"Always surprises and always entertains."--Jonathan Maberry, ROT AND RUINA fantasy collection for young adults. Contains the Writers of the Future Award-winning story "The Vampire Shortstop" and other 11 other tales of fantasy and the supernatural, including the Makers series in which children control the essential forces of the world. www.hauntedcomputer.com Views: 35
The best of today's Canadian short fiction is showcased in this fourth annual volume of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology series, which features the 12 stories short-listed—among them winners Jason Timermanis and Hugh Graham—for the 2014 $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition. The book contains contemporary writing that reflects a diversity in emerging and established Canadian writers, including Gregory Betts, K'ari Fisher, Matthew R. Loney, Helen Marshall, George McWhirter, Susan P. Redmayne, Linda Rogers, Leon Rooke, Madelaine Sonik, and Erin Soros. Following the stories are biographies of each contributor. Views: 35
The acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee, coming to theaters Sept. 28. For more information, click here. Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema. Views: 35
Good mysteries come in Miniature packages.Miniaturist Geraldine's nephew arrests a local for murdering her boyfriend. Enlisted to help find the real culprit, Gerry comes upon criminal artists who wish she'd mind her own tiny business. Views: 35
With The Machinery of Light, David J. Williams
completes his furiously paced, stunningly imagined trilogy - a work of
vision, beauty, and pulse-pounding futuristic action.September
26, 2110. 10:22 GMT. Following the assassination of the American
president, the generals who have seized power initiate World War Three,
launching a surprise attack against the Eurasian Coalition's forces
throughout the Earth-Moon system. Across the orbits, tens of thousands
of particle beams and lasers blast away at one another. The goal: crush
the other side's weaponry, paving the way for nuclear bombardment of the
cities. As inferno becomes Armageddon, the rogue commando unit
Autumn Rain embarks on one last run. Matthew Sinclair, an imprisoned
spymaster, plots his escape. And his former protégé Claire Haskell,
capable of hacking into both nets and minds, is realizing that all her
powers may merely be playing into Sinclair's plans. For even as Claire
evades the soldiers of East and West amid carnage in the lunar tunnels,
the surviving members of the Rain converge upon the Moon, one step ahead
of the Eurasian fleets but one step behind the mastermind who created
Autumn Rain - and his terrible final secret. Views: 35
Originally published by Harlequin Books. “When a classy architect joins in a marriage of convenience with a slightly scruffy bartender to hide from a hit man out to kill her, frustration runs high, making both want to CRY UNCLE and get on with the loving. Judith Arnold is a perennial favorite whose keen wit and way with mystery always hits the mark. ****1⁄2”—RT Book Reviews Views: 35
Hang on to your hats for a roller-coaster ride around our solar system with one of fiction’s wildest characters, William F. Nolan’s futuristic private eye, Sam Space. He works out of a seedy office on Mars, replete with a plug-in secretary, argues over his drinking with a grumpy hovercar, is hired by a body-switching eccentric and a three-headed female from Venus, battles a fire dragon, pops in and out of alternate universes, has his head on backwards (part of the time), is captured by mice, gets trapped by a witch in a candy forest, is reduced to a quavery old man and a squalling infant, beds a lush beauty with winking nipples, views his own corpse, chases a robot’s testicle, lays a freckled egg, and is fatally shot. Among other things. Views: 35
