In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes a new mini-ice age & nearly simultaneously a plague to dwarf all previous experiences Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as “ Bandit Six” an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world & prevent the fall of his homeland—despite the best efforts of politicians both elected & military The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future a world that is a darkling mirror of our own Written “blog-style” it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science bad strategy & organic farming not to mention all three at once About the Author A veteran of the 82nd Airborne he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction His novels for Baen include those in the New York Times best-selling Posleen War series (A Hymn Before Battle Gust Front When the Devil Dances & Hell’s Faire) the Council War series (There Will be Dragons Emerald Sea Against the Tide & East of the Sun West of the Moon) the nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost Kildar Choosers of the Slain Unto the Breach & A Deeper Blue) the Looking-Glass series (Into the Looking Glass Vorpal Blade & Manxome Foe the last two in collaboration with Travis S Taylor) four collaborations with fellow New York Times bestselling author David Weber (March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars & We Few) & five collaborative spinoffs from the Posleen series The Hero written with Michael Z Williamson Watch on the Rhine & Yellow Eyes both written with Tom Kratman & the New York Times best seller Cally’s War & its recent sequel Sister Time both with Julie Cochrane ...

Seth is the oppressed kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel But when a strange gathering of magicians arrives for dinner their leader is poisoned A locked-room murder investigation ensues
- & Seth is the main suspect Can he solve the mystery & clear his name especially when magic's afoot? 336 pages Thornton Nicki
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Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart his father has disappeared & his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair Johnny keeps strong Armed with a map a bike & a flashlight he stalks the bad men of Raven County The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will Someone somewhere knows something they're not telling Only one person looks out for Johnny Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case But when Johnny witnesses a hit-&-run & insists the victim was killed because he'd found Alyssa even Hunt thinks he's lost it And then another young girl goes missing ...

Percy is a little pigeon & he's very hungry Life on the streets is tough & every time he tries to get hold of a scrap of food bigger beefier birds bat him away He's about to give up when someone offers him her very last chip A moving & uplifting story about struggle against adversity & the kindness of strangers 10 of the profits from the sale of the book go to The Trussell Trust supporting a network of 435 foodbanks across the UK ...

After the apocalypse no one is safe; not even at the North Pole After tragedy strikes Santa withdraws from life & turns his back on Christmas When he finally emerges from seclusion the old world is gone forever & as Santa struggles to find his way in a post-apocalyptic world can he find a way to save Christmas too? ...

When Reverend Josiah Crawley the impoverished curate of Hogglestock is accused of theft it causes a public scandal sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society but the scandal threatens to tear them & the community apart Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs With its sensitive portrayal of the proud & self-destructive figure of Crawley this final volume is the darkest & most complex of all the Barsetshire novels ...

John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series They must save themselves
- or die trying John Perry was
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Spring 1728 A young well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn The crowds jeer & curse as he passes calling him a murderer He tries to remain calm His name is Tom Hawkins & he is innocent Somehow he has to prove it before the rope squeezes the life out of him It is of course all his own fault He was happy with Kitty Sparks Life was good He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was 'bored & looking for adventure' He should never have offered to help Henrietta Howard the king's mistress in her desperate struggles with a brutal husband & most of all he should never have trusted the witty calculating Queen Caroline She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again there is nothing more silent than a hanged man Based loosely on actual events Antonia Hodgson's new novel is both a sequel to The Devil in the Marshalsea & a standalone historical mystery From the gilded cage of the Court to the wicked freedoms of the slums it reveals a world both seductive & deadly & it continues the rake's progress of Tom Hawkins
- assuming he can find a way to survive the noose
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London 1728 A young well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn They call him a murderer But Tom Hawkins is innocent & somehow he has to prove it before the rope squeezes the life out of him It is of course all his own fault He was happy settling down with Kitty Sparks He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was bored & looking for adventure He should never have offered to help the king's mistress & most of all he should never have trusted the witty calculating Queen Caroline She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again there is nothing more silent than a hanged man Based loosely on actual events Antonia Hodgson's new novel is both a sequel to The Devil in the Marshalsea & a standalone historical mystery From the gilded cage of the Court to the wicked freedoms of the slums it reveals a world both seductive & deadly & it continues the rake's progress of Tom Hawkins
- assuming he can find a way to survive the noose
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' Anything you do in the past changes the future The tiniest little actions have huge consequences You might tread on an ant now & it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology With the best & most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer beer drinker bush ranger & someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober In fact it's Rincewind a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard He's the only hero left Stillno worries eh? ...