It has been nearly 16 years since Mercedes Lackey's first Valdemar novel, Arrows of the Queen (February 1987). In that time, the world in which Valdemar is but a single country has become a rich and varied place full of all manner of wonderful folk, from the heroic Heralds of Valdemar to the
Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life—a mother out to numb the pain, a father losing a battle with his own private demons, and a sister desperate for closure. But now another teenage girl has
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like new Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time, flying the revolutionary ship, Hooded Swan. The rain forest of Chao Phrya seems a
Easily the most provocative book ever written about Africa by an African. For the first time, an African, like no one else is best qualified to, confronts the Myth, the Lies and the Propaganda, employed by the foes of Africa, in the attempt to ridicule the continent and her peoples. The book is
Sixty country days and sixty country nights—that’s all I wanted. I needed to get away from the city, away from the hot mess that had become my life. When I stumbled upon my childhood home on RentBnB.com, I took it as a sign, cleaned out my life savings, and hightailed it to the only place that
Northern Hungary streches north east from Budapest, from the great Danube Bend as far as the river Tisza. The official boundaries are the Slovak-Hungarian border to the north and Road 3, which follows the edge of the Great Hungarian Plain, to the south.
She is an outcast among knights Her reputation in ruins, her knighthood revoked, and her future bleak, Erielle de Gladiel would have welcomed death as her due. Captured by pirates, she was beaten, whipped, branded a thief—and worse—and then set adrift to die. She did not expect—or even want—to be
Young Polish photographer, MARTIQ, in a prefatory note to his hardcover book of black & white photographs, remarks that his subject (early to late teen boys) enthalled his attention for five years. "What fascinated me so much were the hundreds of life stories I saw in my models' eyes." In
Cody Mcfadyen’s thriller series starring FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett series is an enormous bestseller around the world. Now this electrifying writer and his vulnerable, fearless heroine have returned. Smoky heads a team of FBI agents who hunt down the most horrific of criminals. That’s only
