At a summit staged with banners, troops, and ceremonial menace, Marshal Vladimir Ignatov and President James Warren Donlevy perform the rituals of Cold War hostility for the cameras. But once the pageantry falls away, the two old adversaries reveal a sharper truth: they know each other well, and they know their world is trapped in a system that survives on permanent conflict. Over drinks and blunt conversation, they trade jokes, grievances, and candid assessments of their nations' failures...

Seymour Pond has spent years hauling himself through the claustrophobic, joyless grind of interplanetary flight, surviving Moon, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter runs, as well as the mental strain known as space cafard. At last retired with enough Basic shares to live by his own modest standards, he sees his gold watch and banquet honors not as a loss to humanity, but as a hard-won escape from danger, duty, and misery. Yet in a future ruled by an Ultrawelfare State, comfort can be as controlling a...

A USA Today Bestseller#1 Toronto Star Bestseller in Canadian FictionA Globe and Mail Bestseller in Canadian FictionA Vancouver Sun Bestseller in New ReleasesAn Indie Next List Pick (May 2024)An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense (May 2024)Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month (April ...

An epic new Star Trek novel celebrating the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series!THREE LIVESA child mourns the mother she’ll never know; a scion of privilege falls into disgrace and yearns to redeem his sullied name; and a young Starfleet officer who dreams of a life lived amidst the stars receives his first starship command...each of them unaware that the threads of their lives are fated to be eternally intertwined.

Markham Gray, a seasoned journalist returning from Triton, expects a dull journey home—until a strange shape appears on the vision screen and the ship's instruments begin to fail. What starts as idle curiosity becomes a tense first-contact crisis when an unknown vessel shadows the craft, prompting the captain and crew to assume the worst and prepare to attack. Then comes a calm message: the strangers are not hostile. Back on New Albuquerque, the encounter explodes into a public and politic...

Daytime was fine. Just a mother and daughter, getting by. But when the little one went to sleep, the nights got long and lonely. Her stepdad always told her she didn't need anyone but Angie, her roommate at the time. Easy for him to say, with his own wife right there beside him. Life played a cruel joke. She didn't know anyone who could've played the hand she was dealt. Pick one person over another and suddenly you're an outcast. No shoulder to cry on. The trials and tribulations made her ...

Escape to the sun and head off to Italy, with the wonderfully warm and ever-so-page-turning Leonie Mack!'Wonderfully romantic - the perfect summer read' Sandy BarkerTV journalist Lou feels battered and bruised after her divorce from Phil, the father of her daughter Edie. Her confidence and sense of fun have steadily been drained away, and she isn’t sure who she is any more.When the opportunity arises to accompany Edie on a music camp in I...

From one of the most exciting and accessible voices in physics, an eye-opening look into the strange and wonderful world of quantum physics and how it is revolutionizing our understanding of the universe.What is the universe made of, and how do we know? For decades, physicists have studied this question, circling the most fundamental yet enigmatic building blocks of our world; descending to a level below even atoms, and into the subatomic, mysterious particles and ...

When a strange spacecraft lands in a field, state patrolmen Larry Dermott and Tim Casey are first on the scene—and quickly find themselves face-to-face with an alien named Dameri Tass. Unable to understand his language, they watch in baffled disbelief as he offers a metal-capped translation device, only for Tim to collapse in pain before the device finally lets him speak with the visitor, albeit in a thick brogue that deepens the comic chaos. Dameri Tass is fascinated by Earth's horse and ...

In this heartfelt and honest second-chance love story, Seraphina Jones thought she was moving on. The algorithm had other plans.Newly divorced Seraphina Jones has returned to the corporate world after four years as a stay-at-home mom. She loves her job at prestigious Hamilton Hotels & Resorts, but the transition from playdates to boardrooms has been tricky, leaving her little space for anything else as a single mom.Encouraged by her friends to start dating ...

Escape to Venice with the perfect feel-good romantic read from Leonie MackWho can resist the romance of Venice…When Norah arrives in Venice for a ten-week internship she is surprised to discover that her guide for her work trips around the lagoon is the undeniably gorgeous and kind Gianluca. She can’t help thinking he might be too good to be true, with his endless fascinating local stories, and his infectious laugh.Norah is still bitter after an a...

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