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When the red star glares, danger stalks the land...In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted.When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home.Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad Lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down. When everything...
2) Fey West
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Fey do not forgive, and they do not forget. Neither do gunslingers. A half-breed born under a death sentence in the New World and saved from execution in the Old, Rafael West–half-elven druid turned gunslinger–returns to his homeland, wary and beholden to the high fairy who negotiated his release. To repay his debt, West is forced to protect and champion a dwarven railroad laying poisonous, cold iron across the wild lands of the fey continent,...
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The subject of 'Molluscs in Archaeology' has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow's Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology.
It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes...
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Atlanta's protectors are dying...A new enemy has stolen the phoenixes' immortality.Would one mortal really condemn millions just for revenge?A past but never forgotten mistake returns to haunt Quayla. Hiding a secret war is difficult enough without a madman stealing mortals she loves. It's a trap. Knowing doesn't change the rules and surrender might save the day.Could the detective hunting Quayla be her salvation?The Fallen fooled Vitae and cost...
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Wizard's Bane is on the warpath. The seditious young centaurs have become a force to be reckoned with, slaughtering wizards and sowing dissent within the fey. When opposition threatens to thwart their plans, they abduct dragonlings to frame their enemies at the risk of causing a full scale dragon war.
Jedediah is lost, thrusting his Guardian mantle onto his apprentices. Haunted by demons wearing Lanea's smile, Drake abandons Jordan in favor of drunken...
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Earth depends on its mercenaries to survive...Merc company taxes prevent mankind from starvation...Could any mercs be so greedy as to cheat the starving?Ronald Gerard didn't score high enough to join the companies. But he can still be a hero. Financial mischief fills the news, and Gerard knows the mercs are hiding things.Proving their guilt was just the beginning...
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Colonizing an alien planet is dangerous... ...moreso when you're pitting your will against a strange alien world without technology. Man against a planet, the winner's obvious, right? Sure, unless the colonists brought something with them even more dangerous than technology. Utosh isn't Sydney DeRaol's first anti-tech colony world. The skilled blacksmith has faced everything before - except for the demon's in his mind. Visions and nightmares haunt...
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Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to...
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A bottle swallowing mysterious tresures adrift in the sea.Golden doubloons and a map pointing to a deserted island.A pirate crew seeks out a hidden lair filled with riches while the mapmaker's hand rots away.What will they find?Easy plunder? A marooned sailor desperate for escape?Dreams of treasure lure the pirates closer to the ultimate prize, but will greed turn a mother's wish for her child into a living nightmare?
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The Ripples of One Selfish Mistake Could Drown the World...A phoenix has fallen, forever destroyed by the drowned druid's fury.Blinded by his obsession, Dunham unleashes his enslaved phoenixes against Quayla. The spectacular assault reveals the faeries to mankind, endangering the Exiled Lady's campaign to reclaim her throne. Desperate, Viviane trades one monster for another, offering Vitae his heart's desire.Terror and blood run rampant throughout...
11) Hijacked
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The Line Between Right And Wrong Is About To Become A War Zone...Manc Shepherd is alive, desperate and mad as hedrin.Before the hunt for payback even begins, the Corollas's deadliest killers target Manc as prey. Down to his last, most treacherous allies and his father's old fighters, Manc races against death to find the hapless boy who has endangered Manc's schemes by systematically foiling ambush, assassination, and betrayal.Two problems stand in...
12) Scraping Bottom
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Death consigns a young man to life aboard ship. He struggles to learn the ropes as part of a lone ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Except, is his ship alone?A strange fog stalks his ship. Sailors whisper of pirates and haunted derelicts. He must determine if the danger's real or a cruel joke on the new cabin boy.
13) Criminal Justice
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No one challenges the Voidrunners. No one robs their Rails. No one can beat their AI.Not until desperation forces one young man and his friends to defy the impossible.A motley crew of asteroid miners stage a hack on an FTL ship accelerator in a desperate act of piracy. Fate turns against them even before the heist begins. Reeling from complications, they raid the luxury liner caught in their trap only to face graver dangers...like betrayal.
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A dark spell enslaves the phoenixes. Dunham unleashes their elemental powers against those who murdered his family while the deposed Wyldfae Queen uses them to lure even bigger prey. Vitae's desperate crusade to save Mare takes a darker turn, putting him at odds with Quayla. With Quayla on the run and Vitae setting up his own kingdom, the Sidhe turn Atlanta into a bloody playground. An unexpected ally emerges to help Quayla's fight for freedom, and...
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When the angels could no longer be trusted, Heaven created her... Quayla's daring rescue has freed Atlanta's Shield, both saving and dooming the city. Ignis is lost to her. Terrance is corrupted. Vitae is once more free to terrorize the city and a tortured and tormented Mare has been wrenched from damnation itself. Even Summus, the Divine One meant to protect them all, has been drained nearly to death. Faery is on the march. Empowered with Summus's...
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Humanity is at risk...The fallen angels are up to something.Has she stumbled upon a plot to end the world?Quayla made a mistake and people died. It's not easy being an elemental phoenix trying to save humanity. There are rules to follow. Her boss, Vitae, doesn't like her and she has no idea why.Could he really want her dead?Detective Foxner has just caught a bizarre case. The bodies go missing and she's determined to figure out who's behind it. One...
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Fey both beautiful and vicious hide in the Georgia backwoods, guarded by four-hundred-year-old peanut farmer, bootlegger, and wizard Jedediah Shine.Protecting humanity and the fey from one another is normally child's play compared to teaching magic to his new foster daughter and a Cherry Coke addicted dragonling, parenting an out-of-control half-elven teen sorceress or keeping his jealous elven ex-lover away from his new girlfriend.Jedediah's delicate...
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This volume is derived, in concept, from a conference held in honour of John Evans by the School of History and Archaeology and The Prehistoric Society at Cardiff University in March 2006. It brings together papers that address themes and landscapes on a variety of levels. They cover geographical, methodological and thematic areas that were of interest to, and had been studied by, John Evans. The volume is divided into five sections, which echo themes...