Planet earth was no longer a pleasant place to live.-We were 50 light years from Old Earth when the ship’s computer network alerted us. Every screen flashed three times, and Saul Gilpin’s voice sounded a warning. “Listen carefully. The Universe is alive with beings whose minds can and do reach through the space you are now in. It is not concepts that they project, but raw emotion. No matter what comes to your minds, you must not echo, you must not be afraid.”  We sat there in silence. I felt chilled. I thought of mind-tendrils, reaching out to me, out from the burning suns, the icy darknesses…

Meet the SOS---the Strange Occurrence Squad. This is the government's weapon against forces it won't admit to and can't explain. Theresa's a psychic, Clint's a tough cop, and Malcolm's an expert on everything weird. You won't read about them in the paper, but any werewolf could tell you their names. They're the ones we call on when our nightmares turn real.

She was the Golden King sitting astride a red-gold horse, Shantih would prance to the stable, mane and tail blown out into strands of light, her head carried high, honouring the Child. It would be the most terrific nativity play that Glenbost had ever seen. It is Christmas, and Glenbost is putting on a nativity play. Jinny has been asked to be one of the three kings, riding Shantih. Glory, thinks Jinny. Glory for her and for Shantih, when the village sees the majesty that is her horse. The run up to Christmas is not the only thing on everyone's minds. There is a poaching operation running on the moors, threatening the deer and the white stag. The deer are being rounded up and slaughtered, driven to their deaths by a helicopter swooping low over the moors. 'Only the red horse you ride can save,' Sara tells Jinny, but Jinny does not want to believe it.

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There are places on Earth where magic worlds beckon . . . where the other folk dwell RIDDLE, RING, AND QUEST In Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, tales are told of strange lights, of mysterious roads . . . of wondrous folk from enchanted realms. All these are hidden from mortal men and those who have the gift to look on them are both blessed and doomed. . . . Young David Sullivan never dreamed that the myths of marvels and magic he loved were real. But in his blood was the gift of Second Sight. And near his family’s rural farm lay an invisible track between worlds . . . where he would soon become a pawn in the power game of the Windmaster, an evil usurper among those the Celts called the Sidhe. David’s only protection would be a riddle’s answer and an enchanted ring . . . as he began his odyssey of danger into things unknowing and unknown. . . .

When those aliens entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were catastrophically disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew were pitched into the center of a galactic maelstrom, becoming key players in a power game which could cause an intersteller war, or bring the last hope for peace between eight barely compatible alien races.

A novel about downsizing from a life of ease and upgrading to one of sleaze. Many people would kill to be Domina Tey. She's one of life's successes: an award-winning playwright living in a beautiful house with an equally celebrated writer. But she isn't happy. Life is too easy. It's becoming stultifying, negating her creative force. She decides upon a spell of sleazy living to give both her work and her soul a spring-clean – and elopes with her typewriter in search of just a hint of degradation. She finds it in Bayswater. Safe in bedsit land, she immediately sets about getting to know her neighbours. However, her careless plotting of their lives leads to consequences both tragic and deliciously entertaining.

Although airlines throughout the world operate on Greenwich Mean Time so far as their crews are concerned, the journey of over 1,500 miles from Winnipeg to Vancouver involves three local time zones: Central Time, Mountain Time, and Pacific Time. This double resetting of the clock each time to put the hands back an hour, would be chronologically confusing in the story which follows. One standard time, therefore, has been assumed throughout. It is hardly necessary to add that the events, the airlines, and all the persons mentioned are entirely fictitious.

It is by making innovation an intimate, intentional part of the business that A. G. Lafley - the Jack Welch of the 21st century - has recently transformed Procter & Gamble from a $39 into a $76 billion dollar company that touches more than 3 billion people around the world. On the brink of collapse when he joined in 2000, it became a model for growth and innovation. In this inspiring and practical book Lafley explains how making innovation more than just a stand-alone activity enabled him to turn around growth, productivity and the bottom line. As this book shows, innovation can become a reliable and repeatable game-changer for any business in all areas of the organisation, from the CEO's desk to the everyday activities of each employee. By using new insights and easy-to-relate-to stories from P&G and other companies - describing, for example, the best way to brainstorm, and the "innovation portfolio" - this book is destined to become as influential as Good to Great and...

Another powerhouse thrill-ride from the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Sanders's The Tenth Commandment is a masterpiece of murder and intrigue, featuring a detective's hunt for a team of killers who've turned religion into a racket for revenge.

Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the old mansion, but something ominous in the present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on his new gastronomical assignment, strange things begin to happen. First it's a scream in the night, then a vanishing houseboy. But when his old girlfriend disappears, something has to be done. Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum set out to solve the mystery--and find a murderer!

The remarkable Brigadier Ffellowes, whose exploits are legend, has returned, and along with him comes a sense of wonder that is increasingly difficult to find in contemporary fantasy.Ffellowes of course is the retired British general who is a link between our bustling twentieth century and a world that is full of the bizarre and fantastic.The Curious Quests of Brigadier Ffellowes is a collection of six episodes gathered here for the first time, in hardcover form. Among them are tales of Arthurian legend, Roman remains, and Atlantean survivals.

Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker's widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son's curious silence. Across the street in Kick's Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first encountered the poet, a man who enters her life and, unwittingly, changes everything. As the summer progresses, the lives of these characters become entangled, and darker, more sinister currents gain momentum.The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart's first novel, received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France and marked the brilliant debut of a major voice in Canadian fiction.From the Trade Paperback edition.