By Leslie Kain Atmosphere Press ISBN 978-1-63988-407-0 Ebook. © 2022 Mirror twins Devon and Gavin are raised in a household where men are tough, where their father believes Devon will always be a winner and Gavin will always be a loser. After years of his abusive indoctrination, Devon and Gavin believe it, too. Devon joins…
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Scribes’ Descent
Book One of the Scribes Series By Dylan West Pickle Jar Press ISBN: 979-8-9859831-0-4 Paperback, 334 pages. © 2022 Forced to flee her homeworld as a child due to world-shattering earthquakes, Mallory now lives on Planet Daishon, where earthquakes are unheard of—until a big quake shakes the very foundations of everything she takes for granted,…
Darkwalker: A Tale of the Urban Shaman
By Duncan Eagleson Pink Narcissus Press ISBN: Kindle, 372 pages. © 2014 Bay City is haunted by a supernatural serial killer the newsfeeds have named “The Beast.” City Boss Micah Roth calls on the Railwalkers—a shamanic Order trained in both clerical and warrior skills—to champion his cause and return the city to some semblance of…
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
By Claire North Redhook, an imprint of Orbit/Hatchett ISBN: 9780316399623 Paperback, 432 pages. © 2014 Harry August is dying for the eleventh time. Every life, he’s reborn in the same year, at the same place, by the same mother, with all his prior memories intact. No matter how he lives his life, world events unfold…
Planetfall
By Emma Newman New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC ASIN: B00SI0B65W Kindle book, 956 KB, 328 pages. © 2015 As an engineer and a pilot, Renata Ghali earned her place among the population on the Atlas, a small group of people following the vision of Suh-Mi to a distant world, where…
Blackfish City
By Sam J. Miller Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0062684820 Hardcover, 336 pages. ©2018 Blackfish City is a dystopian, post-climate-change novel set in Qaanaaq, a floating city north of the Arctic Circle. Political corruption, organized crime, and a mysterious illness called “the breaks” shape life in Qaanaaq, where life is gritty and the…
Night Film
By Marisha Pessl Random House, ASIN: B004J4WL2I Kindle, 37654KB, 771 pages, ©2013 Journalist Scott McGrath is obsessed with Stanislas Cordova, a reclusive filmmaker whose frightening night films are eventually banned, driving his fans to host underground showings of new films and—in some cases—copycat crimes. But McGrath goes too far when he states on live television…
Seed
By Rob Ziegler Night Shade Books, ASIN: B01A68YNM6 Hardcover, 341 pages. © 2011 In a world with runaway environmental change and collapsed governments, the remaining humans in the United States have two things in common: hunger, and thirst. Satori, an intelligent, living city rooted in the ruins of Old Denver, is the sole source of…
The Overstory
By Richard Powers W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 978-0393356687 Paperback, 512 pages. © 2018 Overstory is a sweeping, heartfelt epic of nine human characters from vastly different backgrounds being drawn together by their love of—and connection to—nature, specifically trees. There’s really no other adequate way to summarize the plot of this book. It’s simply too…
Song of Blood and Stone
Book 1 of the Earthsinger Chronicles By L. Penelope St. Martin’s Griffin, ASIN: B07SMWXJQN Paperback, 523 pages. © July 16, 2019 Elsira and Lagrimar lie close together, yet worlds apart. Separated by the Mantle, a magical veil that prevents travel between the two lands, Elsirans and Lagrimari haven’t mingled for generations. But now the True…