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Looming on the border of Portugal and Spain is the Fortress of Badajoz. It represents the last chance of the French to keep Wellington out of Spain, and Richard Sharpe must lead the assault to save his wife and daughter. Third in a series taking Sharpe all the way to Waterloo.

Portraits of His Children

by George R. R. Martin

A collection of short science fiction tales by the Hugo and Nebula Award winner features a tale of an author who is visited by the characters from his novel and a little girl whose best friend is a dragon made of ice. Reprint.

Changer of Worlds (Worlds of Honor, Number 3)

Changer of Worlds (Worlds of Honor, Number 3)

by David Weber

The dangerous and multifaceted world of Honor Harrington-starship captain, admiral, and interstellar heroine-comes to life in a collection of short fiction that includes 'Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington', 'Changer of Worlds', 'From the Highlands', and more.

Foreign Legions

by David Drake

A collection of novellas by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction writers--including David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint, S. M. Stirling, and Mark L. Van Name--chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.

Path of the Fury

by David Weber

While the Imperial forces are busy searching for planet-wrecking pirates, Alicia turns pirate herself and steals a cutting-edge AI ship from the empire in order to begin her vendetta.

March Upcountry

by David Weber, John Ringo

David Weber's Honor Harrington has famously conquered our universe, most recently with the New York Times bestseller Ashes Of Victory. Now David Weber, with the able assistance of his fast-rising military SF cohort John Ringo, has done it again with the creation of a new kind of hero, Prince Roger MacClintock! Roger is a spoiled young princeling hardly worth the space he takes up. Now he must become a man, or the... (more)

Med Ship (Med Ship Saga)

by Murray Leinster

Hardcase (A Joe Kurtz Novel)

by Dan Simmons

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge-and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of touch, out of prison, and with only one friend in the world, Kurtz signs on with the Farinos, a Mob family who has a problem in its own backyard. The Farinos don't know it yet, but they have a bigger problem in Kurtz himself. Searching for a mob accountant gone... (more)

User Friendly

by SpiderRobinson, Spider Robinson

With his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories, Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer. "User Friendly" is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is both "reader" friendly and "sales" friendly. .

Saving Faith

by David Baldacci

It sounds like a movie pitch: "The story is like Tom Clancy crossed with John Grisham set in the Washington D.C. political world." But David Baldacci's Saving Faith successfully fuses elements from both of these chart-busters in this political thriller spiced with techno-wizardry.The villain is a classic spy caricature: cold-war CIA super-patriot Robert Thornhill wants to reclaim the glory days of the Central... (more)

ROLLING HOT (David Drake Hammer's Slammers)

ROLLING HOT (David Drake Hammer's Slammers)

by David Drake

The Voyage (Hammer Universe)

by David Drake

Embarking on a suicide mission that places her at the head of a crew of tough mercenaries and brilliant specialists, Lissea Doorman travels through a cluster of strange worlds that lead to the Lost Colony. Reprint. PW.

Impossible Places

by Alan Dean Foster

For three decades science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world, from his debut classic The Tar-Aiym Krang and his inspired scenario for the first Star Trek movie to a host of New York Times bestsellers, including Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and Flinx in Flux . In this collection of twenty brilliant odysseys of the imagination, Foster once again soars beyond the limits of... (more)

Pip and Flinx: Book 7

Reunion: A Pip and Flinx novel

by Alan Dean Foster

At last, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, where a young human orphan called Flinx seeks to unlock the dangerous secrets of his past–and the uncertain prospects of his future with the aid of the formidable minidrag known as Pip. This is the most mind-bending Pip and Flinx adventure yet–a roller-coaster ride into the unknown, filled with wonder and humor,... (more)

The Mage Storms: Book 2

Storm Rising (Mage Storms)

by Mercedes Lackey

The sequel to Storm Warning follows the efforts of the kingdoms of Valdemar and Karse--ancient enemies held together in an uneasy alliance--to find the source of the mysterious mage storms before they destroy the world. Reprint.

The Mage Storms: Book 1

Storm Warning (The Mage Storms, Book 1)

by Mercedes Lackey

Worried about the growing magical power of the Eastern Empire, which for years has been shrouded in mystery, Queen Selenay of Valdemar struggles to bring about an alliance with enemy Karse in order to defeat the evil schemes of Ancar of Hardorn. Reprint.

Elemental Masters: Book 1

The Serpent's Shadow

by Mercedes Lackey

From the magical mysteries of India to the gaslit streets of Victorian London, Mercedes Lackey's unique departure from her Valdemar series follows a young woman doctor as she searches for the secret behind the sorcery in her blood.

Kay Scarpetta: Book 8

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many ... (more)

The Gripping Hand

by Larry Niven, Antonia Saxon, J. E. Pournelle

Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." The San Francisco Chronicle declared that "as science fiction, The Mote in God's Eye is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and... (more)

Helm

by Steven Gould

After global devastation, the last remnants of Earth sent a handful of colonists of a distant terraformed world to give humanity one last, desperate chance. Unable to provide the technology required for an advanced civilization, the founders instilled in the colonists a strict code of conduct and gave them a few precious imprinting devices: glass helmets that contain all of Earth's scientific knowledge. Once in a... (more)

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The Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812

by Bernard Cornwell

by George R. R. Martin

by David Weber

by David Drake

by David Weber

by David Weber, John Ringo

by Murray Leinster

by Dan Simmons

by SpiderRobinson, Spider Robinson

by David Baldacci

by David Drake

by David Drake

by Alan Dean Foster

by Alan Dean Foster

by Mercedes Lackey

by Mercedes Lackey

by Mercedes Lackey

by Patricia Cornwell

by Larry Niven, Antonia Saxon, J. E. Pournelle

by Steven Gould