Childhoods End – Arthur C. Clarke The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city–intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, Read more…
Clay’s Ark (The Patternist #3) – Octavia E. Butler In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic—unless someone can stop it Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one Read more…
The Soulmate Equation – Christina Lauren Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents–who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno–Jess has been left behind too often to Read more…
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) – Joe Abercrombie Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a Read more…
The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) – Joe Abercrombie Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy Read more…
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will Read more…
Counting Creatures – Julia Donaldson and Illustrated by Sharon King-Chai A gorgeous lift-the-flap counting game that pairs parent animals with their babies, from the bestselling author of Room on the Broom. From a bat and its pup, to a frog and its twelve tadpoles, young readers will delight in counting each Read more…
Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it Read more…
A Dance with Fate – Juliet Mariller (Warrior Bards #2) A young woman who is both a bard–and a warrior–seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series. The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to Read more…
There’s a Zoo in My Poo – Felice Jacka. Illustrated by Rob Craw Did you know that trillions of tiny bugs live in and on all of us? And there’s a Zoo of bugs in our poo. But which are the good bugs and which are the bad? What should Read more…