The explosive sequel to "Specter of the Past." As the threat of the gathering Imperial Moffs grows, the fledgling New Republic struggles to consolidate its power. Han, Luke and Leia must prevent the genocidal war being prepared against the Bothans. Meanwhile, the cunning Major Tierce has perpetrated a grand deception--the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn from the dead.

The space blockade runner, Jordan McKell, is hired by an industrialist to deliver a superfast star drive to Earth. His ship is spotted by aliens who are maintaining the blockade and the chase is on.

During a war in a fantasy land, a prince captures an enemy woman and they fall in love. But their nations' politics dictate that they separate and they both marry within their own culture. One day, however, fate will reunite them.

A collection of eight Christmas stories by science-fiction author Connie Willis about church choirs, presents, pod people from outerspace, wishes that do and don't come true, stars and shepherds, wise men and Santa Claus, and other trappings of the season.

The Seven Kingdoms are torn by strife as the three surviving contenders for the throne continue their struggle for power, Robb Stark defends his fledgling kingdom from the ravaging Greyjoys, Winterfell lies in ruins, Jon Snow confronts an escalating threat from behind the Wall, and Danerys Stormborn and her dragon allies continue to grow in power. Here is the third volume in George R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones...

Anxieties over marriage, home and work amplify the eeriness of Golden's engrossing suburban horror novel. Michael and Jillian Dansky are heading home from a Halloween party when they give a young girl on the road a lift to a strange old mansion. She leaves them with the injunction to "come find me," and suddenly their lives are no longer the same.

A young girl lives in the palace garden, an outcast because of the strange inky tattoos around her eyes. These markings hold entire stories of enchanted beasts, magical horses, wizards, and other magnificent and mysterious beings, part of an intricately woven tapestry of tales that make up the history of the exiled girl. When a young prince convinces the girl to tell him one of her stories, he begins a journey that will bring him a little closer to...

Marla Mason is the target of a renegade assassin, a situation that worsens as she and her partner Rondeau deal with a troubled psychic who has escaped from the Blackwing Institute for criminally insane sorcerers.