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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce 12-year-old Liam is tall for his age, and is often mistaken for an adult. He has a fascination with thrill rides and theme parks, so Liam jumps at the chance to try out a new one involving a rocket. But the problem is that Liam enters the Greatest Dad Ever
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Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense by Sam Eastland Before the Revolution in two steps, Tsar Nicholas Romanov trusted his brilliant Finnish born investigator Pekkala to solve impossible cases. However, in the Summer of 1917, the great detective became Prisoner 4745-P exiled to spend the rest of his life for crimes against
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Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski Thirty-seven year old reporter Mickey Wade recently lost his position at the Philadelphia City News. Broke and heeding his mom’s advice, he moves into the apartment of his ailing grandfather to reduce his costs and to help care for his elderly relative. The Frankford neighborhood is nasty; worse than when he
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The Adamantine Palace (MEMORY OF FLAMES) by Stephen Deas Dragons have always been a staple in fantasy fiction. When I was a little girl I always associated dragons with tales of valiant knights who slay the dragon to save the fair princess. Kind of like “Shrek,” but without the happy ending for the dragon. When
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Echo Burning (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child Echo Burning is a classic Reacher book: full of action and intrigue. There are so many twists and turns you don’t know who to believe. Child has created an outstanding character in Reacher: strong, independent, but not afraid to get dirty when necessary. Reacher looks rough on the
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Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson With an interesting story, very pleasant characters and a strong magic system an author can turn a novel in a success, but Brandon Sanderson makes one more firm step in that direction with the world-building of “Warbreaker”. The story is set in only one location, the city of T’Telir, the capital
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We will surely remember that as children, we would read a lot of fiction that mainly covered suspense and secrets as the central element of the story. What we can say now as grown-ups is that fiction books with suspense and secrets as the main element surely have a world wide audience and appeals to
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The Princes Of The Golden Cage by Nathalie Mallet I enjoy both mystery and fantasy, so I got a big kick out of this book. Mallet blends the two genres together very nicely indeed. She gives us both a fully realized secondary world (which sports clear ties to certain regions of our own world) and
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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan The story of “Nyphron Rising”, as those of the previous novels, comes with a page-turner adventure, with quite a lot of action, amusing dialogues and situations, with tension, intrigue and a few twists on its side. Still, although the story of the novel is