Download Eleanor of Castile (PDF) by Sara Cockerill

Download Eleanor of Castile (PDF) by Sara Cockerill

PDF: 416 pages

Publisher: Amberley (November 19, 2014)

Language: English

Eleanor of Castile has been effectively airbrushed from history, portrayed as the archetypal submissive queen. In fact Eleanor had perhaps one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. Her childhood was spent in the center of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her famed military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her intellectual polymath brother. Married at the age of twelve and a mother at thirteen, she gave birth to at least fourteen children, most of whom died young. She was to live for extended periods in five different countries, venture on Crusade and endure destitution and captivity amid a civil war in which her husband’s life was in acute danger. As Queen of England she enjoyed, alongside Edward I, the full glory of returning Crusaders and conquerors.

Personally she was a highly dynamic, forceful personality who acted as part of Edward’s innermost circle of advisers, and successfully accumulated a vast property empire for the English Crown. In cultural terms her influence in architecture, design and even gardening can be discerned to this day, while her idealized image speaks to us from Edward’s beautiful memorials to her, the Eleanor crosses, the most complete and ornate set of monuments to a beloved spouse ever seen in this country.

About the Author

Sara Cockerill shelved an early passion for history to obtain a first class degree in Law from Oxford in 1989 and be called to the Bar in 1990. She has since been practising as a barrister specialising in commercial disputes and indulging her historical interests in such spare time as she could find. She has spent ten years researching Eleanor of Castile. She is married with one cat, and divides her time between London and the seaside.

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Download This Shattered World (Starbound) PDF by Amie Kaufman

Download This Shattered World (Starbound) PDF by Amie Kaufman

Age Range: 12 - 18 years

Grade Level: 7 - 12

Series: Starbound

PDF: 400 pages

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (December 23, 2014)

Language: English

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.

Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. 

Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. His sister died in the original uprising against the powerful corporate conglomerate that rules Avon with an iron fist. These corporations make their fortune by terraforming uninhabitable planets across the universe and recruiting colonists to make the planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion. 

Desperate for any advantage against the military occupying his home, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape base together, caught between two sides in a senseless war.

The stunning second novel in the Starbound trilogy is an unforgettable story of love and forgiveness in a world torn apart by war.

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Download Storm' Fury: The Shenkar War PDF by Seth Libby

Download Storm' Fury: The Shenkar War PDF by Seth Libby

PDF: 546 pages

Language: English

Many lives were lost when Earth was thrown into a ferocious battle for the own survival. In the end the survivors of the EDF Sacrifice and the people of Earth beat back the Shenkar assault of Earth. 

Now the world has united with the common goal; build a unified fighting force, both in space and on the ground, to protect the Earth of the eventual return of the Shenkar. 

Commander Liam Brennan, leader of the Templar knights, must learn to control his abilities. Learning to maintain control of his emotions as to prevent a reoccurence of what happened aboard the Tryliene. 

With the new fleet almost complete, the fear of the Shenkar return comes to fruition and once again the human race fights a desperate battle for survival. With victory, the leaders of Earth realize they will never be left alone by the Shenkar and they must act. They also learn that not every Shenkar feel the way of their leaders and that Liam Brennan is being whispered of within the Shenkar Federation both as a hero and an enemy. 

Join Liam Brennan as he and the rest of the Templat Knights head forth, taking the battle to the Shenkar Federation. Their agenda:To contact other races who may wish to join them, to break the chains of Shenkar rule.

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Download All That Heaven Will Allow (PDF) by D.W. Marchwell

Download All That Heaven Will Allow (PDF) by D.W. Marchwell

PDF: 200 pages

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (November 21, 2014)

Language: English

Jimmy Campbell has owned his own bar for the past twenty years. While his past is troubled, his present and future make life worth living. He has good friends, more than enough money, and he volunteers—along with his Yorkie, Bozo, and his Maine coon cat, Miss Alicia—at the local hospital every Friday. He couldn’t ask for more. That is, until he meets Derek “Dizzy” Roberts.

Derek is a musician who tours the country with his band. He’s an ex-cop, was married once, and has the bitter ex-wife and two spoiled children to prove it. He's finally living his dream, and that includes bedding all the groupies who think he’s every bit as good as his music. He doesn’t worry much about the future, until he meets Jimmy.

The two men begin a long-distance romance, sneaking weekends here and there, until a tragedy forces them to realize they might lose the only thing they both want—a future together. Now, they’re asking for everything heaven will allow.

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Download Messenger's Legacy (Demon Cycle) PDF by Peter V. Brett

Download Messenger's Legacy (Demon Cycle) PDF by Peter V. Brett

Series: Demon Cycle

PDF: 136 pages

Publisher: Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover Edition edition (November 30, 2014)

Language: English

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.

Briar Damaj is a boy of six in the small village of Bogton. Half-Krasian, the village children call him Mudboy for his dark skin. When tragedy strikes, Briar decides the town is better off without him, fleeing into the bog with nothing but his wits and a bit of herb lore to protect him.

After twenty years, Ragen Messenger has agreed to retire and pass on his route to his protégé, Arlen Bales. But for all that he's earned the rest, he has no idea what to do with the rest of his life. When he learns Briar, the son of an old friend, is missing, Ragen is willing to risk any danger to bring him safely home.

About the Author

Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and Dungeons & Dragons, Peter V. Brett ('Peat ' to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University of Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. He lives in New York City.

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Download Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? PDF by Karen Dawisha

Download Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? PDF by Karen Dawisha

PDF: 464 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 30, 2014)

Language: English

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.

Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.

Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”

About the Author

Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of the University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She has written five previous books, eight edited volumes, and numerous journal articles, and continues to do research and teaching in the areas of post-communist transitions and Russian politics.

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Angelina's Bachelors (PDF ebook) by Brian O'Reilly - download

Angelina's Bachelors (PDF ebook) by Brian O'Reilly - download

PDF: 384 pages

Publisher: Gallery Books; Reprint edition (August 9, 2011)

Language: English

Sometimes the shortest distance between two people is the length of a kitchen table. . . . 

Far too young to be a widow, Angelina D’Angelo suddenly finds herself facing a life without her beloved husband, Frank. Late one night shortly after the funeral, she makes her way down to the kitchen and pours all of her grief and anger into the only outlet she has left—her passion for cooking. In a frenzy of concentration and swift precision, she builds layer upon layer of thick, rich lasagna, braids loaves of yeasty bread, roasts plump herb-rubbed chicken; she makes so much food that she winds up delivering the spoils to the neighbors in her tight-knit Italian community in South Philadelphia. 

Retiree Basil Cupertino, who has just moved in with his kindly sister across the street, is positively smitten with Angelina’s food. In a stroke of good fortune, Basil offers Angelina (not only husbandless but unemployed) a job cooking for him—two meals a day, six days a week, in exchange for a handsome salary. Soon, word of her irresistible culinary prowess spreads and she finds herself cooking for seven bachelors—and in the process discovers the magical power of food to heal, to bring people together . . . and maybe even to provide a second chance at love. 

Filled to the brim with homemade warmth, Angelina’s Bachelors is a sweet tale of overcoming grief, redefining family, and following your heart—through food.

About the Author

Brian O’Reilly is a writer and producer.  He was the creator and executive producer of Food Network’s Dinner: Impossible.  Angelina’s Bachelors is his third book and first novel, after Mission: Cook! and Impossible to Easy.  His culinary collaborator is his wife and partner, Virginia, a lifelong cook and culinary producer of their production company.  In a perfect world, they believe, there’d be pie every day.

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Download Hotter Than Helltown (PDF ebook) by S M Reine

Download Hotter Than Helltown (PDF ebook) by S M Reine

Series: Preternatural Affairs

PDF: 264 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (June 17, 2014)

Language: English

A killer is mutilating bodies in Los Angeles. Agent Cèsar Hawke is on the case, but the murderer is ahead of him—way ahead of him. Wiping the memories of the dead so that the team’s necrocognitive can’t talk to them? Done. Preventing magical reconstruction of the crime scenes? Oh yeah. And the murders keep getting more brutal while Cèsar struggles to catch up. The best way to heat up a cold case is to go to Helltown, where Los Angeles’s most powerful evil hides out, but even those demons are afraid of the murderer. Their fear adds one more question to the growing pile of unknowns: What kind of bad guy is too hot for Helltown?

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Download Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter PDF by Richard Parks

Download Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter PDF by Richard Parks

PDF: 288 pages

Publisher: Prime Books (January 22, 2013)

Language: English

In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Kenji, whatever the difficulty - ogres, demons, fox-spirits - for a price Yamada will do what needs to be done, even and especially if the solution to the problem isn't as simple as the edge of a sword. Yet, no matter how many monsters he has to face, or how powerful and terrible they may be, the demons Yamada fears the most are his own!

About the author:

Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats. He collects Japanese woodblock prints but otherwise has no hobbies since he discovered that they all require time. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's SF, Realms of Fantasy, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and numerous anthologies, including Year's Best Fantasy and Fantasy: The Best of the Year. He's been a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.

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Download Faithful and Virtuous Night (PDF) by Louise Glück

Download Faithful and Virtuous Night (PDF) by Louise Glück

PDF: 80 pages

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition (September 9, 2014)

Language: English

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry

A luminous, seductive new collection from the “fearless” (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as “a major event in this country’s literature” in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.

You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it’s the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight’s undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you’ve always known, that first primer where “on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball” and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, “the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball.” Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

About the Author

Louise Glück is the author of eleven books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Download Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (PDF) by Hermione Lee

Download Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (PDF) by Hermione Lee

PDF: 512 pages

Publisher: Knopf (November 18, 2014)

Language: English

The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century.

Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. She would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature—the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 

Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable writer’s story. Lee’s critical expertise is on dazzling display on every page, as it illuminates this extraordinary English life. Fitzgerald, born into an accomplished intellectual family, the granddaughter of two bishops, led a life marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop’s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. We see Fitzgerald’s very English childhood in the village of Hampstead; her Oxford years, when she was known as the “blonde bombshell”; her impoverished adulthood as a struggling wife, mother and schoolteacher, raising a family in difficult circumstances; and the long-delayed start to her literary career. 

Fitzgerald’s early novels draw on her own experiences—working at the BBC in wartime, at a bookshop in Suffolk, at an eccentric stage school in the 1960s—while her later books open out into historical worlds that she, magically, seems to entirely possess: Russia before the Revolution, postwar Italy, Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgerald’s novels are short, spare masterpieces, and Hermione Lee unfurls them here as works of genius. Expertly researched, written out of love and admiration for this wonderful author’s work, Penelope Fitzgerald is literary biography at its finest—an unforgettable story of lateness, persistence and survival. 

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Download New Regime (Rune Alexander 5) PDF by Laken Cane

Download New Regime (Rune Alexander 5) PDF by Laken Cane

PDF: 296 pages

Language: English

Rune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality. 

But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex seems to have brought with it. 

The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there. 

But he hasn't been able to build monsters he can use or sell...until now. 

Now Rune must follow a path of horror that leads from a little werefox named Megan to a town full of evil in Reverence, Kentucky, and find a way to defeat something worse than blades or guns or bombs. 

Magic. 

She can't use her claws on magic. 

Can she? 

In book five of the Rune Alexander series, Rune must deal with not only the monsters, but the escalating tension between the berserker and Owen, flashbacks from the COS attack, and the fear that she's losing Levi to the chasm of darkness started by Karin Love and deepened by the slayers. 

She and her crew will fight with everything they've got to defeat the evil, even if some of that darkness lives inside each one of them. 

Because they're Shiv Crew, and that is what they do.

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Download Sanctuary (Rise of the Empire 2) PDF by Ivan Kal

Download Sanctuary (Rise of the Empire 2) PDF by Ivan Kal

PDF: 215 pages

Language: English

A new start, six hundred light-years from Earth. 

Tomas Klein, founder of Olympus, has brought his people to a new world, free of constraints of Earth governments. 

But, a new world brings new dangers. Tomas Klein will need to set aside past regrets, and rise up to the challenge. 

Adrian Farkas, commander of Olympus warship Athena, will need to use all his skills when even more responsibility is put on his shoulders. 

New allies appear, just as new foes threaten the peace of Sanctuary. 

Sanctuary is the second book in the "Rise of the Empire" series, it continues the story from Olympus, and follows a part of humanity that chose to split off from Earth and make their own way to the stars.

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Download Abracadaver (Esther Diamond 7) PDF by Laura Resnick

Download Abracadaver (Esther Diamond 7) PDF by Laura Resnick

Series: Esther Diamond Novel (Book 7)

PDF: 336 pages

Publisher: DAW (November 25, 2014)

Language: English

R.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous 

Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job.

She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion -- especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job, in order to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop.

But Esther's fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7—and, more to the point, on Lopez's new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting the city from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan...

Corpses suddenly aren't staying quite as dead as they should.

While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn's role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone's dinner plans one cold winter night...

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Nothing Ventured (pdf ebook) by Jay Northcote - download

Nothing Ventured (pdf ebook) by Jay Northcote - download

PDF: 141 pages

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press; 1 edition (November 12, 2014)

Language: English

When Aiden agrees to run the Mad Mucker—a twelve-mile muddy slog over an obstacle course—he’s expecting it to be a bit of a laugh. The training will be tough, but Aiden could use the motivation to regain some fitness. 

Matt is the sexy cousin of one of Aiden’s coworkers and a last-minute addition to the team. When he agrees to train with Aiden, Aiden suddenly finds the prospect of regular workouts a lot more appealing. 

Soon attraction flares, and they embark on an intense physical relationship. Matt doesn’t want to fall in love with a man, and Aiden doesn’t want to fall in love at all, but despite their insistence on no strings, they grow closer. As the day of the race approaches, time is running out for them to work out how they feel about each other.

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