Rick Riordan, Author . Bantam $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80236-8
Riordan is a middle-school teacher in San Antonio, which explains why this unorthodox suspense novel—Riordan's first break from his Edgar-, Shamus- and Anthony-winning series about private detective Tres Navarre (The Devil Went Down to...
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Rick Riordan. Disney-Hyperion, $19.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4231-6091-5
Ten years after The Lightning Thief, which chronicled modern-day Greek god shenanigans on Earth, Riordan enters a new pantheon with a similar setup: on his 16th birthday, Magnus Chase learns that he is a demigod, human son of a Norse god. Talk about
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Rick Riordan, Author . Bantam $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-80184-2
Riordan's superb fifth Tres Navarre novel (Big Red Tequila
, etc.), about the former Berkeley professor now working as a PI in his native San Antonio, Tex., features a fairly standard-issue villain, Will Stirman, but it also has the courage and...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Bantam $24 (293p) ISBN 978-0-553-80185-9
The past collides explosively with the present in Edgar-winner Riordan's relatively weak sixth Tres Navarre novel (after 2004's Southtown
) when Navarre's boyhood friend, reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, appears on his doorstep wearing...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $17.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5629-9
A clever concept drives Riordan's highly charged children's book debut (the first in a series): the Greek Gods still rule, though now from a Mt. Olympus on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building, and their offspring, demigods, live...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $17.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5686-2
In a feat worthy of his heroic subjects, Riordan crafts a sequel stronger than his compelling debut in this second adventure in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. After a group of Laistrygonians (giant cannibals) infiltrate the dodgeball...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Bantam $25 (339p) ISBN 978-0-553-80423-2
At the start of Edgar-winner Riordan’s entertaining seventh crime novel to feature San Antonio, Tex., PI Tres Navarre (after 2005’s Mission Road
), Tres has just retired and married his longtime girlfriend Maia, who’s eight-plusR
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Rick Riordan, Author . Hyperion $17.99 (361p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0146-8
Percy Jackson’s fourth summer at Camp Half-Blood is much like his previous three—high-octane clashes with dark forces, laced with hip humor and drama. Opening with a line for the ages—“The last thing I wanted to do on my...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Scholastic $12.99 (220p) ISBN 978-0-545-06039-4
Built around a ripe conceit—wealthy matriarch scatters cryptic clues to a mysterious fortune around the globe—this first installment in a projected 10-book series is tons of fun. Lead-off hitter Riordan (The Lightning Thief
) mixes just...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Disney-Hyperion $12.95 (151p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2166-4
Billed as a manual for newbies entering Camp Half-Blood, this miscellany of all things Percy Jackson may satisfy readers eagerly awaiting the final installment in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, due in May. Three previously unpublished...
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Rick Riordan, Author . Disney-Hyperion $17.99 (381p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0147-5
Percy Jackson’s fifth and final adventure begins with a blast and gets increasingly more explosive. It reads less like a novel than a 400-page battle scene set in Manhattan, pitting Percy, Annabeth, Grover & Co. against a pantheon of...
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Rick Riordan, Author Disney-Hyperion $17.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1338-6
This fun, if formulaic, start to the Kane Chronicles series opens with a signature Riordan move: an explosion. Siblings Carter and Sadie have been living apart since their mother’s mysterious death. On Christmas Eve, archeologist Julius Kane...
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Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion, $18.99 (576p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1339-3
Percy Jackson fans can rest easy: this first book in Riordan's Heroes of Olympus spin-off series is a fast-paced adventure with enough familiar elements to immediately hook those eager to revisit his modern world of mythological mayhem. Clever plot...
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Rick Riordan, Author Bantam $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-57644-3
It's not the plot that makes this a stand-out--Tres Navarre is a loner returning to his hometown to investigate and avenge an unsolved murder that he witnessed a decade before. And the supporting characters look pretty familiar--a crooked...
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Rick Riordan, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80156-9
In a terrific sequel to The Widower's Two-Step, which won the 1999 Edgar for Best Original Paperback, the third Tres Navarre mystery finds the academic-turned-PI reluctant to accept a chair in medieval studies at the University of Texas at San...
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Rick Riordan, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-11097-5
Powerful writing about a palpable evil distinguishes Edgar, Anthony and Shamus award-winner Riordan's fourth Tres Navarre novel. The tough, wisecracking PI and English professor moves himself and the action from his San Antonio base to Austin, where
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Rick Riordan, illus. by John Rocco. Disney-Hyperion, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4231-8365-5
The demigod son of Poseidon offers his take on 12 figures from Greek myth in this irreverent and informative follow-up to Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods (2014). Jokey contemporary references appear in quick succession (“We know you have a lot of options
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Rick Riordan, Robert Venditti, Attila Futaki, and Jose Villarrubia, Disney-Hyperion, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1696-7
Venditti's adaptation of the critically acclaimed first installment of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series faces a daunting challenge: to present a beloved, contemporary, young adult fantasy novel as a 128-page visual narrative. But the team...
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Rick Riordan, read by Kevin R. Free and Katherine Kellgren. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 11 CD, 13 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-0838-0
The amazing performances of Kevin R. Free and Katherine Kellgren make this YA fantasy—the second volume in Riordan's The Kane Chronicles—enthralling for listeners of any age. Descendants of the House of Life, Carter and Sadie Kane are teenage...
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Rick Riordan, adapted by Orpheus Collar. Disney-Hyperion, $21.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4231-5068-8
The first book in Riordan's Kane Chronicles gets the graphic novel treatment. The story follows that of Riordan's 2010 middle-grade novel of the same name, which stars Sadie and Carter Kane, the children of famed Egyptologist Julius Kane. When their
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Rick Riordan, read by the author and multiple narrators. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $25 ISBN 978-0-449-01071-6
Young listeners will be delighted with this audio edition of four short stories that supplement the books in Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, in which young characters are demigods—half-human offspring of the gods of Greek and Roman...
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Rick Riordan, read by Robbie Daymond. Listening Library, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-451-48519-9
In this book, the first in Riordan’s Trials of Apollo series (a spin-off of his bestselling Percy Jackson series), the god Apollo is punished by Zeus and sent to Earth in the form of a gawky teenage boy. He is forced to serve a 12-year-old demigod...
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Rick Riordan, read by Jesse Bernstein. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-8041-6844-1
Percy Jackson is your average teen guy who just happens to be the half-human son of the god Poseidon. Claiming that a publisher in New York asked him to give insights into the Greek gods, Percy tells listeners the Greek story of creation, then...
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Rick Riordan, Author, Jesse Bernstein, Read by , read by Jesse Bernstein. Listening Library $40 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-24530-4
For this fast-paced adventure that zaps characters from Greek mythology into modern times, Bernstein gets the reading rhythm just right. He conveys Riordan's notes of humor, sarcasm and downright amazement in the voice of 12-year-old Percy...
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Ed. by Rick Riordan. Disney/Riordan, $17.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-368-07083-6
This middle grade anthology from Rick Riordan Presents serves up 10 new stories from the imprint’s contributing authors, including a Celtic mythology–inspired piece by Riordan, who edited the volume. Carlos Hernandez kicks things off with an...
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Rick Riordan. Disney-Hyperion, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-368-07792-7
In this contemporary reimagining of Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, Riordan (the Percy Jackson series) merges foundational science fiction adventures with a modern sensibility and a variously inclusive cast from...
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Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro. Disney Hyperion, $19.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-368-08115-3
Set in Riordan’s Percy Jackson universe, this thrilling queer standalone from Riordan and Oshiro (You Only Live Once, David Bravo) follows two demigods in love—Nico di Angelo, teenage son of Hades, and Nico’s boyfriend, Will Solace, son of Apollo—on
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