Inbote stood alone in great brightness. His eyes were restored, and focused on the immense doors before him. Slowly he walked toward them, wondering at the shining that came through the tiny space beneath. As he drew nearer he saw that their surfaces were composed of purest diamond, black with the emptiness of the void, in which all Essence is born and annihilated each moment…-----The people of Earth whispered the name in fear…the Overmind…the powerful entity which could reactivate the dreaded machines of long ago, before the last great war.I War had changed the planet in strange and terrible ways. But one thing had not changed.’War still went on.In this troubled world, a brighter destiny has brought together an intrepid band of adventurers—among them an ancient scholar possessed of vision like no ordinary; man, a royal warrior, and the frail but unafraid young woman with whom he has fallen in love.Across dangerous lands and through evil perils, they will venture to the secret place of the overmind - somewhere not in space but in time - to a rendezvous with the beginning of a new future for their world.

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91% of the vote. Much as John Berendt did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and the hit podcast S-Town did for Woodstock, Alabama, so Richard Grant does for Natchez in The Deepest South of All. With humor and insight, he depicts a strange, eccentric town with an unforgettable cast of characters. There's Buzz Harper, a six-foot-five gay antique dealer famous for...

Not even Kaspian himself knows precisely what happened to him during his unaccounted-for ninety-six hours -- though he does remember a light, three evil leprechauns, his dead father, and a frighteningly seductive angel-like being. The adults who control the sullen, disaffected teenager's immediate destiny view his disappearance -- and his silence about it -- as acts of passive-aggressive rebellion to be nipped in the proverbial bud. But Kaspian believes his memories and emotions are precious treasures belonging to him alone. Now he must staunchly defend them from his born-again stepmother, a megalomaniacal alternate education tsar, sexually ambiguous counselors, corrupt Washington politicos, and wacko ufo abduction theorists. Recent events suggest that the laws of what's possible on this living Earth are constantly changing. And Kaspian must find his own way into the heart of the Great Mystery.

A single mom and self-described witch, loses custody of her daughter after she is attacked by a number of gossiping, right-winged crusaders. The award-winning author of Through the Heart, writes a poignant novel of a mother's love and her journey to regain both her own life and that of her daughter.**

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counterintelligence agency brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, D.C., on a perilous mission. Despite his best efforts, Oskar is compromised, and must immediately find a way to sneak back into Germany unnoticed. A childhood friend introduces him to Lena, a Socialist and fellow expat, and they hatch a plan to have Oskar pose as her husband as they cross the Atlantic on a cruise ship filled with Nazis and fellow travelers. But bad luck follows them at every turn, and they find themselves messily entangled with the son of a U.S. Senator, a White...