Four Horses For Tishtry

Four Horses For Tishtry

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Horror / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000287 EndHTML:0000013581 StartFragment:0000003711 EndFragment:0000013545 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/twk/Desktop/00_2015newversionebooks/Four%20Horses%20for%20Tishtry%20-%20yarbro_new-id5.5/bookfiles/Four%20Horses%20For%20Tishtry%20-%20metadata.doc Four Horses For Tistry By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Price:  $5.49 (US) Imprint: Event Horizon EBooks/Event Horizon Publishing Group Published: June 19, 2015 eISBN:  Copyright © 2015  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Cover Art: Winter Bliss  ©  by Corey A. Ford Original Copyright © 1985 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro PRINT HISTORY: First edition Harper & Row Junior Books 1985 Print Pages: 218   Description:   Tishtry is a slave girl with only one goal in her heart -- to buy freedom for her family and for herself. It is no easy task, even for someone with her exceptional talents. She may well be the best stunt rider her family has ever produced, but how much money can she earn, far away from the rich arenae of Rome? Only when Tishtry's master lets her try her skills in some of the finer arenae of the Empire does she dare to believe she might one day be free. But greater rewards bring greater risks. Tishtry must learn flashy but dangerous stunts to please new and critical crowds. She must deal with corruption and incompetence at every turn. And for the first time, she faces the jealousy of other competitors -- jealousy that threatens her life as well as the realization of her dream.     As the big dapple mare came out of the turn at a gallop, the girl crouched on her back braced her feet and carefully straightened up. Together they flashed around the practice arena, the mare galloping steadily, the girl standing on her rump, arms raised. With a whoop, she vaulted into the air, did a somersault, and landed on her feet.   Bio: Chelse Quinn Yarbro A professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing - in 1961-2 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet.After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers. She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories. In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. In 2006 the International Horror Guild enrolled her among their Living Legends, the first woman to be so honored; the Horror Writers Association gave her a Life Achievement Award in 2009. A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco. She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and an experienced seamstress. The rest is catch-as-catch-can. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area - with two cats: the irrepressible Butterscotch and Crumpet, the Gang of Two. When not busy writing, she enjoys the symphony or opera.
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The Library: The Complete Series (All 8 Books) (2013)

The Library: The Complete Series (All 8 Books) (2013)

Amy Cross

Horror / Mystery & Thrillers

Once upon a time, there was a girl who wasn't a girl, and a book that wasn't a book... Kidnapped and taken to a huge, world-spanning library, Claire is shocked to discover the truth about her own life. Thrust into the heart of a battle for the library's fate, she quickly learns that the powerful Forbidders will stop at nothing in order to gain the one object they prize above all others. While the Forbidders wreak havoc, however, a great danger is edging closer. The darkness is reaching out across the void, threatening to destroy this world just as it has already destroyed countless others. As he tries to save the library, a tired soldier named Vanguard finally sees the truth and realizes that there's only one way for the library to be rescued from destruction. This volume contains all 8 books in the series. Book 1: Into the Library part 1Book 2: Into the Library part 2Book 3: The Roof of the WorldBook 4: Comes a WarBook 5: The Last GrandapamBook 6: The Soldiers of TeaBook 7: Shadows on the PageBook 8: Rise of the Forbidders Total word count is approximately 140,000. Also includes Broken Spirits (Lupine Howl 2.4), which was the first book to feature the library. Please note: this book contains violence and swearing.
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Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits

Jenna Bennett

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Literature & Fiction

A Cinderella story about a pregnant waitress who marries her boring next-door neighbor for his health benefits... only to realize he's the man she should have been with all along. What Kaylee Carter needs, is a friend with benefits. Health benefits, that is. An accidental pregnancy has left her jobless and broke, with no money to cover her car payment or rent, let alone prenatal care and childbirth. When next door neighbor Owen Taylor offers a marriage of convenience – room, board, and medical insurance – it’s an answer to prayer. But as they settle in together, Kaylee can’t help but wonder what Owen gets out of the deal. What Owen Taylor wants, is Kaylee Carter. Nice guy Owen has been quietly pursuing Kaylee for months, but she’s never given him the time of day. Now that he’s gotten her into his life and his bed, he’s not about to give her up. But when Kaylee’s baby daddy comes knocking, what will Kaylee do? Does she choose her husband, or her baby’s father? The man who knocked her up... or the one who put the pieces together afterwards?
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Fire Of Heaven Book II Threshold

Fire Of Heaven Book II Threshold

Bill Myers

Young Adult / Humor / Mystery & Thrillers

From Library JournalBrandon Martus is a confused young man struggling to cope with his unresolved grief over his sister's death and his father's paralysis. Then Martus meets neurobiologist Sarah Winerraub, who is performing research into parapsychology at the Moran Research Institute in town. Winerraub believes Martus has extrasensory abilities and coerces him into participating in her research. She is at first thrilled when he shows intense psychic abilities. Soon, however, both Martus and Winerraub find themselves in a fight between good and evil. Myers's (Blood of Heaven, Zondervan, 1996) exciting thriller pits the supernatural against the power of true faith and raises some interesting questions about the power of the unknown. A strong choice.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the AuthorBill Myers is the best-selling author of Blood of Heaven, McGee and Me!, The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle, Forbidden Doors, Christ B.C., and Journeys to Fayrah. He is a writer and director whose work has won over forty national and international awards and whose books and videos have sold over three million copies
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Assassin's Express

Assassin's Express

Jerry Ahern

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Professional & Technical

HANK FROST-THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAIN Hank Frost, the fast-talking, fast-shooting one-eyed mercenary captain, hires out to body-guard a returning, deep-cover female U.S. agent. He has to drive her from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C, where she'll report directly to the President of the United States. The brain of this unbelievably beautiful redhead carries a list of Communist agents holding positions of trust in the highest echelons of the CIA and FBI-men who have set both organizations on the trail of Frost and the girl with orders to shoot on sight. Add KGB hit squads and a killer blizzard as Frost makes the cross-country run and there's death behind every curve. And alone with the redhead, the one-eyed man learns that there are other kinds of curves that can even be more deadly...
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Martial Law

Martial Law

Franklin W. Dixon

Mystery & Thrillers / Juvenile / Adventure

Follow Frank and Joe as they save the lives of in a local Karate school!ATAC sends Frank and Joe to investigate a possible connection between two unusually harsh accidents at a nearby Martial Arts school. Enrolling in the school, of course, allows the guys to collect some serious clues--and to discover that this case may lead them dangerously close to their own circle of friends.
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Waiting for Love

Waiting for Love

Marie Force

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Contemporary

Sometimes the best offense is a good rebound... Adam McCarthy has had a really bad week. In addition to nearly losing his three brothers in a tragic boating accident, his now ex-girlfriend has double-crossed him right out of the successful computer company he founded in New York City. What he needs is a few days at home on Gansett Island to make sure his beloved brothers are safe and to get back in touch with what really matters—his family, his friends and the tiny island that soothes his battered soul. On the ferry ride home, he runs into an old family friend who's had her own share of heartache, and Adam helps her through some rough moments, sparking an unlikely alliance. Abby Callahan has come home to Gansett, single once again after her relationship with Dr. Cal Maitland blows up in her face. After two epic failures in the game of love, she's decided this is going to be the summer she busts loose and finally has some fun—and she's shaking things up in a big way! The new Abby swears, drinks, gets a tattoo, sleeps around and generally does anything her kinder, gentler alter ego wouldn't have dreamed of doing. Before too long, Adam has appointed himself her guardian and is determined that the only sleeping around she's doing is with him. That is... unless his brother Grant is willing to risk his newfound happiness with Stephanie to keep Adam from rebounding with his ex. And what happens when Adam and Abby realize their summer fling has taken a serious turn, especially when he gets the chance to return to NY and fight for the company that's rightfully his? Abby has already followed two men from Gansett. Does she have it in her to find out if the third time really is the charm? Another wild summer on Gansett Island is under way, complete with new stories for many of your favorite couples from past books! You'll also see more of Dan and Kara, David and Daisy, and find out whether Carolina has made peace with her relationship with the much younger and very sexy Irishman, Seamus O'Grady. Ready? Set? Let's go back to Gansett Island!About the AuthorMarie Force is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of 25 contemporary romances, including The McCarthys of Gansett Island Series, the Fatal Series, the Treading Water Series and numerous stand-alone books. Her new series, The Green Mountain Country Store, is coming in late 2013. While her husband was in the Navy, Marie lived in Spain, Maryland and Florida, and she is now settled in her home state of Rhode Island. She is the mother of two teenagers and two feisty dogs, Brandy and Louie. Subscribe to updates from Marie about new books and other news at http://marieforce.com/subscribe/. Follow her on Twitter @marieforce. And on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MarieForceAuthor. Join one of her many reader groups! View the list at http://marieforce.com/connect/. Contact Marie at marie@marieforce.com.
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The Quest for the Trilogy: Boneslicer; Seaspray; Deathwhisper

The Quest for the Trilogy: Boneslicer; Seaspray; Deathwhisper

Mel Odom

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

The secret to protecting the civilized world from an ancient threat may lie in the pages of three books…and it is up to master librarians of the past and present to secure these pages of knowledge.Set in the years after Lord of the Libraries, young halfer Juhg is still growing into his job as Grandmagister when an ally from the past, the wizened wizard Craugh returns with warnings of an ancient threat that may resurface--the so-called "Kharrion's Wrath" which endangers the existence of the world.  Juhg must now unlock the secrets contained in the journals of his now absent mentor Wick, the former Grandmagister and legendary hero known as "The Rover."  He must also continue his documented but clandestine search for a trilogy of books, which brings him through many different realms of their very dangerous world…and into conflict and contact with other races (elves, dwarves, and men) whose fates are all intertwined among the pages of the great book of...
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The Busy Body

The Busy Body

Donald E. Westlake

Mystery & Thrillers

Edgar Award nominee: A mob boss's right-hand man must track down a missing cache of heroin The corpse isn't anybody special—a low-level drug courier—but it has been so long since the organization's last grand funeral that Nick Rovito decides to give the departed a big send-off. He pays for a huge church, a procession of Cadillacs, and an ocean of flowers, and enjoys the affair until he learns the dead man is going to his grave wearing the blue suit. Rovito summons Engel, his right-hand man, and tells him to get a shovel. Inside the lining of the blue suit jacket is $250,000 worth of uncut heroin, smuggled back from Baltimore the day the courier died. When Engel's shovel strikes coffin, he braces himself for the encounter with the dead man. But the coffin is empty, the heroin gone, and Engel has no choice but to track down the missing body or face his boss's wrath.
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Guerilla

Guerilla

Mel Odom

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

He's behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet.In the jungles of Makaum, the Terran military is locked in a critical standoff over the planet's resources with the hostile Phrenorians, even as both species maintain uneasy relations with the locals. Tensions could ignite at a moment's notice. And Master Sergeant Frank Sage has just stumbled upon the spark plug.Alongside trusted Makaum scouts, Sage is running recon on what is possibly an unsanctioned Phrenorian military base.Deep in the savage wilderness, Sage recognizes the renowned Phrenorian warrior arriving on-site: Zhoh GhiCemid. As Sage knows firsthand, Zhoh's presence could mean trouble.Meanwhile, a mysterious faction of Makaum insurgents breaks the fragile peace with a reckless attack on the Terran base. Before the situation devolves into chaos, Sage must learn to think like his adversaries—devious friends and deadly foes alike.
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