Title: The Doubt Factory (Audio) Unabridged Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Narrator: Emma Galvin Publisher: Listening Library (2014) Genre: YA, Contemporary Thriller Alix, the privileged daughter of a man who is paid to protect the reputation of large Corporations by sowing doubt, falls into the hands of tech savvy orphan pranksters set on changing the world. Doubt…
The Quality of Silence
Title: The Quality of Silence Author: Rosamund Lipton Publisher: Crown Publishing, Feb. 16, 2016 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Isolation, darkness. A wife in denial, chasing what only she believes. A vulnerable young girl, oblivious and trusting. Then there are the killers closing in as they cross vicious, ice-bound Alaska when no one else will. Arrrrgh! I…
Death Spiral
Title: Death Spiral Author: Leena Lehtolainen Translator: Owen F. Witesman Date Published: December 8th 2015 (translation) First published 1997. Publisher: AmazonCrossing Genre: Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Series: Maria Kallio #5 A young figure skater is murdered with her own skates and seven-month pregnant police investigator Maria Kallio is on the trail of the brutal killer….
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
Title: The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention Author: Rajan Menon Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (expected pub. Date March 3, 2016) The introduction says this is a book for anyone interested in international relations, but I disagree. This book is for anyone interested in truly developing real humanitarian principles everywhere in their lives, from their own…
The Portable Veblen
Title: The Portable Veblen Author: Elizabeth McKenzie Publisher: Penguin Press January 19, 2016 Genre: Literary Fiction A Veblen? I had no idea when I picked up this book what the heck a Veblen was, much less a portable one. I also wondered whether the content could possibly live up to the Veblenesque mystery and the…
Liar
Title: Liar Author: Rob Roberge Publisher: Crown Publishers Feb. 9, 2016 Genre: Biography, Memoir This book releases on Feb. 9th, 2016. The trouble with a talented writer writing about a real person with pain, hopelessness, despair, bad choices, terrifying experiences, bad people, risky behaviors, and all the rest, is that it is terribly compelling as…
Missing Pieces
Title: Missing Pieces Author: Heather Gudenkauf Publisher: Harlequin (US & Canada) Feb 2, 2016 Genre: Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller This book does not release until Feb 2,2016, but PUT IT ON YOUR LIST and don’t forget about it! What I loved most about this mystery is the way I was led to it….
Written In Fire
Title: Written in Fire Author: Marcus Sakey Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (2016) Series: Book #3 of the Brilliance Trilogy The choices have been made, and the players set the world on fire. Now the only question remaining is how much of it will burn, and who will survive the madness, much less win the war?…
A Better World
Title: A Better World Author: Markus Sakey Series: Book #2 of The Brilliance Series Publisher: Thomas and Mercer (2014) Read it! (Read Brilliance first, though) In the second installment in the trilogy, Nick Cooper is once again tasked with saving the world. This time, however, the moral dilemma he struggles with is even more complicated….
Black Moon
Title: Black Moon (audiobook) Author: Kenneth Calhoun Narrator; Neil Shah Publisher: 2014 Dreamscape Media Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Apocalyptic When the world becomes sleepless and insane, it falls to one man to dream for all. Biggs is a man who is surrounded by the chaos and fractured despair of a world filled with humanity wracked…
The Book of Ivy
Title: The Book of Ivy (audiobook) Author: Amy Engel Narrator: Taylor Meskimen Publisher: 2014 Listening Library (Audio) Genre: YA, Romance A young daughter raised to be driven by murderous hatred is forced to marry the son of mortal enemies in order to keep a historic peace. In a divided society walled off from the devastated…
Brilliance
Title: Brilliance Series: Book #1 of The Brilliance Trilogy Publisher: Thomas and Mercer (2013) Brilliance is a well-paced political thriller that reads like an action movie from cover to cover, which will appeal to many readers. Nick Cooper is an Abnormal in a nation where Normals are beginning to fear the small percentage of the…
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