by Rand Miller and David Wingrove Hyperion Books. ©1996 ISBN: 978-0786889204 Mass Market Paperback, 592 pages. Anna lives with her father, conducting geological surveys in the desert. When his death leaves her alone, Anna sets off for the nearest town, but decides to make one last exploration of tunnels in the extinct volcano, discovered by…
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Myst I: The Book of Atrus
by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller and David Wingrove Hyperion Books. ©1995 ISBN: 978-0786881888 Mass Market Paperback, 422 pages. Anna is the only person young Atrus has ever known. His mother died in childbirth. His father, Gehn, abandoned Atrus immediately after, leaving him to his grandmother to raise or bury. Gehn didn’t really care which. Anna chooses…
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Riverhead, © 2009 ISBN 978-1594484629 Paperback, 336 pages. From $14.97 Lifelong Christian Science devotee Barbara Bradley Hagerty, inspired by a spiritual encounter she could not explain, spent years exploring the nature of God. Fingerprints documents her journey through the labyrinth of stories from people who’ve experienced a transcendent connection with something…
The Target
by David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group, © 2014 ISBN 978-1-4555-2123-4 Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages, $10.00 When faced with the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to take down a global threat—U.S. President Cassion weighs the risks and reluctantly gives the order. The mission must succeed. Failure means certain retaliation, probable impeachment, and…
The Seventh Victim
by Mary Burton Kensington Publishing, Inc. © 2013 ISBN 978-1-4201-2505-4 Mass Market Paperback, 362 pages, $7.99 When Texas Ranger JAMES BECK arrives at the crime scene, the details—victim clad in a home-made white dress, blonde hair fanned out around her head, and a penny clutched in one hand—seem familiar somehow. It’s only after Beck begins…
Just Fall, by Nina Sadowsky
Ballantine Books, © 2016 ISBN 978055394863 304 pages, $26.00 Looks can be deceiving. That’s what ELLIE LARRABEE finds out moments after saying “I do” when the man of her dreams reveals in one shocking sentence a truth that shakes her world. Everything she has taken for granted is built on shifting sands and suddenly her…
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King Pocket Books © 1999, 2002 ISBN 9780743455961 Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages, $11.19 The “King” of horror fiction got his start just like most other writers: trial and error and a lot of persistence. Growing up in Maine, surviving high school, thriving in college, then working a day job, raising a family,…
The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
Pan Publishing © 2014 ISBN 1101988649 Mass Market Paperback, 354 pages, $36.99 hardcover Imagine a reality where librarians live forever (or near enough), a truly magical place that intersects with other worlds and other timelines through hidden doors and a secret language. This is the world of The Library, an enormous secret world where agents…
Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer
Tor Books, © May 2016 ISBN 9780765378002 Hardcover, 432 pages, $11.42 Several hundred years in the future, Earth—and human civilization—is completely unrecognizable. Religion has been outlawed. Gender pronouns are eradicated, as is a binary gender system. Select criminals are no longer imprisoned. Instead, they are put to work as Servicers in whatever capacity best benefits…
The Queen of Blood: Book One of the Queens of Renthia
by Sarah Beth Durst HarperCollins Publishers, L.L.C. © 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-241334-5 Print length 368 pages, $19.99 Renthia’s spirits want to create, according to their nature. Earth spirits wish to make things grow. Wood spirits build. Water spirits flow, and so on. But more than anything else, they long to destroy. Not just each other. Not…