Alexander has a pretty easy life as an adventurer in the Godspire Mountains. It’s not like you have to actually kill a dragon to collect its scales. Dragons moult. When he woke up one morning beside a beautiful crystal-clear lake only to have a woman fall out of the sky in front of him, Alex’s life took a turn for the exciting, and dangerous.

He had walked the earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Cagliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vesta on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert & Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down in tears. He died, penniless, at a Hastings boarding house, in his ninetieth year. His name was Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, and he was never bored. Hailed as the 'guru's guru', Rune penned more than eight million words of genius including his greatest work, The Book of Ultimate Truths. But vital chapters of The Book were suppressed, chapters which could have changed the whole course of human history. Now, seventeen-year-old Cornelius Murphy, together with his best friend Tuppe, sets out on an epic quest. Their mission - recover the missing chapters. Re-publish The Book of Ultimate Truths. And save the world.

An account of the search for a Russian serial killer describes how Rostov detective Victor Burakov, obsessed with finding the killer, faced formidable odds--among them the maze of the Soviet system--to do so. 50,000 first printing. **

12th in the Solar Pons Seriesby Basil Copper, Illustrated by Stefanie K.Hawks.Contents"The Adventure of the Callous Colonel""The Adventure of the Phantom Face""The Adventure of the Verger’s Thumb""Death at the Metropole"Readers who have exhausted the Sherlockian cannon and the various modern pastiches of the Master, might well be advised to investigate the strange cases of Solar Pons. Mr. Pons was created nearly seventy years ago by Wisconsin-born writer, August Derleth -- who paid Doyle the courtesy of cloning the great detective. Names and biographical details were changed, and the setting was moved from the Victorian period to the 1920's. Mr. Copper was then authorized by Arkham House, Inc. to continue the series in a series of paperback originals. While maintaining the sly mixture of pastiche and homage to its creator, Copper brought his own voice and a sure sense of place and period detail to the series. Two previously unpublished collections from that series have been released by Fedogan & Bremer. A third book is planned for late 2000.

Using artificial intelligence and cryogenics, Joe hopes to defeat death. When he meets Juliet, whose research claims to show a way to transfer human consciousness into a computer, he believes the final breakthrough is near. Then tragedy strikes and Joe has to face the terrifying consequences.

The thriller that opened a new chapter in the sex wars . . . Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours – he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made when his high-tech company was floated on the stock market. What followed next made Disclosure the most talked about novel of the decade. a

Lance And Ewan Live On Totally Opposite Ends Of The Same SpectrumLance, having lived as the High Alpha of a secret tiger shifter Streak his entire life, is itching to get out and experience the world beyond the boundaries of the forest in which he lives.At night he gazes down into the glittering lights of the city and wonders what it would be like to leave everything he knows behind, and indulge his curiosity among the very beings who threaten his people's existence.Ewan, meanwhile, finds himself cooped up in an office at all hours, his life a stuffy and miserable one.A tiger shifter himself, he was adopted by a human family when he was only a child and has never really felt he had much of a place in the world in which he lives.He wonders whether there could possibly be others out there who are like them, or whether he'll be forced to spend the rest of his life in hiding, denying his true self.It seems like fate, then, when the two men's...

"Centuries old and housands of miles from home". When Emily and Jess Volnik's family inherits a remote, crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit the Boggart - an invisible, mischievous spirit who's been playing tricks on residents of Castle Keep for generations. Then the Boggart is trapped in a rolltop desk and inadvertently shipped to the Volniks' home in Toronto, where nothing will ever be the same - for the Volniks or the Boggart. In a world that doesn't believe in magic, the Boggart's pranks wreak havoc. And even the newfound joys of peanut butter and pizza and fudge sauce eventually wear thin for the Boggart. He wants to go home - but his only hope lies in a risky and daring blend of modern technology and ancient magic.

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

A haunting and remarkable novel, Winter Eyes is a tale of family secrets, silence, relevation-and the hope for healing and change. A spell-binding achievement, Winter Eyes richly fulfills the promise Booklist saw when it hailed Dancing on Tisha B'av as the debut of "a bright new talent in American fiction."

...an incredible blending of fantasy and science fiction. Eventually the Terrans rediscover their long-lost — and now alien — colony: Darkover. Things are different there. While adolescent male homosexuality is generally tolerated on Darkover, men are expected to outgrow it. When Dyan Ardais takes lovers young enough to be his sons, he risks not just his reputation, but his life. Life in a Tower as a Keeper, the chaste virgin who holds a circle together, is grueling. Few succeed in the long, painful years of training. The ones who do have power greater than any queen, but what happens to the ones who don’t? Darkover technology is based on matrix stones that amplify psychic gifts, and people with those gifts work in the Tower circles. But duty to family outweighs everything else, and anyone can be called home from the Tower to marry as her family dictates. A Comyn lady can have lands, wealth, family…everything but freedom. Women can become Free Amazons, but that life has its own set of challenges. Before a candidate’s trial period ends, she must decide if she is truly meant to cope with everything being a Free Amazon entails.

Through the mists of London's waterfront, a young woman staggers, unable to remember who she is or how she got here. Across the Atlantic a career housewife boards an airplane, certain that her child is in trouble. For both Delia Sawyer and her daughter, Connie, a college year abroad in London has become a season in hell.Traumatized by a mysterious event, Connie is adrift, making up each step as she goes along, guarding a fat, blood-stained roll of money in her pocket. Delia finds an indifferent school administration, a list of similarily missing students, two overly helpful men, and a maze of clues and contradictions. What happened to Connie Sawyer? Determined to find out, Delia cannot guess the danger she is courting—that someone close by also wants to find Connie—and make sure that she never remembers a thing.

Destiny calls. But who will answer? Leading a secret society and taking on a deadly enemy wasn't part of Zawadi's life plan. Neither was inheriting control over the Kuvu, the most valuable medical discovery in existence. An elixir that can grant unimagined health and longevity... or a painful death. But when powerful forces take an unhealthy interest in her hometown in the heart of Kenya, the consequences are fatal. Her mother is killed, and her village is threatened with destruction. To save her family and secure her people's future, Zawadi must give up who she thinks she is to become who she's meant to be: Chief Zawadi, the spiritual and political leader of an endangered tribe. Only then can she find the Kuvu before it's destroyed. Assuming it doesn't kill everyone first. Empires will rise or fall based on her decisions. No pressure. The Nexus is the first book in the Into The Afroverse series by...

The first in the Spearwielder fantasy adventure series--from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Legacy. In a magical spot in a forest, Gary falls asleep . . . and wakes up in a dangerous realm of elves and dwarves, witches and dragons. There he discovers he is the only one who can wear the armor of the land's lost hero--and wield a magical spear.