NEW ADVENTURES BASED ON THE WORLD’S BESTSELLING VIDEO GAMEAfter completing a near-fatal mission in the mysterious cloud forests of Peru, Lara Croft flies to Warsaw to tackle her next assignment–and finds herself in the middle of an epic battle for the ultimate power.Reuben Baptiste needs Lara Cro...
This book was pure joy for me to read. I loved everything about it -- the world, the characters, the very idiosyncratic voice. After I came down from my reading high I found myself poking holes in some of the assertions about the world, suspect of the ways Gardner chose his characters to discoura...
From James Alan Gardner, the author of "Expendable" (which Robert J. Sawyer called "the best first novel I've read this decade") and "Commitment Hour" (declared "intriguing" by the "Denver Post" ) comes a new novel of adventure, danger and suspense on a strange new world.
This is the sixth book in a series. Gardner’s heroine, Admiral Festina Ramos appears once more, this time with Youn Suu as protagonist. As a direct contrast to Ramos, who has a purple birthmark on one cheek, Youn Suu has a birthmark on the other cheek, and the book makes much of the difference be...
BERNWARD’S MONASTERY: THE CHAPELKaisho and Myoko were battered but alive. For the next few minutes, they tended their own injuries and Father Emil’s . . . but when they tried to do the same for me, I refused their coddling. I wasn’t badly hurt, and I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting still whi...
Festina didn’t look bothered at all; with an impish little smile, she actually held out her hand for me to help her up.She didn’t need help getting up—she probably could have done a backflip straight to her feet. But she’d reached out her hand, and I had no choice except taking it. Her skin felt ...
This was most excellent indeed—if you sat with your knees tucked up to your chest, you could keep spinning round until you got dizzy. Even better, one whole wall of the room was a great panel showing a blizzard of stars; the panel pretended to be a window, but Festina said it was actually a compu...
