Adult Fiction Standing Order
July 17, 2008
Annotations from Baker & Taylor
Sorted by Author
Two to the Fifth
When a powerful magical bird seizes control of Xanth by magically eliminating all who would counter him, the Good Magician Humphrey enlists half-human playwright Cyrus the Cyborg in a covert effort that involves disguising the magical princesses Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm as actresses.
Divine Justice
Having offed two guys who knew too much about his past, Oliver Stone is hiding–and his Camel Club is bereft.
Ender in Exile
At the close of “Ender’s Game,” Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony’s training facilities, but instead the twelve-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane.
Stonefather
Card, Orson Scott / Kidd, Tom (ILT)
No Annotation
Arctic Drift
A silvery and slightly sinister mineral dating back to the search for the Northwest Passage is the only link NUMA director Dirk Pitt sees among a series of unsettling events. With a national tour.
The Eleventh Man
Two years after their university football team enjoyed a record-breaking, undefeated season, the teammates become caught up in the drama and peril of World War II, including Ben Reinking, plucked from pilot training to become part of the military propaganda machine, in which role he chronicles the wartime adventures of his teammates for newspapers across the country.
Black Ops
The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages concerning covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies suddenly gone missing and then, suddenly, inexplicably, found dying. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War? Or worse? Presidential Agent C. G. Castillo is about to find out…
Dark Summer
Working with a makeshift search-and-rescue operation, dedicated veterinarian Devon is thrust into a violent cat-and-mouse game involving a vengeful man of dubious trustworthiness and a wounded black Labrador’s mysterious pack.
Bones: An Alex Delaware Novel
When an anonymous tip leads to a murderer’s graveyard containing the skeletal remains of victims whose right hands have been removed and the discovery in a storage locker of a box containing six human hands, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis calls in Alex Delaware, whose investigation takes them to a reclusive tycoon’s mansion and to a child who may know too much.
Foundation
Magpie, a thirteen-year-old orphan, escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to become a Herald, in which role he discovers talents that he never knew he had and witnesses the founding of the Heralds’ Collegium, in a novel of the early history of Valdemar.
A Most Wanted Man
Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash and claiming to be a devout Muslim, forms an unlikely alliance with Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror.
Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug.
Final Justice
No Annotation
Cross Country
Alex Cross takes on the Nigerian underworld in Washington, DC.
A Christmas Grace
Forced to leave her husband and two children to attend her dying aunt on the far west coast of Ireland over the Christmas holidays of 1895, Emily Radley confronts her own depression as well as a tragic secret that is destroying the spirit of her aunt’s remote village, until a violent storm and a single survivor offer them all a chance to correct the pain of the past.
Salvation in Death
Det. Lt. Eve Dallas must dip into religion when a Catholic priest dies at a funeral mass.
