Author Craig Davidson had been having trouble making ends meet when he took a chance on a job posting for a school bus driver for special needs kids. Originally written as a piece for Avenue magazine, Craig expanded his experience into a full length memoir. Davidson rounds out the book by adding in struggles he…
Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired by a group of Massachusetts politicians to track down a missing person believed to have documents detrimental to the upcoming passing of a new anti-terrorism bill. As Kenzie and Gennaro begin to dig deeper into the case, questions arise surrounding their client’s true motives. I thought…
After the events of Abaddon’s Gate, a group of refugees from the Ganymede incident have made their way to one of the thousand new uninhabited planets contained on the other side of The Gates. It isn’t long after they’ve settled that they discover the planet is rich with Lithium. Planning to mine it and…
What if Hitler had won? Author Robert Harris presents a world where Germany came out on top following the second World War. Hitler remains as head of Germany’s Western European empire with several of his key associates like Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich in positions of power. Following Germany’s discovery of the cracking of the…
When we last left things, whatever the Protomolecule had been doing on Venus following Eros Station’s crash landing appears to have come to an end. The bad news? Well, it sort of constructed this giant mysterious mechanical ring that drifted off into space and made its way into Uranus’ (heh heh) orbit. No one knows…
The second installment of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series brings with it some new faces as well as familiar ones. We meet UN dignitary Chrisjen Avasarala, a driven politician with about as much social tact as a sledgehammer; Sergeant Bobbie Draper, a Martian Marine who witnesses her entire team annihilated by a monsterous protomolecule giant;…
I’m a big sucker for pro wrestling memoirs and when I heard Bob Backlund was writing one, I jumped at the chance to get it. The truth is, while I’m a huge fan of the 80s and 90s wrestling scenes, I know next to nothing about the 70s, which is where Backlund rose to prominence,…
The future that author James S.A. Corey presents here is akin to the Wild West – a gritty, messy look at population expansion beyond Earth. There’s a reason why we’re all still screwing around on the rock we were born from; living in space is hard. Literally everything needed to support life is on this…
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