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The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n For the first time in a single volume, Peter F. Hamilton\u2019s acclaimed novels\u2014Mindstar Rising<\/span> and A Quantum Murder<\/span>\u2014set in a near-future so real it seems ripped from tomorrow\u2019s headlines<\/p>\n In Mindstar Rising<\/span>, Greg Mandel, gifted\u2014or cursed\u2014with biotechnology that makes him a living lie detector, is hired to investigate corporate espionage by Event Horizon, a powerful company about to introduce a technology that will solve the energy problems of a world decimated by global warming.<\/p>\n Set two years later, A Quantum Murder<\/span> once again teams Mandel with Event Horizon and its beautiful young owner, Julia Evans, in a locked-room mystery that combines the ingenuity of an Agatha Christie novel with cutting-edge speculative brilliance.<\/p>\n Read together, these novels take on fresh depth and complexity, underscoring the magnitude of Peter F. Hamilton\u2019s creative talent.<\/p>\n \n Rage<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n An action-packed adventure based on the award-winning videogame from id Software, the creators of DOOM\u00ae and QUAKE\u00ae, Rage<\/span> follows one man\u2019s fight to save the future of humanity in a ravaged, post-apocalyptic world.<\/p>\n The asteroid Apophis has annihilated Earth, and only a small percentage of humanity\u2019s best and brightest have been saved. Buried deep below the ground in life-sustaining Arks, these chosen few are tasked with one vital mission\u2014to restore civilization to a devastated planet hundreds of years after the impact.<\/p>\n When Lieutenant Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds a future indistinguishable from nightmare. Humankind has not been entirely destroyed on the surface world, and a primitive new society has emerged in which life is nasty, brutish, and short. Mutants and bandits prey upon the weak, and a mysterious military group known as the Authority preys upon everyone. Worst of all, a would-be tyrant seeks to impose his will upon the shattered planet. Armed with nothing more than his combat training and survival instincts, Raine must rise to meet the challenges of the wasteland.<\/p>\n \n Wayfinder<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE\u2014IF IT DOESN\u2019T KILL YOU FIRST<\/p>\n Lara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted\u2014or cursed\u2014with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie world embroiled in a bloody civil war between Seelie and Unseelie. Armed with an enchanted and malevolent staff which seeks to bend her to its dark will, and thrust into a deadly realm where it\u2019s hard to distinguish friend from foe, Lara is sure of one thing: her love for Dafydd ap Caerwyn, the Faerie prince who sought her help in solving a royal murder and dousing the flames of war before they consumed the Barrow-lands.<\/p>\n But now Dafydd is missing, perhaps dead, and the Barrow-lands are closer than ever to a final conflagration. Lara has no other choice: she must harness the potent but perilous magic of the staff and her own truthseeking talents, blazing a path to a long-forgotten truth\u2014a truth with the power to save the Barrow-lands or destroy them.<\/p>\n \n The Measure of the Magic: Legends of Shannara<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n After more than three decades of captivating epic fantasy readers, the storytelling magic of New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Terry Brooks\u2019s Shannara saga continues to enthrall. Now the fascinating chronicle of Shannara\u2019s prehistory reaches a thrilling new peak in the sequel to Bearers of the Black Staff<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the blighted and dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, the borders have been breached by predators, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and its profound power, devoted his life to protecting the valley and its inhabitants\u2014and, in his final moments, gave stewardship of the black staff to the young tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter, Princess Phryne Amarantyne, stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these will pale beside the most harrowing menace Panterra is destined to confront\u2014a nameless, merciless figure who wanders the devastated land on a relentless mission: to claim the last black staff . . . and the life of he who wields it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton Promo copy: For the first time in a single volume, Peter F. … Continue reading
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\nby Matthew Costello
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\nby C. E. Murphy
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\nby Terry Brooks
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