Timequake

Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut

Science Fiction

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.
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August if for Ace

August if for Ace

Kaci Rose

Kaci Rose

A scarred ex-military man, a curvy veterinarian, and a broken promise... Ace I came to Mustang Mountain carrying my scars and the address to a bar my estranged left me. For the first time in my life, I felt like I'd found a home. Until one night with a curvy blond turned my world upside down. But when she saw my Mustang Mountain Rider patch, she ran. Now she needs protection, and I'm the first to volunteer. Once we get past what's holding her back, I'll be ready to wage war against anyone who tries to tear us apart. Everly Spending a few weeks filling in at the local vet clinic was supposed to be an easy favor for my dad. I never expected to meet Ace or that one night with him would break the one promise my dad asked of me. Now it doesn't matter how much my heart is involved, he is completely off-limits. Despite that, the more I get to know him, the more I can't help but fall for the man beneath the scars, discovering...
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The White Company

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction / Crime / Thriller

A historical adventure set during the Hundred Years\' War. The story follows a young man as he leaves the shelter of an abbey in England and becomes involved with Edward, the Black Prince\'s campaign in Spain. Doyle later wrote a prequel, titled "Sir Nigel", concerning the early life of one of the heroes in this novel. “We go to France, and from thence I trust to Spain, in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory. For this purpose I would have you know that it is not my wont to let any occasion pass where it is in any way possible that honor may be gained. I would have you bear this in mind, and give great heed to it that you may bring me word of all cartels, challenges, wrongs, tyrannies, infamies, and wronging of damsels. Nor is any occasion too small to take note of, for I have known such trifles as the dropping of a gauntlet, or the flicking of a breadcrumb, when well and properly followed up, lead to a most noble spear-running.” - Sir Nigel, “The White Company”
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The Bear Comes Home

The Bear Comes Home

Rafi Zabor

Rafi Zabor

The story of a saxophone-playing bear. A former circus performer, the bear was acquired by its owner in a poker game. The bear can talk and the novel follows its career in a New York jazz club where it discusses music with other players and falls in love with a woman
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The Maze

The Maze

Catherine Coulter

Suspense / Thriller / Romance

Dillon Savich is head of the FBI Criminal Apprehension Unit (CAU), where he has developed predictive analogue programs to help catch serial killers. Lacey Sherlock is a qualified new agent, bright and eager. A vicious murder in Boston sends her off like a shot, lying to Savich. They must find who killed Sherlock's sister seven years before.
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The Stolen Unicorn

The Stolen Unicorn

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

THE UNICORN DIDN'T JUST WALK AWAY. . . . Mari Cheng is the new girl in Nancy's class. She's kind of shy and doesn't talk much. On show- and-tell day Mari has a big surprise and she's really excited. But when the day is over, she's really sad. Mari brought in her special toy -- a beautiful unicorn with a silver mane -- and somebody stole it! Now what Mad needs most is a special friend to help her feel better -- and maybe find Silvermane. Someone like Nancy Drew!
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Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force

Airborne: A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force

Tom Clancy

Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers

They are America's front lines--serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of our nation's armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers an fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut--the people, the technology, and Airborne's mission in an ever-changing world...Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"--real world scenarios involving the airborne task forceAirborne's weapons of the 21st century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the fiber-optically guided N-LOS fire support system, and the Joint Strike Fighter18 weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert BrigadeExclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagramsPLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John Keen
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Old Books, Rare Friends

Old Books, Rare Friends

Madeline B. Stern

Madeline B. Stern

Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism.Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience...
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Lifted Up by Angels

Lifted Up by Angels

Lurlene McDaniel

Young Adult / Romance / Fiction

In this sequel to the bestselling Until Angels Close My Eyes, Ethan is now at the age at which a young Amish man is allowed to experience the non-Amish lifestyle before committing to the adults' rules.  In this inspirational story that intertwines love and tradition, Leah and Ethan must decide whether their feelings are strong enough to overcome family obligation.
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When They Tell You to Be Good

When They Tell You to Be Good

When They Tell You to Be Good (retail) (epub)

When They Tell You to Be Good (retail) (epub)

A TIME, BuzzFeed, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, them, The Week, Book Riot, Philadelphia Inquirer, Book and Film Globe, and Debutiful Best Book of FallWinner of the Hurston/Wright Crossover AwardPrince Shakur's debut memoir brilliantly mines his radicalization and self-realization through examinations of place, childhood, queer identity, and a history of uprisings.After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince's father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family's secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to terms with one's inner self while confronting the steeped complexities of the Afro-diaspora.When They Tell You to Be Good...
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Three Wogs

Three Wogs

Alexander Theroux

Alexander Theroux

National Book Award finalist, 1973 Alexander Theroux is a novelist, poet, and essayist. The most apt description of the novels of Theroux was given by Anthony Burgess in praise of Theroux's Darconville's Cat: Theroux is 'word drunk', filling his novels with a torrent of words archaic and neologic, always striving for originality, while drawing from the traditions of Rolfe, Rabelais, Sterne, and Nabokov. Three Wogs is composed as a triptych, displaying three extravagantly archetypal Londoners, each of whom undergoes a fateful encounter with his own particular 'wog'.'Wogs' is the disdainful British term for 'foreigners.' This novel is concerned with prejudices, cultural barriers, and language itself. In Theroux Metaphrastes, an Afterword specially written for the paperback edition, Alexander Theroux launches a spirited, witty defense of his literary style and his approach to fiction.
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Petals on the River

Petals on the River

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Romance / Historical Fiction

A proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her ... A man of secrets accused of a terrible crime ... In a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined --- in a glorious romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller KATHLEEN E. WOODWISS The fiery and outspoken adopted daughter of one of England's most formidable women, Shemaine O'Hearn has made powerful enemies. And now her adversaries have found a way to remove the hot-blooded beauty from her life of privilege: by falsely convicting Shemaine of thievery, and sending her in shackles to America, where she is to be sold in indentured servitude to the highest bidder. In a bustling port city in the colony of Virginia, she becomes the servant of Gage Thornton --- a shipbuilder with a young child in need of a nanny. And despite whispered rumors condemning the handsome widower for the untimely death of his wife, Shemaine cannot ignore her desire for this caring, generous and enigmatic stranger who silently aches with his growing need for her --- even as grave peril reaches out from across a vast ocean to threaten their flowering love.
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