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October 7, 2020
The Rage of Dragons
An endless, unwinnable war…
A young peasant soldier destined to die for his betters…
An underworld where demons lurk and time stands still…
There are not enough days for the lesser warrior Tau to gain the fighting knowledge needed to survive wave after wave of battles, to beat the superior nobles that have been trained from birth to destroy him and to gain revenge on the three men that murdered his father.
But what if there was a way of borrowing time…
What if he could trade a piece of himself for such a gift?
When death is your only destiny, what price is too high for life?
I enjoyed this book for its action and for the journey that Tau takes to becoming an unlikely hero. I loved this book for its lore, the author’s creativity, and the way in which the hero overcomes his perceived limitations.
Swordplay, dragons, magic and romance await you within Evan Winter’s The Rage of Dragons
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An endless, unwinnable war…
A young peasant soldier destined to die for his betters…
An underworld where demons lurk and time stands still…
There are not enough days for the lesser warrior Tau to gain the fighting knowledge needed to survive wave after wave of battles, to beat the superior nobles that have been trained from birth to destroy him and to gain revenge on the three men that murdered his father.
But what if there was a way of borrowing time…
What if he could trade a piece of himself for such a gift?
When death is your only destiny, what price is too high for life?
I enjoyed this book for its action and for the journey that Tau takes to becoming an unlikely hero. I loved this book for its lore, the author’s creativity, and the way in which the hero overcomes his perceived limitations.
Swordplay, dragons, magic and romance await you within Evan Winter’s The Rage of Dragons
June 8, 2020
The Eye of the Needle
An impending invasion on the French coast…
Decoy barracks tanks and Spitfires…
…sprinkled across the English countryside.
A spy smuggling intel that will squash the Allied assault…
…and a young girl on an isolated island that stands in his way.
Eye of the Needle is the book that put Ken Follet on the map. This novel has action, adventure, history and romance lovingly crafted with clever characters in storied surroundings.
Watch how the Allies brilliantly attempt to hide their historic death blow and witness as one wily German agent aims to parry their thrust.
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An impending invasion on the French coast…
Decoy barracks tanks and Spitfires…
…sprinkled across the English countryside.
A spy smuggling intel that will squash the Allied assault…
…and a young girl on an isolated island that stands in his way.
Eye of the Needle is the book that put Ken Follet on the map. This novel has action, adventure, history and romance lovingly crafted with clever characters in storied surroundings.
Watch how the Allies brilliantly attempt to hide their historic death blow and witness as one wily German agent aims to parry their thrust.
April 13, 2020
Jackdaws
D Day approaches…
A small but brave French Resistance force…
A foiled attack on a German communication exchange…
Only one of the saboteurs escapes…
A second attempt on the exchange would be suicide.
Flick, a fluently French-speaking British spy retreats to English soil to lick her wounds and plan a second attack on the exchange, but the Germans are now waiting and have plans of their own.
A murderess, a safe-cracker and a crossdresser are just some of the unlikely characters thrown together to make up the six-woman team that will parachute behind enemy lines and help Flick finish the deadly job she has started.
Will their cleaning staff disguises be enough to get their explosives past the arrogant German SS guards, or will torture and execution be their fate?
Master storytelling, action and adventure, and unforgettable heroes await you within Ken Follet’s Jackdaws.
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D Day approaches…
A small but brave French Resistance force…
A foiled attack on a German communication exchange…
Only one of the saboteurs escapes…
A second attempt on the exchange would be suicide.
Flick, a fluently French-speaking British spy retreats to English soil to lick her wounds and plan a second attack on the exchange, but the Germans are now waiting and have plans of their own.
A murderess, a safe-cracker and a crossdresser are just some of the unlikely characters thrown together to make up the six-woman team that will parachute behind enemy lines and help Flick finish the deadly job she has started.
Will their cleaning staff disguises be enough to get their explosives past the arrogant German SS guards, or will torture and execution be their fate?
Master storytelling, action and adventure, and unforgettable heroes await you within Ken Follet’s Jackdaws.
April 9, 2020
The Expanse
Colonies on Mars…
Mining stations among the asteroids…
A secret alien technology…
…guarded over by an interplanetary conspiracy.
Can Jim Holden hold onto his scavenged Mars attack ship and discover the origins of this ancient alien threat?
Will Detective Miller find patient zero of a virus that has turned a moon-sized space station into an orbiting house of horrors?
Are the two men going to work together to save humanity, or are they going tear each other apart?
I liked The Expanse for its ideas about the potential mining and colonization of our solar system and the politics that might surround it, but I loved the book for its characters’ colorful personalities.
The Sci-Fi books that I have read in the past have been full of stoic, buttoned-down, overly professional characters, but the people in this book were flawed and quirky and very relatable, which made the cold realities of space a bit more warm and comforting.
If I was going to be stuck for months on end in a railgun-armed vacuum-sealed can of shaving cream, the space dwellers in The Expanse are the people that I would like to be trapped with.
Night Over Water
Wealthy passengers fleeing World War II…
A massive, floating, dual-decked airplane with a dining area and sleeper beds.
An English Nazi, a Jewish scientist, a charming thief, and several hijackers bent on kidnap.
Feel Howard Hughes glaring over your shoulder as you rub elbows with high society and take cocktails with low criminals aboard this long-forgotten luxury airliner.
Spy games, gangsters, romance and adventure await you aboard the Pan Am Clipper as it skims its way across the Atlantic on its 24-hour tour.
Will this historic flight reach its destination, or does a darker fate await?
Must be over 18.
October 28, 2019
ENDER’S GAME
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Greetings adventure Seeker!
A boy genius bred for battle…
A hundred-year war with a distant alien foe…
Ender must overcome zero-gravity training in an orbiting Battle School, bitter isolation from his family and friends, and violent peer rivalries if he is to lead the final fight against the overwhelming Buggers.
His mind will be challenged by multidimensional games, his body will be tested by bloody bathroom brawls, and his spirit will be questioned by his soulless instructors.
Is Ender the child general the world desperately needs or will he follow in his sadistic brother’s cruel path?
You’ll love this story because the characters are believably wise beyond their years and the technology is beautifully timeless.
September 6, 2019
Fall of Giants
White slavery in the twentieth century…
A boy, once a coal miner, tunnels under enemy trenches…
A young housekeeper seduced by a married Earl…
An English aristocrat runs away to enemy territory with a dashing German spy…
Monarchies more fit to fight Napoleon’s nineteenth-century armies square off against the Kaiser’s cutting-edge mechanical war machine.
Feel the thunder as oppressive empires come crashing to the ground and duck for cover as battling factions claim their remains.
Will the victors find true freedom, or will they fall into ever more tangled shackles?
Action, espionage, love and bloody revolution await you within Ken Follet’s, Fall of Giants.
