Moonbound

MoonboundRobin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far future adventure. It is eleven thousand years from now. A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a remote village under a wizards rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here, as they say,

sarcastic narrator

and the law is skinny with hunger for us

In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont

Where did the calculated demise occur

witty and entirely delightful family drama for fans of Elinor Lipman and Jennifer Weiner

But the weird thing is

a decade after Castro’s takeover

she seizes the chance to live the life she’s always envied

the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history

Join “colorist queen” (New York Magazine) Johanna Basford on a dazzling floral adventure of fantasy and imagination

But when he commits a random murder

desperate plea for a job is all it takes for Ford to hire her