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Rick Riordan
Goodreads Author
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in San Antonio, Texas, The United States
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http://www.goodreads.com/campjupiter
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Rick Riordan
"Words, words, words."
-- Hamlet
-- Hamlet
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
— published 2005 — 61 editions |
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
— published 2008 — 92 editions |
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The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
— published 2006 — 125 editions |
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The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
— published 2009 — 87 editions |
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The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
— published 2007 — 103 editions |
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The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
— published 2011 — 70 editions |
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The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author), John Rocco — published 2010 — 73 editions |
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The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, #1)
— published 2010 — 74 editions |
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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
— published 2012 — 71 editions |
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The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
— published 2013 — 61 editions |
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Thanks to everyone who came to our launch event in Boston on Tuesday, May 3! We had a sold-out crowd and I loved hearing your questions and sharing your enthusiasm. And thanks to everyone on social media who has already responded to the new series with such love and appreciation. I’ve got the best readers in the world! It’s always a relief to me when I hear that I met your expectations in a ne...
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"His Favorite Mythology Books: Mount Olympus can't contain all the gods in these recs from the mythology lover whose new series begins with The Hidden Oracle." ...More
"His Favorite Mythology Books: Mount Olympus can't contain all the gods in these recs from the mythology lover whose new series begins with The Hidden Oracle." ...More
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How to even describe this book? Imagine twelve of the best Twilight Zone episodes collected as short stories, updated for 2016 and told largely from different Cuban American perspectives, with equal parts humor, magical realism, cutting-edge science f ...more |
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YA fantasy. I'm a big fan of Older's adult urban fantasy series Bone Street Rumba, so I was curious to see how his style would translate into a young adult novel. The answer is beautifully. Sierra Santiago is a typical Brooklyn teenager just startin ...more |
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| Adult urban fantasy. Older's first Bone Street Rumba novel was very good. Midnight Taxi Tango kicks things up to the next level. It would have been easy and perfectly reasonable for Older to stay with his wisecracking, hard-boiled, half-dead hero Car ...more | |
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| Middle grade contemporary fiction. This is a sweet, poignant novel about an elementary school student named George, who was born a boy but knows in her heart that she is a girl. When the chance comes to do the school's yearly production of Charlotte' ...more | |
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| Adult sci-fi. By Chinese author Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem takes a classic scenario -- contact with alien life -- and cranks up the sinister factor to maximum. The story begins during the Cultural Revolution when young Ye Wenjie watches her sc ...more | |
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| YA/adult Fantasy. There isn't just one London. There are, in fact, four cities sharing that name and geographic location, each in a very different plane of existence. The novel takes place in the early 1800s, when magical travel between the different ...more | |
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| Adult urban fantasy -- With a series named Bone Street Rumba, how could this not intrigue me? Older's hero is Carlos Delacruz, a half-dead, half-alive agent and hit man for the New York Council of the Dead. (You knew the dead of NYC had a bureaucracy ...more | |
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| (Minor spoilers follow) Red Rising introduces us to Darrow, a sixteen-year-old miner who toils deep in the mines of Mars a few hundred years in the future. In Darrow's world, humanity has spread across the solar system, and has been organized into a ...more | |
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Micah Tuttle's grandfather has a secret. When he was a child, he visited a magical circus, the Circus Mirandus, which changed his life forever. There he met a magician who promised him a miracle -- a miracle that has yet to be collected. Ever since Mi ...more |
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“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
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I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
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I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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