"Wyatt Striker hated to admit that he was nervous. A senator he had treated in the ER after a mountain biking accident had invited Wyatt and his wife to a party at his vacation home near Tijuana. Unfortunately he did not mention that a dozen of California's most influential people would be there, too. He knew he had faced far worse situations during his glory days in special ops, but he hardly thought his training would help with this one. When he arrived at the house early, however, he was caught off guard by what seemed to be a two-bit burglar. The thief's behavior, which included nearly putting a peephole in Wyatt's cranium, suggested something much more dangerous. Shaken, he returned home to find his sister-in-law tied to a chair in the kitchen, his son gone, and a ransom note on the table. As he attempts to connect the dots, he discovers that the captor is less interested in the money than in Wyatt. Confused and determined, he sets off to unravel the web of leads and players. Will his calm and careful mind and the resources he can muster be enough to outsmart the captor? Will he discover the deadly identity of his adversary before it's too late?"--Publisher's website.

Alan Wall's The Lightning Cage is a gothic, metaphysical novel given the speed and strength of a thriller. A former seminarian, Christopher Bayliss abandons his studies in Rome and returns to England, determined to be cleansed forever of the contagion of religion and to leave behind his angels as well as his demons. But then something curious starts to happen: his research into an obscure eighteenth-century poet, Richard Pelham, reintroduces into his life those same ghostly whispers and rumors he thought he silenced for good. And so he flees once more, into a different type of life entirely--he escapes into worldly success. But even still, it seems he cannot escape the mysteries of Richard Pelham. Soon these dark secrets begin to take over his life as insidiously and completely as they took over the poet over two centuries before.

Time is running out for Zeus, who is trapped in the wires and slowly disintegrating into nothingness. Without him, Lexi's war against the shadow shapers is doomed to fail. To regain his physical form, Zeus needs his lightning bolt back, so all Lexi has to do is find its missing pieces and her troubles should be over, right? Wrong. She knows Poseidon has one of the missing pieces but, with no memories of her previous existence, Lexi doesn't even know where to start looking for him. And when the shadow shapers strike again, threatening everything Lexi holds most dear, it's clear that Zeus isn't the only one running short of time. Luckily Lexi isn't the type to turn her back on a challenge, because the fate of the gods themselves rests on her shoulders.

Nynn gives birth to the first natural-born Dragon King, but after her and her son are kidnapped by an evil scientist, it is up to Leto, a superhuman Cage warrior, and Nynn, with her new-found powers, to save Nynn's son.

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Elizabeth Bishop: A Biography of a Poetry is a fascinating account of one of the most influential and beloved poets of the past fifty years. Writing a clean, spare poetry of elegance, lucidity, and great charm, Bishop appears to offer small insight into her private life, wryly remarking that confessional poets 'overdo the morbidity.'