Sister of Grendel: A Novel
Sister of Grendel: A Novel

Author: Susan Thurston

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1882699017

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In the ancient epic, Grendel and his mother are monsters slain by the hero warrior Beowulf. In Sister of Grendel we learn a different truth, told by the lone witness to their brutal deaths. In this powerful and poignant reimagining, Grendel has a sister, Rehsotis. She and her brother are not monsters, but Anathians, who possess refined language and intelligence, great physical strength, and longevity. They live close to the natural and spiritual world, are skilled in herbal medicine, music, and magic, and can enter the dreams of sleeping humans. Rehsotis and Grendel are among the last of their race. Ultimately, Rehsotis must bridge the dangerous divide with humankind-the Smallheaded-with the help of her few allies, including a forsaken monk, a grieving lover, and a trusting child.

The Infernal
The Infernal

Author: Mark Doten

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1555973353

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A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror—an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.

Beowulf
Beowulf

Author: Michelle L. Szobody

Publisher: Portland Studios

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0979718309

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Grendel
Grendel

Author: John Gardner

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-06-02

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0307756785

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This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

Grendel’s Mother
Grendel’s Mother

Author: Susan Signe Morrison

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1785350102

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An amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor’s hammer – all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land . Brimhild weaves peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens to tear apart the fragile political stability. This is her story – the tale of Grendel’s Mother. She is no monster as portrayed in the Old English epic, Beowulf. We learn her side of the story and that of her defamed child. We see the many passages of her life: the brine-baby who floated mysteriously to shore; the hall-queen presiding over the triumphant building of the golden hall Heorot and victim of sexual and political betrayal; the exiled mere-wife, who ekes out a marginal life by an uncanny bog as a healer and contends with the menacing Beowulf; and the seer, who prophesizes what will occur to her adopted people. We learn how the invasion by brutal men is not a fairy tale, but a disaster doomed to cycle relentlessly through human history. Only the surviving women can sing poignant laments, preserve a glittering culture, and provide hope for the future.

Grendel's Guide to Love and War
Grendel's Guide to Love and War

Author: A. E. Kaplan

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0399555560

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy’s sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process. Tom Grendel lives a quiet life—writing in his notebooks, mowing lawns for his elderly neighbors, and pining for Willow, a girl next door who rejects the “manic-pixie-dream” label. But when Willow’s brother, Rex (the bro-iest bro ever to don a jockstrap), starts throwing wild parties, the idyllic senior citizens’ community where they live is transformed into a war zone. Tom is rightfully pissed—his dad is an Iraq vet, and the noise from the parties triggers his PTSD—so he comes up with a plan to end the parties for good. But of course, it’s not that simple. One retaliation leads to another, and things quickly escalate out of control, driving Tom and Willow apart, even as the parties continue unabated. Add to that an angsty existential crisis born of selectively reading his sister’s Philosophy 101 coursework, a botched break-in at an artisanal pig farm, and ten years of unresolved baggage stemming from his mother’s death . . . and the question isn’t so much whether Tom Grendel will win the day and get the girl, but whether he’ll survive intact. "Deep and uproarious all at once . . . A clever spin on a weighty classic." —Kirkus, starred review "An outstanding YA novel balancing comedy with substantial themes of love, death, and healing." —SLJ, starred review

Ice Hunt
Ice Hunt

Author: James Rollins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 0061965847

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Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close—and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law. And now, as scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into Grendel's lethal vortex, the most extreme measures possible will be undertaken to protect its dark mysteries—because the terrible truths locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel could end human life on Earth.

Hadleyville Nights
Hadleyville Nights

Author: M. Wilhoit

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0595448585

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Maybe, eventually, I'll get some idea of who I am. Where I am. What I am. That's bound to be a good thing. Hadleyville is a small east-Tennessee mountain town, and Heathcliff Vanlandingham is a country boy with a wealthy father, a mother who loved Bronte, and a wife who equates sex with wine tasting. Cliff has a keen sense of humor and an even disposition, but lately, his patience is wearing thin with his open marriage to the beautiful Catherine. Her sexual exploits are a little too frequent for his liking, and he's tired of trying to fix their relationship. Trying to understand how he landed in this situation, Cliff starts a blog to examine his past, present, and future. The Internet is a new and fascinating place, and he soon finds that it is influencing his outlook. His real world seems to have become as dramatic as the online one, and Cliff has a few choices to make, ones that could determine his future happiness .