The Lightless Dome

The Lightless Dome
Author: Douglas Hill
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473202736

In the shadowed swamps far from Prince Phaedran's fabulous city of Quamarr, a sorcerer tests the fabric of the universe. At his command something stirs in the emptiness beyond the stars. It is incalculably evil, immeasurably old. It is summoned by the promise of fresh human souls... Meanwhile in a 20th Century film studio, Red Cordell takes another cheap part in another cheap swords and sorcery movie. A beautiful neglected sword he finds in Props is his only satisfaction. But in Quamarr, the enchantress Aurilia is in mortal danger. When she calls on the sword of Corodel, Red finds himself at her side, fighting for her life in a land of waking dreams...

Peril on the Page

Peril on the Page
Author: Margaret Loudon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593099311

A murder in her quaint British bookshop drops American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish into her deadliest caper yet. Penelope Parish is ready to close the book on her amateur sleuthing—from now on, The Open Book’s writer-in-residence will be sticking to villains of the fictional variety while she puts the final touches on her new novel. But when an author is murdered inside the bookshop, all of Upper Chumley-on-Stoke goes on high alert. Now it’s up to Pen and the quirky citizens of Chumley to stop a killer and protect the charming British town she’s begun to call home.

The Caves of Klydor

The Caves of Klydor
Author: Douglas Hill
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473202671

Soon after being exiled to the planet Klydor, five young people begin to suspect that their struggle for survival is somehow linked to the rebel uprising against the Earth's harshly authoritarian government.

Vengeance

Vengeance
Author: Douglas Hill
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473202817

After a violent confrontation with Fray and Kannis, two of the Cartel's more senior mages, Nick and Julia, lie wounded, assumed dead, while Paddy, April and Sam have been captured by demon forces. But Nick and Julia aren't dead. With the help of the learned Alderon and the creepy Bertrand Nowell they race against time to find their friends before the Cartel destroy their minds and keep them enslaved, doing their evil bidding, forever. Armed only with his trusty knife and his incredible quick-wittedness, this is Nick's toughest challenge yet - to enter the heart of the Cartel's domain and destroy it or . . . die trying . . .

Penelope's Web

Penelope's Web
Author: Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521255790

Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.'s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown dramatically; but she also deserves to be known for her innovative novels and essays.