Mohammed 's bookshelf: to-read en-US Wed, 07 May 2025 06:52:03 -0700 60 Mohammed 's bookshelf: to-read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Deadpool Classic, Vol. 1 2384829 256 Fabian Nicieza 0785131248 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.91 2012 Deadpool Classic, Vol. 1
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.91
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]]> The Diamond Eye 59776234
The New York Times best-selling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.

In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son - but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper - a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her 300th kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.

Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC - until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.

Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.]]> Kate Quinn Mohammed 0 to-read 4.20 2022 The Diamond Eye
author: Kate Quinn
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> The Book of Disquiet 6897011 The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.]]> 262 Fernando Pessoa 1846687357 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.15 1982 The Book of Disquiet
author: Fernando Pessoa
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1982
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]]> True Grit 257845 224 Charles Portis 1585673692 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.15 1968 True Grit
author: Charles Portis
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1968
rating: 0
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]]> Norwood 48287 190 Charles Portis 0879517034 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.84 1966 Norwood
author: Charles Portis
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1966
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]]> Von Bek 724632
Contents:

The war hound and the world's pain --
The city in the autumn stars --
The pleasure gardens of Felipe Sagittarius.]]> 720 Michael Moorcock 1857984366 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.93 1992 Von Bek
author: Michael Moorcock
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1992
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]]> Wesley Dodds: The Sandman 204238293 144 Robert Venditti 1779527713 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.92 Wesley Dodds: The Sandman
author: Robert Venditti
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[The Green Man's Foe (Green Man, #2)]]> 49966367
Except Dan’s a dryad’s son, and he soon realises there’s a whole lot more going on. Ancient malice is stirring and it has made an alliance in the modern world. The Green Man expects Dan to put an end to this threat. Seeing the danger, Dan’s forced to agree. The problem is he’s alone in a place he doesn’t know, a hundred miles or more away from any allies of his own.

A modern fantasy rooted in the ancient myths and folklore of the British Isles.]]> 331 Juliet E. McKenna 1908039868 Mohammed 0 fantasy, to-read 4.28 2019 The Green Man's Foe (Green Man, #2)
author: Juliet E. McKenna
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #1]]> 200284377 Made with love for the classics and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling!

Stories include:
Carnivora by Kirk A. Johnson
Come Lay the Crone to Rest by Margaret Killjoy
Sister Chaos by Bryn Hammond
Chak Muuch by JesĂșs Montalvo, translated by Gonzalo Baeza
Tears of Eb by Sarah A. Macklin
The Pillars of Silence by Prashanth Srivatsa
The Folk of the Forest: An Elric Story by Michael Moorcock

Articles include:
Why (New Edge) Sword & Sorcery? by Brian Murphy
Cele Goldsmith Lalli—Midwife to the Second Sword & Sorcery Boom by Cora Buhlert
Fresh Blood and New Thunder! Bringing New Readers to Sword & Sorcery, with Sof Magliano, by Oliver Brackenbury
"Woman of the Woods" by Milton J. Davis, a review by Robin Marx]]> 80 Oliver Brackenbury Mohammed 0 to-read 4.32 New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #1
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]]> <![CDATA[New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #0]]> 62830514
Stories include:
The Curse of the Horsetail Banner by Dariel R.A. Quiogue
The Ember Inside by Remco van Straten & Angeline B. Adams
Old Moon Over Irukad by David C. Smith
The Beast of the Shadow Gum Trees by T,K. Rex
Vapors of Zinai by J.M. Clarke
The Grief-Note of Vultures by Bryn Hammond

Articles include:
The Origin of the New Edge by Howard Andrew Jones
C.L. Moore and Jirel of Joiry: The First Lady of Sword & Sorcery by Cora Buhlert
Sword & Soul - An Interview with Milton Davis
The Outsider in Sword & Sorcery by Brian Murphy
Gender Performativity in Howard's "Sword Woman" by Nicole Emmelhainz
The Obanaax and Other Tales of Heroes and Horrors, a review by Robin Marx
What is New Edge Sword & Sorcery? by Oliver Brackenbury]]> 82 Oliver Brackenbury Mohammed 0 to-read 3.84 2022 New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #0
author: Oliver Brackenbury
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.84
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]]> Screw-Style 28812471
Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories".]]> 23 Yoshiharu Tsuge Mohammed 0 to-read 3.92 1968 Screw-Style
author: Yoshiharu Tsuge
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1968
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]]> <![CDATA[Pandora Unchained: A Progression Fantasy Epic]]> 214201003 Grow in Power. Master his Rare Class. Survive the Demon Tide.
When Sorin's parent's mysteriously die, he is starved for truth and thirsty for revenge. He begs the Eighth Evil, Hope, for assistance, and his prayers are answered...

...Though not in the way he ever expected.

He is made a Poison Cultivator, a rare Class that is shunned by high society.

Unable to continue his medical practice, Sorin turns to adventuring to make ends meet. Though he's only able to afford to team with a ragtag crew of outcasts as companions—An armored polar bear, a stern archer, a sleep-deprived pyromancer, and a peeping-tom rogue. Oh, and a rebellious rat familiar who won’t stop eating the party’s loot when no one is watching.

Things are looking up, until Sorin discovers his ancestor’s hidden research notes about forbidden medical research. What dark deeds was his family up to? Only he can find out... if he and his party can survive the coming Demon Tide.

The Gods are dead. The Seven Evils reign. Only Hope stands between humanity and extinction...

Don't miss this new Cultivation Progression Fantasy series from Patrick Laplante, bestselling author of Painting the Mists. Featuring loads of power progression, demon slaying, dungeons, loot, crafting, and even a rebellious pet rat, it's got something for everyone!]]> 770 Patrick Laplante Mohammed 0 to-read 4.38 Pandora Unchained: A Progression Fantasy Epic
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]]> A Child Alone With Strangers 58482417 575 Philip Fracassi Mohammed 0 to-read 4.23 2022 A Child Alone With Strangers
author: Philip Fracassi
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2022
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]]> Breviarium 128164713 114 Novalis 9189113926 Mohammed 0 4.00 1993 Breviarium
author: Novalis
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Mark of the Fool 3 (Mark of the Fool, #3)]]> 76018669 While war rages in Thameland, other battles begin.

With his first year complete, Alex Roth has made a discovery that could change his kingdom forever.

As the university prepares for an expedition to Thameland, Alex makes himself ready by growing stronger, taking summer courses on magic and spending time with his new friends and family.

But conspiracy brews in Generasi. Demonic attacks target the expedition and as the city prepares for its annual Games of Roal, Alex must make sure that his own secrets don’t come back to bite him.

At least he has family and a new relationship to calm his nerves.

Until an unexpected visit throws his whole summer into disarray.

There is no rest for the wicked. Or foolish.]]> 726 J.M. Clarke Mohammed 0 to-read 4.43 2023 Mark of the Fool 3 (Mark of the Fool, #3)
author: J.M. Clarke
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)]]> 34897 The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him—is on the run from his destiny.

Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how—for no man has done it in three thousand years—Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?

Winter has stopped the war—almost—yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?

Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem—how is he to escape the loss of his own humanity?

Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed—if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news—that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...

Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....
]]> 624 Robert Jordan 0765305119 Mohammed 0 fantasy, to-read 4.27 1991 The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
author: Robert Jordan
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Arise: Reclaimer 200347028
Steve and the team survived the assault on their new home, and their enemies learned a valuable lesson about trespassing� their bodies now help to form the very walls his people live within.

The Old Ones have agreed to his offer, Steve has a month to get his affairs in order, then he must present himself before the oldest of his kind, and for now? He is to be left alone.

But as much as Steve has gained? He’s lost access to the greatest of his advantages. Its only a matter of time before the edict expires, and unless he presents himself as agreed, it’s open season on him and his group.

Steve needs to recover the Harvest Blade, to gain access to new and more powerful abilities, and to protect his friends and family.

Only one location is likely to be able to grant him all of those things� its time to take back his birthright.

It's time to reclaim Humanity’s place in the stars.]]> 429 Jez Cajiao 191561712X Mohammed 0 4.08 2023 Arise: Reclaimer
author: Jez Cajiao
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
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]]> Brotherhood 56035426 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.

Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman’s personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child’s life.

At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood’s brutality, a band of intellectuals and free-thinkers seeks to awaken the conscience of the cowed populace and foment rebellion by publishing an underground newspaper. While they grapple with the implications of what they have done, the regime’s brutal leader begins a personal crusade to find the responsible parties, and bring them to his own sense of justice.

In this brilliant analysis of tyranny and brutality, Mbougar Sarr explores the ways in which resistance and heroism can often give way to cowardice, all while giving voice to the moral ambiguities and personal struggles involved in each of his characters� search to impose the values they hold most dear.]]> 208 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr Mohammed 0 to-read, african-literature 3.97 2014 Brotherhood
author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tea Master and the Detective]]> 39401784
A transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow's Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow's Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow's Child with her.

As they dig deep into the victim's past, The Shadow's Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau's own murky past--and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars...]]> 77 Aliette de Bodard 1625673663 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.86 2018 The Tea Master and the Detective
author: Aliette de Bodard
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[Arcane Cultivator 2 (Arcane Cultivator, #2)]]> 196223729
But with Elias, the God of Sand, as their reluctant new sponsor, the Sect's journey is anything but straightforward...

Defying the god's wishes, they delve into Elder Brother's crypt, uncovering a prophecy of dire confrontations and discovering a powerful one-use Arcane Card known as Elemental Convergence. Their defiance, however, comes at a cost. Enraged, Elias freezes their progress for three months, drastically cutting their training time for the looming tournament challenges.

In what soon becomes a race against time, the Sect journeys through the Kingdom of Middling, where they face the Emperor's Magi to complete a bizarre task set by find five floating demonic heads in a forbidden forest filled with dangerous yokai. Their mission leads to a daring rescue operation from the catacombs beneath E'Kanth, and a revelation that could change their fate or epically fail...

Can Jaden and the Nomadwater Sect emerge victorious, or will the cost of their defiance be too great?

Arcane Cultivator is a deckbuilding cultivation LitRPG series about an underdog cultivator and his sect taking on the gods against overwhelming odds. It is set in the Four Kingdoms of the Sagaland, a world rich with lore from Harmon Cooper, bestselling and award winning author of Pilgrim, Cowboy Necromancer, War Priest, The World According to Dragons, and LitRPG classic, The Feedback Loop.

Arcane Cultivator is perfect for fans of All the Skills, Cradle, Mage Errant, and Mark of the Fool.]]> 474 Harmon Cooper Mohammed 0 4.31 2024 Arcane Cultivator 2 (Arcane Cultivator, #2)
author: Harmon Cooper
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)]]> 32758901 "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.â€� Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.]]> 144 Martha Wells Mohammed 0 to-read 4.10 2017 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
author: Martha Wells
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen]]> 17394802 448 Michael Moorcock 057510886X Mohammed 0 to-read 3.97 1978 Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen
author: Michael Moorcock
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> My Name Is Yip 58667530 A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, for readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice

It’s 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, when Yip Tolroy––mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast––is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother: a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. She struggles to manage his needs, leaving Yip to find the means of asserting himself in an unforgiving, hostile environment. With the help of a retired doctor, he begins to transform his life by learning to read and write, his portal into the community a piece of slate and a supply of chalk.
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And then at the age of fifteen, Yip’s life is altered irrevocably. In the space of a few days he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime. Thrust unwittingly into a world of violence and sin, Yip and Dud are forced to leave town and embark on an odyssey that will introduce them to the wonder and horror of the American frontier until the revelation of a secret means they must return to Heron’s Creek and the fate that awaits them.
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With its colorful description of people and places, comic backbone, and compelling narrator, My Name Is Yip is a bold adventure––a gripping tale of courage, struggle, hope, and brotherhood––that reckons with the seductive pull of the American South and its dark and complex histories.]]> 368 Paddy Crewe 141976229X Mohammed 0 to-read 3.75 2022 My Name Is Yip
author: Paddy Crewe
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Flower Boat Girl 57874519 Her father traded away her youth.
Sea bandits stole her freedom.
She has one way to get them
Become the most powerful pirate in the world.

South China coast, 1801: Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader.

Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandit havens, Yang must stay scrappy to survive. She embeds herself in the dark business of piracy, carving out her role against the resistance of powerful pirate leaders and Cheung Po Tsai, her husband’s flamboyant male concubine.

Caught between bitter rivals fighting for mastery over the pirates—and for her heart—Yang faces a choice between two things she never dreamed might be power or love.

Based on a true story that has never been fully told until now, The Flower Boat Girl is the tale of a woman who, against all odds, shaped history on her own terms.]]> 438 Larry Feign 9627866563 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.01 2021 The Flower Boat Girl
author: Larry Feign
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2021
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea]]> 62039263 For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.

When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet.

But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans-tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance-have new plans for the area. Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life.

A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes.]]> 281 Rita Chang-Eppig 1639730370 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.47 2023 Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
author: Rita Chang-Eppig
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2023
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]]> City Primeval 288993 275 Elmore Leonard Mohammed 0 3.84 1980 City Primeval
author: Elmore Leonard
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> Minor Detail 52045757 Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba â€� the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people â€� and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detailâ€� of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.]]> 144 Adania Shibli 191309717X Mohammed 0 4.26 2017 Minor Detail
author: Adania Shibli
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Road to Perdition 21055398 304 1840235349 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.10 1998 Road to Perdition
author: max-allan-collins-richard-piers-rayner
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Requiem For An Assassin (John Rain, #6)]]> 3268850 384 Barry Eisler 0451412575 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.93 2007 Requiem For An Assassin (John Rain, #6)
author: Barry Eisler
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Fiendens fiende 20455316 Carl Hamilton beordras efter ett okonventionellt diplomatiskt uppdrag i Libanon till Moskva som militÀrattaché med en enda uppgift: att mörda en svensk medborgare.

Jan Guillous serie om Carl Hamilton blev omedelbart en stor framgÄng, som med Ären kom att vÀxa till Sveriges största romansuccé genom tiderna.

Fiendens fiende Àr den fjÀrde delen i serien och utkom 1989.]]> Jan Guillou 9164240789 Mohammed 0 4.00 1989 Fiendens fiende
author: Jan Guillou
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Come Spy With Me (John Sand, #1)]]> 55929348
John Sand is a recently retired British secret agent in the early 1960s. Sand’s real-life exploits inspired a very famous series of best-selling novels by a friend in the spy game.

On his honeymoon with his new wife, Stacey Boldt � the heiress to a Texas oil fortune � they are interrupted by an unfriendly blast from the past.

Now an executive with Boldt Oil in Houston, Sand finds himself, and his bride, pulled back into the world of espionage when JFK himself recruits him for a dangerous job in Cuba.

Sand � and Mrs. Sand � will be caught up in everything from a Rat Pack party in Vegas hosted by a mobster to a Caribbean island where a deadly assassin has targeted El Presidente.

Come Spy With Me is the first in The Sand Assignment Series, invoking the best of the original James Bond spy thrillers.]]> 260 Max Allan Collins 1647342058 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.05 2020 Come Spy With Me (John Sand, #1)
author: Max Allan Collins
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)]]> 1424995 224 Lawrence Block 0061258067 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.70 1966 The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)
author: Lawrence Block
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse (Vintage Classics)]]> 58735059
Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age’s most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair , The New Yorker , and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. The poems in Enough Rope range from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichĂ©s about the relations between men and women.
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Unfortunate Coincidence
By the time you swear you’re his,
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And he vows his passion is
Ìę ÌęInfinite, undyingâ€�
Lady, make a note of
Ìę ÌęOne of you is lying.]]> 144 Dorothy Parker 0593466357 Mohammed 5 poetry, to-read 3.98 1926 Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse (Vintage Classics)
author: Dorothy Parker
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1926
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/01/16
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]]> Dhalgren 85867
Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there.... The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man—poet, lover, and adventurer—known only as the Kid.

Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.]]> 801 Samuel R. Delany 0375706682 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.78 1975 Dhalgren
author: Samuel R. Delany
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> The Sword of Kaigen 41886271 A son struggling to grasp his violent future,
A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.

When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?

High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.â€�

Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.

Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.]]> 651 M.L. Wang Mohammed 0 to-read 4.46 2019 The Sword of Kaigen
author: M.L. Wang
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)]]> 23168277
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.]]> 371 Viet Thanh Nguyen 0802123457 Mohammed 0 4.00 2015 The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Half-Drowned King (The Half-Drowned King, #1)]]> 32600758
But where Ragnvald is expected to bleed, and even die, for his honour, Svanhild is simply expected to marry well. It's not a fate she relishes, and when the chance to leave her stepfather's cruelty comes at the hand of her brother's arch-rival, Svanhild is forced to make the ultimate choice: family or freedom.

Drawing from the Icelandic Sagas, The Half-Drowned King takes inspiration from the true story of Ragnvald of Maer, the right hand man of King Harald Fairhair, first king of all Norway, and his sister, Svanhild, as she tries to find freedom in a society where the higher her brother rises, the greater her worth as a political pawn.]]> 435 Linnea Hartsuyker 0062563696 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.73 2017 The Half-Drowned King (The Half-Drowned King, #1)
author: Linnea Hartsuyker
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Masculinities 228510 352 Raewyn W. Connell 0745634273 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.06 1995 Masculinities
author: Raewyn W. Connell
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> The Carrion Birds 15818484
Life hasn't worked out the way Ray Lamar planned. A widower and father who has made some tragic mistakes, he's got one good thing going for him: he's calm, cool, and efficient under pressure, usually with a gun in his hand. A useful skill to have when you're paid to hurt people who stand in your boss's way.

But Ray isn't sure he wants to be that man anymore. He wants to go home to Coronado, New Mexico, to see the twelve-year-old son he hopes will recognize him. He wants to make a new life far from the violence of the last ten years. One last job will take him there. All he has to do is steal a rival's stash. Simple, easy, clean.

Ray knows there's no such thing as easy, and sure enough, the first day ends in a catastrophic mess. Now, the runners who have always moved quietly through this idyllic desert town on the Mexican border want answers. And revenge. Short on time, with no one to trust but himself, Ray must come up with a clever plan or Coronado's newly appointed lady sheriff will have a vicious bloodbath on her hands.

Relentlessly paced and beautifully orchestrated, with refreshingly real, vulnerable, and very human characters and a vivid sense of place, The Carrion Birds is an unsettling and indelible work of literary noir in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard, and Dennis Lehane.]]> 288 Urban Waite 0062216880 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.38 2013 The Carrion Birds
author: Urban Waite
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> The Hunted 288970 â€� Los Angeles Times Book Review “Excellentâ€�.A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.â€�
â€� Bergan Record In Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted , “crime fiction’s greatest living practitionerâ€� ( Washington Post ) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle East. There no lack of excitement and suspense—and the trademark Leonard dialogue—in this superior tale of a fugitive hiding under the radar in Israel, until a well-publicized Good Samaritan act attracts the unwanted attention of well-armed Motown mobsters who are now coming to get him. The author who introduced the world to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (in his novels Pronto and Riding the Rap , before the lawman became the star of the hit TV drama Justified ), the Grand Master shows why the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel calls him “the all-time king of the whack job crime novelists,â€� and goes on to say that “Elmore Leonard tops them all”
including John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker, and quite possibly every major mystery writer the U.S. has ever produced.]]> 336 Elmore Leonard 0060084065 Mohammed 0 crime-mystery, to-read 3.57 1977 The Hunted
author: Elmore Leonard
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Conan Chronicles Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Out of the Darksome Hills]]> 41454527 COLLECTING: VOL. 1: CONAN: THE LEGEND 0, CONAN (2004) 1-19]]> 496 Kurt Busiek 1302915908 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.33 2019 Conan Chronicles Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Out of the Darksome Hills
author: Kurt Busiek
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Det röda Àr det grÀnslösa 123159404
Judith Kiros andra diktbok efter den hyllade debuten O. HÀr utgÄr hon frÄn den medeltida anakoreten Julian av Norwich, som levde inmurad vid kyrkan i Norwich, och vars bok The Revelations of Divine Love beskriver de uppenbarelser Julian fÄtt av Kristus. Kiros bok bestÄr dels av "uppenbarelser" som hon sjÀlv skrivit fram, vilka Àr oupphörligt intressanta i sitt sakrala, mystiska och underliga tilltal, dels av dikter dÀr ett jag talar frÄn vÄr samtid. Det handlar om de döda, FörsÀkringskassan, tabletterna lÀkaren skriver ut, om lÀngtan och om att redan befinna sig under jorden. En drabbande, smÀrtsam men Àven rolig bok som med lÀtthet rör sig mellan olika texttyper och stilnivÄer.]]> 184 Judith Kiros 9100800406 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.73 2023 Det röda Àr det grÀnslösa
author: Judith Kiros
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.73
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]]> <![CDATA[An Image of Africa / The Trouble with Nigeria]]> 9227004 An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.]]> 112 Chinua Achebe 0141192585 Mohammed 0 to-read, african-literature 3.94 1975 An Image of Africa / The Trouble with Nigeria
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Secret History (The Book of Ash, #1)]]> 445023 There Is More Than One History Of The World...

In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe - opulant and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world.

In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born in mud and dung, she slew her first men while only eight. Scarred and ravaged, but still beautiful, she rose up to lead a great mercenary army before the age of twenty - and followed a sacred voice wise in the bloody ways of battle to a pinnacle unattainable to even the most potent of legends.

In a time when empires and alliances shifted like sand - when Mithras the bull was worshiped freely alongside the Christ - a great cloud arose out of Africa to darken the sun. The Visgoths came with their terrible machines - powered by magic or a science unknown to this day - and aimed their irresistible might toward the rich Burgundian prize, wrenching the wheel of civilization in an unknown and unexpected direction. And with their coming, one incomparable warrior raised on Destiny's ash heap became more than anyone thought one woman could be.]]> 424 Mary Gentle 0380788691 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.64 1999 A Secret History (The Book of Ash, #1)
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1999
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]]> The Chosen and the Beautiful 55169019
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.

But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.

Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.]]> 260 Nghi Vo 1250784786 Mohammed 0 to-read, books-to-buy 3.53 2021 The Chosen and the Beautiful
author: Nghi Vo
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)]]> 9317452 392 Ben Aaronovitch 0575097566 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.83 2011 Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)]]> 8970727
Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.

This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.]]> 547 Kim Newman Mohammed 0 to-read 3.73 1992 Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
author: Kim Newman
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tower Unleashed (Realm Grinder #2)]]> 63573362 John Mavren continues his climb to the top of the Tower...

Fresh from the fight with the Crystal Dragon, John is still searching for a way to save Earth from the relentless monster hordes. By his side is the Shield-Maiden Enora, and together they face even greater challenges and more deadly enemies while allies support from afar.

As they climb higher, they discover that progress is not easy. The Deathmasks have stolen twin dragon eggs and are determined to take control of the Tower, threatening the established order. Meanwhile, Paul, now the leader of the Spellbooks, uncovers messages from his past, leading him to question his own loyalties and motivations.

But perhaps the most dangerous threat comes from within the Tower itself. A secret dynasty, made up of the most powerful beings in the Tower, is revealed, and their goal is nothing less than the final extermination of humanity. Do John and his allies have what it takes to defeat these seemingly unbeatable enemies and save humanity from total annihilation?

From Bestseller Wolfe Locke comes Book 2 in the Realm Grinder Series, a new Tower Climbing LitRPG about an apocalypse, a Tower of Realms, and a Hero going from strong to stronger.]]> 550 Wolfe Locke Mohammed 0 to-read 4.03 2023 Tower Unleashed (Realm Grinder #2)
author: Wolfe Locke
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2023
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]]> To Live Forever 1109610 Jack Vance 0812511425 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.53 1956 To Live Forever
author: Jack Vance
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1956
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder]]> 123263146
"Fare thee well, Matt Scudder. You picked a hell of a novelist to chronicle your most sensational cases, and you’ve done him proud in telling the story of the rest of your life. And happy birthday, LB. Thanks for sharing your present with us." ~Frank Sennett, Chicago Culture Authority

"I finished the autobiography and loved it! At one point I had to stop and ask myself, "Wait, Scudder is Larry's invention, right?" I was so into his narrative and life. Makes me want to go back and reread all the Scudder books." ~Jonathan Santlofer

" It’s evident from his handling of this meta approach that Block hasn’t lost much speed off his fastball. But for devoted readers (like me), there’s an element of pure wish fulfillment at play. The book is essentially a chance to tug the sleeve of a character we’ve gotten to know quite well and offer to buy him another cup of coffee before he heads out, to hear an additional story or two and ask questions long wondered about. It’s an impressive trick that requires decades of work on the part of both writer and reader to carry off. You need to know Matt Scudder in order to appreciate this book, and if you know Matt Scudder you’ve already ordered it." ~Vince Keenan

"O ne of the all-time great fictional detectives from one of my very favourite writers." ~Ian Rankin

Since the 1970s, Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning novels and short fiction featuring Matthew Scudder. Now, with both himself and his detective half a century older, the author found himself charged with writing a book about his protagonist.

And he decided he wasn’t the right person for the job.

“What was Matt’s family like? How did he spend his childhood? What steered him toward the NYPD, and how did he get all the way from the Police Academy to a detective’s gold shield? Who were the influences and what were the experiences that made him the man we’ve come to know? These were important questions. There were certainly stories to be told, but that didn’t mean I was the person to tell them. If Matt Scudder was to have a memoir, he ought to write it himself.â€�

So Block passed on the assignment to his most enduring fictional character, and the result� The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder� is a remarkable document, at once a convincing Bildungsroman and the indispensable capstone of an outstanding series.

Since his 1976 debut in The Sins of the Fathers, Matthew Scudder has aged in real time; so too, remarkably enough, has his creator. Lawrence Block turned 84 on June 24, 2022, while Mr. Scudder reached that same milestone on September 7. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder demonstrates clearly—and irresistibly—that neither one of them has lost a step.

Lawrence Block, named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, is a multiple winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus awards; recognition for his lifetime achievement includes the UK Crime Writers Association’s Diamond Dagger. "This is Scudder's back story; where he was born, what his family was like, how he became a cop, a detective, and an alcoholic. To this reviewer the most fascinating bits revolved around how Scudder became a police officer. We meet his partner, an older cop who demonstrates how he thinks policing should work, the occasional bribe notwithstanding. And we get to see how Scudder washed out of the force to become the private investigator Block has been writing about for half a century. Devotees of the Scudder books will not want to miss this one. If you have never experienced any of the stories in this series I think after you read this autobiography you'll be intrigued to comprehend there are another 19 Scudder books already out there just waiting for you to devour them." ~Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News]]> 242 Lawrence Block Mohammed 0 to-read 4.30 2023 The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder
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]]> Magnus Ridolph 37834933
In these ten stories, Magnus Ridolph accepts a variety of baffling assignments, from halting the tribal warfare of the Kokod warriors, to solving the mystery of exploding cans of sardines imported from Chandaria. His wits and unusual methods bring each to a surprising conclusion!

Written between 1948 and 1957, the tales in this book establish Magnus Ridolph as a memorably spry and resourceful troubleshooter with nerves of steel—and a knack for getting the goods.

Magnus Ridolph is Volume 2 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series. Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collection is based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoy up-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributed by a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of the author's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These unique features will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work for the first time. � John Vance II]]> 228 Jack Vance 1619471361 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.33 1985 Magnus Ridolph
author: Jack Vance
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pariah (Covenant of Steel, #1)]]> 56229688
Fighting under the command of Lady Evadine Courlain, a noblewoman beset by visions of a demonic apocalypse, Alwyn must survive war and the deadly intrigues of the nobility if he hopes to claim his vengeance. But as dark forces, both human and arcane, gather to oppose Evadine's rise, Alwyn faces a choice: can he be a warrior, or will he always be an outlaw?]]> 600 Anthony Ryan 0316430773 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.16 2021 The Pariah (Covenant of Steel, #1)
author: Anthony Ryan
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2021
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]]> Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1) 33916060 The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tattoo rips itself from his arm to deliver a desperate message, Galharrow and a mysterious noblewoman must investigate a long dead sorcerer's legacy. But there is a conspiracy within the citadel: traitors, flesh-eaters and the ghosts of the wastelands seek to destroy them, but if they cannot solve the ancient wizard's paradox, the Deep Kings will walk the earth again, and all will be lost.

The war with the Eastern Empire ended in stalemate some eighty years ago, thanks to Nall's 'Engine', a wizard-crafted weapon so powerful even the Deep Kings feared it. The strike of the Engine created the Misery - a wasteland full of ghosts and corrupted magic that now forms a No Mans Land along the frontier. But when Galharrow investigates a frontier fortress, he discovers complacency bordering on treason: then the walls are stormed, and the Engine fails to launch. Galharrow only escapes because of the preternatural magical power of the noblewoman he was supposed to be protecting. Together, they race to the capital to unmask the traitors and restore the republic's defences. Far across the Misery a vast army is on the move, as the Empire prepares to call the republic's bluff.

]]> 360 Ed McDonald 0399587799 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.09 2017 Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)
author: Ed McDonald
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Vagrant (The Vagrant, #1) 23559647 400 Peter Newman 0007593082 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.65 2015 The Vagrant (The Vagrant, #1)
author: Peter Newman
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire]]> 23848268
What Vanderbilt's obituary failed to mention, perhaps as contemporaries already knew it well, was that Hamilton was African American. Hamilton, although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, was reportedly the richest colored man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of two hundred and $50 million in today's currency.

In this groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger than life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily white business world, he married a white woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and generally set his white contemporaries teeth on edge when he wasn't just plain outsmarting them. An important contribution to American history, the Hamilton's life offers a way into considering, from the unusual perspective of a black man.]]> 368 Shane White 1250070562 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.52 2015 Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
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]]> The Complete The Killer 36664370
A professional. A man of few scruples, nerves of steel, and a steady trigger finger, but also, a man on the verge of cracking.

After misadventures in Central and South America and having earned enough money to retire comfortably, the Killer retires to Mexico, but his colleagues are still in need of his irreplaceable skills . . . and before long he’s drawn back into the great geopolitical game between Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States.

Artist Luc Jacamon and writer Matz ( The Black Dahlia ) deliver the definitive collection of the Eisner Award-nominated crime saga, The Killer , a hardboiled, noir series that New York Times bestselling writer Brian Michael Bendis calls “one of the best graphic novel series of the last ten years.”]]> 768 Matz 1684151880 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.67 2018 The Complete The Killer
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]]> <![CDATA[The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume I]]> 68607434
The Gloria Scott
The Musgrave Ritual
A Study in Scarlet
The Resident Patient
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
The Adventure of the Second Stain
The Reigate Squires
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Five Orange Pips
A Case of Identity
The Red-Headed League
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Valley of Fear
The Yellow Face
The Greek Interpreter
The Sign of the Four]]> 691 Arthur Conan Doyle Mohammed 0 to-read 5.00 The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume I
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]]> <![CDATA[Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light]]> 57515859 The New York Times bestselling Injustice team of Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo take on Nightwing!

Nightwing is back—and his drive to keep BlĂŒdhaven safe has never been stronger! But his adoptive city has elected a new mayor with the last name Zucco. When Nightwing enlists Batgirl’s help in investigating the politician bearing the same name as the man who murdered his parents, she unearths details that will shock and fundamentally change the hero.

Dick Grayson’s big heart has protected those persecuted by bullies in his youth, combated evil alongside Batman as Robin, and pledged his newly inherited wealth to enriching BlĂŒdhaven as Nightwing. His kindness and generosity have always guided his life. But now a new villain stalks the back alleys, removing the hearts of the city’s most vulnerable. Who is this terrifying new menace named Heartless, and will he be able to resist plucking out the biggest heart in all of BlĂŒdhaven?

Collected in this Infinite Frontier Nightwing evolution are issues #78-83.]]> 160 Tom Taylor 1779512783 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.48 2021 Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light
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]]> <![CDATA[Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 65, February 2012]]> 15844744 FICTION
"And the Hollow Space Inside" by Mari Ness
"A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu
"All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions" by Helena Bell

NON-FICTION
"From Farm to Fable: Food, Fantasy, and Science Fiction" by Matthew Johnson
"Everything’s Surprising: A Conversation with Lev AC Rosen" by Jeremy L. C. Jones
"Wendigo Waistcoat Spyglass and Other Words with Lisa L. Hannett" by Jeremy L. C. Jones
"2011 Reader's Poll Results" by Neil Clarke]]> 64 Neil Clarke Mohammed 0 to-read, chinese-literature 3.70 2012 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 65, February 2012
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]]> Legend of the Northern Blade 54667099 Hae-Min Mohammed 0 4.45 2019 Legend of the Northern Blade
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Interzone #292-293 Double Issue: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine)]]> 62050920 303 Andy Cox Mohammed 0 4.08 Interzone #292-293 Double Issue: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine)
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]]> Interzone #290/#291 58799352 Andy Cox Mohammed 0 3.50 Interzone #290/#291
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 3 & 4, September/October 2021]]> 58870978 NOVELLA
“The Abominationâ€� by Nuzo Onoh

NOVELETS
"The Scorpion and the Syrinx" by Brian Trent
“The Forlornâ€� by Matthew Hughes

SHORT STORIES
“The Haunted Hills Community and Country Clubâ€� by Lincoln Michel
“Ice Fishing on Europaâ€� by Erin Barbeau
“Seedlingâ€� by Octavia Cade
“To the Honorable and Esteemed Monsters under My Bedâ€� by E. A. Bourland
“Split the Babyâ€� by Carl Taylor
“And in Rain, Blank Pagesâ€� by Lora Gray
“Her Dragonâ€� by Amal Singh

POEMS
"The Conqueror Worm(hole") by Linda D. Addison
"Sonnet - To Meta-Science" by Linda D. Addison
"The Changing Season" by Ali Trotta

DEPARTMENTS
"Editorial: Transform You" by Sheree Renée Thomas
"Books to Look For" by Charles de Lint
"Books" by Elizabeth Hand
"Plumage from Pegasus: Speaker to Scribes" by Paul Di Filippo
"Films: Love, Robots, and Death 2" by Karin Lowachee
"Science: String Theory -- The Musical Kind" by Jerry Oltion
"Curiosities" by Aurelius Raines II
"Coming Attractions"

CARTOONS
from Ali Solomon, Arthur Masear, Mark Heath, and Kendra Allenby

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2021, Volume 141, No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 757.
Sheree Renée Thomas, editor
Cover art by David A. Hardy]]> 258 Sheree Renée Thomas Mohammed 0 3.76 2021 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 3 & 4, September/October 2021
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 140, Nos. 3 & 4, March/April 2021]]> 57250444 NOVELETS
"The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C. L. Polk
"Mannikin" by Madeleine E. Robins
"In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi" by Molly Tanzer
"Jack-in-the-Box" by Robin Furth

SHORT STORIES
"Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo
"The Bletted Woman" by Rebecca Campbell
"Our Peaceful Morning" by Nick Wolven
"Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon" by B. Morris Allen
"Speak to the Moon" by Marie Brennan
"Character" by Harry Turtledove
"The Pizza Boy" by Meg Elison

POEMS
"Whale Talk" by Akua Lezli Hope
"Transcendent City" by Akua Lezli Hope

DEPARTMENTS
"Letter From The Editor: A Strange Song" by Sheree Renée Thomas
"Books to Look For" by Charles de Lint
"Musing on Books" by Michelle West
"By The Numbers: A Glance at the SFF (and H) Publishing Industry" by Arley Sorg
"Television: Unspeakable Streaming" by David J. Skal
"Science: How Science Works" by Jerry Oltion
"Coming Attractions"
"Curiosities" by Joachim Boaz

CARTOONS
from Arthur Masear, Nick Downes, Bill Long, Kendra Allenby, and Mark Heath

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2021, Volume 140, No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 754.
Sheree Renée Thomas, editor
Cover art by Mondolithic Studios]]> 260 Sheree Renée Thomas Mohammed 0 3.63 2021 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 140, Nos. 3 & 4, March/April 2021
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name: Mohammed
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]]> <![CDATA[Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction]]> 59807971
A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world.

Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.

Contents:
"The Blue House" by Dilman Dila
"March Magic" by WC Dunlap
"IRL" by Steven Barnes
"The Deification of Igodo" by Joshua Uchenna Omenga
"Mami Wataworks" by Russell Nichols
"Rear Mirror" by Nuzo Onoh
"Door Crashers" by Franka Zeph
"The Soul Would Have No Rainbow" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
"A Dream of Electric Mothers" by Wole Talabi
"Simbi" by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
"Housewarming for a Lion Goddess" by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
"A Knight in Tunisia" by Alex Jennings
"The Devil Is Us" by Mirette Bahgat
"Cloud Mine" by Timi Odueso
"Ruler of the Rear Guard" by Maurice Broaddus
"Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition)" by Tlotlo Tsamaase
"The Sugar Mill" by Tobias S. Buckell
"The Carving of War" by Somto Ihezue Onyedikachi
"Ghost Ship" by Tananarive Due
"Liquid Twilight" by Ytasha Womack
"Once Upon a Time in 1967" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees
"A Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner" by Alexis Brooks de Vita
"The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library" by Tobi Ogundiran
"When the Mami Wata Met a Demon" by Moustapha Mbacke Diop
"The Papermakers" by Akua Lezli Hope
"A Soul of Small Places" by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo
"Air to Shape Lungs" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
"Hanfo Driver" by Ada Nnadi
"Exiles of Witchery" by Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
"The Taloned Beast" by Chinelo Onwualu
"Star Watchers" by Danian Darrell Jerry
"Biscuit & Milk" by Dare Segun Falowo]]> 514 Sheree Renée Thomas 1250833000 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.74 2022 Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Rhodenbarr, #1)]]> 6668461
He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer.

Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?]]> 320 Lawrence Block Mohammed 0 to-read 3.97 1977 Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Rhodenbarr, #1)
author: Lawrence Block
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) 35827220 My name is Rex. I am a good dog.

Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, south-eastern Mexico.

Rex is a genetically engineered Bioform, a deadly weapon in a dirty war. He has the intelligence to carry out his orders and feedback implants to reward him when he does. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies.

But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?]]> 262 Adrian Tchaikovsky Mohammed 0 science-fiction, to-read 4.21 2017 Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2017
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories]]> 2150244
Too many have lived
They can only hang you once
A man called Spade
The assistant murderer
Night shade
The judge laughed last
His brother's keeper
]]> 189 Dashiell Hammett Mohammed 0 to-read 3.93 1944 The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1944
rating: 0
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]]> Archean Eon Art 58314727 Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi Mohammed 0 to-read 3.81 Archean Eon Art
author: Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard: Volume 1]]> 73325003
Howard poured himself into his poetry, undisguised. What amazed him, what drew him, what scared him, what sickened him. He wasn’t worried about what we the eventual readers would think of him as an author. And perhaps this is true of any real poet, the fearlessness of saying what one really wants to say.

This three-volume set, The Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard includes all of Howard’s poetry that has been found, including all the earlier draft versions, where such exist. This is indeed the Ultimate collection of Robert E. Howard’s poetry.

This is the “Ultimate Editionâ€� which just means that it’s printed on demand. Each volume is printed in hardback with a dust jacket. The cover design and artwork are by Mark Wheatley.]]> 423 Robert E. Howard Mohammed 0 to-read 4.67 The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard: Volume 1
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]]> Zothique 809796
Zothique depicts the destinies of the inhabitants of the last continent of the Earth, when it is in its agony... and stages one of the most captivating and splendid fantasy that literature has produced.]]> 273 Clark Ashton Smith 0345219384 Mohammed 0 to-read, books-to-buy 4.26 1970 Zothique
author: Clark Ashton Smith
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1970
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]]> Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 46041199 A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,â€� she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her—from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child—to put them first.

Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planningâ€� birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance]]> 163 Cho Nam-Joo 1631496700 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.17 2016 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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name: Mohammed
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]]> Winter Counts 48678117 A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.Ìę

Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.Ìę When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.

They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.]]> 325 David Heska Wanbli Weiden 0062968947 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.81 2020 Winter Counts
author: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (English and Chinese Edition)]]> 799728 344 Morris Rossabi 0520067401 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.70 1988 Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (English and Chinese Edition)
author: Morris Rossabi
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> Fledgling 20058869 THE ATLANTIC'My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' JUNOT DÍAZThe final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.As Shori heals, she realises that she isn't like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her - and those who want her dead.PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES]]> 321 Octavia E. Butler Mohammed 0 to-read 3.88 2005 Fledgling
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)]]> 940051
Thus reads the message received from a German commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. And when an elite Nazi SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find a something that's both powerful and terrifying. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore--who just happens to be Jewish--to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way--a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny.

The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other... the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowable terror that man has inevitably awakened.]]> 347 F. Paul Wilson 0688006264 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.99 1981 The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)
author: F. Paul Wilson
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> The Only Good Indians 52180399 The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.]]> 305 Stephen Graham Jones 1982136456 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.68 2020 The Only Good Indians
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[Legenden om den helige drinkaren]]> 28569720 64 Joseph Roth Mohammed 0 to-read 3.75 1939 Legenden om den helige drinkaren
author: Joseph Roth
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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]]> The Devil Himself 59365909
Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, Ìęsizzles with page-burning suspense and bewitching characters.ÌęDeep in the backwoods of South Georgia, eighteen-year-old Maya narrowly escapes a savage end. The victim of a vast human trafficking operation managed out of Mexico, Maya had the misfortune to discover the dark plans of a high-ranking client. Her fate seemed sealed, until Leonard Moye, a lonely eccentric who doesn't suffer fools or tolerate trespassers, takes the young woman under his protection. Both bearing the scars from personal tragedies, they soon develop a bond that makes them, as a pair, a formidable foe, even for hardened criminals and professional scumbags. Maya knows too much and the old man lives on land in the crosshairs of narco machinations. As the heavies seek to finish the job, they find they may be no match for the resourcefulness of a disturbed old man and a cunning young woman.

Farris has created a new classic in country noir, a novel of wicked, gritty action and heartfelt redemption.ÌęFirst published in France with enormous critical acclaim and winning multiple literary awards, The Devil HimselfÌę will mark Peter Farris as a major crime writer in America as well.]]> 264 Peter Farris 1950994511 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.91 2017 The Devil Himself
author: Peter Farris
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2017
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]]> The Langston Hughes Reader 133910 512 Langston Hughes 0807600571 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.38 1958 The Langston Hughes Reader
author: Langston Hughes
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1958
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]]> <![CDATA[With a Single Spell (Ethshar, #2)]]> 320216
Tobas had been lucky to find a wizard to take him on as apprentice. But then the wizard died suddenly and unexpectedly after teaching Tobas only a solitary spell, and the youth was too old to find a new master. How could he earn a living when all the magic he could do was light fires?

A DESTINY UNFOLDING

In the Small Kingdoms there were dragons to be slain, princesses and gold to be won, magic castles, witches who knew the secret of immortality, and other treasures. But how could a wizard with a single, simple spell hope to find them and win them?]]> 206 Lawrence Watt-Evans Mohammed 0 to-read 4.07 1987 With a Single Spell (Ethshar, #2)
author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[The Misenchanted Sword (Ethshar, #1)]]> 317497
But now everything has changed: at a moment of great need, a hermit wizard crafted Valder a magic sword called Wirikidor - a blade at once cursed and enchanted, a misenchanted blade that makes him unbeatable.

Soon the tides of battle will turn, and once they've turned they'll turn forever.]]> 228 Lawrence Watt-Evans 1587152827 Mohammed 0 to-read 4.04 1985 The Misenchanted Sword (Ethshar, #1)
author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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]]> Earth Abides 93269 345 George R. Stewart 0345487133 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.94 1949 Earth Abides
author: George R. Stewart
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)]]> 171624
The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton’s first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing.

For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy.

The film of The Ipcress File gave Michael Caine one of his first and still most celebrated starring roles, while the novel itself has become a classic.]]> 342 Len Deighton Mohammed 0 to-read 3.95 1962 The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
author: Len Deighton
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1962
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]]> Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1) 56589218 Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn’t matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongestÌęand most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.]]> 399 Xiran Jay Zhao Mohammed 0 to-read 4.24 2021 Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1)
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.24
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]]> Black No More 827686
Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can't beat them, turn into them.

Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited Introduction.

The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.]]> 180 George S. Schuyler 037575380X Mohammed 0 to-read 4.00 1931 Black No More
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1931
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]]> The Good Asian, Volume Two 60728093
Self-loathing Chinese-American detective Edison Hark uncovers the secrets behind the murders terrorizing 1936 Chinatown and their link to his family—but exposing the truth may mean toppling everything he holds dear. Writer PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE (INFIDEL) and artist ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI (OUTPOST ZERO) wrap up their Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban
the Chinese.

Collects covers by DAVID CHOE, AFU CHAN, NIMIT MALAVIA, DAVE JOHNSON, and more, plus bonus material.

Collects THE GOOD ASIAN #5-10]]> 176 Pornsak Pichetshote 1534321217 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.65 2022 The Good Asian, Volume Two
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2022
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]]> <![CDATA[Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Vol. 0: Warzones!]]> 24955233 Collecting: Old Man Logan 1-5]]> 120 Brian Michael Bendis 0785198938 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.54 2015 Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Vol. 0: Warzones!
author: Brian Michael Bendis
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2015
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]]> A Summer Beyond Your Reach 53284628 310 Xia Jia 1642360392 Mohammed 0 4.31 2020 A Summer Beyond Your Reach
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation]]> 28220730
In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore Chinese science fiction. Liu Cixin's essay, The Worst of All Possible Universes and The Best of All Possible Earths, gives a historical overview of SF in China and situates his own rise to prominence as the premier Chinese author within that context. Chen Qiufan's The Torn Generation gives the view of a younger generation of authors trying to come to terms with the tumultuous transformations around them. Finally, Xia Jia, who holds the first Ph.D. issued for the study of Chinese SF, asks What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?.]]> 383 Ken Liu 0765384191 Mohammed 0 to-read, chinese-literature 4.06 2016 Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)]]> 31117072 395 Jin Yong 0857053000 Mohammed 0 3.98 1957 A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1957
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]]> <![CDATA[Poems of Du Fu: An English-Chinese Dual Language Book: Volume 2 (The Poems of Du Fu)]]> 41084769 70 Du Fu 1537485334 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.00 Poems of Du Fu: An English-Chinese Dual Language Book: Volume 2 (The Poems of Du Fu)
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name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)]]> 60211 262 Gene Wolfe 0671540661 Mohammed 0 3.86 1980 The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
author: Gene Wolfe
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> Declare 190554 608 Tim Powers 0380798360 Mohammed 0 4.03 2000 Declare
author: Tim Powers
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[The Green Pearl (Lyonesse, #2)]]> 68582 South of Eire and west of Gaul was the land of the Elder Isles, a mystical place of fairy shees, valiant knights, and the powerful magic of sorcerers living and forgotten.

Now, as Aillas of Troicinet and Casimir of Lyonesse parry and feint in a duel of wits, the mysterious aura of the Green Pearl enters their souls.

Its menas are subtle, but its effects are great, and as the Kings of Elder ready their swords, even the worlds of the immortals tremble...]]> 406 Jack Vance 088733010X Mohammed 0 4.19 1985 The Green Pearl (Lyonesse, #2)
author: Jack Vance
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)]]> 23461 220 Elizabeth A. Lynn 0743498097 Mohammed 0 3.66 1979 Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
author: Elizabeth A. Lynn
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)]]> 36373298
Maggie Hoskie is a DinĂ©tah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine.

Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel to the rez to unravel clues from ancient legends, trade favors with tricksters, and battle dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.

As Maggie discovers the truth behind the disappearances, she will have to confront her past—if she wants to survive.

Welcome to the Sixth World.]]> 287 Rebecca Roanhorse 1534413499 Mohammed 0 3.93 2018 Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)
author: Rebecca Roanhorse
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> The Raven Tower 39395857 Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.

But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.

It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo--aide to Mawat, the true Lease--arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself...and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.]]> 416 Ann Leckie 0356506991 Mohammed 0 to-read 3.89 2019 The Raven Tower
author: Ann Leckie
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)]]> 26114545
The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.

And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...]]> 432 Ada Palmer 0765378000 Mohammed 0 3.81 2016 Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
author: Ada Palmer
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> The Stars Are Legion 29090844
On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless a desperate plan succeeds.

Anat, leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, wants peace. To do so she offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, to her rival. Jayd has dreamed about leading her mother’s armies to victory her whole life—but she has a unique ability, and that makes her leverage, not a leader. As Anat convinces her to spend the rest of her life wed to her family’s greatest enemy, it is up to Jayd’s sister Zan—with no stomach for war—to lead the cast off warriors she has banded together to victory and rescue Jayd. But the war does not go at all as plannedâ€�

In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about familial love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre’s most imaginative new writers.]]> 512 Kameron Hurley Mohammed 0 3.66 2017 The Stars Are Legion
author: Kameron Hurley
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2017
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