Category: Fiction

By Steve Alten

ISBN-10: 0765336324

ISBN-13: 9780765336323

On the point of a catastrophe that may finish all human lifestyles on the earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a group of scientists in Antarctica on a challenge to Jupiter’s moon Europa to mine an extraordinary ore that might offer for Earth’s long term strength wishes. yet as he and the remainder of the workforce teach less than the ice shelf in instruction for the lengthy trip, hassle erupts, and prior to they embark Eisenbraun is the unusual guy out, placed into chilly sleep opposed to his will….

When Robert wakes, he unearths the send deserted and no longer practical. He escapes to the skin of an Earth extraordinarily changed. The plan has long past horribly wrong, but as he adapts to a opposed surroundings, he realizes that there's nonetheless the way to accomplish what his venture had got down to achieve. But he also discovers that he faces a brand new adversary of the main not likely kind. For now,  his personal survival and that of the lady whose love has sustained him in his darkest hours depend upon the defeat of a technological colossus partially of his personal making. Confronting a foe that is aware him virtually in addition to he understands himself, he faces the possibility of looking on assets that he has cause to think could be to be had on one particular night of a whole moon, an evening foretold by a mysterious unseen ally to be a pivotal moment for the destiny of the earth. the sport has replaced, and Earth’s destiny depends upon him and him on my own.

The Omega Project is yet one more edge-of-your-seat mystery via bestselling writer, Steve Alten, leaving readers searching for extra.

By Doris Lessing

ISBN-10: 0060976640

ISBN-13: 9780060976644

Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the youngsters of Violence sequence, has been acclaimed as one of many maximum fictional creations within the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's own and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha via international conflict II, a gruesome moment marriage, and an expedition into Communism. This clever and starling novel perceptively finds the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted within the lifetime of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.

A Ripple from the Storm is the 3rd novel in Doris Lessing's vintage young ones of Violence series of novels, every one a masterpiece in its personal correct, and, taken jointly, an incisive and all-encompassing imaginative and prescient of our global within the 20th century.

By Elizabeth Wein

ISBN-10: 1480433209

ISBN-13: 9781480433205

Stuck among kingdoms, Princess Goewin needs to stability the calls for of management with these of her personal happinessWith her personal state in upheaval and her vicious aunt out for blood, Goewin, princess of england and daughter of excessive King Artos, flees to the British-allied African nation of Aksum. There, she meets together with her fianc\u00e9, Constantine, Britains ambassador to Aksum, who's subsequent in line for the throne of england. yet Aksum is present process its personal political turmoil, and Goewin quickly unearths herself trapped among international locations, with the healthiness of every at stake. whilst she learns of one other inheritor to the British throne, she needs to deal with the precarious state of affairs with nice care—for the sake of her personal happiness in addition to for the security of her people.This e-book good points an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Wein together with infrequent photographs from the authors own assortment.

By Khaled Hosseini

An unforgettable novel approximately discovering a misplaced piece of your self in somebody else.

Khaled Hosseini, the number one New York Times–bestselling writer of The Kite Runner and A Thousand wonderful Suns, has written a brand new novel approximately how we adore, how we look after each other, and the way the alternatives we make resonate via generations. during this story revolving round not only mom and dad and youngsters yet brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the various ways that households nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for each other; and the way usually we're stunned by means of the activities of these closest to us, on the occasions that topic such a lot. Following its characters and the ramifications in their lives and offerings and loves round the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the tale expands steadily outward, changing into extra emotionally advanced and robust with every one turning page.
 

By Tim O'Brien

ISBN-10: 0767904419

ISBN-13: 9780767904414

Initially released in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and captivating narrative pressure that later earned him the nationwide booklet Award. At its center is the connection among brothers: one that went to Vietnam and person who stayed at domestic. because the brothers fight opposed to an unforeseen snow fall in Minnesota's distant north woods, what they observe approximately themselves and every different will swap either one of them for ever.

By Max Brooks

ISBN-10: 1400049628

ISBN-13: 9781400049622

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival opposed to the hordes of undead who could be stalking you right away. absolutely illustrated and exhaustively finished, this booklet covers every thing you must comprehend, together with the way to comprehend zombie body structure and behaviour, the best security strategies and weaponry, how one can outfit your place for an extended siege, and the way to outlive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

Top 10 classes for Surviving a Zombie assault

1. set up prior to they upward push!
2. They believe no worry, why may still you?
3. Use your head: bring to an end theirs.
4. Blades don’t desire reloading.
5. excellent defense = tight outfits, brief hair.
6. wake up the staircase, then damage it.
7. Get out of the automobile, get onto the bike.
8. hold relocating, retain low, continue quiet, hold alert!
9. No position is secure, simply more secure.
10. The zombie might be long gone, however the hazard lives on.

Don’t be carefree and silly together with your most useful asset—life. This booklet is your key to survival opposed to the hordes of undead who could be stalking you at once with out your even realizing it. The Zombie Survival advisor deals whole security via relied on, confirmed tips for protecting your self and your family opposed to the residing useless. it's a e-book which may keep your lifestyles.

By Jérôme Ferrari

ISBN-10: 2330013329

ISBN-13: 9782330013325

Empire dérisoire que se sont constitué ceux qui l’ont toujours habité comme ceux qui sont revenus y vivre, un petit village corse se voit ébranlé par les prémices de sa chute à travers quelques personnages qui, au prix de l’aveuglement ou de los angeles corruption de leur âme, ont, dans l’oubli de leur finitude, tout sacrifié à l. a. tyrannique tentation du réel sous toutes ses formes, et qui, assujettis aux appétits de leurs corps ou à leurs rêves indigents de bonheur ou d’héroïsme, souffrent – ou meurent – de vouloir croire qu’il n’est qu’un seul monde attainable.

By Tanya Huff

ISBN-10: 0756400627

ISBN-13: 9780756400620

Top identified for her Quarters sequence and vampire novels, Tanya Huff surprised critics and fanatics with Valor's Choice, her first army technology fiction novel. This exciting sequel follows the Confederation's research of a possible deserted alien spaceship.

"Solid...entertaining...rousing army adventure." (Locus)

By Janet MacLeod Trotter

With the good struggle nonetheless uncooked within the reminiscence and a residing salary ever tougher to discover, the Nineteen Twenties are rarely proving a vivid new period for the mining households of Whitton Grange.

And, because the burden of taking good care of the Kirkup relations falls extra seriously on her, younger Louie Kirkup concerns that she is doomed to develop into a spinster drudge, perpetually on the beck and speak to of her pitmen father and brothers. till, that's, she sees 'Red' Sam Ritson, demanding, muscled and with the entire dignity of a common chief, climb into the boxing ring on the Durham miners' gala.

But, wedded to his conflict to take care of his fellow miners' rights opposed to the ruthless encroachments of pit proprietor Reginald Seward-Scott, Sam is not often a fantastic husband and, because the pressure raises, Louie is familiar with existence with him is certain to be ruled by means of a fight opposed to these extra strong than he.

As the overall Strike looms and Louie attempts desperately to make a kinfolk domestic for Sam and their longed-for baby, her fears end up to be good founded...

By Greg Carlisle

From the writer of Elegant Complexity comes a cogent research of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion. Nature's Nightmare is the 1st e-book of feedback dedicated to Wallace's masterful tale assortment. Carlisle provides an in-depth narrative research of every tale: "Mr. Squishy," "The Soul isn't really a Smithy," "Incarnations of Burned Children," "Another Pioneer," "Good previous Neon," "Philosophy and the replicate of Nature," "Oblivion," and "The discomfort Channel." Carlisle's methodical technique walks readers via Wallace's thematic pursuits and situates Oblivion within the broader arc of Wallace's occupation. each passage of every tale is analyzed by way of 1) interrelation of narrative shape and content material, 2) relation of tale to the subject matter of oblivion, three) routine thematic motifs in Wallace's paintings, and four) evaluation of content material relating to Infinite Jest and The faded King. The ebook comprises 9 charts that illustrate narrative units Wallace employs during the tales. Jason Kottke called Elegant Complexity the reference ebook for Infinite Jest and now Nature's Nightmare is the first reference paintings for Oblivion.