Liz Williams
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From Liz Williams comes a bold and provocative novel of the future in which the vast Indian subcontinent, home to thousands of gods, is visited by all-powerful alien beings from a distant world of controlled, sterile perfection. But what is their purpose: to free humanity--or to enslave it?
EMPIRE OF BONES
Millions of years ago alien beings seeded Earth with their genetic strands to create a new outpost of intelligent life.
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Chen novels volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2005, 2008
Language
English
Description
In a near future that allows travel between Heaven and Hell and Earth, "snake agent" Chen finds himself in hot pursuit of ghost-girl, Pearl Tang, and the father who murdered her to protect his business of "supplying the souls of the virtuous to Hell". Chen is not only a crack paranormal crime investigator but also a licensed feng shui practitioner never without his compass
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Chen novels volume 3
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Chen and Zhu Irzh must escort an emissary from Heaven on a diplomatic mission to Hell, meanwhile a young boy born to ghostly parents in Hell ends up being the key to unlocking the mystery that is quickly spiraling out of control
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Chen novels volume 2
Publisher
Night Shade
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A demon cop in an unfamiliar city works his first homicide case Zhu Irzh is having trouble adjusting to life on Earth. The food is bland, the colors dim, and the weather much too chilly for a demon used to the balmy climate of the underworld. Recently attached to the Singapore Three police department, Zhu Irzh has been assigned to help humans like Detective Inspector Chen investigate cases that overlap this world and the world to come. But how dedicated...
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Chen novels volume 4
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Chen's partner, the demon Seneschal Zhu Irzh, disappears along with Chen's wife Inari's guardian badger, Chen must enlist all of his allies and assets in order to locate them in an unfamiliar jungle hell, stalked by a rogue demon lord
6) Worldsoul
Author
Series
Worldsoul trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world? Worldsoul, a great city that forms a nexus point between Earth and the many dimensions known as the Liminality, is a place where old stories gather, where forgotten legends come to fade and die - or to flourish and rise again
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
On Monde D'Isle a rugged people live in union with their world. They migrate with the tides of the moon, sense the meridians of the planet, and slip into a Dreamtime that grants them access to -- and escape from -- the darker urges of their animal nature. Mevennen ai Mordha is out of tune with her people's "bloodmind." She is protected by her devoted brother Eleres, who refuses to listen to those who say that Mevennen is not fit to live. Still, Mevennen...