Catalog Search Results
1) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The second volume in the continuation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.In 1855, while Victor Hugo continues to write Les Misérables on the Isle of Guernsey, he learns the story of Jean Valjean's continuing journey, taking him and his companion, the former Inspector Javert, from France in 1833 to the London of Dickens; from there the pair are drawn to the walled city of Québec, where awaits another attempted revolution which threatens Jean Valjean...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
October 31, 1855. Celebrated author and social champion Victor Hugo, in exile from France, is forced to relocate to the Isle of Guernsey. En route across the Channel, the trunk containing his unfinished masterpiece, Les Misérables, is lost overboard! But fate deals Hugo a strange blow as he begins to recreate the book with the help of the very people he was destined to immortalize, and he discovers what really happened the night the barricades fell,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Victor Hugo continues to write his masterwork Les Misérables while he becomes more and more familiar with the people he will immortalize: Jean Valjean and his family. But not everyone welcomes Hugo's curiosity, especially as Valjean relates to Hugo how he and Javert encountered an old acquaintance and Marius rediscovered something long thought lost to him while struggling to keep his marriage to Cosette from disintegrating. And who is the mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Description
The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor...
5) Natta Magus
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Natta Magus has a chance to do the one thing he's wanted since he got stuck in ancient Rome: Go back home to 21st century Detroit. But there's a catch. He must do one last job for Octavian Caesar Augustus. The same tyrant a-hole who had him kidnapped from Carthage where he was celebrating with his friends and new girlfriend, Helva Ptolemy. A rogue Roman agent is accumulating magical weapons from the 21st century to overthrow Augustus and start a new...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a strange time. Daemons lurking at every turn. And those are the least of his worries.Remington Blakes, a magus from an alternate twenty-first century powered by magic, is abandoned in ancient Rome by his mentor without any memory of how or why. Forced to make a living as a magus-for-hire, he takes on the name "Natta Magus" and begins his journey to uncover the truth behind his mentor's betrayal.When Natta learns his mentor has conjured daemons...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Tom est un esclave humain et Renat son maître loup-garou et amant, dans un univers alternatif mis au début du XXe siècle, en Angleterre, entre l'aristocratie des loups et leurs esclaves humains. Est-ce que Tom peut repousser les tentatives de Renat de l'attirer dans une affaire d'amour – et pas seulement des services sexuels – pendant le dîner de recherche en mariage que la mère du loup a arrangé? Tom jette un regard sur ses rivaux -- les...
8) Falcon Heart
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Love against hate, dagger against sword . . .Slavers seize Kyrin from the coast of Britannia and sail for Araby. With a dagger from her murdered mother's hand, an exiled warrior from the East, and a peasant closer than a sister by blood, Kyrin is determined to overcome her fear of the blade and escape.But the falcon dagger is at the root of intrigue, martial skill, and danger within the caliph's court. It haunts her through tiger-ridden dreams, love,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The gods are gone. All of them.Since they left, mythical creatures of all shapes and sizes have been forced to Earth as refugees dependent on the goodwill of humans. Trouble is most humans don't have much goodwill ... Then there's Jean-Luc, a struggling hotelier who promised to help these wayward 'Others' live in this new GoneGod world. It's a promise that just might get him killed. In the past year alone, his hotel was blown up, his best friend -...
10) Nubian Sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Reuniting after so many years was the simple part. There was neither pretension nor doubt that they were going into the future together as man and wife, come what may.Only, what comes nearly tears them apart
Author
Description
Playing with Time can be dangerous. Dr. Martin Chamberlain joined the Chronos Project to research mysteries of the past. But when an alien race plays games with earth's history, their interference ripples through time. Now Martin must travel to the ancient past to save the present. Can Martin counter his opponents' moves before they eliminate the reality he knows? Book Two: Rematch Once again an alien race has tampered with Earth history, challenging...
12) Loup Rebelle 7
Author
Language
Français
Description
Tom est un esclave humain et Renat son maître loup-garou et amant, dans un univers alternatif mis au début du XXe siècle, en Angleterre, entre l'aristocratie des loups et leurs esclaves humains. Est-ce que Tom peut repousser les tentatives de Renat de l'attirer dans une affaire d'amour – et pas seulement des services sexuels – pendant le dîner de recherche en mariage que la mère du loup a arrangé?Dans les terrains de la grande maison, Tom...
13) Wounded Magus
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that everyone who wants to save the world always needs to destroy it first?" Natta Magus watched the granddaughter of Cleopatra literally leap into hell to save him and Augustan Rome from annihilation. The least he could do was bust her out. So along with a slave-turned-magi apprentice and his self-appointed chronicler, Natta sets off for Alexandria, Egypt, where he hopes to find a way into the Egyptian underworld. But he soon comes face-to-face...
14) Shadow Magus
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
He's the only magus in ancient Rome. Or so he thinks.Natta Magus is getting used to life in Augustan Rome. While it doesn't have twenty-first-century perks like baseball or coffee, at least his unique magical skills can help his Aventine Hill friends.But the Roman government has noticed his talents, and they call on him when a religious artifact from Rome's ancient past is stolen. Natta discovers the thief is a magus as powerful as him, which should...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request