(SERIES:
CRESCENT CITY) Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back
to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much
upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax.
Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt
alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the
threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends
get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay
silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And
they’ve never been very good at staying silent.
(SERIES)
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring
them all and in the darkness bind them.
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths,
and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his
own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was
taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it
remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the
hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread
far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings, but always he
searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
(SERIES)
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul
Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable
world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug
capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted
across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for....
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family
will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could
ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known
as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and
unattainable dream.
(SERIES)
It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his
house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way
for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has
just announced that he’s an alien.
After that, things get much, much worse.
With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to
navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of
unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And
the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which
helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly
letters on its cover.
(SERIES:
WHEEL OF TIME) Book 1: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and
pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and
even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns
again. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the
Shadow.
When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the Two Rivers
seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and
his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable
world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.
(SERIES:
BOOK 1 OF LIGHTBRINGER) Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and
emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a
tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how
long he has left to live.
When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the
war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to
pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
(SERIES:
BOOK 1 OF GAME OF THRONES) Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto
of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance
to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard
Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells
in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb,
Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard
son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie
savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during
the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too
deadly in the turning of the season.
Roshar
is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power
sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped
ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull
in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are
built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders
known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate
remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary
men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for
Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
AD
573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment.
Her husband and son have ridden off to war against her brother,
Lailoken. She doesn’t yet know that her young daughter, Angharad,
who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been
lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval
Scottish history abandons its survivors to the wilds of Scotland,
Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the
Lowlands, while nine year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has
taught her to follow her own destiny through the mysterious,
mystical land of the Picts.
Kira
Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.
Now she's awakened a nightmare.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds
an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to
terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.
As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a
galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First
contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the
very limits of what it means to be human.
(SERIES:
THE ENDER UNIVERSE) In order to develop a secure defense against a
hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child
geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew
"Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic
brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his
sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the
soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the
Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military
training.
(SERIES:
THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY) Area X has been cut off from the rest of
the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of
human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a
pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass
suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members
turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition
returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all
had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff
VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.