Synopsis:
"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is
ready for a short break from her family. So despite the oppressive July
heat, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast.
Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, the famed private informer (now
retired), has taken up her father's former profession, and it's time to
get back to work. The first order of business, however, is the corpse
that was found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the
Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome,
it falls upon Albia to identify the corpse, find out why he was killed,
who killed him, and, most important, how did it end up in the chest.At the same time, her potential young man, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus's political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more underhanded and duplicitous. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn't able to solve that mystery, it won't be the only body to drop."
Synopsis:
"Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty
Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to
investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to
keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the
interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a
revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space,
because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.
Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science"
Synopsis:
"Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of
liberation-especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by
the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they
strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the
city. The King in Red hires Elayne Kevarian of the Craft firm Kelethres,
Albrecht, and Ao to fix the wards, but the Skittersill's people have
their own ideas. A protest rises against Elayne's work, led by Temoc, a
warrior-priest turned community organizer who wants to build a peaceful
future for his city, his wife, and his young son.As Elayne drags Temoc and the King in Red to the bargaining table, old wounds reopen, old gods stir in their graves, civil blood breaks to new mutiny, and profiteers circle in the desert sky. Elayne and Temoc must fight conspiracy, dark magic, and their own demons to save the peace-or failing that, to save as many people as they can."
Synopsis:
"Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her."
Synopsis:
"Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and
into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut
from a two-time Campbell Award finalist.Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of Eledore, disregarded as flawed by the king and many others. Only Suvi, his fraternal twin sister, supports him. When Nels is ambushed by an Acrasian scouting party, he does the forbidden for a member of the ruling family: He picks up a fallen sword and defends himself.
Disowned and dismissed to the military, Nels establishes himself as a leader as Eledore begins to shatter under the attack of the Acrasians, who the Kainen had previously dismissed as barbarians. But Nels knows differently, and with the aid of Suvi, who has allied with pirates, he mounts a military offensive with sword, canon, and what little magic is left in the world."
Synopsis:
"It’s up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to
handle humanity’s first contact with an alien ambassador—and prevent
mass extinction—in this novel that blends magical realism with
high-stakes action.After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders, thieves, and crackpots are trying to control the message on YouTube and on the streets. Meanwhile, the earth’s political superpowers are considering a preemptive nuclear launch to eradicate the intruders. All that stands between 17 million anarchic residents and death is an alien ambassador, a biologist, a rapper, a soldier, and a myth that may be the size of a giant spider, or a god revealed."
Note: I reviewed the UK version of this book a while back. The review is here.
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