2295 Results in the "Fiction" category


    • Never Let Me Go Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Nev­er Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishig­uro weaves a haunt­ing and intro­spec­tive tale set in an alter­nate-real­i­ty ​1990s Eng­land, where ​Kathy H.​, a ​car­er, reflects on her child­hood at ​Hail­sham, an idyl­lic yet unset­tling board­ing school. As Kathy reunites with her for­mer class­mates ​Ruth​ and ​Tom­my, she con­fronts the dark truth about their exis­tence: they are ​clones, cre­at­ed sole­ly to pro­vide ​organ dona­tions​ for “nor­mal”…
    • The Talisman: A Novel Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Tal­is­man is a mon­u­men­tal dark fan­ta­sy epic that fol­lows ​12-year-old Jack Sawyer​ on a har­row­ing quest across two worlds: our own and the fan­tas­ti­cal ​Ter­ri­to­ries, a par­al­lel realm of mag­ic and mon­sters. When Jack’s dying moth­er reveals the exis­tence of a mys­ti­cal artifact—the ​Tal­is­man—he embarks on a cross-coun­try jour­ney to retrieve it, hop­ing its pow­er can save her life. From the grim alleys of…
    • The Stone Sky Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Stone Sky is the explo­sive, Hugo Award-win­ning con­clu­sion to N.K. Jemisin’s ground­break­ing Bro­ken Earth trilogy—the first series in his­to­ry to win three con­sec­u­tive Hugo Awards for Best Nov­el. As the Fifth Season’s apoc­a­lyp­tic dev­as­ta­tion reach­es its peak, the sto­ry con­verges on two women whose choic­es will deter­mine the fate of the Still­ness: ​Essun, the oro­gene moth­er turned rev­o­lu­tion­ary, who must wield the pow­er of the Obelisk…
      Dystopian • Fantasy • Fiction • Science Fiction
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      Buried Prey

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      by testsuphomeAdmin In Buried Prey, ​Lucas Dav­en­port​ con­fronts a chill­ing ghost from his past when the bod­ies of two miss­ing girls—Kate Jones and Martha John­son—are unearthed after 25 years. Orig­i­nal­ly dis­missed as a cold case from Davenport’s ear­ly days as a Min­neapo­lis cop, the dis­cov­ery reopens old wounds and expos­es a web of lies, cor­rup­tion, and a killer who’s been hid­ing in plain sight. As Dav­en­port revis­its…
      Fiction • Mystery • Politics • Thriller
    • [The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 10] • The Last Dark Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Last Dark con­cludes Stephen R. Don­ald­son’s epic four-decade saga of Thomas Covenant with apoc­a­lyp­tic grandeur. As the Land faces ulti­mate anni­hi­la­tion from Foul’s cor­rup­tion and the Worm of the World’s End, three reluc­tant heroes must make their final stand: ​Thomas Covenant, the twice-dead lep­er and Unbe­liev­er, now incar­nat­ed as pure wild mag­ic ​Lin­den Avery, the guilt-rid­den heal­er wield­ing both Staff and White Gold ​Jere­mi­ah, her adopt­ed…
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      Insurgent

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      by testsuphomeAdmin “One choice can trans­form you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has con­se­quences, and as unrest surges in the fac­tions all around her, Tris Pri­or must con­tin­ue try­ing to save those she loves—and herself—while grap­pling with haunt­ing ques­tions of grief and for­give­ness, iden­ti­ty and loy­al­ty, pol­i­tics and love.” ​Tris Pri­or’s jour­ney con­tin­ues​ in this sec­ond install­ment of the Diver­gent series, where she faces even greater…
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      Black House

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      by testsuphomeAdmin Black House is the long-await­ed sequel to The Tal­is­man, reunit­ing read­ers with ​Jack Sawyer—now a retired LAPD detec­tive liv­ing in small-town Wis­con­sin. But when a series of grue­some child mur­ders plague the com­mu­ni­ty, Jack is drawn back into the hor­rors of the ​Ter­ri­to­ries, the alter­nate uni­verse he once tra­versed as a boy. Team­ing up with an aging bik­er named ​Hen­ry Ley­den​ and a boy with super­nat­ur­al…
      Fantasy • Fiction • Horror • Thriller
    • 1986 — Orson Scott Card — Ender’s Game Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Ender’s Game is a ground­break­ing sci­ence fic­tion nov­el that fol­lows ​Andrew “Ender” Wig­gin, a bril­liant child recruit­ed into ​Bat­tle School, an orbital mil­i­tary acad­e­my where gift­ed chil­dren are trained to com­mand Earth­’s defens­es against an alien race called the ​Formics​ (or “Bug­gers”). Under the ruth­less tute­lage of ​Colonel Graff, Ender excels in sim­u­lat­ed war games, mas­ter­ing strat­e­gy and leadership—but at a dev­as­tat­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal cost. As…
    • American Assassin Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Amer­i­can Assas­sin intro­duces ​Mitch Rapp, a venge­ful col­lege ath­lete turned lethal CIA oper­a­tive, in a high-octane ori­gin sto­ry of mod­ern espi­onage. After Rapp’s fiancée is killed in the ​Pan Am Locker­bie bomb­ing, he chan­nels his rage into becom­ing the Unit­ed States’ most for­mi­da­ble weapon against ter­ror­ism. Recruit­ed by ​Irene Kennedy​ and trained by the ruth­less ​Stan Hur­ley, Rapp is thrust into a covert war against…
    • 2‑King of Thorns Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin King of Thorns is the bru­tal and bril­liant sec­ond install­ment in Mark Lawrence’s Bro­ken Empire tril­o­gy, fol­low­ing the infa­mous anti­hero ​Jorg Ancrath​ as he con­sol­i­dates his stolen throne through blood and cun­ning. Years after seiz­ing pow­er in Prince of Thorns, Jorg now rules a frac­tured kingdom—but ene­mies close in from all sides: The ​Prince of Arrow, a gold­en rival com­mand­ing over­whelm­ing forces The ​Dead King, whose necro­man­tic hordes…
      Dystopian • Fantasy • Fiction
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