Alexandra Belarus is a struggling artist living in New York City, even though her family is rich in real estate, including a towering Gothic Gramercy Park building built by her great-great-grandfather. But the truth of her bloodline is revealed when she is attacked on the street and saved by an inhumanly powerful winged figure. A figure who knows the Belarus name. Lexi's great-great-grandfather was a Spellmason - an artisan who could work magic on stone. But in his day, dark forces conspired against him and his, so he left a spell of protection on his family. Now that Lexi is in danger, the spell has awoken her ancestor's most trusted and fearsome creation: a gargoyle named Stanis. Lexi and Stanis are equally surprised to find themselves bound to each other. But as they learn to work together, they realize that only united can they save the city they both love.

ORDER # S912-1   $12-90   ISBN 9781937007799

Amidst a sea of carnage on a desert battlefield blanketed in metallic snow, Major Konowa Swift Dragon sees his future, and it is one drenched in shadow and blood. Never mind that he has won a grand victory for the Calahrian Empire; he has failed in the search for his lost regiment of elves. But Konowa knows, as do the Iron Elves, that a far more important battle looms on the twisted, darkening path to the Hyntaland - the final confrontation with the dreaded Shadow Monarch.

ORDER # S912-2   $14-90   ISBN 9781439180679

Cal MacDonnell is a happily married New York City cop with a loving family. Seth Raincrest is a washed-up photographer who has alienated even his closest friends. The two have nothing in common - except that they both suffer from retrograde amnesia. It's as if they just appeared out of thin air thirteen years ago, and nothing has been able to restore their memories. Now their forgotten past has caught up to them with a vengeance. Cal's and Seth's lives are turned upside down as they are stalked by otherworldly beings who know about the men's past lives. But these creatures aren't here to help; they're intent on killing anyone who gets in their way. In the balance hangs the life of a child who might someday restore a broken empire to peace and prosperity. With no clue why they're being hunted, Cal and Seth must accept the aid of a strange and beautiful woman who has promised to unlock their secrets. The two must stay alive long enough to protect their loved ones, recover their true selves - and save two worlds from tyranny and destruction.

ORDER # S912-3   $12-90   ISBN 9780765366313

It's been almost a year since October "Toby" Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day's sleep. She's tried to focus on her responsibilities - training Quentin, upholding her position as Sylvester's knight, and paying the bills - but she can't help feeling like her world is crumbling around her, and her increasingly reckless behavior is beginning to worry even her staunchest supporters. To make matters worse, Toby's just been asked to find another missing child - only this time it's the changeling daughter of her fellow knight, Etienne, who didn't even know he was a father until the girl went missing. Her name is Chelsea. She's a teleporter, like her father. She's also the kind of changeling the old stories warn about, the ones with all the strength and none of the control.

ORDER # S912-4   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407490

The Western Territories, 1880. For four years, Civil War veteran and former U.S. Cavalry Captain Jonas P. Hollister has been rotting in a prison cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His crime: lying about the loss of eleven soldiers under his command - who he claims were slaughtered by a band of nonhuman, blood-drinking demons. But now a famous visitor, the detective Allan Pinkerton, has arrived with an order for Hollister's release. The brutal murder of a group of Colorado miners in a fashion frighteningly similar to the deaths of Hollister's men has leant new credence to his wild tale. And suddenly Jonas Hollister finds himself on a quest both dangerous and dark - joining forces with Pinkerton, the gunsmith Oliver Winchester, an ex-fellow prisoner, a woman of mystery, and a foreigner named Abraham Van Helsing, who knows many things about the monsters of the night - and riding hell for leather toward an epic confrontation - with the undead.

ORDER # S912-5   $12-90   ISBN 9780062023094

Stephanie Harrington always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl - until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the far distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. It should have been the perfect new home - a virgin wilderness full of new species of every sort, just waiting to be discovered. But Sphinx is a far more dangerous place than ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and Stephanie's explorations come to a sudden halt when her parents lay down the law: no trips into the bush without adult supervision! Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries, and the biggest one of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species.

ORDER # S912-6   $14-90   ISBN 9781451638264

Everyone already knows that. But the General of an army of Psycho Soldiers takes on this planetary hell headfirst, planning to enslave all of the Borderlands. And that General - is a Goddess. The General Goddess, Gynella, is a cunning maniac who uses the dark science of the vile Dr. Vialle to control a growing army of bandits and malcontents. Only four people stand in Gynella's way. Roland. Mordecai. Brick. And Daphne. Daphne?! Better known as Kuller the Killer, she was once the galaxy's most effective assassin for organized crime - until her forced retirement on this abandoned wasteland of a world. Roland is one of the toughest fighters in the Borderlands, and Mordecai is the best shot in four solar systems - all the two really want is to get to the Crystalisks, harvest some Eridium, get rich, and leave the planet for the nearest intergalactic party. But there are nightmarish creatures to deal with: Varkids and Skags and Threshers.

ORDER # S912-7   $12-90   ISBN 9781439198483

With the man she loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim Murray returns to California from the magical country of Dobrenica to heal her broken heart. But family politics soon have her leaving for London, where she is forced into a duel with a Dobrenican nobleman. He reveals that her great sacrifice, leaving Alec, was a disaster. To fix her mistake, Kim returns to Dobrenica, but what she finds there is far more shocking and dangerous than she ever imagined. Not just politics and personalities but ghosts and magic, murder and mystery, await her as she struggles to understand the many faces of love. Once again Kim has to take sword in hand as she tries to make peace and learn the truth. Only, whose truth?

ORDER # S912-8   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407476

Justine (Tina) Clancy is just an ordinary law student with a faulty arrest record, a part-time job in Baltimore's radioactive Zone, and a family secret so bizarre even she doesn't believe it. That is, until in a fit of fury she damns her boyfriend to hell - and it's exactly where he ends up. Much to her surprise, Tina is apparently one of Saturn's daughters, with the power to wield vigilante justice. But poor Max didn't deserve to go up in flames, even if he did almost run her over with her own car. Tina's convinced someone cut the brakes - and now a relentless nemesis is stalking her through the Zone's back alleys, where buildings glow, statues move, and chemical waste exposure comes with interesting consequences. Tina's usually a loner, but now she needs a posse like no other: a shape-shifting kitten, an invisible thief, a biker gang, a snake-charming private detective, a well-meaning cop, and her sleazy, sexy boss. But in between freeing Max from hell, saving her own neck, and solving a mystery that threatens the Zone and her newfound friends, how is she ever going to study for finals?

ORDER # S912-9   $12-90   ISBN 9781451656350

Meet Easie Damasco: Thief, swindler and lately, reluctant hero. But whatever good intentions Damasco may have are about to be tested to their limits, as the most valuable - and dangerous - object in the land comes within his light-fingered grasp. Add in some suicidally stubborn giants, an old enemy with dreams of empire and the deadliest killers in two kingdoms on his heels, and Damasco's chances of staying honest - or even just surviving - are getting slimmer by the hour.

ORDER # S912-10   $12-90   ISBN 9780857662507

When Eirik, the only living dragon shifter, and prince of the Ean, killed her brother, Ciara was left alone to face her prophetic dreams. Now, in order to find the wolves' sacred stone and save all the Chrechte from destruction, she needs her rival's help. Eirik was only protecting the children of his people, but that day in the forest left a mark on him as well. Controlling his dragon's fire is the most difficult thing he's ever done - until he and Ciara are forced to face not only their shared tumultuous past, but a hallowed bond stronger than they realize. As avowed adversaries and predestined mates, their quest ushers them into a world of great danger, and a passion hotter than the dragon's fire.

ORDER # S912-11   $12-90   ISBN 9780425246627

In the near future, a huge chemical manufacturing concern, ChemBet, has developed a "self-perpetuating, neo-magical Radical Invigoration Procedure, RIP for short." The process has created an underclass of zombies, subject to registration with the government and testing to identify those who will turn violent. Narrator Hessian Mann, an ex-cop turned PI, was executed for his supposed crimes and then subjected to RIP after DNA evidence exonerated him. Mann is gratified to hear that the inventor of RIP has apparently taken his own life eight years after sharing his discoveries with the world.

ORDER # S912-12   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464743

The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting's stopped, the war is far from over: it's just gone underground. The UNSC's feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five, a team of ODSTs, a Spartan, and a diabolical AI to accelerate the Sangheili insurrection. Meanwhile, the Arbiter, the defector turned leader of a broken Covenant, struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people. Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died on Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartans, and now she's broken some more to save them.

ORDER # S912-13   $12-90   ISBN 9780765369451

The Helix: a vast spiral of ten thousand worlds turning around its sun. Aeons ago, the enigmatic Builders constructed the Helix as a refuge for alien races on the verge of extinction. Two hundred years ago, humankind came to the Helix aboard a great colony ship, and the Builders conferred on them the mantle of peacekeepers. For that long, peace has reigned on the Helix. But when shuttle pilot Jeff Ellis crash-lands on the world of Phandra, he interrupts a barbarous invasion from the neighbouring Sporelli - who scheme to track down and exterminate Ellis before he can return to New Earth and inform the peacekeepers.

ORDER # S912-14   $14-90   ISBN 9781781080498

When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a "wild" star sector where they're encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth, improve his family's fortunes - and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage. But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube. Worse, Riders, the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars, are playing their own deadly political games - against the Terrans, against the colonials, and against one young greenhorn commander in particular: naif young Allen, whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding. The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen, while young and inexperienced, and much to his own amazement, happens to be a hero in the making.

ORDER # S912-15   $12-90   ISBN 9781451638424

Most people avoid the dreaded Whitecapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price? Blade is known as the master of the rookeries - no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood-craving he's been quicker, stronger, and almost immortal. When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She's so innocent. He doesn't see her backbone of steel - or that she could be the very salvation he's been seeking.

ORDER # S912-16   $12-90   ISBN 9781402270277

Sophia Thorne is new to the Regency's glittering high society, which resembles her magical homeland only insofar as both places are filled with ridiculous rules. Which means no matter where she goes, she's bound for trouble. And Scandals Are Meant to be Shocking. The Duke of Robinsworth has flaunted and shocked society for years. In a moment of fateful mischief, Robinsworth encounters the enchanting and distinctly scandalous Sophia. Between her streak of magical mischief and his penchant for scandal, they're about to take rule-breaking to a whole new level.

ORDER # S912-17   $12-90   ISBN 9781402268120

The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself - but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her only hope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped by a curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear. Originally intended to protect the lands of men from creatures known only as souleaters, the Wrath appears to be weakening - and the threat of this ancient enemy is once more falling across the land.

ORDER # S912-18   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407483

The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise. Against this background, professional "Close Protection" specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off a disastrous assignment, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to shepherd the teenaged heir to the Republic of Kikaya on a fabulous vacation. Ali Kikaya will participate in the first live action role playing game conducted on the Moon itself. Having left Luna - and a treasured marriage - years ago due to a near-tragic accident, Scotty leaps at the opportunity.

ORDER # S912-19   $12-90   ISBN 9780765365446

With the ability to detect the auras of dangerous psychic criminals, Rachel Bonner has found peace and quiet on Rainshadow Island with her dust bunny companion. Then Harry Sebastian, the descendant of a notorious pirate, arrives to investigate strange developments in the privately owned woods known as the Preserve. Rachel can sense the heart of darkness within him - and the stirrings of desire within her own soul.

ORDER # S912-20   $12-90   ISBN 9780515152845

Immanuel Gabriel travels to the end of the world and back again for one last shot at global salvation. Immanuel, the surviving hero twin foretold in the Mayan creation story, finds his world rocked after an encounter with his deceased grandfather, archaeologist Julius Gabriel. Julius reveals everything the Mayans knew and feared - from the very secrets of creation to the presence of extraterrestrial benefactors; from mankind's intended purpose to the preordained End of Days. If Immanuel is to thwart Judgment Day, he must act swiftly.

ORDER # S912-21   $14-90   ISBN 9780765368126

Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in by the FIB to help investigate, former witch-turned-day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: others want to create their own demons, and to do so they need her blood. She's faced vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more - but this time Rachel's toughest challenge might be humanity itself.

ORDER # S912-22   $12-90   ISBN 9780061957901

Hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior - the man called Revan has been all of these. He left Coruscant a Jedi, on a mission to defeat the Mandalorians. He returned a Sith disciple, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was the loss of his memories. All that's left are nightmares - and deep, abiding fear. What happened beyond the Outer Rim that Revan can't quite remember or entirely forget? One thing he's certain of: Something dark is plotting to destroy the very existence of the Republic. With no idea how to identify the threat, let alone stop it, Revan may be doomed to fail. For he's never faced a more powerful and diabolic enemy. But only death can stop him from trying.

ORDER # S912-23   $12-90   ISBN 9780345511355

Hundreds of years before the time of Imager, the continent of Lydar is fragmented. Years of war have consolidated five nations into three - Bovaria, Telaryn, and Antiago. Quaeryt is a scholar and a friend of Bhayar, the young ruler of Telaryn. Worried about his future and the escalating intrigues in Solis, the capital city, Quaeryt persuades Bhayar to send him to Tilbor, conquered ten years earlier by Bhayar's father, in order to see if the number and extent of occupying troops can be reduced so that they can be re-deployed to the border with warlike Bovaria.

ORDER # S912-24   $12-90   ISBN 9780765367716

The first intelligent species to encounter mankind attacked without warning. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth's last roll of the dice was to dispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. The human race would live on - somewhere. 150 years later, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, which enjoys a peaceful relationship with an indigenous race, the scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilization. Unknown to its colonists, Darien is about to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle where the true stakes are beyond their comprehension. And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed and the skies grow dark with the enemy?

ORDER # S912-25   $12-90   ISBN 9780316213981

From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself - the Horus Heresy rages on across the galaxy in this collection of short stories and novellas.

ORDER # S912-26   $14-90   ISBN 9781849703475

To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. It is now 1757 and magic is losing its place in the world. Science threatens to expose the fae's hidden city to hostile eyes. In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused by a great Dragon - an elemental beast of flame. Incapable of destroying something so powerful, the fae of London banished it to a comet moments before the comet's light disappeared from the sky. Now the calculations of Sir Edmond Halley have predicted its return in 1759. So begins their race against time.

ORDER # S912-27   $12-90   ISBN 9780765364500

The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space - the United Federation of Planets and the recently formed Typhon Pact. The Venetan government turns to the Typhon Pact's Tzenkethi Coalition for protection in the new order, and has agreed to allow three of their supply bases for Tzenkethi use. But these bases - if militarized - would put Tzenkethi weapons unacceptably close to Federation, Cardassian, and Ferengi space.

ORDER # S912-28   $12-90   ISBN 9781451687828

SG-1 discover a creature of unimaginable evil lurking beneath the ancient sands of Egypt - a creature the insane Goa'uld Neheb-Kau wants as a terrible weapon. With Teal'c and Major Carter in the hands of the enemy, Colonel O'Neill and Daniel Jackson enlist Master Bra'tac. They track the creature across the galaxy in a desperate bid to destroy it before it turns their friends - and the galaxy - to dust.

ORDER # S912-29   $12-90   ISBN 9781905586530

Even among the superhuman warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, there are those who turn their backs on their brothers. An all-new collection of short stories from the 41st Millennium.

ORDER # S912-30   $14-90   ISBN 9781849702126

A near-future Earth has shaken off the devastating colonization by alien Lokaran invaders and totalitarian rule by the alien's puppets, the Earth First party. But now Earth is flung into galactic intrigue and war. The Lokaron empire teeters on the edge of a fratricidal meltdown and a cabal of ancient enemies hope to use Earth as a proxy to destroy the empire and rule over a new Galactic Dark Age. Now Captain Andrew Roark, the son of heroes of the rebellion and an officer trained in Lokaran space warfare tactics, joins with a highly capable Lokar who opposes the empire but wishes to see it transformed rather than destroyed. Together they must uncover a conspiracy to control Earth, and then obtain the secret key to defeating it. War for galactic control looms, and freedom for Earth - so recently escaped from under the boot-heel of one oppressor - is once again in the balance.

ORDER # S912-31   $12-90   ISBN 9781451638431

Rudi Mackenzie has traveled from the land where the sun sets to the land where it rises and back. He has found his weapon - the Sword crafted for him before he was born. He has made friends from among his enemies and found enemies where he expected friends. He has won the heart and hand of the woman he has loved his entire life. Now Rudi is Artos, the High King of Montival, and his final destiny awaits him. He must face and defeat the forces of the Church Universal and Triumphant. Everything in the present, everything in the future, depends on the outcome of the conflict.

ORDER # S912-32   $14-90   ISBN 9780451464439

Fury's Kiss (Midnight's Daughter: 03):  Chance, Karen.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing. Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he's not an easy kill. It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her. To find out what was done to her-and who is behind it-Dory will have to face off with fallen angels, the maddest of mad scientists, and a new breed of vampires that are far worse than undead.

ORDER # S912-33   $12-90   ISBN 9780451413239

Bound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making direct moves against Rasalom, but there's nothing holding him in check any longer and Glaeken's time is almost up. The stage is set for Jack's massive assault on Rasalom, and he's got just one shot. But it's not just a matter of taking out Rasalom: he also must safely retrieve Dawn's child and minimize collateral damage. So, he comes up with a foolproof plan. But fools are always with us.

ORDER # S912-34   $12-90   ISBN 9780765362810

Since the devastating conclusion of Hitman: Blood Money, Agent 47 has been MIA. Now fans awaiting the return of the blockbuster videogame and film phenomenon can pinpoint the location of the world's most brutal and effective killer-for-hire before he re-emerges in Hitman: Absolution. When the Agency lures him back with a mission that will require every last ounce of his stealth, strength, and undercover tactics, they grossly underestimate the silent assassin's own agenda. Because this time, Agent 47 isn't just going to bite the hand that feeds him. He's going tear it off and annihilate anyone who stands in his way.

ORDER # S912-35   $14-90   ISBN 9780345471345 

Eleisha Clevon, searching the world for isolated vampires to offer them sanctuary, encounters one of the most deadly predators she has ever faced when she meets Christian Lefevre, who, posing as a psychic, caters to the upper crust of Seattle society and leaves his clients drained after each session.

ORDER # S912-36   $12-90   ISBN 9780451464842

Determined to cure the zombie plague ravaging Manhattan, Dr. Morgan Sterling calls into question everything she believes in when Luniel, a fallen angel and powerful warrior sworn to fight evil, needs her help - and her faith - to rid the world of a demonic curse.

ORDER # S912-37   $12-90   ISBN 9780425258378

After nearly dying at the hands of the Aurelian, Chrysabelle finds new determination to move beyond life as a comarré. That is until the Kubai Mata bring a new task to her doorstep: rescue the child Tatiana has kidnapped, or Mal becomes enemy number one.

ORDER # S912-38   $12-90   ISBN 9780316200172

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A Visualizer able to literally draw beings from the Otherworld into our world, successful graphic novelist Willow Tate must rid Paumanok Harbor of alien sand-stealers in time for Halloween, when the local witches hold their annual gathering on the beach.

ORDER # S912-39   $12-90   ISBN 9780756407674 

You never think it could happen to you. You never think that one day you'll stand in a graveyard, rain tapping on a sea of black umbrellas, watching your parents being lowered into the earth, never to come back. It's happening to me. They said it was an accident. Only I know the truth. My parents were hunters, like their parents and grandparents before them, hundreds of years back, scores of ancestors behind me, fulfilling the same call. I must follow in their footsteps. I am the only one left to keep the promise. I can never give up the fight, this fight that has been handed down to me, thrust upon my unwilling shoulders. I'd rather be buried with my parents, my brave, fierce father and mother, who lived and died by the Midnight motto: Don't Let Them Roam. Ever since her thirteenth birthday, seventeen-year-old Sarah Midnight's dreams have been plagued by demons - but unlike most people's nightmares, Sarah's come true. Her dreams guide her parents' hunt as Sarah remains in bed, terrified but safe, sheltered from the true horrors of the Midnight legacy. But all this is about to change.

ORDER # S912-40   $22-90   ISBN 9781845023706

Resurrecting the plot of a classic television science fiction series, this novel follows a group of scientists who detect a radio signal from a distant galaxy. The signal turns out to contain instructions for the design of an advanced computer, but when the computer is built, it merely delivers another set of guidelines - this one for the creation of a living organism named "Andromeda." One of the scientists soon suspects that the organism's purpose is much darker than they realize: to overpower and enslave the human race. Coauthored by a noted astronomer and based on one of the most popular science fiction series ever broadcast on British television, this suspenseful story illustrates what can happen when an alien intelligence reaches into human minds, revealing that a silent, invisible conquest of Earth may already be underway.

ORDER # S912-41   $22-90   ISBN 9780285635883

Two novels of elvish lore and modern noir brought together for the first time by bestselling Mistresses of Urban Fantasy Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill. Beyond World's End. Sieur Eric Banyon, Knight and Bard to the court of the Queen of Elfhame Misthold, moves back to the Big Apple to take care of unfinished business. Mostly, he just wants to finish his interrupted education at Julliard School of Music and settle down to a normal life. Spirits White as Lightning Eric Banyon has more to worry about than passing his courses at Julliard. The evil elf lord Aerune, whose love was killed by mortal men, is determined to destroy the human race. Eric's only hope of stopping Aerune is to trap him inside a magical maze, from which there is no escaping.

ORDER # S912-42   $21-90   ISBN 9781451638004

At long last, the conclusion to Glen Cook's Dread Empire saga has arrived! King Bragi Ragnarson is a prisoner, shamed, nameless, and held captive by Lord Shih-kaa and the Empress Mist at the heart of the Dread Empire. Far away in Kavelin, Bragia's queen and what remains of his army seek to find and free their king, hampered by the loss or desertion of their best and brightest warriors. Kavelina's spymaster, Michael Trebilcock, is missing in action, as is loyal soldier Aral Dantice. Meanwhile, Dane, Duke of Greyfells, seeks to seize the rule of Kavelin and place the kingdom in his pocket, beginning a new line of succession through Bragia's queen, Dane's cousin Inger.

ORDER # S912-43   $23-90   ISBN 9781597803311

Ordered by his King to carry out a cryptic command - kill a wicked sorcerer lord, seize his castle, and take his daughter as a wife - Alain de Crency expects a fierce battle. Instead he discovers a defenseless castle, the daughter missing, and the sorcerer dead, shrouded in a magnificent purple cloak. With no knowledge of the evil lurking within it, Alain takes the cloak as his own before investigating the whereabouts of his supposed betrothed. Upon Alain's arrival, Melisande, the sorcerer's daughter who begrudgingly learned her father's sinister trade, hides in plain sight as a servant. But Alain suspects this beautiful blonde knows more than she claims, and he resolves to uncover the truth - if he can resist his burning desire for her.

ORDER # S912-44   $21-90   ISBN 9781612184852

Something has happened in Spokane. The military has evacuated the city and locked it down. Even so, disturbing rumors and images seep out, finding their way onto the Internet, spreading curiosity, skepticism, and panic. For what they show is - or should be - impossible: strange creatures that cannot exist, sudden disappearances that violate the laws of physics, human bodies fused with inanimate objects, trapped yet still half alive. Dean Walker, an aspiring photographer, sneaks into the quarantined city in search of fame. What he finds will change him in unimaginable ways.

ORDER # S912-45   $22-90   ISBN 9780345533937

The year is 2085, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset, Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world's financial markets. He saw what was coming - and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming - quite literally - across the plain toward him.

ORDER # S912-46   $20-90   ISBN 9781848875265

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After an epic maiden voyage that introduced Earth to a larger universe - and a cosmos full of terrifying new enemies - Captain Eric Weston and the crew of the NAC spacecraft Odyssey have spent months cooling their heels under their admiral's watchful eye. But when Earth's newest ally, the Priminae, strike a defense deal with the North American Confederacy, the Odyssey finally receives her orders: return to Ranquil, the Priminae's war-ravaged homeworld, and lend badly needed support against the invading Drasin.

ORDER # S912-47   $22-90   ISBN 9781612182353 

The Shield Brethren, an order of warrior monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde, even as the invaders take its members hostage. Forced to fight in the Mongols' Circus of Swords, Haakon must prove his mettle or lose his life in the ring. His bravery may impress the enemy, but freedom remains a distant dream. Father Rodrigo receives a prophecy from God and believes it's his mission to deliver the message to Rome. Though a peaceful man, he resigns himself to take up arms in the name of his Lord. Joining his fight to save Christendom are the hunter Ferenc, orphan Ocyrhoe, healer Raphael, and alchemist Yasper, each searching for his place in history.

ORDER # S912-48   $22-90   ISBN 9781612182377

After the misadventures of the first two books Lenk and his companions must finally turn away from fighting each other and for their own survival and look to saving the entire human race. A terrible demon has risen from beneath the sea and where it came from thousands could follow. And all the while an alien race is planning the extinction of humanity. The third volume in the Aeon's Gate trilogy widens the action out dramatically. TOME OF THE UNDERGATES was based mainly on a ship, BLACK HALO moved the action to an island of bones, THE SKYBOUND SEA takes us out into a world threatened with a uniquely imagined and terrifying apocalypse.

ORDER # S912-49   $25-90   ISBN 9781616146764

HOWL meets ULYSSES in a book like no other! George Drury Smith, iconic founder of the Beyond Baroque magazine and Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California, crafts an amazing alternate-history tale of invention, corporate control, and hidden agendas, all told through Smith's tour-de-force wordsmithing. "Playfully earnest and pleasantly baffling, 'The slant hug o' time' is a work like no other. Enabled by rhymes, puns, anagrams, science, pseudo-science, reason and unreason, it joyfully elides the past, present, and future. In other words: it's a slippery world out there, and welcome to it.

ORDER # S912-50   $22-90   ISBN 9780984005819

More than five centuries after Camelot, a new king heralded by prophecy has appeared. As one of the last sorceresses of a dying order sworn to protect the new ruler at all costs, Alwen must answer a summons she thought she might never receive. Bound by oath, Alwen returns to Fane Gramarye, the ancient bastion of magic standing against the rise of evil. For alongside the prophecy of the benevolent king, a darker foretelling envisions the land overrun by a demonic army and cast into ruin.

ORDER # S912-51   $22-90   ISBN 9781612183725

It has been a busy few weeks for Private Kaylin Neva. In between angling for a promotion, sharing her room with the last living female Dragon and dealing with more refugees than anyone knew what to do with, the unusual egg she'd been given began to hatch. Actually, that turned out to be lucky, because it absorbed the energy from the bomb that went off in her quarters. So now might be the perfect time to leave Elantra and journey to the West March with the Barrani. If not for the disappearances of citizens in the fief of Tiamaris - disappearances traced to the very Barrani Kaylin is about to be traveling with.

ORDER # S912-52   $22-90   ISBN 9780373803507

From drafty London flats to the steamy Sahara, to the surface of the moon and beyond, The Martian War takes the reader on an exhilarating journey with H. G. Wells and his companions, as the author experiences the unfathomable events that inspired him to write one of his most famous works.

ORDER # S912-53   $20-90   ISBN 9781781161722 

A next official novelisation based on the multimillion-dollar video game franchise continues the efforts of a future world to survive under the influence of the Marker artifact that induces insanity and death before reanimating victims into rampaging monsters.

ORDER # S912-54   $22-90   ISBN 9780765325044 

A collection of science fiction spanning 50 years includes 32 stories by the author of Galaxies and The Remaking of Sigmund Freud, some of which have never before been published.

ORDER # S912-55   $22-90   ISBN 9781933065410 

Investigating the theft of an old samurai sword forged by a legendary smith who supposedly infused the weapon with magical powers, Tokyo police officer Mariko Oshiro finds herself threatened by the power of the blade in unexpected ways.

ORDER # S912-56   $23-90   ISBN 9780451464774 

Trying to fly under the radar in Low Town, a place where elves, faeries and other creatures walk among humanity, Gage, the best tattoo artist in town, who uses his unique potions to fulfill any heart's desire, cannot hide from the powerful warlocks who want him dead.

ORDER # S912-57   $22-90   ISBN 9780062117854 

In a much anticipated conclusion to the best- selling series, the wonderful land of Oz is plagued by social unrest and, amid the chaos and threat of war, Elphaba's granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the end of Son of a Witch, comes of age and is ready to take up her broom.

ORDER # S912-58   $23-90   ISBN 9780060859732 

Take a tour of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in this definitive guide to the family, friends, enemies, adventures and lovers of clairvoyant waitress Sookie Stackhouse, heroine of the bestselling novels and HBO series True Blood.

ORDER # S912-59   $25-90   ISBN 9781937007898 

Featuring two novels in the Vampire Legacy series, this darkly seductive volume follows Vivienne Courbet as she reunites with her blood sister Deirdre to stop a deadly cross-breed known as the Others who, declaring war on the vampire fellowship, are determined to annihilate their kind.

ORDER # S912-60   $22-90   ISBN 9780758274878 

The quest for the Skin Map, originally tattooed on The Man Who is Map is now in pieces and scattered across time and space in a universe of multiple realities. But what if the true treasure isn't the map at all - what if the map marks something far greater? Something one world cannot contain? Those wanting to unlock that mystery are in a race to possess the secret - for good or evil. Kit Livingstone is mastering the ability to travel through the Omniverse using ley lines and has forged a link from the Bone House, a sacred lodge made of animal bones, to the fabled Spirit Well, a place of profound power.

ORDER # S912-61   $33-90   ISBN 9781595548061

A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl - not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England.

ORDER # S912-62   $26-90   ISBN 9780062009494

Resnick's Menagerie is a collection of previously published short fiction by Mike Resnick, all of which involve animals, whether real or imaginary: from dogs to werewolves, and from elephants to dragons. The collection includes eighteen stories; of them, one winner of the Hugo Award, four nominees for the Hugo Award, one nominee for the Nebula Award, and two winners of the American Dog Writers Award for Best Short Story, in different years.

ORDER # S912-63   $28-90   ISBN 9780984360888

After being betrayed by the Syndicate, Artur Drakon and Gwen Iceni stage a coup for control of Midway in the first novel in a spin-off of the New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet series.

ORDER # S912-64   $35-90   ISBN 9781937077822 

The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations - and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship's life-support capacity to its limits. When the astronomer Tamara discovers the Object, a meteor whose trajectory will bring it within range of the Peerless, she sees a risky solution to the fuel crisis. Meanwhile, the biologist Carlo searches for a better way to control fertility, despite the traditions and prejudices of their society. As the scientists clash with the ship's leaders, they find themselves caught up in two equally dangerous revolutions: one in the sexual roles of their species, the other in their very understanding of the nature of matter and energy.

ORDER # S912-65   $34-90   ISBN 9781597802932

Bobby Dollar is an angel - a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby's wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own - pride, anger, even lust. But his problems aren't all his fault. Bobby can't entirely trust his heavenly superiors, and he's not too sure about any of his fellow earthbound angels either, especially the new kid that Heaven has dropped into their midst, a trainee angel who asks too many questions. And he sure as hell doesn't trust the achingly gorgeous Countess of Cold Hands, a mysterious she-demon who seems to be the only one willing to tell him the truth.

ORDER # S912-66   $33-90   ISBN 9780756407681

Alisanos, the deepwood, is more than just a forest - it is sentient, and predatory. Home to demons and worse, its mercurial boundaries can suddenly shift miles in any direction to encompass previously safe human lands - and those taken by the deepwood are forever changed. Audrun, a human woman trapped within the forest, is reunited with her four children, only to learn that each has been marked by the deepwood's wild magic. And her newly born fifth child, captured by a winged demon, is still missing. Audrun has sworn to find the infant, but can a mere human possibly hope to outwit the monstrous inhabitants of Alisanos and the nightmarish deepwood itself?

ORDER # S912-67   $33-90   ISBN 9780756404956

After a Black Plague orphan predicts a coming apocalypse, Thomas, a disgraced knight, finds himself in the middle of a second war on heaven as angels fight demons in this new novel from the author of Those Across the River.

ORDER # S912-68   $33-90   ISBN 9781937007867 

Hoping to take time off after a discouraging case, grim reaper Charley reluctantly assists a woman who is convinced someone is trying to kill her in spite of everyone's claims that she is insane, a situation that is complicated by Rayes Farrow's absence and arsonist attacks in Albuquerque.

ORDER # S912-69   $33-90   ISBN 9781250014467 

Daisy Johnson, whose father was an incubus, works in the Midwestern resort town of Pemkowet where she ensures that all the supernatural creatures living there get along in this new series from the author of the Kushiel's Legacy novels.

ORDER # S912-70   $35-90   ISBN 9780451464781 

Starring bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan, this collection of short works, published together in one volume for the first time, sheds new light on the Hollows saga and includes "Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel" - a novella from Holidays from Hell.

ORDER # S912-71   $33-90   ISBN 9780061974328 

A first entry in a new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the author's popular Fever series finds Dani O'Malley using rare talents and the powerful Sword of Light to survive Dark Fae attacks in Dublin, where she is also challenged by a murderous former friend and a police force head who covets her sword.

ORDER # S912-72   $35-90   ISBN 9780385344401 

A tale set in a fey-oppressed alternate world five years after the Great War finds Jane Eliot, a woman forced to wear an iron mask to suppress a scarring fey curse, taking a job as governess to a fey-stricken child and falling in love with her employer, an enigmatic artist who transforms unattractive women into beautiful fey.

ORDER # S912-73   $33-90   ISBN 9780765330598 

When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, Owen Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into a literal hell on earth.

ORDER # S912-74   $33-90   ISBN 9781451637960 

The best-selling author of Chocolat continues the story of Vianne, who returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.

ORDER # S912-75   $35-90   ISBN 9780670026364 

In the fourth and final volume of the best- selling series, a young Herald trainee in Haven, Mags, is trained as a spy to uncover secrets held by a mysterious new enemy of the kingdom of Valdemar.

ORDER # S912-76   $33-90   ISBN 9780756407452 

A fully annotated collector's edition of the debut novel in the best-selling fantasy epic shares previously undisclosed insights, a new introduction by the author and replica sketches of rare paintings and colour plates. Illustrations.

ORDER # S912-77   $47-90   ISBN 9780345535139 

Hired to resurrect a deceased fire god to protect his rioting city, Tara, a first-year associate in an international necromantic firm, teams up with a chain-smoking, faith- questioning priest to build a case in the city's courts and investigates suspicions that the god was actually murdered.

ORDER # S912-78   $33-90   ISBN 9780765333100 

A first volume in a two-part anthology of classic science-fiction tales explores themes ranging from nuclear annihilation to uncontrolled technology and includes Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow and Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human.

ORDER # S912-79   $47-90   ISBN 9781598531589 

A second volume of classics from the golden age of the science-fiction novel features entries that explore time-travel, post-apocalyptic survival and dystopian futures, including Fritz Lieber's The Big Time and Algis Budry's Who? Edited by the award-winning author of Evaporating Genres.

ORDER # S912-80   $47-90   ISBN 9781598531596 

A first collaboration by the author of Ringworld and the Nebula Award-winning author of Timescape finds a human expedition to another star system jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.

ORDER # S912-81   $33-90   ISBN 9780765328410 

Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a 9000-year-old man to clear her name.

ORDER # S912-82   $33-90   ISBN 9780316212373 

Two speculative tales by the best-selling author of The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray include Merge, in which a heartbroken lottery winner discovers true joy through an otherworldly entity; and Disciple, in which a dead-end employee is rendered a pawn in an evil plot against the life forces on Earth.

ORDER # S912-83   $33-90   ISBN 9780765330093 

When the world's adults succumb to a powerful alien telekinetic signal designed to reduce planetary populations to subservience, teen bounty hunter Holt and captured treasure seeker Mira rescue a powerful young girl and journey through a conquered North America to free their world.

ORDER # S912-84   $26-90   ISBN 9781250009074 

Held hostage by a papal usurper, 1635 uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna, become targets in a rescue effort by Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew at the same time the true pope is targeted for assassination. Co-written by the best-selling co-author of 1636: The Kremlin Games.

ORDER # S912-85   $33-90   ISBN 9781451638394 

A tale set in a near-future solar system of genetically engineered super-humans inspired by classic comic book heroes finds Troubleshooter Emerald Blair helping to restore order to unstable space habitats in the Asteroid Belt only to find her loyalties tested by rivalling factions and her desire to put her powers to good use.

ORDER # S912-86   $33-90   SBN 9780765332295 

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Combines lyrical text and evocative sketch art in a ghost story involving five orphans who gather at a party at an East Texas ranch house and listen to the tale of a mysterious latched box that is linked to violent plot for revenge.

ORDER # S912-87   $34-90   ISBN 9780307907721