"Through skillful writing, Ivory captures the subtle sensual pleasures of her colorful characters, creating a sexy variation on My Fair Lady." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mick Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks....

"In the second book of the Native Tongue trilogy, a small group of women linguists have developed a women's language, Láadan, but their resistance is threatened by a group of priests who uncover their plan to spread the language throughout the world."-- Provided by publisher.

It takes courage to share your secrets-and your heart... Adopted as a child by a tech billionaire, Wynter Bates knows nothing about her origins-or the world beyond being privileged, sheltered, and lonely. But she won't let anything stop her from investigating who she is. Especially after a high-profile scandal involving her father's past lands her on an island retreat under bodyguard Cullen Whelan's protection-in the guise of being his girlfriend... A...

"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive"-- Provided by publisher. Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite...

The Ordinary is a powerful and entrancing tale of magic, science, and the mysterious truth that binds them together.
Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic.
The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced

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"The double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town draws FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto into an investigation that mirrors a decades-old crime. Twenty-five years ago--to the day--Alex Parker murdered his parents, then took his own life, leaving behind a note admitting everything. Raisa, paired with forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny, uses her skills to read between the lines. Especially now that paranoid postings on a conspiracy...

Two scientists--linguist Wendy Ahearn and an astrophysicists Corey Newton--are hired to decode an alien artifact found at a UFO crash site in 1953. From a secret base the base in an Arizona mountain Colonel Pete Mitchell aids Newton and Ahearn in their mission to decode the artifact. Time is critical and failure could doom human civilization as we know it. The President, a dying general who discovered it, and Pete's team are the only people who know...