Joel Rosenberg

The Knights of the Order of Crown, Shield, and Dragon are faced with the return of an ancient witch, a swarm of darklings infesting all Europe, and a deadly being that has infected the inhabitants of Colonsay with a murderous frenzy.

Profusely illustrated text discusses life in the United States during World War II.

It should have been so simple . . . Durine, Kethol, and Pirojil are three mercenaries who have spent twenty years fighting other people's battles, defeating the Tsurani and the Bugs and the goblins. Yet now it seems there are no more enemies to vanquish, leaving them with a few months of welcomed garrison duty as the Riftwar rages on in the west. When the trio is ordered to accompany a lady and her husband safely to the city of LaMut, it looks like an easy--even cushy--assignment. But in Midkemia, nothing is that straightforward, and the men find themselves trapped by a vicious winter storm in a castle with scheming lords and ladies, an unsolved murder, and nothing less than the political future of Midkemia at stake. . . .

James knew that becoming a superhero would change his life—he just thought it would change for the better.He didn't know that being a superhero meant never seeing the woman he loved again. He never realized he would feel powerless as super-powered psychotics trashed the city, always one step ahead of him. He never once imagined that he would spend many a sleepless night mourning all those poor souls he couldn't save.Then again, James wasn't your typical superhero. They kidnapped him, drugged him, took away his name and his past, and then controlled when he could soar into action. He could lift buildings, withstand a hailstorm of bullets and could soar into the deepest recesses of space, all without suffering a scratch.Why, then, did he feel so powerless?

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys--he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country-but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain's prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in THE ROAD HOME, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead.