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Maker (Star Trek)
by Michael Jan FriedmanEnsign Andreas Nikolas, heartwick over the loss of his Mirror Universe lover, has resigned his post on Jean-Luc Picard's starship, the Stargazer, to seek a home on the freighter Iktoj'ni. All he wants of his new life is a chance to forget his troubles. And that's what he gets - until the Iktoj'ni is taken over by a monstrous alien with unbelievable powers and a disdain for all forms of life. Without saying why, the alien sends the freighter hurtling towards a part of space inhabited by the Ubarrak, the Federation's deadliest and most xenophobic enemy. And Nikolas, who fears that the incident will start a war, can't convince his captor to turn back. Picard has one hope of stopping the alien menace: Serenity Santana, a woman who once abused his trust to ensure the survival of her people. Now she is back, asking for his trust a second time. Picard needs her help in his struggle to save his galaxy. But will she justify his faith in her, or will she twist it once again to serve her own shadowy ends?
Maker's Curse: Book 4 Of Millennium's Rule (Millennium's Rule #4)
by Trudi CanavanTogether, Rielle and Tyen face a dazzling world of political intrigue, treacherous villains, and unforgettable magic in this powerful and thrilling final novel of the Millennium's Rule series.Rielle is now the Maker, restorer of worlds. She has lost count of the number of worlds she has been sent to save. Tyen has cast off his old identity. No longer a spy, he now attempts to teach new sorcerers and find ways to counteract the war-machines that are spreading throughout the worlds.But when an old enemy brings news of something worse than magically dead worlds and dangerous sorcerers -- a threat unlike anything the worlds have faced before -- Rielle and Tyen must reunite if they are to have any chance of saving humanity.Millennium's Rule series:Thief's MagicAngel of StormsSuccessor's PromiseMaker's CurseMore books by Trudi Canavan:The Magician's ApprenticeTraitor Spy trilogy:The Ambassador's MissionThe RogueThe Traitor Queen
Maker's Curse: Book 4 of Millennium's Rule (Millennium's Rule #6)
by Trudi Canavan***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES***'EPIC, VIVID AND BELIEVABLE' Guardian on Thief's MagicInternational No. 1 bestselling author Trudi Canavan returns with the thrilling final chapter in her Millennium's Rule series - a place where worlds are at war and magic is not what it seems . . .Rielle is the Maker, restorer of worlds. She has lost count of the number of worlds she has been sent to save.Tyen has cast off his old identity. No longer a spy, he now attempts to teach new sorcerers and find ways to counteract the war machines that are spreading throughout the worlds.But when an old enemy brings news of a dark threat - something far worse than magically dead worlds and dangerous sorcerers - Rielle and Tyen must reunite if they are to have any chance of saving humanity.Praise for Millennium's Rule:'Her easy, flowing style makes for effortless reading . . . Delightful worldbuilding . . . Vivid and enjoyable' SFX'A must for fans of Canavan's previous work and for fantasy fans in general' Press Association'Rielle's story entrances . . . leaving readers eager for the next two volumes' Publishers Weekly'The world-building is tremendous. The magical system is sophisticated and fascinating' Striking Keys
Making Babies
by Wendy WarrenMAKING PLANS, MAKING FRIENDS...MAKING A BABY?Elaine Lowry is a divorcée with a plan: to have a baby on her own. Why shouldn’t she have the child she always dreamed of-the child her ex-husband is now having with his new wife! As if it’s not enough that he’s taken the house and, with it, her social standing.Enter sinfully handsome lawyer-for-the-opposing side Mitch Ryder. Feeling guilty about the part he played in Elaine’s divorce, he takes over as landlord on her apartment before it’s sold right from under her. Mitch offers himself as a daddy candidate on one condition: their marriage needs to be all business. But Mitch can’t help the tender protective feelings he has for Elaine, especially when they make love for the first time. And besides, who says business comes before pleasure?
Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (The Monsters Know What They’re Doing)
by Keith AmmannFrom the acclaimed author of the &“must-have&” (R.A. Salvatore, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Monsters Know What They&’re Doing series, an indispensable and easy-to-follow new handbook for creating original enemies in tabletop role-playing games.In The Monsters Know What They&’re Doing, the essential tactics guide for Dungeon Masters, and its sequel, MOAR! Monsters Know What They&’re Doing, Keith Ammann reverse-engineered hundreds of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons monsters to help DMs prepare battle plans for combat encounters before their game sessions. Now, in Making Enemies, he explores everything that goes into creating monsters from the ground up: size, number, and level of challenge; monster habitats; monster motivations; monsters as metaphors; monsters and magic; the monstrous anatomy possessed by real-world organisms; and how to customize monsters for your own tabletop roleplaying game adventuring party to confront. No longer limited to one game system, Making Enemies shows you how to build out your creations not just for D&D 5E but also for Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, the Cypher System, and Call of Cthulhu 7E. Including interviews with some of the most brilliant names in RPG and creature design, Making Enemies gives you the tools to surprise and delight your players—and terrify their characters—again and again.
Making Friends: A Graphic Novel (Making Friends #1)
by Kristen GudsnukSometimes making a friend is a lot easier than keeping one!Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danny. All her friends were in the same room and she knew exactly what to expect out of life. Now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is totally, completely lost. What Danny really needs is a new best friend! So when she inherits a magic sketchbook from her eccentric great-aunt in which anything she sketches in it comes to life, she draws Madison, the most amazing, perfect, and awesome best friend ever. The thing is, even when you create a best friend, there's no guarantee they'll always be your best friend. Especially when they discover they've been created with magic!
Making Friends: A Graphic Novel (Making Friends #3)
by Kristen GudsnukDany's sketchbook is at it again, but this time it's not Dany's doing!Dany and Madison are living a new reality. Rather than best friends, the pair now believe they are twins -- and that isn't the only part of their lives that has been completely rewritten. Their mom is a novelist, their dad is a rock star, and Dany has suddenly become a diligent student.Things. Aren't. Adding. Up.Dany and Madison start sleuthing and discover that someone has drastically altered the universe! Can the pair put things back the way they were, or is this magic beyond their control?
Making Friends: Back To The Drawing Board (Making Friends #2)
by Kristen GudsnukDany, Madison, and... wait -- another Dany?! -- must navigate some very complicated friendships while trying to capture a magical dog that is turning their town upside down!Almost everything is going great for Dany. She and Madison are still best friends, she still has her magic sketchbook, and the new school year is looking up. But when Dany creates a duplicate of herself to secretly help with homework and raise her social status, the two of them accidentally unleash a magical dog that wreaks supernatural havoc on the town. Now, with the big school dance coming up, time is running short for Dany, Madison, and their friends to set things right before the night is completely ruined!
Making Friends: Together Forever: A Graphic Novel (Making Friends)
by Kristen GudsnukKristen Gudsnuk takes readers on a magical adventure about friendship in this fourth and final installment of her imaginative Making Friends series.No magic. No sketchbook. No friends. Again?!Dany's magical sketchbook has steered most of her middle-school life so far -- it even helped create her best friend, Madison. But now the sketchbook is gone and Madison with it. Then one day, Dany tunes in to hit TV show My Magical Best Friend, and it's starring HERmagical best friend, Madison! The show is clearly based on Dany's life, and she watches it regularly with a mix of horror and fascination. But lately there's something else about the show that's captured her attention: Madison seems to be dropping hints for Dany to come rescue her. With no magical sketchbook at her fingertips, can Dany find a way to save her best friend?
Making History
by K. J. ParkerIn K. J. Parker's new whip-smart dark fantasy, a group of scholars must do the impossible for a ruthless king. The cost of refusal, of course, is death.History isn't truth, it's propaganda.Seeking war with his neighbor, the tyrannical ruler of Aelia convenes several of his kingdom's professors for a chat. First Citizen Gyges only just invaded Aelia a few years back and, naturally, his public image can’t take the hit of another unjustified assault.His totally sane solution? Simple, really. These scholars must construct a fake ancient city from scratch to verify Gyges’s apocryphal claims.Now these academics must put their heads together to make history. Because if they don't, they'll lose their heads altogether.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Making History: A Novel
by Stephen FryIn "Making History," Fry bites off a rather meaty chunk by tackling a deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest History grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse.
Making History: A Novel
by Stephen FryStephen Fry tackles alternate history, asking: What if Hitler had never been born? Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridge who is completing his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler. Leo Zuckerman is an aging German physicist and Holocaust survivor. Together they idealistically embark on an experiment to change the course of history. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's sci-fi-tinged experiment in history makes for an ambitious and deeply affecting novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Making Love
by Nancy Holder Melanie Tem"A novel of sex and horror," this book is not so much about the physical act of "Making Love," but the unexplainable manner of "making people" to love--a man, two girl toddlers, eight almost identical young boys... Once Charlotte Tobias was a prim and severe schoolteacher, wielding her red pencil, writing to imaginary lovers and hiding the letters in a closet. Then, on the night of her fortiety birthday, Charlotte dreamed of love, and her life would never be the same again. He came to her, her own creation, bold and dark, naked and rippling with muscles. She named him Phanes. She gave him poetry and curiosity, and let him make love to her in ways and places she could never have imagined. She let him awaken her and change her and take her to the edge of her fantasies... But now Charlotte is losing control of her perfect lover. Her creation is leading her on a voyage through madness and anger and loss, revealing to Charlotte what truths lie just beyond her consciousness, what horrors can grow in the absence of a soul...
Making Money: A Discworld Novel (Moist von Lipwig #2)
by Terry Pratchett“Outlandish fun. . . . Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human—and non-human—foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time.”—Washington PostThe hero of Going Postal has an even more dangerous job than the mail: overseeing the tanking Royal Bank and the printing of Ankh-Morpork’s first paper currency in this brilliant installment in New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld series.The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis, and who better to manage it than the man who turned around Ankh-Morpork’s inefficient Post Office, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig. Lord Vetinari once again makes Moist an offer he can’t refuse: resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint.The bank has many problems: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the elderly chairman and her two loaded crossbows needs a daily walkie, there’s something strange happening in the cellar, and running the Royal Mint is costing a mint.As Moist begins to make some ambitious changes, he accrues some dangerous enemies. Everyone knows money is power—and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both . . .The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series. The full series, in order, includes:Going PostalMaking MoneyRaising Steam
Making Mr. Right
by Val DanielsA marriage in the makingParker Chaney was a successful tycoon who had everything he wanted-except a wife! Not just any wife. He seemed to have set his heart on one woman in particular-who happened to be the sister of his best friend, Cindy.Cindy had secretly been in love with Parker for years. So when he asked for advice on how to become her sister's Mr. Right, Cindy was torn! She agreed to help, but was puzzled when Parker began to seem more interested in what she wanted in a husband.... Instead of being the sister of the bride, would Cindy soon find herself saying "I do"?
Making Sure of Sarah
by Betty NeelsA woman charged with being her parents’ caregiver receives a job—and a marriage proposal—from a Dutch doctor in this classic sweet romance.Plain, innocent Sarah Beckwith is stuck living with her parents, keeping house for them. She has no expectation of ever escaping and finding love . . . until, in a surprising turn of events, she encounters a gorgeous consultant!Though Dr Litrik ter Breukel is struck by Sarah’s charm at once, he vows to take things slowly. But he’s unable to resist helping the lonely Cinderella, and soon he longs to rescue her in another way . . . with a diamond ring!
Making the Saint, (Circle of Three Book #10)
by Isobel BirdA mysterious stranger shows Kate, Annie, and Cooper how to connect with the spirit world, but there are alarming effects, especially for Kate when she researches the religion of Santeria and a spirit named Oggun. When Kate's boyfriend and best friend become romantic, Kate uses her new Santerian powers to get even.
Makoro the Blinding Stinger: Series 30 Book 2 (Beast Quest #2)
by Adam BladeFree the Beasts. Live the Adventure.Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up!Controlled by a wicked sorceress called Zuba, a band of shapeshifters is attacking the land of Tangala. Tom has called on the New Protectors for help, and now it's Katya's turn to play her part in the fight. Can brave Katya defeat Makoro, a deadly scorpion-Beast terrorising the desert people? There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in the latest set of this beloved series - don't miss out!If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's other series: Team Hero, Beast Quest: New Blood and Space Wars.
Makoro the Blinding Stinger: Series 30 Book 2 (Beast Quest #2)
by Adam BladeFree the Beasts. Live the Adventure.Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up!Controlled by a wicked sorceress called Zuba, a band of shapeshifters is attacking the land of Tangala. Tom has called on the New Protectors for help, and now it's Katya's turn to play her part in the fight. Can brave Katya defeat Makoro, a deadly scorpion-Beast terrorising the desert people? There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in the latest set of this beloved series - don't miss out!If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's other series: Team Hero, Beast Quest: New Blood and Space Wars.
Makroxa the Tunnelling Terror: Series 32 Book 3 (Beast Quest #1131)
by Adam BladeRafe and the rest of the New Protectors are facing their greatest challenge yet. The wizard Daltec has been struck down by a magical curse, and the land of Tangala is in grave danger from the sorceress Zuba, who wants to destroy the kingdom forever. But when the brave young fighters and their mystical animal companions set off on their Quest to fight back against Zuba, a great storm leaves them stranded. Stranded in a perilous swamp, can Rafe defeat an enormous burrowing rodent with monstrous teeth and claws? The fate of Tangala depends on him and his friends!There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in the latest set of this beloved series - don't miss out! Dolrus the Spiked Destroyer; Zynara the Striped Prowler; Makroxa the Tunnelling Terror and Kyropta the Skeleton Eagle.
Makuta's Revenge (Bionicle Chronicles #3)
by Catherine HapkaThe Toa have triumphed over the Bohrok hordes. They have battled the mighty Makuta. It should be a time of great joy and celebration. And yet the land of Mata Nui remains shrouded in darkness.
Mal Goes to War: A Novel
by Edward AshtonThe humans are fighting again. Go figure.As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting.A dark comedy wrapped in a techno thriller’s skin, Mal Goes to War provides a satirical take on war, artificial intelligence, and what it really means to be human.
Malachi and I
by J. J. McavoyA Contemporary Mystical RomanceWhat if I told you the greatest love stories ever told—Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Salim and Anarkali, Romeo and Juliet and so many more—are far greater tragedies than anyone has ever realized?What if I told you that you haven’t been reading a new story… just a new chapter in one epic saga?If I told you…all of those lovers…were actually the same two souls seeking their happily ever after over and over again, would you believe me?Would you believe them?Born again,Love again,Part again,Was their curse.In this modern era, will they find eternal love or will they be doomed to repeat the cycle forever?
Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurrence of an Extraordinary Event
by Shaun Whiteside Nicola PuglieseFour days of rain trigger strange events across Naples: ghostly voices are heard and musical coins appear. As a journalist searches for meaning, we follow those enduring the floods. This portrait of a much-mythologized city captivated Italy when it was first published in 1977. Withdrawn at the author's request until his death in 2012, this is its first English publication.
Malafrena
by Ursula K. Le Guin'Her worlds have a magic sheen ... She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVERAmong the less-travelled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Val Malafrena is an estate in the rural western provinces of Orsinia, far removed from the engines of European politics and content for it to remain so. When Itale Sorde, the idealistic young heir to Val Malafrena, leaves his family home to venture to the bustling capital city of Krasnoy, it is therefore very much against his father's wishes. Sorde's intention is to work as a journalist, but he will soon find himself moving from reporter on the great events of the day to active participant in the rising tide of revolution that seems destined to sweep the continent.