Eric's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:19:37 -0800 60 Eric's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat]]> 200350466 22 Matt Smith Eric 3 4.12 Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat
author: Matt Smith
name: Eric
average rating: 4.12
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rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Hellboy: The Bones of Giants Illustrated Novel]]> 18844372 298 Christopher Golden 1621154289 Eric 3 4.08 2001 Hellboy: The Bones of Giants Illustrated Novel
author: Christopher Golden
name: Eric
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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John Brown 89273
In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic.]]>
304 W.E.B. Du Bois 0679783539 Eric 0 to-read 4.34 1909 John Brown
author: W.E.B. Du Bois
name: Eric
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1909
rating: 0
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Amulet 63029 Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin,brand blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women; the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book; an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the 70s, and the last words of the novel are; "And that song is our amulet."]]> 192 Roberto Bolaño 0811216640 Eric 0 to-read 3.87 1999 Amulet
author: Roberto Bolaño
name: Eric
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 214565614 A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.]]>
448 Stephen Graham Jones 1668075083 Eric 0 to-read 4.30 2025 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: Eric
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]>
304 John Green 0525555218 Eric 0 to-read 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
author: John Green
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average rating: 4.37
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<![CDATA[The Last Days of Judas Iscariot]]> 759844 From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner. This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street "shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talk. [Guirgis brings to the play] a stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the paradoxes of faith" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).]]>
128 Stephen Adly Guirgis 0571211011 Eric 0 to-read 4.22 2005 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
name: Eric
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Time of Miracles (Writings From An Unbound Europe)]]> 1757915 320 Borislav Pekić 0810111179 Eric 0 to-read 4.48 1965 The Time of Miracles (Writings From An Unbound Europe)
author: Borislav Pekić
name: Eric
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)]]> 8268924 An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her caught between humanity and the relentless bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. She disappeared to the South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now, she needs Harry's help more than ever.

For the vengeful Duchess of the Red Court has discovered a secret Susan has long kept from everyone--including Harry--and she plans to use it. To prevail, Harry may have to unleash the full fury of hi untapped power--and he may have no choice but to embrace the darkness within himself.

Because this time, he's fighting to save his child.]]>
549 Jim Butcher 0451463471 Eric 5 4.58 2010 Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)
author: Jim Butcher
name: Eric
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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The Complete Tales and Poems 3210714 Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This leatherbound omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," the full-length novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and much more.]]> 1023 Edgar Allan Poe 1435106342 Eric 0 4.47 1849 The Complete Tales and Poems
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Eric
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1849
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America]]> 204316963 An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics

Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. Despite his vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. Journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to vote for and support issues that seem so at odds with their self-interest.

From coast to coast, cities to rural towns, Defectors introduces readers to underdog GOP candidates, January 6 insurrectionists, Evangelical pastors, and culture war crusaders as it identifies the influences at the heart of this rightward shift. Through their stories, Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society.]]>
256 Paola Ramos 0593701364 Eric 0 to-read 4.48 Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
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<![CDATA[The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity]]> 56269264
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.]]>
692 David Graeber 0374157359 Eric 0 to-read 4.20 2021 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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average rating: 4.20
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Blue Book Volume 1: 1961 125084281 An ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters.

From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth.

In Blue Book, teaming with artist Michael Avon Oeming and letterer Aditya Bidikar, James Tynion IV presents what he calls his “True Weird� stories. Tales of ordinary people encountering the strange and the impossible.

Volume 1 retells the infamous case of the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill of New Hampshire in 1961 � the very first widely-publicized UFO abduction that went on to shape and influence all future encounter stories.

Collects the Dark Horse Comics series Blue Book #1�#5, originally published on Substack.]]>
0 James Tynion IV 150673670X Eric 4 3.71 2023 Blue Book Volume 1: 1961
author: James Tynion IV
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957]]> 74820671
These stories will let readers get to know some of the human members of the B.P.R.D. and the unique talents they bring to the organization. Even Hellboy needs backup from time to time!

All five issues of Hellboy and the 1957 are collected in this paperback with writing by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, featuring art by Mignolaverse veteran Laurence Campbell ( The Devil You Know ), Stephen Green ( Lobster Garden of Bones ), Shawn Martinbrough ( Thief of Thieves ), Alison Sampson ( Jessica Jones ), and Mike Norton ( Hellboy and the 1956 ), plus the short “Happy New Year, Ava Galluci� by Mignola and Ben Stenbeck, featuring colors by Dave Stewart and a bonus sketchbook section.

Collects Hellboy and the 1957 Family Ties , Forgotten Lives,Falling Sky , Fearful Symmetry , and From Below , and the short “Happy New Year, Ava Galluci� from the Hellboy Winter Special .]]>
0 Mike Mignola 1506728537 Eric 3 3.21 2023 Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957
author: Mike Mignola
name: Eric
average rating: 3.21
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series]]> 212641542 Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today’s top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery.

After killing his latest employer, a bored Conan wanders Stygia. His wanderlust is brought to an end when he is bitten by an asp. Though he attempts to extract the venom, it’s no use. At death’s door, the Cimmerian is saved by an otherworldly woman and a skull-headed tarantula.

Conan awakens being attended to by the merchant Khal, an acolyte of the strange goddess who saved his life. Khal came to Conan’s aid because Conan has been blessed by The Lady of the Desert; the Cimmerian is fated for something extraordinary. As it happens, fate is a seductive priestess with a legend to tell and coin to offer. Will Conan answer her call to adventure?]]>
0 Laird Barron Eric 4 4.04 2024 Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series
author: Laird Barron
name: Eric
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/01
date added: 2024/10/01
shelves: adventure, fantasy, horror, dark-fantasy, my-ebooks, pulp, sword-and-sorcery, short-stories
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<![CDATA[The Dreaming City (Elric Vol. 3)]]> 30897519 65 Roy Thomas 1785858378 Eric 4 4.05 1981 The Dreaming City (Elric Vol. 3)
author: Roy Thomas
name: Eric
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1981
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/30
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: fantasy, dark-fantasy, novella
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<![CDATA[Swarm and Steel (Manifest Delusions #3)]]> 35267019
When Jateko, a naïve youth, accidentally kills a member of his own tribe, he finds himself outcast and pursued across the desert for his crimes. Crazed from dehydration, dying of thirst and hunger, he stumbles across Zerfall.

Hunted by assassins and bound by mutual need, both Zerfall and Jeteko will confront the Täuschung, an ancient and deranged religion ruled by a broken fragment of Zerfall’s mind. Swarm, the Täuschung hell, seethes with imprisoned souls, but where gods—real or imagined—meddle in the affairs of man, the cost is high.

In Swarm and Steel , the power of belief can manifest and shape reality, and for political and religious leaders, faith becomes a powerful tool. But the insane are capable of twisting reality with their delusions as well, turning increasingly dangerous as their sanity crumbles. It is here that a long prophesied evil will be born, an endless hunger. The All Consuming will rise.]]>
400 Michael R. Fletcher 1940456916 Eric 0 to-read, dark-fantasy 4.39 2017 Swarm and Steel (Manifest Delusions #3)
author: Michael R. Fletcher
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average rating: 4.39
book published: 2017
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<![CDATA[The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage]]> 32815361
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30 Alix E. Harrow 0765392313 Eric 4 fantasy, short-stories 4.10 2016 The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
author: Alix E. Harrow
name: Eric
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/22
date added: 2024/09/27
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Wait for Night 54680267 30 Stephen Graham Jones 1250759749 Eric 3 3.87 2020 Wait for Night
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: Eric
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2023/03/16
date added: 2024/09/24
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<![CDATA[St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid]]> 51096966
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26 C.L. Polk 1250241359 Eric 3 fantasy, short-stories 3.85 2020 St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid
author: C.L. Polk
name: Eric
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/09/23
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Men, Women, and Chainsaws 60872404
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37 Stephen Graham Jones 1250850878 Eric 4 3.90 2022 Men, Women, and Chainsaws
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: Eric
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/22
date added: 2024/09/23
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For He Can Creep 52139451 A Tor.com original, Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep is a dark fantasy story of poetry, devilry, and cats in a battle of good vs. evil for the fate of humanity.

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned him to write The Divine Poem. But years earlier, he made a bargain with Satan and the devil has come to collect his due--a poem that will bring about the apocalypse.

Saving Smart's soul, and the rest of the world, falls to Jeoffry, the poet's demon-fighting cat and a creature of cunning Satan would be a fool to underestimate...

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30 Siobhan Carroll 1250237564 Eric 4 fantasy, short-stories 4.20 2019 For He Can Creep
author: Siobhan Carroll
name: Eric
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/22
date added: 2024/09/21
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Giant Days, Vol. 8 43118385 116 John Allison 1641440228 Eric 4 4.21 2018 Giant Days, Vol. 8
author: John Allison
name: Eric
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2018/11/22
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: comics, drama, comedy, contemporary-fiction, cultural, humor, my-ebooks, romance, young-adult
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<![CDATA[The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom]]> 34308092 A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known world attempts to stop a war.

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31 Max Gladstone 0765396009 Eric 3 3.68 2017 The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom
author: Max Gladstone
name: Eric
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2022/02/24
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: adventure, drama, fantasy, science-fiction, my-ebooks, pulp, short-stories, war, romance
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<![CDATA[Chew, Vol. 2: International Flavor]]> 18867038
Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is on a bizarre new case. A newly discovered fruit takes Agent Chu to a remote island full of secrets, strangeness-and a shadowy killer with a particularly sinister appetite. Presenting the second storyline of IGN.com's pick for Best Indie Series of 2009 and MTV Splash Page.com's pick for Best New Series of 2009. Find out what the fuss is about in this latest a twisted and darkly funny comic about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals and clairvoyants.]]>
576 John Layman 1106900111 Eric 3 4.14 2010 Chew, Vol. 2: International Flavor
author: John Layman
name: Eric
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2022/11/27
date added: 2024/09/12
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<![CDATA[Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance]]> 199635918 Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today’s top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery.

� The Shadow of Vengeance� is an intended follow-up to “The Devil in Iron.� A classic sword and sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard himself.

In far eastern Turan, the regent of Khawarzim seeks bloody revenge. To achieve it, Ghaznavi is willing to strike a bargain with Karash Khan, the master of the Nine—acolytes of the god of Death, their powers and ruthlessness are spoken of only in whispers.The object of Ghaznavi's hatred rides at the head of a score of Zaporoskan kozaks, bandits formed from fleeing criminals, escaped slaves, and deserting soldiers. Men of many crimes and countries.Their leader is accompanied by Octavia, a statuesque royal from Nemedia whose devotion to him is without question. The object of Ghaznavi’s burning hatred is Conan of Cimmeria.]]>
78 Scott Oden Eric 4 4.33 2024 Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
author: Scott Oden
name: Eric
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream]]> 20813135 Ich denke, also bin ich109 Jahre nach dem Ende des Dritten Weltkriegs leben nur noch fünf Menschen. Sie hausen in unterirdischen Stollen, immer am Rande des Verhungerns, und werden jede Minute ihres Lebens von einem Supercomputer gefoltert, der ein Bewusstsein erlangt hat � und mit ihm unendlichen Hass auf seine Erbauer. Es gibt nur einen einzigen Ausweg für die gequälten Menschen � doch welcher von ihnen wird stark genug sein, ihn zu wählen? Die Kurzgeschichte „Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund� erscheint als exklusives E-Book Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von Harlan Ellison auch in dem Sammelband „Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund� enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 22 Buchseiten.]]> 20 Harlan Ellison Eric 5 3.72 1967 I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
author: Harlan Ellison
name: Eric
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at: 2019/03/10
date added: 2024/08/23
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) 8366378 400 Alan Brennert Eric 0 to-read, my-ebooks 4.33 2003 Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
author: Alan Brennert
name: Eric
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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The Rebellion of the Hanged 57668 260 B. Traven 1566630649 Eric 0 to-read 4.19 1936 The Rebellion of the Hanged
author: B. Traven
name: Eric
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1936
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 58678422 ŷ Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.

The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.

Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a species, we are both far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough, a paradox that came into sharp focus as we faced a global pandemic that both separated us and bound us together.

John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is an open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world.]]>
304 John Green 0525556532 Eric 0 to-read 4.43 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
author: John Green
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average rating: 4.43
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist � an informational topologist with half his mind gone � as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]>
384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Eric 0 to-read 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
author: Peter Watts
name: Eric
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
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<![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction]]> 8320840 The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales.]]> 1098 H.P. Lovecraft 1435122968 Eric 0 4.37 H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
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name: Eric
average rating: 4.37
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<![CDATA[Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, A True Story in Black and White]]> 7684018 Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,� and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,� Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys� learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife, and, finally, gun. In a stunning pairing, acclaimed comics creator Jamar Nicholas presents Canada’s raw and riveting account, one of the most authentic and important true stories of urban violence ever told.

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124 Geoffrey Canada 0807044490 Eric 0 4.01 1995 Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, A True Story in Black and White
author: Geoffrey Canada
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1995
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<![CDATA[Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)]]> 22889931 Collecting the first volume of the classic 1980's comic adaptation of the Elric of Melniboné novels by fantasy legend Michael Moorcock!

Bear witness to the story of Elric, Lord of Melniboné; his dark cousin - the evil Yyrkoon; their dark magics; and their terrible struggle for rule of the fabled Emerald Isle!
Based on Michael Moorcock's most popular work.]]>
176 Roy Thomas 1782762884 Eric 4 4.14 Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)
author: Roy Thomas
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average rating: 4.14
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<![CDATA[The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]> 429983 250 Ursula K. Le Guin 0060168358 Eric 0 4.25 1979 The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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The Most Boring Book Ever 207974153 48 Brandon Sanderson 1250843669 Eric 0 to-read 3.92 2024 The Most Boring Book Ever
author: Brandon Sanderson
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average rating: 3.92
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<![CDATA[Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1)]]> 36157 464 C.S. Friedman 0756404320 Eric 0 to-read 3.90 2007 Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1)
author: C.S. Friedman
name: Eric
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2007
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<![CDATA[A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows, #1)]]> 24249 A Cavern of Black Ice is the first book in J.V. Jones's Sword of Shadow series

As a newborn Ash March was abandoned--left for dead at the foot of a frozen mountain. Found and raised by the Penthero Iss, the mighty Surlord of Spire Vanis, she has always known she is different. Terrible dreams plague her and sometimes in the darkness she hears dread voices from another world. Iss watches her as she grows to womanhood, eager to discover what powers his ward might possess. As his interest quickens, he sends his living blade, Marafice Eye, to guard her night and day.

Raif Sevrance, a young man of Clan Blackhail, also knows he is different, with uncanny abilities that distance him from the clan. But when he and his brother survive an ambush that plunges the entire Northern Territories into war, he yet seeks justice for his own . . . even if means he must forsake clan and kin.

Ash and Raif must learn to master their powers and accept their joint fate if they are to defeat an ancient prophecy and prevent the release of the pure evil known as the End Lords.]]>
769 J.V. Jones 076534551X Eric 0 to-read 3.88 1999 A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows, #1)
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<![CDATA[The High House (Evenmere Chronicles #1)]]> 26094764
Winner of the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award, nominated as Best Fantasy of the Year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and a finalist for the Mythopoeic (Aslan) Award.]]>
279 James Stoddard Eric 0 to-read 4.20 1998 The High House (Evenmere Chronicles #1)
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average rating: 4.20
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The Face in the Abyss 952307
Cover: Rodney Matthews]]>
278 A. Merritt 0380018748 Eric 0 to-read 3.57 1923 The Face in the Abyss
author: A. Merritt
name: Eric
average rating: 3.57
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<![CDATA[Master Assassins (The Fire Sacraments, #1)]]> 35437058 Two village boys mistaken for assassins become the decisive figures in the battle for a continent in the thrilling new desert-based epic fantasy by the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy.

Kandri Hinjuman was never meant to be a soldier. His brother Mektu was never meant for this world. Rivals since childhood, they are drafted into a horrific war led by a madwoman-Prophet, and survive each day only by hiding their disbelief. Kandri is good at blending in, but Mektu is impulsive, erratic--and certain that a demon is stalking him. Is this madness or a second sense? Either way, Kandri knows that Mektu's antics will land them both in early graves.

But all bets are off when the brothers' simmering feud explodes into violence, and holy blood is spilled. Kandri and Mektu are taken for contract killers and must flee for their lives--to the one place where they can hope to the sprawling desert known as the Land that Eats Men. In this eerie wilderness, the terrain is as deadly as the monsters, ghouls, and traffickers in human flesh. Here the brothers find strange an aging warlord, a desert nomad searching for her family, a lethal child-soldier still in her teens. They also find themselves in possession of a secret that could bring peace to the continent of Urrath. Or unthinkable carnage.

On their heels are the Prophet's death squads. Ahead lie warring armies, sandstorms, evil spirits and the deeper evil of human greed. But hope beckons as well--if the "Master Assassins" can expose the lie that has made them the world's most wanted men.]]>
504 Robert V.S. Redick 194586320X Eric 0 to-read 4.06 2018 Master Assassins (The Fire Sacraments, #1)
author: Robert V.S. Redick
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<![CDATA[Priest: Ratcatchers, Volume One: A Fantasy Hardboiled by Matthew Colville (2011-08-10)]]> 165823938 0 Matthew Colville Eric 0 to-read 1.00 2010 Priest: Ratcatchers, Volume One: A Fantasy Hardboiled by Matthew Colville (2011-08-10)
author: Matthew Colville
name: Eric
average rating: 1.00
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Welcome to Forever 123650309 A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution.

For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ubik, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Evangelion.

Fox is a memory editor � one of the best –gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe.

Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded from the fragments that survived the blast, Fox tries to rebuild his life, his marriage and himself. But he quickly realises his world is changing, unreliable, and echoing around itself over and over.

As he unearths endless cycles of meeting Gabe, falling in love and breaking up, Fox digs deep into his past, his time in the refugee nation of Aaru, and the exact nature of his relationship with Khadija. Because, in a world tearing itself apart to forget all its sadness, saving the man he loves might be the key to saving us all.]]>
435 Nathan Tavares 1803364319 Eric 0 to-read 3.82 2024 Welcome to Forever
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<![CDATA[Gate of Ivrel (The Morgaine Cycle, #1)]]> 57084 191 C.J. Cherryh 0886772575 Eric 0 to-read 3.93 1976 Gate of Ivrel (The Morgaine Cycle, #1)
author: C.J. Cherryh
name: Eric
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1976
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Starless 34357122 Starless introduces us to an epic world where exiled gods live among us, and a hero whose journey will resonate long after the last page is turned.

Let your mind be like the eye of the hawk…Destined from birth to serve as protector of the princess Zariya, Khai is trained in the arts of killing and stealth by a warrior sect in the deep desert; yet there is one profound truth that has been withheld from him.

In the court of the Sun-Blessed, Khai must learn to navigate deadly intrigue and his own conflicted identity…but in the far reaches of the western seas, the dark god Miasmus is rising, intent on nothing less than wholesale destruction.

If Khai is to keep his soul’s twin Zariya alive, their only hope lies with an unlikely crew of prophecy-seekers on a journey that will take them farther beneath the starless skies than anyone can imagine.]]>
587 Jacqueline Carey 0765386828 Eric 0 to-read 4.03 2018 Starless
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<![CDATA[The Complete Morgaine (Morgaine Saga #1-4)]]> 24713696
The gates were relics of a lost era, a linked network of portals that the ruthless Qual empire used to span Time and Space. The Science Bureau has come to believe that sometime, somewhere in the unreachable past, someone has done the unthinkable and warped the very fabric of the universe using these gates. Now, it is up to Morgaine, a mysterious woman aided by a single warrior honor-bound to serve her, to travel from world to world sealing the ancient gates whose very existence threatens the integrity of all worlds...]]>
832 C.J. Cherryh 0698410432 Eric 0 to-read 4.35 2015 The Complete Morgaine (Morgaine Saga #1-4)
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average rating: 4.35
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The Blind Owl 45967 The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition. The Blind Owl, which has been translated into many foreign languages, has often been compared to the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.]]> 148 Sadegh Hedayat 0802131808 Eric 0 to-read 4.02 1937 The Blind Owl
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<![CDATA[Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)]]> 59366246 Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones.

Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.

Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday.

Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.]]>
457 Stephen Graham Jones 1982186593 Eric 0 4.04 2023 Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)
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Hellboy: The Fire Wolves 6139063 240 Tim Lebbon 1595822046 Eric 3 3.93 2009 Hellboy: The Fire Wolves
author: Tim Lebbon
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson]]> 56749359 The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning “Queen of Cyberpunk.� William Gibson’s never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and “Queen of Cyberpunk� Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson’s never-produced first draft.TheSulaco—on its return journey fromLV-426—enters a sector controlled by the “Union of Progressive Peoples,� a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board theSulacoand find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.TheSulacocontinues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military’s Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team ofColonial Marinesand scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fightRipley's cryotube is badly damaged.It’s taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newtand an injured CorporalHicksare awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs.The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.ALIEN 3 TM & © Twentieth Century Films. All rights reserved.]]> 277 Pat Cadigan Eric 0 to-read 3.55 2021 Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson
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<![CDATA[Fantastic Four (1961-1998) #262 (Fantastic Four (1961-1996))]]> 26054533 22 John Byrne Eric 4 4.25 Fantastic Four (1961-1998) #262 (Fantastic Four (1961-1996))
author: John Byrne
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average rating: 4.25
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<![CDATA[High Couch of Silistra (Silistra, #1)]]> 622866
Her quest was in galaxies beyond the civilized stars.

Somewhere deep in the heavens of a terribly distant tomorrow was the one man whose will conquered her own.]]>
256 Janet E. Morris 0553145320 Eric 0 to-read 3.66 1977 High Couch of Silistra (Silistra, #1)
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average rating: 3.66
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<![CDATA[Morningwood (Everybody Loves Large Chests #1)]]> 36469357 264 Neven Iliev Eric 0 to-read 4.04 Morningwood (Everybody Loves Large Chests #1)
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Stronghold (Dragon Star, #1) 257321
With her widely acclaimed, bestselling fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner’s magic and sorcerous evil, of a ruler fighting to bring peace to a world of warring kingdoms, and of the dragons—deadly dangerous yet holding the secret to wealth beyond imagining.

Now, in Stronghold , the first novel of Melanie’s new Dragon Star trilogy, there is a devastating new challenge to the power of both the High Prince Rohan and Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners at Goddess Keep, as a mysterious and seemingly unstoppable invasion force swarms across their lands. For Andry it signals the start of a nightmare made real, the horrifying fulfillment of his long ago visions of his homeland in flames, and he will draw upon even the forbidden sorcerer’s magic in an attempt to destroy this enemy which is bent on the extermination of all Sunrunners.

Rohan and his son Pol will also fight the enemy with every weapon at their command—from their valiant warriors, to conjurations with sun, moons, and stars, to the terrifying presence of the dragons, to the unforgiving wrath of the Desert itself. Yet soon they begin to fear that this invasion may prove not only the end of their dream of an unbreakable peace but the beginning of the end of their entire world....]]>
592 Melanie Rawn 0886774829 Eric 0 to-read 4.03 1991 Stronghold (Dragon Star, #1)
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<![CDATA[Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)]]> 50702014 Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year�

Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind�

From the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Swordheart and The Twisted Ones comes a saga of murder, magic, and love on the far side of despair.]]>
366 T. Kingfisher Eric 0 to-read 4.09 2020 Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
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<![CDATA[Spellmonger (The Spellmonger #1)]]> 11394624
Then one night Minalan is forced to pick up his mageblade again to defend his adopted home from the vanguard of an army of goblins � gurvani, they call themselves � bent on a genocidal crusade against all mankind. And that was the good news. The bad news was that their shamans were armed with more magical power than has been seen since the days of the ancient Imperial Magocracy � and their leader, a mysterious, vengeful force of hate and dark magic, is headed directly to Boval valley. The good people of Boval and their spellmonger have only one choice, to hole up in the over-sized Boval Castle and hope they can endure a siege against hundreds of thousands.

When the people look to him for hope, Minalan does his best, but there are multitudes of goblins, and they want Boval Vale as a staging ground for an invasion of the whole Five Duchies, and only Minalan is standing in their way. Add a jealous rival mage, a motley band of mercenaries, a delusional liege lord who insists victory is at hand despite the hordes at his door, a moody, pregnant girlfriend and a catty ex-girlfriend who specializes in sex magic -- all trapped in a stinking, besieged castle with no hope of rescue, and you’ll understand why Minalan is willing to take his chances with the goblins.

All that stands between the gurvani horde and the people of the Five Duchies is one tired, overwhelmed baker’s son who wanted nothing more than to be a simple spellmonger.]]>
477 Terry Mancour Eric 0 to-read 4.00 2011 Spellmonger (The Spellmonger #1)
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<![CDATA[The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)]]> 3314369 391 Richard K. Morgan 0575084812 Eric 0 to-read 3.73 2008 The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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average rating: 3.73
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<![CDATA[The Seer King (The Seer King Trilogy, #1)]]> 1344428 560 Chris Bunch 0446605247 Eric 0 to-read 3.62 1997 The Seer King (The Seer King Trilogy, #1)
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average rating: 3.62
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<![CDATA[The Flame and the Blade (Flame and Blade, #1)]]> 50508538 She’s a guard desperate to prove herself.
Together, they will enter the legendary Demon Forest.

Vethe Scarvian is a direct descendant of the man who almost destroyed humanity. And that plus a couple of coppers will buy him another beer.

When his aunt reveals the existence of a long-lost betrothal agreement hidden somewhere in the ruins of the Demon Forest, Vethe is only interested in how much money the noblewoman betrothed to him would be willing to pay to escape that contract.

He just has to find the contract first.

Lyria Guardia let her family down and got her heart broken. Gods help her, that will never happen again.

After a crushing betrayal by the man she’d built her life around, Lyria abandons her promising career with the Adventurer’s Guild and returns, humiliated and heartbroken, to the Guard’s Guild that her family has run for hundreds of years. Determined to regain her position and prove herself to her five brothers, Lyria is willing to accept any assignment.

Even if that means she has to drag some spoiled noble brat through the Demon Forest in search of a mysterious missing contract.

The Flame and The Blade is the first book in a new romantic fantasy adventure series. Fans of Miranda Honfleurand Sarah J. Maas will love this story of forbidden magic, dangerous adventure, and sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance. ]]>
286 Meredith Hart Eric 0 to-read 3.87 2020 The Flame and the Blade (Flame and Blade, #1)
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<![CDATA[Heretic Spellblade 5 (Heretic Spellblade #5)]]> 62216926
Two prophets fight for the hearts and minds of a desperate, divided populace. The Empire's greedy nobles posture for pride and territory while Traufaumh's priests dither and their inquisitors brutalize from the shadows. Amid all this, the demonic Messengers grow in power, threatening to destroy Doumahr overnight.

Nathan struggles to prevent the collapse of everything he's fought to protect. While he stands at the peak of his power, he can’t bludgeon foreign rulers into submission. Saving the world requires him to work with allies he can't trust, who often come with a few skeletons in the closet.

And he may soon learn that even choosing the lesser evil involves paying a high price. One he may not be willing to pay.]]>
693 K.D. Robertson Eric 0 to-read 4.52 2022 Heretic Spellblade 5 (Heretic Spellblade #5)
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<![CDATA[Heretic Spellblade 4 (Heretic Spellblade #4)]]> 60033491
To win, Nathan will need to step further along the path of a heretic. He has tamed a pair of demonic Messengers and learned forbidden magic, but his opponents grow in power and number with each victory. While he has the support of his loving Champions, will the world judge him as kindly?

All the while, complex schemes simmer elsewhere in the world. A beastkin obsessed with Nathan claims to be a prophet. Foreign nations meddle in the Empire and prepare to invade. And the unfathomable being behind the Messengers weaves chaos into everything.

Will victory come at an impossible cost?

Or will Nathan finally break the loop of history and craft a new future?

Heretic Spellblade contains plenty of violence, undefined relationships, beast girls, and scenes that don’t fade to black.]]>
584 K.D. Robertson Eric 0 to-read 4.50 2022 Heretic Spellblade 4 (Heretic Spellblade #4)
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<![CDATA[Heretic Spellblade 3 (Heretic Spellblade, #3)]]> 58598578 The time for secrets is coming to an end. Nathan has changed history and stopped the end of the world, but the future is more uncertain than ever. He can't rely on his knowledge of the future anymore.

Conquering the Federation has turned Nathan into a national hero, but also earned him countless enemies. The peace he has won looks short-lived. The Empire is fracturing around him, as nobles fight over the throne. Civil war looms.

Further north, the dark elves investigate the incident that nearly destroyed their ancient metropolis. Nathan finds himself dragged into dark elf politics, and sandwiched betweenNurevia and Astra, two beautiful dark elf Champions who are old friends and rivals.

Nathan's dark pact with the demonic Messengers will be thekey to preventing the world from falling apart. He just needs to protect everyone he cares about in the process.

Heretic Spellblade contains plenty of violence, undefined relationships, beast girls, and scenes that don’t fade to black.

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514 K.D. Robertson Eric 0 to-read 4.53 Heretic Spellblade 3 (Heretic Spellblade, #3)
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<![CDATA[Heretic Spellblade 2 (Heretic Spellblade, #2)]]> 56866813 Changing history is harder than it appears. Every time Nathan thinks he has stopped a world-ending war, he learns that somebody is trying to start it again. But once this is over, he’ll be free to relax and spend some quality time with his Champions.

As the war heats up, Nathan finds himself caught up in the schemes and fluffy tails of one of his former Champions, Narime. More figures from his past intrude, including a dark elf with a twisted personality and a princess who makes Nathan question his memories.

Behind everything, Kadria lurks alongside the other Messengers. Nathan finds himself buried in politics and at risk of losing everything should his heretical alliance with her be discovered.

In the end, the risk is worth it. Because the reward is to get back everything that Nathan lost.

Heretic Spellblade contains plenty of violence, harem/undefined relationships, beast girls, and scenes that don’t fade to black. Consider yourself warned.

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431 K.D. Robertson Eric 0 to-read 4.46 Heretic Spellblade 2 (Heretic Spellblade, #2)
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<![CDATA[Heretic Spellblade (Heretic Spellblade, #1)]]> 55893668 Before the demons invaded, Nathan had everything he ever wanted. Women, power, magical talent, wealth, a fortress full of loyal soldiers.

Now, a beautiful demonic general offers him a choice: die; or start a new life with her in the past and rewrite history. Nathan accepts and is sent back in time to before the end of the world began.

Everything Nathan earned in his original life is gone. But he still has his years of knowledge and experience. Even better, he knows what will happen in the future. He doesn’t know why the demons sent him back, but he refuses to waste this opportunity.

Nathan will take back everything he once had. But first, he must stop a demonic invasion from ending the world.

Heretic Spellblade contains plenty of violence, harem/undefined relationships, beast girls, and scenes that don’t fade to black. Consider yourself warned.

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436 K.D. Robertson Eric 0 to-read 4.23 Heretic Spellblade (Heretic Spellblade, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Chalice and the Blade (Chalice Trilogy, #1)]]> 470368
In a land of forbidding castles, sacred prophecies, and unholy betrayals, mystery surrounds the one woman who holds the key to an ancient legacy.She is Ceridwen, an orphan unaware of her immense power--until fate leads her from a secluded abbey into the tower of a feared sorcerer.

Dain Lavrans has no magic in himself, only the secrets of medicine he uncovered while a soldier in the Crusades.But he finally beholds true enchantment in the spell of passion innocently woven by the ethereal Ceridwen.Yet there are many who seek the maiden, all meaning to wrest her power for themselves.Now Ceridwen and Dain must struggle to escape the snares set by friend and foe alike, even as they discover a love that promises to bind them forever.]]>
475 Glenna McReynolds 0553574302 Eric 0 to-read 3.66 1997 The Chalice and the Blade (Chalice Trilogy, #1)
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<![CDATA[Barbarian Outcast (Princesses of the Ironbound, #1)]]> 50519479 The lands to the South are full of depraved women driven mad by forbidden sorcery. Now that sounds like fun for a barbarian from the Black Wolf Clan.The barbarians of the frozen north live to fight, drink, hunt, and screw, and Ymir is a true son of the Ax Tundra, until a demon curses him with magic. Orphaned by battle and banished by his tribe, Ymir heads south to Old Ironbound, a university where the rich and well-connected learn to master magic. Will Ymir’s traditions and pride lead him to failure? Or will the centuries of knowledge—and the lusty human, elven, orcish, and dwarven noblewomen—give him limitless power?

Either way, while his days are all about studying and scheming, his nights are filled with wild sex in the beds of beautiful women. Because in the lands of the South, there are few men, and those Southern women have needs.

Barbarian Outcast is a steamy slice-of-life harem adventure in a magic university on another world. The sex scenes are explicit but don’t get in the way of the story as it slowly unfolds. Enter a brand-new world from Aaron Crash, the bestselling author of the American Dragon series.]]>
395 Aaron Crash Eric 0 to-read 4.16 Barbarian Outcast (Princesses of the Ironbound, #1)
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Troll: A Love Story 100485
Angel begins researching frantically. Angel searches the Internet, folklore, nature journals, and newspaper clippings, but his research doesn't tell him that trolls exude pheromones that have a profound aphrodisiac effect on all those around him. As Angel's life changes beyond recognition, it becomes clear that the troll is familiar with the man's most forbidden feelings, and that it may take him across lines he never thought he'd cross. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, peculiar, and beguiling story of nature and man's relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.]]>
278 Johanna Sinisalo 0802141293 Eric 0 to-read 3.53 2000 Troll: A Love Story
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<![CDATA[The Gladiator's Downfall (Age of the Andinna, #1)]]> 42109975 Mave knows where she stands in life.

She’s an Andinna. A member of the winged, horned, and tailed warrior race that the Elvasi Empire defeated in the Hundred Year War and then enslaved. She’s a slave, and has been one for a thousand years, the personal property of the Empress of the Elvasi Empire, since the end of the War. She’s a gladiator, thrown onto the sands of the Colosseum to die, though it backfired on those who wanted her dead. She’s the Champion of the Colosseum, and has been for roughly nine hundred years.

All of these things have marked her as an outcast among her own people. Hated, distrusted, and despised, she knows the name of her people, but not much else.

But she knows where she stands. Keeping her head down and her blades sharp has carried her this far, and she refuses to acknowledge the deepest wishes she holds in her heart. Those will only get her killed.

Alone, she’s stood against everything they have ever thrown at her, refusing to give them what they want.

What Mave doesn’t know is that it’s all about to change.


The Gladiator’s Downfall is a 129,000+, full-length novel.
Age of the Andinna is a reverse harem epic fantasy series. The female lead will collect her lovers as the series progresses.
There is triggering content in this series including but not limited to: abuse, violence, mature language, and sexual content. It’s recommended for mature audiences.
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432 Kristen Banet Eric 0 to-read 4.27 2018 The Gladiator's Downfall (Age of the Andinna, #1)
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<![CDATA[Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1)]]> 50607309 “All magic is beautiful,� she said, “and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, or the terror in mine? You can stop a heart, and I can stop your breath.�

She is heir to a Sultanate that once ruled the world. He is an unwanted prince with the power to destroy.

She is order and intellect, a woman fit to rule in a man's place. He is chaos and violence and will stop at nothing to protect his people.

His magic answers hers with shadow for light. They need each other, but the cost of balance may be too high a price. Magic is dying and the only way to save it is to enlist mages who wield the forbidden power of death, mages cast out centuries ago in a brutal and bloody war.

Now, a new war is coming. Science and machines to replace magic and old religion.

They must find a way to save their people from annihilation and balance the sacred Wheel—but first, they will have to balance their own forbidden passion. His peace for her tempest, his restlessness for her calm�

Night and day, dusk and dawn, the end, and the beginning. ]]>
420 J.D. Evans 1951607015 Eric 0 to-read 4.17 2020 Reign & Ruin (Mages of the Wheel, #1)
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The War of Powers 757924
Except that the parcel was a jug containing a genie called Erimines the Ethical, who knew the secret of immortality but was actually more interested in sex after being bottled up on his own for more than 1,400 years.

Except that the wizard to whom the package was addressed turned out to be dead on arrival - murdered - and Fost Longstrider, courier, looked likely to go the same way.

Just the start of a huge sprawling fantasy saga, studded with helter-skelter chases, beautiful bandits, floating sky cities, a super-intelligent war eagle and demonic powers - an epic of high adventure and all-action imagination.]]>
457 0450056619 Eric 0 to-read 3.82 1984 The War of Powers
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<![CDATA[Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #3)]]> 125926 448 Kelley Armstrong 0553590154 Eric 0 to-read 4.08 2004 Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #3)
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<![CDATA[Throne in the Dark (Villains & Virtues, #1)]]> 62232755
Dark lord
Demon spawn
Prophesied realm destroyer

With a demon for a father, Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne’s destiny could be nothing but nefarious, and with the completion of his most vicious spell, Damien is on the cusp of fulfilling the evil inevitability all of his dark machinations have led to.

And then, her.

Bubbly
Obnoxious
Blonde

Harboring secrets of her own, a tiny yet troublesome thief calling herself Amma completely upsets Damien’s malevolent plans when she mistakenly gets chained to his side through magic, forcing him to drag her across the realm. Killing her would fix things, of course, but the nauseatingly sweet Amma proves herself useful on Damien's unholy crusade and then proves herself the source of something even more sinister: feelings.

Will Damien be forced to abandon his villainous birthright to help the tender thorn in his side? Or will he manage to overcome the virtue Amma insists on inspiring and instead cut it out at the heart?]]>
459 A.K. Caggiano Eric 0 to-read 4.11 2022 Throne in the Dark (Villains & Virtues, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)]]> 38352077
What could possibly go wrong?

In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. But the secrets they're keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the chance...]]>
370 T. Kingfisher Eric 0 to-read 4.21 2018 The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)
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<![CDATA[Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)]]> 36618062
If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.]]>
230 T. Kingfisher Eric 0 to-read 4.15 2017 Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
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<![CDATA[Dawnbringer (The Blade of Highwind #3)]]> 180162211
We saved an amazon warrior from demonic possession, defeated a Senosi Huntress before she could go on a killing spree, and spent every spare moment along the way tumbling beneath the sheets. All that's left now is to stop an undead army from destroying the city.

Honestly? It almost sounds too easy.

Dawnbringer is the third and final installment in the Blade of Highwind trilogy, an action-packed swashbuckling romance written for men...but secretly enjoyed by women!]]>
380 Sarah Hawke Eric 0 to-read 4.38 Dawnbringer (The Blade of Highwind #3)
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<![CDATA[Demonbound (The Blade of Highwind #2)]]> 60859677
But now, thanks to me, she’s tied up on a pirate ship headed for the Crell Imperium. If I can’t figure out a way to save her, I’ll never forgive myself.

And even if I do somehow manage to rescue her, Vorsalos might already be doomed. There’s an undead army out there waiting to raze the city, not to mention a powerful demon possessing the body of a young amazon warrior. In a few days, the legendary City of Ravens might be little more than a smoldering ruin - and the site of the greatest demonic infestation in generations.

My only hope is to save Shayera and then pray that her elven tattoos can help us free the amazon from the demon’s grasp. That poor girl may be the key to ending the Senosi Crusade once and for all…]]>
306 Sarah Hawke Eric 0 to-read 4.49 Demonbound (The Blade of Highwind #2)
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<![CDATA[The Blade of Highwind (The Blade of Highwind #1)]]> 59926704
Shayera Starwind is destined for greatness—or so everyone keeps telling her. The daughter of Highlord Cassel and Queen Serrane, she has spent her whole life in the shadow of her heroic parents and their legendary adventures. But now the impetuous half-elf yearns to carve her own path.

Her journey begins in Vorsalos, the infamous den of pirates and smugglers. Twenty years ago, the Dragon of Highwind and his companions liberated the city from the clutches of the fanatical Inquisitrix and her army of mage-slaying huntresses, but darkness has returned to the great coastal port. A new but familiar enemy schemes to bring the City of Ravens to heel—and in the process, conquer Highwind and undo everything the dragon and Shayera’s parents have accomplished.

With the aid of a charming, mysterious sorcerer, Shayera must put her dueling skills to the test against an old adversary from beyond the grave. Her first adventure may prove to be her last, even as she discovers that she has inherited more of her mother’s prowess—and kinks—than she realizes.]]>
252 Sarah Hawke Eric 0 to-read 4.27 The Blade of Highwind (The Blade of Highwind #1)
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Thor (1966-1996) #362 30640178 23 Walter Simonson Eric 3 4.25 1985 Thor (1966-1996) #362
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<![CDATA[The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps]]> 391661 The Pink Triangle (and Martin Sherman's play Bent) have illuminated this nearly lost history. Heinz Heger's first-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle, was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important.

In 1939, Heger, a Viennese university student, was arrested and sentenced to prison for being a "degenerate." Within weeks he was transported to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in East Germany, and forced to wear a pink triangle to show that his crime was homosexuality. He remained there, under horrific conditions, until the end of the war in 1945. The power of The Men with the Pink Triangle comes from Heger's sparse prose and his ability to recall--and communicate--the smallest resonant details. The pain and squalor of everyday camp life--the constant filth, the continuous presence of death, and the unimaginable cruelty of those in command--are all here. But Heger's story would be unbearable were it not for the simple courage he and others used to survive and, having survived, that he bore witness. This book is harrowing but necessary reading for everyone concerned about gay history, human rights, or social justice. --Michael Bronski

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120 Heinz Heger 1555830064 Eric 0 to-read 4.34 1972 The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
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Machete Season 189296 272 Jean Hatzfeld 0312425031 Eric 0 to-read 4.02 2003 Machete Season
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<![CDATA[Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #589]]> 39892768 25 Fred Van Lente Eric 3 3.50 Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #589
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Gravity's Rainbow 27197 Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

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887 Thomas Pynchon 0553102710 Eric 0 to-read 4.02 1973 Gravity's Rainbow
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<![CDATA[The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World]]> 53054943 The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.]]>
320 Vincent Bevins 1541742400 Eric 0 to-read 4.62 2020 The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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<![CDATA[The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America]]> 203047226 From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade and the consequences for women, abortion, and the future of America.

In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation’s landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe was synonymous with women’s rights and freedoms. Then, suddenly, it was gone.

In their groundbreaking book The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer reveal the explosive inside story of how it happened. Their investigation charts the shocking political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself.

Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory � and motivated by a spiritual mission � a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.]]>
448 Elizabeth Dias 1250881390 Eric 0 to-read 4.54 2024 The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
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War's Unwomanly Face 4025275 247 Svetlana Alexievich 5010004941 Eric 0 to-read 4.50 1983 War's Unwomanly Face
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<![CDATA[Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War]]> 5586087 Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term “Zinky Boys�), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the harsh realities of war.]]> 220 Svetlana Alexievich 0393336867 Eric 0 to-read 4.25 1989 Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
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Blade #3 42268857 24 Don McGregor Eric 2 2.33 Blade #3
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Blade #2 42268849 23 Don McGregor Eric 2 2.67 Blade #2
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<![CDATA[Incredible Hulk (1962-1999) #312]]> 31223140 27 Bill Mantlo Eric 3 4.17 Incredible Hulk (1962-1999) #312
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<![CDATA[Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998) Annual #11]]> 28416199 35 Bill Mantlo Eric 2 2.90 Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998) Annual #11
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Blade #1 42268862 22 Don McGregor Eric 3 3.17 Blade #1
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Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir 63249742
Pedro Martín has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legendary crime-fighting, grandfather who was once a part of the Mexican Revolution!But that doesn't mean Pedro is excited at the news that Abuelito is coming to live with their family. After all, Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the trip of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache. Along the way, Pedro finally connects with his abuelito and learns what it means to grow up and find his grito.]]>
320 Pedro Martín 0593462289 Eric 0 to-read 4.21 2023 Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
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<![CDATA[American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin]]> 31688
Vautrin, who came to be known in China as the "Living Goddess" or the "Goddess of Mercy," joined the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and went to China during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution in 1912. As dean of studies at Ginling College in Nanking, she devoted her life to promoting Chinese women's education and to helping the poor.

At the outbreak of the war in July 1937, Vautrin defied the American embassy's order to evacuate the city. After the fall of Nanking in December, Japanese soldiers went on a rampage of killing, burning, looting, rape, and torture, rapidly reducing the city to a hell on earth. On the fourth day of the occupation, Minnie Vautrin wrote in her diary: "There probably is no crime that has not been committed in this city today. . . . Oh, God, control the cruel beastliness of the soldiers in Nanking."

When the Japanese soldiers ordered Vautrin to leave the campus, she replied: "This is my home. I cannot leave." Facing down the blood-stained bayonets constantly waved in her face, Vautrin shielded the desperate Chinese who sought asylum behind the gates of the college. Vautrin exhausted herself defying the Japanese army and caring for the refugees after the siege ended in March 1938. She even helped the women locate husbands and sons who had been taken away by the Japanese soldiers. She taught destitute widows the skills required to make a meager living and provided the best education her limited sources would allow to the children in desecrated Nanking.

Finally suffering a nervous breakdown in 1940, Vautrin returned to the United States for medical treatment. One year later, she ended her own life. She considered herself a failure.

Hu bases her biography on Vautrin's correspondence between 1919 and 1941 and on her diary, maintained during the entire siege, as well as on Chinese, Japanese, and American eyewitness accounts, government documents, and interviews with Vautrin's family.]]>
232 Hua-Ling Hu 0809323869 Eric 0 to-read 4.19 2000 American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin
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<![CDATA[Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Seven Wives Club]]> 59069827 24 Mike Mignola Eric 3 4.00 2020 Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Seven Wives Club
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average rating: 4.00
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Fire on the Mountain 166902 167 Terry Bisson 0380753693 Eric 0 to-read 3.87 1988 Fire on the Mountain
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<![CDATA[Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)]]> 30223025
But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.]]>
455 Justina Ireland 0062570609 Eric 0 to-read 4.12 2018 Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
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Five Ways to Forgiveness 36366224 Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked Hainish stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system

Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published as Four Ways to Forgiveness, and now joined by a fifth story, Five Ways to Forgiveness focuses on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe—two worlds whose peoples, long known as “owners� and “assets,� together face an uncertain future after civil war and revolution.

In “Betrayals� a retired science teacher must make peace with her new neighbor, a disgraced revolutionary leader. In “Forgiveness Day,� a female official from the Ekumen arrives to survey the situation on Werel and struggles against its rigidly patriarchal culture. Embedded within “A Man of the People,� which describes the coming of age of Havzhiva, an Ekumen ambassador to Yeowe, is Le Guin’s most sustained description of the Ur-planet Hain. “A Woman’s Liberation� is the remarkable narrative of Rakam, born an asset on Werel, who must twice escape from slavery to freedom. Joined to them is “Old Music and the Slave Women,� in which the charismatic Hainish embassy worker, who appears in two of the four original stories, returns for a tale of his own. Of this capstone tale Le Guin has written, “the character called Old Music began to tell me a fifth tale about the latter days of the civil war . . . I’m glad to see it joined to the others at last.”]]>
288 Ursula K. Le Guin Eric 0 to-read 4.38 2017 Five Ways to Forgiveness
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<![CDATA[The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame, #1)]]> 310737 CAPTIVES OF SORCERY...
It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their various roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, or thief. But sorcerous gamemaster Professor Deighton had something else planned for this unsuspecting group of college students. And the "game" soon became a matter of life and death as the seven adventurers found themselves transported to an alternate world and into the bodies of the actual characters they had been pretending to be.

Cast into a land where magic worked all too well, dragons were a fire-breathing menace, and only those quick enough with a sword or their wits survived, the young gamers faced a terrible task. For the only way they would ever see Earth again was if they could find the legendary Gate Between Worlds - a place guarded by the most terrifying and deadly enemy of all....
THE SLEEPING DRAGON]]>
256 Joel Rosenberg 0451453506 Eric 0 to-read 3.98 1983 The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame, #1)
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You Like It Darker 201242757 From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,� writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,� and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastids� explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,� a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,� a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,� a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man� asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.]]>
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