Since fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have - just barely - survived one crisis after another, but now a fresh disaster looms, and the beleaguered fleet needs a hero, in the prelude to Ringworld.

ORDER # S511-1   $13-90   ISBN 9780765364982

A prequel to a multi-player online game follows a smuggler's discovery of a rich treasure that sparks a competition involving the Republic, the Empire, the Hutts and the Jedi High Council, all of whom are manipulated by an enigmatic spy.

ORDER # S511-2   $13-90   ISBN 9780345511331

While working to free Michael, an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower, Petrovitch must deal with a dangerous love triangle, the CIA, the return of the New Machine Jihad and a group of Armageddonists who want to blow up the world.

ORDER # S511-3   $13-90   ISBN 9780316125178

Immune to fairy venom, Annabelle Lee, a hard-drinking fiery redhead, helps the bayou's sexiest detective, Cane Cooper, collect evidence when a body is discovered outside the fairy-proof barricades of her Louisiana town, which throws her life into deadly chaos.

ORDER # S511-4   $13-90   ISBN 9781439189863

This latest selection of outstanding short-form science fiction stories, originally published in magazines during 2010, showcases the talents of such authors as Gregory Benford, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman and Michael Swanwick.

ORDER # S511-5   $13-90   ISBN 9780062035905

When one of his wife's clients asks him to investigate a possible murder, Talon Avalon, a timecaster and peace officer in the year 2064, uses a special device to view the crime and discovers that someone is trying to frame him by taking timecasting to a whole new level.

ORDER # S511-6   $13-90   ISBN 9780441019182

Trying to earn her way back into heaven, Brynna, a fallen angel in human form, must stop a mysterious "hero" who is saving Chicago's citizens from certain death with bizarre consequences, while dealing with her tumultuous relationship with Detective Eran Redmond.

ORDER # S511-7   $13-90   ISBN 9781439191972

Necromancer Anita Blake must try to stop the assassins that are coming to kill her; master vampire, Jean-Claude; and werewolf, Richard Zeeman, fearing they have all grown too powerful, in this novel in the #1 bestselling series.

ORDER # S511-8   $13-90   ISBN 9780515149494

After saving an ungrateful city from a mad angel, Jacob Burn fi nds his life getting even more difficult when he's appointed by the Council to investigate the rise of the cogdead, which causes old enemies to present themselves as allies and former friends to turn against him.

ORDER # S511-9   $13-90   ISBN 9781907519482

When Chesney Anstruther accidentally summons a demon, but refuses to sell his soul, all of Hell goes on strike, and with nothing bad ever happening in the world, disaster strikes.

ORDER # S511-10   $13-90   ISBN 9780857661036

Sookie Stackhouse, a bar waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life, in the fourth book in the series that inspired HBO's True Blood.

ORDER # S511-11   $13-90   ISBN 9780441020447

One of the most unique and potentially dangerous species the Federation has ever encountered, the Children of the Storm suddenly target three Federation starships without provocation and Captain Chakotay and Fleet Commander Afasarah Eden must find out why.

ORDER # S511-12   $13-90   ISBN 9781451607185

Treading the line between reality and the world of the supernatural, Jordan, who helps kids on the run find their way back home, helps Desdaemona track down her lost sister Fay who did a Very Bad Thing involving an immortal.

ORDER # S511-13   $13-90   ISBN 9781907519635

When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life.

ORDER # S511-14   $15-50   ISBN 9780316081061

In this thrilling conclusion to the Frankenstein series, the last of the survivors in Rainbow Falls, Montana, band together to brave the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world, discovering the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future.

ORDER # S511-15   $15-50   ISBN 9780553593686 

Powerful, yet aged, wizard Elminster must feed magic items to the Simbul, his lover, in order to keep her sane, but his actions draw his many enemies ever closer to him.

ORDER # S511-16   $13-90   ISBN 9780786957996

With the help of his magical sword, his neighbor's rocket-propelled grenade launcher and his vampire attorney, Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, must stop a fallen angel from feasting on local high school students and a coven of witches linked to the German side of World War II.

ORDER # S511-17   $13-90   ISBN 9780345522498

Cassandra Palmer, a newly minted Pythia - the world's chief clairvoyant - soon discovers that someone does not want her becoming the Pythia and will stop at nothing to make sure the coronation ceremony never happens.

ORDER # S511-18   $13-90   ISBN 9780451413079

When she decides to save a childlike demon named Ru from a four-legged bounty hunter, Occult Special Investigator Tess Corday is drawn into an investigation that spans multiple worlds, forcing her to confront her family's own demonic past to find the truth.

ORDER # S511-19   $13-90   ISBN 9780441020454

Submersed in a vast array of supernatural problems after starting her own business, Kate Daniels, while dealing with potential clients who are getting on her mate's bad side, must help the Master of the Dead stop a rogue vampire.

ORDER # S511-20   $13-90   ISBN 9780441020423

Carrying the unborn child of a lover held captive by a depraved demon goddess, Joanna Archer, hunted by both the Shadow and the Light, joins forces with a band of rogue Shadow agents to take down her demonic foe once and for all.

ORDER # S511-21   $13-90   ISBN 9780061456794

After rescuing the lost king of Chessenta, Aoth sees more of the war with a powerful dracolich and suspects that the Brotherhood is being used as a pawn in a cutthroat draconic game that pits kingdom against kingdom.

ORDER # S511-22   $13-90   ISBN 9780786957989

When grafter Rol Mandred accidentally opens the door to a ruined abyssal realm and is taken hold by the Voidharrow, morphing into a beast unlike no other, he is taken by slavers and forced to fight in the gladiatorial ring where only his allies and his friend Gan can save him.

ORDER # S511-23   $13-90   ISBN 9780786957972

When the Ten Acre Woods, the most treasured haven of the Pixies, might soon be destroyed, Thistle Down, exiled from her tribe and trapped in a mortal woman's body, must convince the townspeople of Skene Falls of the oncoming danger in hopes of saving her people.

ORDER # S511-24   $13-90   ISBN 9780756406707

Filled with desperate dragons, vicious elves, honorable demons, fickle gods and unimaginable magic and power, this anthology set in the Dungeons & Dragons world features stories by Jay Lake, Alan Dean Foster, John Shirley and Sarah Zettel.

ORDER # S511-25   $13-90   ISBN 9780786958375

When the Vachine invaders call upon the vampire warlords, semi-immortal bloodsuckers who dwell on the edges between life and death, legendary warrior Kell must choose between fighting for Falanor's people or fleeing this conquered land.

ORDER # S511-26   $13-90   ISBN 9780857661067

A new epic series by the bestselling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.

ORDER # S511-27   $15-50   ISBN 9780765365279 

A major collection includes never-before-published fantastical tales of war and warriors from some of today's most popular writers, including a novella by David Weber and stories by S. M. Stirling, Naomi Novik, Peter S. Beagle and more.

ORDER # S511-28   $13-90   ISBN 9780765360274

Halfhuman, half-Drow P.I. Nyx, who hates zombies more than anything, is drawn into her worst nightmare when the corpses of humans and Paranorms terrorize the streets of New York City, forcing her to come face-to-face with the ravenous undead.

ORDER # S511-29   $13-90   ISBN 9780312946432

A follow-up to Arthas is an official novelization based on the Cataclysm expansion of the multi-million-player online game and features an epic background story depicting key characters from the latest regions.

ORDER # S511-30   $15-50   ISBN 9781439172742 

Drake (Lord of the Isles) vividly recreates the attitudes of patrician Romans in this fantasy tale, the first of a projected quartet. When Senator Saxa's bookish teenage son, Varus, suddenly channels a mystical prediction of the end of days while reciting an epic poem, Saxa's young wife, Hedia, blames the wizard Nemastes, who's been scheming after Saxa's money. Varus's best friend, Corylus, and sister, Alphena, also caught up in strange visions during the recitation, suspect there may be more going on than Roman political wrangling.

ORDER # S511-31   $13-90   ISBN 9780765360458

Carrera's won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. The Tauran Union is planning an attack. The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet's premier power.

ORDER # S511-32   $13-90   ISBN 9781439134351

Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can't die - Crazy as it sounds, Nikki's manhunting skills are literally god-given. She's a living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki's new "friends" include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she's a spy.

ORDER # S511-33   $13-90   ISBN 9781451606799

Buckler the hare, Blademaster of the Long Patrol, must save the youngsters of Redwall Abbey-kidnapped by the vile Vilaya the Sable Quean-and stop the villain's conquest of Mossflower Wood.

ORDER # S511-34   $13-90   ISBN 9780441019984

Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand.

ORDER # S511-35   $13-90   ISBN 9780062094537

Are the gods really gods? Or men and women with larger-than-life powers playing god over a planet that wasn't really a planet? Whatever the answer, Martin Martel must battle the gods for his life, love, and the fate of the galaxy.

ORDER # S511-36   $13-90   ISBN 9780765367495

It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey - Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death.

ORDER # S511-37   $13-90   ISBN 9780451463593

The first book in an epic urban fantasy trilogy. Descended from the legendarywitch of Ein Dor, Magdalena Lazarus alone holds the power to summon the angelRaziel and stop Hitler and his supernatural minions from unleashing total warin Europe.

ORDER # S511-38   $13-90   ISBN 9780765362957

From the ashes of post-apocalypse Earth a new order has arisen to reach for the stars. Planet of salvation Hera is discovered and a generation ship will carry a select group from wrecked, ravaged Earth to a better future for their children. But who to take on the voyage? Why not your best and brightest tech-smiths and tinkerers? And, as far as political systems go, heck, why not send along everything - representatives of ALL the societies and political systems now surviving?

ORDER # S511-39   $13-90   ISBN 9781439134474

During the war between the kingdoms of Volstov and Ke-Han, no fighter could match Rook for sheer arrogance and skill. Only Rook could ride the great dragon Havemercy, whose savagery and bloodlust matched his own. His brother, Thom, is bookish, diffident, and reserved, yet he yearns for Rook's approval - and fears he can never earn it. With the war over, and an uneasy truce between the two nations, Thom hopes the long-lost brothers can bond on a trip together.

ORDER # S511-40   $13-90   ISBN 9780553593044

#3 in the "Witches of Karres" homage series, this is a rollicking romp through the outer reaches of the galaxy. If he'd known he was getting stuck with a pair of psi-wielding super-beings, even straightlaced do-gooder Captain Pausert might have thought twice about rescuing his two young "witch" charges from slavery on a dark planet.

ORDER # S511-41   $13-90   ISBN 9781439134467

A story of betrayal and redemption, of bravery in the face of terror, and of loyalty and hatred that reach beyond the grave, "Five Odd Honors" continues Lindskold's stunning Breaking the Wall series.

ORDER # S511-42   $15-50   ISBN 9780765356239  

Epic and involving, "Return of the Crimson Guard"--the sequel to "Night of Knives"--is an enthralling new chapter in the tumultuous history of the Malazan Empire.

ORDER # S511-43   $15-50   ISBN 9780765363480  

The fifth book in the magical Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series finds princess Rosamund, after being chased by a murderous huntsman and captured by dwarves, agreeing to be the guinea pig in one of her step-mother's risky incantations to save her kingdom from invasion.

ORDER # S511-4AA   $13-90   ISBN 9780373803279

A debut collection by an award-winning writer features 13 stories that center on characters at a crossroads in their lives, who, through their senses of optimism, yearning and awareness of the changing nature of life become open to inspiring epiphanies.

ORDER # S511-44   $22-90   ISBN 9780307886033 

After Captain Jim Holden discovers a derelict, abandoned spaceship, he unearths a secret that threatens to throw the entire solar system into war and a vast conspiracy that could mean the end of the human race.

ORDER # S511-45   $23-90   ISBN 9780316129084 

A selection of short works by the Whiting Writers' Award-winning author of Sweet Hearts includes the story of a drunk driver who hits a Native American on a desolate Montana road, a grieving slave who murders the white child she nurses and two abandoned kids who dance in a neighbor's twinkling Christmas lights.

ORDER # S511-46   $22-90   ISBN 9781555975852 

In this groundbreaking collection of stories, openly gay Indian men, wrestling with issues of social acceptance and the right to pursue happiness, struggle to maintain relationships with their families as they find themselves estranged from their culture.

ORDER # S511-47   $22-90   ISBN 9780062020451 

Collects top-selected works of independent literature from Open City magazine, featuring contributions by such names as Michael Cunningham, Robert Stone and David Foster Wallace as well as an introduction by Thomas Beller that recollects the magazine's turbulent first decades.

ORDER # S511-48   $22-90   ISBN 9781890447595 

An urban fantasy anthology of original stories features independent heroines who combat supernatural adversaries from dragons to demons, in a collection that includes contributions from such best-selling authors as Rachel Vincent, Carole Nelson Douglas and P. N. Elrod.

ORDER # S511-49   $22-90   ISBN 9780765325778 

A follow-up to Nights of Villjamur finds a soldier's disappearance prompting a partnership between a commander of the Night Guard and an inspector, who struggle to understand what has gone wrong in their decimated, gang-torn city.

ORDER # S511-50   $22-90   ISBN 9780345520883 

Jaz returns to Hell to finally claim victory over the forces of darkness after an assassination attempt on Vayl by his long lost son.

ORDER # S511-51   $22-90   ISBN 9780316043816 

Joining forces with her new husband, King Arthur, to gain control of Britain's warring knights, Guinevere reigns over such fabled heroes as Gawain, Merlin, Tristan and Isolde and faces true danger as well as the true nature of the human heart.

ORDER # S511-52   $23-90   ISBN 9781402246401 

Jake Sullivan - a private eye with magical abilities - stumbles upon a secret war between magical forces and is soon targeted for elimination.

ORDER # S511-53   $22-90   ISBN 9781439134344 

A third novel by the Locus Awardwinning author of The Devil's Alphabet is a wryly whimsical zombie tale in which a woman rescues a near-dead infant on the side of a frozen Iowa highway and brings him home, where her daughters dub him Stony for his gray complexion.

ORDER # S511-54   $22-90   ISBN 9780345522375 

Condemned to death for sorcery, Lady Telmaine Hearne escapes with the mageborn allies for the Borders and war while her husband, Balthasar learns of a family connection to the Shadowborn in this novel from the author of Lightborn.

ORDER # S511-55   $22-90   ISBN 9780451463944 

As war threatens the land and Greymane tries to outrun is past, and the death sentence it carries, a new emperor of Malaz hopes to redeem the failed invasion of Korel with a secret weapon lying in the vaults beneath the Imperial capital: Stonewielder.

ORDER # S511-56   $23-90   ISBN 9780765329851 

Gathering vampire folklore and facts from motion pictures, literature and popular culture, this fully illustrated A-to-Z book brings to life the world of the mysterious, feared and beloved immortal undead.

ORDER # S511-57   $22-90   ISBN 9780061991868 

For Seattle detective Joanne Walker, spring is about new beginnings. She's mastered her shamanic abilities (mostly), survived a cannibalistic serial killer (barely) and now she's facing the biggest challenge of her career - attending a dance concert with her sexy boss, Captain Michael Morrison. But when the performance - billed as transformative - actually changes her into a coyote, she and Morrison have bigger things to deal with.

ORDER # S511-58   $22-90   ISBN 9780373803255  

In the distant future, enforcement agent Quillion is living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels. And to save the angel's life, Quillion must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city.

ORDER # S511-59   $15-90   ISBN 9780441020430  

The final instalment of the New York Times best-selling author's post-apocalyptic series centers around the disappearance of City ruler Capac Raimi and efforts by his trusted lieutenant, Ford Tasso, to see if the mysterious villacs are to blame.

ORDER # S511-60   $32-90   ISBN 9780446573474 

After renting a new apartment, Diana finds herself with a roommate who wants to devour the universe and is soon knee-deep in cosmic horrors and ancient entities in this new comic novel from the author of Divine Misfortune.

ORDER # S511-61   $30-90   ISBN 9780316093552 

A latest collaborative work between the best-selling mother-son team is a finale to the saga that includes Dragonheart, in which young Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.

ORDER # S511-62   $35-90   ISBN 9780345500892 

Vulnerable to evil after the death of their Matriarch, the Drood family must fight against a Satanic Conspiracy that could throw all of humanity into the clutches of the devil himself. By the author of From Hell With Love.

ORDER # S511-63   $35-90   ISBN 9780451463951 

The adventures of U.S. Marshal and vampire hunter Anita Blake continue in this follow-up to Bullet and Flirt when word is leaked to her that hit men are headed to St. Louis and that she, Jean-Claude and Richard are targets.

ORDER # S511-64   $36-90   ISBN 9780425241134 

When her grandmother Maylene, who always gave tender attention to the dead with unusual rituals, dies mysteriously, Rebekkah Barrow returns home and discovers that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions.

ORDER # S511-65   $33-90   ISBN 9780061826870 

New to the role of stay-at-home-parent, Simon Burns befriends a tight-knit group of other dads at the playground whose warm welcome into their "pack" may have been literal when he begins to suspect that they are actually werewolves.

ORDER # S511-66   $35-90   ISBN 9780441020089 

Just when King Daniel asks Moirin to be the oath-sworn protector of his daughter Desirée, he is sent on a quest by the spirit of Queen Jehanne, who tells him that he must first bring home Prince Thierry to rule.

ORDER # S511-67   $36-90   ISBN 9780446198073 

Using magic to fight a power-hungry cabal that would control all levels of society, Max August, an immortal alchemist, travels to the American Southwest to intercept two ruling members in the hopes of turning them against their organization only to trigger a retaliatory nuclear accident that threatens millions of lives.

ORDER # S511-68   $34-90   ISBN 9780765324993 

Sonea, a Black Magician of Kyralia, fears for Lorkin, her son living among the Sachakan rebels, and searches for the rogue magician Cery, who can't avoid assassination forever, in this sequel to The Ambassador's Mission.

ORDER # S511-69   $35-90   ISBN 9780316037860 

Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the battle station Troy face a desperate battle with forces of tyranny that threaten to plunge the whole galaxy into darkness and destruction.

ORDER # S511-70   $35-90   ISBN 9781439134320 

An American release of a follow-up to the internationally best-selling The Stranger continues the adventures of loser-turned-hero Max in a parallel dream world where he applies his talents as an enchanted secret agent to tackle surreal criminal cases.

ORDER # S511-71   $37-90   ISBN 9781590204788 

Elemental Earth Master Richard Whitestone, devastated by the death of his beloved wife during childbirth, has ignored his daughter for years until he conceives of a twisted plan to use her body to bring back the spirit of his wife

ORDER # S511-72   $35-90   ISBN 9780756405755 

In a collaborative novel helmed by the best-selling author of the Song of Ice and Fire series, readers will become acquainted with Fort Freak, a Manhattan police precinct that is operated by mutants and superpowered agents of justice.

ORDER # S511-73   $37-90   ISBN 9780765325709 

A gangster noir epic set in a post-apocalyptic world 1,000 years in the future follows the story of mob leader Junior Alvarez, whose ruthless quest to live in accordance with his own desires is matched only by the mother of one of his first victims, a vigilante dedicated to killing mobsters.

ORDER # S511-74   $33-90   ISBN 9781416575443 

The galaxy's finest engineers, the danui, initiate trade negotiations with the Coyote Federation and offer them the coordinates of an unoccupied world suitable for human life in this new novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of Coyote Destiny.

ORDER # S511-75   $36-90   ISBN 9780441020362 

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A tale set in the near future finds the world thrown into chaos by rebelling artificial intelligences under the leadership of a murderous technology called Archos that kills its creator and takes over the global network, triggering an unprecedented united front among all human cultures.

ORDER # S511-76   $34-90   ISBN 9780385533850