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Charlie finds himself on the hidden 13th floor of the Abracadabra Hotel. He discovers both Tyler and the magician Brack. Brack was trapped there by a mysterious figure he could not identify.

Aira, a brownie, and her kin have been forced into a lowly existence since their coastal homeland was stolen by Krysila, an immortal kraken. Enslaved by humans and other faerie races, Aira dreams of the day she and her kin will be free. But her quest will not be easy. With a journey of endurance, heartbreak, and faith, Aira must find her inner strength in order to save her people. Aira's hopes of winning back her ancestral homeland rise as she unearths the magical sword forged to kill the kraken and encounters another group of brownies apparently longing to help her. However, these new friends are not what they seem. Can Aira uncover the true identity of this uncanny group of brownies, or will she and her friends fall into the trap that Krysila has laid?

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the TraitorIn this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre’s telling, Colditz’s most famous names—like the indomitable Pat...

Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.

All they wanted was to get out of the infinite forest where they'd been imprisoned for what seemed like millennia. Accidental immortals, they were set on revenge. They assumed that the world outside had changed since they'd been locked away, but never in a million years could they have imagined just how much or what bewildering surprises lay in store for them now. Epic Fail, Book TwoAll they wanted was to get out of the infinite forest where they'd been imprisoned for what seemed like millennia. Immortal and frozen forever at age sixty four, their leader was set on revenge and his loyal pair of eight-year old followers were more than happy to go along for the ride. They assumed that the world outside had changed since they'd been locked away, but never in a million years could they have imagined just how much, or what bewildering surprises lay in store for them now. 'Strange' has a new theme song in Epic Fail, Book Two, following the original, Entropic Quest.

Dear Fury,I get it, okay.You didn't sign up to become a fill-in father, or uncle, or biker dad, or whatever it is you want to call yourself.But the hard truth is, you don't have a choice.I don't want to have to be the one to point out that you can't send your niece to school with no food.Have you met kids?They eat a lot.I'm trying really hard not to get involved, trying not to let her sweet little voice sway me into calling you and telling you that I don't like how you're handling things.But it's really hard.Because dammit, she's a good kid and I can't sit back and let you send her to school with no socks on for a single second longer.Seriously. No socks?And if you turn your back on me when I'm talking to you one more time…Dammit.I can't get involved with people like you.Not when I'm hiding my own demons.God, if he found out that my eyes watch you leave my classroom every day and I wonder how it would feel to be beneath you…No.I can't.I won't.He'd kill me.He would bury me six feet under, and I know it.But you're making it really hard for me when I'm constantly having to chase you.So, if you could do me a solid, and just take good care of your niece, then I won't have to talk to you again.Please and thanks,Alexis Parker.

An unfair trial, a prison gang, and a desperate fight for survival.Kari's luck has ran out.Caught by the Imperium and sentenced to decades of hard labor, it seems like things can't get any worse.But they always do.Kari and her crew must use all of their training and special skills to survive. But is survival enough? And what about stories of a monster in the deep?If you like grit with your sci-fi, hard edges on your heroes, and adventures in space, then you'll love Starship Renegades: Prisoners. Get it now.

Fans of the bestselling Wings of Fire series won't want to miss this all-new story set in the dangerous world of dragons! Fierceteeth knows she could have been a dragonet of destiny. She's a much better NightWing than that weird brother of hers, Starflight. Her dreams of glory have been painfully scorched, though, and now Queen Thorn is holding her and Strongwings, waiting to put them on trial. Fierceteeth just wants a chance to tell her side of the story -- before it's too late.

Desperate not to end up just like his father, a felon struggles with what may turn out to be the worst decision of his life. This story was my second round entry in NYC Midnight‘s 2017 Short Story Challenge. The writing prompts in my brief were: Historical Fiction | A Tunnel | A New Father.Desperate not to end up just like his father, a felon struggles with what may turn out to be the worst decision of his life.This story was my second round entry in NYC Midnight‘s 2017 Short Story Challenge. The writing prompts in my brief were: Historical Fiction | A Tunnel | A New Father.

Henri-René "Jimmy" Guieu (1926-2000) was one of the leading French SF authors of the 1950s and 60s, before he turned to the exploration of UFOs and parapsychological phenomena. In this classic six-volume saga (presented in English in two volumes), written in 1954 through 1956, Guieu introduced his signature hero, French paleoanthropologist Jean Kariven, and imagined that Earth was secretly caught in a vast space-time war pitting the benevolent Polarians against the aggressive Denebians. Guieu sprinkled the books with some of his favorite themes, such as UFOs, alien encounters and ancient astronauts, while delivering fast-paced SF adventure.

A family enslavedA tyrant risingAnd they’re not on Earth anymore For five years, distrustful 20-year-old Melanie and her brother Jason thought the Grand Canyon would keep their dragon, Scalaed, safe. But none of that matters when all three wake up in another world as prisoners of the ruthless High Huntress, Helnah.When a rebel hunter helps Melanie to escape, she must learn to trust him if she ever wants to get her brother and dragon back. Meanwhile, Jason uncovers Helnah’s harrowing design for her human prisoners—a plan that makes him think twice about leaving the fortress.If they fail to take down Helnah’s dragon empire, Tindoria will burn to the ground with Scalaed at the helm. But to defeat the High Huntress, Melanie and her companions must wage war against the monstrosity dwelling in her volcano.

SEAL’s Proposal: Take No Prisoners Series

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Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Mary Johnston is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Mary Johnston then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

The second book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams. Life in the new colony of Australia is tough — tough for those who are free and even tougher for the prisoners. Many succumb to disease and starvation. Many try to escape, but only few succeed, and those who fail are brutally punished.Yet some, including Jenny Taggart, are determined to make this savage land their own. She is betrayed in friendship and in love, but she never parts with her vision: a future as a free woman. Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

Miss Miranda Beamer, the only child of a preacher, sits in jail in Dodge City with three other female prisoners. They are in for various crimes, but Miranda is by far the most serious. She just killed her step-father. Marshal Dale Jones needs to get rid of the women who are not safe in Dodge City, even in jail. He comes up with a plan to ship them to Santa Fe on a wagon train, with a former brothel owner as their chaperone with the idea of being mail order brides. Miranda, however, has a plan of her own. She knows her step-brother will be coming after her when he learns she killed his father. She will travel to Santa Fe, but instead of marrying, she'll get a job, save some money and disappear.Preston Stone, up and coming businessman in Santa Fe will not be allowed the permit to build his hotel and restaurant unless he is married to a respectable woman. He is the child of a prostitute and the owner of a gambling house and saloon. Not respectable enough on his own to get the...

Navy SEAL and a Critical Care Nurse join forces to stop a terrorist attack at a military hospitalNavy SEAL, Ceasar Sanchez has it bad for Army Lt. McGee, a nurse at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. When a rescue mission goes bad and he ends up being medically evacuated, she’s there. Not sure whether he’ll walk again, he’s afraid to pursue the pretty nurse, not wanting to shackle her with half a man. Lt. Erin McGee is a Critical Care Air Transport Team nurse, responsible for ensuring her patients arrive alive at the next level of health care. Fighting an attraction to a sexy Navy SEAL she outranks, she resists the risk of losing her commission for fraternization. But one sensual tryst behind a supply building isn’t enough and the SEALs determination to see her wear at her resolve. Ceasar and Erin share a medevac plane ride to Germany with a critically wounded Taliban leader who could provide information to the whereabouts of four missing soldiers.In the hospital at Landstuhl, Caesar and Erin fight their attraction for each other while a terrorist plot is underfoot to rescue the Taliban leader. Together they struggle to save lives and halt the an attack, while finding that love trumps rank every time.

The gripping and inspiring story of two extraordinary women—from their imprisonment by the Taliban to their rescue by U.S. Special Forces. When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, they had come to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world. Within a few months, their lives were thrown into chaos as they became pawns in historic international events. They were arrested by the ruling Taliban government for teaching about Christianity to the people with whom they worked. In the middle of their trial, the events of September 11, 2001, led to the international war on terrorism, with the Taliban a primary target. While many feared Curry and Mercer could not survive in the midst of war, Americans nonetheless prayed for their safe return, and in November their prayers were answered.In Prisoners of Hope, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer tell the story of their work in Afghanistan,...

Dear Chloe,F**k you.There's no other way to put it.You ruined my life.You took everything from me.You f**king broke my heart.You don't deserve this letter.Hell, you don't deserve the air I breathe.That doesn't matter now anyway because you're gone.You're gone, but she's here.Did you do that on purpose?Did you send her to that house, our house, to rub it in?To remind me of the raw and fractured mess you left?I bet you're laughing. I know you are.You wanted to take the knife and twist it one more time.You wanted to make sure I forever remembered the gaping wound you left.Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're not only dead in the ground but you're dead to me, too.I'll never breathe your name again.I'll never give you the satisfaction.As for her…maybe I'll make it my mission to ensure she suffers.So you can look down from above, screaming for me to stop, but knowing there isn't a single thing you can do to make me.That'll be my revenge.I couldn't do it to you, but can do it to her.You'll regret sending her to me.Enjoy the show.Colt.

A planet on the verge of destruction...Ailanian CIA Director, Moke Kalapana, is a man at a desperate crossroads. His home planet is a colony of Earth which has become a prison for the poor and a paradise for the rich and Moke has seen first hand how the natives are becoming restless for change. After his Agents stumble onto a local terrorist organization, Moke learns how his greatest enemy, James Van Dien, the enigmatic leader of a galactic secret society - with the power to bring about any planet's armaggeton - is enacting a top secret plan which has the potential to lay waste to his home world. However, Moke has even bigger issues at stake. The very government he answers to maybe cooperating with this enemy, who he has vowed to defeat, and has ordered him to erradicate Ailana's narcotics cartels at the expense of his personal beliefs. Knowing full well that doing his government's actions might only aid Van Dien in his quest Moke's dangerous situation then escalates after...

Randall Parish was a 19th century American author best known for writing popular dime novels like Wolves of the Sea.

Dear Nightmare,I f*cked up.It wasn't meant to be this way. I wasn't meant to hurt you.I wanted the world to know the truth.I wanted them to see who you really are.I never thought it would end like this.I wish you would hear me out.I wish you would let me speak.I've made a mistake. There is no coming back from that.My life is in danger.Your life is in danger.The club is in danger.I've done this to all of us, yet I can't turn back the clock.I can only fight to keep you safe.Even if I must make a deal with the devil.I'll do it. For you, I'll do anything.I hope you can forgive me.Because, Night, I've fallen in love with you.You've captured my soul.Then you ripped it out.There is only one way back.I must end this.For both of us.Love,Bonnie x

Man's best friend goes to war.Two enemy soldiers. One uneasy alliance.Miguel is a medic in the US Army. Stationed in a remote Belgian forest during World War II, he's expecting a quiet tour of duty. But the Nazis have other ideas. They launch a surprise attack . . . one that separates Miguel from his entire division.Alone and lost in enemy territory, Miguel discovers an abandoned dog, left behind by German forces. The dog could be just the ally Miguel needs to get out of the forest alive. There's a catch, though. The dog has been trained by the Nazis to see Miguel as the enemy. Can a young soldier teach an old dog new tricks?DOG TAGS is a series of stand-alone books, each exploring the bond between soldier and dog in times of war.

The galaxy is spiraling into all-out war. The Battle of Tarrago was just the beginning. Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats—and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust—and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it. When Chhun undertakes a daring raid on the prison planet Herbeer to rescue his commander, Wraith's loyalties are put to the test, as he's forced to choose between his responsibilities to the Legion… and his responsibilities to his captured crew. Meanwhile, in the Umnar system, the soulless menace known as the Cybar seeks to break Prisma Maydoon—and set the stage for the total annihilation of not only the Republic, but all life in the galaxy.

Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’s frozen wilderness are no less fascinating today than they were a hundred years ago.We meet Joseph Boyle, the self-made millionaire gold prospector from Woodstock, Ontario, who went off to the Great War with the word “Yukon” inscribed on his shoulder straps, and solid-gold maple-leaf lapel badges. There he survived several scrapes with rogue Bolsheviks, earned the admiration of Trotsky, saved Romania from the advancing Germans, and entered into a passionate affair with its queen.We meet Vilhjalmur Steffansson, who knew every corner of the Canadian North better than any explorer. His claim to have discovered a tribe of “Blond Eskimos” brought him world-wide attention and landed him in controversy that would dog him the rest of his life.There is John Hornby, the eccentric public-school Englishman so enthralled with the Barren Grounds where he lived that he finally starved to death there with the two young men who had joined his adventures.Berton gives us a riveting account of the contradictory life of Robert Service — a world-famous poet whose self-effacement was completely at odds with his public persona.And we meet the extraordinary Lady Jane Franklin, who belied every last stereotype about Victorian women with her immense determination, energy, and sense of adventure. She travelled more widely than even her famous explorer husband, Sir John. And her indefatigable efforts to find him after his disappearance were legendary.A Yukoner himself, Berton weaves these tales of courage, fortitude, and reckless lust for adventure with a love for Canada’s harsh north. With his sharp eye for detail and faultless ear for a good story, Pierre Berton shows once again why he is Canada’s favourite historian.From the Hardcover edition.

It is 1943, and the war has come home to Loring, Mississippi. As German POWs labor in the cotton fields, the local draft board sends boys into uniform, and families receive flags and condolences. But for Dan Timms, just shy of 18, the war is his ticket out of town and away from the ghosts that haunt him. As he peddles goods from a rolling store for his profiteer uncle, Dan tries to understand his friend L.C., a young man who, on account of his skin, feels like a prisoner himself. But one day, Dan spots Marty Stark who has just returned from Italy, mysteriously reassigned to guard the POWs he was once trained to kill. As Dan soon learns, Marty’s war is far from over and threatens to erupt again. From the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklySet in the same small Mississippi town as Yarbrough's critically acclaimed Visible Spirits, this complex WWII-era novel explores questions of morality and social inequity in the rural South when a group of German POWs are quartered at a local camp and sent to work as day laborers on nearby farms. The novel opens with the uncomfortable friendship between young Dan Timms, who drives one of his enterprising Uncle Alvin's "rolling stores" (old school buses boasting all the necessities of country life: sodas, coal-oil lamps, radios), and L.C. Stevens, the black employee who drives the other. While L.C. vainly struggles to make his work partner see the "parallel universe" in which black Americans are trapped, Dan yearns to join the army and escape the fresh memory of his father's recent suicide and his suspicions about his mother's past. But Dan's friend Marty Stark shows him another side of war when he returns damaged and changed from the German theater and is reassigned to help guard the town's German POWs. The story shifts subtly when a Polish prisoner informs Dan of an escape planned by several other prisoners, setting in motion a chain of events that eventually brings Marty's troubled war memories to the surface. Meanwhile, L.C. suffers a beating by an older, powerful white man who, after losing his own son in the war, uses his influence to ensure that the young black man is drafted. The multiple subplots slow the novel's pace, but Yarbrough's warm, measured voice, clean prose and rich character studies make this an unusually tender and accomplished study of the reverberations of war on the home front.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistOnce again, Yarbrough (Visible Spirits, 2001) turns in a gripping, character-driven novel that tackles important issues of race relations, patriotism, and the effects of war. The story takes place in a rural Mississippi community in 1943. Dan Timms is a few weeks shy of enlisting in the military, and he can hardly wait to shake the small-town dust off his shoes. For him the war is a reason to escape the knowledge of his mother's infidelity and the discovery of his father's suicide. Not even the experiences of his best friend, who has returned from the war with a damaged psyche, can dissuade him. Nor can his war-profiteering uncle, for whom Dan works part-time. Also working for Alvin Timms is L. C., a young African American who has no intention of serving in the military and for whom the racial gap is wider than the Grand Canyon. The novel is far from weak on plot, but Yarbrough's characters are so powerfully three-dimensional that the story's tension flows from many directions. And it never lets up. Frank CasoCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes. Torrent Company's Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitous--and insatiably curious--Padawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon's newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an active--and dangerous--rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic's methods--and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeon--sworn to protect the Republic over all--is torn between duty and desire....

Gwendolyn Zepeda, a Houston native who has struggled to escape the inner-city barrio she grew up in, wonders why she's crying about her long commute to the suburbs.Single with three sons, Zepeda made her way in corporate America, "the cold, beige womb of a money-grubbing mother," in the fight to provide them with better opportunities. Along the way, she has had to come to terms with the guilt of working in physical comfort while others work outside, trapped in dangerous jobs; the realization that the quality of her work doesn't really matter to anyone; and obnoxious male bosses who need "a wife on the side," or worse, proudly report their sons' sexual exploits. She's afraid, because "My whole life depends / On satisfying this man's needs...My own son is my everything. He's the / Only reason I'm here now this / Afternoon listening to this man piss / Into my brain."She's an astute observer of people: her elders, full of bitterness; the stranger on the elevator, who exudes...

When Lydia, the alien's security chief, is blamed for the escape of three key human prisoners, she seeks her revenge with a diabolical scheme to snare Diana's power and trap resistance heroes Mike Donovan and Ham Tyler

HOOKOn her first trip back home in years, a highly independent woman runs into the boy who owned her heart her entire life. Only he’s not a boy anymore. He’s a full-grown alpha male and a patched member of an outlaw MC. Will she be able to hold on to her hard-earned independence when he decides to claim her?STRIKERWhen a lovely doctor takes a job in a small-town ER far from her powerful family, the move puts her square in the sights of a lawless MC. The sexy, bad boy VP of the motorcycle club offers to keep her safe—for a price.JESTERA young teacher has only one choice if she wants to save her brother—enter the world of the dangerous No Prisoners MC, and steal information for a rival club. The fastest way to her goal? Seduce one of these powerful, deadly outlaws. But what happens when she falls for the man she must betray?This book is recommended for 18+ due to graphic sexual content and explicit language.

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Dodge City, Kansas, 1877. Saloon girl, Cinnamon O’Brien, sits in Dodge City jail with three other women charged with various crimes. Her charges, of course, are totally unfair since she only hit the mayor over the head with the pitcher of beer because he grabbed her lady parts. Now the marshal gives the four women a choice: join up with the wagon train in Fort Dodge and head to Santa Fe as a mail order bride, or when the judge sobers up, he’ll be so ornery he’ll probably sent them to the state prison. Before they even leave, childhood friend, Jedediah Nelson, newly ordained preacher headed to Santa Fe, and in need of a wife, proposes to Cinnamon. A preacher and a saloon girl? She’s about to give him a wild ride.

Casey Watson is a specialist foster carer. She has been working in this field for six years after giving up her position as a behaviour manager for a local school. During this time she has welcomed 14 difficult to place children into her home. As a specialist foster carer she works with profoundly damaged children, seeing each child through a specific behavioural modification programme, at the end of which they will hopefully be in the position to be returned either back to their family or into mainstream foster care. Casey combines fostering with writing, usually late at night when the rest of the family is sleeping. Casey is married with two grown-up children and three grandchildren. The name Casey Watson is a pseudonym.

I'm Rian MacCaren, owner of The Midnight Agency, and I deal in supernatural cases no one wants or is equipped to handle. Being Nephilim, part-angel, and part-human, you'd think it'd give me an edge on the bad guys. This is not always the case.An enemy out for vengeance has targeted a young man to get to me and has buried him alive. As the man's air and his time run out, I need to find the person responsible before I become the next victim. With my list of enemies longer than my friends, this angel is having a hard time figuring out who is after me. On top of it all, I can't call the cops or enlist their help. Meaning I'm all alone.To make things worse, a mysterious group called The Fallen have shown an interest in me that sends a cold shiver down my spine.Making bad choices is part of my life. I'm not the guardian angel you want, but I'm the one you need. Just remember, if you're looking for someone sent from above, I'm not that kind of angel.

Becky Davidson has been on her own since she was thirteen years old. The last three years, she has been traveling the country with Dr. Snodgrass who sells elixir for all sorts of medical problems. They are generally run out of town by the third or fourth day, but this time Dr. Snodgrass has disappeared with all the money, abandoning Becky in Dodge City. In jail for running a scam, Becky agrees to travel with three other female prisoners and Miss Nellie, a former brothel owner who is chaperoning them, on a wagon train to Santa Fe as a mail-order bride. As the journey begins, Becky is befriended by Mace Jensen, the Santa Fe County sheriff hired to escort the outlaws in skirts to Santa Fe. Once they arrive at their destination, the unlikely friendship between Becky and Mace flourishes as she works with him in the jailhouse, dodging every man Miss Nellie presents to her as a potential husband. Sheriff Jensen is the man Nellie wants, but he feels they would scandalize the town should they marry. He is a black man, and she a white woman. Can love overcome the problems the sheriff sees for them, or should he be sensible and let the woman he loves marry another man?

A prison of gruesome monsters. A vampire's murder. A scheme that could unravel the world…Maddix Benbrook is one of the few trusted overseers of Malevolent City, a supernatural prison that functions as a community for vampires, werewolves, and other mystical creatures. The prisoners seem to know their place, and Maddix lives an easy life of purpose and mild responsibility. One murder will change it all…When a beautiful vampire comes looking for her brother's killer, Maddix finds much more than he bargained for. After barely surviving an attack from a crazed werewolf and investigating a series of zombie strikes, Maddix learns of a sinister plot to overthrow him and his fellow overseers. How can one man protect himself and his world against a nightmare scenario of monsters and death?General Population is the first book in the Malevolent Prisoners saga, a series of horror suspense novels featuring a modern twist on the classic monster tale. If you like fast-paced, action-packed, and gruesome horror, you'll love Eddie Jakes' original thrill-ride. Buy General Population to start the devilishly addictive series today!**

The galaxy is spiraling into all-out war. The Battle of Tarrago was just the beginning. Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats—and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust—and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it. When Chhun undertakes a daring raid on the prison planet Herbeer to rescue his commander, Wraith's loyalties are put to the test, as he's forced to choose between his responsibilities to the Legion… and his responsibilities to his captured crew. Meanwhile, in the Umnar system, the soulless menace known as the Cybar seeks to break Prisma Maydoon—and set the stage for the total annihilation of not only the Republic, but all life in the galaxy.

John Grant is a master of transcendant literary fantasy. The author of more than 25 volumes of fiction and 35 volumes of criticism and essays, he is a giant in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Take No Prisoners is a collection of previously published short stories by John Grant. The author is a winner of the Hugo Award, the Chesley Award and the World Fantasy Award. The author is a nominee for the Hugo Award in the year 2004. John Grant is the author or co-author of more than 60 published books.**

The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes. Torrent Company’s Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitous—and insatiably curious—Padawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon’s newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an active—and dangerous—rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion. Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic’s methods–and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love, Pellaeon—sworn to protect the Republic over all—is torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka, sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena, encounters a new and different Jedi philosophy, which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify, the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .

Here are stories about some of the most famous inmates: Ruth Ellis, the Krays, ‘prison superstar’ Charles Bronson, the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, the cannibalistic Dennis Nilsen, the evil child-killer Ian Brady, Beverley Allitt, ‘Razor’ Smith as well as chilling accounts concerning long forgotten villains. On the way read about Oscar Wilde’s time in Reading Gaol, about spies and political prisoners and Jeremy Bamber’s long campaign to assert his innocence.

Life suddenly gets interesting on Deep Space Nine when a new student turns up in Jake and Nog’s class—Riv Jakar, a Bajoran boy whose parents were killed by Cardassians. Riv thinks school and hanging out on the Promenade are a waste of time. Instead he is determined to join the Bajoran freedom fighters in their battle against the Cardassians. When Jake, Nog, and their friends Ashley and T’Ara are investigating some mysterious incidents on the station they discover a stowaway—a Cardassian stowaway named Kam. She is the daughter of a high-placed Cardassian official…who has just shown up at DS9 with eight warships, demanding the return of his daughter. But Riv has other plans for Kam, and it’s up to Jake and Nog to save her before Riv starts a new war!

What would happen if three hundred hardened convicts petitioned the United States Government for an abandoned island where, accompanied by their families, they would be set free to earn their own way?Overwhelmed by prison budgets and prison riots, the government agrees and sets the prisoners free on windswept, treeless Adak in the Aleutians, the site of a former 'hard duty' Navy station.Prisoners Of The Williwaw is the story of the power struggle between the idealistic leader of this expedition, convict Frank Villa, and a smooth prison boss, James T. Gilmore.  Frank Villa opens a school, arranges jobs for people in a small assembly factory and calls for free elections.  'Boss' Gilmore opens a house of prostitution, sells booze, drugs, and guns, and schemes to take over the island one way or another.Frank's struggle is internal as well as external.  He strives to overcome the effects of prison on his psyche.  A convict must be passive; a man in charge of a community must take command.   A convict must build a wall inside himself against any relationship with a woman; a free man has to leave himself open to love.The strife between Villa and Gilmore accelerates when their wives arrive and unexpected complications develop.These conflicts play out against a backdrop of constant rain, vicious windstorms (williwaws), escape attempts, and a coup  by a new group of prisoners from the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, the worst of the worst.

SHE WAS IN THE WORST KIND OF TROUBLE Kidnapped by marauding tribesmen when her helicopter went down outside Kabul, tough-skinned CIA operative Grace Chancellor had little choice but to entrust her life to the only man she'd ever loved -- and lost. Years earlier, tough-as-nails special agent Landon James made a harsh choice: duty over personal life. Now, he was single-handedly going in to rescue Grace and prove how wrong he was. As Landon and Grace fled through the mountains, faced with heat, thirst and gunfire, would old wounds reopen and turn them into permanent strangers -- or would old desires be reignited?

No one captures the sultry, humid feel of New Orleans quite like James Lee Burke does in his Dave Robicheaux novels. He understands the tactile nature of the air when the temperature and the moisture rise in the summer South, when “the air [grows] hazy with humidity and even your lightest clothes [stick] to your body like wet paper.” Like many regional mystery writers, Burke’s crime stories are as much about the place as about the people. Southern Lousiana and its bayous and rivers provide the lush background for these often dark and violent tales. In this second novel in the series, Robicheaux has retired from the New Orleans PD and is working as a fishing guide with his wife. While out on the Gulf trawling for shrimp, the pair see a small plane go down in the water, and arrive there in time only to rescue one of the passangers, a small girl. This good deed drags Robicheaux and Annie back into a world of crime and violence that has tragic consequences for each of them. Dave Robicheaux is a strong addition to the ranks of damaged heroes who populate much of contemporary crime writing. Burke’s understanding of, and obvious affection for, his settings shines through the pages of all of his stories. These tales of hot temperatures and hot tempers are just the thing to warm a cold winter day.

Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain' provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it - on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison - food, divine service, exercise and medical provision; the punishments inflicted on convicts - such as hard labour, flogging, the treadwheel and shot drill; and, an overview of the ultimate penalty paid by prisoners - execution. Richly illustrated with a series of photographs, engravings, documents and letters, this volume is sure to appeal to all those interested in crime and social history in Victorian Britain.

Amanda Doucette finds herself drawn into the world of exploited foreign workers when she rescues a Filipino nanny accused of murdering her wealthy employer. Georgian Bay: a spectacular terrain of granite shores, deserted islands, and infinite sparkling bays. As part of her cross-Canada charity tour, Amanda has planned a kayaking trip in the area for families from a poor rural Ontario community. While exploring some remote islands offshore, she and a local tour guide rescue a frightened young woman whose boat has capsized in the lake. In an apparent act of kindness, the tour guide takes the woman to shore, leaving Amanda stranded. But when news surfaces that a wealthy doctor has died at his estate and his Filipino nanny has gone missing, Amanda fears far more sinister forces at work. When the young tour guide is found dead on a nearby island, she and RCMP officer Chris Tymko race to prevent more innocent deaths.

In this eye-opening account, Russia's most famous political prisoner bears witness to his country's brutal prison system Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia's leading businessman and an outspoken Kremlin critic. Under his leadership, the oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, and as the company thrived, he began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. When he was arrested at gunpoint in 2003, Khodorkovsky became Russia's most famous political prisoner. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges, he was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years, despite the fact that the new charges contradicted the earlier ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners' rights, and My Fellow Prisoners is a tribute to...

Nineteen years ago, Indiana police found the body of a young girl, burned beyond recognition and buried in the woods. They arrested George Calhoun for murdering his daughter, and his wife testified against him at the trial. George maintains he didn’t do it. That the body isn’t his little Angelina. But that’s all he’s ever said—no other defense, no other explanation. The jury convicted him. Now his appeals have been exhausted, and his execution is just six weeks away. Dani Trumball, an attorney for the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to believe him. After all, there was no forensic evidence to prove that the body in the woods was George’s daughter. But if the girl isn’t Angelina, then who is it? And what happened to the Calhouns’ missing daughter? Despite the odds, the questions push Dani to take the case. For nineteen years, George Calhoun has stayed silent. But he’s ready to talk, and if the story he tells Dani is true, it changes everything. Review"Unintended Consequences is an engrossing, well conceived legal thriller. Most enjoyable." - Scott Turow, NY Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent & Innocent "This one will grab you by the neck from the very first page!" - Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-winning author of Die A Sranger Review"Unintended Consequences is an engrossing, well conceived legal thriller. Most enjoyable." - Scott Turow, NY Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent & Innocent "This one will grab you by the neck from the very first page!" - Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-winning author of Die A Sranger

Readers from every walk of life will find this book amusing, fascinating and moving as they either nod sagely in agreement, throw their hands up in horror, or laugh helplessly out loud as Tom's story unfolds. Read this and you will never look at your fellow human beings in the same light again.

TWO EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME: New York Times bestseller Endgame Enigma and Promethius Award winner Voyage from Yesteryear. Endgame EnigmaNew York Times bestseller. In the near future, Russia has built Valentina Tereshkova, a space station a mile in diameter, a shining city in space. Its builders claim that the orbiting space city is a peaceful Utopian experiment, but American intelligence reports raise the ominous possibility that the space colony is actually a weapon built by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators.When scientist Paula Bryce and trained agent Lew McCain travel to the station to investigate, they become prisoners in the station's high-tech prison facilities. Escape seems impossible but if they can't escape, Armageddon is inevitable. . . . Voyage from Yesteryear:Prometheus Award-winning novel. Late in our century, as nuclear war loomed, Americans sent a colonization spaceship manned by robots to an Earthlike planet in the Alpha Centauri system. On arrival, the robot crew used recorded DNA information to bring forth a generation of infants, whom they educated in accordance with the principles enunciated by the founders of the American government. Generations later, Earth has rebuilt after the war, unfortunately with authoritarian governments which now can send manned starships with more colonists to the new worlds. They'll show their distant relatives "help." But the robots educated their pupils much too well--the colonists are actually serious about all that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the inalienable rights of the individual stuff... About *Endgame Enigma: "*Tautly constructed, well-plotted and well-written . .. placing [Hogan] on the brink of joining the best-selling authors Dean R. Koontz and John Jakes . . ."—United Press International "Valentina Tereshkova will fascinate you. . . . A fascinating glimpse into the future."—Rave Reviews About **Voyage from Yesteryear:"The more I read of Voyage From Yesteryear, the more impressed I became and the more I enjoyed the book . . . it's a great story."—Dougs Book Reviews About James P. Hogan: "Pure science fiction . . . Arthur C. Clarke, move over."—Isaac Asimov ". . . ambitious, expertly-handled . . . fascinating notions and nonstop plot twists in a taut, gripping narrative; a bravura performance."--Kirkus Reviews". . . on the cutting edge of technology. . . . Hogans talent carrieds the reader from peak to peak in the story, while his knowledge of science . .. constitutes a speldid backdrop for the non-stop action."—Booklist". . . Hogan, a dean of hard SF, parlays [Pathways to Otherwhere] into an entertaining, imaginative yarn."—Publishers Weekly** TWO EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME: New York Times bestseller Endgame Enigma and Promethius Award winner Voyage from Yesteryear. Endgame EnigmaNew York Times bestseller. In the near future, Russia has built Valentina Tereshkova, a space station a mile in diameter, a shining city in space. Its builders claim that the orbiting space city is a peaceful Utopian experiment, but American intelligence reports raise the ominous possibility that the space colony is actually a weapon built by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators.When scientist Paula Bryce and trained agent Lew McCain travel to the station to investigate, they become prisoners in the station's high-tech prison facilities. Escape seems impossible but if they can't escape, Armageddon is inevitable. . . . Voyage from Yesteryear:Prometheus Award-winning novel. Late in our century, as nuclear war loomed, Americans sent a colonization spaceship manned by robots to an Earthlike planet in the Alpha Centauri system. On arrival, the robot crew used recorded DNA information to bring forth a generation of infants, whom they educated in accordance with the principles enunciated by the founders of the American government. Generations later, Earth has rebuilt after the war, unfortunately with authoritarian governments which now can send manned starships with more colonists to the new worlds. They'll show their distant relatives "help." But the robots educated their pupils much too well--the colonists are actually serious about all that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the inalienable rights of the individual stuff... About *Endgame Enigma: "*Tautly constructed, well-plotted and well-written . .. placing [Hogan] on the brink of joining the best-selling authors Dean R. Koontz and John Jakes . . ."—United Press International "Valentina Tereshkova will fascinate you. . . . A fascinating glimpse into the future."—Rave Reviews About **Voyage from Yesteryear:"The more I read of Voyage From Yesteryear, the more impressed I became and the more I enjoyed the book . . . it's a great story."—Dougs Book Reviews About James P. Hogan: "Pure science fiction . . . Arthur C. Clarke, move over."—Isaac Asimov ". . . ambitious, expertly-handled . . . fascinating notions and nonstop plot twists in a taut, gripping narrative; a bravura performance."--Kirkus Reviews". . . on the cutting edge of technology. . . . Hogans talent carrieds the reader from peak to peak in the story, while his knowledge of science . .. constitutes a speldid backdrop for the non-stop action."—Booklist". . . Hogan, a dean of hard SF, parlays [Pathways to Otherwhere] into an entertaining, imaginative yarn."—Publishers Weekly**

THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAll leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower, or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here.In ten chapters (covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India and Pakistan; Europe; Japan and Korea; and the Arctic), using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history.It's time to put the 'geo' back...

After being chased by a mugger through Central Park, Lise stumbles through an odd patch of mist and into a whole other, more magical dimension. With only an elf, a fellow human, and the blessings of a goddess to help her, Lise must find a way to create her own place in this new world.

London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in an accident. Penniless, she accepts the position of lady's maid to young Princess Victoria and steps unwittingly into the gossipy intrigue of the servant's world below-stairs as well as the trickery above. Is it possible that her changing circumstances may offer Liza the chance to determine her own fate, find true love, and secure the throne for her future queen? Meticulously based on newly discovered information, this riveting novel is as rich in historical detail as Catherine, Called Birdy, and as sizzling with intrigue as The Luxe.From School Library JournalGr 7 Up–Through the eyes of her maid, readers get to know Princess Victoria during the year before she becomes queen. Down on her luck when the deaths of her parents leave her penniless and debt ridden, Liza finds employment at Kensington Palace. She quickly learns that Victoria is a virtual prisoner of her scheming mother and her mother's lover, who seek to control the future queen through a regency. Liza initially thinks only of ways to gain favor and influence, and, ultimately, money, from Victoria, but she gradually comes to feel compassion for the lonely and ill-treated 17-year-old. The emotional growth of both young women is the heart of the story, and it unfolds naturally because of a riveting plot full of conspiracy, sexual abuse of servants, treachery, and a great love story. There are references to prostitution, abortion, apparent suicide, and murder, but they are not gratuitous. Liza's riches-to-rags-to-almost-riches story and her development into a young woman of high moral purpose, and Victoria's growth from a docile teen into a queen who would define an era, make this a great read.–Corinne Henning-Sachs, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, ME. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. From BooklistLiza is expected to make her debut in 1830s London, but when her parents die suddenly, she is left penniless and must instead enter service. Through fortuitous connections, she gets a position as a lady’s maid to 17-year-old Princess Victoria, who lives with her mother in the neglected and tension-filled Kensington Palace. Liza begrudgingly adjusts to this new role and slowly comes to care for the temperamental, haughty, and pitiable princess even while she rejects lewd advances from Sir John, the household’s powerful secretary. Ultimately, Liza befriends a young boy and a newspaperman (who soon becomes a love interest) in order to confront the public slander surrounding the princess. This novel is full of historical detail, vivid settings, and richly drawn characters, and themes of friendship and romance give the story teen appeal; Liza is a brave yet conflicted young adult with whom readers will identify. The author takes liberties with some historical facts (clarified in an afterword) to create a tale of espionage, romance, grief, and hope. Grades 6-12. --Melissa Moore

Seven years ago, Winston Melton was on top of the world: a privileged kid fresh off his first semester at Princeton. Life was perfect—until he was accused of the rape and murder of an ex-girlfriend. Years after his conviction, another death-row inmate has come forward with an eleventh-hour confession, casting Win’s conviction in a new light. But with the ink drying on his death sentence, time is running short.Win’s grandmother, the family matriarch, has her eyes set on one of the Help Innocent Prisoners Project’s defense lawyers: Dani Trumball, and her reputation for results, no matter the cost. Dani, concerned she is being bought, initially refuses but eventually takes the case.Soon, Dani can sense that something’s off, both with Win’s conviction and the new confession. But seven years after the incident, is there still a chance of uncovering the truth?**