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C J Cherryh

Foreigner #09 - Deliverer

C J Cherryh

Foreigner #12 - Betrayer

<h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>The twelfth book in Hugo Award winner C.J. Cherryh's epic <em>Foreigner</em> series. </strong> </p><p>The civil war among the alien <em>atevi</em> has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human <em>paidhi</em>, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power. </p><p>But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over. </p><

Caprice Crane

Forget About It

Jordan Landau is having a bad life. At twenty-five, she is attractive, smart, funny and talented. But all that doesn't keep her mother from calling her fat, her boss from stealing her ideas, and her boyfriend from cheating on her. Day in and day out, she sits back and watches as everyone walks all over her. <BR /><BR /><BR />Then one day while riding her bike home from a particularly awful day, Jordan collides with a car door and is knocked clear off her bicycle. Coming to in the hospital, Jordan realizes she has a perfect excuse for a "do-over"; she vows to fake amnesia and reinvent herself. <BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />And it works. Finally, Jordan is able to get the credit she deserves at work, and she stands up to her family and her jerk boyfriend. She's living the life she always dreamed of--until the unthinkable happens. Suddenly Jordan must start over for real, and figure out what really makes her happy--and how to live a truly memorable life. <BR /><BR /><BR /><

Alan Cook

Forget to Remember

Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. Government officially declares her a non-person and doesn't want anything to do with her. And nobody is looking for her—nobody, that is, except the person who left her for dead.<

Tera Lynn Childs

Forgive My Fins

SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Lily Sanderson, half-mermaid and half-human, has been living on land and attending high school where she develops a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him of her true destiny as the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Thalassinia. 40,000 first printing.<

Bernard Cornwell

The Fort

C J Cherryh

Fortress #01 - Fortress in the Eye of Time

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Despite a few brief, shining moments, Cherryh's (Foreigner) new fantasy novel (her latest SF novel is reviewed below) proves an overwrought concoction. After a moderately interesting foray involving Mauryl, the aging wizard who conjures a "Shaping" named Tristen, the meandering of the nearly empty-headed Shaping takes center stage for far too long. Tristen sets off upon a quest knowing neither who he is nor what he seeks. Fortuitous happenings eventually bring him to Cefwyn, a prince in line to rule the land, and to Cefwyn's wizard, Emuin, himself a former student of Mauryl's. (The villains here are of two types: nebulously motivated men and erotically minded women.) A series of escapades involving prosaically presented political machinations leads to an inevitable final battle?and to the likelihood of a sequel. Several plot threads, such as Tristen's similarity to a golem and an invocation of the "Thirty-Eight," indicate that Cherryh is leaning on texts of Jewish mysticism here, but it's unlikely that even the most diligent of kabbalists would have the patience to wade through this substandard work. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>I have to admit that, until now, I have never read any of C. J. Cherryh's work. A sad oversight on my part and one that I intend to remedy. After reading just one page it was easy for me to see why Cherryh had won three Hugo awards. I fully expect her to win many more inthe future. While there are many good authors inthe field of fantasy and science fiction it is rare to find one with such a powerful grasp of the english language, or one whose skill as a world builder could set her so far above the rest of us. -- <em>Midwest Book Review</em></p><

C J Cherryh

Fortress #05 - Fortress of Ice

Bryce Courtenay

FORTUNE COOKIE

Stephen Coonts

Fortunes of War

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Forty Stories

Anah Crow

Foundations of Magic #02 - Trammel

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">In the relative security of Atlantic City, Lindsay feels safe for the first time in his life. He and Dane even sneak away from their mage “family” for the occasional date.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">All that ends with the arrival of Noah, whose magic is a pure, wild fire fueled by terrible grief over the loss of his wife. To Lindsay’s great surprise, he is assigned as Noah’s mentor, protector and healer. His efforts to help Noah control his immense power aren’t without a few fiery slip-ups.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Just as Lindsay is rising to the challenge, word comes that Moore, the same scientist who once imprisoned Lindsay, has a young a girl who has just manifested a devastating new magic. The desperate mission to free her leaves Noah terribly wounded, Dane captured…and Lindsay the head of what’s left of the family.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">With the fate of Dane, his connection to Noah, and the lives of the family resting on his untested shoulders, Lindsay must trust the others—and himself—to save his lover. And everyone else who will suffer if Moore’s plans go unchecked.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span><

D M Cornish

Foundling

<h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p><em>Starred Review.</em> Grade 8 Up–This inventive debut novel follows Rossamünd Bookchild, a foundling boy saddled with an unfortunate name, as he ventures out from his childhood home at the orphanage into the wide world of the Half-Continent, a Georgian-esque society where humans wage an unending battle against the shadowy monsters of the wilds. (The tattoo of the series title is the mark given to the slayer of such a beast.) During his journey from boy to man, Rossamünd has his share of adventures, encounters a variety of colorful characters, and learns that the world is more complex and perilous than he was raised to believe. Including an extensive Explicarium (glossary) and pages of maps, diagrams, and character portraits, Cornish's world-building efforts show a depth and intricacy reminiscent of the work of J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert Jordan. While the elaborate jargon may bewilder some, the unique and fascinating Half-Continent, where ships with organic engines sail caustic vinegar oceans and monster-hunters gain supernatural powers through dangerous surgeries, is a delightful, refreshing standout in a sea of cookie-cutter fantasy worlds.<em>–Christi Voth, Parker Library, CO</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> Gr. 7-10. "Night, they used to say, was when monsters grew bold, when the knickers roamed and the bogles haunted." Rossamund Bookchild, a boy saddled with a girl's name, journeys from Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, assigned to wander the dark roads at dawn and dusk as a lamplighter. In the first book in the Monster Blood Tattoo series, first-time author Cornish gives the Dickensian orphan story an original spin as Rossamund faces a world at war with creatures such as the Grinnlings with their wicked, grinning mouths. The world building of the Half-Continent is expertly envisioned and peopled with intriguing characters: the evil Poundinch (who tricks Rossamund onto the wrong boat early in his travels) and the beguiling Europe, an experienced monster killer (and slayer of men's hearts), who prefers tiny x-shaped tattoos to mark her kills instead of the usual monster-faced blood ones. Readers wanting to immerse themselves further into Cornish's fantastic world can wander for hours through more than 100 pages of glossary ("Explicarium"), detailed maps, and drawings of uniforms and ships. Cornish has added his own impressive black-and-white portraits to give the characters additional substance. At the close, the protagonist is poised for his next adventure, with enough secrets, promises, and mystery to create impatient demand. <em>Cindy Dobrez</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p><

Arthur C Clarke

The Fountains of Paradise

In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.<

Jack L Chalker

Four Lords of the Diamonds 1 Lilith: A Snake in the Grass

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Four Lords of the Diamonds 2 Cerberus: A Wolf of the Fold

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Four Lords of the Diamonds 3 Charon A Dragon at the Gate

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David Cloud

The Fourth Star

EDITORIAL REVIEW: They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In *The Fourth Star*, you'll follow:•Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army's most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading. •Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him. •Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army's failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plans–yet rarely achieved the results he sought.•Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army's summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, he–more than anyone–changed the Army's conception of what was possible. Masterfully written and richly reported, *The Fourth Star* ranges far beyond today's battlefields, evoking the Army's tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.<

Robert Crais

Free Fall

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Stella Cameron

French Quarter

<div><p>The shocking death of her employer and patron Errol Petrie, the excesses suggested by the murder scene, and the investigation that is sure to follow are just some of the pieces of Celina Payne’s nightmare. And the last man she trusts is now the only man she needs. </p><p>Errol’s business partner and friend Jack Charbonnet, is powerful, enigmatic, and not about to let Celina hide from the truth. Somebody in New Orleans’ French Quarter killed Errol and Celina Payne tops the list of suspects. Jack’s past is as mysterious as the sultry bayou. He is said to be too dangerous to know, and deadly if crossed. Jack holds the key to Celina’s deliverance or her destruction... </p></div><

Edmund Crispin

Frequent Hearses

When Oxford don Gervaise Fen serves as a literary advisor on a film, he becomes involved with the death of a bit-part actress<

Jennifer Colgan

Fresh Blood

The deal is one life for another. Will Erica Talbot give her body, her mind and her soul to a vampire to save her sister one last time?<

Greg Cox

Friend or Foe

Kenneth Cameron

The Frightened Man

Walter Crane

The Frog Prince and Other Stories

SUMMARY: Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of Sixpenny Toy-Books of Nursery Rhymes in Three Colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of long visit to Italy following on his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.<

Patricia Cornwell

From Potter's Field

Patricia Cornwell

The Front

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning.Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides itrs"s time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the the murders and other violent deaths begin.A young man from a prominent family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh.Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names - and the pen may be poised to write her own.<

Dana Cameron

A Fugitive Truth

Cameron

Funeral Games

Satyrus and Melitta, twin heirs to a rich kingdom on the Black Sea, become desperate fugitives when their mother, the Scythian warrior-princess Srayanka, is cut down in a savage act of betrayal. Accompanied by their tutor, the Spartan Philokles, they must make a perilous journey west, pursued by ruthless assassins, to find sanctuary with the army of their father's closest friend, Diodorus. But Diodorus is caught up in the tangled web of alliances, betrayals and intrigue that followed Alexander the Great's death, as his generals fought over the huge empire he had created - and soon the twins will have their first taste of real battle as two Macedonian warlords clash. In this violent and unstable world, they must chose sides carefully, as Antigonus One-Eye, and his brilliant son Demetrius, prepare to take on the might of Ptolemy's Egypt, and the forces gather for the biggest and most spectacular battle the world had ever seen - Gaza.<

Jack L Chalker

G.O.D. Inc 1 - Labyrinth of Dreams

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G.O.D. Inc 3 - The Maze in the Mirror

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Michael Crummey

Galore

Glen Cook

Garrett P.I. #01 - Sweet Silver Blues

SUMMARY: It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.<

Glen Cook

Garrett P.I. #02 - Bitter Gold Hearts

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Garrett P.I. #03 - Cold Copper Tears

Glen Cook

Garrett P.I. #04 - Old tin sorrows

SUMMARY: In Old Tin Sorrows, hard-boiled private eye Garrett is back in action--trying to help out an old Army buddy, Blake Peters. Apparently, there is an unearthly plot on the life of Blake's boss, the wealthy General Stantnor. It is a tough case, but Garrett always gets his man, gnome or elf!<

Glen Cook

Garrett P.I. #05 - Dread Brass Shadows

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Garrett P.I. #06 - Red Iron Nights

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Garrett P.I. #07 - Deadly Quicksilver Lies

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