Summers: 1017 books

THE WIFE: "And just like in my fantasy, and just like in his fantasy, Phillip says in a quiet voice, 'Go on, Sheikh Nasser. Go on. Take her. Take my wife.' " How do Jessa and Phillip, a respectable couple in their forties, married with two kids, nice house in the suburbs, end up on the eightieth...

When a house collapses in his Sandhill Street neighborhood, Dignity has to decide whether to offend his parents, Neglect and Folly, by telling them what really happens to the homeless of the City. But in dealing with Neglect, Folly, and some other disagreeable relatives, Dignity and Reason don’t...

Innkeeper Bob Himmel’s rotten teenage cousin Deirdre appears destined to become a hardened criminal—or just possibly a Mage. She thinks either will do as long as she can get out of dead-end Rayburn County, Indiana. But if a Mage, will she accept electrifying Mrs. Rollins as a mentor? Or a Curse...

For five hundred years Queen Tanaquill has ruled Faerie splendidly by herself. She does not need any help from young Magi, whether to meet threats from Queen Morgan Le Fay, from a so-called King of Terrors, or from her own bad temper. But Tanaquill owes a humbling debt to Deirdre the Damned and may yet be indebted to another of her guests whom the Faerie Court calls the Queen of Death.

So distant ancestors of Simone and Clay Gareth were royal? And the family reigned in a hidden continent not found on any map? Heirs to an empire, this teenage brother and sister are about to leave Indiana and enter the lost realm called the Fold, a land inhabited partly by humans and partly by intelligent but non-human species; a land of mysteries, dangers, and wars.

River Grove Community Church voted out elder Ollie Fulborne, who was under suspicion of heresy and of sexually harassing a young teenage girl. But Ollie had been the driving force behind the church. Now, two years later, with numbers dwindling and church debt piling up, the people are considering...

If young church deacon Stan Morrison is to save his friends Bob and Julie from a dangerous fantasy of being innkeepers for wizards, he must first find out what is really happening at Wizards’ Inn. He must also overcome his infatuation with Deirdre the Damned, and above all, not fall through a magic...

In a spaceship equipped with a powerful secret weapon, eleven-year-old Jill and her father must try to change the course of a space war. After piloting the ship in a wildly risky raid on the enemy’s largest space station, Jill will attempt to rescue a young alien sister and brother. Wherever she...

The remote planet Narlash 4 appears to be the quiet home of a farm family. Few know it is the site of a secret, underground City of Robots. Pre-teen Jill Titan knows, and is thrilled to be going there with her father, a famed physicist. Before long she will find that there are mysterious goings-on...

‘Safe’ in a wanna-be Mega Church, Hila has to choose sides in a dispute about the authority of the Bible. Meanwhile, a lot of people would much rather she didn’t date Jeff Fontaine, including his parents—and hers. Her new church offers support groups for children of dysfunctional families,...

Store clerks by day, innkeepers for the Magi by night! Twenty-year-olds Bob Himmel and Julie Beckerhof aren’t getting paid anything, but the thrills are there. If the inn isn’t sold out from under them, and if they can keep their guests alive—number seven on the list of innkeepers’ rules—they just might get married and settle into this.

Jill Titan has lived all her eleven years in outer space of a far future century. When a ‘life shell’ she occupies is damaged and hurtles out beyond the edge of the galaxy, she must try to survive all alone. It’s a good thing she’s smart and courageous, because she’s about to meet dangers...

Why doesn’t the world give a washed up sorceress a break? It isn’t bad enough that Deirdre the Damned blinded Lile, but now the wicked fairy Blackroot is planning to murder her. She needs a Mage to heal her eyes, but perhaps even more, needs to rely on a twisted cane that once belonged to Merlin....

Nine Days to Extinction is a prophetic novel based upon apocalyptic bioterrorism. It is the tale of a treasonous fight for world domination that escalates when the Russian president's evil step-brother, FSB Officer Yuri Nevsky, unleashes a stolen Cold War-era "super bug" on an unsuspecting...