Cox: 1982 books

Singapore is known as a foodie nation, where food is not just regarded as a diversion to be enjoyed on occasion, but rather a way of life. An intense passion for freshness, variety and robust flavors seems to be wound within the DNA of every Singaporean. People here not only know good food, they...

Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded...

Winner of the 2014 CLASS Reunion Kudos Book Award, fiction category. After the tragic death of Butch Browning’s wife, Jenny, four families begin to realize how precious—and fleeting—their time together is. Each is at a different stage in life: Butch is facing single parenthood. The O’Reillys...

The latter part of the 1870s finds frontiersman Marshal Bart Carter, known as Scar, married and living in Flat Peaks, Colorado with his beautiful wife, Liz. She teaches at a one-room schoolhouse while Scar fulfills his special assignment duties for Governor Routt. Battling cattle rustling and robberies...

The Hortas of Janus VI are the greatest miners in the galaxy, capable of burning through solid rock the way humanoids move through air. Recruited to help rebuild Bajor's devastated mining industry, the Hortas could provide new hope for the planet's struggling economy. But when Cardassian raiders abduct...

The mischievous creature who calls himself Q has subjected Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise™ to many of their strangest experiences. But little had been known of Q's curious existence or that of the advanced dimension from which he comes. But now Picard knows more than...

DRAGON'S HONOR Isolated for centuries, the exotic Dragon Empires finally ready to join the United Federation of Planets. But first the emperor's eldest son must marry the only daughter of his oldest enemy, bringing to an end decades of civil war. Without the wedding, there can be no peace -- and no...

After weeks of lonely journeys through a desolate region fo the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager is badly in need of shore leave, so the planet Ryolanov seems just what the doctor ordered. Full of warm sunlight and gracious, hospitable people, Ryolanov is a veritable oasis amidst the endless reaches...

The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise™ since their very first voyage together. But little is known of Q's mysterious past or that of the unearthly realm from which he hails. Now Picard must learn Q's secrets --...

A steampunk princess is torn between love and duty in this prequel to SyFy.com’s wildly popular webisodes. Riese has never been happy as a princess; she’d much rather be hunting or fighting than sitting through another lesson on court etiquette. When she meets Micah, a wandering artist...

A passionate affair, a devastating betrayal-Caitlin Burns is the last person reclusive millionaire Flynn Mac Cormac wants to see again. But now she's back, with an earth-shattering revelation. She was pregnant when she left him… Flynn knows Caitlin has no idea of the demons that helped drive...

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

The "Dare Boys" are Dick and Tom Dare, two patriot youths, brothers, "from about three miles over in New Jersey." They get caught up in key episodes of the American Revolutionary War -- and the years after -- interacting with historically important figures along the way. This is a great series for readers...