Adventure / action fiction
Indiana University Press My Name Was Never Frankenstein
Book SynopsisMy Name Was Never Frankenstein reanimates your favorite literary characters into new and exciting escapades. This inventive collection upends old territory and classic characters, reclaiming them for a new generation.Trade Review"Editor Bryan Furuness explains that while this playful collection of 14 short stories by 14 different writers all have similar jumping off points, 'they jump in different directions." The result is, as Furuness says, 'wild and grand and strange.'" * Bloom Magazine *Table of Contents1. The Return of the Ape Man / Edward Porter2. John Thorton Speaks / Pam Houston3. A True History of the Notorious Mr. Edward Hyde / Tony Eprile4. Island of the Kingsbride / Molly Gutman5. What the Fire God Said to the Beasts / Michael Poore6. Huck and Hominy: A Legend / Corey Mesler7. The Planning Meeting for Bringing College Classes to the Local Prison Takes a Weird Turn / Kathleen Founds8. Afterwards / Gregory Maguire9. Listen to Me / Bryan Furuness10. Dear Nobody / Kristy Logan11. There Was Once a Man / Kelcey Parker Ervick12. The Legends of Żorro / Michael Czyzniejewski13. The Wonderworld / Margaret Patton Chapman14. My Name Was Never Frankenstein / Rachel Brittain
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Orbit The Trouble with Peace
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£17.99
Orbit The Obelisk Gate 2 The Broken Earth 2
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£17.09
Little, Brown & Company New York 2140
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£18.69
Orbit An Echo of Things to Come
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£19.79
Orbit The Fractured Dark
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£18.04
Orbit The Bound Worlds
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£17.52
Orbit The Tyranny of Faith
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£18.99
Orbit Seven Blades in Black
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£18.04
Orbit Sins of Empire
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£17.99
Little, Brown & Company Annex
Book SynopsisAn exciting twist on a hostile-alien-takeover drama. . .exhilarating. -- Washington PostAn energetic, nonstop adventure. -- Chicago TribuneIndependence Day meets Lord of the Flies in this thrilling and imaginative debut about two young outsiders forced to fight off alien invaders in a post-apocalyptic city. (Fonda Lee)When the aliens invade, all seems lost. The world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.But with no adults left to run things, young trans-girl Violet and her new friend Bo realize that they are free. Free to do whatever they want. Free to be whoever they want to be. Except the invaders won''t leave them alone for long. . .This warm, thrilling adventure about what happens after the end of the world is for fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and Ann Leckie. (Cherie Priest)
£12.34
Orbit The Obsidian Tower 1 Rooks and Ruin
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Orbit Rosewater
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Little, Brown & Company The Bloody Throne
Book Synopsis'Wildly romantic, suspenseful, and filled with harrowing plot twists...' ―BooklistReturn to the Zhaon empire one last time in The Bloody Throne, the masterful conclusion to S. C. Emmett's sweeping epic fantasy of war, glory, and survival.The great Zhaon empire is in turmoil. The emperor is dead, and the crown prince has fallen to hidden schemes, leaving his most dangerous brother to assume the throne. The imperial court is seething, and whispers of war grow to shouts.The once-vanquished kingdom of Khir marches again to regain their honor, the savage Tabrak raid the borders after ravaging the South, and assassins lurk in the shadows seeking imperial favor.Komor Yala, her own position uncertain, finds shelter in marriage to the cunning Third Prince. But there is little safety in Zhaon. Death and destruction mount as a blood-drenched summer ends. The winner will claim an empire—if it
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Little, Brown & Company Shark Summer
Book SynopsisSummer has begun on Martha''s Vineyard, but Gayle isn''t interested. Not in the working at an ice cream stand. Not in softball, since she broke her arm on a bad play and hasn''t seen her team since. Not even in Shark!, the big Hollywood movie being filmed on the island. All she wants to do is help her mother open their long-planned ice cream stand. But because of Gayle''s hospital bills, they don''t have the money to do even that.Enter Maddie and Elijah, Gayle''s new friends and her ticket off this cursed island. With their help, Gayle schemes to win a youth film contest and use the prize money to get the ice cream stand up and running. But those plans quickly go awry as their movie uncovers a long-dormant island mystery and the friends'' very reasons for creating the film irrevocably shift.
£10.44
Orbit Eversion
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Orbit Machine Vendetta
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Orbit These Burning Stars
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Orbit On Vicious Worlds
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£14.05
Orbit Echo of Worlds
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£14.79
Orbit The Hod King
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£17.99
Little, Brown & Company The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu A Novel
Book SynopsisWinner of the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction AwardOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon''s henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and une
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Little, Brown & Company Afterwar
Book SynopsisThey say the war''s over when the surrender is signed. It''s a lie.America''s bloody Second Civil War lasted for years. When the surrender is signed, it''s supposed to be over; refugees flood the highways, trying to get back home. For Swann''s Riders-especially their newest addition Lara Nelson, snatched from certain death in the Firster kamp system-there''s no such thing as a home to return to.Swann and his crew of partisans work for the Federal Army now, hunting through the wreckage for war criminals and kamp officials. Their next quarry is carrying something explosive, something that can level the nascent Federal government and turn the entire continent into a hellscape- well, more than it already is.Across America, working against time and chaos, Swann''s Riders are back in the fight. And Lara, whose secrets may well end up consuming her too, has a vengeance of her own to deliver...
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Little Brown and Company A Salty Piece of Land
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£25.20
Little, Brown & Company Engines of Empire
Book SynopsisFrom an unmissable voice in epic fantasy comes a sweeping tale of clashing guilds, magic-fueled machines, and revolution. The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose responsibility it is to keep the gears of the empire turning. That''s exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military. It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming: the first rumblings of revolution.Tyreta is a sorceress with the ability to channel the power of pyrestone, the magical resource that fuels the empire''s machines. She is sent to the mines to learn more about how pyrsetone is harvested - but instead, she finds the dark horrors of industry that the empire would prefer to keep hidden.The youngest, Fulren, is a talented artificer and finds himself acting as a guide to a mysterious foreign emissary. Soon after, he is framed for a crime he never committed. A crime that could start a war. As the Hawkspurs grapple with the many threats that face the nation within and without, they must finally prove themselves worthy-or their empire will fall apart. A heady blend of action, arcana, and intrigue. -Gareth Hanrahan, author of The Gutter Prayer
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Pan Macmillan Seven Ancient Wonders
Book SynopsisMatthew Reilly is the Australian-born author of bestselling novels Contest, Ice Station, Temple, Area 7, Scarecrow and Seven Ancient Wonders, which reached the Sunday Times top-ten bestseller list. He wrote his first two books while studying law at the University of New South Wales, and now writes full-time, producing novels and screenplays and creating television series. The author lives in Sydney.
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Random House USA Inc Coup dEtat The War That Came Early Book Four
Book SynopsisIn 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels—and so does a different World War II. In Harry Turtledove’s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin’s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction. England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole? Mea
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Little, Brown Book Group The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Book SynopsisTHE TWELFTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES'' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one where Mma Makutsi gets married . . . As the countdown to Mma Makutsi''s big day begins, Violet Sephotho, her former rival for the affections of Phuti Radiphuti, is up to no good as usual. And will Mma Makutsi bury her differences with pushy Mma Potokwani, who has offered to help with the wedding feast?Meanwhile Mma Ramotswe is called away on a case at a southern cattle post, and Charlie has again got himself in a bit of bother with a young lady. At least they all have the happy occasion to look forward to . . .
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Alfred A. Knopf Station Eleven
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold!Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the rem
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dead Eye Gray Man
Book SynopsisEx-CIA master assassin Court Gentry gets hit with a blast from the past in the fourth Gray Man novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney.Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows—to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he’s never had to face before: a killer who is just like him.Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry. But now, Whitlock is a free agent who has been directed to terminate his fellow student of death. He knows how his target thinks, how he moves, and how he kills. And he knows the best way to do the job is to make Gentry run for his life—right up until the moment Dead Eye finally ends it...
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Random House Publishing Group Down the Long Hills Louis LAmours Lost Treasures
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Random House USA Inc Origin
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Random House USA Inc Artemis
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£23.19
Faber & Faber To the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisA new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.Rites of Passage (Winner of the Booker Prize)''The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.'' The TimesClose Quarters''A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.'' Daily MailFire Down Below''Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.'' Sunday TimesTrade Review"'[Rites of Passage] is the work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.' The Times; 'Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.' Sunday Times"
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Faber & Faber Illywhacker
Book SynopsisAn illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.
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Faber & Faber Kolymsky Heights
Book SynopsisA sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is 'the best thriller I've ever read' (Philip Pullman) ranking with 'The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People' (Spectator).'Hugely thrilling, brilliantly written, perfect ...
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Faber & Faber The Rose of Tibet
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights''I devoured it.'' Anthony HorowitzWith an introduction by Anthony HorowitzA filmmaker is reported dead near Mount Everest. His brother, Charles Houston, is convinced he''s alive and is determined to find him. It''s a dangerous expedition. He travels from India to the forbidden land of Tibet. In the Yamdring monastery, he discovers an emerald treasure guarded by a woman with a deadly secret. But the Chinese army is coming...''I hadn''t realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read The Rose of Tibet.'' Graham Greene''Thrilling . . . a perilous journey across Tibet in search of a missing brother.'' Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
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Faber & Faber Pincher Martin
Book SynopsisExperience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.An hour on this rock is a lifetime.Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R. Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece.''Wizardry of the first order.'' Observer''Terrifying Magnificently original.' Sylvia Plath''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' Marlon James''An
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Faber & Faber White Eagles Over Serbia
Book SynopsisLose yourself in this classic 1950s Cold War spy thriller tracking a British secret agent in Communist Serbia by the celebrated of The Alexandria Quartet, perfect for fans of John le Carre.''A spellbinder ... Desperately exciting.'' Daily TelegraphMethuen is a seasoned British secret agent, weary of espionage missions and desperately in need of a break - but he can''t resist an assignment to investigate dirty dealings in the Balkans. A fellow British spy has been murdered in Serbia by a guerrilla gang of underground royalists, the White Eagles - but when Methuen arrives, he soon finds himself in a life-and-death struggle, pursued by both the royalists and Communists alike ...Inspired by Lawrence Durrell''s own experiences in the British Foreign Office, White Eagles Over Serbia is a classic Cold War espionage thriller: a white-knuckle adventure perfect for fans of John le Carre and Graham Greene.''Exceptionally wel
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Faber & Faber Close Quarters
Book SynopsisIntroduced by Helen Castor, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world.A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fÃte-like atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium, both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at the seams . . . 'Fantastic ... Gems tumble off the pages ... A strong sense of drama ... Much of the pleasure of reading his work is his original imagery.' Annie Proulx'Trade Review'Stunning . . . As exciting as any thriller.' - Sunday Times'A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.' - Daily Mail'Tells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and subtlety.' - Financial Times
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Lost Legend of Taylor Rapids
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Our Man Adelaide
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£12.97
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Last Ranger
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Random House Worlds Emily Wildes Map of the Otherlands
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it?s too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAREmily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world?s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She?s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He?s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother and in search of a door back to his realm. And despite Emily?s feelings for Bambleby, she?s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage: Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and dangers. She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby?s realm and the key to freeing him from his family?s dark plans.But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart.Book Two of the Emily Wilde SeriesDon?t miss any of Heather Fawcett?s charming Emily Wilde series:EMILY WILDE?S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES ? EMILY WILDE?S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS ? EMILY WILDE?S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
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Black Cockie Press City in the Sky
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£19.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Fungal Apocalypse
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£10.09
Andrew Dickinson The Last Warrior
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£13.26
Scholastic His Dark Materials Northern Lights Classic Art
Book SynopsisThe first volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy.
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