Afterlife, by Marcus Sakey

I enjoyed this book. Author Marcus Sakey has a wonderful ability to create new worlds within worlds. A sniper has killed 17 innocent, unconnected people in Chicago. FBI agent Will Brody has the sniper’s DNA, but little else, and is tracking him using skills honed in his military service in Afghanistan. Sent by his boss, and lover, Claire McCoy, to investigate an anonymous tip about an abandoned church, Brody dies when an improvised explosive device blows up. Despite his gruesome death, he awakens in a grey Chicago with no life and no warmth. He is in an afterlife called the Echo because it mirrors life, but like an echo, it fades over time.

Joined by a large group of new friends who have fought for years against seductive evil tendencies in the Echo, Brody uncovers dangerous dark secrets that mankind has not even guessed at. Forced to fight this evil while protecting Claire McCoy, Brody must travel through darker and darker worlds, worlds that echo the despair of Dante’s Inferno.

Although most of the novel is well written with richly developed characters and plot lines, several parts of the book seemed to be hastily put together. Notwithstanding, this is a superb book and I highly recommend it.

* Print Length: 320 pages
* Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (July 18, 2017)
* Publication Date: July 18, 2017
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

To Dream, Anatomy of a Humachine (Book 1), by Louis K. Lowy

Louis K. Lowy does a stellar job unveiling a complicated plot with many moving parts in the first novel of his new series: "To Dream, Anatomy of a Humachine." His protagonist, Dr. Niyati Bopari, is a brilliant roboticist and bio-physicist who mourns her beloved son, Jay, a young man killed in a car crash on his high school graduation day. Dr. Bopari was driving the car, and her guilt, despair and love for her son is so intense that, unbeknownst to her employer, Ameri-Inc., in 2030, as she builds their first highly advanced human-machine hybrid (humachine), she infuses it with his DNA, and names it, "J-1." Subsequently exiled by Amer-Inc., to a manufacturing facility on the planet Truatta for almost two hundred years, J-1, for various reasons, begins to evolve. As he does so, he must deal with the corrupt underbelly of Ameri-Inc., its attacks on the human population of both Truatta and Earth, and his growing awareness of his own human roots.

Despite a storyline that goes back and forth between two centuries, with detailed descriptions of different technologies and different cultures and characters, Mr. Lowy manages to keep his writing crisp, focused and understandable. The emotional impact of this novel surprised me. In a science fiction novel covering two centuries and several planets, where one of the main protagonists is a hybrid between robot and human, I did not expect to be so moved by his plight. This is a novel worth reading.

* Print Length: 305 pages
* Publisher: IFWG Publishing (January 2, 2017)
* Publication Date: January 2, 2017
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Interview with Louis K. Lowy

I asked Louis Lowy what inspired him to write this novel. He graciously provided the following answer:

L. Lowy: "'To Dream: Anatomy of a Humachine' was inspired by a three page short story that I had written over a decade ago and had completely forgotten about. Rummaging through my virtual files, I stumbled upon it. Reading it, I thought it had the basic elements for a longer (in this case, much longer) story. The basic elements were there. The protagonist was an A.1. named J-17, which became J-1 in my novel. He was working on another planet, which I utilized, and he was mining Genimetrothiasine -- another thing I incorporated.

From there it became a lot of 'what ifs' and 'how do I explain how the what ifs came about.' I had to answer nine key elements of the 'how the what ifs came about' before I started on the novel. That took me a couple of months, but once I had the answers, I began writing and eventually the book reached fruition. Of course, there were twists and turns that I hadn't seen coming, but that's one of the joys of storytelling."

For more information about Louis K. Lowy, go to:
http://www.louisklowy.com

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, by Rich Horton

Rich Horton packs this anthology to the brim with bite size stories with unexpected plot twists and surprise endings. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a lead role in many of the stories. There are AIs that love humanity, such as the android in "I am Paul, Martin," by L. Shoemaker, where a future android provides medical and sweet empathetic care to Mildred, an elderly woman with Alzheimers disease. And in "Cat Pictures Please," by Naomi Kritzer, there is a caring AI who wants only to help you since it knows everything about you, and wants cat pictures in return.

In some stories, time travel happens in unique, surprising ways. For example, in "Time Bomb Time," by C.C. Finlay, the author cleverly poses the implied question, what if you read a story about time travel and find yourself reading the same conversation twice? Is it a typo? An heuristic device? Or have you traveled back a few minutes in time?

A science fiction and fantasy anthology would be incomplete without a few dystopian futures, and Mr. Horton does not disappoint. In Ray Nayler's, "In Mutability," two strangers, Sophia and Sebastian, reside in a future world where death apparently is no longer inevitable, but neither stranger has many memories. One day, at the cafe in which Sebastian spends his days, an unknown woman, Sophia, befriends him and shows him a photo of the two of them, centuries old. Neither remember each other or the photo, but why not?

In "Folding Beijing," by Hao Jingfang, (translated by Ken Liu), a future Beijing has become so crowded the population is divided into three spaces where First Space contains the rich and well educated, and Third Space contains the poor and lower classes. As each class awakens, another space rotates and folds up. Lao Dao, a Third Space waste processor, wants to enroll his daughter in a music and dance kindergarten. To do so, he must get more money by illegally carrying messages and goods to and from First Space. Author Hao Jingfang's story, however, is more than a glimpse at a possible dystopian future based on class and privilege. Rather, it is an Aesopian tale about love and friendship, and where true contentment lies.

Most of the writers in this anthology are exceptionally talented, and a few will take your breath away. In "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club," by Nike Sulway, an older female, who loves her solitude and her library room, walks alone in a Serengeti-type outdoors and fears that her type will be extinct because the daughters do not see the need for procreation. In this beautifully told tale, are the women human?

Another author who captivates is Will Ludwigsen, whose channeling of a 1940s pulp science fiction writer and his writing for a 1960s, "Twight Zone"-type of television show, "Acres of Perhaps," is sheer genius. As the writer grieves for his lost love who has died of cancer after 50 years together, he remembers the 60s and the two other writers for the show, one of whom believed he was living in an alternate universe. The story is a loving homage to rural America, 1960's science fiction and two great romances. Ludwigsen is an award wining author and this story demonstrates why.

(In return for an honest review, I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.)

* Print Length: 576 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Prime Books (June 10, 2016)
* Publication Date: June 10, 2016
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Time Lock, by Christopher L. Bennett

Christopher Bennett once again delivers an exciting adventure involving the United Federation of Planets, Department of Temporal Investigations (DTI).

In this short novella, the DTI's Eridian Vault, a high security storage facility for dangerous time travel artifacts, is under attack. If the attackers, Vomnin mercenaries led by an extremely intelligent, non-Vomnin, humanoid female, succeed in removing the artifacts, the future of the entire universe may be in danger. DTI Agent Gariff Lucsly and Doctor T’Viss, an elderly Vulcan temporal physicist, fight back by triggering a time lock safety mechanism. This has created a time dilation problem for the invaders--time is slowing down inside the vault compared to time outside of it. The DTI agents are prepared to allow centuries to pass inside the time lock rather than allow the marauders to succeed, but will the mercenaries be willing to never see their families again?

Reminiscent of the Flash Gordon Saturday matinees of the 1930s and 40s, this bite sized adventure definitely will have readers wanting more.

(In return for an honest review, I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.)

Print Length: 88 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek (September 5, 2016)
Publication Date: September 5, 2016
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

Fall 2016 Debut Fiction Sampler.

Penguin Randon House's Fall 2016 Debut Fiction Sampler includes excerpts from nine exciting debut novels. Four of the excerpts are reviewed below.

The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel, by Katherine Arden

Katherine Arden's writing has depth that is unusual in first novels. In this short excerpt, she transports us back to a Russia ruled by dark superstition. In the middle of a frigid cold Russian winter, the children of Pyotr and Marina Vladimirovich are huddled for warmth before a large oven, while their old nurse tells them the folk tale of the "frost-demon, the winter-king Karachun." Marina, joins them and thinks of her mother who with her precognition and beauty enchanted Russian Prince Ivan I. That night Marina tells her husband that, despite her thinness and fragile health, she is pregnant with a girl who will have her late mother's beauty and gift of sight.

Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (January 10, 2017)
Publication Date: January 10, 2017
Sold by: Random House LLC

The Mothers: A Novel, by Brit Bennett

Brit Bennet's fresh, clear writing makes this a wonderful debut novel. Bright, studious, 17 year old, Nadia Turner turns to ice when her mother commits suicide. Instead of waiting to hear which of the five colleges she had applied to would accept her, Nadia turns her back on her African American community, refusing to attend church despite her father's constant attendance. Instead, she rides buses wherever they may be going, and hangs out in strip clubs. When a motherly stripper sends her to Fat Charlie's, a more accommodating restaurant, she encounters former high school star, Luke, limping from a devastating football injury as he works the bar. Drawn to him because he wore his "pain outwardly, the way she couldn’t," Nadia tries to unfreeze her emotions, but ends up pregnant.

Print Length: 286 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books (October 11, 2016)
Publication Date: October 11, 2016
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC

Ninth City Burning, by J. Patrick Black, is an exciting young adult's novel set in a dystopian future. Cadet 6-E-12 -Jaxten of the Academy of Ninth City is the "youngest fontanus in the city," and it's his job to stand for all of the cadets during an attack. After an "atmospheric-incursion," the academy is closed, and Fontanus Jax must defend the city, despite his youth and inexperience, from an enemy, called "Romeo."

Print Length: 488 pages
Publisher: Ace (September 6, 2016)
Publication Date: September 6, 2016
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC

The Nix: A Novel, by Nathan Hill

In Hill's debut novel, a mother and wife abandons her family in 1988 after moving her possessions out slowly over the course of a year. Her son, Samuel Anderson, thinks that "she whittled down her life until the only thing left to remove was herself." Twenty-three years later, the crude, bombastic, cowboy governor of Wyoming has stones thrown at him by sixty year old Faye Anderson-Andresen, who calls him "a pig." While she is the focus of the national news, Samuel Anderson, now an Assistant Professor of English at a college near Chicago, is spending his days wondering why he bothers teaching young people who don't care about Shakespeare, and his nights playing World of Elfquest computer games. Hill cleverly uses the threads of his entangled plot to draw the reader in, and few will be able to resist.

Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (August 30, 2016)
Language: English

The other excerpts of debut novels are:

The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart (Kensington, October 2016)

The Tea Planter's Wife: A Novel by Dinah Jefferies (Crown, September 2016)

Behold the Dreamers: A Novel, by Imbolo Mbue (Random House, August 2016)

The Mortifications: A Novel by Derek Palacio (Tim Duggan Books, October 2016)

First Light by Bill Rancic (Putnam, November 2016)

Transient City, by Ali Onia

Author Ali Onia successfully blends mid-century noir with dystopian-science fiction in this exciting new mystery novel. Downtrodden, broke and friendless, Victor Stromboli is the memory man in Transient City, an increasingly decrepit, crime-ridden city owned by the Agamemnon corporation on the planet Lodan. Like every city on the planet, Transient City moves from one mineral deposit to the next on huge treads. Above the treads, the city's dark and maze-like streets are breeding grounds for murder and thievery.

Stromboli's eidetic memory means he relives his traumatic memories often, such as the death of his mother in an arson fire when he was young. His memory is used by the Security Bureau police to capture every sight, smell and sound in a crime scene. As the crime rate soars, hard boiled detective McGivern brings Stromboli under his aegis to help solve a string of puzzling murders and disappearances. One of the disappearance cases leads Stromboli to Kathy Whittaker, a woman in distress and his first love.

Bureaucracy, treachery, corruption, bribery, murder- all exist in Transient City, and all seem to be blocking Stromboli's efforts to find the mastermind behind the growing number of murders before Kathy becomes the next victim.

Transient City's "Brave New World" dystopia and Raymond Chandler-like noir-grittiness leap off the page. This is a good read; I was sorry to see it end. Five stars.

(In exchange for an honest review, I received a review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.)
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Bundoran Press Publishing (April 5, 2016)
Language: English

Karma of the Silo: Patrice Fitzgerald's Prequel to Hugh Howey's WOOL Novels-UPDATED

UPDATE! Patrice Fitzgerald's five-book collection, Karma of the Silo, (reviewed below), a fabulous prequel to Hugh Howey's "Wool" series, also is available in one book: Karma of the Silo: the Collection: a WOOL story.

Patrice Fitzgerald's five-book prequel" to Hugh Howey's "Wool" novels is extraordinary. She brings Howey's future dystopia to the present by telling "Karma's" story, the story of a woman who could be our friend, sister, mother, neighbor, teacher or other contemporary. Through Karma, we hear the voices of a possible near future where Americans are forced into an underground existence in deep residential silos, originally sold to the US congress by a corrupt politician who claimed they were missile silos. As a result of imbibing drugged water, the silo inhabitants have limited memories (if any) of the "before time." Karma has vague memories of another husband before the one living in her tiny apartment, a husband who in reality was the unwitting architect of the 50 plus silos that hold the remnants of America.

You will not be able to put these Karma novels down, and you certainly will not regret reading them.

The Sky Used to be Blue: a Silo story (Karma Book 1)
Print Length: 63 pages
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing; 2 edition (January 4, 2014)
Publication Date: January 4, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Cleaning Up: a Silo story (Karma Book 2)
Print Length: 92 pages
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing; 1 edition (January 5, 2014)
Publication Date: January 5, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Deep Justice: a Silo story (Karma Book 3)
Print Length: 67 pages
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing; 4 edition (January 4, 2014)
Publication Date: January 4, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Rising Up: a Silo story (Karma Book 4)
Print Length: 77 pages
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing; 2 edition (January 3, 2014)
Publication Date: January 3, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Last Walk: a Silo story (Karma Book 5)
Print Length: 102 pages
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing; 1 edition (January 4, 2014)
Publication Date: January 4, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

November Fox – Book 1. Following Joy, A Metaphysical Visionary Fable, by E.E. Bertram

"November Fox" is definitely not your typical novel. Not only does the author provide music to listen to while reading the novel (on her linked webpage), she also promises that the book's illustrations are multilayered and they will be unlocked by an App the reader can download to a digital device. Whimsey, sorrow, heartbreak, trauma, joy, love, adventure, beauty, and magical pages in a ruby red bottle washed up on the English seaside. All of these, and this is only the first book of the "November Fox" experience. What an amazing roller coaster of a book!

You can purchase November Fox here.

(In return for an honest review, I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.)

Series: November Fox
Paperback: 292 pages
Publisher: Conscious Fiction; 2 edition (October 28, 2016)

(Photos and trailer courtesy of E.E. Bertram.)

Crosstalk, by Connie Willis

Imagine a world where everyone is telepathic and able to read the thoughts of everyone else. In "Crosstalk, "Connie Willis demonstrates that this is not just a bad idea, it is insanity. Doing what she does better than any other modern author, Willis takes us deep into a potentially feasible technology and then moves that technology just one step further. The result is an absorbing, and fascinating story, with a large dose of humor.

Beautiful Briddey works at a technology company that makes smartphones. She has a big, loving, and very intrusive, Irish family, which includes Aunt Oona who always claims in a strong (but fake) Irish brogue that she has the “sight.” Briddey’s paramour, Trent, an executive at her company, insists that the two of them partake of the latest fad and undergo EED brain surgery, which is all the rage in Hollywood. This surgery, as explained to Briddey, is "a simple medical procedure so that we can sense each other’s feelings and communicate better as a couple.” Although her family, and her co-employee, techno-geek C.B., try to discourage her from doing it, Briddey ignores them. Her EED surgery, of course, causes unintended consequences. Briddey discovers that, because of her Irish heritage, the EED has given her unwanted telepathy. As her life veers off in a direction she never expected, Briddey discovers that true friendship and true love are not the by-products of technology.

As Willis did in "Passage," with near death experiences, and the "Doomsday Book" with time travel, in "Crosstalk" she uses technology to take us on a wonderful journey into unimaginable realms. I absolutely adored this book and I could not put it down.

(In return for an honest review, I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.)

Print Length: 512 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (October 4, 2016)
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Sold by: Random House LLC

Jacqueline the Ripper, by Karl Alexander

Karl Alexander does a wonderful job re-creating H.G. Wells in this sequel to his 1979, "Time After Time," but, as in the prior novel, he still is unable to create believable women characters. How does Amber Reese fall in love with Wells? Her immediate love makes absolutely no sense. Why does Amy Catherine Robbins Wells's second persona, "Catherine," come across as psychotic and why is Amy such a wimp? Notwithstanding the fact that at times I was ready to throw the book against the wall because the women characters were so badly developed, I finished the book because the plot was excellent and the character of H.G. Wells was so well crafted. This is why I gave the book four stars and why the book is worth reading.

Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (November 10, 2009)
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English

Time after Time, by Karl Alexander

Karl Alexander does a very good job of bringing H.G. Wells to life as we time travel with him back to 1893. Unfortunately, Alexander doesn't make his female characters believable. This is a shame because his ability to tell a story, and his ability to describe 1893 London and 1979 San Francisco is top notch. Despite the character development problem, I highly recommend you read this book.

Print Length: 286 pages
Publisher: Forge Books (February 22, 2010)
Publication Date: February 22, 2010
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English

The Host, by Stephanie Meyer

This book is about an invasion of Earth by body snatchers who believe that, after the invasion, their hosts no longer have any thoughts, free will or control over their own bodies. One of the invaders, however, knows that is not true for every host and the book charts the evolving relationship between one special invader and her host. Despite its theme, this book is not a horror novel. Instead, it is a very unusual tale about relationships and the strength of free will. This is not a complex novel, but it is a very entertaining book. Five stars.

Print Length: 651 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: B00BG6M74O
Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1 edition (April 21, 2010)
Publication Date: April 26, 2010

The Yearbook, by Carol Masciola

The Yearbook" is a wonderful visit to 1923. Lola Lundy is a 16 year old orphan living in a state-run group home when she comes across a yearbook from 1923. From that point on, The Yearbook is a roller coaster ride through the highs and lows of the early 1920s and 2015. Is Lola dreaming or did she really time travel to 1923? I will not spoil the book for others, but I will say it is a marvellous book written by a storyteller who knows how to tell a very good story. Carol Masciola also has an ear for voices, and her characters reflect that talent. Lola, Miss Bryant, Whoopsie and Miss Hershey will be hard to forget.

Print Length: 224 pages
Publisher: Merit Press (October 2, 2015)
Publication Date: October 2, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Train Through Time Series, by Bess McBride

The "Train Through Time" series is a five-book, time travel, science fiction-romance saga. Each of the five books in the series focuses on the story of a different, young woman who gets on a train in the 21st Century, but falls asleep and awakens in the very early years of the 20th Century, penniless and "scandalously" miss-dressed. Leggings, shorts, and yoga pants are not what ladies wore in Edwardian society. In each book, the heroine is rescued from her dilemma by a young man, but the two do not live happily ever after until overcoming some very large obstacles. Although Bess McBride makes little effort to explain the science of the fiction, her exceptional story telling talent overrides any such flaw. The time travel stories are intriguing with tons of mystery, paradox, drama, loss and period detail. You will want to read each book more than once.

A Train Through Time (Train Through Time Series Book One)
* Print Length: 200 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 14, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 14, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Together Forever Across Time (Train Through Time Series Book Two)
* Print Length: 174 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 22, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 22, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

A Smile In Time (Train Through Time Series Book Three)
* Print Length: 180 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 22, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 22, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Finding You in Time (Train Through Time Series Book Four)
* Print Length: 159 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (July 12, 2014)
* Publication Date: July 12, 2014
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

A Fall in Time (Train Through Time Series Book Five)
* Print Length: 193 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (November 29, 2014)
* Publication Date: November 29, 2014
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Marvel's Captain America: Sub Rosa, by David McDonald

Swashbuckling Captain America saves the girl and the good guys, while battling forces within and without America who want to destroy freedom. David McDonald does a great job of showing both the sorrowful side of Steve Rogers and his heroic side, although perhaps both sides are the same. Rogers is a man out of time. His era was WWII, big bands, swing music, small town America and fighting enemies who clearly were evil. In 2016, the lines are not so clearly drawn, and, at times, Rogers has a hard time understanding how certain forces within his own government can conduct black ops and cavalierly restrict freedom in the name of the "greater good." Don't expect to only be entertained by this book (and it is entertaining), you may also find yourself siding with Rogers and questioning whether two wrongs actually can ever make a right. (I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.)

Print Length: 240 pages
Publisher: Joe Books Ltd. (July 13, 2016)
Publication Date: July 13, 2016
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, by Mike Johnson, Ryan Parrott & Derek Charm

"Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" (yes, Star Trek!) is an enjoyable foray into the academic life of some favorite Star Trek characters, including Kirk and Spock. Nyota Uhura and T'Laan lead the way as the young students deal with romance, studies, time travel and competition. The art work surpasses the plot and dialogue in vibrancy and color. I give this book four stars. (In exchange for an honest review, I was provided a review copy by the publisher via NetGalley.

Series: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (August 16, 2016)

Valley of the Moon: A Novel, by Melanie Gideon

On a sunny day in April, the ground shook and a thick grey fog encircled Greengage farm, a communal enclave near Sonoma, California. It was 1906, and the great San Francisco earthquake had just struck. Joseph, the British founder of Greengage, soon realizes that the fog kills anyone who tries to go through it. Four months later, the now isolated community still has not found a way to break through this fog. Then Lux, an unwed mother, struggling to make ends meet in San Francisco while caring for a young son and working in a bar, stumbles through the fog. Lux, however, is from 1975. Apparently the only person able to travel through the fog unharmed, Lux discovers that time flows differently in Greengage; while the community has experienced a passage of time of only four months since the earthquake, close to 70 years have passed on the outside.

Weaving a delicate tapestry composed of her own unique story, combined with hints of Brigadoon, C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, and non-Orwellian futurism, Gideon gifts us with a compelling novel of familial and romantic love trapped and then freed by time and circumstances.

Valley of the Moon is a fascinating book that spans more than two centuries, I could not put it down. (I was provided a review copy from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.)

Print Length: 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 26, 2016)
Publication Date: July 26, 2016
Sold by: Random House LLC