With his Spider-Man alter-ego finally being accepted by the public, Peter Parker is finally beginning to find a balance between his college studies, work as a Daily Bugle photographer, romance with Mary Jane "M.J." Watson, and crime-fighting duties, until a mysterious dark force begins to affect him and threatens to destroy everything and everyone he cares about.

ORDER # SMCH-1   $16-40   ISBN 1416527214 

Having trained to become a Swordsman for the archetypal Chosen, who protect their world by overseeing the Wizard Lord, young Breaker faces an unexpected challenge when the Wizard Lord's dereliction of duty makes it necessary to remove him from power.

ORDER # SMCH-2   $16-40   ISBN 0765349019 

In the sequel to Birthright, Uldyssian, the son of Diomedes, continues his quest to redeem his good name of a charge of murder, but his journey is threatened when much to his horror, he begins to manifest strange new powers.

ORDER # SMCH-3   $16-40   ISBN 0743471237 

As the worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star ignite in turmoil, threatened by civil war and genocide, the inhabitants of a distant planet known as Earth are confronting their own day of reckoning as the powerful alien Eqbas plot to remake Earth in their own image, at the expense of its human population.

ORDER # SMCH-4   $16-40   ISBN 0060882328 

After the destruction of the planet Beltane, survivors encounter hostile mutant creatures remaining on their planet's surface in Dark Piper, while in Dread Companion , a nightmare unfolds when Kilda agrees to care for two children emigrating from Chalox to the planet Dylan, in an omnibus edition containing two classic science fiction adventures.

ORDER # SMCH-5   $16-40   ISBN 1416521194 

Learning that he is being targeted in an assassination plot as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Giraut Leones, a special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, returns to his native world to recover top-secret information from an illegal underground colony.

ORDER # SMCH-6   $16-40   ISBN 0765342243 

When his ex-girlfriend Anastasia Bransfield, an archaeologist working in the remote Himalayas, stumbles upon a site purported to be the legendary "Dragon King Pool," the ancient dwelling of an evil dragon to whom local villagers would sacrifice a child each year, Hellboy heads for the excavation when the site is plagued by unearthly creatures, sabotage, and the disappearance of the young daughter of a dig leader.

ORDER # SMCH-7   $16-40   ISBN 141650785X 

When a second unidentified craft crashes, leaving two survivors - one, a being of remarkable strength and power sent to assist humankind, and the other, whose goal is the total extinction of life on Earth - Major Jack Collins and the top-secret Event Group race against time to stop the "Destroyer of Worlds" before it is too late.

ORDER # SMCH-8   $16-40   ISBN 0312370288 

In a new novel of alternate history, Johan Eschbach, Professor of Environmental Science and occasional secret agent, and his singer-wife, Llysette, head for Russia on a cultural exchange tour designed to promote an oil concession deal for Columbia, but their mission takes a perilous turn when they discover that Russia is developing a deadly new weapons technology.

ORDER # SMCH-9   $16-40   ISBN 0765340321 

As war continues between the Romulan Star Empire and the mysterious Watraii, Ambassador Spock and his allies search for the Watraii home base and for the answers to the secret connection between the alien invaders and the Vulcan race, one that dates back millennia to the time of Surak.

ORDER # SMCH-10   $16-40   ISBN 0743463609 

An investigation into a mammoth explosion that led to the destruction of the the University of Central Florida and much of the surrounding countryside leads physicist William Weaver and Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller to the discovery of a series of interdimensional gateways, one of which is disgorging demonic alien visitors intent on annihilating all life on Earth.

ORDER # SMCH-11   $16-40   ISBN 1416521054 

While soldiers fend off thousands of Covenant attacks, Section Three devises a plan using planet Onyx as a base, but when Halo is destroyed and Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, the Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.

ORDER # SMCH-12   $16-40   ISBN 0765354705 

In the sequel to Pandora's Star, the fractious factions in the embattled Commonwealth must come together to battle not only the predatory alien species, the Prime, but also the Starflyer, a mysterious and undetectable alien with irresistible mind-control abilities, that has infiltrated the Commonwealth.

ORDER # SMCH-13   $18-50   ISBN 0345461673 

As Clan Wolf battles against The Republic, three warriors - Alaric, who will stop at nothing to be victorious; Anastasia, who must prove herself in combat; and Verena, who discovers she has special abilities - must fulfil their destinies and fight for their future.

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In a near-future western civilization that is threatened by corruptive practices within its technologically advanced information networks, a recovered Alzheimer's victim, his military son and daughter-in-law, and his middle school-age granddaughter are caught up in a dangerous maelstrom beyond their worst imaginings.

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When a fierce rebellion breaks out on the edge of the frontier, Charlie Bass and the Marines of the 34th FIST are sent in to quell the fighting, in a new adventure of the Fleet Initial Strike Team.

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A disenchanted young man recruited for an elite deep cover unit, Kenneth Chinran is sent by his homeland to infiltrate a fascist, militaristic planet called Earth, marrying and siring a daughter, but when Earth invades his home system, he and his team launch a counterattack that kills billions, transforming him and his daughter into planetwide fugitives.

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Featuring contributions from Alastair Reynolds, Allen Steele, Kate Wilhelm, Vernor Vinge, Cory Doctorow, and Jason Stoddard, among others, this thrilling collection imagines the computer games of the future where winning is the key to survival and losing is the ultimate sacrifice.

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Featuring contributions from Harry Turtledove, Mike Resnick, Tanith Lee, and Ian Watson, this collection of thirteen original tales takes readers into the darkly seductive world of the vampire, imaginatively exploring the roles of the immortal undead throughout human history.

ORDER # SMCH-19   $16-40   ISBN 075640410X 

An all-new anthology of fantasy tales from popular Dragonlance authors focuses on the lives and behavior of dragons of every kind, both good and evil, in works by Richard A. Knaak, Jean Rabe, Paul B. Thompson, and other writers.

ORDER # SMCH-20   $16-40   ISBN 0786942959 

When the body of a much decorated soldier, thought to have died some two decades earlier, washes up on the shores of Karmath, the victim of murder, a vengeful, battle-hardened soldier teams up with a master storyteller in search of a story to unravel the victim's past, a mystery that could hold the key to the future of Khorvaire.

ORDER # SMCH-21   $16-40   ISBN 0786942649 

In the city of Maras-Sund, where magic has been outlawed, children are being born with raw magical talents, including Issel, a young water-seller from the poorest part of the city, who could hold the key to rescuing his people from the conquerors who have oppressed the people.

ORDER # SMCH-22   $16-40   ISBN 0441014089 

As the people of Kydan, in an attempt to survive, work to make the New Land a trading empire, Strategos Galys Valera, the war leader of the colonists, must search for the secret papers hidden by her murdered lover, which hold the key to keeping the evil magic of the Hamilayan Empire at bay.

ORDER # SMCH-23   $16-40   ISBN 0756404304 

A powerful clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer, while warding off her enemies, discovers that an arrogant master vampire has put a spell on her that warns off any would-be suitors and wonders if the intense attraction between them is real or the result of magic.

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With the death of her mother, twenty-three-year-old Paige Winterbourne is elevated to the position of leader of the American Coven of Witches, one of the world's most elite organizations, but her role is threatened by the antics of her new charge, an orphan who is all too willing to use her growing powers for evil and who is being pursued by a ruthless faction of the supernatural underworld.

ORDER # SMCH-25   $16-40   ISBN 0553590154 

The first volume in an all-new trilogy set in the world of Midkemia follows Pug, the sorcerer, as he searches for the meaning of a prophetic nightmare that portends the destruction of Midkemia, while two young brothers, untrained and unprepared, become a part of the Conclave of Shadows, and Pug must confront his archenemy Leso Varen.

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Journeying to the small kingdoms of the Isles to confirm his succession to the throne, Prince Garric and his companions find themselves separated by space and time by unusually strong magical forces and the supernatural Green Woman from the Fortress of Glass.

ORDER # SMCH-27   $16-40   ISBN 0765351161 

Following a dream, the young ottermaid Tiria travels from Redwall to the Green Isle, where otters have long been enslaved by feral cats but fight back as they await the High Rhulain, a savior whose coming was foretold.

ORDER # SMCH-28   $16-40   ISBN 0441014364 

In the sequel to Dime Store Magic, Paige Winterbourne matches wits with an otherworldly killer preying on the teenage offspring of the underworld's most influential Cabals, including the Cortez Cabal, whose own rebellious scion, Lucas, is Paige's boyfriend.

ORDER # SMCH-29   $16-40   ISBN 0553590162 

Appointed to the head of the wayward Ogre Company when his immortality proves valuable on several occasions, Never Dead Ned finds himself in charge of such fellow monsters as a two-headed ogre, a seductive siren, and a suicidal goblin.

ORDER # SMCH-30   $16-40   ISBN 0765354578 

When their home is destroyed by the vicious, tribal Hecari, Audrun and her husband Davyn, along with their four children, must join a karavan that will pass the demon-infested deepwood of Alisanos, but luck is on their side when they discover that their fellow passengers are gifted with various forms of magic.

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Earning a living cleaning up magical messes, mercenary Kate Daniels is drawn into a power struggle between two factions - necromancers and shapeshifters - within Atlanta's magic circles when her guardian is murdered.

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While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has cloned herself and escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.

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When a terrible evil is unleashed on the city of Selgaunt, Cale, the loyal butler of the Uskevren family, discovers that his ties to the underworld have placed the Uskevrens in deadly peril and must prove his loyalty once and for all.

ORDER # SMCH-34   $16-40   ISBN 0786942592 

In the sequel to Touched by Venom, Zarq defies the Dragon Temple by undergoing the harsh training of an apprentice dragonmaster despite the ban against women, all the while struggling with her craving for the hallucinogenic dragon venom and trying to understand her link to the great beasts.

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In a conclusion to the saga that began with Illumination and The Binder's Road, a new power promises to turn the tide in the war of the coast, while the surviving defenders of the realm find themselves falling under a nightmarish attack, a situation that forces them to undertake a quest into the realms of the dead.

ORDER # SMCH-36   $16-40   ISBN 0765343290 

In the first volume in a new trilogy set in Thay, a realm that is the source of powerful magic and evil, the uneasy peace that exists in Thay thanks to an alliance of wizards threatens to unravel when Szass Tam, a powerful and evil necromancer, makes his move to seize control from his former allies.

ORDER # SMCH-37   $16-40   ISBN 0786942584 

When the world of Alberin is attacked by pitiless sorcerers of seemingly unstoppable power, Wayfarer constable Inspector Danolarian works to organize the world's demoralized protectors, its terrified citizens, and a dinner party with his sweetheart's mother.

ORDER # SMCH-38   $16-40   ISBN 0765352923 

When Camp Half-Blood, the only safe haven for demigods, nears the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters, Percy and his friends must venture to find his best friend Grover, who is prisoner on an island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, and then set out to save the Camp, in the sequel to The Lightning Thief.

ORDER # SMCH-39   $16-40   ISBN 1423103343 

Finding a colonial-issue escape pod floating in space after a skirmish with a Cylon craft, the crew of the Galactica find a human survivor, singer Peter Atti, and his Cylon captor, but freeing Atti unleashes a deadly, nerve deteriorating Cylon weapon that is rapidly spreading throughout the fleet.

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A conclusion of the trilogy that began with Idlewild and Edenborn finds a small band of apocalyptic epidemic survivors struggling with conflicting ideas about how to repopulate the earth and synthesizing an organ that will exponentially strengthen the human immune system, a breakthrough that also enables an unanticipated power.

ORDER # SMCH-42   $25-00   ISBN 0451220439 

Securing a dragon estate for herself despite the laws that forbid women to own property, Zarq Darquel is forced to abandon her home to journey deep into the jungle, accompanied by some of the female dragons from her estate, in search of an ancient dragon secret that will give her the power to overthrow Kratt and the corrupt Dragon Temple.

ORDER # SMCH-43   $25-00   ISBN 0451461282 

Staying just one step ahead of the government factions and magical family conspiracy that want him dead, James Cobham embarks on an adventure that takes him into every corner of mid-nineteenth-century English society.

ORDER # SMCH-44   $27-00   ISBN 0765316803 

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur have finally been united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of Hiroth, but their peace has been exacted at the cost of a pact made with a hidden power, and ancient forces are awakening that could unleash a vengeful bloodbath on all concerned.

ORDER # SMCH-45   $26-00   ISBN 076531651X 

A powerful mage trained by the Ladies of the Isle, Averil, heir to the Duchy of Quitaine, returns home to take up her duties, only to discover that her land is under secret attack by the King of Lys, who seeks to release the Serpent God who had once enslaved all humanity, and joins forces with Gereint, a novice of the Knights of the Rose, to protect their people.

ORDER # SMCH-46   $26-00   ISBN 0765313286 

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n this second novel of the Mirrix World series,, adventure through the heartland of the great planet with Phil the Swamp-monster, a very colorful, albeit damp, character who seeks a rare and precious treasure - one that most folk believe doesn't exist. Centered in the ever-sparkling city of Artango, the book tells the tale of true love and the sale of office supplies, (and that's not even mentioning Andix's oh-so-top-secret research project).

ORDER # SMCH-47   $22-00   ISBN 1933887028 

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The introduction to the world of the Mirrix - a planet entirely unlike what anyone might reasonably expect. Meet Wix, a love-struck knoll builder, Aunt Papilda, the wisest washerwoman in town, and Fortune, an immortally bothersome troublemaker. Journey with this colorful band of friends as they try to avoid being trampled by giant chickens while paving a path to avert their own destruction.

ORDER # SMCH-48   $22-00   ISBN 193388701X 

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A disaffected modern professional dealing with a dead-end job, going-nowhere relationships, and a personal struggle with faith, Karl Glogauer is given the opportunity to travel back in time to the era of Jesus Christ and becomes involved in events in Palestine.

ORDER # SMCH-49   $25-00   ISBN 1585677647 

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Having survived numerous life-threatening adventures throughout his centuries-long life, immortal messenger Jant Comet encounters a challenge that threatens the foundations of the Fourlands, a situation that is further complicated by the sinister plan of the Emperor San.

ORDER # SMCH-50   $25-00   ISBN 0060753897 

Three editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable about a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy, begin feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into a sophisticated computer, creating an incredible game that begins taking over.

ORDER # SMCH-51   $26-00   ISBN 015603297X 

A police-state America confronts a nightmarish new insect enemy when the Agency discovers the horrific true nature of Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 when it sends a special team of operatives in to destroy his secret laboratory, in a new edition of the award-winning classic science fiction novel.

ORDER # SMCH-52   $26-00   ISBN 0765317729 

Orphaned young and forced to survive on the streets of a distant planet, telepathic urchin Cat is the ultimate future punk, but he is swept into a struggle for his life when two interstellar powers want to use his mind as a weapon, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic science fiction novel.

ORDER # SMCH-53   $27-00   ISBN 076530340X 

Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model of spaceship capable of instantaneous travel between two points, attempts to stop an unidentified "creature" that is annihilating intelligent life on planets throughout the universe.

ORDER # SMCH-54   $26-00   ISBN 1585677159 

A collection of short science fiction from the noted author of The Fortress of Solitude, who transcends the boundaries of traditional science fiction, includes his trademark tales that combine elements of mystery and the thriller with the unknown in such works as "The Happy Man," "Vanilla Dunk," and "Forever, Said the Duck."

ORDER # SMCH-55   $25-00   ISBN 0156032481 

Adaptive Significance provides an exciting excursion into the world of natural selection, competition, and primordial instincts. The young protagonist, Cole Grace, passively accepts his mutation of multi-consciousness until love interest Emily Mahoney urges him to use this distinction to protect his genetic line. In addition to an engrossing story line covering 40 years, the novel examines a broad range of serious topics, such as the total renovation of the auto industry, and never disappoints.

ORDER # SMCH-56   $48-00   ISBN 0979000602 

Recovering from injuries sustained during the loss of her last ship, bored hero Lieutenant Jodenny Scott takes a berth on the next ship out, the Aral Sea ,a ship full of misfits, malcontents, and criminals, and journeys to the Alcheringa, an alien-controlled space warp, where she comes face to face with a powerful force that will turn her life upside down.

ORDER # SMCH-57   $45-00   ISBN 0765316439 

Accepting a rollback, an expensive, experimental rejuvenation procedure, for herself and her husband of sixty years in exchange for deciphering a message from aliens, Dr. Sarah Halifax is faced with a dilemma when the procedure works on her husband, making him physically twenty-five again, but not on her, leaving her in her eighties.

ORDER # SMCH-58   $44-00   ISBN 0765311089 

In an alternate universe 1989 in which Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett, a former major in the Czar's Troika Guard who had been cashiered for disobeying a direct order, suddenly comes face to face with his past, as his choices could violently alter the history of all nine of the nations of North America.

ORDER # SMCH-59   $44-00   ISBN 141652116X 

More than fifty years after a European starship goes missing while investigating an unidentified space object with possible alien origins, the expedition's three surviving members return to Earth without having aged and possessing claims about an extraterrestrial race.

ORDER # SMCH-60   $44-00   ISBN 0441014712 

In the conclusion of a trilogy about five non-human orphans raised in a strict British boarding school, which began with Orphans of Chaos and Fugitives of Chaos, the five young people have discovered their true natures, harnessed their strange abilities, and escaped into the world, where their true battle for survival begins.

ORDER # SMCH-61   $45-00   ISBN 076531648X 

With the alien Posleen invaders advancing on the strategically important Panama Canal, the United States, overstretched as it prepares to defend the U.S. itself, sends a handful of advanced Armored Combat Suits, rejuvenated combat veterans, and three antiquated warships to assist the Panamanians in preventing the canal from falling into enemy hands.

ORDER # SMCH-62   $45-00   ISBN 1416521038 

This striking mosaic novel by a World Fantasy Award-winning author with a growing American following explores the unusual experiences of seven men and women as they each privately encounter music. They won 't be the same again - but not for the reasons you might think.

ORDER # SMCH-63   $44-00   ISBN 1933083042 

Having successfully prevented a civil war within the Empire of Great Kesh, Pug and his allies in the Conclave of Shadows search for the mad sorcerer Leso Varen in the hopes of destroying the Guild of Assassins, an effort that is challenged by the sorcerer's powerful protectors and a planned invasion by the Dasati.

ORDER # SMCH-64   $45-00   ISBN 0060792809 

From the best-selling author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy comes an action-packed fantasy adventure saga, set in the early days of Middle-earth, in which humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clash in an epic battle between good and evil.

ORDER # SMCH-65   $45-00   ISBN 0618894640 

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur have finally been united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of Hiroth, but their peace has been exacted at the cost of a pact made with a hidden power, and ancient forces are awakening that could unleash a vengeful bloodbath on all concerned.

ORDER # SMCH-66   $46-00   ISBN 0765310058 

This suspenseful coming-of-age story folllows Kvothe as he recounts his transformation from a magically gifted young man into the most notorious wizard, musician, thief, and assassin in his world.

ORDER # SMCH-67   $44-00   ISBN 075640407X 

Assigned to investigate a series of deaths of magic practitioners, all of whom lacked the ability to become full-fledged wizards, professional Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is shocked when the evidence points to his half-brother Thomas as the killer, until he uncovers a conspiracy within the White Council of Wizards that threatens both him and his family.

ORDER # SMCH-68   $44-00   ISBN 0451461401 

His homeland oppressed for more than twenty years after the events of Bridge of Dreams, Issel of the Sudain uses his magical ability to manipulate water as part of a plan to free his people, an endeavor in which he is aided by a Marasai general's daughter who possesses her own vendetta against the regime.

ORDER # SMCH-69   $44-00   ISBN 044101478X