Titles starting with N from E. Fay Shipman

This is the third volume in Hamilton's massive space opera--following THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION and THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST, both of which really MUST be read prior to attempting this one. It examines the alien cultures that may--or may not!--control the "present-time" universe of 2600 in which the descendents of humanity have split into genetically- and technologically-altered factions, each scrambling to colonize their own new worlds.

For 100 years, the name Nathaniel has been synonymous with terror in the town of Prairie Bend. Who is Nathaniel: a myth, a former resident, a ghost bent on vengeance? When young Michael begins to hear an eerie voice calling to him across the plains, could it be the voice of Nathaniel?

In the wild Pamir Mountains of Tajikstan, a revolutionary vanishes, a schoolgirl is murdered, a scientist on an expedition to find a Neanderthal quarry disappears. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot are dispatched from Harvard to carry on the expedition. Intruding into an Edenic lost world, they kindle an interspecies war.

In this volume of the Necropscope series, the direct sequel to NECROSCOPE: INVADERS, E-Branch race to capture three alien Wamphyri before they can spread a new, more deadly infection among their Earthbound kin.

Mr. Leland Gaunt arrives in Castle Rock and opens a shop where residents can find whatever their heart desires. But in the hands of this sinister shopkeeper, even the most innocuous request has dire consequences. "Needful Things" is the last of King's novels based in the fictional Maine town of Castle Rock.

Peterson has directly translated the New Testament into a language that is accessible and provocative for contemporary readers.

In the sixth Xanth book, Mare Imbrium has been failing in her task of delivering bad dreams to the residents of Xanth. Nevertheless, she is charged with delivering a message to King Trent to warn him of approaching barbarian hordes.

Moira Kelly, a Boston TV producer, begins to suspect that her family and her ex-boyfriend may have some connection to a sinister plot that may involve a Boston-based wing of Irish terrorists. As she tries to get to the truth, she finds herself increasingly drawn to erstwhile boyfriend Danny, even though she's already involved with someone else.

Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport tracks his most elusive and brilliant opponent yet: a master thief-turned-murderer who carves the initials of his latest obsession, a beautiful woman, into his victim's flesh.

Passion glows when the sun goes down in this omnibus, which collects NIGHT SHIFT and NIGHT SHADOW, two Nora Roberts romances previously published separately in 1991. NIGHT SHIFT's heroine is sexy-voiced Denver DJ Cilla O'Roarke, host of a late-night radio show. When a stalker pursues Cilla, her police protection, Detective Boyd Fletcher, develops a more than professional interest in her. NIGHT SHADOW is a supernatural romance with a comic book flair. It concerns Cilla's younger sister, assistant district attorney Deborah, who falls in love with millionaire Gage Guthrie and his alter ego, the vigilante Nemesis, unaware that they're the same man.