.'s bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:21:55 -0700 60 .'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Why Socialism? 12007777 12 Albert Einstein . 0 to-read 4.15 1949 Why Socialism?
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]]> On Stranger Tides 15670 370 Tim Powers 1930235321 . 0 to-read 3.85 1987 On Stranger Tides
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)]]> 21611 278 Joe Haldeman . 0 to-read 4.14 1974 The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 20518872 472 Liu Cixin . 0 to-read 4.08 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Living Dead (The Living Dead, #1)]]> 3302568 A compilation of the best zombie literature of the past 30 years
Highlights works by today’s most well-known and respected authors of speculative fiction, horror, and fantasy

Zombies have invaded popular culture, from White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead and from Resident Evil to World War Z. They have become the monsters that best express the anxieties and fears of the modern west. This collection gathers together zombie works by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Poppy Z. Brite, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale. These brilliant minds, and The Living Dead, cover the many types of zombie fiction.Ěý

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes aĚýNew York TimesĚýbestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.]]> 504 John Joseph Adams 1597801437 . 0 to-read 3.86 2008 The Living Dead (The Living Dead, #1)
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]]> Mind's Eye 20824260 Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00HVGGH76.

When Nick Hall wakes up in a dumpster--bloodied, without a memory, and hearing voices in his head--he knows things are bad. But they're about to get far worse. Because he's being hunted by a team of relentless assassins. Soon Hall discovers that advanced electronics have been implanted in his brain, and he now has two astonishing abilities. He can surf the web using thoughts alone. And he can read minds. But who inserted the implants? And why? And why is someone so desperate to kill him?

As Hall races to find answers, he comes to learn that far more is at stake than just his life. Because his actions can either catapult civilization to new heights--or bring about its total collapse.

Extrapolated from actual research on thought-controlled web surfing, Mind's Eye is a smart, roller-coaster ride of a thriller. One that raises a number of intriguing, and sometimes chilling, possibilities about a future that is just around the corner.]]> 360 Douglas E. Richards . 0 to-read 3.87 2014 Mind's Eye
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 . 0 to-read 4.18 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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]]> All the Water in the World 211003759 In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.

All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.

Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most � love and work, community and knowledge � will survive.]]> 304 Eiren Caffall 1250353521 . 0 to-read 3.57 2025 All the Water in the World
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]]> Dreamsongs, Volume I 417729 Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.

Gathered here in Volume I are the very best of George R.R. Martin's early works, including never-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Award-winning stories plus the original novella The Ice Dragon, from which Martin's New York Times bestselling children's book of the same title originated. A dazzling array that features extensive author commentary, Dreamsongs, Volume I, is the perfect collection for both Martin devotees and a new generation of fans.

Contents:
- Introduction by Gardner Dozois
One: A Four-Color Fanboy (2003)
- Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark (1967)
- The Fortress (2003)
- And Death His Legacy (2003)
Two: The Filthy Pro (2003)
- The Hero (1971)
- The Exit to San Breta (1972)
- The Second Kind of Loneliness (1972)
- With Morning Comes Mistfall (1973)
Three: The Light of Distant Stars (2003)
- A Song for Lya (1974)
- The Stone City (1977)
- This Tower of Ashes (1976)
- And Seven Times Never Kill Man (1975)
- Bitterblooms (1977)
- The Way of Cross and Dragon (1979)
Four: The Heirs of Turtle Castle (2003)
- The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr (1976)
- The Ice Dragon (1980)
- In the Lost Lands (1982)
Five: Hybrids and Horrors (2003)
- Meathouse Man (1976)
- Remembering Melody (1981)
- Sandkings (1979)
- Nightflyers (1980)
- The Monkey Treatment (1983)
- The Pear-Shaped Man (1987)

]]> 683 George R.R. Martin 0553805452 . 0 to-read 3.96 2003 Dreamsongs, Volume I
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]]> The Ice Dragon 34896 Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara's home. And only a winter child--and the ice dragon who loved her--could save her world from utter destruction.
The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated children's book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world. Illustrated with lush, exquisitely detailed pencil drawings by acclaimed artist Yvonne Gilbert, The Ice Dragon is an unforgettable tale of courage, love, and sacrifice by one of the most honored fantasists of all time.]]> 112 George R.R. Martin 0765316315 . 0 to-read 3.76 1980 The Ice Dragon
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]]> The Eyes of the Dragon 28245250
Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written—a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets�.]]> 386 Stephen King 1501141198 . 0 to-read 4.22 1984 The Eyes of the Dragon
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]]> <![CDATA[Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)]]> 77197
Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.]]> 435 Robin Hobb 055357339X . 0 to-read 4.21 1995 Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 . 0 to-read 4.66 2010 The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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]]> Ex-Isle (Ex-Heroes, #5) 24726335
It’s been years since the tidal wave of ex-humans washed over the world. Since then, thanks to St George and his fellow heroes, the community known as the Mount has been the last known outpost of safety, sanity, and freedom left to humanity.

But even for the Mount, survival still balances on a razor’s edge—and after a disaster decimates the town’s food supply, the heroes must make a risky gamble to keep its citizens from starving.Ěý

And then the news arrives of a strange, man-made island in the middle of the Pacific. An island populated not just by survivors, but by people who seem to be farming, raising children, living� people who, like the heroes, have somehow managed to keep the spark of civilization alive.

Paying this place a visit should be a simple goodwill mission, but as the island reveals itself to be a sinister mirror-image of what the heroes have built at the Mount, the cost of their good intentions becomes dangerously high.]]> 389 Peter Clines 0553418319 . 0 to-read 3.95 2016 Ex-Isle (Ex-Heroes, #5)
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]]> Ex-Purgatory (Ex-Heroes, #4) 17612697
When the two realities start to merge, George begins to question if e’s gone mad. That, or something has gone terribly wrong...

The latest instalment in the Ex Series.]]> 352 Peter Clines 0091953650 . 0 to-read 3.95 2013 Ex-Purgatory (Ex-Heroes, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ex-Communication (Ex-Heroes, #3)]]> 17229633 “All of us try to cheat death.Ěý I was just better prepared to do it than most folks.â€�
Ěý
In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St George and his fellow heroes haven’t just kept Los Angeles� last humans alive—they’ve created a real community, a bustling town that’s spreading beyond its original walls and swelling with new refugees.
Ěý
But now one of the heroes, perhaps the most powerful among them, seems to be losing his mind.Ěý The implacable enemy known as Legion has found terrifying new ways of using zombies as pawns in his attacks.Ěý And outside the Mount, something ancient and monstrous is hell-bent on revenge.
Ěý
As Peter Clines weaves these elements together in yet another masterful, shocking climax, St. George, Stealth, Captain Freedom, and the rest of the heroes find that even in a city overrun by millions of ex-humans...
Ěý
…there’s more than one way to come back from the dead.
Ěý]]> 352 Peter Clines 0385346832 . 0 to-read 4.11 2013 Ex-Communication (Ex-Heroes, #3)
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]]> Ex-Patriots (Ex-Heroes, #2) 17162429 Ěý
Since then, the heroes have been fighting to give the Mount’s citizens hope, and something like a real life. But now supplies are growing scarce, the zombies are pressing in . . . and the heroes are wondering how much longer they can hold out.Ěý
Ěý
Then hope arrives in the form of a surviving US Army battalion--and not just any battalion. The men and women of the Army's Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created before mankind's fall to be better, stronger, faster than normal humans--and their secure base in Arizona beckons as a much needed refuge for the beleaguered heroes and their charges.
Ěý
But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power.Ěý]]> 405 Peter Clines 0804136599 . 0 to-read 4.05 2011 Ex-Patriots (Ex-Heroes, #2)
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]]> Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1) 3993839 421 Jonathan Maberry 0312382855 . 0 to-read 4.00 2009 Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)
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]]> Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1) 16479439
Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place.

Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Now, a year later, the heroes struggle to overcome their differences and recover from their own scars as they protect the thousands of survivors huddled in their film-studio-turned-fortress, the Mount.

But the hungry ex-humans are not the only threat the survivors face. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power.]]> 336 Peter Clines 0804136572 . 0 to-read 3.83 2010 Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation]]> 7571339
- How the original practice of shamanism shaped the world's spiritual traditions and why it is still relevant today

- The art of the shamanic journey--a time-tested meditative method for experiencing important spiritual lessons and truths

- Guidance for avoiding common pitfalls of shamanic practice

- Instruction for working with your dreams, connecting to your spirit guides, healing yourself and your environment

- A CD of drumming to facilitate your shamanic journeys]]> 360 Sandra Ingerman 1591797500 . 0 to-read 4.26 Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation
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]]> <![CDATA[A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)]]> 18635622 368 George R.R. Martin 0345533488 . 0 to-read 4.24 2015 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel]]> 18660684 The Hedge Knight graphic novel chronicles a young squire as he travels the cruel and complex path to knighthood in the Seven Kingdoms.

Shouldering his fallen master’s sword and shield, Duncan (or “Dunk") is determined to reinvent himself as a knight in a nearby tournament. But first Dunk needs a sponsor, and that requirement sends him down a road studded with friends, foes, adventure, and hidden agendas. One such friend is Egg, who becomes Dunk’s squire, yet even he may hold secret motivations of his own.

In this gripping prequel, Dunk and Egg seek glory in a world both familiar and new to Game of Thrones fans. What the two fortune seekers encounter, however, is a world of distrust and political machinations. Chivalry is not lost while Dunk holds fast to his dreams of honor. But such outdated virtues make him a target—and they may even lead to his ruin. This vivid and elaborately wrought tale brings new dimension to George R. R. Martin’s beloved world.

This edition includes fifteen pages of new supplemental material: sketches, character designs, and original pages by Mike. S. Miller, plus variant and original covers.

]]> 184 Ben Avery . 0 to-read 4.20 1998 The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones]]> 17345242 If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE.

George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with Elio M. GarcĂ­a, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros.

This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin’s dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords.]]> 326 George R.R. Martin 0553805444 . 0 to-read 4.25 2014 The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
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]]> There's Going to Be Trouble 186872535 A woman is pulled into a love affair with aĚýradical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel.

The course of your life can change with one split-second decision.

Minnow has always tried to lead the life her single father modeled—private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when an instinctive decision to help a student makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. As tensions rise, vandalism and death threats follow, and an overwhelmed Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris. There, Minnow falls into an exhilarating and all-consuming relationship with Charles, a youngĚýFrenchman whoseĚýactivism has placed him at odds with his powerful family. As Minnow is pulled into the daring protestĚýCharlesĚýand his friends are planning, she unknowingly draws close to repeating a secret tragedy from her family's past. For her father wasn’t always the restrained, conservative man he appears today. There are things he has taken great pains to bury from his family and from the world.Ěý

In 1968, Keen is avoiding the Vietnam draft by pursuing a PhD at Harvard. He lives his life in the basement chemistry lab, studiously avoiding the news. But when he unexpectedly falls in love with Olya, a fiery community organizer, he is consumed by her world and loses sight of his own. Learning that his deferment has ended and he’s been drafted, Keen agrees to participate in the latest action that Olya is organizing—one with more dangerous and far-reaching consequences than he could have imagined.Ěý

Minnow’s and Keen's intertwining stories take us through the turmoil of the late sixties student movements and into the chaos of the modern world. Exploding with suspense, heart, and intelligence, There's Going to Be Trouble is a story about revolution, legacy, passionate love, and how we live with the consequences of our darkest secrets.]]> 320 Jen Silverman 0593448359 . 0 to-read 3.82 2024 There's Going to Be Trouble
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]]> The Iliad 77265004 848 Homer 1324001801 . 0 to-read 4.09 -800 The Iliad
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]]> Don Quixote 3836
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."]]> 1023 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . 0 to-read 3.86 1615 Don Quixote
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse . 0 to-read 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
author: Hermann Hesse
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt]]> 226526

This book examines the evolution, worship, and eventual decline of the numerous gods and goddesses—from minor household figures such as Bes and Tawaret to the all-powerful deities Amun and Re—that made Egypt the most theocratic society of the ancient world, and made Egyptians, according to Herodotus, “more religious than any other people.�


Now available in paperback, with hundreds of illustrations and specially commissioned drawings, this title remains the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society.]]> 256 Richard H. Wilkinson 0500051208 . 0 to-read 4.25 The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One: Volume 1]]> 40190203
For thousands of years those of Ra have sought to teach the Law of One to seekers of truth on Earth who wished to learn of the unity or oneness of all things. This basic law of all creation is buried deep within each of our hearts because we really are one in love and in light, the building blocks of the universe. We are all manifestations of the One Infinite Creator. We are the Creator. We are not learning this law for the first time but are remembering it yet again as all mystics have taught throughout Earth’s history. Our journey of self-realization is the discovery or remembrance of this essential truth, our essential identity. A waking up, as some have called it, within an illusion of separation.

Don Elkins and Carla L. Rueckert worked together for 12 years to perfect the channeling process and receive philosophical inspiration and guidance from extraterrestrial sources. When Jim McCarty joined them in 1980 they began to receive a new and unique type of channeling contact from those of Ra. Through this contact, Ra shared information to help seekers of truth deepen their awareness and acceptance of self and other, and to help Earth move into the emerging fourth density of love and understanding.

This book is the transcript from the recording of that conversation between the Questioner and Ra. Through questions & answers, the metaphysical blueprint of spiritual evolution is explored, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from the particulars of life on this planet to the life of the cosmos, to the possibilities of healing, transformation, and self-realization for spiritual seekers and wanderers.

* * * * * * * * *

The Ra Teaching the Law of One Volume 1 contains Ra contact sessions 1�56.]]> 770 Donald Tully Elkins 164356000X . 0 to-read 4.50 2018 The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One: Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt]]> 19500064
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her inconceivable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of king in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular twenty-two year reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays with the veil of piety and sexual expression. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut had to shrewdly operate the levers of a patriarchal system to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh.

Hatshepsut had successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific building periods. Scholars have long speculated as to why her images were destroyed within a few decades of her death, all but erasing evidence of her rule. Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power—and why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power.]]> 298 Kara Cooney 0307956768 . 0 to-read 3.63 2014 The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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]]> River God (Ancient Egypt, #1) 429138 664 Wilbur Smith 0312954468 . 0 to-read 4.21 1993 River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 . 0 to-read 4.29 2015 Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 . 0 to-read 4.26 1989 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
author: Dan Simmons
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]]> I Cheerfully Refuse 198276006 I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician setting sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. An endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, he seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. After encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, he eventually lands to find an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, a crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. As his guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his wake.]]> 336 Leif Enger 0802162932 . 0 to-read 3.96 2024 I Cheerfully Refuse
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]]> <![CDATA[Extinction (Cash & Colcord #1)]]> 65213662 370 Douglas Preston 0765317702 . 0 to-read 3.88 2024 Extinction (Cash & Colcord #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings]]> 391729
-The Tell-Tale Heart
-The Black Cat
-The Cask of Amontillado
-The Fall of the House of Usher
-The Masque of the Red Death
-The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
-Ligeia
-The Murders in the Rue Morgue
-The Purloined Letter
-A Descent into the Maelstrom
-The Pit and the Pendulum
-Ms. Found in a Bottle
-The Premature Burial
-William Wilson
-Eleonara
-Silence-A Fable
-The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems:

-Stanzas
-Romance
-To Helen
-Israfel
-The City in the Sea
-The Sleeper
-The Valley of Unrest
-Lenore
-The Raven
-A Valentine
-Ulanume-A Ballad
-For Annie
-Annabel Lee
-The Bells
-Alone]]> 448 Edgar Allan Poe 0553212281 . 0 to-read 4.19 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok]]> 35546041 184 Jackson Crawford 1624666337 . 0 to-read 4.17 1200 The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok
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]]> <![CDATA[The Remaining (The Remaining, #1)]]> 13431827
To Rescue and Rebuild.]]> 220 D.J. Molles . 0 to-read 4.12 2012 The Remaining (The Remaining, #1)
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]]> Omega Days (Omega Days, #1) 17436799
Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!]]> 293 John L. Campbell . 0 to-read 3.86 2013 Omega Days (Omega Days, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)]]> 36510196
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.]]> 318 John Scalzi . 0 to-read 4.25 2005 Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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]]> Upgrade 59838811 You are the next step in human evolution.

At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.

The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.

Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.]]> 352 Blake Crouch 0593157532 . 0 to-read 3.77 2022 Upgrade
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]]> <![CDATA[How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)]]> 151908910 New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse series.

Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime—several lifetimes in fact—duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future. Yet for Roy, no matter how many of him there are, there’s still just one painful, unchangeable past. In what world can a broken relationship be reborn? The universe is so vast, there’s always room for hope.

James S. A. Corey’s How It Unfolds is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.]]> 38 James S.A. Corey 1662515723 . 0 to-read 3.99 2023 How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ghost Run (Day by Day Armageddon, #4)]]> 27274376 Day by Day Armageddon and Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile, for fans of the smash hit show The Walking Dead.

In a desperate bid to survive as hordes of bloodthirsty undead now dominate the ravaged U.S. population, a Navy commander discovers an incredible secret about the pandemic in this fourth novel in the acclaimed Day by Day Armageddon series.

Task Force Phoenix may be humanity’s final hope, and the narrator's agonizing decisions could mean living one more day—or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.

Ghost Run is a suspenseful, gripping, and intelligent thriller that will terrify die-hard horror fans and reinforce J.L. Bourne’s reputation as “the new king of hardcore zombie action� (Brad Thor, author of Act of War).]]> 256 J.L. Bourne 1501116711 . 0 to-read 4.05 2016 Ghost Run (Day by Day Armageddon, #4)
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]]> Outbreak 44321644 The end of the world was the beginning of his nightmare...

His father was dying. The Outbreak had killed everyone else. Kip Garrity has one last chance to save the only family he has left: leave his fortified home for the first time in years and find medicine in a broken world where everything is trying to kill him.

Armed with guns, tools, and knowledge passed down from his Green Beret father, Kip never expects to find a girl he never forgot. Alive and on a mission of her own, she agrees to work together so they can have a chance at survival—if only they can find a way to get along.

But a psychopath and his bloodthirsty band of raiders have other plans. Caught in their web, surrounded by an incoming zombie horde, Kip will have to act fast. He has a plan so crazy it might work, or it might fail and cost him the lives of everyone he loves—and maybe even his soul.]]> 170 Richard Denoncourt . 0 to-read 3.95 2014 Outbreak
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]]> The Collapse (Aftermath #0) 58753244
Karen Gallagher is a mother, a wife, and a scientist, and her past is catching up to her. As the world falls victim to a viral pandemic, Karen struggles to keep her daughter safe, forced to turn to the people who burned her all while harboring an awful secret.

-----

Modern science is meant to progress humanity, and scientists dare to cross boundaries seemingly impassable, but when Anne White's unethical and immoral experiment to cure the incurable goes awry and is shut down, Clinical Pathologist Frank Eastman secretly takes the project into his own hands, accidentally releasing a bioengineered chimera virus that not only spreads like wildfire and kills its victims, it reanimates them, turning them into voracious flesh-eating husks of their former selves.

Karen Gallagher only wants to do right by her family, and when horrible news and videos air of crazed people attacking others, her husband convinces her they have nothing to worry about, but what else is she supposed to think when a man who was shot multiple times gets up, unfazed by his wounds, to attack the officers who gunned him down? Karen knows all too well there's more to this story, and her only goal now is to keep her seven-year-old daughter safe.

Told from dual perspectives, The Collapse follows the how of a zombie outbreak, taking you on a heart-wrenching journey of familial love.]]> 94 Alice B. Sullivan . 0 to-read 4.03 The Collapse (Aftermath #0)
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]]> Raising Stony Mayhall 9466865
The family hides the child � whom they name Stony � rather than turn him over to authorities that would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a secret � until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run and he learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.]]> 403 Daryl Gregory 0345522370 . 0 to-read 3.83 2011 Raising Stony Mayhall
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]> 7082 244 Philip K. Dick . 0 to-read 4.08 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[When Monsters Love (The Monsters Among Us #3)]]> 114422758 It's time to trick a bunch of celestials.
It's time to lie.

Rue's journey continues in When Monsters Love. There's action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance.]]> 274 Debbie Cassidy . 0 to-read 4.34 2023 When Monsters Love (The Monsters Among Us #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[When Monsters Bleed (The Monsters Among Us, #2)]]> 61922878 The only constant are the four Monsters keeping me and my people safe.
Nothing else is certain.
No path is clear. So what do we do?
We forge our own.

Action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance.]]> 225 Debbie Cassidy . 0 to-read 4.26 2023 When Monsters Bleed (The Monsters Among Us, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[When Monsters Lie (The Monsters Among Us #1)]]> 59738828 The world went to shit the day I was born.

They say fire rained from the sky for seven days signalling the arrival of the monsters.

They say humanity fought hard to beat them.

They say the celestials saved us.

They say a lot of things.

Me? I deal in the present. In scouting for useful things and keeping my team alive outside the protective walls of our base. I might not have a fancy monster-killing blade like the Sweepers do, but I’ve avoided getting my face eaten off so far, so I call that a win.

But when my base is taken by monsters, my scout skills are the only thing standing between imminent demise and survival.

Sanctuary lies across the deadlands—monster infested territory, unmapped and uncharted even by the celestials. It’s the only route, and I have no choice but to navigate my people through it.

I’m a scout, a survivor. I got this.

Until I haven’t.

The last thing I expect is to be relying on three monsters for protection. But fate obviously has a sense of humor. Shemyaza and his scouts are intelligent, deathly, and lethal, and turns out they’re the only ones who can lead us to safety.

Only problem is, their aid comes with a hefty price.

Me.

Action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance.]]> 230 Debbie Cassidy . 0 to-read 4.22 2022 When Monsters Lie (The Monsters Among Us #1)
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]]> Zone One 10365343
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning� stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.

Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.

And then things start to go wrong.

Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril­liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.]]> 259 Colson Whitehead 0385528078 . 0 to-read 3.23 2011 Zone One
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]]> Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4) 13424356 In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.

Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future. With Chong hovering between life and death, clinging to his humanity by a thread, Benny makes a startling discovery: A scientist may have discovered a cure for the zombie plague. Desperate to save Chong, Benny and his friends mount a search and rescue mission. But they're not the only ones on the hunt. The reapers are after the cure too, and they want to use it turn all the zombies into superfast shock troops and wipe humanity off the face of the earth.

In this riveting conclusion to the Rot & Ruin series, the battle to end all battles is just beginning.]]> 537 Jonathan Maberry 1442439920 . 0 to-read 4.34 Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin, #4)
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]]> Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin, #3) 13147460
Finding it is their best hope for having a future and a life worth living. But the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. Fierce animals hunt them. They come face to face with a death cult. And then there' s the zombies - swarms of them coming from the east, devouring everything in their paths. And these zoms are different.

Faster, smarter, and infinitely more dangerous. Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead? One thing Benny and his companions can' t afford to In the great Rot & Ruin, everything wants to kill you.]]> 469 Jonathan Maberry 1442439890 . 0 to-read 4.21 2012 Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin, #3)
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]]> Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin, #2) 9917998
Sounds easy. Sounds wonderful. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. But as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland –where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Worst of all� could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive?

In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Everything…and not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will make it out alive.]]> 519 Jonathan Maberry 1442402350 . 0 to-read 4.28 2011 Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin, #2)
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]]> Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1) 7157310 458 Jonathan Maberry 1442402326 . 0 to-read 4.10 2010 Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life]]> 22632287 272 Sandra Ingerman 1622034287 . 0 to-read 4.40 2015 Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of a Shamanic Life
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]]> Feed (Newsflesh, #1) 7094569
The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected.

The truth will get out, even if it kills them.]]> 599 Mira Grant 0316081051 . 0 to-read 3.85 2010 Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
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]]> Shamanic Journeying 900299 80 Sandra Ingerman 1591791510 . 0 to-read 4.16 2003 Shamanic Journeying
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1)]]> 11970747 85 George R.R. Martin . 0 to-read 4.29 1998 The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1)
author: George R.R. Martin
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Exile (Day by Day Armageddon, #2)]]> 7296271 Day by Day Armageddon—for fans of The Walking Dead. "J.L. Bourne is the new king of hardcore zombie action!" (Brad Thor)

Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.

Survivor,

Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation—and the will to survive—as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.

But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?]]> 277 J.L. Bourne 143917752X . 4 4.09 2010 Beyond Exile (Day by Day Armageddon, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon, #3)]]> 10825907
Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.

INTERCEPT COMPLETE

Survivor,Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation—and the will to survive—as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle surviving enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?]]> 336 J.L. Bourne 1451628811 . 2 3.72 2012 Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon, #3)
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average rating: 3.72
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rating: 2
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]]> The Silmarillion 7332 386 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618391118 . 0 to-read 3.99 1977 The Silmarillion
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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]]> Project Hail Mary 54493401
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 . 0 to-read 4.49 2021 Project Hail Mary
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average rating: 4.49
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)]]> 39943621
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.

With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.]]> 706 George R.R. Martin 152479628X . 0 to-read 4.03 2018 Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
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]]> The Living Dead 52379448 It begins with one body.

A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t stay dead.

It spreads quickly.

In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.

Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.

We think we know how this story ends.

We. Are. Wrong.]]> 656 George A. Romero 1250305128 . 0 to-read 3.78 2020 The Living Dead
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]]> <![CDATA[Mountain Man (Mountain Man #1)]]> 13254665 A man must survive the zombie apocalypse armed with only a shotgun, a Samurai bat, and the will to live among the unliving in this horror series debut. It’s been two years since civilization ended in an unstoppable wave of chaos and blood. Now, former house painter Augustus “Gus� Berry lives a day-to-day existence of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable moment when “they� will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress.Living on the outskirts of Annapolis, Gus goes scavenging for whatever supplies remain in the undead suburbia below. Every time he descends the mountain could be his last. But when Gus encounters another survivor, he soon realizes the zombie horde may not be the greatest threat he faces . . .Combining heart-pounding action in a frozen dystopia with complex characters and dark humor, Mountain Man kicks off Keith C. Blackmore’s thrilling survival series—perfect for fans of HBO’s The Last of Us.]]> 228 Keith C. Blackmore . 0 to-read 4.04 2011 Mountain Man (Mountain Man #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)]]> 17235026
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.

The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.]]> 461 M.R. Carey 0356500152 . 0 to-read 3.94 2014 The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)]]> 12591698
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .]]> 624 James S.A. Corey 1841499900 . 3 4.36 2012 Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
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]]> Zero Day (Slow Burn, #1) 18633274
Zed needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom’s house for a lunch of begging, again.

But something is wrong. There's blood in the foyer. His mother's corpse is on the living room floor. Zed's stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan's yellow teeth tear at Zed's arm but Zed grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.

With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.]]> 248 Bobby Adair . 0 to-read 3.93 2013 Zero Day (Slow Burn, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)]]> 10869746

In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it’s forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople’s amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him. The Governor was voted “Villain of the Year� by Wizard magazine the year he debuted, and his story arc was the most controversial in the history of the Walking Dead comic book series. Now, for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.]]> 308 Robert Kirkman 0312547730 . 4 3.90 2011 Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon, #1)]]> 74821 260 J.L. Bourne 1411608313 . 4 4.03 2004 Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)]]> 8855321
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

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

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.]]> 592 James S.A. Corey 1841499889 . 5 4.30 2011 Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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]]> The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills � and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit � he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 . 5 4.41 2011 The Martian
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]]> The Long Ships 438452 478 Frans G. Bengtsson 000612609X . 0 to-read 4.26 1941 The Long Ships
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]]> Tales of Norse Mythology 34606688 464 Hélène A. Guerber 1435164989 . 0 to-read 3.91 1895 Tales of Norse Mythology
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]]> <![CDATA[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West]]> 76401 The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.]]> 509 Dee Brown 0805066691 . 0 to-read 4.24 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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]]> The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok 7090924 122 Anonymous 0578021382 . 0 to-read 3.95 1400 The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok
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]]> <![CDATA[To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)]]> 48829708 move.

As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.

While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...]]> 880 Christopher Paolini 1250762847 . 0 to-read 3.77 2020 To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Shattered Light (Requiem Dark, #1)]]> 53962017
As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister’s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming—including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister’s digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. hunting her, Asa’s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem.

Gun-slinging smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem’s underworld hierarchy. A runaway rich girl is exactly the bounty Riven needs—until a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa’s wake, causing a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. To get the payout for Asa and save Requiem from the monster in its circuits, Riven must team up with her captive.

Riven breaks skulls the way Asa breaks circuits, but their opponent is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. The A.I. exploits the girls� darkest memories and deepest secrets, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance they’re both depending on. As one of Requiem’s 154-hour nights grows darker, the girls must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other before Riven’s city and Asa’s sister are snuffed out forever.]]> 400 Claire Winn 1635830710 . 0 to-read 3.76 2021 City of Shattered Light (Requiem Dark, #1)
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]]> The Stand 149267 For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.]]> 1152 Stephen King . 0 to-read 4.35 1978 The Stand
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Stories and Poems]]> 23919 821 Edgar Allan Poe 0385074077 . 0 to-read 4.39 1849 The Complete Stories and Poems
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]]> The Tomb and Other Tales 68843 190 H.P. Lovecraft 0345336615 . 0 to-read 4.25 1965 The Tomb and Other Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories]]> 160149 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King.

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.]]> 420 H.P. Lovecraft 0141182342 . 0 to-read 4.21 1928 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Book of the Dead (Book of the Dead, #1)]]> 208161 Book by 334 John Skipp 0929480082 . 0 to-read 4.10 1989 Book of the Dead (Book of the Dead, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)]]> 761023
Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty.

The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive Barker for many years to come. This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and "In the Hills, the Cities."]]> 210 Clive Barker 0425083896 . 0 to-read 4.06 1984 Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores]]> 37647551 From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the people celebrate festas to ease their saudade, a longing so deep that the Portuguese word for it can’t be fully translated.

Years later, California is in a terrible drought, the wildfires seem to never end, and Diana finds herself still dreaming of those islands and the chuva—a rain so soft you don’t notice when it begins or ends.

With her troublesome Labrador retriever, Murphy, in tow, Diana returns to the islands of her dreams only to discover that there are still things she longs for—and one of them may be a most unexpected love.]]> 252 Diana Marcum 1503941329 . 0 to-read 3.52 2018 The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
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]]> Heart of Darkness 4900
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]> 188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 . 0 to-read 3.43 1899 Heart of Darkness
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]]> I'll Be Gone in the Dark 35271190
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

"You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark."

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." McNamara pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.

At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by McNamara's lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.]]> 328 Michelle McNamara . 0 to-read 4.10 2018 I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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]]> Wonderblood 34964829 It's 500 years in the future, and a mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA's space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice.

When traveling marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a young girl named Aurora is taken captive as his bride and forced to join his band on their journey to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must decide if she is willing to become her captor's queen. But then other queens emerge, some grotesque and others aggrieved, and not all are pleased with the girl's ascent. Politics and survival are at the centre of this ravishing novel.]]> 285 Julia Whicker 1250066069 . 0 to-read 2.96 2018 Wonderblood
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]]> <![CDATA[One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand]]> 12117
Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly informs him that his nose tilts to the right; suddenly he realizes that ``for others I was not what till now, privately, I had imagined myself to be,'' and that, consequently, his identity is evanescent, based purely on the shifting perceptions of those around him. Thus he is simultaneously without a self--``no one''--and the theater for myriad selves--``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane.

It is Pirandello's genius that a discussion of the fundamental human inability to communicate, of our essential solitariness, and of the inescapable restriction of our free will elicits such thoroughly sustained and earthy laughter.]]> 174 Luigi Pirandello 0941419746 . 0 to-read 4.14 1925 One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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]]> Red Hope (Red Hope, #1) 36324854
Aliens exist... and the Mars Curiosity rover just discovered their bones. The first manned mission is rushed. Corners are cut. Adventure. Betrayal. Disaster. Surprise.

Retired astronaut Adam Alston can't support his family. When NASA comes knocking for a mission leader, it's a match made in heaven - especially since their A-list team declined the haphazard mission. And so did their B-list. But Adam doesn't know that. And neither does his family.

Ride along as four modern-day astronauts prepare and launch a quickly assembled adventure to discover what the Mars Curiosity Rover found right before it died. With time running out, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of four doomed travelers.

Who will make it back... and why won't the others?

Note: This book is not hard scifi and contains a technology based on speculative science.]]> 250 John Dreese . 0 to-read 3.36 2014 Red Hope (Red Hope, #1)
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]]> Lord of the Flies 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 . 0 to-read 3.70 1954 Lord of the Flies
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]]> Animal Farm 7613
The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals � inspired by his philosophy of Animalism � plot a rebellion against Jones.

Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, prove themselves important figures and planners of this dangerous enterprise. When Jones forgets to feed the animals, the revolution occurs, and Jones and his men are chased off the farm. Manor Farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the Seven Commandments of Animalism are painted on the barn wall...]]> 129 George Orwell . 0 to-read 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell . 0 to-read 4.15 1949 1984
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]]> Norse Mythology 30809689 Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales.

In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.

Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor's hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman—difficult with his beard and huge appetite—to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir—the most sagacious of gods—is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.

Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.]]> 299 Neil Gaiman 039360909X . 0 to-read 4.10 2017 Norse Mythology
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]]> Tigers of the Sea 114578 CORMAC MAC ART... descendant of other warriors from the time-forgotten land of Atlantis and Cimmeria, molded in the tradition of Conan and Kull.

Lusty, savage, adventuresome, Cormac, known as an Cluiun, the Wolf, is a renegade and a pirate whose character was forged from the same cold steel as his relentless sword. Roaming the seas of King Arthur's Britain with his comrade-in-arms, the Viking Wulfhere the Skull-splitter, Cormac's battles with men and monarchs scale new heights in the fantasy kingdom of Robert E. Howard.

Cover illustration: Jeff Jones.

Contents:
9 � Introduction (Tigers of the Sea) � (1974) � essay by Richard L. Tierney
19 � Tigers of the Sea � [Cormac Mac Art] � (1974) � novelette by Robert E. Howard
81 � Swords of the Northern Sea � [Cormac Mac Art] � (1974) � novelette by Robert E. Howard
125 � The Night of the Wolf � [Cormac Mac Art] � (1969) � novelette by Robert E. Howard
167 � The Temple of Abomination � [Cormac Mac Art] � (1974) � shortstory by Robert E. Howard]]> 188 Robert E. Howard 089083119X . 0 to-read 3.72 1974 Tigers of the Sea
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]]> <![CDATA[Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire]]> 24212581
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
THE NEW YORK TIMES - ESQUIRE - THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

"Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch."--The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe's monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public's expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape, and the British Empire was commanding ever larger tracts of the globe. In a world where women were often powerless, during a century roiling with change, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand. Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. As a girl, she defied her mother's meddling and an adviser's bullying, forging an iron will of her own. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped the crown and relished the freedom it brought her. At twenty, she fell passionately in love with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eventually giving birth to nine children. She loved sex and delighted in power. She was outspoken with her ministers, overstepping conventional boundaries and asserting her opinions. After the death of her adored Albert, she began a controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. She survived eight assassination attempts over the course of her lifetime. And as science, technology, and democracy were dramatically reshaping the world, Victoria was a symbol of steadfastness and security--queen of a quarter of the world's population at the height of the British Empire's reach. Drawing on sources that include fresh revelations about Victoria's relationship with John Brown, Julia Baird brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning.]]> 696 Julia Baird 1400069882 . 0 to-read 4.19 2016 Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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]]> Artemis 34928122
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.

Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.]]> 305 Andy Weir 0553448129 . 0 to-read 3.66 2017 Artemis
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