- Science fiction
- Memoir
- Well-written
- For the well-read reader
By Ernest Cline
SCI-FI CLINE
In a bleak 2044, Wade Watts, an impoverished high school student lives primarily online alongside billions of others via a massive online game, OASIS, where players race to unravel the puzzles OASIS creator James Halliday built into the game before his death, with the winner taking control of the virtual world's parent company, as well as staggering wealth. When Wade stumbles on a clue taken from a 1980s video game , he's plunged into high-stakes conflict with a corporation dedicated to unraveling Halliday's riddles.
By Isabel Allende
F ALLENDE
Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for the weak and helpless.
By Edgar Wroblewski
F WROBLEWSKI
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
By Juliet Marillier
SCI-FI MARILLIER Sevenwat #1
To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has known and starts on a journey of pain, loss, and terror. This is the first of six books in the Sevenwaters series.
By David Sheff
BIO SHEFF
Bright and athletic, Nic Sheff excelled in any setting. But during his teenage years he was seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol and found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic’s father’s recounting of the story of his son. Tweak: (Growing Up on Methamphetamines) by Nic Sheff (BIO SHEFF) reveals the story of addiction and recovery from Nic’s point of view.
By Will Schwalbe
NEW BOOKS - NONFICTION SCHWALBE 2012
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
By Robin Sloan
NEW BOOKS – FICTION SLOAN
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web - design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on.
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