Definitely the best book I've read in a long time. The author takes a simple sci-fi premise--the discovery of a serum that enables people to live forever if they can afford the hefty price tag--and spins it into a multifaceted story about family, dreams, loss, economic inequality, and more. The brilliant structure--which switches back and forth among various members of two families, one rich and one poor--wowed me. This book is a debut, but it reads like the work of someone who's been writing novels for twenty years. Can't wait to see what she comes up with next!
In a strange and troubled near future, a cure for mortality has been discovered, one that comes with a sky-high price tag and requires vast quantities of human blood to manufacture.As society schisms into have and have-nots, mortals and Immortals, two very different families confront the new reality. The Hudsons, once homeless, now swap their blood for food, shelter, and the dream of a better life, while the Davenports turn on each other over an inheritance large enough to secure Immortality for only one of them.
When scandal brings the Hudsons and Davenports together, they form a fraught and unlikely…
I've been fascinated by athlete Jim Thorpe since my dad first told me about him many, many years ago. I've read other Thorpe biographies, but this one surpasses them all in depth, detail, and the author's ability to connect episodes in Thorpe's life to events and trends in the larger society. I recently published a short story about Thorpe, and though it contains fantasy elements, I couldn't have written it without having read this book.
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind.
The second book in Cadwell Turnbull's wildly imaginative Convergence Saga, this novel picks up where the first book, "No Gods, No Monsters," left off. Monsters have emerged from the shadows and sought to claim a place in human society, with all the predictable conflicts that occur when any marginalized group insists on being heard. It would be easy to consider this series an allegory about any number of contemporary social justice movements, from Black Lives Matter to the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, but Turnbull doesn't let readers draw easy conclusions. Instead, he produces a strange, complex, and at times disturbing story about social change that transcends any attempt to pigeonhole it.
The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.
Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.
The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted…
Agent Miriam Randle works for LifeTime, a private law enforcement agency that undertakes short-term time travel to prevent crimes from happening. Though a seasoned time traveler, she is haunted by the death of her twin brother, whose murder remains unsolved years later.
When a routine assignment ends in a tragedy by Miriam’s hand, she finds herself mixed up in a conspiracy involving the highest levels of LifeTime. Forced to flee into the past with her partner, Miriam races to unravel the truth before it’s too late.
But there are horrors in her past that Miriam would rather forget… including her brother’s killer.
Myriad is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that will keep readers guessing to the very end.
