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Galactic Corps

Ian Douglas

Galactic Corps

War is foreverThe people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, thirty thousand light years from home, know all too well the horror that still lives.In the year 2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war that has been raging non-stop for nearly a decade, the unthinkable has occurred. Intelligence has located the gargantuan hidden homeworld of humankind's dedicated...

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Ian Douglas

God's Sparrows

Philip Child

God's Sparrows

Author is a recognized standard-bearer for an era in Canadian literature when traditional forms and subjects were being challenged by radical social and cultural change A classic novel by the Governor General’s Award winner (1949) Author served in the First World War and used his experiences for the novel

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Philip Child

Goodbye for Now: A breathtaking his...

M.J. Hollows

Goodbye for Now: A breathtaking historical debut

Two brothers, only one survives. As Europe is torn apart by war, two brothers fight very different battles, and both could lose everything… While George has always been the brother to rush towards the action, fast becoming a boy-soldier when war breaks out, Joe thinks differently. Refusing to fight, Joe stays behind as a conscientious objector battling against the propaganda.On the Western front, George soon discovers that war is not the great adventure he was led to believe. Surrounded by mud,...

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M.J. Hollows

Goodbye Lullaby

Jan Murray

Goodbye Lullaby

A little boy lost. A country at war. A promise made long ago that cannot be forgotten. As a sixteen-year-old in the Fifties, Miki Patrick is forced to surrender her baby son. It's now 1971 and the anti-war activist with a price on her head risks her freedom to find her somewhere child and keep him out of an unrighteous war. The drama played over two decades revolves around the feud between Miki and her best friend since childhood, the whip-smart, potty-mouthed Jude Brenner. The troubled...

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Jan Murray

Grand Conspiracy: Second Book of Th...

Janny Wurts

Grand Conspiracy: Second Book of The Alliance of Light

Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fifth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy, now re-released with a striking new cover design along with the rest of the series.The wars began when two half-brothers, gifted of light and shadow, stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat the Mistwraith. Their foe cast a lifelong curse of enmity between them that has so far woven three bitter conflicts and uncounted deadly intrigues.It is a time of political upheavel, fanaticism and...

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Janny Wurts

Heading Inland

Nicola Barker

Heading Inland

Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet enigmatic man attempts to rescue eels from an East End pie shop; a young woman discusses her fascination in other women’s breasts; a boy with his inside organs back to front desperately seeks attention;...

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Nicola Barker

Her Hidden Life: A captivating stor...

V.S. Alexander

Her Hidden Life: A captivating story of history, danger and risking it all for love

It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be.But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the Führer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks his food for poison. Magda can see no way out of this hellish existence until she meets Karl, an SS officer who has formed an underground resistance group within Hitler’s inner circle.As their forbidden love grows, Magda and Karl see an opportunity to stop...

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V.S. Alexander

Home Fires

Elizabeth Day

Home Fires

A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption.Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves for his first army posting in central Africa. What happens to him changes the lives of his family forever. At home, his parents struggle to cope. The overwhelming love Caroline has always felt for her only child is now matched by the intensity of Max's absence. The silence is broken by the arrival of Caroline's...

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Elizabeth Day

Home In Time For Christmas

Heather Graham

Home In Time For Christmas

Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man—clad in Revolutionary War–era costume—appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car.Shaken, she takes the injured stranger in, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantastic claim that he's a Patriot soldier executed by British authorities. Bringing Jake to her parents' house, Melody concocts a story to explain the handsome holiday guest with the courtly manners and strange clothes.Mark, her close friend who wishes he were more,...

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Heather Graham

How Dark the Night

William C. Hammond

How Dark the Night

How Dark the Night profiles the years 1805 to 1810, picking up where the fourth volume, A Call to Arms, ends. These years leading up to the War of 1812 are devastating ones for the young republic and for the Cutler family. The life-and-death struggle between the forces of Great Britain and France continue in Europe, and the United States is caught in a web of financial and political chaos as President Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison endeavor to keep the woefully unprepared United States...

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William C. Hammond

How to Survive in a War Zone

Alex Crawford

How to Survive in a War Zone

Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.Under fire in Libya, this is an intense hit of adrenaline as reported by war correspondent Alex Crawford. The only western reporter to be in Green Square when it was taken by rebels, her remarkable eye-witness report is war journalism at it’s nerve-wracking best.Collins Shorts are a fresh look at the ebook short, with the emphasis on vibrant design, animated content and expert authors who can provide accessible insight. They satisfy your thirst for...

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Alex Crawford

I'll Be Seeing You

Loretta Nyhan

I'll Be Seeing You

‘I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren’t we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…’ It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita spends her life trying to make ends meet.They have nothing in common...

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Loretta Nyhan

If I Die in a Combat Zone

Tim O’Brien

If I Die in a Combat Zone

Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict.First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier’s tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O’Brien’s reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the Vietnam experience for a generation of Americans.From basic training to the front line and back again, he takes the reader on an unforgettable journey...

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Tim O’Brien

Im Westen nichts Neues / На Западно...

Эрих Ремарк

Im Westen nichts Neues / На Западном фронте без перемен. Книга для чтения на немецком языке

Эрих Мария Ремарк – один из самых известных немецких писателей ХХ века. Роман «На Западном фронте без перемен» рассказывает о поколении, которое погубила война, о тех, кто стал ее жертвой, даже если спасся от пуль. Это отчет о реальных событиях Первой мировой войны, рассказ о солдатском товариществе. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, владеющих немецким языком, для студентов языковых вузов, а также может быть рекомендована лицам, самостоятельно изучающим немецкий язык. Книга...

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Эрих Ремарк

Innocence

Julian Barnes

Innocence

Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very...

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Julian Barnes

Jeździec Miedziany

Paullina Simons

Jeździec Miedziany

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Paullina Simons

Kai dingo balandžiai

Sofi Oksanen

Kai dingo balandžiai

„Kai dingo balandžiai“ – tai estų kilmės Suomijos rašytojos Sofi Oksanen trečiasis romanas iš tetralogijos apie netolimą Estijos praeitį ir politinį Europos suskaldymą. Ankstesnės dalys – „Stalino karvės“ ir „Valymas“. Romane vaizduojami neramumų ir tariamos taikos dešimtmečiai: Estijos Respublikos pirmojo laikotarpio pabaiga, Antrasis pasaulinis karas ir „atšilimas“ bei stagnacijos pradžia Sovietų Sąjungoje. Tai pasakojimas apie žmogaus santykius su valdžia, apie gebėjimą ir nenorą...

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Sofi Oksanen

Keturiasdešimt Musa Dago dienų

Franz Werfel

Keturiasdešimt Musa Dago dienų

Gabrielis Bagratianas su žmona Žiuljete ir sūnumi Stefanu 1915-ųjų pavasarį grįžta į gimtąjį kaimą Musa Dago papėdėje. Gabrielis – turkų kariuomenės atsargos karininkas – Antiochijoje aplanko keletą pažįstamų, nueina į krašto valdytojo biurą; vyras visur jaučia priešiškas nuotaikas armėnų tautai. Turkas, senas šeimos draugas, aga Rifaatas Bereketas pataria jam nekišti nosies į valdiškas institucijas ir pažada nuvykti į Stambulą ir armėnus užtarti. Blogos nuojautos jau sklando ore, prasideda...

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Franz Werfel

Królestwo

Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...

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Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

Szczepan Twardoch

Królestwo

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Szczepan Twardoch

La Furia De Los Insultados

Guido Pagliarino

La Furia De Los Insultados

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Guido Pagliarino

Lacy

Diana Palmer

Lacy

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Diana Palmer

Last of the Annamese

Tom Glenn

Last of the Annamese

No one escaped whole from the fall of Saigon. We Americans were all damaged. The Last of the Annamese is about the Vietnamese and Americans who escaped from Vietnam in April 1975, those who decided to stay, and those who chose death rather than life under the Communists. The protagonist, Chuck Griffin, has never come to terms with the death of his son, Ben, killed in action in Vietnam. To do all he can to assure that Ben has not died in vain, Chuck, a retired Marine officer, returns to...

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Tom Glenn

Laufen ohne anzuhalten

Serhij Zhadan

Laufen ohne anzuhalten

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Serhij Zhadan

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