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Man and robots coexist in a world that looks like the near future. But someone or something is destroying the world’s most powerful robots, and a key figure in a robot rights group has been murdered. Interpol assigns robot Detective Gesicht to the case. He detects no other human presence in the room at the time of the murder: but the robot laws state that no robot may harm or kill a human being. And what to make of the staging of the victims with what looks like horns placed by their heads? An intriguing first volume in a series based on Osamu Tezuka’s iconic manga series Astro Boy.

Reviewed by Mark S., University City Regional

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A ghost writer is asked to step in and assist in finishing the memoirs of the recently retired British Prime Minister. The previous collaborator turned up dead on the shore in Martha's Vineyard where the former PM is staying. After some reluctant investigating the writer discovers that there may be more to his predecessor's death than a drunken accident and that there may be a sinister reason as to why it is so hard to find his client's true voice. This is a great page-turning thriller ripped straight from today's headlines and an indictment of recent British foreign policy.

Reviewed by Ed M., Morrison Regional

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Tania is searching for her mother Queen Titania, who left Faerie almost five hundred years ago. But a queen who hasn't made herself known in five hundred years is not going to be easy to find. With Edric by her side, Tania hunts, all the while trying to hide who she is from her mortal parents and friends. But the sinister Lord Drake has not been defeated and still wants the riches that only Tania can attain for him. Will they escape the evil that reaches for them? Will they find the queen?

Reviewed by Elizabeth S., Charlotte, NC

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Anita is average, happy, and almost sixteen. But strange things have been happening around her. Evan shows up and sweeps her off her feet, she remembers things she's never done and she has dreams that she can fly. Suddenly she is pulled into the land of Faerie, and discovers she is the princess Tania, the youngest of seven daughters, who has been missing for five hundred years. She learns she vanished on the eve of her sixteenth birthday and her wedding. She begins to accept her life with the fair folk, but she cannot forget the world she left and the ones she left behind. Will she ever find her true home?

Reviewed by Elizabeth S., Charlotte, NC

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Le Carré’s typically reluctant spy, Bruno Salvador is the “zebra” son of an Irish missionary and an unknown Congolese woman. His remarkable gift for languages, which includes fluency in Congolese dialects, guarantees him regular work in London business, as well as the occasional stint with British Intelligence, which he happily embraces as his patriotic duty. His first major assignment is to serve as an interpreter for a mysterious Syndicate dimly associated with British interests at a conference dealing with coming elections in the Congo. Needless to say, he becomes entangled in a world where nothing is as it is presented to be. All parties involved have a hidden – and dishonorable – agenda. Le Carré is at his best here, mixing tragedy and satire with devastating effect.

Reviewed by Jim B., Main Library

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