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What do readers say about Worth Dying For?
suspenseful as usual a one-man wrecking machine a very violent the story moves quicklyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer."-Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thrill... More details on Worth Dying For
Eldridge Tyler was driving a long straight two-lane road in Nebraska when his cell phone rang. It was very late in the afternoon. He was taking his granddaughter home after buying her shoes. His truck...
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What do readers say about The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle?
interesting and engrossing it was very suspenseful fast-paced, suspenseful adventure newbery honor bookThirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds her... More details on The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Just before dusk in the late afternoon of June 16, 1832, I found myself walking along the crowded docks of Liverpool, England, following a man by the name of Grummage. Though a business associate of m...
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What do readers say about Just One Damned Thing After Another?
smart and witty light-hearted and entertaining a typical first book time travel novelThe first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
"History is just one damned thing after another." -Arnold Toynbee
Behind the seemingly innocuous faca... More details on Just One Damned Thing After Another
The first occurred when, after another disruptive day at school, I stood in front of my head teacher, Mrs De Winter. I’d done the sullen silence thing and waited for expulsion, because I was long past...
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What do readers say about Sleeping Giants?
oral transcription/oral history question/answer interview style interview/case file format unearthing alien artifactsA page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery-and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home... More details on Sleeping Giants
—Nothing. We didn’t talk about it much after that. I went to school every day like any kid my age. No one in my family had ever been to college, so they insisted I keep going to school. I majored in p...
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What do readers say about The Maze Runner?
adventurous and unexpected stilted and repetitive beautiful and descriptive plain, simple styleNice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It's the only way out-and no one's ever made it through alive.
Everything is going to change.
Then a girl ar... More details on The Maze Runner
Metal ground against metal; a lurching shudder shook the floor beneath him. He fell down at the sudden movement and shuffled backward on his hands and feet, drops of sweat beading on his forehead desp...
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What do readers say about Steelheart?
first person narrative suspenseful and exciting post apocalyptic future supervillains vs. ordinary folksThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don't miss the rest of the Reckoners series... More details on Steelheart
I skidded down a stairwell and crunched against steel gravel at the bottom. Sucking in air, I dashed through one of the dark understreets of Newcago. Ten years had passed since my father’s death. That...
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What do readers say about Leviathan Wakes?
long but smartly economical science fiction/space opera interesting and open-ended plot intricate and engagingFrom a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing... More details on Leviathan Wakes
A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable econo...
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What do readers say about Shadow and Bone?
interesting world and characters fantasy and paranormal predictable, overly dramatic young adult fantasySoldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold-a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes... More details on Shadow and Bone
STANDING ON THE EDGE of a crowded road, I looked down onto the rolling fields and abandoned farms of the Tula Valley and got my first glimpse of the Shadow Fold. My regiment was two weeks’ march from ...
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What do readers say about Dungeon Crawler Carl?
more adult comedy hilarious and dark terrific character evolution hilarious and ridiculousThe apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected... More details on Dungeon Crawler Carl
I came into existence in a now-familiar office. The hooded figure of Orren, the grim reaper-like Syndicate liaison, sat at his cluttered desk, staring at me, hands steepled in front of him. I caught a...
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What do readers say about Eclipse?
not very eloquent bella's more rebellious nature simple and straight forward well paced and engagingEdward's soft voice came from behind me.
I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. T... More details on Eclipse
I ran my fingers across the page, feeling the dents where he had pressed the pen to the paper so hard that it had nearly broken through. I could picture him writing this — scrawling the angry letters ...
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