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Sabriel - Garth Nix
Amazon.com ReviewAfter receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril ... -
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
SUMMARY: A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night, an ordinary sight... -
Poison_ A Novel of the Renaissa - Sara Poole
SUMMARY: In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover t... -
Passage to Juneau_ A Sea and It - Jonathan Raban
Amazon.com ReviewBritish-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Rab... -
Out of the Cocoon - William Leisner
SUMMARY: Centuries ago, the S.S. Mariposa transported two sets of colonists – one a "back-to-nature" group called the Bringloidi, the other a collection of scientists – to new worl... -
Night gate - Isobelle Carmody
SUMMARY: Rage Winnoway’s closest friends have always been her four dogs: Bear, Billy Thunder, Elle, and Mr. Walker. When Rage sets off for the hospital where her mother lies in a c... -
Murder at the Washington Tribun - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyInstead of using an actual D.C. locale, Truman sets her solid 21st mystery (after 2004's Murder at Union Station) at the fictional Washington Tribune -
Lord of Snow and Shadows - Sarah Ash
Amazon.com ReviewSara Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadows is the promising opener to the Tears of Artamon series. The novel sets the stage in grand fashion as Ash deftly introduces the.... -
Kristen - Lisi Harrison
SUMMARY: Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat... With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her schola... -
Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Bear (City at the End of Time) sets this difficult but rewarding short novel on an interstellar colony ship go...