Category: Fiction

By Rhiannon Frater

Siege is the belief to Rhiannon Frater’s because the global Dies trilogy, which may still entice enthusiasts of The jogging Dead. either The First Days and Fighting to Survive gained the lifeless Letter Award from Mail Order Zombie. The First Days was once named the best Zombie Books of the last decade via the Harrisburg booklet Examiner.

The zombie affliction has shattered civilization. The survivors who've chanced on tenuous defense in Texas shield their citadel opposed to the jogging lifeless and dwelling bandits.

Katie has made peace with the demise of her spouse and is pregnant and married to Travis, who has been elected Mayor. Jenni, her stepson, Jason; and Juan—Travis’s righthand man—are a contented relatives, notwithstanding Jenni suffers from PTSD. either girls are lethal zombie killers.

In Siege, the folks of Ashley Oaks are shocked to find that the vice chairman of the USA is alive and commanding the remnants of the united states army. What’s left of the U.S. executive has plans for this team of decided survivors.

By Markus Zusak

It’s only a small tale rather, approximately between different issues: a woman, a few phrases, an accordionist, a few fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and a great deal of thievery. . . .

Set in the course of global struggle II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the tale of Liesel Meminger, a foster lady residing open air of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager life for herself by means of stealing whilst she encounters whatever she can’t resist–books. With assistance from her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to learn and stocks her stolen books together with her buddies in the course of bombing raids in addition to with the Jewish guy hidden in her basement prior to he's marched to Dachau.

This is an unforgettable tale concerning the skill of books to feed the soul.

By M. C. Beaton

Notable information has unfold around the Scottish geographical region. the main recognized of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, might be married eventually. every body within the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Macbeth's latest constable and blushing bride-to-be.

While locals imagine Josie is sort of a seize, Hamish has a case of prenuptial jitters. in any case, if it weren't for the hot homicide of a pretty girl in a neighbouring village, there wouldn't be a marriage in any respect. For it was once a mysterious Valentine's Day package--delivered to the sufferer prior to her death--that at first drew Hamish and Josie jointly at the research. As they paintings part through facet, Hamish and Josie quickly observe that the woman's checklist of admirers used to be never-ending, confirming Hamish's suspicion that love could be blind, deaf . . . and lethal.

By James M. Cain

Whereas slinging hash in a diner, a would-be Cinderella meets her Prince CharmingCarrie Selden isn't in any respect just like the girl you've examine within the papers. even though she used to be raised in an orphanage, she isn't an orphan. She didn't end highschool until eventually she used to be nineteen, yet that used to be simply because she was once operating as a waitress, no longer simply because she was once sluggish. And even though she's very crafty, good, she's no femme fatale. yet her attractiveness . . . oh sure, her good looks is every thing you've heard. At twenty-one, she takes her discount rates and strikes to long island urban, touchdown a role at a diner known as Karb's, on the backside rung of the eating place chain's tall company ladder. although she makes minimal salary, Carrie is savvy, and it isn't lengthy ahead of she starts off to climb. while her coworkers unionize, they pick out her as president, and from there, the sky's the restrict. yet simply because the union will get underway, she meets a mysterious highbrow named Grant—who will both aid her upward push to the pinnacle, or drag her immediately right down to hell.

By Paul B. Thompson

The wonderful background of Balif has eventually come to light...

The Journeyman is charged to exploit the traditional Anvil of Time to shuttle again alongside the river of time and locate the misplaced tales that fell among the pages of the historical past books.

probably the most fascinating figures in Dragonlance(R) is that of Balif, the elven basic who used to be an intimate of Silvanos, the 1st Speaker of the celebs. Balif based the town of Balifor, granted the kender a place of birth, was once an recommend for the wizard Vedvedsica, lived below a curse, used to be altered via the Graygem--but not anyone elf may possibly do all these issues. Or may perhaps he?

By Louise Erdrich

The around House received the nationwide e-book Award for fiction.

One of the main respected novelists of our time—a significant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The around House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. it truly is an exquisitely informed tale of a boy at the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and figuring out within the wake of a bad crime that upends and without end transforms his family.

Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the main obtainable novel up to now from the writer of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The around House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at as soon as a strong coming-of-age tale, a secret, and a young, relocating novel of relations, heritage, and tradition.

By James Robertson

"And the Land Lay Still" is not anything under the tale of a kingdom. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of recent Scotland as visible during the eyes of natives and immigrants, newshounds and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all attempting to make their approach via a rustic within the throes of serious and speedy swap. it's a relocating, sweeping tale of family members, friendship, fight and wish - epic in each feel.

By James R. Tuck

He lives to kill monsters. He retains his urban secure. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead skills take out any type of unnatural chance. yet among this bad-ass bounty hunter and rescuing the main helpless of sufferers stands the single evil he can't defeat...

For Deacon Chalk, loyalty is worthy demise for. And now that whatever has taken were-spider Charlotte's un-hatched youngsters and one in all his closest acquaintances, he'll tear up the human and supernatural underworlds to discover them. yet together with his allies stripped away by way of an invincible Yakuza hit guy and time working out, Deacon needs to face down the main historical of demonic entities. And his final wish capability surrendering to the interior darkness ready hungrily to eat him ...

By Rose Tremain

Within the wake of manufacturing facility closings and his loved wife's loss of life, Lev is on his means from jap Europe to London, looking paintings to aid his mom and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he unearths a task within the kitchen of a complicated eating place, and a room in the home of an beautiful Irishman who has additionally misplaced his kinfolk. by no means brain that Lev needs to sleep in a bunk mattress surrounded through plastic toys--he has came across a chum and take care of. besides the fact that constricted his existence in England is still he compensates by way of having a pipe dream of domestic, via having an affair with a more youthful eating place employee (and dodging the attentions of alternative women), and via buying and selling gossip and targets through mobile phone together with his hilarious previous good friend Rudi who, dreaming of the rich West, lives principally for his battered Chevrolet.

Homesickness canines Lev, not just for nostalgic purposes, yet simply because he doesn't belong, physique or soul, to his new country--but can he relatively cross domestic back? Rose Tremain's prodigious skills as a prose author are on complete exhibit within the highway domestic, and her novel by no means loses sight of what's actually very important within the lives we lead.

By Nevil Shute

After pilot Philip Stenning is fascinated by a near-fatal airplane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the guy who rescued him. even if, his mysterious savior seems to be an escaped convict and Stenning’s choice to assist this guy leads him right into a stressful and dramatic experience of intrigue, drug-running, and homicide.