Forsaken - Assassin's Creed #5 (Oliver Bowden)

Forsaken - Assassin's Creed #5

Oliver Bowden

Blurb: 'I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.'

1735 - London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword form the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked - his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men - Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills.

With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumer by his thirst for revenge, Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no one and questioning everything he has ever known.

Conspiracy and betrayal surround him as he is drawn into the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and the Templars. 

ISBN: 9780718159498 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Pages: 482 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wiki on the book

2. Goodreads page

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Review of the book

5. Wikipedia page 

The Return of the Worthy - Star Trek (Peter David, Bill Mumy, J. Michael Straczynski)

The Return of the Worthy - Star Trek

Peter David, Bill Mumy, J. Michael Straczynski

Blurb: These are the continuing comic 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!

When Captain Kirk and his crew accidentally discover a group of heroes thought long-dead, they must help them acclimatise to a galaxy they barely recognise. But when internal stresses threaten to tear the group apart, can Kirk help them become heroes again? Also in this collection: a very special tale of dying worlds and those who remember them, and a shocking team-up with...the Klingons?

Written by acclaimed Star Trek novelist and comics legend Peter David (The Incredible Hulk), Lost in Space star Bill Mumy, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and Star Trek author Howard Weinstein, with pencillers Gordon Purcell (New Teen Titans) and Ken Hooper (Aquaman), and featuring rare interviews with William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and George Takei (Mr Sulu), these never-before-collected tales will take you beyond the final frontier!

ISBN: 184576319X (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Titan Books

Pages: 160 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Goodreads page

3. Wiki on the book

4. Collection of Star Trek Comics

5. Wikipedia page for Star Trek Comics

Our First President (Michael Thornton)

Our First President

Michael Thornton

Blurb: It's early 1995. An ambitious Liberal wants to be Australia's Prime Minister, a Labor Minister wants to restore his party to its true values, and a newspaper editor sees the National Party as giving him the top job.

Each to further his own aims, the three men plot to put a woman in the Lodge - temporarily. Yet out first woman PM surprises everyone with her skills.

Our First President is about the shape of Australian politics in 1995: GATT, the GST, rorts, the republic, from Western Victoria to the wheat fields of Western Australia, from London to Los Angeles.

Most of all, Our First President is Australian.

ISBN: 0959662448 (Paperback)

Year: 1994

Publisher: Escape Books

Pages: 360 (Fiction)

Links

1. Google books page

2. National Library of Australia catalogue for book

3. Buy from ebay

Hunger - Gone Series #2 (Michael Grant)

Hunger (Gone Series #2)

Michael Grant

Blurb: 106 hours 29 minutes.

Suddenly it's a world without adults and normal has crashed and burned. When life as you know it ends at 15, everything changes.

An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon fear explodes into desperation as starvation sets in. For the 'normals' the buck must stop somewhere - with the 'freaks'.

More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. 

And in the background, in an abandoned mineshaft, lies the greatest danger of all - and he too needs to be fed...

ISBN: 9781405251532 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Egmont

Pages: 586 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the series

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Blog on the book

4. Review of the book

5. Goodreads page for the book

Gone - Gone Series #1 (Michael Grant)

Gone (Gone Series #1)

Michael Grant

Blurb: 299 hours 54 minutes.

Suddenly it's a world without adults and normal has crashed and burned. When life as you know it ends at 15, everything changes.

A small town in southern California: In the blink of an eye everyone over the age of 15 disappears and no one knows why.

Cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, and there's no help on the way. Chaos rules the streets. Gangs begin to form. Sides are chosen - strong or wear. Cruel or humane.

A new world order is rising and, even scarier, some survivors have power - power that no one has ever seen before...

ISBN: 9781405246347 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Egmont

Pages: 560 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the series

2. Author's official site

3. Goodreads page

4. Review of the book

5. Publisher's page for the book

The Suspect & The Night Ferry - Omnibus (Michael Robotham)

The Suspect & The Night Ferry - Omnibus

Michael Robotham

Blurb: The Suspect

Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life...

The Night Ferry

Alisha Barba receives a message from a school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. But on the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car. Now Alisha has to discover why Cate contacted her - and why her old friend created such a trail of deception...

ISBN: 9780751544268 (Paperback)

Year: 2004 & 2007

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 501 (Fiction)

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1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's official site

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Goodreads page for the author

5. Crime Down Under page for the author

Frankenstein: Wishbone Classics #7 (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, retold by Michael Burgan)

Frankenstein: Wishbone Classics #7

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, retold by Michael Burgan

Blurb: Meet Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist. After two years of hard work and experimentation, he discovers the secret of bringing a creature to life.

To his surprise, Dr. Frankenstein's creation is horrifying and he abandons the monster. Lonely and rejected, the eight-foot beast seeks revenge. When the doctor's friends are murdered, Frankenstein knows who the killer is.

Now Frankenstein must search the world to track down the hideous creature. Can the doctor find the monster before he strikes again?

ISBN: 0061064173 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Pages: 125 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Barnes and Noble

2. Goodreads page for the series

3. Other Frankenstein books to read

4. Wikipedia page on the character

5. Spark Notes page on the story of Frankenstein

Work This Farm! Lego City (Michael Anthony Stelle illustrated by Chuck Primeau)

Work This Farm! Lego City

Michael Anthony Stelle illustrated by Chuck Primeau

Blurb: It's a busy day on the farm! The farmers feed the animals and harvest the crops. A big farm needs big machines!

ISBN: 9780545298575 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Scholastic

2. Blog on the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Wiki page on the book

5. Author's official page

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Michael Lewis)

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

Blurb: When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side.

ISBN: 9780393338386 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company

Pages: 339 (Non-Fiction)

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1. Buy from Amazon

2. Wikipedia page for the book

3. Good reads page for the book

4. Summary of the book

5. Review of the book

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Michael Davis)

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

Michael Davis

Blurb: One evening in early 1966 a group of friends were gathered at a Manhattan dinner party, where the conversation turned to a subject a number of them had been thinking about: Why couldn't television be used to teach children? Suddenly, one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of broadcasting was born.

Michael Davis's Street Gang unfolds the never-before-told saga behind Sesame Street: the miraculously improbably alchemy that brought a passionate team together, and kept them going through four decades of social change and the backstage dram behind a television show that had always appeared effortless. Street Gang is a story of a crusade, one that has already influenced four generations of children - and one that will remain a part of childhood for generations to come.

ISBN: 9780143116639 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Penguin Books

Pages: 380 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Official site for the book

3. Wikipedia page for the book

4. Google books page

5. Wiki page for the book

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men (Michael Jan Friedman)

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men

Michael Jan Friedman

Blurb: On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin.

Dispatched to cope with the growing crisis, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise receive some unexpected visitors from another reality, in the form of a group of mutant heroes known as the uncanny X-Men. Storm, leader of the team, offers her help in resolving a situation that is agonisingly similar to the human/mutant conflicts of their own time and space.

But when hostile aliens appear in orbit around Xhaldia to try and abduct the transformed for use as superpowered weapons in an attack on the Federation, even the combined forces of the crew of Starfleet and the X-Men may be unable to prevent an inferno of death and destruction.

Starfleet's finest crew and Earth's greatest mutant heroes will need all their powers and abilities to save Xhaldian people and stop a deadly threat to the Federation.

ISBN: 9780671019167 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 265 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's Wikipedia page

3. Goodreads page for the book

4. Review of the book

5. Fiction db page

Pokemon Pokedex: Official Pocket Version (Michael Ryan)

Pokemon Pokedex: Official Pocket Version

Edited by Michael Ryan

Blurb: Keep all the Pokemon with you all the time!

The Official Pokemon Pocket Pokedex has details on the 493 Pokemon currently available, all in a handy size that can go with you anywhere!

1. -Detailed charts list all the Battle, Level-Up, TM & HM, Move Maniac, BP, and Egg Moves for all 493 Pokemon.
2. - All the details are updated for Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver Versions.
3. - Portable size lets you take the book everywhere you take the game. Never be without the information every Trainer should know!

ISBN: 9780307469489 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: The Pokemon Company

Pages: 520 (Fiction)

Links

1. Official Pokemon site

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Online Pokedex

4. Fan made Pokedex

5. List of Pokemon on Wikipedia