Titles with one or two nominations:
*Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan [a7sharp9]
Amazon US $4.99 |
Amazon AU $6.94 |
Amazon UK £3.98 |
Amazon CA $6.94
736 pages
*The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov [Ralph Sir Edward]
**A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay [Catlady, orlok]
Amazon U.S. $11.49 |
Amazon CA $5.99 |
Amazon AU $5.14 |
Amazon UK £4.74 |
Kobo US $11.49 |
Kobo CA $9.99 |
Kobo AU $8.13 |
Kobo UK £4.79 | Overdrive Scribd Hoopla RB Digital
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WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.
To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
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320 pages
*Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón [Catlady]
Amazon U.S. $9.99 |
Amazon CA $12.99 |
Amazon AU $15.28 |
Amazon UK, £3.99 |
Kobo U.S. $9.99 |
Kobo CA $12.99 |
Kobo AU $25.51 |
Kobo UK, £3.99 | Overdrive, Axis360, Scribd, Hoopla, RB Digital
234 pages
**Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga #2) by Orson Scott Card [darryl, Dngrsone]
Amazon AU: $12.99, Amazon US: $ 8.99, Amazon UK: £ 5.99, Amazon CA: $ 5.99
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It is a very different book from Ender's Game and has many themes worthy of discussion. It is not hard science fiction, but uses the setting to examine many issues. Humanity, ashamed at having wiped out the first alien species it encountered (in Ender's Game) now has to deal with a second. Is this an opportunity for redemption? Or for a repeat? Have any lessons been learned? When the aliens kill the main "Xenologer" sent to study them how will humanity react? Or is history condemned to repeat itself? A very thought provoking book which ranks high amongst my favourites.
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In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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382 pages