Cathy L

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Covers of: On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, Woodworking by Emily St James, Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey, Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and The long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.
Pic of 2 books; Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova, showing the bottom half of a woman's face, a few strands of dark hair, wearing something hairy/furry . Also Temeraire by Naomi Novik showing a ship sailing, with a map background.
Cover of The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, showing a woman with long dark hair in front of a red and gold occult hanging
LibraryThing map showing where the authors of books in my collection come from
Covers of 9 books 1 read in June, explained in text.
Covers of Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, showing a stone building of several stories and a moon seen through one of the building arches; and covers of books 7,8 and 9 in The Expanse series by James S.A Corey showing various spacecraft in space.
Cover of The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey showing 3 identical boys on a beach, all in the same position throwing a ball, differentiated only by the red, yellow & green shorts they wear.
Covers of The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan, The Girl with a thousand faces by Sunyi Dean and Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey.
Cover of Old Man's War by John Scalzi, showing spacecraft flying towards a planet
Cover of Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman, entirely red background with a black sketch of a skeleton dressed in medieval armour carrying a sword
A hand holding a copy of Poseidon's Wake by Alastair Reynolds. Cover is light purple with yellow patches, and shows a graphic of a round maze.
Cover of The Fireman by Joe Hill showing a person walking down a paved road through some trees while the whole sky glows orange & red in nearby fires
Pic of the book Exit Strategy by Martha Wells showing someone in a spacesuit on what appears to be a spaceship seen through some kind of shaft, and Cover of The Fireman by Joe Hill on a tablet, red & orange fire colours with title & author shown in large black print.
Cover of Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, top half is clouds & a huge moon, with some old Japanese buildings; bottom half is a cityscape reflected in water with 3 small paper boats, one of which has a person inside. Also cover of Jade City by Fonda Lee, dark green background with something carved on stone or armour? and a light green current through the middle. Third book is Exit Strategy by Martha Wells showing someone in a spacesuit on what appears to be a spaceship seen through some kind of shaft.
Cover of Stephen King's book The Stand. A man in white with a sword fights a creature in black with a scythe.
Cover of Alchemised by SenLinYu showing a gothic house through iron gates in the fog, with a woman in red robes in the foreground
Hardcopy of Shadow's End by Sheri S Tepper showing creatures with wings looking down a misty valley toward a waterfall; and cover of The Stand by Stephen King shown on a tablet. The pic shows someone walking on a road in the desert.
Covers of Labyrinth's Heart by MA Carrick, showing a woman in an elaborate gold mask; Map's Edge by David Hair, showing part of an old city floating above & chained to the rest of the city; The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty with a woman in a headscarf standing in a middle eastern cityscape with an elaborate gold pattern in red above her; The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso with a clockface & the silhouette of a woman reading a book below.
The cover of Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, showing a smiling teenage girl with long dark braids wearing dark robes, with a white dog & a skeleton beside her.
Cover of The Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick, showing a person wearing an elaborate blue and gold mask reminiscent of wings, and a gold dagger pointing down to the mask.
Cover of In Solitude's Shadow by David Green shown on a e-reader. Background is black and there is a pic of a tree growing on a large stone with a green glow behind and a sliver of moon surrounding the tree top.
Covers of 2 books: The Collected Stories by Cixin Liu, which has a silver swirly stripy pattern on black & the author's name in English & Chinese; and In Solitude's Shadow by David Green, showing a tree growing out of a large mossy rock with the moon behind.
A long line of people waiting to get in to Wellington public library
Cover of The Strength of the few by James Islington, showing a black pyramid in a desert landscape with white figures flying around
Cover of The Strength of the few by James Islington, showing a black pyramid in a desert landscape with white figures flying around, and cover of Deryni rising by Katherine Kurtz showing a man and woman in medieval dress with blue and orange mists surrounding them.
Cover of The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods, showing a house hiding between books in a bookshelf, and cover of Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao, showing a women in gold historical Chinese martial dress on a gold background
Shelf with Chinese ornaments and 2 books, one is Jane Austen's Persuasion, the other Sex in the City
Covers of Magician by Raymond E Feist, showing 2 cities, one with castle towers and one with domes & spires; and Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King, with a close up of a woman's eye looking over a book
A black and white gothic looking pic of four seriously hot warriors carrying swords, a war hammer and a gun. They are important characters in Empire of the Dawn
Covers of The Shadow of what was lost, An Echo of things to come and The light of all that falls by James Islington. All have groups of travellers in front of an orange, blue or red sun
Cover of A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross showing a harp in a stylised river with red flowers around.
Cover of The Shadow of What was lost by James Islington showing a group of people walking in front of an orange sun
Cover of Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, showing a young woman in skull face paint wearing a corset of bones over black clothes, surrounded by skeletons
Cover of Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer showing a mathematical physics graphic
Covers of Polar City Blues and Polar City Nightmare showing futuristic cityscapes
Graphic showing the covers and reading order of the 16 books in Realm of the Elderlings series
Green grass & trees in the background and a metal cut out of a Takahe with the words "Flying is overrated" below.
Side view of The Tawny Man trilogy, The Golden Fool, Fool's Errand & Fool's fate. The first letter of each title is decorated. A pic on each book shows a bird on the first book, dragons on the others.
A stack of 6 Robin Hobb books, comprising the Liveship Traders trilogy and The Tawny Man trilogy
Covers of 3 Robin Hobb books, Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest. Each has a different animal, the first a buck, the second is a wolf and the third a blue/green dragon
Cover of Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, script on parchment. The A has a skull inside, there is a shield with a deer above the script
Cover of All Systems Red, Martha Wells. Shows an android in grey & white in front on styilised grey trees.
Cover of Under the Dome by Stephen King showing a tyre hanging from a tree in foreground, town under a dome in background
A stack of 4 books showing the spines of: Deryni Rising and Deryni Checkmate by Katherine Kurtz, Shadow's End by Sheri Tepper and Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Cover shows a purple dragon in front of a fiery sky
Cover of Stephen King's Under the Dome, foreground is a tyre swinging on a rope from a tree, background is a town under a dome with helicopters around it.
Cover of The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, purple background with a line drawing of a Raven
Covers of Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar. Covers are black with borders of red roses, in the center are a golden mask, a golden sword and a golden crown.
Covers of The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning & The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson. All misty blue & black pictures with well dressed men with canes or swords in various poses
Covers of This Savage Song & Our Dark Duet by VE Schwab. The first shows a boy with a violin with swirls that I assume depict music, the second a girl in red clothes & red swirls above.
Cover of Legendborn by Tracy Deonn showing a young black woman with swirls of red mist around one arm & blue mist around the other
Covers of A Deadly Education & The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. First cover is brown, a stylized round structure with phases of the moon, an eye & a book. The second is green, showing a lock & key.
Covers of The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages, a person in front of an old cityscape, a young woman with a sword, closeup of same woman. All white, pencil drawings with blue misty accents
Cover of Yellowface by RF Kuang, entirely yellow cover with eyes
Cover of Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson showing a man standing in a high place, holding a book, overlooking mountains with a red sun and lightning
Cover of Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson showing a man standing in a high place, holding a book, overlooking mountains with a red sun and lightning
Cover of The Will of the Many by James Islington, dark blue with 4 broken columns in bronze.
3 book covers, Vicious is mostly red and shows a person standing on a pile of bones; Vengeful is also red and shows a person holding 2 guns inside black V shape lines; Gallant is white with red & grey features showing a gothic style house with red roses & it's mirror image with grey roots
Cover of Arch-conspirator by Veronica Roth showing a woman in a flowing cape dress walking a shiny path to a large structure
Person on a forest path in the Hump Ridge track