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Warriors: Rob Jung
The discovery of the century. Anthropology professor
Terry Castro, leading a summer-school program in the
Peruvian rain forest, stumbles upon the remnant of a
nation of tall, white-skinned warriors from the time of
the Incan empire. But, when a simple accident leaves
Castro poisoned, a series of events are set in motion
that threaten his life, and the extinction of the tribe.
With the help of a young medium, Carrie Waters, Castro
tries to find a remedy and discovers the poison also has
the capability of tripling life expectancy. Waters
confides in her uncle, Vikter Glass, a pharmaceutical
company executive, in the hope that the company can
manufacture an antidote. Her innocent attempt to save
the man she loves triggers a race to locate the lost
tribe and its fountain-of-youth elixir.
ORDER # H219-1 $30-90 ISBN 9781785359187
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A Baby's Bones:
Rebecca
Alexander
Archaeologist Sage Westerfield has been called in to
excavate an ancient well, and expects to find little
more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. The
disturbing discovery of a woman's skeleton along with
that of a baby - which shows signs of violence - makes
it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical murder
mystery. Heavily pregnant herself by her ex boyfriend, a
married man, Sage feels drawn to investigating the
circumstances surrounding the tiny bones. When the wife
of the owner of Banstock Manor shows her the account of
Vincent Garland, the steward of the estate in the 1580s,
Sage learns of a destructive love triangle between an
embroideress, an alchemist, and the Lord of the Manor's
daughter.
ORDER # H219-2 $12-90 ISBN 9781785656231
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Worst Is Yet to Come: S P Miskowski
For most of her fourteen years, Tasha Davis has
languished in the rural-suburban town of Skillute,
Washington. Her parents offer plenty of comfortable - if
stifling - emotional support, but what she needs is a
best friend. In her final year at Clark Middle School,
Tasha meets a strange, new classmate. Briar Kenny is the
self-styled rebel Tasha wants to be, and the Davises are
the kind of close-knit family Briar covets. A moment of
unexpected violence spawns a secret between the two
girls and awakens a mystery from the past. Unknown to
Tasha and Briar, their secret also attracts something
monstrous from a forgotten corner of Skillute. The town
is haunted by its history, scarred with the lingering
spirit of broken and scattered families, abandoned real
estate ventures, and old scores never settled between
neighbors. But there's more to the place than memory and
legend. Beneath the landscape something malignant rages,
and it will stop at nothing to find a route into the
physical world.
ORDER # H219-3 $25-90 ISBN 9781947654464
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Mammoth Book of
Nightmare Stories: Stephen Jones
To sleep, perchance to dream - of horrors! Here are some
of the stories that gave their own authors nightmares -
things that go bump at night, hauntings that lurk in the
back of the mind, skin-crawling moments between the
realms of wakefulness and sleep. In this somnambulistic
collection, award-winning editor Stephen Jones asks many
of the biggest names in horror fiction to choose their
own favorite stories and novellas which, for one reason
or another, have been unjustly overlooked or ignored.
From Hugh B. Cave's 1930s "shudder pulp" tale
to Ramsey Campbell's stunning novella of barely
concealed hysteria and grim black humor, these are the
"forgotten" stories ripe for rediscovery, by
such acclaimed authors as Poppy Z. Brite, Basil Copper,
Harlan Ellison®, Neil Gaiman.
ORDER # H219-4 $25-90 ISBN 9781510736443
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