Christopher Woods

Cyrus's life is stagnant as elite knight and son of Emperor Julius of the Chaos. With his royal duties and his sister Octavia lingering over his head, he longs for adventure free from responsibility. Emperor Julius entrusts a young prisoner named Celine under Cyrus' watchful care, but Celine has a deadly secret. She is searching for the one from the Chaos who murdered her mother. As tensions rise to a boiling point, Cyrus finds himself turning his back on his family to help Celine escape, thrusting himself into an uncontrollable conflict. When war breaks between the lands of the Order and the Chaos, Cyrus finds this fate was foretold seventeen years ago on his birth night. Two champions, born on the eve of the twin eclipse, must unite to banish an evil spreading deception across the world. When the Oracle's prophecy foretells how one champion must heal and one must die, can the light be restored before a new war annihilates the last chance for peace?

Twins of the Eclipse

Legend

Chris Kennedy

On May 1st, 2067, the world fell.One thing Zebadiah Pratt-or Zee to his friends-won't abide, though, is slavery, even in a Fallen World. So when friends of his find a shipment of gene-modified slaves-and children at that-he knows something must be done.There's only one problem-the slaves came from an island owned by the infamous Dr. Laroue, a noted geneticist and the creator of many of the imprints the Obsidian Corporation used to create its super-soldiers.He's going to need help.But Zee has friends, including gene-modified youngsters that he'd previously set free, a brother who was a super assassin, and he knows other people he can call in favors from, like former Corporate hostage rescue negotiator Joshua Collins. Although Collins is currently without his imprint, he has been modified with the body of an Agent and still has some of their abilities. Collins is also good friends with Luc Boudreaux, a former Corporate officer who has a number of Agents working for him. If he can talk Boudreaux into "loaning" some of his Agents to help with the mission to Laroue's infamous island, they may just have a chance.But Laroue has countless gene-modified creatures and Agents of his own-including a new and improved one-and he won't go quietly into the good night. Can Zee's collection of do-gooders make a difference in this Fallen World, or will the world fall even farther into darkness?

The Island of Dr. Laroue

Stephen Platten

Leading historical and liturgical scholars reflect on the history and impact of Book of Common Prayer, the most important liturgical text in English.

Polity, Piety and the Book of common Prayer

Comfortable Words

T.K.F. Weisskopf

BEST-SELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS WRITE FOR A GOOD CAUSE: All-new anthology from top names in science fiction and fantasy. A portion of the sales will fund a scholarship set up in the name of superfan, TVA engineer, and LibertyCon founder Timothy "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo. Join David Weber, Larry Correia, David Drake, and twelve other best-selling authors as they pay their respects to some of their devoted fans and to a lost friend. Fifteen stories from the authors' own worlds will showcase some of the names of their greatest fans in original works, written for a charity in honor of Timothy Bolgeo, the founder of LibertyCon. Contributors: David Weber David Drake David B. Coe Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt Timothy Zahn Mike Massa Charles E Gannon Jody Lynn Nye Bill Fawcett Chris Kennedy Kacey Ezell Les Johnson John Hartness Christopher Woods At the publisher's Request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the contributors: "Weber is the Tom Clancy of science fiction."—Publishers Weekly on David Weber "Drake couldn’t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.”—Booklist on David Drake "Everything I like in fantasy."—Jim Butcher on Larry Correia

Give Me LibertyCon

William Alan Webb

Quincy J. Allen

Casey Moores

Rachel Aukes

Rick Partlow

Josh Hayes

Griffin Barber

S. C. Jensen

A. K. Duboff

Jamie Ibson

Jason Cordova

Matt Novotny

Hinkley Correia

Tim C. Taylor

Fifteen outstanding authors. Fifteen stories about bounty hunters and their bounties!There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.- Hemingway.Bounty hunting is one of those morally gray areas that exist at the periphery of civil society. Few people know anyone whose job it is to find and retrieve fugitives, and bring them before the courts. In the future, however, one can envision any number of ways of how bounty hunting can be used (or abused) for any number of problems. Alien monsters haunting your space station? Bring in a team of hunters, and watch the double-crosses fly. Indentured workers flee 'the system' for the safety and anonymity of the Underhive? Facial recognition and some DNA sampling might help you find them. On the flip side of the coin, what if you were born wanted, and have been on the run your whole life?Edited by Jamie Ibson, We Dare: Wanted, Dead or Alive is a collection of fifteen all-new stories that explore the wheres, the hows, and the whys behind this anti-hero filled profession.Inside, you'll find stories from:Rick Partlow;Quincy J. Allen;A.K. DuBoff;Jason Cordova;Hinkley Correia;Casey Moores;William Alan Webb;Rachel Aukes;Josh Hayes ;Tim C. Taylor ;Matt Novotny;S.C. Jensen;Griffin Barber;Christopher Woods, andJamie Ibson.

Wanted, Dead Or Alive

We Dare 4

Kevin Steverson

Mark Wandrey

Alex Rath

Kevin Ikenberry

Brad R. Torgersen

Van Allen Plexico

John G. Hartness

Ian J. Malone

David Alan Jones

Marisa Wolf

Robert E. Hampson

K. C. Johnston

Tales from the Salvage Title Universe

Salvage Conquest

Soulguard

The world is reeling after what occurred in Africa. The armies of the world, armed with the Source weapons, stood with the Soulguard ending in victory. The aftermath is now to be dealt with. Colin's secret about his DNA is no longer a secret and there are already rumors of an Elder Kresh with eyes turned toward Earth. Can the Soulguard and the myriad armies of Earth prepare for a fourth attempt to destroy our world?

Rash'Tor'Ri

Colin Rourke has been hunted his entire life by a race of creatures that travel through portals to our world to capture or slaughter people. The Soulguard, armed with the knowledge of how to harness the power of the Soul, are all that stand in their way. They wage a secret war in the dark, unknown to all but a few. Colin, raised in secret by two legendary Soulguards, has almost reached the age where he can join the struggle. He has abilities unseen for a thousand years and his very existence is a catalyst that could start a conflagration, consuming the whole world. Can he and the Soulguard stop what is coming? Or will our world be enslaved by the race only known as Demons?

Wouter Henkelman

Michael Kozuh

Charles Ellwood Jones

Matthew Wolfgang Stolper began working for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary in 1978 and became full professor in the Oriental Institute 1987, focusing on Neo-Babylonian and Middle Elamite. Matt has worked tirelessly to raise the necessary funding, to assemble a team of scholars, to promote the importance of the Persepolis Fortification Archive to academic and popular audiences, and most significantly, to concisely, passionately, and convincingly place the Persepolis Archives in their Achaemenid, ancient Near Eastern, and modern geo-political contexts. The twenty-six papers from Stolper's colleagues, friends, and students show the breadth of his interests.

Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper

Extraction & Control

The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice. The latter is represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. As a system of grammatical voice, the conjugation prefixes provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of altering the perspective from which events may be viewed, giving speakers a series of options for better approximating in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human conceptualization and experience.

The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes As a System of Voice

The Grammar of Perspective

Daskada, the Legend

What do you do when the world falls?For Zebediah Pratt, or "Zee" to his friends, the answer is easy-he goes back to the family farm to support his father. By pooling resources with their neighbors in the countryside, they're able to stand up to the lone gunmen that are on the lookout for easy prey in a world where the rule of law no longer applies. It looks like they will be able to make it.But when the dregs of society come leaking out to the countryside from the ruins of nearby Philadelphia, things change, and the Pratts realize something-they have to do more. Unless they take food into the city, the city will come out to get it from them by force, trampling them and their way of life in the process.You would think it would be easy to give away food in a fallen world, but in a city where only the strong survive-and they are used to taking what they want-things can get complicated, especially when Zee decides that the policies of slavery have to end for the warlords to get fed. Will Zee be able to feed an entire city, or will the warlords break him, too, just like they have everyone else who's tried to stand up to them?Unfortunately for the warlords, Zee has a secret weapon-he has a Jimmy.

Farmer's Creed

Kade

Jon R. Osborne

David Carrico

Derek Shupert

Brisco Woods

PhiliP S. Bolger

Joseph Capdepon, Jr.

Jan Kotouc

Stories from the Fallen World

From the Ashes

In a world after the apocalypse left from the Corporate Wars, Mathew Kade does a job most cannot. He finds those who are lost using skills left from a time before the Fall. The city is a broken shadow of its former self with blocks controlled by Warlords and danger that lurks around every corner. Thugs and killers walk the streets and things could get even more complicated after a local Warlord places a bounty on the head of Kade. Bounty hunters from far and wide may be after his head, but this is just a short walk in the park for a former Corporate Agent....

This Fallen World

This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world.

Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond

Visible Language

“A beautiful tour through some of the loveliest gardens in the world!” —Peter H. Raven, President Emeritus at Missouri Botanical Garden A steep hillside oasis in Singapore, a garden distinguished by shape and light in Marrakech, a haunting tree museum in Switzerland—these are just a few of the extraordinary outdoor havens visited in Gardenlust. In this sumptuous global tour of modern gardens, intrepid plant expert Christopher Woods spotlights 50 modern gardens that push boundaries and define natural beauty in significant ways. Featuring both private and public gardens, this journey makes its way from the Americas and Europe to Australia and New Zealand, with stops in Asia, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. Along the way, you'll learn about the people, plants, and stories that make these iconic gardens so lust-worthy. As inspiring as it is insightful, Gardenlust will delight your passion for garden inspiration—and the many places it grows.

A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens

Gardenlust

Christopher Woods

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