"Affirming his loyalty to the Desert Dancers, Mercurian prince Kemal Gavilan struggles to secure his planet's future by overcoming jis family's treachery and solving his father's murder. But he must save the inner planets as well. RAM has its own solar laser and is looking Mercury's way. The Dancers must decide if they'll give up their art for peace. Set in the conceivable twenty-fifth century world of Buck Rogers, MATRIX CUBED is written by Britton Bloom, a contributor to AMAZING Stories, Fantastic Stories, and Issaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine."

The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.

I'd dealt with plenty of lawbreakers in my time as a cop, but none of them ever looked at me the way grizzly-shifter Grayden Larchmont did. He was trouble with a capital T—big, brooding, and infuriatingly handsome. I should've been focused on doing my job when I busted him brawling in that illegal fight club, but instead, all I could think about was the way his dark eyes seemed to see right through me. Locking him up should've been simple. Grayden was reckless, stubborn, and clearly dangerous—not just to my career, but to my heart. The only thing more maddening than his smart mouth was the way he made me feel, like I was the only thing keeping him from breaking apart entirely. But then everything changed. Someone was gunning for me, and Grayden was suddenly all growl and protectiveness, stepping into the line of fire without a second thought. He called me his mate like it was the most natural thing in the world, and no matter how much I...

Rose Fenemore is taking a break from her Cambridge teaching post in an isolated cottage on the island of Moila. One evening, she is shocked to discover an attractive stranger, Ewen Mackay, in her kitchen, who claims to have grown up in the cottage. She is tempted to believe him, when another man seeks shelter from the storm. John Parsons also rouses Rose's skepticism...and more tender feelings as well. And as the truth about the two men unfolds, the stormy petrels, fragile elusive birds who fly close to the waves, come to symbolize Rose's confusion and the mystery of her future.... From the Paperback edition.

"The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the first time. In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfiting encounters, unlooked for connections and moments of isolation that span generations and decades. Letters From Klara proves yet again her mastery of this literary form."

From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels comes this posthumous collection of thirty-six literary essays that will make any fortunate reader view the old classics in a dazzling new light. Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys The Odyssey contains, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are a pinnacle of twentieth-century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino covers the classics he has loved most with essays that are fresh, accessible, and wise. Why Read the Classics? firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.   From the Trade Paperback edition.

The American soul in its many shapes and guises has always been Norman Mailer's primary literary interest. Now, here in the full maturity of his powers, he confronts that subject face to face. Harlot's Ghost is Mailer's masterpiece, his crowning achievement, his long-awaited great American novel. It is a vast novel of the CIA, and a deep look into the depths of the American soul from which the CIA--its people and its works--emerged.

<p><strong>RELEASING 2/14/2023!</strong></p><p>Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free—no matter how much it might hurt her.</p><p><em>The intro follows . . .&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p><strong>Lisane:</strong></p><p>My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight.</p><p>But I wasn't accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek—or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.</p><p>The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage...We'd been running away from the Deathless . ....

While vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Nancy, Bess, and George learn that one of the hottest rock groups around is filming a music video at their resort. But something sinister is brewing beneath the palm trees, turning the island retreat into a danger zone.

Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.

A brand NEW thought-provoking story of sisterhood, love and lies from bestselling author Caroline Finnerty. Sisters Laura and Penny were once close, bonded together after the early death of their mother. Laura always had her younger sister's back until one day everything changed and Penny disappeared. Twenty years later Laura finds herself alone and at a crossroad in her life; questioning her marriage and her future. Meanwhile Penny has spent her whole life running away from her problems until one day she is forced to stop and face the shocking truth. When Penny turns up on Laura's doorstep late one stormy night, holding the hand of a shivering little girl, Laura is immediately suspicious of her sister's motives. Just what does Penny want and who is this little girl? Penny carries a devastating secret that will test their bond as sisters and is forced to make an impossible choice. Can the sisters find it within their hearts to forgive and unite...