Andrew M. Greeley--Emerald Magic_ Great Tales of Irish Fantasy
Title: Emerald Magic_ Great Tales of Irish Fantasy Author: Andrew M. Greeley File Type: Mobi Subject:Fantasy Short Stories Description:From Publishers WeeklyIt has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storytelling. In 15 tales, 13 of which are original to the volume, a variety of modern seanachies (or storytellers), whether Irish by blood or only intention, are inspired by both modern culture and mythic legend to play upon the ancient Celtic theme of how closely the mundane exists with the magical. This parallel nature allows the Irish to serve the Christian God as well as the pagan sidhe, as they do in Judith Tarrs The Hermit and the Sidhe, or a young man, in Elizabeth Haydons The Merrow, to discover himself heir to both the powerful magic of the sea and the magical land of Ireland. Editor Greeley, a Catholic priest, in Peace in Heaven? tells an earthy story of sidhe and seraphim that might make his bishop blush. Love can be a sorrowful thing, as it is in Jacqueline Careys The Isle of Women, or it can triumph over a vengeful spirit and the Grey Man himself, as in Charles de Lints The Butter Spirits Tithe. Some stories are tinged with darkness, but have a favorable ending, like Tanith Lees Speir-Bahn, an eerie tale of shape-changing. Peter Tremayne, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple also contribute worthy stories. Whether a true child of the Ould Sod or Irish only on St. Patricks Day, the reader will find plenty to celebrate here. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewA sheer delight of grand storytelling.---Publishers Weekly on Emerald Magic
Title: Nefertiti
Author: Michelle Moran
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:This fictionalized life of the notorious queen is told from the point of view of her younger sister, Mutnodjmet. In 1351 B.C., Prince Amunhotep secretly kills his older brother and becomes next in line to Egypts throne: hes 17, and the 15-year-old Nefertiti soon becomes his chief wife. He already has a wife, but Kiyas blood is not as royal, nor is she as bewitching as Nefertiti. As Mutnodjmet, two years younger than her sister, looks on (and falls in love), Amunhotep and the equally ambitious Nefertiti worship a different main god, displace the priests who control Egypts wealth and begin building a city that boasts the royal likenesses chiseled in stone. Things get tense when Kiya has sons and the popular Nefertiti has only daughters, and they come to a boil when the army is used to build temples to the pharaoh and his queen instead of protecting Egypts borders. Though sometimes big events are telegraphed, Moran, who lives in California and is making her U.S. debut, gets the details just right, and there are still plenty of surprises in an epic that brings an ancient world to life.
Title: The Lost
Author: Nora Roberts
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:
**J. D. Robbs *Missing in Death*** investigates a female tourists disappearance during a ferry ride. Detective Eve Dallas wonders...if she didnt jump, and shes not on board, then where in the world is she?
** In Patricia Gaffneys *The Dog Days of Laurie Summer***, a woman awakens to a familiar yet unsettling world.
In **Mary Blayneys *Lost in Paradise***, a man locked in an island fortress finds hope for freedom in an enigmatic nurse.
And **Ruth Ryan Langans *Legacy*** belongs to a young woman who unearths a family secret buried on the grounds of a magnificent but imposing Irish castle.
Title: I Shot You Babe
Author: Leslie Langtry
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Contemporary
Romance
Description:
Perennial grad student Veronica Gale gets more than she bargained for when her latest dissertation project puts her in the path of PHosopherassassincarnival-ride operator Coney Bombay-and an unsolved murder that might just kill her, too.
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
File Type: Mobi
Subject:classics
Description:
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate reader friendly type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of A Tale of Two Cities includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy in England. Together, their love touched the hearts of even stodgy banker Mr. Lorry and cynical, jaded lawyer Sydney Carton...But in Paris, the fires of revolution exploded in uncontrollable fury. The noble goals of freedom fighters became the crazed bloodbath called the Reign of Terror. And when three exiles returned home on an errand of mercy, they were trapped in a nightmare of mock trials and made rage. Once in Paris, nothing could save Darnay, Lucie, or Manette...Except a miracle.
Title: Money_ A Suicide Note
Author: Martin Amis
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction
Description:Amazon.com ReviewAbsolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the 80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in strongMoneystrong musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career. Hailed as a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display (_The New Republic_) and exhilarating, skillful, savvy (_The Times Literary Supplement_) when it made its first appearance in the mid- 1980s, Money is Martin Amiss hilarious portrait of one mans relentless pursuit of pleasure.
Title: The Ghostway
Author: Tony Hillerman
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
Title: Nightmare
Author: Steven Harper
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave.