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THE WINDS OF DUNE by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson — THE WINDS OF DUNE begins after the events of
DUNE MESSIAH. Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul’s former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. The newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia.
IN THIS WAY I WAS SAVED by Brian DeLeeuw — On a chilly November afternoon, 6-year-old Luke Nightingale's life changes forever. On the playground, he encounters Daniel. Within hours, Luke and his mother, Claire, are welcoming Daniel into their Upper East Side apartment — and their lives. Daniel and Luke are soon inseparable. With his parents divorcing, Luke takes comfort in having a near-constant playmate. But there's something strange about Daniel, who is more than happy to bind himself to the Nightingales. As Luke grows from a child to an adolescent to a young man, he realizes that as much as his mother needs him, Daniel needs him more. Jealous of Luke's other attachments, Daniel moves from gestures of friendship into increasingly sinister manipulations.
THE RETURN by Ben Bova — In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth. Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. But first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger — and the terrifying message he brings from the stars.
CHILD'S PLAY by Carmen Posadas — Luisa, a renowned mystery writer, is beginning her new novel, a story of psychological suspense that centers on the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. The author has a close familiarity with her setting: her 13-year-old daughter, Elba, is about to begin her academic year at the same school that Luisa once attended, a school much like the one in the novel. But as her work progresses, the line between art and life begins to blur. Deeply repressed anxieties bubble to the surface, and she worries not only for her daughter's well-being but also for her own. As her new novel unfolds, events on the page ring with a disturbing familiarity — a troubling symmetry that is compounded when Luisa runs into two former classmates whose children also attend the school. The unexpected meeting brings to light a gruesome event the three shared.
THE SUNLESS COUNTRIES by Karl Schroeder — In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Sere glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, history tutor and dreamer, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Sere eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach even to the city walls — and as outlying towns and travelers’ ships start to mysteriously disappear — only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city’s most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation.
A BAD DAY FOR SORRY by Sophie Littlefield — Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her 50th birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering homestyle justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it’s usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin' can’t fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she’s free to do whatever it takes to get the job done — as long as she keeps her distance from the handsome devil of a local sheriff, Goat Jones.
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