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with Kim and Erin as facilitators, meets at 7:00 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month.
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
BOOK DISCUSSION
7:00 P.M.
April 28, 2010
Ben Holiday answers an ad in a Christmas catalog and finds himself the proud owner --and King-- of Landover. But all is not well in the realm.......
One man's nice orderly life is turned upside down when he discovers that his estranged (and recently deceased) father was actually a human form of the African trickster god, Anansi and that he has a brother named Spider who seems to have inherited some of their fathers powers.
Aislinn can see faeries....and one of them is looking for her. Keenan, the Summer King, believes that Aislinn is his true mate, the woman he must marry. His mother the Winter Queen does her best to thwart her son in his quest to win the hand of Aislinn, because if he succeeds she will lose her powers.
In book one of the series, Redwall, a young mouse named Matthias must attempt to thwart the evil one-eyed rat Cluny and his followers by locating the legendary sword once owned by Martin the Warrior. Mossflower recounts the tale of how Martin the Warrior came to be the legend that he will be.
Santa
Olivia, Texas; an isolated, disenfranchised town near pandemic-stricken
Mexico is the backdrop for the story of Loup Garron. A group of misfit
orphans form a vigilante group in support of Loup who, disguised as the
town's patron saint, seeks to right the wrongs done to the locals by
the soldiers who live on the base nearby. An interesting take on
superheroes and the classic werewolf myths.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
A
modern-day mage and consultant to the Chicago police, Harry Dresden
finds his stale life suddenly enlivened when he is called upon to share
his expertise in the investigation of a grisly double murder; a crime
that reveals the presence of a rival who practices the darkest of the
black arts.
Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Instead of staying out of sight during her assignment to a forlorn outpost, spaceship commander Honor Harrington, along with her vessel, the HMS Fearless, performs incredible flying maneuvers to stop a foreign takeover of a major space station.
This is book one in the Honor Harrington series.
July 22, 2009
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
The
Prince of Ombria lies dying, and already his sinister great-aunt,
Domina Pearl--called the Black Pearl--is seizing power. The Prince's
heir is a child, a boy too young to oppose her, and the Prince's nephew
is a powerless bastard. No one lives who may stop the Black Pearl's
ascent to the throne, or so it seems. But beneath the streets of Ombria
lies a second, shadow Ombria, a buried city inhabited not only by
ghosts, but by a powerful, mysterious sorceress and her creation, a
girl sculpted from wax. But the sorceress is a woman of uncertain
allegiances, and her beautiful young assistant has become fascinated by
the Prince's bastard nephew--and has caught the malevolent eye of the
Black Pearl.
June 24, 2009
The Rover by Mel Odom
The Librarians of Greydawn Moots protect what remains of the world's knowledge. What they don't do is explore the world (except through a book), fight against evil goblins, sail as pirates, or join thief bands. When halfling Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick) is mistaken for a hero, he is kidnapped to become a pirate, and finds himself in the type of adventure he normally only reads about.
