Maybe South America Wasn’t a Good Career Move

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Noël

For all the academic wonks who read this:

Tenure Decision — Henry Jones, Jr.

Rags to riches and finding True Love is not always all that the fairy tales say. In AT THE FOOT OF THE THRONE, two countries stand on the brink of war, and a young villager finds herself thrown into the center of the conflict.

A small shepherding community on the border of Lotharia and Sudra is destroyed leaving Marra the sole survivor. Pitched into the unstable politics between the two nations, Marra finds herself torn between love and duty.

Noel's bookshelf: read

Duplicate Effort

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Oath of Swords

by David Weber

It's a bit of formulaic fantasy, but I like the series and love the main character.

The Golden Globe

by John Varley

The Golden Globe is an Eight Worlds novel -- mostly closely related in setting and world to Steel Beach, which was one of my favorite science fiction novels to come out of the 1990s.

Will you smell a whiff of Double Star as you rea...

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science-fiction

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness

While it did have one or two rather tired tropes, overall, I really enjoyed it. I was dubious because I tend to get impatient with neopaganism, and claims of witchy lineage are even lower on my "wanna be patient with" list, and v...

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fantasy

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

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Maybe South America Wasn’t a Good Career Move