampi in South India, ruins that might reveal clay tablets chronicling - in cuneiform and the Indus script - the life and violent death of Sai-an-ki, priestess queen of the Great Adorers, a cult that worships the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Will they find the tablets and unlock the secrets of that 4,500 year-old civilization?

"A lively and humorous novel of alternate history...the story of Sebastian, a low-level newspaper typist who in 1916 comes into possession of a futuristic connectivity machine. When he discovers this new limited "internet," Sebastian runs into early-20th Century scams, snake oil salesmen, medical quacks, dating sites, trolls, and conspiracy theorists, with hilarious consequences"--Back cover.

forces to defend their worlds. They were joined in the fight by former imperial general Arkarin Blackhawk, a warrior whose skills and brutality made him infamous.Now with the imperial foothold in the sector eliminated, the Far Stars is free and almost united. While Astra's forces continue to depose local tyrants and warlords, Ark and his crew have slipped back into the shadows. Though his heart belongs to Astra, Ark cannot get too close. His imperial conditioning remains under control, but the temptation of power threatens to unleash his dark compulsions. He cannot risk allowing Astra to see the darkness that still lurks in the depths of his mind.But while the battle has been won, the war may not be over. A petty smuggler makes a discovery that can enable the emperor to strike back and crush the resistance?unless Ark and Astra join forces again to stop him.

Human/synth relations are suffering...And Dhata Mays is stepping in.>With help from his partners, Dhata uncovers a plot that not only involves genocide, but a brand new model of android. It's the final hour and time is running out, but can Dhata Mays pull a hat trick, and bring an end to the synth crisis?

A war between humans and synthetics...In a futuristic Tampa Bay, skiptracer Dhata Mays and his sidekick, Lur Diaz, are on a job investigating a cheating lowlife. But after a deadly explosion and the woman who hired them disappears, nobody is safe. Suddenly, everyone is under suspicion, and the police are no longer there "to serve and to protect." Now, it's up to Dhata to take matters into his own hands and uncover a deep-rooted plot to escalate the tension between the humans and synths. He must stop the battle before it's too late. But is the truth too big for a small-time skiptracer to handle alone?

June 2014The Islamic State targets a civil engineer and his family. Her parents dead, their teenage daughter must use every lesson her father taught her in order to survive.September 1998In 2008, a former Al Qaeda Commander and his wife are killed by US Special Forces. Seeking to right historical wrongs, their brilliant son takes up their cause.April 1976A five-year-old Steven Gold sees a body alongside a Phoenix street. From that moment on, he dedicates himself to the lives of others.October 2014The lives of the refugee, the humanitarian and the Islamic State commander are about to collide.

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin.Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unites to dismantle his iron rule?galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. And no one?not the rebels, Jean de Men, nor even Joan herself?can foresee the way her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations.

Osama bin Laden dead? With no body, no photos, and only alleged genetic samples as proof, half the world believes bin Laden's well-publicized death was a hoax. On May 1, 2011, did Navy Seal Team Six just miss the al Qaeda leader in his Abbottabad compound? Or, warned by Pakistan's ISI, did bin Laden escape into the high Hindu Kush where he continued execute attacks against the U.S. and its allies? Told by Scout Sniper Jack Hull, HIGH VALUE TARGET is the real story of the death of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's horrific revenge on the U.S. mainland. "A well-written and engaging novel that provides jarring insights into the complexities of the war in Afghanistan, and into those who are fighting it." -Lt. General U.S. Army (Ret.) Robert Gard, PhD "A great novel on the death of Osama bin Laden, HIGH VALUE TARGET is a page-turner in the tradition of Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, and Dale Brown. We now have a new hero named Jack Hull to watch out for. HIGH VALUE TARGET shows us, in great detail, how it really happened and what we need to be wary of in the future. I could not put it down--a great read!!" -Lt. Col. U.S. Army (Ret.) Professor of Military History and English John K. Swensson

Die Ewigkeit steht ihr offen. Ein wenig Übung, dann liegen ferne Zeiten und fremde Orte für Zamira nur kurze Sprünge entfernt. Doch kann sie eingreifen, wenn die Zukunft ein Verhängnis über ihre Nachkommen bringt? Wenn die Ära der Menschheit sich einem frühen Ende zuneigt?Es erscheint unmöglich, denn Zamira ist tot ...

"I am dying!" Conan said to the Stranger who had come to him. "No, you are not!" Professor Challenger told him. "This is just the beginning!" In Victorian London, a doctor is dying. And not just any doctor...but the late, great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Before he passes on, he wants to make sure his wife is taken care of...Shown just how much he truly loves and cares for her...And finish his last Sherlock Holmes story, which will be his masterpiece! And in another Victorian London, existing on a parallel world in a parallel universe to ours, there are heroes, heroes who exist in a world of magic and Steampunk science.They have other plans for Conan.To rescue him.From death! A deeply moving portrayal of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which digs deeply into the lore about him and connects him intimately with the very characters he's written in a new universe...one of many which parallel our own. Conan is going to be given a choice few of us are ever given...The choice to pass on from life or to continue living...In another universe...The Baker Street Universe!Where he has the chance to be part of the Sherlock Holmes team and to make friends who are true heroes, just like the ones he has written.And even more exciting for him is the knowledge that if he does cross over into this new universe, he will be alive during the most exciting time of history!Every writer that ever lived.Every character that every writer has ever written.All will be alive and existing in this parallel universe!An Urban Fantasy Sherlock Holmes mystery novel. Take a heartwarming and fun ride through the minds of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Watson, and so many others you have read about, but never seen in such vivid detail.

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory?and write her own legend.Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will.Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power...and the price might be your very soul.

War has engulfed the other earth, the parallel universe that Lt Commander Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker now call home. With every hard-won victory and painful defeat, Reddy and the Allies encounter more friends—and even more diabolical enemies. Cutting short his "honeymoon,” Reddy sails off in pursuit of Hidoiame, a rogue Japanese destroyer that is wreaking havoc in Allied seas. Now that Walker is armed with the "latest” technology, he hopes the four-stacker can handle a straight-up fight against the bigger ship. Elsewhere, the long-awaited invasion of Grik "Indiaa” has begun, and the Human-Lemurian Alliance is pushing back against the twisted might of the Dominion, even as political machinations threaten the Alliance from within. But the savage Grik have also mastered "new” technologies. And their fleet of monstrous ironclads and a bloodthirsty army are finally massing to strike...

"I loved it. Great 'hard' science fiction with convincing space battles. "−Larry Niven, Grand Master (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) and author of RingworldTwo-time Sidewise Award-winning author, Alan Smale, brings us an exciting alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent Moon bases, orbiting space stations, and crewed spy satellites supported by frequent rocket launches.Apollo32, commanded by career astronaut Vivian Carter, docks at NASA's Columbia space station en route to its main mission: exploring the volcanic Marius Hills region of the Moon. Vivian is caught in the crossfire as four Soviet Soyuzcraft appear without warning to assault the orbiting station. In an unplanned and desperate move, Vivian spacewalks through hard vacuum back to her Lunar Module and crew and escapes right before the station falls into Soviet hands.Their original mission scrubbed, Vivian and her crew are redirected to land at Hadley Base, a NASA scientific outpost with a crew of eighteen. But soon Hadley, too, will come under Soviet attack, forcing its unarmed astronauts to daring acts of ingenuity and improvisation.With multiple viewpoints, shifting from American to Soviet perspective, from occupied space station to American Moon base under siege, to a covert and blistering US Air Force military response, Hot Moon tells the gripping story of a war in space that very nearly might have been.

Life is about moments. Can you seize it or let it pass? Can you make the right decision? A final negotiation between two men caused one nation to be divided into three zones that are now, one hundred and fifty years later, gathering to celebrate the years of peace. Two teens are thrust into the political world as they are chosen to represent the benefits of separation and advances of each country at this highly coveted event. As they try to work together to develop speeches of the century, they quickly find themselves unraveling history finding that not everything may be as peaceful as it seems. Can these countries come to terms with the decisions of their ancestors?

It takes a community to save a King's lifeA creative re-telling of documented historical events in and around White Ladies Manor and Boscobel House in Shropshire, England during the future King Charles II's sojourn there after the Battle of Worcester in September 1651. Historical facts and characters are woven into a fictional narrative told largely by a herbalist, Dame Sarah Kinver, who uses her healing practice, alongside other members of the two households, in a desperate battle to save Charles from dying of hypothermia and exhaustion; and to help him escape from Parliamentarian forces who would execute him if they found him. The story addresses the tension between holy vocation and witchcraft in which healing was perceived in 17th Century England. Sarah's sacred calling to serve God through caring for others is tested and pushed to new limits as she cares for Charles. Will saving Charles' life cost Sarah her own? Can her vow of celibacy withstand the charms of this traumatised Prince in need of tender loving care?¿