Friday Finds (on Saturday)

Hosted by Should be Reading This book blurb isn't very descriptive but I really enjoyed the one book that I have read by Marmell and I'm always drawn to books about thieves (for reasons that are probably best left unexplored), so when I heard about this book I immediately added it to my list. Plus I really like the cover. Thief's Covenant by Ari Marmell She is Widdershins, a thief making her way through Davillon's underbelly looking to find...

Free eBook: The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan

I've been wanting to read Michael Sullivan's The Crown Conspiracy for ages and so I was really excited when I discovered the audiobook today on Podibooks (it's not new to the site though, I just haven't been to Podibooks in a long time). I am already on chapter Four and I'm enjoying it immensely. In addition to being a very captivating story, the narrator, Nathan Lowell, does an excellent job of reading it.  They killed the king. They pinned...

Invisibility cloaks- good idea, or bad?

When I was younger I though it would be so cool to have an invisibility cloak of my own. To be able to sneak in and out of movie theaters or museums without anyone seeing me. Or to listen in to private conversations without anyone knowing. But what would happen if invisibilty cloaks were no longer relegated to the realm of fiction, but were actually a reality?  Well, apparently science is not so far from creating the material for such a cloak,...

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

She can whisper to horses and communicate with birds, but the crown princess Ani has a difficult time finding her place in the royal family and measuring up to her imperial mother. When she is shipped off to a neighboring kingdom as a bride, her scheming entourage mounts a bloody mutiny to replace her with a jealous lady-in-waiting, Selia, and to allow an inner circle of guards more power in the new land.  Barely escaping with her life, Ani...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of August 9

From this week's selection of new releases the book that I am looking forward to reading the most is A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan, which I had mentioned in one of my Friday Finds. Though there are several other books that have caught my eye, such as Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay and The Machine Man by Max Barry. And, of course, there is Lev Grossman's much-anticipated sequel to The Magicians, The Magician King, which I know is high on many...

Free eBook: The Multiplex Man by James P. Hogan

For the month of August Phoenix Pick is offering free download's of James P. Hogan's award winning scifi novel, The Multiplex Man. Richard Jarrow was a mild and unassuming teacher who was sure that the government knew best, with its strong environmental controls on industry and its equally stringent control of education and the media. He knew that the countries of the former Eastern Block, who now claimed to have more freedom than the United...