A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall
Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five
villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and
toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to
conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.
Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by
the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads
for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing
enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar
banner.
FIVE
VILLAINS. ONE LEGENDARY GENERAL. A FINAL QUEST FOR VENGEANCE. -Amazon Description
I am reading A Crown for Cold Silver right now, so far so good review coming soon.
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with
a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into
bestsellerdom. With over 300,000 copies sold and a consistent top “Reader’s
Circle” performer for Ballantine, it was superbly reviewed, chosen as a New
York Times Notable Book, and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award.
In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera
epidemic of 1831, Gustine, a defiant fifteen-year-old beauty in an elegant blue
dress rented from her pimp-landlord, sells her body to feed her only love: a
fragile baby boy. When she meets surgeon Henry Chiver, who has recently been
implicated in the Burke and Hare killings, in which beggars were murdered so
the corpses could be sold for medical research, Gustine begins working for him
by securing cadavers for his ill-equipped anatomy school. It is a gruesome job
that will soon threaten the very things she’s working so hard to protect. -Amazon Description
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
In life, not every sin goes unpunished.
GHOST STORY
For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn,
New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to
haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they
can bury the past -- and get away with murder.
Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of "superb
horror" (The Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story,
stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares. -Amazon Description
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the
Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As
children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive
boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of
mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding
their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day. –Amazon Description
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day. –Amazon Description
Tenth of December by George Saunders
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of
his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and
Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.
In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the
attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice:
Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his
parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his
mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he
has returned. And in the title story, a stunning meditation on imagination,
memory, and loss, a middle-aged cancer patient walks into the woods to commit
suicide, only to encounter a troubled young boy who, over the course of a
fateful morning, gives the dying man a final chance to recall who he really is.
A hapless, deluded owner of an antiques store; two mothers struggling to do the
right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with
reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force
him to lust, to love, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the
pages of Tenth of December are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders’s
signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.
Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love,
loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary
experience. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines
of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what
makes us human.
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