Fear

Author	Ayn Rand
ISBN	0451163931

Part II of multi-part review series.

Reading Rand reminds me of teaching freshman composition at university years ago. There’s not nearly as many spelling errors, but Rand’s pronouncements bear all the markers of severe Dunning-Kruger effect: under-researched, un-theorized, insufficiently...

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0575076593

Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by Harper's to find...

Author	John Harding
ISBN	0007315031

A gripping, sinister Gothic tale inspired by and in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

In 1891, in a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence and her younger brother are  neglected by her guardian uncle. Banned from reading, Florence devours...

Author	Robertson Davies
ISBN	0140243437

"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto's St. Aidan's on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the last pages of this...

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	0312863934

Yarrow was an exceptional book. I probably would have given it 5 stars had I not read "Some place to be Flying" first. That being said I will move on with the review.

Cat Midhir is a writer. A writer who walks between worlds. Cat gets her stories from the Otherworld; Her conversations with Tiddy...

Author	David Koepp
ISBN	0062916432

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...

Author	Nevil Shute
ISBN	1842323016

This was such a pleasure to read. It is a simple story about an uncomplicated man who is required to perform some difficult tasks. He has to step way beyond his comfort zone and in doing so discovers his own inner strengths. Even better, it becomes a bit of a fairy story as he discovers he has friends he never...

Author	Anne C. Heller
ISBN	0385513992

Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian...