Last Night In Twisted River : a Novel
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Theodore Corte.
Mysterious Messages : a History of Codes and Ciphers
VOYA: In a standout example of middle grade nonfiction, this cleverly designed, engaging book will answer every question about codes and ciphers?and then some. Well-organized information, presented in chronological sequence (with fifteen chapters ranging from "Clay, Wax, and Greece [1500 BCE-100 BCE]" to "Colossus, Lucifer, and Kryptos [1945 CE-]") is enhanced with a glossary, a […]
Pirate Latitudes : a Novel
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: This hilariously exciting book already reads like a film treatment, jumping from one cinematic, doom-filled episode to the next as it cuts its bloody way through the encyclopedia of piracy from "Ahoy" to "Yo-ho-ho"?As in any Crichton novel, all of this breakneck adventure is decorated with little bits of […]
Darkwood
Kirkus Reviews: This unique tale shines with utterly believable strangeness. Annie lives with her aunt and uncle in an area where crops don't grow and people fear being snatched by the bestial kinderstalk in darkness. Night falls suddenly in this moonless land. Overhearing that her uncle's selling her to the Drop, where (she discovers later) […]
The Magykal Papers
Children's Literature: Fans of the Septimus Heap fantasy series will thoroughly enjoy this collection of papers from his world. Included are papers from the Castle, the Wizard Tower, the Palace, and around the Castle. Histories and bios of characters enable the reader to better understand the past and how it impacts the current characters. A […]
A Separate Country
he Washington Post – Charlotte Hays: ?riveting?Anyone who has ever lived in New Orleans must be prepared to be made homesick, and the bizarre cast of characters, including a dwarf, a burly priest and a boy of mixed and mysterious parentage, wouldn't seem right in any city but this one. I read A Separate Country […]
Breaking the Rules
Publishers Weekly: For the 30th anniversary of her first novel, A Woman of Substance, Bradford delivers her 25th book. The riches-to-more-riches tale features beloved matriarch Emma Harte?s plucky great-granddaughter, M, who, at 23, moves to New York to start a modeling career, banking on her intelligence and business savvy, her Audrey Hepburn looks and her […]
House of Reckoning : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Set in Vermont, this supernatural thriller from bestseller Saul (Faces of Fear) updates but adds nothing new to a traditional story. Six months after 14-year-old Sarah Crane's mother dies from cancer, Sarah's father, Ed, accidentally kills a man in a fight. On top of that, a drunken Ed hits Sarah with his truck […]
Breathless : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Koontz (Relentless) delivers a hard-to-classify stand-alone set near the Rocky Mountains that will appeal more to fans of his Odd Thomas books than those partial to his Hitchcockian thrillers. While out for a walk, reclusive Grady Adams and his wolfhound, Merlin, spot two white furry animals ?as large as midsize dogs? and […]
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library.