Mitchell Smith
1) Snowfall
Author
Series
Snowfall trilogy ; 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, books are hand-copied so that knowledge may be preserved, but the technology described in their precious pages is mostly lost to their fur-clad readers, despite Catania's attempts at scientific treatment...
Author
Series
Snowfall trilogy ; 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Sam Monroe is the reluctant commander of a tough-minded warrior people living in what was once northern Mexico. His tiny country is flanked on the northeast by the Kingdom River, a vast, trade-driven nation that replaced the southern United States, and on the northwest by the Khanate, an empire of nomads who swept down the west coast after crossing the ice from what was once Russia. Sam's people cling to a precarious, hard-won freedom.
Toghrul Khan,...
3) Moonrise
Author
Series
Snowfall trilogy ; 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Several hundred years after a change in the orbit of Jupiter sent the Earth into a new Ice Age, remnants of civilization battle over territory and technology.
A generation has passed since Sam Monroe defeated the Great Khan, became King of Middle Kingdom, and ushered in an era of peace and prosperity, a time when Middle Kingdom grew even more powerful, driven by trade and emerging technology. In a grand gesture, Sam and Queen Rachel adopted the young...
4) Daydreams
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
The crime was ugly--a beautiful call girl hideously slain. But that was nothing compared to what was to come when two New York City detectives pursued the case. What they found as they moved through a maze of incredible depravity, high-power politics, petty corruption and cardinal sin, made murder look minor. "A sharply etched, above-average thriller . . ."--Kirkus Reviews.
5) Sacrifice
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A woman serial killer is on the loose in Florida, murdering women who had abortions. Her luck runs out when she kills a woman park ranger whose father is a bank robber and who goes after her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Set in Alaska, Due North is an extraordinary novel about a young woman - Sara Maher. Sara, fiercely independent; daughter of a conventional middle-class American family, has for years made a precarious living furtrapping in the mountains of the frozen Arctic, in love with nature's simplicity and stark beauty. But Sara is also a haunted survivor, desperately trying to conquer her guilt, and the terror that still accompanies it. The year before, she...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The encounter between art and fashion has been a rapidly growing phenomenon over the last decade, with major international artists working with top fashion houses to produce contemporary masterpieces that challenge the traditional boundary between these two dynamic cultures. In 'Art/Fashion in the 21st Century', five chapters feature concise essays with profiles of the key designers, break-out stories about the most avant-garde projects and interviews...
10) Reprisal
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
On an island in Massachusetts, a woman professor investigates the deaths of her father and of her husband, which police claim were accidents. In the process she befriends a nice young woman, unaware it was she who murdered them. By the author of Sacrifice.