Review

A Reading Teen "What to Read This Summer" Pick
"Absolutely flawless!"
--Reading Teen

"Suspenseful, enchanting, and romantic, Minder is a great start to an exciting new series." --Ellz Readz

"Clever and creative...this book sucked me in and would not let me go--not that I would have wanted it to."  -- Escape Between The Pages

It. Some books have it, some don't. It is simply what makes you keep reading, what pulls you forward, what keeps a book niggling in your mind until you simply have to reread it...or pick up the sequel. Minder has it. --R.P., Elephants on Trapezes

Minder is dynamic, original, thoughtful, and entrancing...nothing short of brilliant. --Book Crazy

Product Description

Sixteen-year-old Maddie Dunn is special, but she needs to figure out how to use her new abilities before somebody else gets hurt. Ganzfield is a secret training facility full of people like her, but it's not exactly a nurturing place. Every social interaction carries the threat of mind-control. A stray thought can burn a building to the ground. And people's nightmares don't always stay in their own heads. But it's still better than New Jersey--especially once she meets the man of her dreams...

The Gifted class are getting suspicious that there's a spy in their midst. But who? The chief suspect is queen-of-mean Amanda, who's started acting out of character and volunteering in the school office. Tracey and Jenna join forces - and gifts - to try to find out more. But when mind-reader Jenna is framed for a crime she didn't commit and sent to an institution, Tracey is on her own. Using her ability to become invisible, Tracey searches for answers and finds out more than she bargained for . . .

Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1 SUMMARY: Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist.In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast from the mythic past,and in robbing the zubir of its prize he wins a woman's devotion and a man's loyalty--and loses a gift he didn't know he had until it was gone.Once in this city ruled by intrigue and violence, he must find his own source of power. Struggling to deal with the dangers and seductive lures of the men and woman around him, Crispin does discover it, in a most unusual place--high on the scaffolding of the greatest artwork ever imagined....

SUMMARY: The author of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy-hailed by Andre Norton as "one of the very best...since Tolkien"-returns with a critically acclaimed fantasy of two endlessly opposed kingdoms: one ruled by men, the other by women.

SUMMARY:
Inspired by the glory of Tang Dynasty China in the eighth century, Guy Gavriel Kay melds history and the fantastic into something both powerful and emotionally compelling. Under Heaven is a novel on the grandest narrative scale, encompassing the intimate details of individual lives in an unforgettable time and place. Shen Tai is the son of a general who led the forces of imperial Kitai in that empire's last war against their western enemies from Tagur, twenty years before. Forty thousand men on both sides were slain beside a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself has died recently. To honour his father's memory, Tai has spent two years of official mourning alone at the battle site among the ghosts of the dead, laying to rest their unburied bones. One spring morning, he learns that others have taken note of his vigil. The White Jade Princess in Tagur is pleased to present him with two hundred and fifty Sardian horses, given, she writes, in recognition of his courage, and honour done to the dead. You gave a man one of the famed Sardians to reward him greatly. You gave him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Tai starts east towards the glittering, dangerous imperial capital and gathers his wits for a return from solitude by a mountain lake to his own forever-altered life.

The sensational killings that have rocked the seemingly untouchable world of international jet-setters and powerful glitterati appear to be unrelated -- but former police detective Kim Carlyle senses there's a thread connecting them all. After one of Kim's clients, celebrated chanteuse Tiffany Jones, is slain backstage during a performance at the Apollo Theater, the savvy and beautiful Carlyle pieces together the clues. And what she discovers is a scheme whose complexity, dare and danger were beyond her wildest imaginings. 

Tausend Jahre lang war Rakoth Maugrim der Entwirker, im Herzen des Berges Rangat angekettet, bevor er sich befreite und das blaue Licht im Palast von Paras Derval erlosch. Jetzt bedrohte eine Dürre Brennin, das ehemals fruchtbare Land im Süden Fionavars. In größter Not machte sich der Magier Silbermantel auf, um Hilfe von anderen Welten zu holen. Er fand fünf Menschen, die mit ihm kamen. Doch schon auf der Reise ging ihnen einer verloren – und vier allein waren zu schwach, dem Entwirker entgegenzutreten...

Jeder der Fünf, die mit Silbermantel nach Fionavar gekommen waren hatte seine Bestimmung gefunden: Paul hatte drei Tage und Nächte am Sommerbaum verbracht. Dave war Kriegsherr bei den Dalrei, Kim war Seherin von Brennin. Doch das schlimmste Schicksal hatte Jennifer zu tragen. Sie sollte den Sohn Raukoth Maugrims, des Entwirkers, gebären. Denn vielleicht war dieser Sohn, den der Herr über die Schatten hatte töten wollen, die letzte Rettung Fionavar - wenn es nicht sein Untergang sein sollte. Doch zunächst mußte der Winter gebannt werden, der Winter, der alles Leben zu ersticken drohte. Und hier endlich entdeckte Kevin, welches Los ihm zugedacht war.

Die Crew der IKARUS begleitet einen Konvoi, der in einem neu entdeckten System ein Sprungtor errichten soll. An Bord eines Hospitalschiffs müssen sie miterleben, wie das Unternehmen durch ein Sabotageversuch zu scheitern droht.

Eine gigantische fliegende Raumstation havariert und die Ikarus eilt sofort zur Hilfe. Doch mit Verwunderung und immer größerem Schrecken muss die Besatzung des Rettungskreuzers feststellen, dass ihre Hilfe nicht gewünscht und ihre Anwesenheit als störend angesehen wird: An Bord der Raumstation befinden sich nämlich die „Erleuchteten“ – und sie meinen, die letztgültige Wahrheit gefunden zu haben ...