We have a lot of new books to offer:
In Search of Love and Glory by Warren Lang. Based on a true story, this book is a superb adventure of a young man's escapades in his search of adventure and to prove himself a man. He joins the navy in search of... Love and Glory.
The Epsilon Force Chronicles volutme 1: Vigilante at Large by Peter Roblejo. The E-force's crazed pursuit of the devastating mutant, Grizzlor, leaves a bloody trail of destruction. This is a story packed with lightening-fast action that will keep you turning the pages to the unpredictable end.
Forever is a long, long time by Douglas Novak. Doug Novak has written another imaginative and superb sci-fi novel. The ultimate step in human cloning has lead to an unbelievable creation...and just maybe the secret of immortality.
Get out of the Box by Elif Savas. A wonderfully useful cookbook for those who are tired of eating boxed, prepared, and frozen food. Easy-to-use, easy-to-make recipes from readily available ingredients. You will soon be able to make American and International delights in your own kitchen with little effort or cost.
My Animals by Samina Rafi. A wonderfully illustrated book for children in the early stages of learning to read and for those young students learning English as a second language.
Wanderings by Brane Koran. An inspirational fantasy. When you read this book you become its indivisible part. It will touch the depths of your inner being... and open the door into infinity.
As Seen by an Engineer by Professor Kot von Unrug. Dr. Unrug touches on many areas of human experience and accumulated knowledge. He discusses complicated issues in simple terms that anyone with more than a high school education can follow. A very insightful and thought-provoking book.
The following seven sci-fi books were written by Ted Ford and they will take you to the distant reaches of your imagination. Ted has published several paperback books through Dorchester and Berkeley books including his Timequest Trilogy, Silent Galaxy and Liquid Diet. I'm sure you'll enjoy these imaginative, well written novels:
Glasseye by Ted Ford What harm for a murderer to turn his back on his victims? The dead do not conspire against the living. They have no way to warn a still-living victim, no way to pit the innocent against a monster as a tool of vengeance. Or do innocents and monsters alike take far too much for granted?
Caterpillar by Ted Ford. Humanity prefers to think itself alone in the universe and at the top of the food chain of its own biosphere. Only vaguely do we sense the self-imposed consequence of overpopulation and the resulting desecration of the environment. We satisfy ourselves in believing future generations will address the issue. Whether there are others in the universe who value our world more than we do is a question far too fantastic for a reasonable person to ever consider. In a single night, a meteor storm lights the sky, and something alien is loosened upon the Earth. Before we can begin to hypothesize what may be happening, human nature is turned upon itself and our reign upon the earth ends. It would seem that extinction is the goal of forces unseen, but it's that, and more - far more fantastic than a reasonable person would ever consider.
The Human Touch by Ted Ford. An alien probe pays humankind a visit. How better to validate its understanding of human nature than to recreate a lost life and test it against its peers. Or is its selection, the dead mother of a dying boy and the murdered wife of a despairing mercenary, a study in hopelessness? Marilyn Hartman's has returned from the dead and has been given the power of a god to achieve her ends. To survive, she needs only to be loved. To be loved, she must save her son from a diseased heart, and the man who once loved her from a despair and a grief that knows no bounds.
The Lord of Silver Ridge by Ted Ford. In the distant future, near the heat death at the end of space and time, the minds, the souls, of three hundred million immortal human beings are trapped in a quantum simulator within which they once took sanctuary. They must escape, or face endemic madness. How tragic that they can touch their own past lives and confuse the inhabitants of a long dead world as tools to wantonly sacrifice in their desperate attempt to live again as flesh and blood.
Maligoth by Ted Ford. Young Wallace McFerguson never needed to know that the Stik rose to supremacy eight hundred million years ago, that the Stik are the Guardians of infinite probable Earths. Quantum mechanics was never his forte. All he ever wanted was the girl next door, the young and exotic Sasha Shahar Abdul. Maligoth owned the world of the dinosaurs destroyed sixty-four million years ago by an wayward asteroid. He now visits Wallace's world to borrow a bit of genetic material with which to give his reptilian Saur a second chance at civilization. And to give it human livestock with which to feed and breed. Too bad Sasha got in his way. Now he has Wallace to contend with, and Wallace is being backed by a few gods of his own.
Mothwing by Ted Ford. In ten thousand years, humanity is scattered and lost among the stars, and technology has escaped its human creators. The rogue machine intelligence known as the Chineen Hive may yet destroy it, but an alien biochemistry employed to defeat it is far more greatly feared. The danger begins when a young girl named Myla escapes her guardian and cannot be contained by the Colonial Alliance, threatening the status quo of every great political and military power of her era. All Myla ever wanted was to be the innocent child she thought to be her biological heritage. She will take on an empire to defend it.
and this one for young adults:
Virtual Reality by Ted Ford. Four students of Armstrong High meet after class in a future world in which their every thought and action is monitored, their every fault and deviation from the norm noted, and their every misbehavior a matter of record. Locked and abandoned inside the deserted school, anticipation turns to fear and unbridled anger. Their surrealistic environment, they come to suspect, is not real. They may be taking part in a virtual reality diagnostic routine designed to pinpoint their personal problems. Or, they are being subjected to a dreaded testing program in which they will be stressed to the limits of their endurance. Their environment is not real, but they assumed all along that they were real.
We are also proud to offer the following four books written by Richard Walker, an English author who had these books published in hardback version and is now also presenting his works in electronic form:
To Catch the Shadow of the Moon by Richard Walker. Philo is Head Museum Keeper at the Park. He is just sixty when spring comes and makes him decide to go to the town university to study a taster course in English Literature on his day off. He falls for his teacher. She is twenty years younger and has that magic that all men hope to find before winter comes to call. Soon, Philo is part of love's mad dream. Roget's Thesauraus, and the rest of the crude old men who are his workmates, are determined to stop this madness. Even poor old Eric is against it all. But Pinkie, the young trainee, is wise behond his years. He says, "once you gits the taste of a woman like that yer never gets the scent of 'er out of yer nose. Makes all them others feel like a block of lard in yer 'ands."
The Ballad of Baggy Mag by Richard Walker. "The churchyard gates were open, just as they always had been all those years ago. I swung around on the stick that kept the weight off my bad leg. I lurched past the rough and peeling old wrought iron gates, sad at the flakes of thick black paint, scattered like the Devil's dark confetti, that lay on the ground under the grim twisted bar that formed the bottom rungs. I stood for a while at the top of the path, knowing that they were all lying there waiting for me. They knew that I would come back. They had shaped my life by their example and subtle kindness, often tempered with what I thought to be rage. Rage they indeed had at my wicked jokes on them, but it was always filled with the benign good will that permeated their lives. The memory of their sometime sadness and joyful laughter at life's cruel jests, had been with me over the long years, bringing me comfort as the world changed. I walked on down the path, limping slightly, and remembered the times that I had dashed down it when I had taken the short cut through the churchyard when I was a boy. I pretended that this was all I was doing now, though tied to the leaden ground by age and infirmity. The locked Iron Gate at the bottom that led out to the Church Walk, mocked me with its modern padlock and plastic covered heavy steel chain." Will Gordon find peace in his riotous retirement as old age comes? Or will his imaginary friend, his Grandfather's Ghost, ensure that Gordon never finds his lost love Baggy Mag out of wicked perversity? Is Baggy Mag a part of the past that must be relived or can a lifelong longing for her find her at last and drive away the loneliness that is old age, just before the darkness comes?
Sing a Song of Stopsley by Richard Walker. There goes St. Kenneth. He is off to work at the hospital. He will soon be smoking his pipe and spend the day being nice to frightened old ladies in hospital gowns. Holy Michael is in his kitchen. He will be eating dry toast and drinking gin. He will be planning the strategy for enticing yet another lady bridge partner out to lunch. There goes Little Asher-Love. He is rushing down the road to school. He will just have time to buy a cigarette before the pretty lady, who is his teacher, catches up with him and drags him by the hand towards the classroom. She will take the cigarette from his top blazer pocket and sigh sadly. Little Asher-Love will be standing at her desk all playtime. That Old Commie Bloke is chatting up some woman in her fifties again. He will stir up wild passions that have lain dormant for nearly forty years. He will get his face slapped for his trouble, but he never learns... Such is life on any day in Stopsley. But if you take the short cut throught St. Thomas' churchyard and stop for a while and stand stock still you might see the day before yesterday and Farmer Bolter's cows wander down Hitchin Road to the far field, just as they did sixty years ago. And if you listen gently you may hear Dave Newton singing "Burlington Berite from Bow" in a pleasant baritone voice. Of course he should be lying quiet in his grave, as should the rest of them that sleep, but then, nothing is quite as it should be in Stopsley.
Vox Angelicus (The angel voices of Luton) by Richard Walker et al. The book ` Vox Angelicus` is a social history of the people of Luton. It is told in their own words through interview and by their own writings. A span of time has been stretched from the edges of living memory to the present day. Time distilled and frozen to provide living pictures that capture moments before they are lost and are beyond recall. The great and the good do not loom large in this book. It is a book of the voices of ordinary people who outshine the fancy media clothing of the privileged by their open and genuine honesty. Luton might be found to be a place where different cultures and dreams are understood and respected in the quiet warmth that comes when people stop and smile at each other in the shared adversity of unemployment, rising crime, old age, illness and the misery of short term contract employment. This is the story of an underclass. A forgotten people whose shadow is never seen and for whom there would be no memorial unless their angel voices speak.
And finally, we have three new additions to our Adult section:
The "Plain Brown Wrapper". Two are of erotica and are entitled "Anonymous" and "Virginity Lost" and the third is an extremely popular book with a title too hot to print here but is full of techniques and stories. Check them all out. E-Books
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