Getting to know your father after sixteen years of estrangement doesn't happen on one road trip. But as Tal spends more time with Julian and his family, she begins to untangle her parents' secret past, and discovers a part of herself...
Science fiction
- Author:Warga, JasmineSummary:
- Author:Herbert, FrankSummary:
Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are...
- Author:Lee, Yoon Ha.Summary:
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit. An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon ... A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent ... A...
- Author:Spider, StarSummary:
★ “An emotionally layered book with accurate insight into mental illness, ideal for reluctant readers.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewSeventeen-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health...
- Author:Anderson, Kevin J.Summary:
In the distant future humans are one of only three known intelligent species. One of the others, the Klikiss, has inexplicably vanished. But they left behind extraordinary technology that allows humankind to form new suns from gaseous...
- Author:McIntosh, WillSummary:
After a terrorist attack in Atlanta kills 500,000 people and causes the dead to half-possess many of the survivors, Finn Darby must surmount his own ghostly "Hitcher"--his abusive, deceased grandfather--if he is going to find a way to...
- Author:Sawyer, Robert J.Summary:
During a quantum-computing experiment, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel world, accidentally pierces the barrier between our worlds and is transferred to our universe, finding himself a stranger in a strange land....
- Author:Anderson, Kevin J.Summary:
The momentous war between the powerful hydrogues and fiery faeros continues, with planets and stars being consumed in the devastation. The Terran Hanseatic League must bring all branches of the human race together to resist the threat,...
- Author:Verdrager, VéroniqueSummary:
Parti à la recherche de son père, un éminent physicien disparu dans des circonstances mystérieuses, Jacob se retrouve malgré lui dans un univers parallèle. En dehors de l'espace futuriste d'une cité secrète, les...
- Author:Nagamatsu, SequoiaSummary:
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate...
- Author:Eason, KSummary:
Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it--in the first book in a humorous new space opera duology. The Princess Rory Thorne--eldest daughter, amateur...
- Author:Black, HollySummary:
Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan, including familiar moments from the Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan's perspective.
- Author:Eason, K.Summary:
Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her to change the multiverse in the second book in this space opera duology. After avoiding an arranged marriage, thwarting a coup, and inadvertently kick-starting a revolution, Rory...
- Author:Bailey, ConnieSummary:
In the future, corporations buy the life contracts of infants and raise them for specific careers. Jaymes, aka The Prince, is Erotic Bioware, Thoroughbred Class, trained to seduce and give pleasure in the highest tiers of society. But...
- Author:Collins, SuzanneSummary:
Les Hunger Games ont commencé. Le vainqueur deviendra riche et célèbre. Les autres mourront... Dans un futur sombre, sur les ruines des États-Unis, un jeu télévisé est créé pour contrôler le peuple par la terreur. Douze...
- Author:Herbert, Brian, Anderson, Kevin J.Summary:
Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's...
- Author:Apostolides, MarianneSummary:
What does it mean to say "I love you"? Ariadne is a single, forty-something writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current work, a manuscript about the declaration of love, is the need...
- Author:Stackpole, Michael A.Summary:
The dramatic story of an X-wing pilot on the razor's edge between the hero he once was and the power he could have-if he's willing to embrace the Dark Side Corran Horn was an officer in the Corellian Security Force before...
- Author:ASIMOV, IsaacSummary:
They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence... but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on...
- Author:Dixon, RubySummary:
LOST : You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me...