Ink
10 best books like Ink (Hal Duncan): Perfectly Preventable Deaths, Just One Damned Thing After Another, The Mirage, Cut, Tunnel of Bones, Carnival, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, The Choice of Magic
Perfectly Preventable Deaths
Everyone in Ballyfran has a secret, and that is what binds them together…
Fifteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfran, a strange isolated town, a place where, for the last sixty years, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains.
As...
Just One Damned Thing After Another
"History is just one damned thing after another."
Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of...
| Author | Matt Ruff |
| ISBN | 0061976229 |
A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into...
| Author | Patricia McCormick |
| ISBN | 0439324599 |
Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She...
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.
She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly...
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553589040 |
In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition - one that is about to reunite them.
The...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
| Author | Laurie Gwen Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1476753865 |
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great...
The ancient magic of wizards was anything but dark. It was the enlightenment that lifted humanity from the squalor of superstition, and the worship of fell spirits and capricious gods, but those days are gone. The shining glory of the sorcerers burned away the subtlety of wisdom, replacing it with easy...
| Author | Tosca Lee |
| ISBN | 1476798702 |
New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brings a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding the most notorious female serial killer of all time. A fast-paced thriller for fans of Ted Dekker’s The Books of Mortals, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and BBC America’s hit series Orphan Black.
Emily...
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT
| Author | Jane Stern |
| ISBN | 1400048699 |
Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness...
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 2290319953 |
Le dénouement est proche. Car il ne reste que deux prétendants au trône des Sept Couronnes : Joffrey, le héraut du clan des Lannister, retranché à Port-Réal, et Stannis Baratheon, qui a masse ses navires aux abords de la capitale en vue de l'assaut final. Celui qui s'en rendra maître deviendra...
I thought that the hardest thing I would have to face this year would be Trial Month.
Gods, I was naïve.
My name is Luna Moon. Don’t ask me what I am, because complicated doesn’t even begin to cut it. I recently found out that
everything I knew to be true has been a lie.
Including...
De thuiskomst: Het Rijk van de Ouderlingen
| Author | Robin Hobb |
| ISBN | 9024553482 |
In 2005 is Robin Hobb, tien jaar na haar Nederlandse debuut De boeken van de Zieners, onbetwist de populairste strijfster van oorspronkelijke fantasy-romans.
In het kader van dit tienjarig schrijversjubileum is De thuiskomst verschenen.
De thuiskomst is een mini-roman die, naast een...
Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince
| Author | V.E. Schwab |
| ISBN | 1785865870 |
Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shades of Magic sequence, this all-original comic book prequel to A Darker Shade of Magic is perfect for fans of bloody, swashbuckling adventure and gritty fantasy!
Delve into the thrilling, epic...
| Author | Lev Grossman |
| ISBN | 0312170599 |
The story of a modern day Ulysses -- with the reality of post-graduation haze volleying off of Star Trek reruns. Hollis lives in an area not too far from where he graduated from college. His friends do too. They all sleep late, talk about jobs they might get, girls they might see, money their parents might...
Nach zwanzig Jahren im Gefängnis ist er überraschend begnadigt worden. Christiane, seine Schwester, will sein erstes Wochenende in Freiheit mit einem Dutzend alter Freunde feiern, in einer verfallenen Villa auf dem Land, ohne Reporter und Kameras. Der Journalist Henner, die Lehrerin Ilse,...
