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What do readers say about Split Infinity?
jumping between two worlds somewhat serious novel ultimate male fantasy story imaginative, fun, and engagingOn the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot.
Beyond the curtain lay Phaze-a world totally ruled by magic... More details on Split Infinity
He walked with the assurance of stature, and most others deferred to him subtly. When he moved in a given direction, the way before him conveniently opened, by seeming coincidence; when he made eye co...
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What do readers say about The Raw Shark Texts?
hard boiled wonderland experimental and original imaginative and engaging inventive, accessible, great funA thrillingly original novel published in thirty-three countries to worldwide acclaim, The New York Times Magazine called The Raw Shark Texts a genre-founding work of fiction.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house he doesn't recognize, unable to rememb... More details on The Raw Shark Texts
I don’t know how long it lasted, but the engines and drivers that keep the human machine functioning at a mechanical level must have trip-switched, responding to the stillness with a general systems p...
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What do readers say about Uprooted?
dark fairy tale coming of age story engaging and clever first person narrativeAgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known ... More details on Uprooted
Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrific...
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What do readers say about Anansi Boys?
descriptive and humorous fast-paced, clever, and inventive dry sense of humor witty and adventurousSoon to be a streaming series!
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods (now a hit Starz® Original Series), to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul.
God is dead. Meet the... More details on Anansi Boys
In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the dreams and the little gods and th...
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What do readers say about Catching Fire?
speculative realistic fiction suspenseful, readable style winners fight other winners plain and simpleAgainst all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won... More details on Catching Fire
I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to appear...
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What do readers say about The Hotel New Hampshire?
his writing is entertaining good and fascinatingly offbeat funny, sad, thought provoking funny and sadThe New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human ... More details on The Hotel New Hampshire
The summer my father bought the bear, none of us was born—we weren’t even conceived: not Frank, the oldest; not Franny, the loudest; not me, the next; and not the youngest of us, Lilly and Egg. My fat...
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What do readers say about Cress?
a filler book pacing in the action a whirlwind scifi adventure great ya fictionIn this third book in Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading E... More details on Cress
Her satellite made one full orbit around planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view—vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half...
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What do readers say about This Immortal?
hugo winning novel imaginative and engaging short, quirky & simple unusual resonances for non-americans"Vivid and elliptical... If you've ever asked yourself what would have happened if Philip Marlowe had been Odysseus... here is a clue to the answer."-New Worlds THE HUGO AWARD-WINNING FIRST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICL... More details on This Immortal
It had struck me that she was only half-joking. Knowing some of the things one occasionally meets in the Old Places, the Hot Places, you can almost believe in myths without extra effort—such as the st...
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What do readers say about Memory of Water?
uncomplicated linear plot slow and elegiac beautiful and lyrical a futuristic dystopian societyAn amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Sc... More details on Memory of Water
Water is the most versatile of all elements. So my father told me the day he took me to the place that didn’t exist. While he was wrong about many things, he was right about this, so I still believe. ...
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What do readers say about The Cost of Knowing?
life morals and responsibilities family is forever imaginative and engaging read all the interactionsFrom the acclaimed author of SLAY, comes a gripping novel, about brothers, grief, and what it means to be a young Black man in America. For fans of Dear Martin and They Both Die at the End.
Sixteen year old Alex Rufus lives with his younger brother,... More details on The Cost of Knowing
I see a familiar light-skinned hand with knobby knuckles and dirt under the nails, passing the scoop I’m holding into a new, unfamiliar hand as dark as mine. This new hand is amply lotioned—no ashines...
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