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Total Oblivion<\/span><\/a> by Alan DeNiro<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI remember the first time I began to understand that things might not be the same again.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s a girl to do when her world is invaded by warriors from the ancient world? That\u2019s the problem faced by sixteen-year-old Macy, who sees her quiet, normal life in suburban Minnesota turned upside down when things that should never be possible begin to transform the landscape all around her. The cable stops working, the phone lines die\u2013and then the horsemen come to town. It\u2019s not the same America that she last went to sleep in.<\/p>\n Ticketed to a refugee camp by the marauding Scythian armies, Macy and her family come to believe that heading down the Mississippi by boat is their one escape from the encroaching madness. But as they make their way downriver, Macy\u2019s world just keeps getting stranger, and the wooden submarines, wasp-borne plagues, and talking dogs are the least of her problems: For in this upside-down world, old identities warp and family bonds are sorely tested.<\/p>\n Acclaimed writer Alan DeNiro has fashioned a completely original, utterly beguiling melding of the surreal and the everyday.<\/p>\n \n The Conqueror’s Shadow<\/span><\/a> by Ari Marmell<\/span><\/p>\n \n The Magicians and Mrs. Quent<\/span><\/a> by Galen Beckett<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense in an evocative world of high magick and genteel society\u2013a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined.<\/p>\n Of the three Lockwell sisters\u2013romantic Lily, prophetic Rose, and studious, book-loving Ivy\u2013it\u2019s Ivy, the eldest, who\u2019s held the family together after their father\u2019s silent retreat to the library upstairs. Everyone blames Mr. Lockwell\u2019s malady on his magickal studies, but Ivy still believes\u2013both in magick and in its power to bring her father back.<\/p>\n Yet it is not until Ivy takes a job with the reclusive Mr. Quent that she discovers the fate she shares with a secret society of highwaymen, revolutionaries, illusionists, and spies who populate the island nation of Altania. It\u2019s a fate that will determine whether Altania faces a new dawn\u2013or an everlasting night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Total Oblivion by Alan DeNiro Promo copy: \u201cI remember the first time I began to understand that things might not be the same … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51b%2BxYm%2BL%2BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\")
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