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VICTORY CONDITIONS by Elizabeth Moon – Commander Kylara Vatta is back – locked and loaded and ready to win the fight against the marauding forces of ruthless space pirate Gammis Turek. For Ky, it’s not just about liberating the star systems subjugated by Turek and defending the rest of the galaxy’s freedom. There’s also a score to be settled and payback to be meted out for the obliteration of the Vatta Transport dynasty … and the slaughter of Ky’s family. But the enemy have their own escalation efforts under way – including the placement of covert agents among the allies with whom Ky and the surviving Vattas are collaborating in the war effort.
OFF ARMAGEDDON REEF by David Weber – Humanity pushed its way to the stars – and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they’ve built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever. 800 years pass. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens.
THE EYE OF JADE by Diane Wei Liang – Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is a modern, independent woman. Her short career with China’s prestigious Ministry for Public Security has given her intimate insight into the complicated and arbitrary world of Beijing’s law enforcement. But it is her intuition, curiosity, and her uncanny knack for listening to things said – and unsaid – that make Mei Beijing’s first successful female private investigator. Mei is no stranger to the dark side of China. She was six years old when she last saw her father behind the wire fence of one of Mao’s remote labor camps. Perhaps as a result, Mei eschews the power plays and cultural mores – guanxi – her sister and mother live by … for better and for worse.
UNLEASHED by Kristopher Reisz – Daniel Morning seems perfect. Then Daniel meets Misty. She’s smoky, rebellious, tender … and much more. She decides to let him into her pack of outcasts – and in on their little secret: She and her friends have learned to shapeshift, and have been prowling the night as wolves. Daniel soon falls in love with the primal sensation of shifting, just as he’s falling in love with Misty. The freedom to follow his most basic instincts is like nothing he’s ever felt. But Daniel will slowly come to realize that such freedom comes at a price.
DARKHOUSE by Alex Barclay – One year has passed since a kidnapping drama exploded into violence on a New York street. And for NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi, the memory of that terrible moment is still alive. Joe’s wife, Anna, has brought him and their teenage son to Ireland, hoping to repair their fragile marriage – and cut the cord between Joe and the job. But when the girlfriend of their son vanishes, Joe begins to suspect that the crime may have its roots in his old life – and that someone has followed him all the way there. An outsider in Ireland, Joe watches with rising apprehension as local cops try to solve the disappearance – and then reacts with fury when his son becomes the leading suspect.
SHAPESHIFTER by J.F. Gonzalez – Mark Wiseman has been living with the curse for years. He thought he had it under control. He thought he had kept it secret from everybody. Until Bernard Roberts, a powerful, influential man, came into his life. Bernard knows about the curse that runs through Mark’s veins. He knows how Mark’s parents were killed eight years ago. He knows Mark was officially cleared in their deaths, but is holding the card that could cast Mark as a serious suspect in their murders. And if Mark wants Bernard to keep these things secret he must do what Bernard tells him. He must use his curse to kill. For Mark is a Shapeshifter, a werewolf, who must yield to the primal instinct buried deep within him on every lunar cycle …
PEBBLE IN THE SKY by Isaac Asimov – One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it’s the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil – so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of 60. Joseph Schwartz is 62. This is young Isaac Asimov’s first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the FOUNDATION series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest, now reissued in hardcover.
FANGLAND by John Marks – In a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marks – a former 60 MINUTES producer – sinks his satirical teeth into 21st-century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine THE HOUR. Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. Now in trade paperback, this darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados as well as anyone who’s fed up with what passes for “news” today.
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My favorite out of all this list of books, would have to be Darkhouse. Shapeshifter looks like an interesting read!