Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become

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Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.

Fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia.

A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II. Her name is still synonymous with elegance and chic, it is hard to fathom that the iconic Coco Chanel was arrested and interrogated. But that, is exactly what happened in late August, 1944. Though much is lost to history, or Chanel's own obstrufication, this much is true: one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior-the loose...

Tania, a human girl in a world largely populated by teknoids, sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation after global fertility drastically declined, sets out to discover what sets humans and teknoids apart.

"Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer....

Filled with edgy and honest stories of carnal challenge and triumph from women of all backgrounds and life stages, Sex After . . . is Krasnow's signature take on Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask -- during all of life's passages. -- The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly honest look at how to enjoy a long, satisfying sex life no matter what life throws at you. -- Hooking up, marriage,...

"Longing, book three in the Bailey Flanigan Series, picks up where Learning ended. After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town...

In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the orecarrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children, he plies the Asteriod Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker's attention, away from his family. Now, as his wife and children plunge into the...