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  Thursday

  Jake Kerr

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  NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED, AND NOTHING IS REAL 
  Ender's Game meets The Matrix in this mind-bending debut science fiction novel from Nebula-Award nominee Jake Kerr. 
  In a near future of decaying cities and gray skies everyone has escaped to the wondrous life of virtual reality. Including the criminals. 
  And the most dangerous criminal in the world is Sunday, the leader of the terrorist group the Order of Days, whose sole mission is to destroy the false paradise of VR and return people to the land of reality. 
  While on a simple reconnaissance job, young FBI agent Gabby Kane stumbles upon Saturday, a key member of the Order of Days. Kane brashly tries to single-handedly capture the terrorist, only to mess everything up in the process. She not only allows Saturday to escape, but she also seriously injures her own neural connection to virtual reality, a critical requirement for an undercover agent. 
  With her career in jeopardy, Gabby agrees to an impossible mission: Infiltrate the Order of Days as Thursday and kill the mysterious Sunday. Deep undercover and chased by the police and FBI while getting closer to uncovering the Order of Days, Gabby finds herself in increasing danger and without allies. But do enemies and allies even exist when no one can be trusted and nothing is real? 
  Thursday is the long awaited debut science fiction novel by multiple-award nominated author Jake Kerr.

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  Discernment

  Trevor Scott

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  When a string of brutal murders in Portland, Oregon shatters the peace in the Rose City, the local police dump the case on FBI Special Agent Julie Oh. But just as quickly as Julie gets the case, the FBI calls in Leon Jackson, an expert in serial murders. Now the murderer starts to ramp up the killing before being caught. But some in Portland might not want the killer to stop, since only sexual predators who have avoided prosecution are being murdered. To complicate the investigation, Julie and Leon start a strictly sexual relationship.

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  The Birthday of Eternity

  A.D. Price

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  Private investigators Kit Comfort and Henry Richman become entangled in L.A.'s post-WWII occult trade when they're hired to find Lillian, a prominent doctor's estranged wife, and her mesmerizing "spirit" lover, Tashin. The detectives' hunt leads to a Hollywood cult run by a charismatic guru and supported by the operator of a séance racket. 
  To infiltrate the cult, Kit, fresh from her training in judo and dirty fighting, poses as a wealthy recruit, while Henry investigates the séance circuit and its grift on the grief-stricken. Assisting the pair are Luca, Kit's psychiatrist lover, and her combat veteran brother, Stanley. 
  Together, they start to zero in on Lillian and Tashin, but as danger and intrigue intensify, the detectives realize that nothing is as it seems and nothing, including murder, is off the table. Surviving the spirit trade will take all of their cunning and just a bit of Lady Fortuna luck.

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  Below the Landscape

  Kathleen McKee

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  A tragic accident, a missing fiancé . . . and a buried truth that refuses to stay hidden.When a high school band trip ends in tragedy, Sue Jaworski steps in to comfort her friend and fellow garden club member, Ruth, whose nephew was among the victims. But while visiting Ruth's home, something unusual catches Sue's attention: a set of oil paintings identical to ones she recently bought at Trinkets and Treasures. The artist? Ruth's fiancé, who vanished without a trace forty years ago.Intrigued, Sue shares the discovery with her granddaughter Jessica, who insists on showing her the actual landscape that inspired the artwork. But the picturesque setting hides a dangerous secret—it rests atop an unstable, long-abandoned coal mine.As Sue and her husband Alan, Aspen Notch's police chief, dig into the past, they uncover a decades-old cover-up involving the town's shady bylaws, a powerful mining company, and a silence bought at great cost. Then Jessica goes missing . . . and Sue realizes some secrets were never meant to stay buried.

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  The Novel of the White Powder -...

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863. 
  Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. 
  In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams.  He did show literary promise with the publication of the poem ‘Eleusinia’ in 1821.  But life in London was difficult and it was only in 1884 that he published again and was taken on to translate several French works which thereafter became the standard editions for many years. 
   
  In 1887, his father died.  That same year he married Amelia Hogg, a maverick music teacher with a passion for the theatre.  He also began to receive legacies from Scottish relatives which allowed him to devote more time to writing. 
   
  After publishing in literary magazines in 1894 he published his first book ‘The Great God Pan’.  Its sexual and horrific content very much helped sales. 
   
  Over the next decade or so he wrote some of his best work but was unable to find a publisher mainly due to the collapse of the decadent market over Oscar Wilde’s scandalous trial. 
   
  In 1899, his wife died and during his long recovery he took up acting and travelled around the country as part of a travelling company.  Three years later he was publishing again and had remarried. 
   
  Re-publishing of earlier works helped anchor both his reputation and his income.  By the time the Great War opened Europe’s wounds he returned to the public eye with ‘The Bowmen’ helped by the publicity around the ‘Angel of Mons’ episode. 
   
  However, by the late 20’s new works had dried up and his back catalogue was no longer a source of regular income. 
   
  In 1932 he received a Civil List pension of ₤100 per annum but other work was not forthcoming.  His finances finally stabilised with a literary appeal in 1943 for his eightieth birthday and allowed him to live his remaining years in relative comfort. 
   
  Arthur Machen died on 15th December 1947 in Beaconsfield. He was 84. 
   
  A man is prescribed a medicine that turns him from a hard studying student of the law to something so compellingly awful that only Machen himself could have willed it into reality.<

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  Slingshot

  Judah Lamb

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  A forgotten war hero. A viral prophecy. A race for his life. 
  David Shepherd, haunted by a battlefield trauma, finds solace helping injured and homeless veterans. 
  But a viral video of him confronting a powerful politician sparks a movement. A movement that gains momentum thanks to a fiery prophecy by an enigmatic preacher. 
  David finds himself thrust into a high-stakes political race he never wanted. 
  His message of compassion and reform ignites the public imagination, but it also triggers a desperate response from those who fear change. 
  As David's popularity grows, so do the threats. His investigation into corruption leads him down a dark path, where truth hides behind a veil of bullets and betrayal. 
  Can David survive long enough to expose the conspiracy and become the leader he didn't ask to be? 
  Slingshot is the first book in this fast-paced, action-packed Christian thriller series. Think David Baldacci, James Patterson, Mark Dawson, and Lee Child meet Colleen Coble, and Lynette Eason. This is a modern-day re-telling of the King David story. The establishment will stop at nothing to stop David Shepherd's rise to power - and assassination isn't off the table.

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