Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999512308
Pushed out of her village, Sage's only option is to begin the grueling trek to the city, a place so evil in her imagination that she might be better off if she didn't make it. The dangers she faces and the challenges she must meet on her trek are only the beginning of the much greater journey she has begun, carried on the sound of the hooves of the Plainsrunner.
Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999512340
It was just a quick visit to see his friend's home world, but it turned into a run for their lives. Pursued by the state police for the crime of blasphemy, and by the revolutionaries to protect their secrets, Tallgrass and Phi soon run out of options. They must take the risk of trusting strangers to try a final desperate plan. Failure will mean not just the end for them, but disaster for Phi's world. Success will depend on their courage and their friendship.
Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999512324
Business as usual turns out to be something else. When Tallgrass shuttles diplomatic staff out to the big cargo vessel, it turns out to be not as routine as expected. When a merchant tries to set up shop there, he discovers another meaning for business as usual. Business as usual a million kilometers from home has a lot in common with the business of greed and intimidation back on the street. When the aliens came, returning their stolen resources, Tallgrass thought it meant a bright, enlightened future for his people. When he finds more of the same old thing, he's tempted to forget about it and just do his job. Why should it matter to him who's running the business? Honest merchants or thugs and criminals, what business is it of his? It would be easy to keep his head down and mind his own business, but it's not likely to work out that way.
Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999512383
Vin Stone left the courthouse feeling good. The inquest had turned out as well as could be expected, maybe even better, and now he was on his way home. Time to get back to a normal life after six months of disruption and uncertainty. Vin was a good walker. Thirty or forty blocks were nothing to him. When he was in the zone, he could catch all the traffic lights without breaking stride. He knew the city well and had an instinctive sense of how long it would take him to walk anywhere. In the clean spring air, he couldn't think of much that would be better. Things were back to normal. Life was good. Then he met the red haired girl. More accurately, she ran into him and knocked his life back off the rails. Vin Stone wasn't looking for trouble that fine spring day, but it must have been looking for him.
Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1738140008
Vin Stone is a freelance accountant who loves to walk to meet with his clients and to visit his friends. He feels about the concrete sidewalks the way a bear might feel about the forest. It's his natural habitat. He also loves coffee and when someone vandalizes the source of his beans, he works with the police to find the culprits. It turns out to be more than a simple case of vandalism and before he's done, Vin learns how far he is willing to go to help his friends.
Author : TurtleMe
Publisher : TurtleMe
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2024-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
It is no easy thing, to give a person—any one person—the ability to rewrite the truth of power in this world. How could any one being hold in their hands the key to fate and not succumb to the inevitable corruption of such a thing? Arthur Leywin’s quest for the power he knows only as Fate becomes even more pressing as his most dangerous foes gain a terrible new power of their own. But when the war between the dragons of Epheotus and the basilisks of Alacrya erupts across Dicathen, the people Arthur cares about most find themselves trapped in a clash of deities. The only way to master Fate and protect them, though, is to place them directly in harm’s way in the ultimate gambit.
Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999512367
Vin Stone decided to take a diiferent route home from the baseball game that night and discovered a side of the city that was completely new to him. Normally he walked with his friend Boe, on bright, familiar streets, but on this night he felt like he needed a change. He got a change, but it wasn't anything like what he expected. Gunshots on dark, misty streets. Punks on streetcorners. Homeless in an alley. Maybe he should have walked with Boe. Vin was a good walker. Thirty or forty blocks were nothing to him. When he was in the zone, he could catch all the traffic lights without breaking stride. He knew the city well and had an instinctive sense of how long it would take him to walk to any client. If they were outside a reasonable walking distance, they wouldn't become his client. They could find another accountant. He knew the city well, but he didn't know this part of it. It wasn't the sort of place where clients of his would be, so he had no reason to come down here. It was run-down, and on this damp night, it was dark. Long before he would get home, he would learn a few reasons to not come this way again, especially in the dark.
Author : Erin Hoffman
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616147709
Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations. By opening the gate between worlds, Vidarian released the Starhunter, goddess of chaos. With her coming, wild magic returned to the world of Andovar, bringing with it shape- changers and strange awakened elemental technologies, including many-sailed ships powered by air magic, and mechanical automata lit from within by earth and fire. Now, Vidarian discovers that the Alorean Import Company is determined to eliminate two- thirds of this new life on Andovar in the hopes of hoarding more magic for themselves in a new, worldwide plutocracy. Along with his human, gryphon, and shapechanger allies, he must stop the Company if he is to safeguard any future for the diverse life of Andovar, including his and Ariadel's newborn daughter. With the existence of whole species hanging in the balance, Vidarian is locked in a race for the future of the world.
Author : Jo Erickson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
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ISBN : 131207633X
Author : R. C. Lane
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 164701932X
Melody, a strong-willed young woman, falls in love with a merchant's son, who has dreams of traveling the Oregon Trail to set up his own shipping and mercantile store. Melody's father, the bishop of the biggest church in Boston, disapproves of John Turner and his family of merchants. The bishop gives into the marriage but would have never agreed to John and Melody's plan to cross the Oregon Trail to start their life and business together. John decides to go Oregon first to set up shop and promises to send for Melody later. Melody cannot wait, and against her family's wishes, she buys passage on a trail wagon to reunite with the love of her life. The wagon train faces challenges and Indian attacks, which sends Melody on to a new path and way of life when she is rescued by North Star, a kind medicine man and spiritual leader of the Cree nation. God sets into motion the birth and rise of Spirit Walker, who is the son of John Turner but adopted as the son of North Star and the Cree nation. Spirit Walker grows up to be a Cree warrior, a healer, and a man of God, who in a vision is told by God of the path he must follow and the need to find the man in black.
