August Week #1

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Here is the first week of the new month, so we should get started with something cool enough to lighten the summer heat. This series is probably marketed as a YA series, (young adult) but it is really a crackin' good story for readers of any age. To go down and find another world under ground has long been a theme for many books over the years, well here it is done wonderfully by a master storyteller.

Roderick Gordon - Tunnels 01 - Tunnels.doc
Roderick Gordon - Tunnels 02 - Deeper.doc



The WWII covert operations became quite sophisticated and grew into the cold war, this fact powered a great number of spy thrillers. Here we have some of the best of the best of this genre. John le Carré is the pentultimate spy thriller writer, and here are his works.

John le Carré - A Most Wanted Man.doc
John le Carré - A Murder Of Quality.doc
John le Carré - A Perfect Spy.doc
John le Carré - A Small Town In Germany.doc
John le Carré - Absolute Friends.doc
John le Carré - Call for the Dead.doc
John le Carré - Our Game.doc
John le Carré - Single and single.doc
John le Carré - Smiley's People.doc
John le Carré - The Constant Gardener.doc
John le Carré - The Honourable Schoolboy.doc
John le Carré - The Little Drummer Girl.doc
John le Carré - The Looking Glass War.doc
John le Carré - The Mission Song.doc
John le Carré - The Naive & Sentimental Lover.doc
John le Carré - The Night Manager.doc
John le Carré - The Russia House.doc
John le Carré - The Secret Pilgrim.doc
John le Carré - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold .doc
John le Carré - The Tailor of Panama.doc
John le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.doc



There are fantasy's and then there are fantasy's, epic stories as might be told by bards like 'The Lord of the Rings' and light fun fantasy, of which this probably is the premier example. The Fablehaven series is the wonder of the human imagination, coupled with the folk dreams of the western world. Truly enjoyable reads of the first water.

Brandon Mull - Fablehaven 01 - Fablehaven.doc
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven 02 - Rise of the Evening Starl.doc
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven 03 - Grip of the Shadow Plague.doc
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven 04 - Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary.doc
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven 05 - Keys to the Demon Prison.doc



Next we have some stories told by a master writer. They are fantasy/paranormal tales of dreams and nightmares that haunt the human spirit. The first series, 'Inheritors Cycle' tells the story of a princess, destined never to be a queen, trained into the deadliest assasin ever known. In the 'Negotiator' series, well, let us just remind you of the 'negotiation' scene played by Bruce Willis in the space liner, from the movie 'The Fifth Element'. Remember how that went? And in the 'Walker Papers' the tale is of a shaman living in today's world and finding herself in the position of being the only one to save the world on a fairly regular basis. Great stuff!

C E Murphy - Inheritors Cycle 01 - The Queen's Bastard.doc
C E Murphy - Inheritors Cycle 02 - The Pretender's Crown.rtf
C E Murphy - Negotiator 01 - Heart of Stone.doc
C E Murphy - Negotiator 02 - House of Cards.doc
C E Murphy - Negotiator 03 - Hands of Flame.rtf
C E Murphy - Omnibus - Winter Moon.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 01 - Urban Shaman.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 01,5 - Banshee Cries.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 02 - Thunderbird Falls.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 03 - Coyote Dreams.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 04 - Walking Dead.doc
C E Murphy - Walker Papers 05 - Demon Hunts.doc



Finally this week we have a series about the first people in the Americas, stone age early crossers of the Bering land bridge during the last ice age. Here we follow a tribe as it tries to survive in a land filled with megafauna and geologic threats. These stories of the people anthropologists know as the Clovis people are well researched and well written.

William Sarabande - First Americans 01 - Beyond the Sea of Ice.doc
William Sarabande - First Americans 02 - Corridor of Storms.doc
William Sarabande - First Americans 03 - Forbidden Land.doc
William Sarabande - First Americans 04 - Walkers of the Wind.doc