Bandon Public Library

The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.

Two years after his death, sorcerer, Matthew Swift suddenly finds himself lying in bed at his former London home with only one thought, vengeance.

Waking up in The Wasteland, a world populated by monsters and unfamiliar landscapes, and in the company of people just like her, Chloe, riddled with the guilt of five years of sobriety down the drain, and a group of strangers are trapped in an eternal afterlife and must help each other find salvation

"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead...

Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery.

Confluence is a man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micromachines and then thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is also the home of Yama, who was found as an infant floating down the river and raised by the prelate of Aeolis. Yama is the last remaining scion of The Builders, and now, awed...

Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead. Instead she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino stories: an aswang. She spent her life on the margins, knowing very little about her own life, let alone the lives of others, Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has known-- even her killer-- as she is able to access their memories and to see anew the meaning of her own. --...