Books with title The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is remarkable for two reasons–-it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.

Normal is subjective. For military brat Winston Yates, it is normal to find himself changing schools, even if it is his senior year. It is however not normal that his first day at his new school Rhodes Academy starts off with a bang – literally. One never expects the emergency showers in chem lab actually to be used. Of course, an exploding lab is just the start for Winston. He goes from being blamed for the explosion to being dragged into an investigation of what caused it by the overly brilliant Sharon Holmes, who shares the same brilliance and deductive reasoning methods as the famous detective whose last name she shares. Mystery and intrigue is the last thing Winston needed in his life.The investigation continues, and Winston and Sharon find that the explosion was an attempted murder before bearing witness to two additional attempts on the lives of fellow students. Can they discover the truth before the murderer finds success? The connections seem thin, and the suspect list is long, which happens to include Winston’s new-found girlfriend, Monica. How do you date someone that you might suspect of attempted murder?

A plague has ravaged the population of gold dwarves of the Great Rift. It starts slowly, but the progression is devastating. One dwarf has eyes that have become hard and glassy like marbles; a second dwarf has skin that flakes off in sharp, hardened scales; the skeleton of a third is petrified and fused in place; a fourth wastes away with blood that has turned dark and muddy.Clerical magic doesn't help. Neither do herbal remedies, nor spells meant to break curses. And in all cases, death is always the same--the heart blackens, hardens, and eventually stops beating, killing each victim with a heart attack and turning the bodies to stone.It's called the Stoneplague. It's terrifying. And it's spreading.

In the near future, a few young women manifest extraordinary abilities called "Shine." Each girl's ability is different. Some develop extraordinary mental abilities. Some become physically strong. Others have powers that defy description. But the world does not embrace these Shines. It fears them.Camille and her Shine friends are at war for the basic rights their fellow Americans take for granted. But some Shines aren’t interested in the fight. After one of Camille’s friends is killed during a mission, she's begged by the non-combat team members to find a safe haven. A Shine homeland. Even though she knows there are forces desperate to destroy her, Camille gathers a small group of friends and travels overseas. Are the Russians really protecting their Shines? Or are these rumors of a safe haven luring them to a deadly gilded cage?

In the last city on Earth, death is just a step into the trees.Readers' Favorite ✭✭✭✭✭: "The Gilded King is an amazing tale of adventure, friendship, and loyalty with a tone reminiscent of fairy tales and a unique fantasy spin on vampires in a journey so complex and addictive you'll immediately want the next one."In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, who believes in fairytales that her world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.But not everyone in the Blue is human, and not everyone can be contained.Beyond the city’s boundaries, in the wild forests of the Red, Cameron has precious little humanity left to lose. As he searches for a lost queen, he finds an enemy rising that he thought long dead. An enemy that the humans have forgotten how to fight.One way or another, the walls of the Blue are going to come down. The only question is what side you’ll be on when they do.✭✭✭✭✭ It blurs the lines between so many sub-genres of SFF: dystopian, post-apocalyptic, quest fantasy, zombies, vampires, romance, mystery… I loved it. – A Cat, A Book and A Cup of Tea✭✭✭✭✭ Jaffrey manages to put a compelling new twist on vampire myth. – Lozzy’s Things✭✭✭✭✭ It is a fantastic read, rich with colourful and diverse characters, incredible imagery and powerful storytelling. – Crown of Ice and Roses

Daphne is a fourteen-year-old girl who leads a life of wealth and privilege but also great loneliness. She is the daughter of the CEO of a biotech mega-company who has gone missing, and a beautiful but failed movie star of a mother. her wish to escape her little bubble and explore the outside world becomes true when her life gets torn apart in a rash of violent riots and The Sickness, as the downtrodden rise up against the priviledged and the dead pile up. Homeless and on the run, she navigates this new world and tries to uncover the true nature of her father's company.A coming of age story in a dark future.