Book Preview 1 A SEPULCHRE IN THIS KINGDOM 2 NEITHER THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN 3 THE MOON NEVER BEAMS WITHOUT BRINGING ME DREAMS 4 AND THIS WAS THE REASON 8 OUT OF THE CLOUD BY NIGHT 10 AND SHE WAS A CHILD 11 A MAIDEN THERE LIVED 13 WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT 15 THE ANGELS … Read more
Book Preview The Los Angeles Institute, December 2007 On the day Emma Carstairs’s parents were killed, the weather was perfect. On the other hand the weather was usually perfect in Los Angeles. Emma’s mother and father dropped her off on a clear winter morning at the Institute in the hills behind the Pacific Coast Highway, … Read more
Book Preview DISCOVER THE WORLD OF THE SHADOWHUNTERS in these two bestselling series. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES USA Today Bestseller * Wall Street Journal Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Bestseller OVER 4.5 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT Translated into more than 30 languages Soon to be a major motion picture Prequel to the internationally bestselling … Read more
Book Preview There are sicknesses that walk in darkness; and there are exterminating angels, that fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see, but we feel their force, and sink under their sword. —Jeremy Taylor, “A Funeral Sermon” “Just coffee, please.” The waitress raised her penciled eyebrows. … Read more
Book Preview THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS Book Three City of Glass Margaret K. McElderry Books An imprint of Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, … Read more
Book Preview Well, maybe a little bit. The writing of this book would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of my writing group: Holly Black, Kelly Link, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Gavin Grant, and Sarah Smith. I also couldn’t do without the NB Team: Justine Larbalestier, Maureen Johnson, Margaret Crocker, Libba Bray, … Read more
Book Preview City of Bones Book One of the Mortal Instruments Cassandra Clare [v0.9 Scanned & Spellchecked by the_usual] [v1.0 Proofed by the_usual] CONTENTS Acknowledgments graph-definition> Part One graph-definition> Dark Descent graph-definition> 1 Pandemonium graph-definition> 2 Secrets and Lies graph-definition> … Read more
Book Preview Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way people talked about me as if I weren’t in the room. My family lived at 1, the Green, a tiny house in Ripley, Surrey, … Read more
Book Preview NIZHNEVARTOVSK, R.S.F.S.R. They moved swiftly, silently, with purpose, under a crystal ine, star-fil ed night in western Siberia. They were Muslims, though one could scarcely have known it from their speech, which was Russian, though inflected with the singsong Azerbaijani accent that wrongly struck the senior members of the engineering staff as entertaining. … Read more
Book Preview Preface: Prelude to War Though the name may sound obscure, the Spratly Islands have been a cause of conflict in East Asia for quite some time. Sovereignty over al or part of this potential y resource-rich archipelago in the South China Sea is presently contested by Vietnam, China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and … Read more
Book Preview Point Of Impact – Net Force 5 Tom Clancy and Steve Perry We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Denise Little, John Heifers, Robert Youdelman, Esq.” and Tom Manon, Esq.; Mitchel Rubenstein and Laurie Silvers of Hol ywood.com, Inc.; and the wonderful people at Penguin Putnam Inc.” … Read more
Book Preview War Of Eagles Tom Clancy * Book Cover: The Explosion Of A Chinese Freighter—Carrying Illegal Workers—in Charleston harbor is the first sign that some-one is capping Chinese interests abroad. After explosions in South Africa, and Taipei, Op-Center roots out the cause: warring factions in the Chinese government. But still reeling from budget cuts … Read more
Book Preview Call To Treason Op-Center 11 Tom Clancy Chapter One. Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Sunday, 9:22 P.M. Combat was not easy. But it was easier than this. General Mike Rodgers stood with a Scotch in his hand, wishing it were a double and that he were free to slug it down. If he were in … Read more
Book Preview Sea Of Fire Op-Center 10 Tom Clancy Chapter One. The Celebes Sea Tuesday, 4:19 A.M. There were three things that swarthy, dark-eyed Singaporean Lee Tong knew very well. One of those was the sea. The lanky but muscular Lee was the son of the late Henry Tong, a hardworking mate on a timber … Read more
Book Preview Mission Of Honor OP Center 09 Tom Clancy Chapter One. Maun, Botswana Monday, 4:53 A. M. The sun rose swiftly over the flat, seemingly endless plain. The landmarks had changed in the decades since “Prince” Leon Seronga had first come here. Behind them, the Khwai River was not as deep as it had … Read more
Book Preview Line Of Control Op-Center 08 Tom Clancy PROLOGUE: Siachin Base 3, Kashmir Wednesday, 5:42 A.M. Major Dev Puri could not sleep. He had not yet gotten used to the flimsy cots the Indian army used in the field. Or the thin air in the mountains. Or the quiet. Outside his former barracks in … Read more
Book Preview The two middle-aged men sat in leather armchairs in a corner of the wood-paneled library. The room was in a quiet corner of a Massachusetts Avenue mansion. The blinds were drawn to protect the centuries-old art from the direct rays of the early- afternoon sun. The only light came from a dul fire … Read more
Book Preview Prologue Kampong Thorn, Cambodia 1993 She Died While He Held Her Under A Bril iant Dawn. Her Eyelids Closed Softly, A Faint Breath Rose From Her Delicate Throat, And Then She Was Gone. Hang Sary Looked Down At The Pale Face Of The Young Woman. He Looked At The Grass And Dirt In … Read more