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Antimatter Blues
0Edward Ashton’s Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.
Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive―that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life. -
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The Fourth Girl: A Novel (Haven Cliff Book 1)
0On prom night, Caroline Winterfield walked away from the ruins of an abandoned mansion called Haven Cliff and into the woods…never to be seen again. Only her three best friends know what really happened. But a secret is a secret, and a promise is a promise—even when it shatters lifelong friendships.
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Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel
0Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
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Nowhere to Hide (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 7)
0In the seventh novel of the acclaimed Tony Valenti Thriller series, Tony battles to save his girlfriend’s recently orphaned nephew from the jaws of injustice. Will fifteen-year-old Kevin Tyler be ripped away from the only home he’s ever known? The ensuing legal battle sets the courts of Texas and the Canadian province of Alberta on a collision course.
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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
0One of NPR’s “Books We Love” for 2024
A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature.
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare.
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The Everblue
0In the secret vault of the old MacLeod family home, troubled psychiatrist Jonathan Deadstone unearths a WWII article about a mythical flower. A few months later, he is visited by Mr. Dubois, whose ectoplasmic adventures have led him to a Japanese mountain and ‘The Everblue’, an enchanted flower with earth-shattering powers for the human mind. Deadstone lures in his wake his niece Beatrice, who wants nothing more than to leave the throes of her grandmother’s insalubrious education, and her autistic friend from Uni.
An expedition is set up. The allure of the enigmatic Everblue myth beckons, promising untold magic and mysticism to those daring enough to embark on the quest. From the misty landscapes of Scotland to razor’s edge Japan, a journey unfolds, where precious pearls of wisdom and power lie scattered on the path of enlightenment. But a black sheep associated with a cult is among them.
As the tangible Western world teeters on the brink of vanishing, the expeditionists pursuing the Everblue find themselves thrown into the abyss of their deepest fears and desires under the charms of Tokai spirits. In this labyrinthine adventure, Beatrice, a beacon of innocence and intelligence, stands at the crossroads of destiny since she has been chosen by the nefarious cult as the chosen one …
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Her Best Friend’s Keeper
6TEN YEARS. THREE MONTHS. SIXTEEN DAYS.
—That was how long it had been since she had felt safe.
As a teenager Gabby Kendall witnessed the execution of her best friend’s family. Those images haunt her every day. Now… Now the killers are back. They know who she is, where she lives, and who her friends are. They know everything about her…
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Into the Fall: A Thriller
1From debut author Tamara L. Miller comes a suspenseful psychological thriller tracking the mysteries of a seemingly mundane life as they come to light in the vast, unforgiving Canadian wilderness.
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A Drop of Corruption
3NATIONAL BESTSELLER The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.
“Wonderfully clever and compulsively readable . . . another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection.”—Publishers Weekly
In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside.
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Aftermath 5: A Nuclear War Survival Thriller
1The aftermath of the war to end all wars was being felt around the globe. As nuclear fallout encircled the Earth like a blanket of death, some perished while the living channeled their primal instincts to survive. And it was just the beginning of a new horror …