The Ashen War - 10 years have the Republic of Medanni and the Kerma Union fought over the small Kingdom of Chimu, forever altering the Republic down to the faces one sees when walking its streets. But how did this come to pass? And what about the man responsible for it all? Eidoneas Ichorion, a man you could weave skin and muscle like others weave cloth. These records of the witnesses of the pivotal turning points of the Republic ́s history seeks to shed light on the war and its pivotal figures.
For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 2000
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Ray is in love with a girl. Ashley. They play volleyball together and are really good friends. But Ray wants more, she wants to kiss and to touch Ash and just be with her. The problem is, that Ash gives her mixed signals about their relationship until Ray desides to take the first step.
Azalea of Ashwood has finally made her peace with being forced to enroll at Serpent's Order Academy for Intelligence and Sorcery. As a woman falsely accused of witchcraft, and branded as an outcast in the kingdom of Xanthera, she knows she can never return to her former life again. Her only goal was to graduate as soon as possible and earn her freedom. But her ambitions seem to have taken her elsewhere. Impressed by her flawless grades, the headmaster of the Academy sends Azalea on a mission to infiltrate Xanthera castle by impersonating a new recruit of the king's most dangerous mercenaries. Never would Azalea have imagined that she would have to face the leader of the Black Knights again - the same man who had put her into this mess to begin with. Magical, dark and thrilling. For anyone who yearns for an adventurous fantasy story.
'Turmoil' is a collection of short stories and meditations on family, grief, immigration and heritage, viewed through the prism of different experiences, old and new, intimate and impersonal, all bound by the theme of discomfort and non-belonging.
"Supernatural suspense at its finest . . . It will scare the pants off you." —The New York Times Book Review Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along.
There exists a very strange tower within a very strange town. You'll probably never find it. Maybe you will, if you're lucky. (That is a lie, it's not a sign of luck to find the tower, please do not come looking for it.) There is, however, another way to find it - something strange and potentially horrible just has to happen to you. You see, those stories always find the tower, some way or another. By mail, by milk carton, by wind, by fax. It doesn't matter. The Librarian collects them all - or rather, in light of recent events, I should say that he used to collect them. For he is incredibly dead. There are a lot of demons in this world, and they can be damn hard to see. Have you been paying attention?
