Adult Summer Reading: Fiction (Speculative) at Howard County Library

The demi-monde : winter /

Author: Rees, Rod,
ISBN: 9780062070340
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/06/2012
Summary: The Demi-Monde, a computer-simulated military training world, begins bleeding into the real world when the U.S. president's daughter becomes trapped inside and enlists the assistance of a reluctant teenager to escape.
Subjects: Suspense fiction - Virtual reality - Fiction. - Science fiction
Call number: SF REE

Discount Armageddon : an Incryptid novel /

Author: McGuire, Seanan.
ISBN: 9780756407131
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/02/2012
Subjects: Monsters - Fiction. - Dancers - Fantasy fiction - Cryptozoology
Call number: FANTASY PAPERBACK M

The drowning girl : a memoir /

Emperor Mollusk versus the sinister brain /

Author: Martinez, A. Lee.
ISBN: 9780316093521
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/01/2012
Summary: Emperor Mollusk, ex-warlord of Earth, comes out of retirement to save the planet from the sinister brain's control.
Subjects: Warlordism - Fiction. - Fantasy fiction - Extraterrestrial beings
Call number: F MAR

The fear index

Author: Harris, Robert,
ISBN: 9780449008751;0449008754
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/10/2012
Summary: "A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to t
Subjects: Talking books. - Hedge funds - Fiction. - Suspense fiction. - Artificial intelligence - Scientists - Fiction - Geneva (Switzerland)
Call number: CD F HAR

The fear index /

Author: Harris, Robert,
ISBN: 9780307957931
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/25/2012
Summary: "A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to t
Subjects: Geneva (Switzerland) - Fiction. - Hedge funds - Suspense fiction - Artificial intelligence - Scientists - Fiction
Call number: F HAR

The fear index /

Author: Harris, Robert,
ISBN: 9781611733266
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/16/2012
Subjects: Artificial intelligence - Large type books. - Fiction. - Geneva (Switzerland) - Suspense fiction. - Scientists - Fiction - Hedge funds
Call number: LP HAR

The games /

Author: Kosmatka, Ted,
ISBN: 9780345526618
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/15/2012
Summary: "This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death i
Subjects: Science fiction - Monsters - Fiction. - Science - Societies, etc. - Genetic engineering - Gladiators
Call number: SF KOS

Girl reading : a novel /

Author: Ward, Katie.
ISBN: 9781451655902
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/03/2012
Subjects: Women - History - Fiction. - Reading - Women in art
Call number: F WAR

The song of Achilles /

Author: Miller, Madeline.
ISBN: 9780062060617;9780062060624
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/12/2012
Summary: Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hand
Subjects: Trojan War - Fiction. - Achilles (Greek mythology) - Greeks - Turkey - Troy (Extinct city) - Historical fiction. - Greece - History - To 146 B.C. - War stories.
Call number: F MIL

The wolf gift

Author: Rice, Anne,
ISBN: 9780307877246;0307877248
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/05/2012
Summary: The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisc
Subjects: Werewolves - Fiction. - Talking books. - Fantasy fiction
Call number: CD F RIC

The wolf gift : a novel /

Author: Rice, Anne,
ISBN: 9780307595119
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/15/2012
Summary: A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
Subjects: Werewolves - Fiction. - Fantasy fiction
Call number: F RIC

The wolf gift : a novel /

Author: Rice, Anne,
ISBN: 9780307990761
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/08/2012
Summary: A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
Subjects: Good and evil - Fiction. - Journalists - Identity (Psychology) - Werewolves - Fantasy fiction. - Transformations - Occult fiction - California, Northern
Call number: LP RIC