Modern Literature

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  • 22 January 1879. Across the slopes of Isandhlwana, there came the sound of thunder. Assegai shafts pound against drum-tight shields. Fifty thousand voices cry in one dread voice the Zulu word for kill: U-SU-THU! U-SU-THU! Against the sweeping landscapes of Southern Africa, Lord Chelmsford’s army of eight thousand soldiers moves inexorably into Zululand. Their aim: to subdue a proud and unyielding warrior nation. But what starts as an imperial adventure turns into one of the bloodiest episodes in African history. It becomes a struggle to the death between Chelmsford’s Redcoats and a fearsome army of fifty thousand Zulus, fighting for their nationhood and birth right. This is the story of the tragedy and shattering human drama of that struggle. A powerful action adventure tale, it was made into the hit film Zulu Dawn in 1979.
  • Although American painter Michael Doss has been schooled in the ancient ways of the warrior, he leads a quiet life. Until the tragic death of his father ignites the warrior spirit in his blood that will not be quenched until he uncovers the secret of his father's enigmatic life. His journey plunges him into a dangerous underworld, where he finds himself in lethal combat with a sinister Japanese organization that is bent on destroying the United States through global economic chaos. Doss is trapped. His only chance for survival is a final confrontation, face to face, with the vile assassin behind it all - Zero.
  • It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren’t able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism. Now, that can't be good...Cover art by Larry Rostant.
  • When beautiful, reckless Southern Belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is 17 and he is a young army lieutenant., Before long she has fallen in love with him although he is not wealthy, prominent or even a Southerner. And she keeps absurdly insisting his writing will bring him fame and fortune. When he sells his first novel, she optimistically boards a train to New York to marry him and take the rest as it comes. What comes - at the dawn of the Jazz Age - is unimagined success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. New York, Paris,  Hollywood and the Riviera are their playgrounds, where they join the the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed, Last Generation that includes Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible - but not even Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous - and sometimes infamous - husband?  This is Zelda's story - as she herself might have told it.
  • Book IV of Jalna. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door; Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin from Ireland, who befriends Gran, moves into Jalna, and spies on the family…
  • He's hiding a dark secret ... But so is she. Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished, and Noah Carruso has never forgotten her. She was his first crush, his unrequited love. She was also his brother's girlfriend. Tom Carruso hasn't been home in over a decade. He left soon after Lizzie disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance - intent on telling his side of the story. As the inquest looms, Noah meets Alice Pryce on holiday. They fall for each other fast and hard, but Noah can't bear to tell Alice his deepest fears. And Alice is equally stricken - she carries a terrible secret of her own.  Is the truth worth telling if it will destroy everything?
  • A small party of railway labourers are assigned a week's work and are stationed at a large New South Wales country town. Their daily lives and their experiences after working hours are laconically described by a member of the group. Originally released in 1966, this is Beaver's first novel about coming of age in Australia's outback.
  • Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England. In the year 1666, a village self-isolates to keep the dreaded plague out. But an infected bolt of cloth from London brings it into the community and housemaid Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. The story is told by Anna as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease, death and superstition. As death reaches into every household and the villagers turn from prayers to madness and murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.  A story that once read, is never forgotten.
  • Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England. In the year 1666, a village self-isolates to keep the plague out. But an infected bolt of cloth from London brings it into the community and housemaid Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. The story is told by Anna as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and the villagers turn from prayers to madness and murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.  A story that once read, is never forgotten.