'People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon
Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for
development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building
of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and
regrettably your planet is sceduled for demolition. The process will
take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you'
For Arthur Dent, earthling and homeowner, the severe case of planning
blight announced above is the overture to a quite remarkable set of
travels, guided en route by an equally remarkable book - a book more
popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, cheaper than the
Encyclopedia Galactical, it's THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE
GALAXY!
Prophet
John Barrett, anchorman for "NewsSix at Five", the city's most watched
newscars, has a problem. His comfortable, successful world is being
jarred to the breaking point. He's caught his producer skewing a story
to fit her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks - and she
appears to be hiding something much bigger. His father's "accidental"
death suddenly isn't looking to accentental. Carl, his estranged son,
has returned to challenge his integrity and prove to find the man
behind the TV image. The supposedly professional and objective
newsroom is now divided and fighting over Truth. And what are the
mysterious "voices" Barett is hearing...
This Present Darkness
Ashton is your typical little, insignificant town. But when a
skeptical journalist and an attentive minister start to compare their
conclusions they suddenly discover that they are in the middle of a
fight against a cunning New Age conspiracy, which is trying to gain
power in the town as the first step to rule over the world.
The Blue Castle
At twenty-nine Valancy had never been in love, and it seemed romance had passed her by. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she found her only consolations in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle. Then a letter arrived from Dr. Trent - and Valancy decided to throw caution to the winds. For the firt time in her life Valancy did and said exactly what she wanted. Soon she discovered a surprising new world, full of love and adventured beyond her most secret dreams.
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war
and reuntited with her husband on a second honeymood - when she
innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that
dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach - an "outlander" in
a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our
Lord... 1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny
is soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the
forbidding Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the
intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life... and
shatter her heart.
Leaning on a Spider's Web
On Laburnum Terrace several very different people live. The closed
street with terrace houses and the two big houses are as a model of
the large society. Through a year we get to know the people through
good times and bad. We see what they build their lives upon, and
through it all we know, that one day it will all end very violently.
The reader gets a clear impression of that most of what we lean on, is
like a spiders web.
Wizard's First Rule
One man, Richard Cypher, holds the key to the fate of three nations,
of mankind. But until he learns Wizard's First Rule his chances of
succeeding in his task are slim. And his biggest problem is admitting
that magic exists at all...
Pope Joan
January 28th, 814 the village priest Ingelheim does not feel blessed by haven gotten a daughter, Joan. The girl turns out to be very intelligent, but the mediaeval society, not to mention her father, would much prefere to see a pair of dilligent hands working with thread and needle. Fortunately a tutor discovers Joan's abilities, and by his intervention she is sent to Dorstadt together with her brother, to go to school. She concentrates on her studies, and enjoys her secret crush on Gerold, but the peace is put to a sudden stop when Dorstadt is attacked by vikings. Joan survives and pretends to be her deceased brother in order to be accepted as a Benedict munk.
It was more than her dream house. For Ellen March, buying the secluded
old house nestled in the pine woods marked the start of a new life.
Not she could put her failed marriage behind her, enjoy the quiet
solitude of a small town life, and get to know her worldly new
neightbour, handsome Norman McKay... But strange visions began to
cloud her mind - the shadowy figure of a woman, a ghostly white cat -
and Ellen's safe haven slowly became her prison. Had she buried the
past? Or had a dark legend come back to haunt her...?
The Wild Swans
FROM THE OLD WORLD England, 1689: Banished from her
father's house, Lady Eliza Grey's one wish is to find her long-lost
brothers. She does, only to discover them enslaved by a strange and
terrible magic. Now, caught in a fairly tale turned real, she vows to
break the spell and free those she loves - even though her loyalty may
cost Eliza her life...
TO A NEW WORLD New York, 1981:
Banished from his father's house, Elias Latham's one wish is to find
acceptance. He does, only to discover his new family and friends
falling prey to a dreadful and mysterious plague. Now, caught in a
nightmare turned real, Elias vows to stand beside those he loves -
even though his faithfulness may him his life...
Two struggles.
Two curses. Two tales. One truth.
Set against the superstition and splendour of the eleventh century, the engrossing story of Rob J. Cole unfolds. A penniless orphan, Rob was blessed with a gift which, in the days of witchcraft, could send a man to the stake: he had the ability to sense the chill hand of death when it settled on the living. His skill quickened with the potency of knowledge and he knew he was born to heal and to be a physician. His quest would take him from the rough roads and seething streets of Britain to the sumptuous and corrupt courts of Persia and the school of the greatest healer of his time. Disguised as a Jew, toiling as a war surgeon in the conflicts of dazzling Eastern empires, he would be helped by mighty patrons and threatened by plague and the cruel prejudice of mullahs and clerics. And always beside the pure flame of learning there burned a fierce passion - for the fiery-eyed beauty of the woman he could never leave.
Dr Robert Judson Cole flees from his native Scotland for the New World to practise medicine in Boston and learn the healing powers of nature from the Sauk Indians. We follow the career of his son, Robert Jefferson Cole - Shaman to everyone who knwos him - and his family as they are drawn, along with the rest of America, into the conflict between North and South.