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Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 3)
by Stephen R. Donaldson
2010-10-19
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Artificial Night (October Daye, Book 3), An
by Seanan McGuire
2010-10-05
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Bear (Saga of the First King), The
by R. A. Salvatore
2010-08-17
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Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate)
by Gail Carriger
2010-09-01
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Cold Magic (The Spiritwalker Trilogy)
by Kate Elliott
2010-10-11
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Cryoburn (Miles Vorkosigan)
by Lois McMaster Bujold
2010-11-02
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Darkest Edge of Dawn (Charlie Madigan, Book 2), The
by Kelly Gay
2010-10-05
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Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, Book 2)
by Jeaniene Frost
2010-07-27
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Evolutionary Void (The Void Trilogy), The
by Peter F. Hamilton
2010-08-24
1635
by Eric Flint
Release Date: 2010-10-05
����������� The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. ����� While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism.
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Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:
. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure. 'Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)
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[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series' growing fandom. 'Booklist (Starred Review)
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. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue. 'Library Journal
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This alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . . 'The Midwest Book Review
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After
America
Release Date: 2010-08-17
March 14,
2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy
slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S.
military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in
chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a
skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the
reconstruction of an entire nation'and the battle for New York City
has begun.
Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking
everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security
Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy'whoever
they are'controls Manhattan's concrete canyons and the abandoned
flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with
sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a
nightmare of urban combat.
Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the
carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a
warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her
brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside
an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a
rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign
against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher,
fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called
into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her
and her family.
The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this
mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to
make a soldier's choice. With New York clutched in the grip of
thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the
city the only way to save it?
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From the geopolitics of post-American dominance to the fallout of
Israel's nuclear strike, After America provides a
gripping, intelligent, and harrowing chronicle of a world in the
maw of chaos'and lives lived in the dangerous dawn of a strange new
future.
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Against
All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book
3)
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Agent
Gambit (Liaden), The
by Sharon Lee
Release Date: 2011-01-04
Two space adventure novels in the popular Liaden Universe� series in one popularly-priced Omni-trade edition:
Agent of Change: Once a brilliant First-in-Scout, Val Con yos'Phelium was recruited by the shadowy Liaden Department of Interior and brainwashed into an Agent of Change'a ruthless covert operative who kills without remorse. Val Con has been playing a deep game, far from the orderly life of clan and kin. Fleeing his latest mission, he saves the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a Terran on the run from interplanetary assassins. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elude their enemies and stay alive without killing each other-or surrendering to the unexpected passion that flares between them. Which name or face will the agent choose when the game gets tough and an escape for only one of them seems possible?
Carpe Diem: On the run from interplanetary assassins and a ruthless interstellar crime cartel, covert operative Val Con yos'Phelium and former mercenary sergeant Miri Robertson formed an alliance of necessity and wound up stranded on a planet with no rescue in sight. Their on-world problems were looking manageable after they assumed new identities as musicians, that is until a local war forced them to reveal their alien combat skills and doubt their own growing partnership of trust and love. By then the relentless hound of an agent on Val Con's trail was closing in with the very weapon Val Con and Miri most feared, and the game got very rough indeed.
I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories. 'Anne McCaffrey
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All
Clear
Release Date: 2010-10-19
In
Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to
the time-traveling future of 2060'the setting for several of her
most celebrated works'and sent three Oxford historians to World War
II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the
Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from
London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of
the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940,
they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as
Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.
Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in
the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have
somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The
belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always
been a core belief of time-travel theory'but suddenly it seems that
the theory is horribly, tragically wrong.
Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor, Mr.
Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a
powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly
impossible struggle of their own'to find three missing needles in
the haystack of history.
Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and
devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant
culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It's Connie
Willis's most humane, heartfelt novel yet'a clear-eyed celebration
of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and
sacrifice too often overlooked by
history.���
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Artificial
Night (October Daye, Book 3), An
Release Date: 2010-10-05
Experience the thrill of the hunt in the
third October Daye urban fantasy novel.
October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the
only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a
nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the
fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind
Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when
there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind
Michael's realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken
more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will
fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael's inescapable
power.
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Back
to the Moon
Release Date: 2011-01-04
Praise for Travis S. Taylor
[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You won't want to put it down. 'John Ringo
In the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . . 'Publishers Weekly
Praise for Les Johnson:
. . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. … Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . . 'Stuart Clark, Nature
I can recommend this book [Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration. 'Claude Semay, Physicalia
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Bear
(Saga of the First King), The
Release Date: 2010-08-17
The war of Honce drags on, and the roads�and seas are littered with bodies. To everyone's stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the war's scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history.
Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert, the lesser of two vicious evils. But Ethelbert's paid assassins slew Jameston Sequin and nearly did the same to Bransen.�
Embittered by it all, Bransen�seeks to extricate himself from the selfish goals of all of combatants. But in an odd twist of fate and crossed loyalties, Bransen sees in his old nemesis, Bannagran--the Bear of Honce and the man who slew his adoptive father - a darker image of his own heart. Allies and battle lines become tangled, motives indistinguishable as old friends become enemies and old enemies become allies.
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Black
Prism (Lightbringer), The
by Brent Weeks
Release Date: 2010-08-25
Gavin Guile is
the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest
and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that
preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows
exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five
impossible goals.
But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after
the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing
to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world
apart.
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Blameless
(The Parasol Protectorate)
Release Date: 2010-09-01
Quitting her
husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady
Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.
Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only
person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves
town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical
ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of
London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia
quite thoroughly dead.
While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and
Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack
together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the
mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural
to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be
worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.
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Citadel
by John Ringo
Release Date: 2010-12-14
Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu.
But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning. At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people,�Marines, Navy and civilians,�who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure.
If this Troy falls, no one will be left to write the epic.
Citadel continues the saga begun in Live Free or Die, following the paths of several characters during the first years of The Spiral Arm Wars culminating in the First Battle of E Eridani.
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Cobra
Guardian
by Timothy Zahn
Release Date: 2011-01-04
When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground'with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. And the Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors. Long after victory over the Troft was achieved, the Cobras made common cause against their former adversaries against a new enemy. Their reward was three planets that would be a home for the Cobras, who deadly powers made them too dangerous to feel at home on Earth.
Now, years had passed and not everyone on the Cobra worlds thought that the Cobras were worth the cost of maintaining their existing built-in weaponry, let alone supporting research to improve the Cobra weapons, and possibly even put an end to the negative effects of that built-in weaponry, which caused Cobras to die much too young. Many who had never known interplanetary war were convinced that the Cobras were not needed at all.
That was a grave miscalculation, because a Troft faction has decided to invade the Cobra planets in force, using a new strategy that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat . . .
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Praise for Timothy Zahn:
Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement [in Dragon and Thief]. 'Publishers Weekly
[Conqueror's Heritage] is another finely wrought space adventure . . . [with] social, political and emotional complications, all of which Zahn treats with his usual skill. 'Booklist
Zahn paints every detail [in Angelmass] with gleamy realism . . . scientific dialogue that streams with starship hardware and military trooper talk . . . immensely appealing. 'Kirkus Review
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Cold
Magic (The Spiritwalker Trilogy)
by Kate Elliott
Release Date: 2010-10-11
From one of
the genre's finest writers comes a bold new epic fantasy in which
science and magic are locked in a deadly struggle.
It is the dawn of a new age... The Industrial Revolution has begun,
factories are springing up across the country, and new technologies
are transforming in the cities. But the old ways do not die
easy.
Cat and Bee are part of this revolution. Young women at college,
learning of the science that will shape their future and ignorant
of the magics that rule their families. But all of that will change
when the Cold Mages come for Cat. New dangers lurk around every
corner and hidden threats menace her every move. If blood can't be
trusted, who can you trust?
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Coronets
and Steel
Release Date: 2010-10-11
In
this new fantasy series, a young woman takes her own destiny by the
hand-and the hilt.
California girl Kim Murray is unsatisfied with grad school and
restless in life. Modern men disappoint her, and she studies ballet
and fencing because they remind her of older, more romantic
times.
She lives with her parents and her beloved but secretive
aristocratic grandmother, who speaks only French and refuses to
share stories about the mysterious family she left behind in
Europe, inspiring Kim to travel there and find her roots.
Kim soon finds herself swept up in an adventure of fantastic
deceptions and passionate intrigue-and a shocking realization about
her own bloodline that leaves her reeling.
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Cryoburn
(Miles Vorkosigan)
Release Date: 2010-11-02
����������� Miles Vorkosigan is back!
����������� Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove'he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp'an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future'attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.
����������� On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don't mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping'something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn't due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle'of trouble!
Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb. 'Robert Jordan
It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers. . . . I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. 'Diana Wynne Jones
Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds. 'Jean Auel
Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development . . . enormously satisfying. 'Publishers Weekly��
One of sf's outstanding talents . . . an outstanding series. 'Booklist
Excellently done . . . Bujold has always excelled at creating forceful characters and she does it here again. 'Denver Post
. . . an intelligent, well-crafted and thoroughly satisfying blend of adventure, sociopolitical commentary, scientific experiments, and occasional perils . . . with that extra spicing of romance. . . . 'Locus
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Dark
Echo
by F.G. Cottam
Release Date: 2010-08-17
Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard�falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his wealthy father. But�his lover Suzanne begins exploring the yacht's past. What she finds is terrifying.�
Because this boat�isn't just unlucky, it's evil. It was�built for Henry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his malevolent spell nearly a century after his death. Suzanne must uncover his last, terrible secret before Dark Echo destroys the man she loves.
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Darkest
Edge of Dawn (Charlie Madigan, Book 2), The
by Kelly Gay
Release Date: 2010-10-05
It takes a strong woman to keep the peace in a city of endless night. . . .
Deep beneath Underground, a cunning bid for power and revenge has begun'one that threatens to make Atlanta the new battleground in the ultimate confrontation between good and evil. The powers of hellish Charbydon have the upper hand after plunging the city into primordial night. And under the cover of darkness, a serial killer targets the most powerful Elysians in the city, the angelic Adonai. For Detective Charlie Madigan and her siren partner Hank, tracking deadly predators is all in a day's work . . . but this case will test the limits of their strength and friendship as it draws them into a deadly world of power plays, ancient myths, explosive secrets, and a race against time that risks all that Charlie holds dear.
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Dead
Path, The
Release Date: 2010-10-11
Do you
remember the last time a book gave you the chills? The Dead
Path is the ghost story we've been waiting for.
A haunting vision in the woods sets off a series of tragic events,
leaving Nicholas Close lost amid visions of ghosts trapped in their
harrowing, final moments. These uniquely
ter�rifying apparitions lead him on a
thrilling and suspenseful ride to confront a wicked soul, and will
leave an indelible mark on lovers of high-quality suspense and
horror alike.
Nicholas Close has always had an uncanny intuition, but after the
death of his wife he becomes haunted, literally, by ghosts doomed
to repeat their final violent moments in a chilling and endless
loop. Torn by guilt and fearing for his sanity, Nicholas returns to
his childhood home and is soon entangled in a
dis�turbing series of disappearances
and� murders'both as a
sus�pect and as the next victim of the
malignant evil lurking in the heart of the woods.
Stephen M. Irwin is the kind of debut author that readers love to
discover'and rave about to all their friends. His electric use of
language, stunning imagery, and suspenseful pacing are all on full
display here. The Dead Path is a tour de force of wild
imagination, taut suspense, and the creepiest, scariest setting
since the sewers in Stephen King's It.
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Double
Cross
Release Date: 2010-10-05
SOME SECRETS
COME BACK TO HAUNT. OTHERS COME TO KILL.
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Justine Jones lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she
was lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard,
who gifts her with extraordinary mental powers'dooming her to fight
Midcity's shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the
peace she so desperately craves.
But now serial killers with unheard-of skills are terrorizing the
most powerful beings in Midcity, including mastermind Packard and
his oldest friend and worst enemy, Midcity's new mayor, who has the
ability to bend matter itself to his
will.�
As the body count grows, Justine faces a crisis of conscience as
she tests the limits of her new powers and faces an impossible
choice between two flawed but brilliant men'one on a journey of
redemption, the other descending into a pit of moral depravity.
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Dreadnought
Release Date: 2010-09-28
Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.
What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why they're so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?
Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Dreadnought alive.
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Esperanza
Release Date: 2010-09-17
Tess
Livingston met Ian Ritter at a roadside stop high in the Andes,
waiting for a bus to the mysterious town of Esperanza.
Tess is an FBI agent who remembers being on the track of a group of
international counterfeiters.�But she doesn't
remember booking a trip to Esperanza.�Ian is a
journalist who was planning to vacation to the Galapagos
Islands.�He, too, isn't quite sure why he has
a ticket to Esperanza.�
Their meeting will change their lives
forever.�For they have been brought together
because they hold the key in a mystical war between the kind
spirits of the dead who guard humanity, and the hungry ghosts who
exist only to possess living human bodies, and return however
briefly to life.
In the midst of this war, Tess and Ian will find a love that can
transcend time, and a cause that not even death will
overcome.
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Eternal
Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, Book 2)
Release Date: 2010-07-27
An
immortal war has been brewing in the darkness...and now one woman
has stumbled into the shadows.
Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept
on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the
moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn.
Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her
worst nightmares.
At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who
thought he'd seen it all. Then Kira appears - this fearless,
beautiful....human who braved death to rescue him. Though her burns
for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life. Yet
sending her away is unthinkable.
But with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman
he craves, or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent
on his eternal destruction. (added by
author)
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Evolutionary
Void (The Void Trilogy), The
Release Date: 2010-08-24
An innovator
praised as one of the inventors of the new space opera, Peter F.
Hamilton has also been hailed as the heir of such golden-age giants
as Heinlein and Asimov. His star-spanning sagas are distinguished
by deft plotting, engaging characters, provocative explorations of
science and society, and soaring imaginative reach. Now, in one of
the most eagerly anticipated offerings of the year, Hamilton brings
his acclaimed Void trilogy to a stunning close.
Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a
galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath
known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to
prevent'or facilitate'the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into
the heart of the Void. An indestructible microuniverse, the Void
may contain paradise, as the cultists believe, but it is also a
deadly threat. For the miraculous reality that exists inside its
boundaries demands energy'energy drawn from everything outside
those boundaries: from planets, stars, galaxies . . . from
everything that lives.
Meanwhile, the parallel story of Edeard, the Waterwalker'as told
through a series of addictive dreams communicated to the gaiasphere
via Inigo, the First Dreamer'continues to unfold. But now the
inspirational tale of this idealistic young man takes a darker and
more troubling turn as he finds himself faced with powerful new
enemies'and temptations more powerful
still.��
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With time running out, a repentant Inigo must decide whether to
release Edeard's final dream: a dream whose message is scarcely
less dangerous than the pilgrimage promises to be. And Araminta
must choose whether to run from her unwanted responsibilities or
face them down, with no guarantee of success or survival. But all
these choices may be for naught if the monomaniacal Ilanthe, leader
of the breakaway Accelerator Faction, is able to enter the Void.
For it is not paradise she seeks there, but dominion.
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Fatal
Error (Repairman Jack)
Release Date: 2010-10-12
�Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands.
--Charlaine
Harris, creator of True Blood
The End of the World is at hand!
Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price. A friend realizes something is terribly wrong and tells Munir he doesn't have to go to the cops. There's a guy who fixes situations like this-Repairman Jack. Jack is backed into helping Munir despite his ongoing involvement in the cosmic shadow war between the Ally and the Otherness. Or perhaps because of it. He's chafing at being forced into the defensive role of protecting the Lady, the physical embodiment of the consciousness of the planet Earth.
Meanwhile, the Septimus Order and the Kickers are seemingly working in concert on a plot to extinguish the Lady and open the way for the Otherness to take over our reality. To top it all off, Dawn Pickering finally goes into labor and delivers a baby she only glimpses as it's whisked away, and is terrified by what she sees. Later she's told the baby died, but she doesn't believe it. Neither does Weezy. Neither does Jack. All these interlocking plots mean doom for humanity. But Jack never gives up or gives in.
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Frankenstein's
Monster
Release Date: 2010-10-15
Behind me,
stiffened with frost, lie the remains of Victor Frankenstein.
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What becomes of a monster without its maker? At the end of Mary
Shelley's classic novel, the creator dies but his creation still
lives, cursed to a life of isolation and
hatred.�
Frankenstein's Monster continues the creature's story as he's
compelled to discover his humanity, to escape the ship captain who
vowed to the dying Frankenstein to hunt him down'and to resist the
woman who would destroy them all.
This is a tale of passion, revenge, violence, and madness'and the
desperate search for meaning in an often meaningless
world.
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Gauntlgrym
Release Date: 2010-10-11
Drizzt joins Bruenor on his quest for the fabled dwarven kingdom of Gauntlgrym: ruins said to be rich with ancient treasure and arcane lore. But before they even get close, another drow and dwarf pair stumbles across it first: Jarlaxle and Athrogate.� In their search for treasure and magic, Jarlaxle and Athrogate inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinter'a catastrophe big enough to lure even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they can't stop it on their own. They'll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.
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Gears
of War
Release Date: 2010-08-31
Continuing the saga of the bestselling game series!
With the Locust Horde apparently destroyed, Jacinto's survivors have begun to rebuild human society on the Locusts' stronghold. Raiding pirate gangs take a toll'but it's nothing that Marcus Fenix and the Gears can't handle. Then the nightmare that they thought they'd left behind begins to stalk them again. Something far worse, something even the Locust dreaded, has emerged to spread across the planet, and not even this remote island haven is beyond its reach. Gears and Stranded must fight side by side to survive their deadliest enemy yet, falling back on the savage tactics of another bloody siege'Anvil Gate.��
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Grave
Witch
Release Date: 2010-10-05
Not
even death can save her now.
As a grave witch, Alex Craft can speak to the dead-she's even on
good terms with Death himself. As a consultant for the police,
she's seen a lot of dark magic, but nothing has prepared her for
her latest case. When she's raising a "shade" involved in a high
profile murder, it attacks her, and then someone makes an attempt
on her life. Someone really doesn't want her to know what the dead
have to say, and she'll have to work with mysterious homicide
detective Falin Andrews to figure out why...
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Half-Made
World, The
by Felix Gilman
Release Date: 2010-10-12
A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realism
The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared�the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of the
made world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.
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Intrigues
Release Date: 2010-10-05
"Spellbinding storyteller" (Rave
Reviews) Mercedes Lackey continues her epic Valdemar
series.
Magpie is a thirteen-year-old orphan chosen by one of the magical
Companion horses of Valdemar and taken to the capital city, Haven,
to be trained as a Herald. Like all Heralds, Magpie learns that he
has a hidden Gift-the Gift of telepathy.
But life at the court is not without obstacles. When Mags is
"recognized" by foreign secret operatives whose purpose is unknown,
Mags himself comes under suspicion. Who are Magpie's parents-who is
he, really? Can Mags solve the riddle of his parentage and his
connection with the mysterious spies-and prove his loyalty-before
the king and court banish him as a traitor?
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Kill
the Dead
Release Date: 2010-10-11
Supernatural fantasy's best antihero returns, in the high-octane follow-up to Richard Kadrey's acclaimed Sandman Slim
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.
Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.'s underground power elite. That's before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark's forever.
Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell's not looking so bad.
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Knot
Gneiss (Xanth)
Release Date: 2010-10-12
Wenda Woodwife
has a knotty problem--her mood swings have sent her beloved
husband, Prince Charming, off on
Adventure.�She seeks the cure from the Good
Magician Humphrey, only to discover that he has a knotty problem of
his own and that only Wenda Woodwife can help him.
She'll need Companions. Luckily,�in Xanth
magical companions are never far away, and all roads lead to
Adventure.
This 34th installment in the saga of the magical land of Xanth
proves the enduring appeal of Piers Anthony's peerless
creation.
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Labyrinth
(Greywalker, Book 5)
Release Date: 2010-08-03
The
toughest case yet for Greywalker Harper Blaine, "a great heroine"
(#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine
Harris).
Harper Blaine was your average small-time P. I. until she died-for
two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker, walking the line between the
living world and the paranormal realm. There are others who know
about her new powers-others with powerful tools and evil
intentions, and now that the man who "killed" her has been
murdered, the police are also paying close attention. That means
Harper has to watch her step while searching for the ghost of her
"killer"-who could be a valuable clue in the puzzle of Harper's
past and her father's death, as well as a key to figuring out who's
trying to manipulate her new powers and why. But with her growing
powers pulling her into the Grey, Harper might not be able to come
back out...
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Left
for Undead
by L. A. Banks
Release Date: 2010-10-05
Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf-like attacks that left New Orleans in an uproar. But when her team calls with news of vampire slayings, Sasha knows it's only a matter of time before another war breaks out among the supernatural denizens of the world �
The vampires are nobody's ally, but the cold-hearted deaths of their own kind make them even more bloodthirsty than usual. But who is the culprit? With the Seelie and Unseelie courts claiming innocence and aligning together, Sasha's team is at a loss. Until they discover that they're facing ancient creatures from the depths of hell itself, bent on unleashing pure fury ���
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Magic
at the Gate
by Devon Monk
Release Date: 2010-11-02
Allie Beckstrom's lover, Zayvion Jones, is a Guardian of the Gate, imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don't mix. But Zayvion lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death's realm. And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world.
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Masques
Release Date: 2010-09-28
After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. Her latest mission involves spying on the increasingly powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae'Magi. But in a war against an enemy armed with the powers of illusion, how do you know who the true enemy is-or where he will strike next?
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Monster
Hunter International
Release Date: 2010-09-25
Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living.�Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit.
It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem.�An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta.�Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves.
����������� Business is good . . .
����������� Welcome to Monster Hunter International.
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Monster
Hunter Vendetta
Release Date: 2010-09-28
����������� �Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One's invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones.
����������� �The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. The government wants to capture the Shadow Man and has assigned the enigmatic Agent Franks to be Owen's full time bodyguard, which is a polite way of saying that Owen is monster bait.
����������� With supernatural assassins targeting his family, a spy in their midst, and horrific beasties lurking around every corner, Owen and the staff of Monster Hunter International don't need to go hunting, because this time the monsters are hunting them. Fortunately, this bait is armed and very dangerous . . .
�
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Omnitopia
Dawn
by Diane Duane
Release Date: 2010-08-03
A
near-future techno-thriller from New York Times
bestselling author Diane Duane.
In an increasingly wired and computer-friendly world, massive
multiplayer online games have become the ultimate form of
entertainment. And the most popular gaming universe of all is
Omnitopia, created by genius programmer Dev Logan. For millions of
people around the world, Omnitopia is an obsession, a passionate
pastime, almost a way of life. But there's a secret to Omnitopia,
one that Dev would give his life to protect-the game isn't just a
program or a piece of code. It's become sentient-alive. And it's
Dev's job to keep it that way...
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Out
of the Dark
by David Weber
Release Date: 2010-09-28
The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called "sentients"�"humans," they called themselves�were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better.
Now, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died.
Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize scattered survivors without getting killed. And in the southeastern US, firearms instructor and former Marine Dave Dvorak finds himself at the center of a growing network of resistance�putting his extended family at lethal risk, but what else can you do?
On the face of it, Buchevsky's and Dvorak's chances look bleak, as do prospects for the rest of the surviving human race. But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earth�
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Pork
Pie Hat
by Peter Straub
Release Date: 2010-10-05
Passionate about jazz, the narrator dicovers that one of his greatest heroes, a saxophonist by the name of Pork Pie Hat, is still alive and playing at a club he frequents. Granted an interview by the Hat, the narrator gets a night of extraordinary stories from a man dying of alcoholism.
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Questing
Road, The
Release Date: 2010-08-03
Acolytes to a dark god have crossed the gulf between worlds to abduct an innocent tariling, not even a year old, dooming it to become a sacrifice in a ceremony that will unleash an army of supernatural creatures upon an unsuspecting kingdom.
Yoros and Kyrryl know that this is no mere animal, but to its own (felinoid) kind is a cherished child. With their warrior niece, Ashara, they follow its trail through a dimensional gate, little realizing their simple quest will become a desperate fight for survival in the middle of an all-out war. They can't know of the atrocities that decimated the plains tribes of the strange world beyond the gate. Nor can they know of the massive revenge that threatens an entire civilization. If they are to save themselves and their lost tariling, they must follow its magic through the unknown terrors of a bizarre world of alien creatures and mortal perils beyond their wildest imagining.
With the apocalyptic ceremony looming ever nearer, the trio of seekers find others who may help them -- or whose treachery could spell doom for them all. As mortal and supernatural armies mass and secret pacts reveal ancient evils, only one thing is certain: death follows their road, and their only hope is to cheat the gods that seem to curse them...
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Radleys
by Matt Haig
Release Date: 2010-12-28
A family satire about midlife crisis, addiction, sexual desire and teenage angst enacted among a 21st-century nuclear family of vampires.
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Reapers
Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
Release Date: 2010-08-03
Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.
For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.
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Secret
History of Fantasy, The
Release Date: 2010-10-11
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Silver
Zombie
Release Date: 2010-11-30
The fourth installment of the urban fantasy series about a sexy paranormal investigator living in a Las Vegas run by werewolves.
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Sparks
by Laura Bickle
Release Date: 2010-10-05
WITHOUT A TRACEAnya Kalinczyk is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern, who holds down a day job as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department'while working 24/7 to exterminate malicious spirits haunting a city plagued by unemployment and despair. Along with her inseparable salamander familiar, Sparky, Anya has seen, and even survived, all manner of fiery hell'but her newest case sparks suspicions of a bizarre phenomenon that no one but her eccentric team of ghost hunters might believe: spontaneous human combustion.
After fire consumes the home of elderly Jasper Bernard, Anya is stunned to discover his remains'or, more precisely, a lack of them; even the fiercest fires leave some trace of their victims'and she is sure this was no naturally occurring blaze. Soon she's unearthed a connection to a celebrity psychic who preys on Detroit's poor, promising miracles for money. But Hope Solomon wants more'she's collecting spirits, and in a frantic race against time, Anya will face down an evil adversary who threatens her fragile relationship with her lover, her beloved Sparky's freshly hatched newts, and the wandering souls of the entire city
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Spy
Glass
Release Date: 2010-10-11
After siphoning her own blood magic in the showdown at Hubal, Opal Cowan has lost her powers. She can no longer create glass magic. More, she's immune to the effects of magic. Opal is now an outsider looking in, spying through the glass on those with the powers she once had, powers that make a difference in the world.
Until spying through the glass becomes her new power. Suddenly, the beautiful pieces she makes flash in the presence of magic. And then she discovers that someone has st olen some of her blood'and that finding it might let her regain her powers. Or learn if they're lost forever…
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Star
Wars
Release Date: 2010-10-11
As ruthless
apprentice to Darth Vader, Starkiller was mercilessly schooled in
the ways of the dark side, commanded to exterminate the last of the
purged Jedi Order, and groomed for the ultimate Sith power play:
assassination of the Emperor. He served without question, killed
without remorse, and lost his heart without warning to beautiful
Imperial fighter pilot Juno Eclipse, never suspecting that he was
just a tool in the schemes of his masters'until it was too late to
escape their lethal betrayal.
Juno mourned Starkiller as dead...but now he is back, purged of all
memories and programmed to kill. And as fate brings Juno and
Starkiller closer to reuniting, with Darth Vader determined not to
lose his assassin a second time, they will both have to make a
stand. The prize is freedom. The punishment for failing will be
eternal enslavement to the dark side of the Force...
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Surface
Detail
Release Date: 2010-10-11
It begins in
the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death
itself.
Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing
witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust
for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her
freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put
things right she will need the help of the Culture.
Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it
may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With
the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged
- warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not
even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal,
far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that
store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into
reality.
It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end.
It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but
at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge
masks another motive altogether.
SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking
achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in
the modern history of science fiction.
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Total
Eclipse (Weather Warden, Book 9)
by Rachel Caine
Release Date: 2010-08-03
New York Times bestselling
author of the Morganville Vampires novels
Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin, her husband, the djinn David, and
the Earth herself have been poisoned by a substance that destroys
the magic that keeps the world alive. The poison is destabilizing
the entire balance of power, bestowing magic upon those who have
never had it, and removing it form those who need it. It's just a
matter of time before the delicate balance of nature explodes into
chaos-and doom.
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Trio
of Sorcery
Release Date: 2010-10-26
Arcanum 101:� Diana Tregarde, practicing witch, romance novelist, Guardian of the Earth.�Studying at Harvard, Diana is approached by Joe O'Brian, a young cop who has already seen more than one unusual thing during his budding career.�The distraught mother of a kidnap victim is taking advice from a �psychic and interfering in the police investigation.�Will Diana prove that the psychic is a fake?�Unfortunately, the psychic is not a fake, but a very wicked witch�and the child's kidnapper.�
Drums:� Jennifer Talldeer, shaman, private investigator, member of the Osage tribe.�Most of Jennie's work is regular PI stuff, but Nathan Begay brings her a problem she's never seen before.�His girlfriend, Caroline, is Chickasaw to his Navaho, but that's not the problem.�Somehow, Caroline has attracted the attention of an angry Osage ghost.�Thwarted in love while alive, the ghost has chosen Caroline to be his bride in death.�
Ghost in the Machine:� Ellen McBridge:�computer programmer extraordinaire, techno-shaman.�The programmers and players of a new MMORPG find that the game's �boss, a wendigo, is �killing everyone�even the programmers' characters with their god-like powers.�A brilliant debugger, Ellen discoveres that the massive computing power of the game's servers have created a breach between the supernatural world and our own.�This wendigo isn't a bit of code, it's the real thing . . . and it's on the brink of breaking out of the computers and into the real world.�
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Troubled
Waters
by Sharon Shinn
Release Date: 2010-10-11
The
author of the Twelve Hours series welcomes readers to a new fantasy
world, where the elements rule.
Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been
chosen to become the king's fifth wife. Forced to go to the royal
city, she manages to slip away and hide on the shores of the mighty
river.
It's there that Zoe realizes she is a coru prime ruled by the
elemental sign of water. She must return to the palace, not as an
unwilling bride for the king, but a woman with power in her own
right. But as Zoe unlocks more of the mysteries of her blood-and
the secrets of the royal family-she must decide how to use her
great power to rise above the deceptions and intrigue of the royal
court.
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Truth
of Valor (Valor Novel), The
by Tanya Huff
Release Date: 2010-10-11
The
"rousing military adventure"(Locus) continues with a
brand-new Valor novel.
Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a
new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the
Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than
she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to
pirates. And when they attack the Promise, Craig is taken
prisoner and Torin is left for dead.
When Torin finds out why the pirates needed Craig, she calls in the
Marines to get him back-and to stop the pirates from changing the
balance of power in known space.
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Truthseeker
by C.E. Murphy
Release Date: 2010-08-31
ACROSS TWO EXTRAORDINARY WORLDS, TRUTH IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC
�
Gifted with an uncanny intuition, Lara Jansen nonetheless thinks there is nothing particularly special about her. All that changes when a handsome but mysterious man enters her quiet Boston tailor shop and reveals himself to be a prince of Faerie. What's more, Dafydd ap Caerwyn claims that Lara is a truthseeker, a person with the rare talent of being able to tell truth from falsehood. Dafydd begs Lara to help solve his brother's murder, of which Dafydd himself is the only suspect.
Acting against her practical nature, Lara agrees to step through a window into another world. Caught between bitterly opposed Seelie forces and Dafydd's secrets, which are as perilous as he is irresistible, Lara finds that her abilities are increasing in unexpected and uncontrollable ways. With the fate of two worlds at stake and a malevolent entity wielding the darkest of magic, Lara and Dafydd will risk everything on a love that may be their salvation'or the most treacherous illusion of all.
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War
That Came Early
Release Date: 2010-07-27
In 1938, two
men held history in their hands. One was Adolf Hitler. The other
was British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who, determined to
avoid war at any cost, came to be known as the great appeaser. But
Harry Turtledove, the unrivaled master of alternate history, has
launched a gripping saga that springboards from a different fateful
act: What if Chamberlain had stood up to Hitler? What would the
Nazis' next move have been? And how would the war'which Hitler had
always regretted waiting eleven months to start'have unfolded and
changed our world?
Here, Turtledove takes us across a panorama of conflict fueled by
ideology and demagoguery. Nations are pitted against nations,
alliances are forged between old enemies, ordinary men and women
are hurled into extraordinary life-and-death situations. In
Japanese-controlled Singapore, an American marine falls in love
with a Russian dance hall hostess, while around him are heard the
first explosions of Chinese guerilla resistance. On the frontlines
of war-ravaged rural France, a weary soldier perfects the art of
using an enormous anti-tank gun as a sniper's tool'while from
Germany a killer is sent to hunt him down. And in the icy North
Atlantic, a U-boat bearing an experimental device wreaks havoc on
British shipping, setting the stage for a Nazi ground invasion of
Denmark.
�
From an American woman trapped in Germany who receives safe passage
from Hitler himself to a Jewish family steeped in German culture
and facing the hatred rising around them, from Japanese soldiers on
the remote edge of Siberia to American volunteers in Spain, West
and East is the story of a world held hostage by tyrants'Stalin,
Hitler, Sanjuro'each holding on to power through lies and terror
even in the face of treacherous plots from within.
As armies clash, and as the brave, foolish, and true believers
choose sides, new weapons are added to already deadly arsenals and
new strategies are plotted to break a growing stalemate. But one
question looms over the conflict from West to East: What will it
take to bring America into this war?
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Weight
of Stone
Release Date: 2010-10-11
An island nation has vanished. Men of honor and magic have died unnatural deaths. Slaves flee in terror. . . . Are the silent gods beginning to speak? Or is another force at work in the Lands Vin?
Laura Anne Gilman's critically acclaimed, Nebula Award nominated Flesh and Fire introduced a brilliantly imagined world where the grapevine'cultivated by the Vinearts who know the secrets of wine magic'holds together disparate lands. Now, confusion, violence, and terror are sweeping over the Lands Vin. And four people are at the center of a storm.
Jerzy, Vineart apprentice and former slave, was sent by his master to investigate strange happenings'and found himself the target of betrayal. Now he must set out on his own journey, to find the source of the foul taint that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. By Jerzy's side are Ao, who lives for commerce and the art of the deal; Mahault, stoic and wise, risking death in flight from her homeland; and Kaïnam, once Named-Heir of an island principality, whose father has fallen into a magic-tangled madness that endangers them all.
These four companions will travel far from the earth and the soul of the vine, sailing along coastlines aflame with fear, confronting sea creatures summoned by darkness, and following winds imbued with malice. Their journey will take them to the very limits of the Sin Washer's reach . . . and into a battle for the soul of the Lands Vin. For two millennia the Sin Washer's Commandment has kept these lands in order: Those of magic shall hold no power over men and those princes of power shall hold no magic. Now, that law has given way. And a hidden force seeks the havoc of revenge.
An adventure through an unforgettable realm conjured by breathtaking imagination, Laura Anne Gilman's saga of the Vineart War is a "dramatic, authentic, and potent" (Publishers Weekly) literary delight.
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What
the Night Knows
by Dean Koontz
Release Date: 2010-12-28
In the late
summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His
name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months
he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only
when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family,
a fourteen-year-old boy.
Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering
families again, recreating
in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is
certain that his own family'his wife and three children'will be
targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were
victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their
slayer.
As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts.
But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death
is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.
Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos,
Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a
war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than
any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of
all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night
Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing
storytelling.
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