On the heavily forested planet of Lumin, the Network has slept, dormant, for over six hundred cycles. Only a select few remember that it resides beneath the crust of the planet, waiting, and for those who remember, the battle for Lumin’s future has raged in the shadows.
When Mia Jayne’s path crosses with an ancient volume in the Archives of the Order of Vis Firmitas, this ancient battle moves from the shadows into the light. Compendium opens up a world of knowledge, and, for the first time since arriving at the Order, Mia has the key to reclaim the freedom she has lost. To do so, she must choose between her conscience and her heart. Conceived against an ailing world of fantastical beauty where long-lost technology tips the balance between extinction and survival, Mia must remember that there is always a choice, and that makes all the difference. Views: 15
The president's retreat, Camp David, is one of the safest places in the United States. So why can't the President's son, Luke, and his friends Theo and Callie stay there without Secret Service agents constantly hovering over them, watching their every move? And yet, when an earthquake sets off a raging wildfire, causing a chain reaction that wreaks havoc at Camp David, they are suddenly on their own.Now Luke needs a plan:To override the security systemsTo save those who were supposed to save himTo get through an impassable gateTo escape Camp DavidDebut author Dee Garretson delivers a heart-pounding tween thriller—an action-packed adventure with undeniable suspense. Views: 15
When modern day actress Lizzie Burnet gets tossed back to eighteenth century London, she has to find a way to survive until she's rescued by an unreliable time traveling earl.Being a prim and proper chaperone to rich young ladies is just another role to her, and she finds a way to make a few shillings on the side by taking kickbacks from unscrupulous mothers who want their deadbeat sons to marry an heiress. She’s passing the time until she can get home. None of it’s real, and she doesn’t get attached.Until a big handsome Highlander comes along and ruins everything.Quinn Ferguson has to take his half sister Catriona to London to meet her English relatives for the first time. In order to inherit her vast fortune, Catie has to be properly married. Not entirely sure what that entails, he hires Catie a chaperone, and promises to be on his best behavior.He can’t drink. He can’t swear. He can’t gamble. There’s to be no flirting and he has to somehow make himself seem less tall. Quinn doesn’t think the trip to England’s going to be very fun.Until he meets the chaperone. Views: 15
The first two books in the action-packed YA series! Special powers, intense action, epic adventure, and mind-bending time travel combine in this two-book boxed set. Chosen individuals have been gifted with extraordinary abilities in order to restore balance to the chaos. Follow Haven and Colton on an action-packed journey as they use their incredible abilities to protect the world. Views: 15
The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls “sharp as a paper-cut” about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now he’s a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to “tap in” to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. His new job is not that different from his old one: waste disposal is waste disposal. He doesn’t ask questions, he works quickly, and he’s handy with a box cutter. But when his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, his unadorned life is upended: his mark has a shocking secret and his client has a sordid agenda far beyond a simple kill. Spademan must navigate between these two worlds—the wasteland reality and the slick fantasy—to finish his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he’s not the one who winds up in the ground. Adam Sternbergh has written a dynamite debut: gritty, violent, funny, riveting, tender, and brilliant.From the Hardcover edition.Review“Stunning narrative sleight-of-hand. . . . Characters [with] humor and a resilient humanity. . . . Mixing dystopian science fiction and urban noir with a Palahniuk swagger, this could well be the first novel everybody is talking about over the next few months.” —Booklist (starred review) “Spademan is an unlikely yet tragic hero, and it takes a talented author to make a reader root for such a damaged and ruthless man. . . . This is a gripping genre mash-up and a stunning debut.” —Library Journal (starred review) “[An] edgy, noir-soaked thriller.” —*Bookpage* “Hardboiled as f with writing as fierce and sharp as a paper-cut.” *—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls“With prose chiseled to hardboiled perfection and a tale that throbs with the keen ache of noir, Adam Sternbergh’s Shovel Ready reads like William Gibson as directed with inky brilliance by Christopher Nolan. Debut novels as sleek, resonant and accomplished as this are a rare gift.” —Megan Abbott, author of *Dare Me“Shovel Ready tosses you off a precipice and you don’t know where you're going to land. Dark and often funny, with sparse, sharp language. Think Charlie Huston’s dystopian New York meets Richard Stark’s anti-hero—this is good, bitter fun.” —Toby Barlow, author of Sharp Teeth and Babayaga“Compulsive! Savage future noir that crackles with deadpan wit." —Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker “Shovel Ready is an elegant, lean and clever noir. It’s the best sci-fi thriller I’ve read since Snow Crash.” *—Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman “A terrific debut. It has the grimy neon feel of Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan combined with a touch of Philip K. Dick’s gonzo cyberpunk.” —Austin Grossman, author of You and *Soon I Will Be InvincibleAbout the AuthorAdam Sternbergh is the culture editor of The New York Times Magazine. Formerly an editor-at-large for New York, his writing has been featured in several other publications including GQ, The Times of London, and on the radio program This American Life. He lives in Brooklyn and is at work on a second Spademan novel.www.adamsternbergh.com · @sternbergh Views: 15
From William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, authors of Jackknife and Border War, comes Home Invasion, their most explosive and terrifyingly timely thriller yet.They Will Invade Your Home.Home, Texas. Two men break into the house of an elderly couple. Guns are fired. Blood is spilled. When one of the intruders sues the homeowner and wins, the good people of Home take the law into their own hands. In a stunning case of backward justice fueled by the liberal media—the left-leaning U.S. President decides to make the town a test case to strike down the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: Ban all guns in Home, Texas. And to enforce it, the newly formed national police force is sent in.They Will Take Your Weapons.Unarmed. Defenseless. Denied their civil right to bear arms, the citizens of Home are now easy targets for America's closest enemies—the Mexican drug cartels who spill across the border every day. This time, they've... Views: 14
Product DescriptionBuckskin, Nevada, was once a boomtown, then died a peaceful death. But when a fresh vein of silver is struck, Morgan lets himself get pinned with a tin badge at the worst possible time. It's not the crooked gamblers, the petty swindlers, or the stray murderer or two that will give Morgan problems. Instead, the governor sends his militia unbidden, an iron fisted military commander has an agenda of his own, and an outlaw gang decides the time is ripe for an all-out assault on Buckskin. Now, to put out the fire that's stoking a murderous cauldron, the last gunfighter will break rules of law and God - and duel the men who've come to make a killing of their own - with Morgan their first target. Views: 14
