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After the Battle on Starship Hill

de Vernor Vinge

"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes events of the...

AM Envelope

de Holger Strauss

This book shows the potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the development of building envelopes: AM will change the way of designing facades, how we engineer and produce them. To achieve today’s demands...

Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration

de Xiaoxi Hui

 This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation....

Tor/Forge Author Voices: Volume 1

de Kristin Sevick

Ever wanted to hunt a notorious ghost through the halls of a spooky old house?  Be swept away at a Regency ball?  Solve a murder mystery, Vegas style?  Then Tor and Forge might have the perfect summer read...

Tor/Forge Author Voices: Volume 2

de Stacy Hague-Hill

Do you have the guts to steal from the Queen of England?  Or the survival instincts to survive a zombie apocalypse?  Have you ever wondered what your cat is staring at in a seemingly empty room? In this collection...

Tor/Forge Author Voices: Volume 3

de Stacy Hague-Hill

For over three decades Tor and Forge have been proud to publish some of the most beloved and respected works of genre fiction.

With this sampler, we are pleased to present a one-of-a-kind collection of articles...

Down Lab Lane: Intermediation

de Collectif

Choosing intermediation as an inaugural theme of Down Lab Lane amounts to admit that our whole digital life stops by intermediaries and that we always have dealt with without always being aware of it. 

Our...

The Fierce Reads Anthology: Volume 2

de Ann Aguirre, Gennifer Albin, Elizabeth Fama & Lish McBride et al.

This anthology includes short stories from six fierce young adult authors! Inside, you’ll find a futuristic zombie tale from Ann Aguirre, a science fiction thriller from Gennifer Albin, a nautical mermaid...

A Pehov Duet

de Alexey Pehov

Two original, exciting and engaging short stories from Alexey Pehov that feature master thief Shadow Harold, the protagonist of the Chronicles of Siala epic fantasy series. In "The Snake", Harold, the most...

The Alloy of Law: Prologue - Chapter 6

de Brandon Sanderson

This excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s fourth and latest Mistborn novel, The Alloy of Law, contains the Prologue through Chapter Six.

The Alloy of Law will be available on November 8, 2011.

Three hundred years...

International Facades - CROFT

de Marcel Bilow

 "International Facades - CROFT" links the fields of architecture, building services and building physics. It aims at an international diversity in façade design to reduce energy consumption in building design....

Chapter 15.5: Intersections and Interlopers

de Ken Scholes & Lisa Desrochers

When part of Lisa Desrocher’s urban fantasy novel Personal Demons got swapped into the Kindle edition of Ken Scholes’ epic Antiphon, they were notified and the error corrected. But the two authors began...

Epic Firsts Teen Sampler

de Sarah Crossan, C. J. Redwine, Michelle Gagnon & Emily Hainsworth et al.

First memory. First kiss. First love. First fight. First heartbreak. There's a first time for everything. Discover five first-time authors with sneak peeks of their debut novels—Don't Turn Around by Michelle...

The Bond: An Excerpt with Fifty Ways to Help Animals

de Wayne Pacelle

As President and CEO of The Humane Society of United States, the world's largest animal protection organization, Wayne Pacelle knows intimately the special bond between humans and animals. In his forthcoming...

Loyalty Free Preview

de Ingrid Thoft

A free preview of Loyalty by Ingrid Thoft including a special essay by the author: 

The Ludlows are a hard-charging family, and patriarch Carl Ludlow treats his offspring like employees-which they are. But...

Zero Hour Free Preview

de Clive Cussler

A free preview of ZERO HOUR by Clive Cussler

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 figured out...

InterMix Romance Sampler

de Various

This free downloadable sampler features chapters from a selection of the hottest e-books published in 2013 by InterMix Books.

From tattooed bad boys to sexy billionaires to strapping cowboys, there's something...

The Ecco Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler

de None

The Ecco/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections:

• Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng
• Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford
• Together Tea by Marjan...

The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke

de James Martin, C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright & Desmond Tutu et al.

With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles...

It Happened One Valentine's Day

de Eloisa James, Lynsay Sands, Jeaniene Frost & Liz Carlyle et al.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Avon Books and an enchanting free e-book sampler, It Happened One Valentine's Day. With excerpts from fourteen new, upcoming, and fan favorite Avon and Avon Impulse novels and...