Category: Fiction

By Ian Douglas

There's an unseen strength within the universe--a bad strength that was once dominating the galaxy tens of millions of years ahead of the warlike Sh'daar have been even conscious of the life of Sol and its planets. As humankind techniques the Singularity, while transcendence might be completed via know-how, touch could be made. within the wake of the close to destruction of the sun process, the political powers on the earth search a separate peace with an inscrutable alien lifestyles shape that nobody has ever visible. yet Admiral Alexander Koenig, the hero of Alphekka, has long past rogue, launching his fabled battlegroup past the limits of Human area opposed to all orders. With Confederation warships in scorching pursuit, Koenig is taking the struggle for humankind's survival on to a mysterious all-powerful enemy.

By Wendy Williams, Karen Hunter

Surprise jock extraordinaire Wendy Williams we could free with the 1st in a sequence of novels in line with her adjust ego, the divalicious radio DJ Ritz Harper. Ritz places the s in surprise and the g in gossip, and Drama is her heart identify.

Ritz is a suburban lady at the outdoors, yet inside of she’s a hustler’s hustler who’s masterfully maneuvered her means into the highlight after ruining the occupation of a well-respected newswoman (and former collage friend). Ritz’s “exclusive” rockets her to the pinnacle of the scores, and she’s rewarded together with her personal convey. Like a conversing Venus flytrap, she verbally seduces her on-air site visitors, in basic terms to have them for lunch as she spews gossip approximately their lives.

Ritz turns into the darling of the station’s afternoon slot. yet what occurs while Ritz is going from drive-time diva to drive-by sufferer? Has Ritz bad-mouthed the incorrect individual? Has her signature cat-and-mouse “bomb drop” been dropped on her instead?

As Ritz lies crumpled on a urban sidewalk, all she will be able to imagine as she struggles to take care of recognition is “Who did this to me? Who?”

Readers will salivate as they struggle to determine the place the fictitious Ritz ends and the real-life Wendy starts off. Wendy will contain her thousands of listeners by way of asking them what should still occur to Ritz, with a view to be printed at the start of the following novel, scheduled to be released in fall of 2006 for Christmas.

About the Authors
Wendy Williams is the host of The Wendy Williams event (WBLS 107.5 FM in NYC), which airs weekdays within the coveted 2 p.m.–7 p.m. drive-time slot, and has been named “Radio character of the Year” by way of Billboard. She is the writer of The Wendy Williams adventure and Wendy's bought the warmth, which debuted at #9 at the manhattan instances most sensible vendor checklist. Karen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, radio cohost (WWRL), and previous editorial board member of the hot York day-by-day information. Hunter has coauthored numerous long island occasions bestsellers, together with at the Down Low, via J. L. King, and Wendy Williams’ nonfiction books.

By Edgardo Vega Yunque

This sweeping drama of in detail attached families--black, white, and Latino--boldly evokes the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that's the United States. At its middle is Vidamía Farrell, part Puerto Rican, part Irish, who units out looking for the daddy she hasn't ever identified. Her trip takes her from her prosperous suburban domestic to the reduce East facet of ny, the place her father Billy Farrell now lives together with his moment kinfolk. as soon as a talented jazz pianist, Billy misplaced palms within the Vietnam struggle and has seeing that close himself off from jazz. As Billy's colourful new family members attracts her into their fold, so Vidamia determines to attract her father again into the area he left behind.

By Jorge Amado

For the 1st time in English: legendary Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's lively novella approximately Arab immigrants to South America—published for the centennial of Amado's birth

Two Arab immigrants—"Turks" as Brazilians name them—arrive within the tough Brazilian frontier at the related send in 1903, hoping to discover a destiny. They rub shoulders with gunslingers and plantation proprietors, and likewise tangle with retailers, one in every of whom is wanting to marry off his most unlikely daughter. therefore ensues a farcical drama that produces, in a funny twist, the unlikeliest of suitors during this whimsical Brazilian tackle The Taming of the Shrew.

By Patrick Robinson

Armed with stolen U.S. army expertise, the chinese language are generating a daunting new breed of weaponry,led by means of the ICBM submarine Xia III -- a vessel that simply may be able to release a nuclear warhead around the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city.

National protection Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't enable that ensue, and he dispatches the main stealthy hunter-killer submarine within the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the darkish, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. yet then the unthinkable occurs: Seawolf, collides with a chinese language destroyer and falls into enemy palms. A crew of crafty military SEALs -- the largest exact Forces attack workforce assembled considering Vietnam -- is distributed in to loose the captive Seawolf, group and convey them domestic. the yank Eagle confronts the chinese language Dragon with the stability of worldwide energy at the line. Failure isn't really an option...

By Alberto Moravia

The novels that the nice Italian author Alberto Moravia wrote within the years following the realm struggle II symbolize a unprecedented survey of the variety of human habit in a fragmented sleek society. Boredom, the tale of a failed artist and pampered son of a wealthy relations who turns into dangerously connected to a tender version, examines the complicated family members among funds, intercourse, and imperiled masculinity. This strong and tense learn within the pathology of contemporary existence is among the masterworks of a author whom as Anthony Burgess as soon as remarked, used to be "always attempting to unravel the human imbroglio."

By Shannon Hale

Jane is a tender ny lady who can by no means appear to locate the best man—perhaps due to her mystery obsession with Mr. Darcy, as performed by means of Colin Firth within the BBC variation of Pride and Prejudice. while a filthy rich relative bequeaths her a visit to an English hotel catering to Austen-obsessed ladies, in spite of the fact that, Jane’s fantasies of assembly the precise Regency-era gentleman by surprise develop into extra actual than she ever can have imagined. is that this overall immersion in a pretend Austenland adequate to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for stable, or may well all her desires truly culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?Don't pass over Shannon Hale's subsequent e-book, Midnight in Austenland, a secret set at Pemberly available in February, 2012.

By John Banville

On a languid midsummer’s day within the geographical region, previous Adam Godley, a well known theoretical mathematician, is loss of life. His kinfolk gathers at his bedside: his son, younger Adam, suffering to take care of his marriage to a radiantly appealing actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, packed with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their mom, Ursula, whose family with the Godley little ones are strained at top; and Petra’s “young man”—very most likely extra drawn to the daddy than the daughter—who has arrived for a perfectly ill-timed visit.

But the Godley relatives isn't on my own of their vigil. round them hovers a kin of mischievous immortals—among them, Zeus, who has his eye on younger Adam’s spouse; Pan, who has taken the doughy, perspiring kind of an outdated unwelcome acquaintance; and Hermes, who's the genial and omniscient narrator: “We too are petty and vindictive,” he tells us, “just such as you, once we are positioned to it.” As outdated Adam’s days on the earth run down, those unearthly beings begin to fan the flames of hassle, to often wildly unintentional influence. . . .

Blissfully creative and playful, wealthy in mental perception and sensual element, The Infinities is right away a gloriously earthy romp and a sensible examine the poor, extraordinary plight of being human—a outstanding novel from probably the most generally popular and acclaimed writers at paintings at the present time.

By R. A. Salvatore

“The Companions is the easiest novel [R.A.] Salvatore has ever written. It’s insanely brave, profoundly robust, masterfully built, and simply Salvatore’s such a lot formidable paintings to date.”—Paul Goat Allen, BarnesandNoble.com
 
“After 1 / 4 of a century, R.A. Salvatore simply retains recuperating and higher, and The partners is one other masterful step forward for one of many maximum delusion epics of all time.”
—Philip Athans, best-selling writer of Annihilation and The Haunting of Dragon’s Cliff

This most up-to-date installment in New York Times best-selling writer R.A. Salvatore's liked delusion saga, The Companions strikes Salvatore's signature hero Drizzt right into a new period of the Forgotten nation-states. As Drizzt's destiny hangs within the stability, he displays at the lives of the depended on allies who stood by means of his part all through his early life--the acquaintances referred to now because the partners of the corridor. in the meantime, the 1st stirrings of the Sundering start.

By Gerald Kersh

With The music Of The Flea (1948) Gerald Kersh revisited the demi-monde of his well-known evening And town; yet this novel issues a author, striving doggedly to make his dwelling. "A amazing novel ...with this publication Mr Kersh has taken an important step forward". (Sunday Times). "[Kersh] has a awesome expertise ...he is without doubt one of the relatively few residing novelists during this kingdom who write with power and originality and whose principles usually are not drawn from a residuum of novels which have been written before...[The music of the Flea] is the tale of John Pym, a tender guy attempting to earn his residing as a writer...Mr Kersh attracts on his picturesque and convincing wisdom of human vileness in a way that is either unique and instructive". (Times Literary Supplement).