The Red Rising Saga #4
GoodReads Rating: 3.79/5
They call him father,
liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the
pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is
the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life.
A
decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would
break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered
everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war.
Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate
mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save
himself?
And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever:
A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined.
An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life.
And
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars
with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow
transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.
Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.81/5
From one of the fiercest
critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of
linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture,
feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences
to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman
today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists.
Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already
established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t
afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing,
she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics:
What does it mean to “be”—to live as, to exist as—a black woman today?
This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for all
Americans.
Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place
within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are
objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences,
in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our
country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing,
Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social,
cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that
influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated
world at large.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.2/5
Orphaned. Alone. Starving.
The land is dying. As resources dwindle, the population is placed at the
mercy of a secretive government, which operates on its own agenda.
Critical top-level scientists researching the ecological disaster have
gone missing, their disappearance a cold case file that haunts the local
constabulary.
Desperate for answers, the police captain hatches a plan to recover a
critical key to the land’s survival. What they need is an experienced
thief, and they know just the girl. Avalon is not just any burglar; she
is an uncommonly good one. Caught in the act of stealing, she is
recruited against her wishes to pull off the boldest heist ever: to raid
the high security government facilities.
Can one young girl pull off the theft of a lifetime? Failure is not an option, for it will mean starvation for all.
Don’t miss out on this exciting new dystopian series! Download your copy today!
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GoodReads Rating: 3.81/5
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal
in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood
Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these
new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood,
identity, and freedom.
Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro’s best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin
is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or “mender,” who brings all
their fates together when she’s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied
modern-day witch hunt.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.06/5
THE NINTH AND ULTIMATE MAXIMUM
RIDE STORY IS HERE! Legions of Max fans won’t be disappointed by this
encore episode in the beloved series about the incredible adventures of a
teenage girl who can fly. As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a
post-apocalyptic world, she and her broken flock are roaming the earth,
searching for answers to what happened. All will be revealed in this
last spectacular “ride”- a brand-new grand finale featuring all of the
nonstop action, twists and turns that readers can rely on in a
blockbuster Patterson page turner!
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GoodReads Rating: 3.88/5
Maximum Ride and her faithful
friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has
ever known–now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as
we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can’t be stopped.
The danger mounts just as the boy genetically engineered to be her
“perfect match”, Dylan, has finally worked his way into Max’s heart–and
just as her beloved Fang unexpectedly returns to the flock. An explosive
confrontation between the two boys with a claim to Max’s heart ensues,
and the entire world hangs in the balance.
In this powerful and moving latest sequel in James Patterson’s epic
fantasy series, fans will finally get the answers they’ve been waiting
for–and an ending full of shock, surprises, and the greatest conclusion
you never saw coming.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.02/5
In the seventh book in the
bestselling series, evil scientists are still trying to convince Max
that she needs to save the world, this time by providing the genetic
link in speeding up the pace of evolution. Worse, they’re trying to
convince her that her perfect mate is Dylan, the newest addition to the
flock. The problem is that, despite herself, Max is starting to believe
it.
Fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans,
but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday
cult whose motto is Save the Planet: Kill the Humans. And this time, the
true heroine, for once, might just be little Angel.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.07/5
Being a kid with wings — constantly on the run — has never been easy,
and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to
Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of
the Flock makes her fear the worst. And as if an impending apocalypse
weren’t bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about
Max’s soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max’s desperate
desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team
weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last
time?
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Part of Maximum Ride Series – #5
GoodReads Rating: 4.07/5
James Patterson’s bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone–or something--is
decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii’s coast, and Max and her flock
find themselves sucked into the Navy’s top-secret investigation of the
catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max’s activist mom from a wicked
subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters,
where gruesome evil dwells… and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could
there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great
abyss? This soaring new adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into
terrifying new territory–fans, hold your breath!
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GoodReads Rating: 3.86/5
In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of
James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just
to capture her — and maybe save the planet while she’s at it.
Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment.
Max and the other members of the Flock — six kids who share her
remarkable ability — have been asked to aid a group of environmental
scientists studying the causes of global warming. The expedition seems
like a perfect combination of adventure, activism — and escaping
government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.
But even in Antarctica, trapped in the harshest weather on our
planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. For
whoever controls her powers could also control the world. Maximum Ride
is James Patterson’s greatest character, a heroine who manages to be
human and fearless at once.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.16/5
In MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the time
has arrived for Max and her winged “Flock” to face their ultimate enemy
and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of
“Re-evolution”, a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population
into a scientifically superior master race…and to terminate the rest.
Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel have always worked together to
defeat the forces working against them–but can they save the world when
they are torn apart, living in hiding and captivity, halfway across the
globe from one another?
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Part of Maximum Ride Series – #2
GoodReads Rating: 4.16/5
In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock
are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to “school.” There is no
such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she’s
supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy–a clone of
herself. Little, Brown and Company
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Part of Maximum Ride Series – #1
GoodReads Rating: 4.08/5
Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for
their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And
that’s just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don’t know
where they come from, who’s hunting them, why they are different from
all other humans… and if they’re meant to save mankind — or destroy it.
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This series has also been adapted as manga.
The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian.
NOTE: James Patterson’s author note in the beginning of each books says:
“To the reader:
The idea for Maximum Ride comes from earlier books of mine called When
the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named
Max who escapes from a quite despicable School. Most of the similarities
end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are NOT the same Max
and kids featured in those two books. Nor do Frannie and Kit play any
part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyway.”
GoodReads Rating: 3.65/5
Reeling
from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley
Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s parting shot: “Why can’t you
just read off the computer like everyone else?” He buys an e-book reader
out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities
he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his
wildest dreams…and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most
terrible nightmares.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.29/5
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away...but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke... Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten...and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.90/5
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.6/5
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of the classics It and Insomnia), four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. His incoherent ravings prove to be disturbingly prescient. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher.
Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Not since The Stand has King crafted a story of such astonishing range -- and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.43/5
At first glance, Stephen King's latest bears a familial resemblance to Christine , his 1983 saga of a haunted, homicidal Plymouth Fury. But From a Buick 8 is a marked departure from this earlier tale of adolescent angst and teenage tribal rituals. It is the work of an older, more reflective writer, one who knows that the most pressing questions often have no answers.
The story begins in western Pennsylvania in 1979, when a mysterious figure parks a vintage Buick Roadmaster at a local gas station, then disappears forever. The police discover that the Buick isn't a car at all but rather a Buick-shaped enigma: self-healing; impregnable to dents, dirt, and scratches; composed of unidentifiable materials; and containing a completely nonfunctional engine. Confronted with a mystery of unprecedented proportions, the troopers of Barracks D claim the Buick for themselves and spend 20 years attempting to understand its nature, purpose, and provenance.
Over the years, the Buick is the site of a number of inexplicable occurrences, from occasional blinding "lightquakes" to more sinister happenings that suggest this alien object is a doorway to another dimension. King recounts the most dramatic of these with an intensity and attention to detail that evoke a primordial sense of terror, awe, and revulsion. Through it all, and despite the obsessive fascination of those around it, the Buick remains an impregnable mystery. And that, of course, is very much the point. The world, King tells us, rarely stops to explain itself. From a Buick 8 is one of King's best, mostly tightly focused novels since The Green Mile . With great narrative economy, it encompasses 25 years in the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters, and its unmistakable, deeply familiar voice is as haunting and engaging as ever. On the evidence at hand, it's clear that King continues to command the hypnotic power that has made him one of the dominant figures in modern popular culture. Bill Sheehan
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GoodReads Rating: 4.15/5
Stephen King returns to the
rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower
fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy,
the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the
River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the
howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but
two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.
In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following
his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate
evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the
population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the
brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s
most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy
and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from
the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at
bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill.
“Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” And
indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a
timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.
King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the
1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three
novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is
sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also
stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey
to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s
storytelling magic.
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