Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 287 Year Published: 2006
A father and son travel down from the mountains, all their possessions in an old shopping cart, desperately attempting to make it to warmer climates before winter comes and all of this in a post-apocalyptic America covered in the ashes of destruction - literally.
Cormac [...]
Author: Rick Atkinson Pages: 768 Year Published: 2002
Long before the now-celebrated D-Day invasion of Europe, the United States and Great Britain conducted their first combined amphibious invasion of the more remote and distant shores of North Africa in Operation Torch. It was the first actions of the nascent United States Army, [...]
Author: Kevin Brockmeier Pages: 272 Year Published: 2007
If you were to die, who would remember you? Your spouse? Your children? Co-workers? Maybe even your parents?
That’s the premise behind this “urban fantasy” by Kevin Brockmeier. Brockmeier creates a world - The City - in which the newly dead remain while there is [...]
Author: Jo Walton Pages: 336 Year Published: 2006
When the body of Sir James Thirkie is discovered at Farthing, the ancestral estate of Lord Eversley, Scotland Yard dispatches Inspector Peter Carmichael to investigate and find out who killed the architect of England’s “Peace With Honour,” ending its involvement in World War II.
That’s [...]
Author: Ian Flemming Pages: 240 Year Published: 1956
James Bond takes on the mob.
In Flemming’s fourth Bond novel, 007 is tasked with interrupting a diamond smuggling operation. He duly replaces a courier bound for the United States and proceeds to work his way up the ranks, all the while enjoying fine meals [...]
