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We are pleased to announce that we have eCopies of J. Tullos Hennig's, Wode series up for grabs. 1 Winner will receive a copy of all three books in the series: Greenwode, Shirewode, and Winterwode in the eBook format of their choice (ePub, Mobi, or PDF). About the Books: Greenwode The Hooded One. The one to breathe the dark and light and dusk between.... When an old druid foresees this harbinger of chaos, he also glimpses its future. A peasant from Loxley will wear the Hood and, with his sister, command a last, desperate bastion of Old Religion against New. Yet a devout nobleman's son could well be their destruction-Gamelyn Boundys, whom Rob and Marion have befriended. Such acquaintance challenges both duty and destiny. The old druid warns that Rob and Gamelyn will be cast as sworn enemies, locked in timeless and symbolic struggle for the greenwode's Maiden. Instead, a defiant Rob dares his Horned God to reinterpret the ancient rites, allow Rob to take Gamelyn as lover inst...

The Remaining DJ Molles Publishing Information: Kindle Publisher: Orbit; 7 Jan 2014 ISBN: 978-0316404150 ASIN: B00H25FGBO Series: Remaining #1 Copy: Provided by publisher Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "The first volume in D.J. Molles's bestselling series, now in a special edition with the bonus novella The Remaining: Trust. In a steel-and-lead encased bunker a Special Forces soldier waits on his final orders. On the surface a bacterium has turned 90% of the population into hyper-aggressive predators. Now Captain Lee Harden must leave the bunker and venture into the wasteland to rekindle a shattered America." I have had this book for review for quite a while and finally found it at the top of my reading pile. The Remaining is a cross between The Walking Dead and the upcoming video game, The Division. Lee Harden is one of 48 coordinators that are placed in a well-stocked bunker when the defensive readiness condition or DEFCON reaches a point where there is a credible thr...

The Last Wish by Andrezej Sapkowski Publishing information: Paperback; 384pgs Publisher: Orbit; 1 May 2008 ISBN: 978-0316029186 Series: The Witcher #1 Copy: Out of pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. For fans of the video game and the uninitiated alike, The Last Wish is the opening chapter of The Witcher series." The Last Wish is a collection of short stories that are loosely connected to one another all telling the story of Geralt of Rivia, also known as the Grey Wolf, a witcher who sells his services to anyone who has coin. Geralt is an interesting character as he is much more tha...

US Cover Twelve Kings in Sharakhai by Bradley Beaulieu Publishing information: Paperback ARC; 592 pages Publisher: Daw 1 Sept 2015 ISBN: 978-0756409722 Series: The Song of Shattered Sands #1 Copy: Provided by author Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings -- cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule. Or so it seems, until Çeda, a brave young woman from the west end slums, defies the Kings' laws by going outside on the holy night of Beht Zha'ir. What she learns that night sets her on a path that winds through both the terrible truths of the Kings' mysterious history and the hidden riddles of her own herita...

Armada by Ernest Cline Publishing information: Kindle Publisher: Crown; 14 July 2015 ISBN: 978-0804137256 ASIN: B00TNDID0O Standalone Copy: Out of pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe. And then he sees the flying saucer. Even stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called ...

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett Narrator Graham Winton Publishing information: Audio Book Publisher: Orbit; 12 Feb 2013 ISBN: 978-0316200202 ASIN: B00E3PGCTG Standalone Copy: Out of Pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ... From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew." This book has been on my radar for quite some time, Good friend, Seak (AKA Bryc...