Lifeblood
10 best books like Lifeblood (Werner A. Lind): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Burn, Allie's Moon, Waking Up, Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Christmas in the Trenches, The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, The Traveler, The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon's View of God's Starry Universe
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
Included are these stories:
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
| Author | Crystal Hubbard |
| ISBN | 1585714062 |
Crystal Hubbard has delivered a great story of a woman trying to start a new life, and break free from the prison of fear that her abusive, controlling ex-husband held her captive to. For readers who enjoyed movies like "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "Enough", this book will strongly invoke memories of...
| Author | Alexis Harrington |
| ISBN | 0312973071 |
They were two strangers alone in the world, until they found the one precious thing that could heal their wounds: each other's love...
Althea Ford lives alone with her invalid sister in a crumbling Oregon farmhouse, burdened by sins of the past. Desperate for help, she reluctantly turns to...
| Author | Amanda Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0373109199 |
Something was happening to their friendship ...
Robbie Fisher had always been a couple of years and a few changes behind her neighbor, Jason Morrow. Still, he'd lent an ear to all her dreams and troubles right up to the time he'd left for university.
Now he was back in Cincinnati, looking...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1598530259 |
Philip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of the universe,” he once wrote, “are visible in my novels.” The five novels collected...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
| Author | Barbara Ann Kipfer |
| ISBN | 1567315607 |
This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology,...
| Author | Daren Simkin |
| ISBN | 0374116393 |
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
| Author | Lynn M. Hilton |
| ISBN | 1566846412 |
God's Throne and the Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Kingdoms. The Kolob Theorem allows us to see more clearly the home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time...
The battle of Armageddon was finally fought... and ended with no clear victor. Upon the mountain, the armies of Hell and Heaven beat each other into a bloody, uneasy standstill, leaving the Earth in ruins. Armageddon should have ended with Heaven winning, ushering in an era of peace. That's what the...
| Author | Estevan Vega |
| ISBN | 1615666036 |
ARSON GABLE FEELS LIKE A FREAK. HE CAN CREATE FIRE. HE NEVER ASKED FOR IT. HE NEVER WANTED IT. BUT HE CAN'T SHUT IT OFF.
Before now, three things were true: he both loved and despised his grandmother; his life was going nowhere; and he was alone. But when a strange girl--who feels more normal behind...
The most important documents of the United States of America are collected in this easy-to-read volume, which includes the Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and an appendix containing a list...
| Author | David Klinger |
| ISBN | 0787986038 |
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers...
My name is Rachel Clancy. Thirty years before I was born, the world ended. Today is my sixteenth birthday. Today I will go Upwards to fight the monsters and, statistically speaking, I won’t be coming back—at least not still living.
Initiation is the story of sixteen year old Rachel Clancy,...
| Author | Alex Bledsoe |
| ISBN | 1466845422 |
This is a quiet, spiritually-minded short story, part of Alex Bledsoe's Tufa series. I'm not familiar with that series, but I still enjoyed this brief visit to the Appalachian countryside, where an enclave of Tufa live in isolation in Cloud County.They had been in these mountains before even the first...
For some it takes a lifetime to discover their raison d'être. Imagine searching for eight centuries. In 1997 Philadelphia, 800 year old vampire Valéry Castellane comes face to face with his reason to be, in the person of Angelina Lacroix, a young mortal woman whose understanding of immortality is...
| Author | Ellen C. Maze |
| ISBN | 1617520225 |
What happens when you want to do the will of God but are cursed for all eternity? Hungary, 1640. A village priest, enamored with his God and loyal to his sheep, awakens to find the village on fire. Searching for survivors, he is confronted by a dark creature with sharp teeth and red eyes. With the stab of the...
| Author | David Handler |
| ISBN | 1250076110 |
Every year, the Gant family performs an annual ritual desecrating the tomb of Aurora Bing. The Gants have held a grudge against the legendary silent film star for almost eighty years, but for Sherm Gant and his son, things have become personal. Aurora's only grandchild, Hubie Swope, has shut down Sherm's...
There is only one thing in this world that can make you question everything you've ever believed in, make you throw yourself into the face of danger, love. Madeline never thought she would find love so deep that it transcended the physical world and definitely never thought she would find it in a vampire....
| Author | Jonathan Amaret |
| ISBN | 0983197199 |
For over 11,000 years, one secret has haunted humanity and shaped its history, a secret so dark that none dare reveal it. But now, a destined young Messiah bent on revenge will unlock the truth of man’s origin and discover that vampires do exist, and they control everything.
Julian Angelis...
Once Touched, Never Forgotten
Super-exec Stephen Whitfield and high-flying colleague Colette Huntington both understand the rules of their attraction. One: it will never be anything more than a fling. Two: either can walk away at any time they wish.
Only, Colette hasn't counted on walking away pregnant. And, to Stephen's...
