Title: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Series: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Author: Robin Sloan Genre: Fiction Publisher: Picador Release Date: September 24, 2013 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Date Read: November 15, 2015 A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named Read more
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While the Sigma team is racing the Russians to hunt down the secrets locked in Ice Station Grendel, something is hunting them.
Title: The Lost Island Series: Gideon Crew #3 Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Genre: Fiction Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Release Date: March 24, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Date Read: December 6, 2015 Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him Read more
I don't consider this to be Grisham's finest book, but it was damned good. If you have an opinion on the death penalty - be it fore or against - this should be a must-read!
This is actually classified as an autobiography, but it's really so much more than that. Yes, we learn about Stephen King's childhood, his family, his education, his catastrophic accident later in life, but throughout the book there is an entire education on what it takes to be a successful writer.
Title: The Alchemist Author: Paulo Coelho Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: April 25, 2006 Pages: 208 Date Read: August 17, 2015 "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your Read more