Flash and Bones is number 14 in the Temperance Brennan mysteries, and every bit as fun to read as the first.
Perhaps you missed The Tiger's Wife, a 2011 novel by Tea Obreht. A fiction title in alternating time periods between current day and war times in Middle Eastern Europe. The main characters are a girl and her grandfather, both doctors. This is a beautifully writ
Orphan Jane Williams has lived her entire life in the foster care system. This has given her a particularly hard outlook on life, but her determination to better her surroundings makes Jane work hard for what she has earned.
In Victorian London, Dodger is a 17-year-old rogue who makes his living through thievery and toshing (i.e. scavenging the sewers for valuables). In his world, Dodger knows everyone and everyone knows Dodger.
Pepper (we only ever know him as Pepper) gets into a fight with three police officers who admit him to Hyde Park mental hospital in Queens, New York because a trip to the precinct would involve too much paperwork. Pepper isn’t crazy. He’s just unlucky, and he gets less lucky as things go. The Devil in Silver while billed as a Horror/Thriller – and yes it is terrifying - is at its heart a book about how bad luck has a way of following those on the bottom rungs of society.
Sixteen-year-old Victor is brash, arrogant, and brilliant—much like the scowling Frankenstein ancestors who built the looming Château Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva. Together with his twin Konrad, their cousin Elizabeth, and their friend Henry Clerval, they spend their days learning in their father’s vast library or exploring the beautiful
I originally read the Harry Potter Series, by J. K. Rowling, as a child. I anticipated each novels release with that “it’s-never-ever-ever-going-to-get-here!” zeal that I had as a child.
I freely admit it—I had to make a second, running start at Dark Harvest. But once I got past the idea that the evil presence holding the entire town captive was a pumpkin-headed boy with a butcher knife, the story was plenty creepy for my taste. Every Halloween, all boys between the ages of sixteen and nineteen are set loose on the town to prevent the October Boy from getting to the church before midnight. The winner earns the one and only ticket out of town.
What Are You Looking At? is an unusual art history book dealing only with art of the last century, with the focus on the 1980s, “the age when wealth and vanity corrupted Western civilization,” to a little leaner present. The inside book cover
