Dark Side of the Sun - Space: Above and Beyond #2 (Dina Anastasio)

Dark Side of the Sun - Space: Above and Beyond #2

Dina Anastasio

Blurb: The year is 2063. Earth's first space settlement has just been demolished by an Alien army so violent and blood-thirsty it left almost nothing in its wake. And now it's up to the forces of Earth to defend the planet and save all of mankind... Meet the 58th Marine Squadron trained for war in SPACE.

All her life, Lieutenant Shane Vansen has been haunted by the loss of her parents, who were killed by manmade Artificial Intelligence creatures when she was just a child. Shane despises Als and has vowed to eliminate any AI who crosses her path.

Then she leads her Squadron on a mission to Bunuelm and comes up against her worst nightmare: AIs have just invaded the planet and killed the very humans Shane and the 58th have come to protect.

All too soon, she and her closest friends are locked in a desperate struggle against the AI invaders. And Shane's vow, once a personal pledge, becomes a matter of life and death...

ISBN: 006440644X (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Harper Trophy

Pages: 89 (Fiction)

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The Wind Through the Keyhole - The Dark Tower #4.5 (Stephen King)

The Wind Through the Keyhole - The Dark Tower #4.5

Stephen King

Blurb: For readers new to Stephen King's epic seven-volume fantasy masterpiece The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is both a stand-alone novel and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is an enchanting Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, which features both the younger and older Roland Deschain - Mid-World's last gunslinger - on his quest to find the Dark Tower. 

For the legions of fans it is a gift of deeper insight and a chance to discover what happened to Roland and his ka-tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.

We join Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. As they shelter from the screaming wind and the snapping trees, Roland tells them not just one strange tale, but two - and in doing so sheds fascinating light on his own troubled past. 

In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to a ranch to investigate a recent slaughter. Here Roland discovers a bloody churn of bootprints, clawed animal tracks, terrible carnage - evidence that the 'skin-man', a shape shifter, is at work. There is only one surviving witness; a brave but terrified boy called Bill Streeter. 

Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind Through the Keyhole'. 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' 

And stories like these, they live for us. 

ISBN: 9781444731712 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 

Pages: 335 (Fiction)

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4. Review of the book

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The Fury and Dark Reunion - The Vampire Diaries #3 & #4 (L.J. Smith)

The Fury and Dark Reunion - The Vampire Diaries #3 & #4

L.J. Smith

Blurb: Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired.

Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all - whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realise that his brother is not his only enemy.

Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one final battle?

Collected here in one edition are the third and fourth volumes of The Vampire Diaries, a riveting conclusion to the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

ISBN: 9780061140983 (Paperback)

Year: 1991

Publisher: Harper Teen

Pages: 520 (Fiction)

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3. Google books page

4. Goodreads page

5. Publisher's page for the book (browse the book)

The Cannibal Virus: After Dark Series #26 (Sue Robinson & Peter Gouldthorpe)

The Cannibal Virus: After Dark Series #26

Sue Robinson & Peter Gouldthorpe

Blurb: How can an ordinary history assignment turn into a life-threatening encounter with cannibal convicts?

And how can an ordinary computer carry a man-eating virus?

Just ask Stuart, who was unlucky enough to find out...

A blood-curdling story based on one of history's most notorious criminals, by author Sue Robinson, illustrated by award-winning artist Peter Gouldthorpe.

ISBN: 0850919002 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Lothian Books

Pages: 48 (Fiction)

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2. Good reads page for the series

3. Art work by the illustrator

The Silver Eyes: After Dark Series #24 (Jackie French & David Miller)

The Silver Eyes: After Dark Series #24

Jackie French & David Miller

Blurb: Each one deserved to die.

But no one touched them,

no one killed them...

the strange silver eyes just watched...

A story of innocence and horror by award-winning author Jackie French, with macabre illustrations by David Miller

ISBN: 0850917840 (Paperback)

Year: 1997

Publisher: Lothian Books

Pages: 48 (Fiction)

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3. Google books page

4. Buy from Borders

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Song of Susannah: The Dark Tower VI (Stephen King)

Song of Susannah: The Dark Tower VI

Stephen King

Blurb: Roland Deschain, gunslinger, hero, continues his perilous adventures in search of the key to the quest that will define his life.

Roland's loyal followers Jake, Father Callahan and Oy set out to break Susannah's date with destiny in New York.

Meanwhile, Roland and Eddie brave the state of Maine in the summer of 1977. It is a frightful world where bullets are flying. A world inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot...

Driven by revelation and suspense, this pivotal instalment in this magnificent epic will leave readers gasping to read the electrifying conclusion, The Dark Tower.

ISBN: 9780340827208 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Hodder

Pages: 436 (Fiction)

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1. Wikipedia page for the book

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4. Review of the book

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The Gunslinger - The Dark Tower #1 (Stephen King)

The Gunslinger - The Dark Tower #1

Stephen King

Blurb: This newly revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger, for which Stephen King has written a special introduction and forward, is the mesmerising first book in his spectacular, epic Dark Tower series.

In The Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King's most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

ISBN: 9780340832233 (Paperback)

Year: 1982

Publisher: New English Library

Pages: 238 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

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4. Goodreads page

5. Comic book adaption of the book

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

Blurb: What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime?

For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.

A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger.

Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival.

And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not just the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home...

ISBN: 9781444712568 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Hodder

Pages: 453 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Stephen King's Official Page for the book

3. Buy at Amazon

4. Review of the book from the Guardian

5. Review from The Independent