Robert's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:21:12 -0800 60 Robert's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Black Light 11173043
Buck's got a way with spirits that no one else can match. He was normal, once. Until Something Horrible killed his parents and left him for dead.

Buck has spent years using his gift to trace his family. It's his only hope of finding out what happened to them-and what made him the way he is.

Now the voices say that something big is coming. Buck already knows what it is-a super high-tech bullet train running express across a stretch of unforgiving desert known for the most deadly paranormal events in history. A place where Buck almost died a few years ago, and where he swore he would never return.

But as the train prepares to rumble down the tracks, Buck knows it can only be the inevitable hand of fate pulling him back to the most harrowing unfinished case of his career at four hundred miles per hour.]]> 336 Stephen Romano 0316196711 Robert 4 3.03 1996 Black Light
author: Stephen Romano
name: Robert
average rating: 3.03
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Stands a Shadow (The Heart of the World, #2)]]> 10636457 416 Col Buchanan 0230744826 Robert 0 to-read 3.68 Stands a Shadow (The Heart of the World, #2)
author: Col Buchanan
name: Robert
average rating: 3.68
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]]> Goth 3678413 222 Kenji Oiwa 142781094X Robert 0 to-read 3.86 2003 Goth
author: Kenji Oiwa
name: Robert
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Stranger's Woes (Labyrinths of Echo, #2)]]> 10717035 2. The Ship from Arvarox and Other Woes
3. The Volunteers of Eternity

The irresistible newest novel by the bestselling Max Frei, set in a magical city where losers make good.

The Labyrinths of Echo series --the adventures of Max, who was once a loser but discovers a new world --has been an international literary sensation since its debut. In this second installment, Sir Max is still a hardened smoker, an uncomplicated glutton, and a loafer, but once again, he gets lucky. He travels to the parallel world of Echo, where magic is commonplace and where he fits right in. Plunging back into the astounding and absurd realm first portrayed in The Stranger(Fandomania.com's #1 Book of 2009), this is a sequel of addictive power, blending fantasy, horror, philosophy, and comedy. Readers will welcome this "utterly original" (Bookslut) volume of the new adventures and misadventures of Sir Max in this enchanting world.]]> 416 Max Frei 1590204786 Robert 4 4.25 1997 The Stranger's Woes (Labyrinths of Echo, #2)
author: Max Frei
name: Robert
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> The Other 10790304
Hailed as the heir apparent to Jack Vance, Matthew Hughes brings us this speculative, richly imagined exploration of society on the far edges of extreme. A central character in Black Brillion, Luff Imbry is at last front and center in Hughes’s latest rollercoaster adventure through a far-future universe.

]]> 240 Matthew Hughes 098266396X Robert 3 3.37 2011 The Other
author: Matthew Hughes
name: Robert
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince of Storms (Entire and the Rose, #4)]]> 6468603 Taking advantage of these chaotic times, the great foe of the Long War, the Jinda ceb Horat, create a settlement in the Entire. Masters of supreme technology, they maintain a lofty distance from the Entire’s struggle. They agree, however, that the Tarig must return to the fiery Heart of their origins. With the banishment immanent, some Tarig lords rebel, fleeing to hound the edges of Quinn’s reign.
Meanwhile, Quinn’s wife Anzi becomes a hostage and penitent among the Jinda ceb, undergoing alterations that expose their secrets, but may estrange her from her husband. As Quinn moves toward a confrontation with the dark navitar, he learns that the stakes of the conflict go far beyond the Rose versus the Entire--extending to a breathtaking dominance. The navitar commands forces that lie at the heart of the Entire’s geo-cosmology, and will use them to alter the calculus of power. As the navitar’s plan approaches consummation, Quinn, Sen Ni, and Anzi are swept up in forces that will leave them forever changed. In this rousing finale to Kenyon’s celebrated quartet, Titus Quinn meets an inevitable destiny, forced at last to make the unthinkable choice for or against the dictates of his heart, for or against the beloved land.]]> 389 Kay Kenyon 1591027918 Robert 0 to-read 4.00 2010 Prince of Storms (Entire and the Rose, #4)
author: Kay Kenyon
name: Robert
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2010
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]]> The Ocean Dark 8716627 ĚýĚýĚý
In Washington, two Department of Defense scientists might understand what is about to happen. On an FBI ship monitoring the Antoinette’s illegal trade, armed agents might be able to intervene. But this assumes that the Antoinette’s crew survives their first encounter with a creature virtually unknown to man, yet whose eerie songs nevertheless echo down the corridors of mankind’s darkest legends.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 448 Jack Rogan Robert 0 to-read 3.96 2010 The Ocean Dark
author: Jack Rogan
name: Robert
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartland (Codex of Souls, #2)]]> 6670150
Markham returns to Paris where he lost his love, and nearly his life. The ancient order of manipulative magicians that once cast him out is now in turmoil . . . a turmoil made all the greater by the swaths of destruction that Markham tried to avert in the Pacific Northwest.

Teamed with an unlikely partner, Markham seeks to overturn the corrupt remains of an order no longer able to police its own practitioners. Yet, he can't escape the feeling that he's still just a pawn in a larger game.

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.]]> 425 Mark Teppo 1597801550 Robert 0 to-read 3.73 2009 Heartland (Codex of Souls, #2)
author: Mark Teppo
name: Robert
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Memorist (Reincarnationist, #2)]]> 3856268 464 M.J. Rose 0778325849 Robert 0 to-read 3.71 2008 The Memorist (Reincarnationist, #2)
author: M.J. Rose
name: Robert
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2008
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]]> The Empress of Mars 4791589
When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated there in droves--only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn't turn a profit on Mars. This is the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy a beer on the Tharsis Bulge. It's the story of Manco Inca, whose attempt to terraform Mars brought a new goddess vividly to life; of Stanford Crosley, con man extraordinaire; of Ottorino Vespucci, space cowboy and romantic hero; of the Clan Morrigan, of the denizens of the Martian Motel, and of the machinations of another Company entirely, all of whom contribute to the downfall of the BAC and the founding of a new world.

Based on the Hugo-nominated novella of the same name, The Empress of Mars is a rollicking novel of action, offworld romance and high adventure.

The Subterranean Press edition of The Empress of Mars will be the true first edition, preceding the trade edition by several months. It is limited to 448 numbered copies signed by the author.]]> 300 Kage Baker 1596062142 Robert 0 to-read 4.06 2009 The Empress of Mars
author: Kage Baker
name: Robert
average rating: 4.06
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]]> Relentless 4946005
What began as an innocent and unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy, but a ruthless sociopath, and now he is intent on destroying Cubby and everything he holds dear: his home, his wife, his young son, and every hope he had in the world.

The terror has only just begun, and it will be relentless…]]> 356 Dean R. Koontz 0553807145 Robert 0 to-read 3.77 2009 Relentless
author: Dean R. Koontz
name: Robert
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bones of the Dragon (Dragonships of Vindras, #1)]]> 2399403 414 Margaret Weis 076531973X Robert 0 to-read 3.58 2009 Bones of the Dragon (Dragonships of Vindras, #1)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Robert
average rating: 3.58
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles #2)]]> 7011403 508 Robin Hobb Robert 0 to-read 4.07 2010 Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Robert
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Legacy of Kings (The Magister Trilogy, #3)]]> 10602680 464 C.S. Friedman 0756406935 Robert 0 to-read 3.98 2011 Legacy of Kings (The Magister Trilogy, #3)
author: C.S. Friedman
name: Robert
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Deathless 8694389
Deathless, however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei’s beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation.]]> 352 Catherynne M. Valente 0765326302 Robert 4 3.97 2011 Deathless
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Robert
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)]]> 10664113 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4A

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.]]> 1125 George R.R. Martin Robert 0 to-read 4.33 2011 A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Robert
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)]]> 12988330
Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.

Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime.

"Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time]]> 504 Daniel O'Malley 0316193275 Robert 0 to-read 4.16 2012 The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
author: Daniel O'Malley
name: Robert
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Seven Princes (Books of the Shaper, #1)]]> 10836736
Under the watchful eye of the Giants, the kingdoms of Men rose to power. Now, the Giant-King has slain the last of the Serpents and ushered in an era of untold peace and prosperity. Where a fire-blackened desert once stood, golden cities flourish in verdant fields.

It is an Age of Heroes.

But the realms of Man face a new threat-- an ancient sorcerer slaughters the rightful King of Yaskatha before the unbelieving eyes of his son, young Prince D'zan. With the Giant-King lost to a mysterious doom, it seems that no one has the power to stop the coming storm.

It is an Age of War.

The fugitive Prince seeks allies across the realms of Men and Giants to liberate his father's stolen kingdom. Six foreign Princes are tied to his fate. Only one thing is certain: War is coming.

SEVEN PRINCES.
Some will seek glory.
Some will seek vengeance.
All will be legends.]]> 526 John R. Fultz 0316187860 Robert 0 currently-reading 3.16 2012 Seven Princes (Books of the Shaper, #1)
author: John R. Fultz
name: Robert
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emperor's Knife (Tower and Knife Trilogy, #1)]]> 11285675
The lost prince Sarmin, the emperor's only surviving brother, lies locked in a hidden room. As the pattern draws closer to the palace he is at last now he awaits a bride, Mesema, a Windreader from the northern plains. She is accustomed to riding free across the grasslands and finds the Imperial Court stifling, but she soon realizes the politicking is not a game. It is in deadly earnest.

Eyul, the imperial assassin, is burdened by the atrocities he has committed. As commanded, he bears the emperor's Knife to the desert in search of a cure for the pattern-markings.

As long-planned conspiracies boil over into open violence, the enemy moves towards victory. Now only three people stand in his a lost prince, a world-weary killer, and a young girl from the steppes who saw a path in a pattern once, among the waving grasses.]]> 450 Mazarkis Williams 0857388002 Robert 4 3.32 2011 The Emperor's Knife (Tower and Knife Trilogy, #1)
author: Mazarkis Williams
name: Robert
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thirteen Hallows (Thirteen Hallows, #1)]]> 10740844
A gruesome murder in London reveals a sinister plot to uncover a two-thousand-year-old secret.

For decades, the Keepers guarded these Hallows, keping them safe, hidden, and apart from one another. But now the Keepers are being brutally murdered, their prizes stolen, the ancient objects bathed in their blood.

Now, only a few remain.

With her dying breath, one of the Keepers convinces Sarah Miller, a virtual stranger, to deliver her Hallow--a broken sword with devastating powers--to her nephew, Owen.

The duo quickly become suspects in a series of murders as they are chased by both the police and the sadistic Dark Man and his nubile mistress.

As Sarah and Owen search for the surviving Keepers, they unravel a deadly secret the Keepers were charged to protect. The mystery leads Sarah and Owen on a cat-and-mouse chase through England and Wales--and history itself--as they discover that the sword may be the only thing standing between the world... and a horror beyond imagining.]]> 349 Michael Scott 0765328526 Robert 0 currently-reading 3.35 2011 The Thirteen Hallows (Thirteen Hallows, #1)
author: Michael Scott
name: Robert
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)]]> 11487807
Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, “the last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat,� just wants a quiet cup of tea. Three score and more years old, he has grown weary of hunting monsters and saving lives, and is more than ready to retire from his dangerous and demanding vocation. But when an old flame’s family is murdered, Adoulla is drawn back to the hunter’s path.

Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla’s young assistant, is a hidebound holy warrior whose prowess is matched only by his piety. But even as Raseed’s sword is tested by ghuls and manjackals, his soul is tested when he and Adoulla cross paths with the tribeswoman Zamia.

Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band, has been gifted with the near-mythical power of the lion-shape, but shunned by her people for daring to take up a man’s title. She lives only to avenge her father’s death. Until she learns that Adoulla and his allies also hunt her father’s killer. Until she meets Raseed.

When they learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince’s brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time—and struggle against their own misgivings—to save the life of a vicious despot. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.]]> 274 Saladin Ahmed 0756407117 Robert 0 to-read 3.62 2012 Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)
author: Saladin Ahmed
name: Robert
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Mound (Knight in Shadow, #1)]]> 11342530 592 Richard A. Knaak 0982818610 Robert 2 4.02 2011 Dragon Mound (Knight in Shadow, #1)
author: Richard A. Knaak
name: Robert
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The House of Silk (Horowitz's Holmes, #1)]]> 11093329
Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT�

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap � a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.

Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.

The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.
(front flap)]]> 294 Anthony Horowitz 0316196991 Robert 5 3.96 2011 The House of Silk (Horowitz's Holmes, #1)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Robert
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Hell & Gone (Charlie Hardie, #2)]]> 9583670
Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound and transported by strange operatives of unknown origin, Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth.

And then things get really bad. Because this isn't just any prison. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare that comes springloaded with a brutal catch-22: Hardie's the warden. And any attempt to escape triggers a "death mechanism" that will kill everyone down here -- including a group of innocent guards. Faced with an unworkable paradox, and knowing that his wife and son could be next on the Accident People's hit list, Hardie has only one choice: fight his way to the heart of this hell hole and make a deal with the Devil himself.]]> 282 Duane Swierczynski 0316133299 Robert 4 3.82 2011 Hell & Gone (Charlie Hardie, #2)
author: Duane Swierczynski
name: Robert
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)]]> 10779721 358 Jonathan Maberry 031255219X Robert 5 3.99 2011 Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)
author: Jonathan Maberry
name: Robert
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Ashes of a Black Frost (Iron Elves, #3)]]> 7841509
Amidst a scene of carnage on a desert battlefield blanketed in metallic snow, Major Konowa Swift Dragon sees his future, and it is one drenched in shadow and blood. Never mind that he has won a grand victory for the Calahrian Empire. He came here in search of his lost regiment of elves, while the Imperial Prince came looking for the treasures of a mystical library, and both ventures have failed. But Konowa knows, as do the Iron Elves—both living and dead—that another, far more important battle now looms before them. The campaign in the desert was only the latest obstacle on the twisted, darkening path leading inexorably to the Hyntaland, and the final confrontation with the dreaded Shadow Monarch.

In this third novel of musket and magic in Chris Evans’s Iron Elves saga, Konowa’s ultimate journey is fraught with escalating danger. A vast, black forest finds a new source of dark power, spawning creatures even more monstrous than the blood trees from which they evolve. The maniacally unstable former emissary of the Shadow Monarch hungers for revenge, leading an army of ravenous beasts bent on utterly destroying the Iron Elves. A reluctant hero, Private Alwyn Renwar, struggles to maintain his connection to this world and that of the loyalty of the shades of the dead. And in a maze of underground tunnels, Visyna Tekoy, whom Konowa counts among those he has loved and lost, fights for her life against the very elves he so desperately wants to find.

And so Konowa sets off from this Canyon of Bones, pursuing his freedom from a curse that has cast his life in darkness. For though his long, violent trek may indeed lead him to his destiny, he is ill prepared for the discovery he will make . . . with the fate of the Iron Elves, and the world, hinging on the courage of one wrathful elf.]]> 435 Chris Evans 1439180660 Robert 3 3.80 2011 Ashes of a Black Frost (Iron Elves, #3)
author: Chris Evans
name: Robert
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Eyes to See (Jeremiah Hunt, #1)]]> 10836790
Abandoning all hope for a normal life, he enters the world of ghosts and even more dangerous entities from beyond the grave. Sacrificing his normal sight so that he can see the souls of the dead and the powers that stalk his worst nightmares, Hunt embarks upon a strange new career--a pariah among the living; a scourge among the dead; doomed to walk between the light of day and the deepest darkness beyond night.

His love for his departed daughter sustains him when all is most hopeless, but Hunt is cursed by something more evil than he can possibly imagine. As he descends into the maelstrom of his terrifying quest, he discovers that even his deepest fears are but prelude to yet darker deeds by a powerful entity from beyond the grave...that will not let him go until it has used him for its own nefarious purposes.]]> 320 Joseph Nassise 076532718X Robert 4 3.75 2011 Eyes to See (Jeremiah Hunt, #1)
author: Joseph Nassise
name: Robert
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Spellbound (Spellwright, #2) 11692882 A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the year, Blake Charlton's Spellbound is the exciting sequel to the acclaimed epic fantasy debut Spellwright.In a world where one's magical prowess is determined by one's skill with words and ability to spell, Nicodemus is a wizardly apprentice afflicted by a curse that causes him to misspell magical texts. Now, the demon who cursed him has hatched a conspiracy to force Nicodemus to change language and ultimately use it to destroy all human life. As Nico tries to thwart the demon's plan, he faces challenges from all sides. But his biggest challenge is his own disability, which causes him to create chaos wherever he goes. And the chaos surrounding Nico is affecting the world so profoundly that the kingdom to which he has fled to gather strength is on the brink of civil war, and he suspects that his closest allies--even Francesca, whom he loves more than life itself--may be subject to the demon's vast powers. As Nico tries to forestall the apocalypse, he realizes that he doesn't know if he can fully trust anyone, not even the woman he loves. And if he makes one wrong move, not only will his life be forfeit, he may end up destroying all mortal life as well.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 414 Blake Charlton 0765356597 Robert 4 3.73 2011 Spellbound (Spellwright, #2)
author: Blake Charlton
name: Robert
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> The Sacred Band (Acacia, #3) 10251958 Acacia and The Other Lands, David Anthony Durham created a vast and engrossing canvas of a world in turmoil, and of the surviving children of a royal dynasty on quests to realize their fates � and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. As The Sacred Band begins, one of them, Queen Corinn, bestrides the world with her mastery of spells found in "The Song of Elenet". Her younger brother, Dariel, becomes a mythic figure in the Other Lands, while her sister Mena travels to the far north to confront an invasion from a brutal race intent on conquering the Known World. Their separate trajectories will converge in tumultuous battles, all rendered with vivid detail and in heroic scale.

]]> 559 David Anthony Durham 0307739686 Robert 4 3.84 2011 The Sacred Band (Acacia, #3)
author: David Anthony Durham
name: Robert
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)]]> 8253920 The end draws near....

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.

The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.

Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in °Ő±đ±ô’a°ů˛ą˛Ô’rłóľ±´Ç»ĺ and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever

Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.

This penultimate novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series--the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007--brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.

Dovie’andi se tovya sagain. It’s time to toss the dice.]]> 863 Robert Jordan 0765325942 Robert 0 to-read 4.46 2010 Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)
author: Robert Jordan
name: Robert
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2010
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]]> The Revisionists 10789142 A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth.

Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair.

His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course-especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.

Zed's mission will disrupt the lives of a disgraced former CIA agent; a young Washington lawyer grieving over the loss of her brother, a soldier in Iraq; the oppressed employee of a foreign diplomat; and countless others. But will he finish his final mission before the present takes precedence over a perfect future? One that may have more cracks than he realizes?

The Revisionists puts a fresh spin on today's global crises, playing with the nature of history and our own role in shaping it. It firmly establishes Mullen as one of the most exciting and imaginative writers of his generation.]]> 448 Thomas Mullen 0316176729 Robert 4 3.35 2011 The Revisionists
author: Thomas Mullen
name: Robert
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Blackveil (Green Rider, #4) 8396337
Forced by magic to accept a dangerous fate she would never have chosen, headstrong Karigan has become completely devoted to the king and her fellow Riders.

But now, an insurrection led by dark magicians threatens to break the boundaries of ancient, evil Blackveil Forest-releasing powerful dark magics that have been shut away for a millennium.]]> 672 Kristen Britain 0756406609 Robert 4 4.19 2011 Blackveil (Green Rider, #4)
author: Kristen Britain
name: Robert
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ganymede (The Clockwork Century, #3)]]> 10900324 349 Cherie Priest Robert 4 3.83 2011 Ganymede (The Clockwork Century, #3)
author: Cherie Priest
name: Robert
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Sanctus (Sancti Trilogy, #1) 9580144
REVELATION OR DEVASTATION?

The certainties of the modern world are about to be blown apart by a three thousand year-old conspiracy nurtured by blood and lies �

A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world.
But few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, it is what they have been waiting for. The cowled and secretive fanatics that live in the Citadel suspect it could mean the end of everything they have built � and they will kill, torture and break every law to stop that. For Liv Adamsen, New York crime reporter, it begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity.
And at that journey's end lies a discovery that will change EVERYTHING �
SANCTUS is an apocalyptic conspiracy thriller like no other � it re-sets the bar for excitement and fascination, and marks the debut of a major talent in Simon Toyne.]]> 486 Simon Toyne 0007391552 Robert 0 to-read 3.81 2011 Sanctus (Sancti Trilogy, #1)
author: Simon Toyne
name: Robert
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2011
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]]> Jack Cloudie (Jackelian, #5) 8515996
Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed. Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the far-away deserts of Cassarabia. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Omar ibn Barir, the slave of a rich merchant lord finds his life turned upside down when his master's religious sect is banned. Unexpectedly freed, he survives the destruction of his home to enter into the service of the Caliph's military forces -- just as war is brewing. Two very similar young men prepare to face each other across a senseless field of war. But is Omar the enemy, or is Jack's true nemesis the sickness at the heart of the Caliph's court? A cult that hides the deadly secret to the origins of the gas being used to float Cassarabia's new aerial navy. If Jack and his shipmates can discover what Cassarabia's aggressive new regime is trying to conceal, he might survive the most horrific of wars and clear his family's name. If not!]]> 412 Stephen Hunt 0007289642 Robert 0 to-read 3.82 2011 Jack Cloudie (Jackelian, #5)
author: Stephen Hunt
name: Robert
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)]]> 10199908 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these affairs will pale beside the most harrowing menace Panterra is destined to confront—a nameless, merciless agent of darkness on a relentless mission: to claim the last black staff . . . and the life of whoever wields it.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Wards of Faerie.]]> 383 Terry Brooks 0345484207 Robert 0 to-read 4.00 2011 The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)
author: Terry Brooks
name: Robert
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes]]> 10869776
From the point of view of an outsider, they may very well be horrible, terrifying monstrosities, but of course they won’t see themselves in the same light. Demons and goblins, dark gods and aliens, creatures of myth and legend, lurkers in darkness and beasts in human clothing…these are the subjects of The Monster’s Corner, an anthology of never-before-published stories assembled by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden.

With contributions from such luminous authors as Lauren Groff, Chelsea Cain, Simon R. Green, Sharyn McCrumb, Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Kevin J. Anderson, Jonathan Maberry, and many others, this is the ultimate anthology on the dark heart of a monster.]]> 388 Christopher Golden 0312646135 Robert 4 3.53 2011 The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes
author: Christopher Golden
name: Robert
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackdog (Gods of the Caravan Road, #1)]]> 11282970
And long ago, in the days of the first kings in the north, the seven devils, who had deceived and possessed seven of the greatest wizards of the world, were defeated and bound with the help of the Old Great Gods...

And perhaps some of the devils are free in the world, and perhaps some are working to free themselves still�

In a land where gods walk on the hills and goddesses rise from river, lake, and spring, the caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping the bloody conquest of a lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarnation of Attalissa, goddess of Lissavakail, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit whose origins have been forgotten. Possessed and nearly driven mad by the Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees to the desert road, taking the powerless avatar with him.

Necromancy, treachery, massacres, rebellions, and gods dead or lost or mad, follow hard on the their heels. But it is Attalissa herself who may be the Blackdog’s—and Holla-Sayan’s—doom.]]> 547 K.V. Johansen 1616145218 Robert 0 to-read 3.58 2011 Blackdog (Gods of the Caravan Road, #1)
author: K.V. Johansen
name: Robert
average rating: 3.58
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]]> The Night Circus 9361589
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.]]> 506 Erin Morgenstern Robert 5 4.00 2011 The Night Circus
author: Erin Morgenstern
name: Robert
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> The Taker (The Taker, #1) 7766064 True love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price. . . .

On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening--until a mysterious woman, Lanore McIlvrae, arrives in his ER, escorted by police. Lanore is a murder suspect, and Luke is inexplicably drawn to her. As Lanny tells him her story, an impassioned account of love and betrayal that transcends time and mortality, she changes his life forever. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Lanny was consumed as a child by her love for the son of St. Andrew’s founder, and she will do anything to be with him forever, but the price she pays is steep--an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate.]]> 438 Alma Katsu 1439197059 Robert 4 3.67 2011 The Taker (The Taker, #1)
author: Alma Katsu
name: Robert
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Suicide Kings (Wild Cards, #20)]]> 6470977 448 George R.R. Martin 0765317834 Robert 0 to-read 3.80 2009 Suicide Kings (Wild Cards, #20)
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Robert
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Stormed Fortress (Wars of Light and Shadow #8)]]> 2465319

Though Athera may be free, the fight is far from over�


The heartstopping conclusion to the Alliance of Light series brings Lysaer's army of Light to besiege the great citadel of Alestron. Master of Shadow, Arithon, with barely a moment's recuperation from his victory over the necromancers, has discovered that young Jeynsa s'Valerient whom he has sworn to protect, has joined the ranks of his disowned allies within the threatened citadel. Worse, following a failed rescue attempt, his beloved Elaira, his double, Fionn Areth, and the spellbinder Dakar are also trapped within Alestron's walls. The chancy wiles of Davien the betrayer must spirit Arithon across the enemy lines to attempt a bold and perilous rescue mission.


Arithon must seek the heartcore of his talent, even while embroiled in a savage battle against those he has vowed to protect. But treachery strikes from deep within the duke's ranks. Lysaer's fanatics will be unleashed to claim their bloody revenge. With the Fellowship Sorcerers in mortal danger, and all under threat from a collapsing grimward, Davien the betrayer is unable to intercede to save his colleagues and so will be forced to invoke the dire terms of an ancient and most secretive bargain.


Arithon stands alone at the hour of reckoning as the true purpose of the Koriani enchantresses becomes, at long last fully, unveiled � with the covetous Prime Matriarch now poised to snatch a prize, a prize beyond that of merely integrity and life…]]> 703 Janny Wurts 0007217811 Robert 0 to-read 4.36 2007 Stormed Fortress (Wars of Light and Shadow #8)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Traitor's Knot (Wars of Light and Shadow, #7)]]> 8129692
When half brothers Lysaer and Arithon defeated the Mistwraith its revenge left them cursed to lifelong enmity.

Having conquered the maze and acheived self-redemption, Arithon, Master of Shadow, is now the guest of the formidable sorcerer, Davien the Betrayor. No one knows how his influence will affect Arithon’s recovered mage power, or his newly awakened rogue talent for prescience.

Meanwhile Arithon’s relentless enemies will stop at nothing to acheive his downfall. The Koriani enchantresses are determined to make him their captive and their pawn. And as the Alliance of Light fanatics regroup after their defeat, the core of their priesthood now stands corrupted by a drak cabal who plot to enslave their leader, Lysaer, and use the Mistwraith’s curse as their own private weapon to break the world’s order.

The sorcerers of the Fellowship compact are sorely beset and the clans are counting their ruinous losses. Arithon, who holds their last hope of survival, chooses the most dangerous course: heart and mind he dedicates himself to avoiding killing, though allies and enemies muster for war, single-mindedly blind to the consequences.]]> 544 Janny Wurts Robert 0 to-read 4.32 2004 Traitor's Knot (Wars of Light and Shadow, #7)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Peril's Gate (Wars of Light and Shadow, #6)]]> 8129693
The curse that hangs over the Master of Shadow, Arithon, and Lord of Light, Lysaer, is drawing the two half-brothers ever closer towards direct conflict. For the Natural Balance to be maintained, the two must never fight. If they do, one is sure to perish and the Mistwraith will regain its evil power over their world.

Even now, Lysaer � convinced of his own godhead and aided by the treacherous Koriani Sisterhood � is tracking Arithon the Masterbard through the snows and wastes of the winter-locked mountains and the Barrens of Daon Ramon. Arithon is tortured by the knowledge that for the sake of future generations he must not be killed, no matter the cost of others� lives now. Fighting valiantly to prevent unnecessary suffering, he strikes out on his own; but he is injured and failing fast.

Meanwhile, the ancient Paravians are stirring, summoned by trespassers on their sacred domain; and the Fellowship of Seven are battling on many other fronts, as the Mistwraith’s wards begin to break, and khadrim and free wraiths roam the land…]]> 964 Janny Wurts Robert 0 to-read 4.31 2001 Peril's Gate (Wars of Light and Shadow, #6)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2001
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]]> <![CDATA[Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light & Shadow #5; Arc 3 - Alliance of Light, #2)]]> 9888250 656 Janny Wurts 0007318073 Robert 0 to-read 4.50 1999 Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light & Shadow #5; Arc 3 - Alliance of Light, #2)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Fugitive Prince (Wars of Light and Shadow, #4)]]> 10482320
The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause, and loathes the other for opposing it�

Lysaer, Prince of the Light � a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine power to safeguard his people from an enemy he is convinced will destroy them.

Arithon, Master of Shadow � a trained mage who wishes for nothing but to defuse war, and search out the vanished old races who hold the key to restore the world’s shattered peace.

When Koriani enchantresses join forces with Lysaer, new intrigues upset Arithon’s hard-won autonomy. Faction is set against faction, heart against heart, and the scene is set for an explosive recurrence of war. The curse of the Mistwraith echoes eternal…]]> 724 Janny Wurts Robert 0 to-read 4.26 1997 Fugitive Prince (Wars of Light and Shadow, #4)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1997
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]]> <![CDATA[Warhost of Vastmark (Wars of Light & Shadow #3)]]> 28664

Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the Master of Shadow has disappeared as if into thin air.


Meanwhile Arithon and the Mad Prophet Dakar are travelling on foot through the treacherous Kelhorn Mountains towards the Vastmark clans, there to raise further support for his cause. But raising a warhost is a costly business. Is it mere coincidence that Princess Talith � Lysaer’s beautiful, headstrong wife � is taken captive and held for a vast ransom by a master brigand?


The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict. And in the background the Fellowship of Seven Sorcerers and the Koriani Enchantresses watch and plan, and wait…]]> 522 Janny Wurts 0006482074 Robert 0 to-read 4.06 1995 Warhost of Vastmark (Wars of Light & Shadow #3)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)]]> 28660
Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith � as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well. For between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world, its harmony and its future, in their hands.]]> 830 Janny Wurts 0586210695 Robert 0 to-read 3.79 1993 The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)
author: Janny Wurts
name: Robert
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rift Walker (Vampire Empire, #2)]]> 10790180
As Adele labors to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange powers she exhibited in the north. Her teacher, Mamoru, leads a secret cabal of geomancers who believe Adele is the one who can touch the vast power of the Earth that surges through ley lines and wells up at the rifts where the lines meet. These energies are the key to defeating the enemy of mankind, and if Princess Adele could ever bring this power under her command, she could be death to vampires. But such a victory will also cost the life of Adele's beloved Greyfriar.

The Rift Walkeris the second book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternative history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, the Vampire Empire series brings epic politcal themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.]]> 398 Clay Griffith 1616145234 Robert 0 to-read 4.06 2011 The Rift Walker (Vampire Empire, #2)
author: Clay Griffith
name: Robert
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Roil (The Nightbound Land, #1)]]> 10358606
It's up to a drug addict, an old man and a woman bent on revenge to try to save their city - and the world.

File Fantasy [ End Of The World | The Darkness Approaches | Addiction | On The Edge ]

e-book 9780857661852]]> 416 Trent Jamieson 0857661841 Robert 0 to-read 3.44 2011 Roil (The Nightbound Land, #1)
author: Trent Jamieson
name: Robert
average rating: 3.44
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]]> Spellbound (Spellwright, #2) 8512555
Francesca DeVega is a healer in the city of Avel, composing magical sentences that close wounds and disspell curses. But when a newly dead patient sits up and tells her that she must flee the infirmary or face a fate worse than death, Francesca finds herself in the middle of a game she doesn't understand―one that ties her to the notorious rogue wizard Nicodemus Weal and brings her face-to-face with demons, demigods, and a man she hoped never to see again.

Ten years ago, Nico escaped Starhaven Academy, leaving behind his failed life, in which he was considered disabled and felt useless. Now, in Spellbound , he's starting fresh, using his newfound gifts in the dark Chthonic languages to pursue the emerald that holds his birthright. Unfortunately, he can't escape the chaos of his old life. His mentor suffers from an incurable curse, agents of the fabled Halcyon hunt him day and night, pieces of Francesca's story don't add up, and the prophesized War of Disjunction looms on the horizon.

Nico and Francesca don't know it yet, but they are going to have to fit together the pieces of an age-old puzzle and discover the demon's darkest secret�.]]> 486 Blake Charlton Robert 4 3.81 2011 Spellbound (Spellwright, #2)
author: Blake Charlton
name: Robert
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Third Section (The Danilov Quintet, #3)]]> 9570876
Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea, the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north, Saint Petersburg is blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only to sit and wait -- wait for the death of an aging tsar, and for the curse upon his blood to be passed to a new generation.

As their country grows weaker, a brother and sister -- each unaware of the other's existence -- must come to terms with the legacy left them by their father. In Moscow, Tamara Valentinovna Lavrova uncovers a brutal murder and discovers that it is not the first in a sequence of similar crimes, merely the latest, carried out by a killer who has stalked the city since 1812.

And in Sevastopol, Dmitry Alekseevich Danilov faces not only the guns of the combined armies of Britain and France, but must also make a stand against creatures that his father had thought buried beneath the earth, thirty years before.]]> 480 Jasper Kent 0593065379 Robert 4 4.10 2011 The Third Section (The Danilov Quintet, #3)
author: Jasper Kent
name: Robert
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Low Town (Low Town, #1) 9755449 Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.

In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its cham­pion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens.

The Warden’s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his dis­covery of a murdered child down a dead-end street . . . set­ting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. As a former agent with Black House—the secret police—he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn’t get investi­gated. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psy­chotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. In Low Town, no one can be trusted.

Daniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted . . . and hun­gry for more.]]> 352 Daniel Polansky 0385534469 Robert 4 3.86 2011 Low Town (Low Town, #1)
author: Daniel Polansky
name: Robert
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1)]]> 10928630
But smuggling a few charms is one thing; smuggling a person through the warded Alathian border is near suicidal. Having made a promise to a dying friend, Dev is forced to take on a singularly dangerous cargo: Kiran. A young apprentice on the run from one of the most powerful mages in Ninavel, Kiran is desperate enough to pay a fortune to sneak into a country where discovery means certain execution - and he'll do whatever it takes to prevent Dev from finding out the terrible truth behind his getaway.

Yet Kiran isn't the only one harboring a deadly secret. Caught up in a web of subterfuge and dark magic, Dev and Kiran must find a way to trust each other - or face not only their own destruction, but that of the entire city of Ninavel.]]> 375 Courtney Schafer 1597802832 Robert 5 3.69 2011 The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1)
author: Courtney Schafer
name: Robert
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)]]> 9579634
From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.

Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.]]> 373 Mark Lawrence 0007423292 Robert 5 3.83 2011 Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
author: Mark Lawrence
name: Robert
average rating: 3.83
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More like 4.5 stars, but a very impressive first novel...
]]> <![CDATA[The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)]]> 10803121
Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.

After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.]]> 325 Brandon Sanderson 0765330423 Robert 0 to-read 4.20 2011 The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Robert
average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Diabolical (A Jake Hatcher Novel)]]> 11467702 Ěý
Or so they say.
Ěý
Jake Hatcher, lying low in Southern California, isn't all that surprised when he's asked to jump back into the battle between salvation and damnation and stop those bent on raising the forces of darkness--it's just why and by whom that's unnerving. Especially when it's put to him as an offer he can't refuse.
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A former nun named Vivian Fall believes that a Hellion has escaped the infernal regions and returned to earth on an unholy mission--to unleash the forces of damnation on an unsuspecting world. Only Hatcher has the experience to track such a being. Only Hatcher has dealt with those who likely to know what what's really going on. And only Hatcher can get close enough to it--because the Hellion happens to be his own brother.]]> 311 Hank Schwaeble 0515149616 Robert 0 to-read 3.68 2011 Diabolical (A Jake Hatcher Novel)
author: Hank Schwaeble
name: Robert
average rating: 3.68
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]]> <![CDATA[The Final Evolution (Avery Cates, #5)]]> 10207116
Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it. And when Cates chances on a way to trick his old master, he suddenly has a choice to get his long-delayed revenge, or save the world.]]> 400 Jeff Somers 0316069841 Robert 0 to-read 4.03 2011 The Final Evolution (Avery Cates, #5)
author: Jeff Somers
name: Robert
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Den of Thieves (Ancient Blades, #1)]]> 9466833 Croy is a knight errant, and bearer of an ancient blade with a powerful destiny. He's also kind of, well, dim. He believes in honour. He believes that people are fundamentally good, and will do the right thing if you give them a chance.

Unfortunately, Croy lives in the city of Ness. A thriving medieval city of fifty thousand people, none of whom are fundamentally even decent, and who will gleefully stab you in the back. If you give them a chance.

Ness is also the home to Malden. Malden is a thief. He lives by his wits, disarming cunning traps, sneaking past sleeping guards, and running away very fast whenever people are trying to kill him. Which is often. One time Malden stole a crown. And then he had to steal it back to avoid a civil war. Croy got the credit, of course, because he's a noble knight. Another time the two of them went into the tomb of an ancient warrior race, and Croy accidentally started a barbarian invasion. Guess who had to clean that up?

They probably wouldn't be friends at all if it wasn't for Cythera. Cythera is a witch. A mostly-good witch. And despite herself she can't stop thieves and knights falling in love with her� At the same time.]]> 465 David Chandler 0062021249 Robert 3 3.62 2014 Den of Thieves (Ancient Blades, #1)
author: David Chandler
name: Robert
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> Reamde 10552338
For Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high-tech start up—a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role-playing game, T’Rain. But the line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidently triggers a virtual war for dominance—and Richard is caught at the center.

In this edgy, 21st century tale, Neal Stephenson, one of the most ambitious and prophetic writers of our time, returns to the terrain of his cyberpunk masterpieces Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, leading readers through the looking glass and into the dark heart of imagination.]]> 1044 Neal Stephenson 0061977969 Robert 0 to-read 3.97 2011 Reamde
author: Neal Stephenson
name: Robert
average rating: 3.97
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]]> The Goblin Corps 9732091 552 Ari Marmell 1616143770 Robert 5 3.78 2011 The Goblin Corps
author: Ari Marmell
name: Robert
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Heaven's Shadow (Heaven's Shadow, #1)]]> 9435667 The science fiction epic of our time has arrived.

Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.]]> 398 David S. Goyer 044102033X Robert 4 3.43 2011 Heaven's Shadow (Heaven's Shadow, #1)
author: David S. Goyer
name: Robert
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> Who Fears Death 7767021 An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa.

In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means "Who Fears Death?" in an ancient African tongue.

Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny � to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture � and eventually death itself.]]> 386 Nnedi Okorafor 075640617X Robert 0 to-read 3.92 2010 Who Fears Death
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Robert
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
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]]> No Hero (Arthur Wallace, #1) 10708694 306 Jonathan Wood 1597802824 Robert 0 3.55 2011 No Hero (Arthur Wallace, #1)
author: Jonathan Wood
name: Robert
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Miserere: An Autumn Tale 10193060 The Night Shade Books edition of Miserere is not the same as the JABberwocky edition. If you're reading the NSB print edition or listening to the NSB audiobook, those are the 1st edition and they bear very little resemblance to the new JABberwocky edition.

Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates. Catarina intends to lead the Fallen's hordes out of Hell and into the parallel dimension of Woerld, Heaven's frontline of defense between Earth and Hell. When Lucian refuses to help his sister, she imprisons and cripples him, but Lucian learns that Rachael, the lover he betrayed and abandoned in Hell, is dying from a demonic possession. Determined to rescue Rachael from the demon he unleashed on her soul, Lucian flees his sister, but Catarina's wrath isn't so easy to escape!
]]> 280 T. Frohock 1597802891 Robert 4 3.80 Miserere: An Autumn Tale
author: T. Frohock
name: Robert
average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf, #1)]]> 9532302
Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he's still getting probably contribute to that, as does his diet: unusual amounts of flesh and blood (at least some from friends and relatives). Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has now become the only one of his kind. This depresses Jake to the point that he's been contemplating suicide. Yet there are powerful forces who for very different reasons want - and have the power - to keep Jake alive.

Here is a powerful new version of the werewolf legend - mesmerizing and undeniably sexy, and with moments of violence so elegantly wrought they dazzle rather than repel. But perhaps its most remarkable achievement is to make the reader feel sympathy for a man who can only be described as a monster - and in doing so, remind us what it means to be human.

One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.]]> 346 Glen Duncan 1847679447 Robert 4 3.48 2011 The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf, #1)
author: Glen Duncan
name: Robert
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[City of the Snakes (The City Trilogy, #3)]]> 9838286
For ten years Capac Raimi has ruled the City. Created by the first Cardinal to continue his legacy, Capac cannot be killed.

Then Capac disappears. His trusted lieutenant, Ford Tasso, suspects the mysterious villacs , ancient and powerful Incan priests. To Ford, only one man has the cunning to outwit such adversaries-Al Jeery, who has taken the guise of his father, the terrifying assassin Paucar Wami.

Al has no love for Capac and no wish to tangle with the villacs . Until Ford promises him the one thing he truly craves-retribution against the man who killed those he loved most and destroyed his life. Lured into the twisted, nightmarish world of the Incan priests, Al will learn more about the City than he ever imagined, and be offered more power than he ever desired.

But in the City, everything comes at a cost...]]> 307 D.B. Shan 0446573477 Robert 0 to-read 4.16 2010 City of the Snakes (The City Trilogy, #3)
author: D.B. Shan
name: Robert
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Departure (Owner Trilogy, #1)]]> 10648878 498 Neal Asher 0230708730 Robert 0 to-read 3.82 2011 The Departure (Owner Trilogy, #1)
author: Neal Asher
name: Robert
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Transformations (Legends of the Red Sun, #3)]]> 9787905 A new and corrupt Emperor seeks to rebuild the ancient structures of Villjamur to give the people of the city hope in the face of great upheaval and an oppressing ice age. But when a stranger called Shalev arrives, empowering a militant underground movement, crime and terror becomes rampant. The Inquisition is always one step behind, and military resources are spread thinly across the Empire. So Emperor Urtica calls upon cultists to help construct a group to eliminate those involved with the uprising, and calm the populace.

But there's more to The Villjamur Knights than just phenomenal skills and abilities - each have a secret that, if exposed, could destroy everything they represent. Investigator Fulcrom of the Villjamur Inquisition is given the unenviable task of managing the Knights', but his own skills are tested when a mysterious priest, who has travelled from beyond the fringes of the Empire, seeks his help. The priest's existence threatens the church, and his quest promises to unweave the fabric of the world.

And in a distant corner of the Empire, the enigmatic cultist Dartun Sur steps back into this world, having witnessed horrors beyond his imagination. Broken, altered, he and the remnants of his cultist order are heading back to Villjamur. And all eyes turn to the Sanctuary City, for Villjamur's ancient legends are about to be shattered...

]]> 418 Mark Charan Newton 0230750060 Robert 0 to-read 3.66 2011 The Book of Transformations (Legends of the Red Sun, #3)
author: Mark Charan Newton
name: Robert
average rating: 3.66
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]]> <![CDATA[Sword of Fire and Sea (The Chaos Knight, #1)]]> 9766146
The priestess Endera has called upon Vidarian to fulfill his family’s obligation by transporting a young fire priestess named Ariadel to a water temple far to the south, through dangerous pirate-controlled territory. A journey perilous in the best of conditions is made more so by their pursuers: rogue telepathic magic-users called the Vkortha who will stop at nothing to recover Ariadel, who has witnessed their forbidden rites.

Together, Vidarian and Ariadel will navigate more than treacherous waters: Imperial intrigue, a world that has been slowly losing its magic for generations, secrets that the priestesshoods have kept for longer, the indifference of their elemental goddesses, gryphons—once thought mythical—now returning to the world, and their own labyrinthine family legacies. Vidarian finds himself at the intersection not only of the world’s most volatile elements, but of colliding universes, and the ancient and alien powers that lurk between them.]]> 277 Erin Hoffman 1616143738 Robert 0 to-read 3.39 2011 Sword of Fire and Sea (The Chaos Knight, #1)
author: Erin Hoffman
name: Robert
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow's Lure (Shadow Saga, #2)]]> 9716273 He was at the top of the food chain in Othir. An assassin beyond compare, a dark shadow in the night. But Caim left that life behind when he helped an empress claim her throne. And now his past has come calling again.
Searching for the truth behind the disappearance and murder of his parents, Caim discovers a land in thrall to the Shadow. Haunted by temptations from the Other Side, he becomes mired in a war he does not want to fight.
But there are some things a son of the Shadow cannot ignore, and some fights from which he can't run. In this battle, all of Caim's strength and skill won't be enough. For none can resist the Shadow's Lure.]]> 391 Jon Sprunk 1616143711 Robert 0 to-read 3.58 2011 Shadow's Lure (Shadow Saga, #2)
author: Jon Sprunk
name: Robert
average rating: 3.58
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]]> <![CDATA[The Falling Machine (The Society of Steam, #1)]]> 9766156 284 Andrew P. Mayer 1616143754 Robert 0 to-read 3.39 2011 The Falling Machine (The Society of Steam, #1)
author: Andrew P. Mayer
name: Robert
average rating: 3.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy #2)]]> 10293186
But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead.

Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.]]> 561 Mira Grant Robert 0 to-read 4.19 2011 Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy #2)
author: Mira Grant
name: Robert
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[Vampire Warlords (Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, #3)]]> 9318652 448 Andy Remic 085766106X Robert 0 to-read 3.86 2011 Vampire Warlords (Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, #3)
author: Andy Remic
name: Robert
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dead Town (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #5)]]> 11037089
The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors join together to weather the onslaught.

Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan is to remake the a future in which mankind will be annihilated. To accomplish this aim he has created nothing less than the shock troops of the Apocalypse.

Now the alliance of the good must make their last, best stand and do battle against overwhelming odds. And Deucalion, Frankenstein's original and flawed attempt at replicating life, must finally confront his evil creator. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance...]]> Dean Koontz Robert 0 to-read 3.89 2005 The Dead Town (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #5)
author: Dean Koontz
name: Robert
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti]]> 11221794 290 Genevieve Valentine Robert 0 to-read 3.82 2011 Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
author: Genevieve Valentine
name: Robert
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)]]> 9591398 Ěý
With exquisite illustrations by acclaimed artist Ana Juan, Fairyland lives up to the sensation it created when the author first posted it online. For readers of all ages who love the charm of Alice in Wonderland and the soul of The Golden Compass, here is a reading experience unto itself: unforgettable, and so very beautiful.
]]> 247 Catherynne M. Valente 0312649614 Robert 0 to-read 3.95 2011 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Robert
average rating: 3.95
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]]> The Map of Time 9766078
Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence.

What happens if we change history?]]> 613 FĂ©lix J. Palma 1439167397 Robert 5 3.35 2008 The Map of Time
author: FĂ©lix J. Palma
name: Robert
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fun & Games (Charlie Hardie #1)]]> 9583669
Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally squatting B-movie actress who rants about hit men who specialize in making deaths look like accidents. Unfortunately, it's the real deal. Hardie finds himself squared off against a small army of the most lethal men in the world: The Accident People.

It's nothing personal-the girl just happens to be the next name on their list. For Hardie, though, it's intensely personal. He's not about to let more innocent people die. Not on his watch.]]> 286 Duane Swierczynski 0316133280 Robert 5 3.92 2011 Fun & Games (Charlie Hardie #1)
author: Duane Swierczynski
name: Robert
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> The Deserter 9579636 448 Peadar Ă“ GuilĂ­n 0385610963 Robert 0 to-read 3.79 2011 The Deserter
author: Peadar Ă“ GuilĂ­n
name: Robert
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of the Earth (The Wild Hunt #1)]]> 10170244 467 Elspeth Cooper 0575096152 Robert 3 3.68 2011 Songs of the Earth (The Wild Hunt #1)
author: Elspeth Cooper
name: Robert
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)]]> 9634967
In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.

When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.]]> 368 Daniel H. Wilson 0385533853 Robert 3 3.70 2011 Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
author: Daniel H. Wilson
name: Robert
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> The Watchers 10258822 552 Jon Steele 0593067517 Robert 4 3.69 2012 The Watchers
author: Jon Steele
name: Robert
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dancing with Bears (Darger and Surplus #1)]]> 10170242 The only thing more dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue.]]> 300 Michael Swanwick 1597802352 Robert 0 to-read 3.68 2011 Dancing with Bears (Darger and Surplus #1)
author: Michael Swanwick
name: Robert
average rating: 3.68
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]]> <![CDATA[Haven (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #4)]]> 8476109 464 Joel Shepherd 0733624200 Robert 0 to-read 4.20 2010 Haven (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #4)
author: Joel Shepherd
name: Robert
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Tracato (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #3)]]> 6632027 390 Joel Shepherd 0733624189 Robert 0 to-read 4.03 2009 Tracato (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #3)
author: Joel Shepherd
name: Robert
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Petrodor (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #2)]]> 3771612 467 Joel Shepherd 0733622550 Robert 0 to-read 3.92 2008 Petrodor (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #2)
author: Joel Shepherd
name: Robert
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sasha (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #1)]]> 2235235 614 Joel Shepherd 0733621414 Robert 0 to-read 3.89 2007 Sasha (A Trial of Blood & Steel, #1)
author: Joel Shepherd
name: Robert
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Inheritance & Other Stories]]> 9551603
Contains the following stories written as Megan Lindholm:

"A Touch of Lavender", first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1989.

"Silver lady and the Fortyish Man", first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1989.

"Cut", first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001.

"The Fifth Squashed Cat", first published in Xanada 2, 1993.

"Strays", first published in Warrior Princesses, 1998.

"Finis", previously unpublished.

"Drum Machine", previously unpublished.

Contains the following stories written as Robin Hobb:

"Homecoming", first published in Legends II: Shadows, Gods and Demons, 2004.

"The Inheritance", first published in Voyager 5: Collector's Edition, 2000.

"Cat's Meat", previously unpublished.]]> 374 Robin Hobb 0061561649 Robert 0 to-read 4.02 2011 The Inheritance & Other Stories
author: Robin Hobb
name: Robert
average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)]]> 8855321
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.]]> 592 James S.A. Corey 1841499889 Robert 5 4.30 2011 Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Robert
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> Queen of Kings 9684527
A thrilling, chilling reimagining of the story of the most famous woman in history.

Once there was a queen of Egypt…a queen who became through magic something else�

The year is 30 BC. Octavian Caesar and his massed legions are poised to enter Alexandria. A messenger informs Egypt’s queen, Cleopatra, that her beloved Mark Antony has died by his own hand. Desperate to save her kingdom, resurrect her husband and protect all she holds dear, Cleopatra turns to the gods for help. Ignoring the warnings of those around her, she summons Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction, and strikes a mortal bargain. And not even the wisest of Egypt’s scholars could have predicted what would follow�

For, in return for Antony’s soul, Sekhmet demands something in return: Cleopatra herself. And so Egypt’s queen is possessed. She becomes an immortal, shape-shifting, not-quite-human manifestation of a deity who seeks to destroy the world. Fighting to preserve something of her humanity, Cleopatra pursues Octavian back to Rome: she desires revenge, she yearns for her children…and she craves human blood.

It is a journey that will take her from the tombs of the Pharaohs to the great amphitheatres of imperial Rome and on, to Hell itself where, it seems, the fate of the world will finally be decided.

Blending authentic historical fiction and the darkest of fantasy, Queen of Kings is a spectacular and spellbinding feat of the imagination that fans of Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Patricia Briggs, Philippa Gregory, and Ridley Scott's Gladiator won’t want to miss.]]> 401 Maria Dahvana Headley 0525952179 Robert 4 3.50 2011 Queen of Kings
author: Maria Dahvana Headley
name: Robert
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse]]> 7898018
On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, THE ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms.

Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie brains, hearts, lungs, skin, and digestive system are shown, while Dr. Blum's notes reveal shocking insights into how they function--even as Blum and his colleagues themselves begin to succumb to the plague.

No one knows the ultimate fate of Dr. Blum or his researchers. But now that his notebook, THE ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES, has been made available to the UN, the World Health Organization, and the general public, his scientific discoveries may be the last hope for humans on earth.]]> 198 Steven Schlozman 0446564664 Robert 0 to-read 3.34 2011 The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
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]]> The Ritual 10239382
Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. This place of dark ritual is home to a bestial predator that is still alive in the ancient forest. And now they’re the prey.

As the four friends struggle for salvation, they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees...]]> 418 Adam L.G. Nevill 0230754929 Robert 0 to-read 3.57 2011 The Ritual
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]]> <![CDATA[The White Luck Warrior (Aspect-Emperor, #2)]]> 7704943
As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well. Achamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend.

Into this tumult walks the White Luck Warrior, assassin and messiah both, executing a mission as old as the World's making...

]]> 597 R. Scott Bakker 1841495395 Robert 0 to-read 4.09 2011 The White Luck Warrior (Aspect-Emperor, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2)]]> 8737174 To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, who rule over massive armies of child slaves, "the last four things" represent the culmination of a faithful life. Death. Judgement. Heaven. Hell. The last four things represent eternal bliss-or endless destruction, permanent chaos, and infinite pain.
Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited more clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale. Betrayed by his beloved but still marked by a child's innocence, possessed of a remarkable aptitude for violence but capable of extreme tenderness, Cale will lead the Redeemers into a battle for nothing less than the fate of the human race. And though his broken heart foretells the bloody trail he will leave in pursuit of a personal peace he can never achieve, a glimmer of hope remains. The question even Cale can't answer: When it comes time to decide the fate of the world, to ensure the extermination of humankind or spare it, what will he choose? To express God's will on the edge of his sword, or to forgive his fellow man-and himself?
]]> 422 Paul Hoffman 0718155211 Robert 0 to-read 3.54 2011 The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[G.I. Joe: Tales From The Cobra Wars]]> 9713240 320 Max Brooks 1600108814 Robert 0 to-read 3.68 2011 G.I. Joe: Tales From The Cobra Wars
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Soul (The Dog-Faced Gods, #2)]]> 8537082 The author of the “diabolically clever�* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones�

A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detective Inspector Cass Jones.

Cass is already investigating a series of student suicides, but saying no to Special Branch isn’t an option—even when he’s hit with a much more personal and deeply disturbing mystery: a message left for him by his murdered brother revealing that Cass’s nephew was stolen at birth.

Cass’s investigations and his search for the boy lead him down a dark labyrinth to the shadowy Mr. Bright and his otherworldly allies—and into the middle of an ancient and deadly feud, with no less than the fate of humanity hanging in the balance�

*F. Paul Wilson]]> 389 Sarah Pinborough 0575089490 Robert 0 to-read 3.88 2011 The Shadow of the Soul (The Dog-Faced Gods, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)]]> 8535273
Annah's world stopped that day and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn't feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.

Except, Catcher has his own secrets -- dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah's longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah -- can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?]]> 384 Carrie Ryan 0385738595 Robert 0 to-read 4.03 2011 The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #3)
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]]> Black Halo (Aeons' Gate, #2) 9528174 549 Sam Sykes 161614355X Robert 0 to-read 3.54 2011 Black Halo (Aeons' Gate, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[I Don't Want to Kill You (John Cleaver, #3)]]> 8872180
In I Am Not a Serial Killer we watched a budding sociopath break every rule he had to save his town from evil. In Mr. Monster we held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay in control. Now John Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. I Don’t Want to Kill You brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem, and death.

It’s time to punish the guilty.

And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something.]]> 320 Dan Wells 0765322498 Robert 0 to-read 4.23 2011 I Don't Want to Kill You (John Cleaver, #3)
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average rating: 4.23
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