"One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work...
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Gibson, WilliamSummary: - Author:Mcwilliams, KellySummary:
The Village meets Octavia Butler's After the Fire in this unique, voice-driven novel from Kelly McWilliams Agnes loves her home of Red Creek—its quiet, sunny mornings, its dusty roads, and its God. There, she cares tirelessly for...
- Author:Michener, James A.Summary:
The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.
- Author:Revelle, RickSummary:
Anokì and his sister Pangì Mahingan have grown up, and now face a decision that will change their lives forever. Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as Ö:nenhste Erhar (...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Set in the early 60s, this novel is a very funny and completely raunchy satire of life in Texas and in California, and a true and very American portrait of an artist as a young man.
- Author:Taylor, BradSummary:
Elite Taskforce operative Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill are trailing two terrorist organizations from Asia to Egypt when a deadly threat arrives in the U.S.
- Author:Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature "quarter turn to the fantastic" to...
- Author:Grace, AdalynSummary:
As princess of the kingdom Visidia, Amora has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer, the master of souls. But with a destructive new magic on the rise, it is up to Amora to conquer it.
- Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he...
- Author:Shofner, CorabelSummary:
Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime.
- Author:Badoe, AdwoaSummary:
For eighteen-year-old Charlotte, university life is better than she'd ever dreamed-a sophisticated and generous roommate, the camaraderie of dorm living, parties, clubs and boyfriends. Most of all, Charlotte is exposed to new ideas, and...
- Author:Poston, AshleySummary:
Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that...
- Author:Harkaway, NickSummary:
Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady...
- Author:Power, P. AndrewSummary:
It was supposed to be a simple recovery operation. All Harder Security had to do was liberate a ransomed plane and fly it from Angola to anywhere else. Maybe the mistake was his insistence on being part of the operation. If he wasn...
- Author:Staples, WillSummary:
When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking...
- Author:VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area--most of which ended in death--the twelfth expedition is set to go. Area X delivers the unexpected, but it...
- Author:Starr, JasonSummary:
Scott Lang, also known as Ant-Man, is just getting settled in to his new home when his daughter is targeted by a villain and he must go back to crime-fighting to save her.
- Author:Sylvester, KevinSummary:
Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends--welcome to the Regency, where even time moves in surprising ways! Jake Simmons hates his new home. The Regency is nothing more than floor after floor of peeling wallpaper and faded...
- Author:Golden, ChristopherSummary:
After mountain climbers discover an ancient, buried ship on Mount Ararat, a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, where they find an ugly, misshapen cadaver with horns. A massive blizzard blows in,...
- Author:Meyer, MarissaSummary:
Nova's double life is about to get a lot more complicated: As Insomnia, she is a full-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. She works with Adrian's patrol unit to protect the weak...
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