Shelf Reflections

Embassytown by China Mieville

“In the city known as Embassytown, humans live in an uneasy alliance with the Hosts, aliens who speak with two[…]

TNT’s limited series The Alienist, based on the book of the same name by Caleb Carr, follows three main characters:[…]

“Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth.[…]

“Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his[…]

“Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll[…]

“When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar[…]

“The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of[…]

“October 1991. It was “the perfect storm”–a tempest that may happen only once in a century–a nor’easter created by so[…]

“Little Red Riding Hood’s real name is Gretchen Schwarzwald, and she is from the Schwarzwald (the Black Forest) in Germany.[…]

“When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days’ compassionate leave, her sister Dell’s ghost[…]