Dutch Uncle (Peter Pavia)

Dutch Uncle

Peter Pavia

Blurb: Three days out of prison and trying to stay on the right side of the law, Harry Healy doesn't really want to get involved with Manfred Pfiser's drug deals. But he needs the money - so he agrees to make one simple delivery.

Simple, that is, till Harry stumbles across a dead body. It's the result of a robbery cooked up by one of his old cellmates, together with an over-the-hill high school baseball star, a trigger-happy sociopath, and a beach bunny who just can't seem to keep her clothes on.

Now they're all on the run - from the Miami police, from the drug kingpins they ripped off, and from each other...

ISBN: 9780843953602 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Hard Case Crime Novel

Pages: 256 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Review of the book

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4. Official site of the book series

5. Mini review of the book

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers - The Ninth Epic Novel (Dav Pilkey)

Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers - The Ninth Epic Novel

Dav Pilkey

Blurb: When we last saw George and Harold, they were headed to jail for the rest of their lives. What could be worse? How about being pulled from prison by a time-travelling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers! Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless school principal. And because George and Harold don't invent Captain Underpants until they're in fourth grade, the clever kindergartners are on their own. Will their brains be enough to beat the bully?!!

ISBN: 9780545175340 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 302 (Fiction)

Links

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2. Wikipedia page for the series

3. Goodreads page

4. Review of the book

5. Wiki for the book

Guilty Pleasures - An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Novel #1 (Laurell K. Hamilton )

Guilty Pleasures - An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Novel #1

Laurell K. Hamilton 

Blurb: My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me the Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable.

Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I've seen their victims. I carry the scars.

But now a serial killer is murdering vampires - and the most powerful bloodsucker in town wants me to find the killer.

ISBN: 9780753374816 (Paperback)

Year: 1993

Publisher: Headline

Pages: 327 (Fiction)

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3. Wiki for the book

4. Review of the graphic novel based on this book

5. Read a sample of the book in PDF format

Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel #2 (Richelle Mead)

Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel #2

Richelle Mead

Blurb: When love and jealousy collide on the slopes, winter break turns deadly...

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.

Rose has serious guy trouble. Her gorgeous tutor, Dimitri, has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason has a huge crush on her, and she keeps getting struck in her best friend Lissa's head while she's making out with her boyfriend, Christian.

Then a nearby Strigoi attack puts St. Vladimir's on high alert, and the Academy whisks its students away on a mandatory holiday ski trip. But the glittering winter landscape and posh Idaho resort only provide the illusion of safety. When three students run away to strike back against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. Only this time, Rose - and her heart - are in more danger than she ever could have imagined...

ISBN: 9781595141750 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Razorbill

Pages: 327 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the series

2. Review of the book

3. Goodreads page

4. Buy from Barnes and Noble

5. Official page for the series

Working Stiff - A Revivalist Novel (Rachel Caine)

Working Stiff - A Revivalist Novel

Rachel Caine

Blurb: It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it - dead or alive.

Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment - until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele... as part of an extortion racket. Now Bryn faces being terminated (literally) with extreme prejudice.

With the assistance of corporate double agent Patrick McCallister, Bryn has a chance to take down the bigger problem - pharmaceutical company Pharmadene, which treats death as the ultimate corporate loyalty program. She'd better do it fast before she becomes a zombie slave - a real working stiff.

She'd be better off dead...

ISBN: 9780143566151 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 306 (Fiction)

Links

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2. Penguin Books page

3. Blog on the book

4. Official page

5. Author's site

Double Dexter (Jeff Lindsay)

Double Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

Blurb: A witness. Such a simple concept, and yet for Dexter Morgan - a perfectly well-disguised serial killer - the possibility of a witness is terrifying.

As an upstanding blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police, Dexter has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight. An expert at finding truly bad people - murderers who've long escaped justice - and giving them his own special attention. But now someone has seen him in the act. Dexter is being followed, manipulated and mimicked, leading him to realise that no one likes to have a double - especially when his double's goal is to kill him.

Like the five perviously bestselling novels in the Dexter series, in Double Dexter Jeff Lindsay demonstrates the witty, macabre originality that has propelled him to international success.

ISBN: 9781409113508 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Orion Books

Pages: 337 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page for the book

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3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Blog on the series

5. Review of the book

Only Revolutions - A Novel (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Only Revolutions - A Novel

Mark Z. Danielewski

Blurb: They were with us before Tristan & Isolde. And long after too. Because they're forever around. Or so both claim, gleefully carolling:

We're always sixteen.

Hailey & Sam, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Shelby Mustang to Sumover Linx, careen from the Civil Rights Movement to the Iraq War, tearing down to New Orleans, up the Mississippi River, across Montana, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.

By turns enticing and exhilarating, finally breathtaking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever conceived before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

They were with us before Romeo and Juliet. And long after too. Because they're forever around. Or so both claim, gleefully carolling:

We're always sixteen.

Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from model T to Lincoln Continental, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.

By turns enticing and exhilarating, finally worldwrecking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever published before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

ISBN: 0385611382 (Hardback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages: 360 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Review of the book

3. Official page of the book

4. Good reads page for the book

5. Buy from Amazon

Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel #5 (Richelle Mead)

Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel #5

Richelle Mead

Blurb: Salvation has its price...

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Siberia, Dimitri's birthplace, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's - and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It's graduation, and the girls can't wait for their real lives outside of the academy's cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri. He's out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he has silenced her...forever.

But Rose can't forget what she learned on her journey - whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose's prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what - and who - matters most to her. And in the end, is true love really worth the price?

Fall in love with Rose and Dimitri all over again in Spirit Bound, the eagerly awaited fifth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series.

ISBN: 9781921518867 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Razorbill

Pages: 489 (Fiction)

Links

1. Review of the book

2. Author's Wikipedia page

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4. Good reads page for the book

5. Another review

The Trial of James T. Kirk: Star Trek (Peter David, James W. Fry and Gordon Purcell)

The Trial of James T. Kirk: Star Trek

Peter David, James W. Fry and Gordon Purcell

Blurb: These are the continuing comics adventures of Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, as the classic Star Trek team warp into thrilling new worlds!

As the Klingons and Nasguls pursue their vendetta against Captain Kirk, a deadly bounty hunter is eyeing the price they've placed on his head. But if the Captain is fortunate enough to survive the encounter, will he survive the attentions of his own Federation, eagerly looking for a scapegoat to preserve universal peace - even if it costs Kirk's life?

Written by acclaimed Star Trek novelist and comics legend Peter David (Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man) with pencillers James W. Fry (Inhumanoids) and Gordon Purcell (New Teen Titans), and featuring rare interviews with Nichelle Nichols (Lt Uhura) and Walter Koenig (Mr Chekov), these never-before-collected tales will take you where no man has gone before - and beyond!

ISBN: 9781845763152 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Titan Books

Pages: 160 (Fiction)

Links

1. Star Trek Wiki of the book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Good reads page for the book

4. James Kirk's Wikipedia page

5. Buy from the Official Star Trek Shop

Glee - The Beginning (An Original Novel) (Sophia Lowell)

Glee - The Beginning (An Original Novel)

Sophia Lowell

Blurb: All great performances deserve a warm-up!

Enroll early at McKinley High to discover what when on before New Directions was even a glimmer in Mr Schuester's eye. When did Rachel first decide Finn was more than just a jock? When did Puck and Quinn start their secret romance? And how did the fledging Glee Club function without a fearless leader? Hint: It wasn't exactly a perfect melody.

Break out the gold stars and refill the slushies: it's time to find out what happened to all your favourite characters before the show-mance began.

ISBN: 9780755377374 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Headline

Pages: 218 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy at Amazon

2. Blog review of the book

3. Good reads page for the book

4. Review of the book

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