It is 240 years since humans have settled on Samaria, fleeing a war-torn planet and vowing to eschew all high technology. Before abandoning their technical skills entirely, however, some of the settlers were bioengineered to have wings. Now their descendants, the "angels," govern the Samarians, and
In the tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Piano Teacher, a heart-wrenching debut novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite pain of love When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn’t believe him. Her
Lucina is a Greek girl who grows up in an utopian enclave, Elysium. As she matures, her natural psychic talents unfold, putting her at odds with the skeptical, scientific philosophy of Elysium. So she and two friends sail to Rome. There she becomes a priestess in a Delphic temple, dispensing wisdom
Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting
"The Mummy" (1999) is an adventure remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff film. The film goes back to ancient Egypt, where High Priest Imhotep is embalmed alive for his affair with the Pharaoh's mistress. The action then moves to 1920's and a group of archaeologists. This is the novelization of the film.
The Lawrence Browne Affair is the story of a reclusive scientist who falls in love with the confidence artist posing as his secretary.
This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPH Told in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second
Once, when she was a mere lady's companion, Harriet Pope had spurned the attempted seduction of the Duke of Tenby. Now, six years later, she is the wealthy, titled widow of an older man, and she is the one who sets out to seduce the duke. Yet when she succeeds, it is to the discovery that an affair
Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don’t invite her to parties. Some are big, like that fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there’s the one that she can barely even admit to herself—the one about how she
Set in present-day Dublin, No Country for Young Men involves an Irish-American targeted for elimination by terrorists, an unsolved 1922 murder, a moving love affair, a mad nun and what happens to a society when memory displaces thought.
