Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman return in the thrilling and hotly anticipated conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. The blockbuster movie will introduce new faces to the franchise as well, including Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), Bane (Tom Hardy), John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard). From the team that brought you Inception, The Dark Knight Rises is guaranteed to be the blockbuster hit of 2012. This enthralling official novelization will transport fans into a Gotham City once again under threat.

ORDER # S712-1   $12-90   ISBN 9781781161067

Deacon Chalk normally has no trouble telling innocent victims from real monsters. So protecting an abused pregnant were-dog is a no-brainer - until a vicious lycanthrope leader and his brotherhood target Deacon, other shape-shifters, and any humans in their way. Suddenly, Deacon is outnumbered, outgunned, and unsure who - or what - to trust. The only edge he has left is a weapon hungry for his soul and his most savage impulses. And using it will exact a price even this hell-raising hunter fears to pay.

ORDER # S712-2   $12-90   ISBN 9780758271488

Ullsaard rules the known world. All are subject to his will. Yet even as another king bows before him, there are those who would wrench his empire from beneath him. He must risk losing the lands he has conquered to confront a foe far more powerful than any he has faced before. As alliances shift and old enemies return, will he save the empire he has given his life to, or let it fall to ruin?

ORDER # S712-3   $12-90   ISBN 9780857661333

Wizard detective Harry Dresden, murdered by an unknown assassin, must save his friends and his soul without any magic to help him in this novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Side Jobs.

ORDER # S712-4   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464071

What's worse than killing a cop? Eating him afterwards. Which is exactly what happened to a Los Angeles County sheriff in the office of one noted Los Angeles lawyer. Now Mallory Caine, zombie at law, faces the toughest trial of her life - her own - since she's the prime suspect. Ironically, Mallory's been suppressing her undead desires in a 12-step zombie recovery group. It's her human desires that scare her. He's one hot werewolf named Steve Ravener, and he's Mallory's latest client. His ex-wife wants to keep him from seeing his kids. He needs a lawyer whose bite is worse than his bark. Needless to say, family law has never been this hairy. And with a murder charge hanging over her head, a snake goddess charming her mother, and all kinds of hell-spawn taking over L.A., Mallory's plate is full. And she's dying to take a bite.

ORDER # S712-5   $12-90   ISBN 9780786026265

Kari Sperring's first novel was a finalist for the Crawford Award, a Tiptree Award Honor Book, a LOCUS Recommended First Novel, and the winner of the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. Now she returns to the same amazing and atmospheric world with an entirely new story set several hundred years after the earth-shaking events of Living With Ghosts. When a wealthy young woman, obsessed with a childhood vision of a magical Shining Palace, sets out with her true love to search for a legendary land, she discovers the devastated WorldBelow - the realm of the Grass King - and the terrifying Cadre, who take her prisoner, and demand she either restore the king's concubine - or replace her.

ORDER # S712-6   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407551

When several members of her support group for Returne - an experimental drug that brings the dead back to life - disappear, Bryn Davis must discover if the government is methodically removing a threat to their security or if another unknown enemy is trying to run the zombies into the ground.

ORDER # S712-7   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464620

Plagued by psychic squid- images, Nola O'Grady, with the help of her partner, Ari Nathan, must hunt down two criminals in another level of the multiverse - a place of mass murder and religious fanatics where she comes face-to-face with a part of her own past that she'd prefer to forget.

ORDER # S712-8   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407629

Welcome to the Philippines outback. It's a true garden spot, if you happen to like drug running, bush-bound revolutionary movements, Balkanized tribal warfare, illegal weapons trading, and kidnapping for fun and profit. It's hostage rescue time once again for Terry Welch's special operations company. But this is turning out to be one of those missions. No clue as to the hostage's whereabouts. An employer who is completely untrustworthy. An indigenous social structure coming apart at the seams. And it's topped off by Welch and his crew having to endure a rifle company of hated competitors supposedly sent along for reinforcement.

ORDER # S712-9   $12-90   ISBN 9781451637939

Jesse James Dawson was once an ordinary man until he discovered that demons were real, and fighting them meant putting his own soul on the line. His new case is a beauty: Gretchen Keene, a Hollywood starlet who's become an unwitting catalyst in an all-out demon war. It's not her soul Jesse needs to protect, but the 276 others she's carting around - all the souls sold to spend just one night with the blonde bombshell. That's a lot of baggage, although it might explain her meteoric rise to fame. And it's all up for grabs by the demon world.

ORDER # S712-10   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464637

Warrior-maiden and consort of the blood god Khorne, the name of Valkia the Bloody is feared among all the tribes of the north - friend and foe alike. From her earliest days as a shield bearer for her father King Merroc, she has known nothing but unending warfare and the brutal politics of the tribal leaders, and soon reaches out to seize power for herself. Though her feral beauty might attract unlikely suitors and her enemies may plot against her in secret, Valkia holds the patronage of the Ruinous Powers, and Khorne will not allow his chosen queen to fall.

ORDER # S712-15   $14-90   ISBN 9781849701860

The fates of Drakis, former slave warrior of the elven empire of Rhonas, and Soen, former Inquisitor of the Iblisi, are inexorably tied to the magic of Aether-lifeblood of the elven empire and the cause of humanity's fall. As each searches for the truth beyond legends, he must face his own destiny: Drakis amid the ruins of humanity's Lost Citadels; Soen in a desperate race to seize control of the farthest Aether Well of the empire.

ORDER # S712-16   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407315

Though the United Federation of Planets still reels from Andor's political decision that will forever affect the coalition, Captain William T. Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan are carrying out Starfleet's renewed commitment to deep space exploration. While continuing to search the Beta Quadrant's unknown expanses for an ancient civilization's long-lost quick-terraforming technology - a potential boon to many Borg-ravaged worlds across the Federation and beyond - Titan's science specialists encounter the planet Ta'ith, home to the remnant of a once-great society that may hold the very secrets they seek.

ORDER # S712-17   $12-90   ISBN 9781451660623

In Farlander, the first book of the Heart of the World series, readers met Ash, an aging master assassin of the famed order of Roshun, and his apprentice Nico, a boy who always managed to be in the wrong place at the right time. Ash and Nico were sent on a suicidal mission to fulfill a contract against the favored son of the Holy Matriarch, the ruler of Mann. The assassination of the Matriarch's son maintained the honor and reputation of the Roshun, but further destabilized a nation already beset by strife. For Ash, fulfilling the contract came at an enormous personal cost.

ORDER # S712-18   $12-90   ISBN 9780765366610

Five thousand years ago. After a Jedi ambush, the Sith mining ship Omen lies wrecked on a remote, unknown planet. Its commander, Yaru Korsin, battles the bloodshed of a mutinous faction led by his own brother. Marooned and facing death, the Sith crew have no choice but to venture into their desolate surroundings. They face any number of brutal challenges - vicious predators, lethal plagues, tribal people who worship vengeful gods - and like true Sith warriors, counter them with the dark side of the Force. The struggles are just beginning for the proud, uncompromising Sith, driven as they are to rule at all costs.

ORDER # S712-19   $12-90   ISBN 9780345511379

It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher - and the victim's wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom - if it exists at all - is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects - except, that is, for London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant. With Inspector Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, tied up in the hunt for the rogue magician known as "the Faceless Man," it's up to Peter to plumb the haunted depths of the oldest, largest, and - as of now - deadliest subway system in the world.

ORDER # S712-20   $12-90   ISBN 9780345524614

Joseph has succeeded in rescuing his sister, Chelo, from a pitched battle on the colony planet Fremont. Now he and Chelo and the love of his life, Alicia, and all of their extended family, are finally returning home. Halfway there, a probe intercepts them, sending them new coordinates and a message from Joseph's enigmatic supporter and teacher, Marcus. War is brewing. Joseph is wanted for escaping to save Chelo. To stay safe, Joseph must bring his family and friends to the renowned planet of Lopali, where men and women can fly, and peace and freedom abound. Or do they?

ORDER # S712-21   $12-90   ISBN 9780765360717

An accident leads to the discovery of a mysterious machine that has rested hidden deep underground for millennia. The machine awakens to begin issuing a series of increasingly alarming, if minor, omens. The omens turn out to be astonishingly accurate, and ever more ominous. As Zedd tries to figure out how to destroy the sinister device, the machine issues a cataclysmic omen involving Richard and Kahlan, foretelling an impending event beyond anyone's ability to stop. As catastrophe approaches, the machine then reveals that it is within its power to withdraw the omen - in exchange for an impossible demand.

ORDER # S712-22   $14-90   ISBN 9780765366191

When he was nine, he watched as his mother and brother were killed before him. At thirteen, he led a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king. It's time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath to return to the castle he turned his back on, to take what's rightfully his. Since the day he hung pinned on the thorns of a briar patch and watched Count Renar's men slaughter his mother and young brother, Jorg has been driven to vent his rage. Life and death are no more than a game to him - and he has nothing left to lose. But treachery awaits him in his father's castle. Treachery and dark magic.

ORDER # S712-23   $12-90   ISBN 9781937007683

The search of a daughter for her father is but the beginning of this robust fantasy adventure from L. Jagi Lamplighter. For five hundred years since the events of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Miranda has run Prospero, Inc., protecting an unknowing world from disasters both natural and man-made. Now, in Prospero in Hell, Miranda's father has been taken prisoner of dark spirits in a place she could only guess. Piecing together clues about her father's whereabouts and discovering secrets of her shrouded past, she comes to an inescapable conclusion she has dreaded since Prospero was lost.

ORDER # S712-24   $12-90   ISBN 9780765358844

Forensic witch Bianca Sin has never seen anything like it: homeless teenage girls torn to pieces by dark magic in the cold shadows of the city. More terrifying still is the symbol written in blood on an alley wall - the unmistakable seal of the Dark Brethren. Teaming up with NYPD homicide detective Lancelot McManus and an elite task force headed by the shapeshifter Oberon DuPrie, Bianca knows her worst fears have finally come to pass. A new war of annihilation is looming that will plunge the worlds of vampire, shapeshifter, and human into chaos - and two adversarial tribes locked in uneasy truce will need to take up arms together to save the children.

ORDER # S712-25   $12-90   ISBN 9780061783159

Elysia may be a heavenly off-world destination, but beyond it, in the siren city of Fiallan, the Circe have punished Charlie Madigan's partner, Hank, into a torturous state between life and death. With all the proper legal channels cleared, Charlie heads to Elysia, not knowing what she'll find, or if she'll ever see the siren again - while at home, jinn crime boss Grigori Tennin has begun an all-out hunt for the divine being Ahkneri. Tennin's tactics set off a chain reaction that puts Charlie in the crosshairs of the shadowy creature known as Death, and stirs Ahkneri from her long sleep - and if Vengeance awakes, Atlanta will never be the same.

ORDER # S712-26   $12-90   ISBN 9781451625486

Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot - and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. She still feels like a socially challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before! But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated - and deadlier still. For even though she's survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds. Theo can run, but she can't hide. Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are lots of enemies who will try to make sure she's quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer.

ORDER # S712-27   $12-90   ISBN 9781451637922

The Outcast Chronicles follows the fate of a tribe of dispossessed mystics. Vastly outnumbered by people without magical abilities, they are persecuted because ordinary people fear their gifts. This persecution culminates in a bloody pogrom sanctioned by the king who lays siege to the Celestial City, last bastion of the mystics. When the city falls, the mystic leader negotiates their surrender and her people are exiled from their homeland. Imoshen: Her birth was hidden by her father, the ambitious leader of a great brotherhood. She was raised by covenant breaking T'En warriors and only just escaped with her life at eighteen. Seeking sanctuary in the Celestial City, she is voted its leader when the city is beseiged.

ORDER # S712-28   $14-90   ISBN 9781781080139

After being kicked out of the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea's whole existence is in shambles. She tries to put herself back together by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend. When several shapeshifters working for Raphael Medrano - the male alpha of the Clan Bouda, and Andrea's former lover - die unexpectedly at a dig site, Andrea is assigned to investigate. Now she must work with Raphael as her search for the killer leads into the secret underbelly of supernatural Atlanta. And dealing with her feelings for him might have to take a back seat to saving the world.

ORDER # S712-29   $12-90   ISBN 9780425256138

The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And they know if they lose it will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love. For five years, Charis has survived all the Church of God Awaiting and the corrupt men who control it have thrown at the island empire. The price has been high and paid in blood.

ORDER # S712-30   $14-90   ISBN 9780765361257

Kitty has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world - and Kitty, Ben, and Cormac are right in the middle of it. Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own. With the help of the Master of London, Kitty gets more of a glimpse into the Long Game - a power struggle among vampires that has been going on for centuries - than she ever has before.

ORDER # S712-31   $12-90   ISBN 9780765365668

American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrust into what he believes is a truck. He's relieved to find his captors very apologetic, and very British - that is, until they began speaking about nations of which Bayard has never heard. His captors were from Earth, yes. But not his Earth. Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths, each different, where history has taken every possible turn -and there are even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-time travel.

ORDER # S712-32   $12-90   ISBN 9781451637953

For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of blood-thirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom.

ORDER # S712-33   $12-90   ISBN 9780345484222

Promoted in the field for courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in the Space Force Navy - once she undertakes her Academy training. But on a trip back home to Sanctuary, she finds the heavyworld colony being torn apart by religious conflict. Now Ia must prepare her family and followers to secure the galaxy's survival. Her plan is to command a Blockade Patrol ship. Her goal, to save as many lives as she can. But at the Academy, she discovers an unexpected challenge: the one man who could disrupt those plans. The man whose future she cannot foresee.

ORDER # S712-34   $12-90   ISBN 9781937007690

Escaped Germline soldiers need to be cleaned up, and Stan Resnick is the best man for the job. A job that takes him to every dark spot and every rat hole he can find. Operatives from China and Unified Korea are gathering escaped or stolen Russian and American genetics, and there are reports of new biological nightmares: half-human things, bred to live their entire lives encased in powered armor suits. Stan fights to keep himself alive and out of prison while he attempts to capture a genetic, one who will be able to tell them everything they need to know about this new threat, the one called "Project Sunshine."

ORDER # S712-35   $12-90   ISBN 9780316128179

They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its border - but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human. Boston's demons have been disappearing, and Vicky's clients are canceling left and right. While fewer demons might seem like a good thing, Vicky suspects foul play. A missing Celtic cauldron from Harvard's Peabody museum leads her to an unwelcome conclusion: Pryce, her demi-demon cousin and bitter enemy, is trying to regain his full powers.

ORDER # S712-36   $12-90   ISBN 9781937007706

As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead - an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn't the only thing causing havoc in her life. While she's always been on friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal. Then there's her sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie.

ORDER # S712-37   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464590

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died - for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases. After being shot in the back and dying - again - Harper has lost many of her powers. Now, if the Greywalker dies one more time, she won't be coming back.

ORDER # S712-38   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464262

The world is ash, destroyed, and now controlled by Strangers. Survivors live in constant peril. But in the heart of Envy, resistance grows. Somehow Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse - emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world - fifty years later. Now, scouring the ruined earth for answers about the malevolent Strangers, the former extreme sportsman encounters an Amazonian beauty who calls to his every desire, but whose secret could mean his end.

ORDER # S712-39   $12-90   ISBN 9780062018649

A selection of fiction and non-fiction traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality, and features stories and essays by H. G. Wells, Elizabeth Bear, Ray Kurzweil, Justina Robson, Cory Doctorow and many more.

ORDER # S712-40   $23-90   ISBN 9781616960704 

When an unprecedented infection sweeps across the world, bringing an epidemic of mindless biting attacks from the infected that leave their victims "changed," humanity must fight for control of Earth against a sinister alien life-form.

ORDER # S712-41   $23-90   ISBN 9781451617009 

Includes two best-selling science fiction adventures in one volume - "Ice Crown," in which Keli and Roane search for a legendary treasure that could destroy the powers-that-be on the planet Clio, and "Brother to Shadows," in which a young initiate to the assassin's guild, after a devastating betrayal, teams up with a crafty reptilian alien ally to redeem himself.

ORDER # S712-42   $20-90   ISBN 9781451637915 

Taking a break from his ghost-hunting activity, 28-year-old Kane Pryce, busy reinventing himself as the lead guitarist of a band on the brink of success, is called back into the game when a malevolent force lures hopeless victims to their death on Pasadena's infamous Suicide Bridge.

ORDER # S712-43   $23-90   ISBN 9781439186602 

When her boss, with whom she has a special bond, invites her to join him on a jaunt to Philadelphia, Bonnie Torres, a paranormal scene investigator, finds things getting even more complicated when they are called in to look at a dead body.

ORDER # S712-44   $23-90   ISBN 9780373803484 

The final instalment of this fantasy series finds the arrival of someone claiming to be Tungdil the dwarf, who has been missing since the battle at the Black Abyss, offering to help reclaim Girdlegard from the dragons and magicians.

ORDER # S712-45   $23-90   ISBN 9780316102629 

Collects the later fiction of a noted fantasy author, including previously unpublished and uncollected stories, as well as a novella about the last unicorn, who allies with two demons to seek out any survivors of her species.

ORDER # S712-46   $23-90   ISBN 9781616960513 

After being orphaned, two sisters, Karah and Nemienne, set out to find their destinies until the arrival of a foreign mage unearths dangerous secrets that put the siblings in middle of a plot that threatens to destroy their kingdom.

ORDER # S712-47   $23-90   ISBN 9780316072779 

The last remaining mentath in Londoninium, Archibald Clare, teams up with the Prime sorceress, Emma Bannon, to uncover who is behind the treachery, conspiracies and black magic claiming lives all over the city.

ORDER # S712-48   $22-90   ISBN 9780316201261 

When a sorcerer kidnaps Ashlie Berg to use in an act of vengeance, the half-human, half-angel Remy Chandler will do anything to retrieve the young woman who is like a daughter to him.

ORDER # S712-49   $23-90   ISBN 9780451464569 

Unhappy following in his father's footsteps, fisherman Asher arrives in Dorana to find his way amidst the princes, beggars and warrior mages, but discovers that he is being watched closely by members of a secret sect dedicated to ancient magic. Includes The Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage.

ORDER # S712-50   $23-90   ISBN 9780316201278 

This omnibus edition features the novels "Heldenhammer" and "Empire and God-King," in which a new empire rises up from the deserts of Nehekhara, led by one of the most feared necromancers, Sigmar, the first Emperor and unbreakable warrior who must protect the living from the dead.

ORDER # S712-51   $24-90   ISBN 9781849702263 

When the forest-king Orion awakens in the spring to discover that he is been cursed, he, in a fit of rage, leads the asrai to war, but as the corruption spreads like wildfire through his woodland realm, he must rely upon his loyal subjects to unmask the traitor in their midst.

ORDER # S712-52   $19-90   ISBN 9781849702003 

Stormwolf, a former Hound who has been restored to his rightful state as a Rider, scours the Shadowlands for members of a rogue Hound tribe who are draining humans of their souls in this sequel to The Mirror Prince.

ORDER # S712-53   $23-90   ISBN 9780756407407

In a future so distant that time is almost without meaning, death is defeated and immortality has been made reality through instantaneous cloning and synaptic transfer. Mankind, frustrated by the futility of timeless existence, chooses extinction. All but one man. Far removed from the known universe with only one companion, an AI named Qod, Salem Ben watches the cosmos from afar and relives the digitally reproduced lives of countless souls archived in the Soul Consortium by means of a neuro-immersive device. He hopes to discover the answer to the ultimate question: What lies beyond?

ORDER # S712-54   $22-90   ISBN 9781605423937

Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, is dead, betrayed, and his legacy of rebellion and individual freedom is in danger. General Black is the great hope of the military, but she cannot wage war from behind the president's desk. So there must be a new president, anointed by Black, to hold the desk job, and who better than the only woman resurrected from Justin Cord's past era, the scientist who created his resurrection device, the only born unincorporated woman? The perfect figurehead. Except that she has ideas of her own, and secrets of her own, and the talent to run the government her way.

ORDER # S712-55   $23-90   ISBN 9780765330505

In the anticipated follow-up to Guardian Angels: The Setting Moon, Danielle Kelson survives her disastrous trial attempt and is given her very first official mission. The President of the Council, Patreck Danes, has other plans for her. While Frog and Jordan are sent out, Dan is left in the wake of the Council's sinister plots. What begins with seemingly innocuous occurrences quickly develops into a dangerous play for power, where Dan is the favored weapon of choice. The stakes of the game rise dramatically, forcing the Commander to resort to extreme measures: lie to the Council and send Dan across the galaxy. She is hidden on the distant planet Cassio, where she spends her days guarding the Royal Family. Yet the more she discovers about them, the less trustworthy they seem. In a dangerous turn, Chief is released from prison and relentlessly seeks Dan's life once again. As time goes on, danger and death begin to encroach upon the people she loves, and the only resolution rests with the Council. The sides of the battle have been chosen, but the line between them begins to blur.

ORDER # S712-56   $23-90   ISBN 9781936695850

Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery - one that has just fallen into the lap of freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. For years, Eddie has kept his office above Angelina's tavern, so when Angelina herself asks him to find out what happened to the dashing pirate who stole her heart, he can hardly say no - even though the trail is two decades old. Some say Black Edward and his ship, The Bloody Angel, went to bottom of the sea, taking with it a king's fortune in treasure. Others say he rules a wealthy, secret pirate kingdom. And a few believe he still sails under a ghostly flag with a crew of the damned.

ORDER # S712-57   $23-90   ISBN 9780765327451

Fifteen years after winning the Spacer War, Cesar Vaquero has returned to Ithaca, a rugged orbital colony that boasts the only herd of cattle in space, and a wife and a son who don't even recognize him when he shows up at their doorstep. Posing as a homeless drifter, he soon discovers that making his way home past space pirates, one-eyed giants, and mad scientists was the easy part - Penelope swore off men after her husband disappeared. She's been busy enough running the ranch, raising her son, and fending off pushy suitors eager to get their hands on her and her herd. But something about this war-weary drifter stirs forgotten feelings in her, even as sabotage, rustlers, and a space stampede threaten to tear Ithaca apart!

ORDER # S712-58   $22-90   ISBN 9781597803403

The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he's being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant Knock-Out to become the next leader of men. But an army of slavers is on its way, and the war they'll wage for the city's resources could mean the end of mankind as we know it.

ORDER # S712-59   $22-90   ISBN 9781451666663

The war that has torn the human race apart is finally nearing its end. With most towns and cities now uninhabitable, and with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter, both Hater and Unchanged alike struggle to survive. Hundreds of Hater fighters have settled on the East Coast in the abandoned remains of a relatively undamaged town under the command of Hinchcliffe - who'll stop at nothing to eradicate the last few Unchanged and consolidate his position at the top of this new world order. This fledgling society is harsh and unforgiving - your place in the ranks is decided by how long and how hard you're prepared to fight.

ORDER # S712-62   $22-90   ISBN 9781250008381

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such "other worlds" - be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder - but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume - until now.

ORDER # S712-63   $24-90   ISBN 9781597804332

Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. After that incident, and having once met his future self, the inspector considered himself as knowledgeable as he ever wanted to be on the subject of time travel. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future and wind up on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat. He would also find himself marooned in the ancient past, where he would have to recover his time engine - the device that is his only way to get back home - from five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen.

ORDER # S712-64   $23-90   ISBN 9780765330635

Paranormal private eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she's drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the parthuman, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him for all eternity, but come on. How is she supposed to solve a missing persons case, deal with an ego-driven doctor, calm her curmudgeonly dad, and take on a motorcycle gang hellbent on murder when the devil's son just won't give up?

ORDER # S712-65   $22-90   ISBN 9781250001542

Enter a Galaxy Full Of Wonder Take a voyage through a universe populated with eerie and complex starships and satellites, cunningly crafted to resemble creatures of fact and legend. Read about those who stare at the heavens and those who travel among the stars. Did you ever wonder why the chicken crossed the galaxy? Join Head Honcho Murphy and the Startenders of the Fool's Glory as they aid the cosmic chicken Manuk on a very unique rescue mission in "Crossing Roads" by Patrick Thomas. New York Times bestselling author Rosemary Edghill spins a tale of a dystopian future where the price of space travel and colonization is very high, indeed, and who can say what is true intelligence and whose side is the right side? Does war leave any victors? "Broken in the Place of Dragons" may give you some of the answers. These stories and others by C.J. Henderson, John L. French, Alex Shvartsman, Scott W. Baker, Don Sakes, James Daniel Ross, and Bernie Mojzes will keep you turning pages.

ORDER # S712-66   $23-90   ISBN 9781937051426

Earth is an environmental disaster area when humanity gains new hope: a star gate is discovered in the solar system, built by a long-gone alien race. Earth establishes extrasolar colonies and discovers alien races - including the warlike Fallers, the only spacefaring race besides humans. Mysterious, uncommunicative, and relentlessly bent on humanity's extinction, the Fallers have mastered the star gates, and are closing in on earth. Dr. Bazargan commands the scientific team sent to a newly discovered world to study its humanoid natives: beings who literally perceive only one reality. To lie is to be unreal - and condemned to death. The humans must flee for their lives across the unknown planet when they and the aliens learn the scientific mission is a lie.

ORDER # S712-67   $22-90   ISBN 9780312875831

War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. All the stories in this collection of remarkable quality and diversity reveals humankind pressed to the limits in every conceivable way.

ORDER # S712-68   $22-90   ISBN 9781780330402

After surviving a virus that killed his love and his baby, Garrett Primross works with his HeartMate, Artemisia Ginseng, a Second Level Healer, to discover how he stayed alive in this latest novel in the series following Hearts and Swords.

ORDER # R712-69   $22-90   ISBN 9780425253144 

On the first day of her post-college career in the Hughes County morgue, Alex Conner has a conversation with a corpse and is immediately transferred to the mysterious Precinct 13 where she solves crimes with her paranormal co-workers.

ORDER # S712-70   $22-90   ISBN 9780425247792 

Reviled and worshiped by the citizens of the Duchy of Stonehold, who believe her responsible for raising the High King, Caliph Howl, from the dead, Sena Iilool is targeted by the power-hungry emperors of the southern countries and descends into seeming madness in a dangerous game of strategy against an ancient evil force.

ORDER # S712-71   $36-90   ISBN 9780765325174 

In the concluding installment of a bestselling trilogy, Drizzt helps a beautiful elf seek revenge and breaks an old enemy free from slavery.

ORDER # S712-72   $37-90   ISBN 9780786962235 

In an alternate 1864, the Constantine Affliction spreads throughout London, killing some of its victims and trans- forming others into the opposite sex; and soon amateur criminologist, and aristocrat, Pembroke "Pimm" Hanover and journalist Ellie Skyler discover that the key to the malady may be a link between a crime boss and a royal scientist.

ORDER # S712-73   $35-90   ISBN 9781597804004 

Snatching and possessing Tess Livingston's niece after being driven out of the magical Andes city of Esperanza, hungry ghost queen Dominica endeavors to rebuild her tribe of unquiet dead in a small Florida resort town where she works to hide from the government and her former lover, Wayra.

ORDER # S712-74   $34-90   ISBN 9780765326034 

After finding ancient, magical artifacts hidden in a chamber beneath the castle, King Jorg plots to use them against the 20,000 members of the enemy's army swiftly approaching in this second novel of the trilogy following Prince of Thorns.

ORDER # S712-75   $34-90   ISBN 9781937007478 

Gifted with the ability to draw objects out of books, Isacc Vainio, a Libriomancer, seeks assistance from a Harley-riding dryad after a number of vampire attacks are reported by other members of his secret, magic organization.

ORDER # S712-76   $34-90   ISBN 9780756407391 

A sequel to Princess of Wands finds soccer mom and demon fighter Barbara Everett struggling to break a spell that has placed her assistant, Janea, into a coma that causes Janea to confront her respective identities in numerous alternate dimensions, including one where she is a geeky girl at a science-fiction convention attended by guest of honor, Death.

ORDER # S712-77   $34-90   ISBN 9781451637892 

When a boat that vanished 25 years prior returns to its old berth in Seattle with a cabin containing symbols drawn in human blood, Greywalker Harper Blaine investigates what happened to the ship's passengers and crew.

ORDER # S712-78   $34-90   ISBN 9780451464552 

A first entry in a planned rapid-release trilogy set in the popular Shannara universe is set seven years after the High Druid series during a tumultuous period in the Four Lands, where young Druid Aphenglow stumbles on a dangerous secret about an Elven girl's heartbreak and the vanished Elfstones. Map. Illustrations.

ORDER # S712-79   $36-90   ISBN 9780345523471 

Returning from exile, the feared black magician, Lorkin, must broker an alliance between his people and the Traitors in this final installment of the trilogy following The Ambassador's Mission and The Rogue.

ORDER # S712-80   $34-90   ISBN 9780316037891 

After an eccentric inventor creates a passage to the center of the hollow earth just by dreaming of it, it is up to Katherine Perkins and her cousins, all part of The Guild of St. George, to dodge murderous kidnappers and bring the dozing man to his home at the center of the hollow earth, all without waking him, which would close the passageway and maroon them forever.

ORDER # S712-81   $39-90   ISBN 9781596064546 

Audrun, a woman trapped in the Alisanos, a wild, magic forest, is reunited with her four children but must search for the fifth who was kidnapped by a winged demon in the third novel in the series following Deepwood and Karavans.

ORDER # S712-82   $34-90   ISBN 9780756404956 

A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power.

ORDER # S712-83   $34-90   ISBN 9780765331007 

A continuation of the series featuring the Wraith Squadron spy pilots finds its scattered team of rogues and misfits reunited three decades later when a powerful Galactic Alliance Army general is suspected of participating in an Empire conspiracy to topple the Alliance.

ORDER # S712-84   $36-90   ISBN 9780345530592 

Protecting an obnoxious world government minister who is conducting a high-profile election campaign, Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best detail confront numerous would-be assassins who hide behind high-tech resources and political covers to conduct explosive attacks.

ORDER # S712-85   $33-90   ISBN 9781451637908 

A conclusion to The Unincorporated Man series finds resurrected Outer Alliance president Sandra O'Toole becoming a powerful figure in a morally strained inner planet civil war between the forces of General Trang and J. D. Black.

ORDER # S712-86   $37-90   ISBN 9780765328816 

In Ian Tregillis' The Coldest War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Britain and the USSR. For decades, Britain's warlocks have been all that stands between the British Empire and the Soviet Union - a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. Now each wizard's death is another blow to Britain's national security. Meanwhile, a brother and sister escape from a top-secret facility deep behind the Iron Curtain. Once subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary people with superhuman abilities, then prisoners of war in the immense Soviet research effort to reverse-engineer the Nazi technology, they head for England.

ORDER # S712-87   $35-90   ISBN 9780765321510

The International Rescue Thunderbirds is an inventive, informative and entertaining guide to the world's foremost rescue organization. Featuring cutaway drawings, detailed diagrams, color illustrations and photographs, the book provides the ultimate visual insight into the secrets of the fabulous International Rescue team. Presented as if it were to be used by International Rescue field agents, the International Rescue Thunderbirds includes an introduction by Jeff Tracy and operational procedures for agents' missions.

ORDER # S712-88   $34-90   ISBN 9780857331175

In his long and storied career, Mike Resnick has won all of science fiction's most prestigious awards. He has won the Nebula, the Hugo, and numerous readers' awards. He has won the Japanese Hugo, as well as major awards in Spain, France, Poland and Croatia. The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures focuses on Mike's most recent award-winners and nominees with the exception of heartbreaking 'The Last Dog,' Mike s very first award-winning short story and his multi-award-winning classic 'Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge.' From examinations of life and death to questions of eternity, Mike's short fiction explores the range of the human experience - even though his characters include dogs, robots and aliens.

ORDER # S712-89   $44-90   ISBN 9781596064355

When it first appeared, the astronomers named the asteroid Keanu. A Near Earth Object, from a distant constellation, it was headed directly toward our sun. But when we went to meet it, it turned out to be far more than a huge rock hurtling through space. The two teams of astronauts sent to explore Keanu discovered it is, in fact, a spacecraft, a giant ship with an alien crew. A ship that had headed to Earth with a mission and a message: Help Us. A brave new frontier beckons. But we are about to learn that it comes with a price.

ORDER # S712-90   $35-90   ISBN 9780441020928

Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens. Deborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.

ORDER # S712-93   $37-91   ISBN 9780670023486

In the tradition of works by James Rollins, Preston and Child and Matthew Reilly, Ripper is the latest in an action-packed series about the nation's most secret agency - The Event Group. In 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene to turn an ordinary person into an aggressive fighting machine. But all too quickly, Ambrose was found to be behind a streak of vicious murders, and in a cover-up of massive proportions, Queen Victoria ordered the project, and Ambrose, terminated. Thus the legend of Jack the Ripper was born.

ORDER # S712-94   $35-92   ISBN 9780312580803