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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The parishioners of Cheldon Bonniface walk to church on the Sunday before Christmas, 1992. Snow is in the air, or is it the threat of something else? The Reverend Trelaw has a premonition, too, and discusses it with the spirit that inhabits his church. Perhaps the Doctor is about to visit them again?<p>Some years earlier, in a playground in Perivale, Chad Boyle picks up a half-brick. He’s going to get that creepy Dorothy who says she wants to be an astronaut. The weapon falls, splitting Dorothy’s skull. She dies instantly.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The Doctor has pursued the Timewyrm from prehistoric Mesopotamia to Nazi Germany, and then to the end of the universe. He has tracked down the creature again: but what trans-temporal trap has the Timewyrm prepared for their final confrontation?</font></p></span></div>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The third and final book in the Cat's Cradle series. The Tardis's link with Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. in a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the program as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones. </p>

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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.</b><p>Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.</p><p>But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?</p><p>Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">This time, has the Doctor gone too far?</font></p></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Take Arcadia apart if you have to.’</b><p>The middle of the twenty-fifth century. The Dalek war is drawing to an untidy close. Earth’s Office of External Operation is trying to extend its influence over the corporations that have controlled human-occupied space since man first ventured to the stars.</p><p>Agent Isabelle Defries is leading one expedition. Among her barely-controllable squad is an explosives expert who calls herself Ace. Their destination: Arcadia.</p><p>A non-technological paradise? A living laboratory for a centuries-long experiment? Fuel for a super-being? Even when Ace and Benny discover the truth, the Doctor refuses to listen to them.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Nothing is what it seems to be.</font></p></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><tbody><tr><td><hr size="10"><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "></font><div align="justify"><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.’ ‘I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.’</b><p>The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.</p><p>In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?</p><p>In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.</p><p>And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>Tomorrow, Tragedy Day. Tomorrow, total control.</b><p>In Empire City on the planet Olleril, it’s time for the annual Tragedy Day -- when the privileged few celebrate their generosity to the masses.</p><p>But this year, something is different. Hideous creatures infest the waters around an island that doesn’t officially exist. Assassins arrive to carry out a killing that may endanger the entire universe. A being known as the Supreme One tests horrific weapons. And a secret order of monks observes the growing chaos.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Five minutes after they arrive on Olleril, the TARDIS crew know they want to leave. But Ace is imprisoned in a sinister refugee camp, and Bernice and the Doctor are in the custody of a brutal police gang. There is no way out.</font></p><div><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></font></div></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘So, that’s an Ice Warrior. Brings a whole new meaning to the concept of shell suits.’</b><p>The Doctor is pursuing a master criminal. The trail leads to Peladon: a desolate world once home to a barbaric, feudal society. Now the Galactic Federation is attempting to bring prosperity and civilization to the planet. But not all Pels support the changes, and when ancient relics are stolen from their Citadel, the representatives of the Federation are blamed. The Doctor suspects the Ice Warrior delegation, but before long the Time Lord himself is arrested for the crime -- and sentenced to death.</p><p>Elsewhere, interplanetary mercenaries are bringing one of the galaxy’s most evil artifacts to Peladon, apparently on the Doctor’s instruction. Ace is pursuing a dangerous mission on another world and Bernice is getting friendly -- perhaps too friendly -- with the Ice Warriors she has studied for so long.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The players are making the final moves in a devious and lethal plan -- but for once it isn’t the Doctor’s.</font></p></span></div>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Landing in Victorian London, the TARDIS crew is surprised to meet up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. </p>

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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>Ace raised her blaster. ‘You’ve already killed me once, girl,’ Kreer said. ‘Didn’t you learn anything from that?’</b><p>When Bernice asks to see the dawn of the space age, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to the United States of America in 1957 - and into the midst of distrust and paranoia. The Cold War is raging, bringing the world to the brink of atomic destruction.</p><p>But the threat facing America is far more deadly than Communist Russia. The militaristic Tzun Confederacy have made Earth their next target for conquest - and the aliens are already among us.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Two nuclear warheads have been stolen; there are traitors to the human species in the highest ranks of the army; and alien infiltrators have assumed human form. Only one person seems to know what’s going on: the army’s mysterious scientific advisor, the enigmatic Major Kreer.</font></p></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Change, Benny. It’s the most terrifying thing of all.’ <br>‘And that’s what’s happening to you, is it, Doctor?’ <br>‘It’s what’s happening to all of us.’</b><p>The TARDIS has arrived in the Elysium system, lost colony of distant Earth and site of the Artifact: a world turned inside out, a world of horrific secrets.</p><p>For more than a century scientists have studied the ecosystem flourishing within the Artifact. Now the system is in collapse and even the humans trapped inside are changing into something new and strange.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">With the members of one expedition murdered, those of another fighting for their lives and a solar system on the brink of civil war, can the Doctor, Ace and Benny survive a journey to the heart of the Artifact in their search for the truth?</font></p><div><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></font></div></span></div>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship's are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don't work out as planned.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>At the end of history exists a psychically linked race of powerful beings, the Sensopaths. When three of them betray the race's unity they are scattered back through time as punishment. Can the Doctor save the universe from destruction.</p>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>The Doctor pointed at Bernice. ‘The wench’s mind is addled,’ he said. ‘Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.’</b><p>The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France - a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a besieged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the heretics’ fight his own. And they both realize that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.</font></p></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Who’s going to save us this time?’</b><p>April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He’s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?</font></p></span></div>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor is arrested and sentenced to death by Adjudicators, the police of the thirtieth century.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor and Benny are on a cruise with a difference - through skies populated by evil, parasitic, shape-changing monsters.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>On the far side of a break in space is the planet Zamper, target for the last warriors of the Chelonian empire: can the Doctor defeat them?</p>


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<h3><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Children make better soldiers,’ said the teddy bear. ‘They kill without compunction.’</b><p>The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves unwilling guests on the planet Q’ell, where a similar war still rages - and has done for fourteen hundred years.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Q’ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer any word for peace.</font></p></span></h3>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A deranged version of the Doctor, known as Dr. Who, has broken through a rip in reality and is going round the universe dispensing his own kind of justice. Only the real Doctor knows himself well enough to be able to deal with this threat.</p>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Just how technologically advanced are they?’ The Doctor frowned. ‘Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.’</b><p>The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the clocest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.</p><p>While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artifical world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what she’s always suspected -- that every paradise has its snake.</font></p></span></div>


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<p class="description"><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.’</b><p>For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans’ secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion - where Professor Bernice Summerfield’s researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.</font></p></span></p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is March 1941, and Britain's wartime fortunes are at their nadir. But events are still following the course of history. The Doctor is therefore alarmed to discover that the Nazis are building a superweapon that could end the war overnight.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When the Doctor arrives at Yemaya 4, he falls prey to a virus sweeping through the population, which unleashes latent psychic powers and something more sinister. The Doctor must face the Dione-Kismu Corporation, who will go to any lengths to cover up the s.</p>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘Doctor, this is my fiance. Please don’t kill him.’</b><p>You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.</p><p>If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Everybody’s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.</font></p><div><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></font></div></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘We’re on Mars, we’re surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose.’</b><p>Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Pluto’s moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The year is 2157: the Earth has been invaded, and forces are at work on Mars to ensure that the mysterious invaders are successful. Unless the Doctor can solve the riddle of the GodEngine, the entire course of human history will be changed.</font></p><div><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></font></div></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>‘An end to history. An end to certainty. Is that too much to ask?’</b><p>December, 1799. Europe is recovering from the Age or Reason, the Vatican is learning to live with Napoleon, and America is celebrating a new era of independence. But in New York State, something is spreading its own brand of madness through the streets. Secret societies are crawling from the woodwork, and there’s a Satanic conspiracy around every corner.</p><p>Roz Forrester is stranded in a town where festive cheer and random violence go hand-in-hand. Chris Cwej is trapped on board the TARDIS with someone who’s been trained to kill him. And when Reason itself breaks down, even the Doctor can’t be sure who or what he’s fighting for.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Christmas is coming to town, and the end of civilization is following close behind...</font></p></span></div>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Benny returns to the TARDIS to follow up a clue to the whereabouts of a father who disappeared when she was a child. The trail leads to England in the year 1983 and to Admiral Isaac Summerfield who is leading a crew of aliens. Can Benny trust the man for w.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>In 1880s France, Doctor Who and his companions find themselves caught up in the desperate internal power struggle of a clandestine brotherhood. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The longest wunning science fiction TV series, Dr. Who has delighted fans on both sides of the Atlantic since 1963. Now, the New Adventures series, original, full-length novels which continue the Doctor's travels in time, presents So Vile a Sin, which culminates in the final confrontation between Dr. Who and the psi-powered Brotherhood, and marks the departure of the Doctor's companion, Roz Forrester. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950's Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is 2003 on Earth and mankind faces apocalypse. The Doctor and his companions must find the secrets of an ancient exodus to prevent the Earth being twisted into the image of a long-dead world.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>In Sixteenth century Japan a god descends to tip the balance of power in a bloody civil war. Chris finds himself alone and has to become a hero to stop the god falling into the wrong hands - but Chris isn't sure he wants to be a hero.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>All is not well on Gallifrey. The House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor left his family 673 years ago, has disappeared. In the seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The first New Adventure to feature the Eighth Doctor. Britain is under threat of invasion by the Ice Warriors from Mars. The only people who can save the country are the Doctor, aided by the Brigadier and Bernice.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Newly-regenerated and travelling through the universe in his Tardis, the eighth Doctor is suddenly hit by a mind-shattering blast of malignant psychic energy - a final booby trap left by the Master. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The year is 1895, the place, London. Amid the fog and cold, a gang of bodysnatchers is at work. The Doctor finds himself caught up in the gruesome goings-on, and discovers that the Zygons have returned to Earth. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Doctor Who novel set on an island in the East Indies, where alien forces are gathering in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rain forest, desperate to acquire what might be the deadliest weapon in creation. The Doctor and Sam walk into the middle of the strangest auction in history. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor and Sam travel to a planet being made into a giant pleasure palace. Eco-terrorists are sabotaging the project because the construction crews are destroying the old civilization. The Doctor and Sam get caught up in the turmoil. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>On contemporary Earth, the Doctor and Sam discover an ancient secret society is trying to start a nuclear war. An optical mystery compounds their confusion and the mysterious US-owned Station Nine brings further problems for them to resolve. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Having landed on the strange planet of Hirath, the Doctor and Sam become separated as they both strive to understand and help the inhabitants of a world where different time zones mean that the planet's biosphere is out of control and heading for disaster. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens. </p>

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<div><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>In <em>Dreamstone Moon</em>, Sam and the Doctor, via different routes because they are still apart, find themselves on a satellite called the Dreamstone Moon. It has come by this name because it is where dreamstone, a substance that allows the dreams of sleepers to be recorded and then played back (or something), is mined. But an artist named Anton finds that the dreamstones only give him nightmares and so determines to go to the moon to find out why.</p><p>Readers are unlikely to be impressed with any of the characters here. It is easy to mistakenly believe that the soldier Cleomides is an android since it is the only way to explain her wooden, stilted dialogue and strange actions. The only well-developed character besides Sam is an alien Krakenite named Aloisse (a totally inhuman, cephalopodic sort of creature).</p><p>An excellent subplot is the idea that some of the humans cannot see aliens as rational and dependable beings in their own right. This leads to Aloisse being systematically tortured, blinded, and seriously wounded, since the humans simply can't think of her as a sentient being. This, of course, echoes man's inhumanity to man--especially where race and color are concerned--and is nicely understated here. The Doctor is probably the only hope they have, but because he is an alien, those in charge cannot see how he can help them.</p><p>Sam spends her time moving from one disaster area to another and encountering a series of hostile environments: it's amazing that she survives at all. It's also slightly annoying that she and the Doctor never actually get to meet in the novel--they spend the whole time just missing each other and only actually see each other twice. (I think it was twice--I wasn't counting!)</p><p>The biggest problem with <em>Dreamstone Moon</em>, however, is that the action (and there is lots of it) is simply not very well handled. Whereas John Peel can write action so that you feel you are watching it on screen, Leonard's events seem diluted and distant, as if it's someone telling you about something that happened to a friend some years before. <em>Dreamstone Moon</em> is a little bland in parts. Or it could be that Leonard's writing simply doesn't appeal to this reviewer and that others will understand and enjoy the work more. <em>--David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Dreamstone allows people to record and play back their dreams; it can only be found on a certain moon. The Doctor and Sam travel there to prevent its destruction whilst Anton La Serre wants to know why his pleasant dreams have turned into nightmares. </p>

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<div><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><em>Seeing I</em> is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book's 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and the Doctor spend three years being unable to meet up due to the fact that the Doctor has been locked up in an inescapable prison for the crime of trying to locate his companion using somewhat unorthodox methods. Sam in the meantime becomes a quasi-ecoterrorist seeking to undermine the controlling techno-company on the planet. It's this same organization that holds the Doctor, and it isn't until Sam finds his details on a file pirated from the company that they get to finally meet, after almost three whole books spent apart.</p><p>It's not explained quite how Sam knows this is the Doctor (presumably there was a photo) since he was going under the name of Doctor Bowman, but within a few pages she manages to break into the prison and rescue him. Bang. All over in a flash. </p><p>Then the rest of the plot kicks in. The company has been using eye-implant technology, which the Doctor has realized is alien to this culture at this time. The trouble is traced to a Gallifreyan mind control device, which is supplying power to the company. Furthermore, this device has been "seeded" on the planet by an insectoid race of aliens called the I so that they may come along later and harvest whatever use the indigenous population have made of the technology.</p><p><em>Seeing I</em> is a curious mixture of well-written character pieces and a paper-thin plot designed only to achieve the objective of forcing the characters to develop. The authors have decided to push against the general trend of the BBC's range and to present a work that only just manages to stand alone in its own right. </p><p>If you like talk, internal angst, and uncertainty as opposed to action, plot, and adventure, this novel is doubtless going to please you. For those who prefer a more traditional WHO yarn, you'd be better off starting elsewhere. <em>--David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies? </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is 3999. An artificial planetoid, Micawber's World, is hosting the intergalactic Olympic Games, and athletes from all the worlds in the Galactic Federation are arriving to take part. But when the Doctor and Sam arrive, the murders soon begin.The Doctor finds himself drafted in to examine some bizarre new drugs that claim to enhance the natural potential of the competing athletes. But what is their real purpose? Why are members of the Security Forces disappearing randomly? And just why is Chase Carrington, manufacturer of the drug, so protective of his company's secrets?Watching and waiting, at the very heart of Micawber's World, are a race of parasites the Doctor has fought before. The Wirrrn have come to the Milky Way from Andromeda, determined to spread their seed throughout a whole new galaxy, and it seems to Sam that the Doctor's hands are too full to pay their threat full attention.This is another in the series of adventures featuring the 8th Doctor and Sam which reintroduces the Wirrrn from the 1975 television adventure The Ark in Space.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is 3123, and traveling in the Tardis into deepest space, the Doctor and Sam find three spacecraft. One is a Ximosian warship, the other an Emindaran civilian starliner, and the third a ship of strange allen design. Both Ximosian and Emindaran crews want to discover what cargo this strange structure holds.In attempting to discover where these vessels come from, the Doctor and Sam unearth a terrible truth. The aden ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, constantly circling the vortex. The Doctor wants the ship to be destroyed, but the Ximosian and Emindarans are caught in a wrestle for power, and both desire to possess the spacecraft and transform its power into a source for their own political ends.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself; the eccentric time traveler and philanderer Iris Wildthyme.The Doctor and Sam themselves must escape the clutches of the dying Scarlet Empress, and they encounter many strange creatures on their travels -- bearded ladies, humanoid mock turtles, transvestite cyborgs and many more -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Two planets, Janus Prime and Menda, orbit a Red Giant on the edge of the galaxy. The planets lie diametrically opposite each other on either side of the huge sun -- but where Menda is rich and fertile in the light of the sun, Janus Prime's moon leaves the sun in a constant state of eclipse.Humans are colonizing the area, and a rival group sets up on Janus Prime via a mysterious transmit system left behind by the planets' former inhabitants. But what is its true purpose?When the Doctor and Sam arrive they must piece together a centuries-old puzzle. How can Janus Prime's moon weigh billions of tons more than it should? What is the secret purpose of the hyperspatial link? They discover a terrible weapon is hidden in the glowing sands of the planet, one that if it falls into the hands of the warring humans could destroy the galaxy.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When the people of Bellania II witness a triple eclipse of their sun, Bel -- an impossibility, as they only have one moon -- it is the beginning of the end for an entire solar system. Their sun is shrouded in night for a month -- then returns to them a younger, brighter, hotter star. But how?100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where 20,000 people are under threat as a catastrophe threatens -- immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are rioting through their sector of space. Sam is swept away by desperate crowds trying to get off their world, and becomes involved in daring rescue attempts. The Doctor tries to stabilize the local gravity fields and help halt the devastation, but the TARDIS is lost to him.Meanwhile, a religious suicide-cult leader attempts to destroy himself on the deadly heated surface of Belannia II, but he does not die. He returns stronger, and with a new religion he is determined to spread through Bel's system. His word may prove more dangerous even then the terrible forces brought into being from Bel's sun. Just what has happened to the star Bel -- and will the Doctor hive time to do anything about it?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When the Doctor and Sam arrive on Proxima II they find a settlement rife with superstition and unrest. The native Proximans are inexplicably dying out, and humans too are being killed in horrific ways, with each corpse's face being stripped bare.Posing as investigators from Earth, the Doctor and Sam must track down the force moving through the dark catacombs beneath Proxima City.</p>


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<div><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Michael Collier's previous book, __, featured some good characters (especially the inspired Nashaad) and an interesting alien in the Kusk. With <em>The Taint</em>, all we get is very confused indeed as a group of inadequately described loonies takes over the asylum. It's very difficult to keep track of who is who early on, and so at the end knowing who lived or died is impossible.</p><p>The idea of alien mind parasites is nice if unoriginal, and the two robotic guardian-types were also neat, but their function in the novel is unclear. The new companion character Fitz remains something of an enigma, although he does have some nice moments and some interesting defining characteristics. </p><p>There are some good ideas in <em>The Taint</em>, but unfortunately the writing never manages to rise above the level of competent, and the plot gets a little submerged under a surfeit of characters. It's a pity, especially after the excellence of __, <strong> and </strong>. <em>--David J. Howe, Amazon.co.uk</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A novel featuring the eighth Doctor Who and Sam, and Fitz Kreiner, a roguish dreamer from the 1960s. The Doctor and Sam become involved in the psychological experiments being performed by one Charles Roley, who is probing the psyches of people who believe they've been possessed by the devil. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor, Sam and Fitz land on the Vega station, a pleasure center given over to gambling, shopping and the Arts. It hangs on the edge of Battrulian Space, close to the Earth colony's frontier with the Canvine, huge, wolf-like dog creatures.The Earth colony president is arriving to attend an exhibition of the 3-D reality scans in oil paintings of Toulour Martinique. But the Doctor soon discovers there is more to the paintings than meets the eye. A dark secret is hidden behind the shallow delights of the station, and it seems that it is not only the President who is marked for death but the Doctor and his friends, too.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>An adventure featuring the eighth Doctor Who, Sam and Fitz, and set in the Swinging London of 1968. The TARDIS crew are investigating an anarchist group utilizing a drug that seems of an extraterrestrial nature, and how it connects to a series of bizarre, violent events world-wide. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole originates from there -- but where does it lead to?The time travelers discover a massive military presence in the area. The wormhole is a result of strange experiments in teleport -- but the other end of the time space tunnel is rooted in a bizarre land not even located in our dimension -- the Dominion. And the Dominion itself isn't under threat from a shapeless, all-pervading blackness.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor regenerated in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium. When he returns there a few years later, it seems the catastrophic events that nearly sent the whole of Earth into cosmic oblivion have taken their toll. San Francisco was the anchor point, and a breach between dimensions has sprung up. All sorts of weird and wonderful creatures have turned up -- griffins, unicorns -- and things more sinister.The Doctor's companion Sam is exposed and becomes a changed person -- literally. Her hair is dark, she has never met the Doctor in her life. With Fitz, he is able to convince her to help them put things right -- to sacrifice herself so that the old Sam may return. For stalking the turbulent streets is the sinister Unnaturalist -- a collector of genetic curios whose private collection will be much enriched by the Time Travelers.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Ardennes, December 1994: the Nazi forces are making their last offensive in Europe -- a campaign that will come to be called the Battle of the Bulge. But there is a third side to this battle -- an unknown and ancient force that seems to pay little head to the forces of nature.Where do the bodies of the dead disappear to? What is the true nature of the military experiments conducted by both sides?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Five years ago, Sam Jones was just a schoolgirl from Shoreditch. Of course, that was before she met up with the Doctor and found out that he entire life had been stage-managed by a time-traveling voodoo cult. Funny how things turn out, isn't it? Now Sam's back in her own time, fighting the good fight in a world of political treachery, international subterfuge and good old-fashioned depravity.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>They call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went -- the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand-year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his own past and his own future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the Empire are only just being sown.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Tyneside is reverting to an Ice wilderness. Three elderly women have come out shopping, accompanied by Icarus -- an orphaned boy who Maddy Sharp found on the beach. She thinks he is an angel -- the son the lost, returned to her. But he claims to be the cause of the dreadful weather...</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And it’s alive.</font></span></p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><p>Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it.</p><p>Outside the ordered universe, things move. They’re hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time.</p></font><p><font class="minus1" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but it’s more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed.</font></p><p></p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>What strange attraction lures people to the planet Drebnar? When the TARDIS is dragged there, the Doctor determines to find out why. He discovers that scientists from the Frontier Worlds Corporation have set up a base on the planet, and are trying to blur the distinction between people and plants.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When an outpost in space begins to break up, with the TARDIS crew aboard, escape is only possible in tiny life-capsules. Fitz is bundled unconscious into one, while the Doctor and Compassion take another. Steering the capsule back to its planet of origin to try and get help, the Doctor finds a hostile welcome awaits. Fitz's capsule takes him to the apparent safety of the colony of Mechta. The Doctor decrees that Fitz's new-found utopia must be totally destroyed.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Brigadier, mourning the loss of his wife Doris, is called to help find a nuclear weapon that's gone missing over the Wiltshire Downs. The Doctor is on his way there too, to pick up his companion Compassion, after her holiday on Earth. But when the Doctor's TARDIS explodes, he, the Brigadier, Compassion and Fitz are thrown into the other-dimensional world of Avalon. Magic faces down science, dragons duel with jet fighters.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The year is 4991. The TARDIS is dead and Compassion is evolving into a sentient replacement for it. To avoid the Timelords, the Doctor decides to fit a Randomiser but the only place he can obtain the components is the planet Yquatine. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion story, the Doctor materializes underground, where he and his companions are led to safety by a humanoid character, who explains that this is the planet Eskon. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Middletown in 1889 is a small mining village -- but the local mine is about to be closed down. In an attempt to avoid this catastrophe, the owner, Lord Urton built a huge dam across the river to reduce flooding in a promising area of the mine, but to no avail.However, little does he realise that the construction of the dam has disturbed something that was lying dormant in the earth. Something that is now stirring into life...Strange events are afoot, with local deaths that appear to be caused by lightning strikes. Except that the soles of the victims' feet are burned black.It's up to the Doctor to find out what mysterious forces have been unleashed. Perhaps the stranger in town, Nepath, who wants to buy the mine from Lord Urton, can shed some light on the matter...</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Hawkswick Hall has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital for soldiers shell-shocked during World War One. When local livestock and family pets are found violently mutilated, witness accounts point to horrifically wounded soldiers. The Doctor heads to the hospital to investigate -- two of the inmates have mysteriously disappeared -- and is told by one of the patients that there is an evil presence in the Hall. The key to the mystery lies in that eerie basement room in Hawkswick Hall.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A mysterious code is received at Bletchley and Alan Turing, the chief code-breaker, is unable to break it. He meets the Doctor in a club and when Turing tells him about the code, the Doctor reacts by running away, terrified. Turing confesses his indiscretion to the military and the Doctor is arrested. He eventually succeeds in breaking the code from his prison cell -- the message is a desperate cry for help from mysterious refugees in Vienna.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn't know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all the imperial family was slaughtered, with the exception of the infant Miranda. Her nanny brought her to Earth, to save her from the atrocities of the Republicans, but the Imperialists are after her too.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is the first day of the 21st century, and a space race between rival Earth entrepreneurs is underway.Both teams are being aided by an alien race called the Kulan. They were stranded on planet Earth after their scout ship crashed there and, as far as the rival teams are concerned, the Kulan are motivated by a desire to get back to their home planet.What they don't realize is that in fact the wrecked scout ship was part of a Kulan invasion force, sent ahead of the rest of its fleet to investigate Earth. The Kulan are a ruthless race who invade planets to exploit whatever economic value they contain, and the rest of the fleet is due to arrive in 2001.However, the stranded Kulan need to escape planet Earth's radio-thick atmosphere to contact the fleet and arrange their rendezvous. Will one of the teams succeed in helping the Kulan to destroy Earth -- or will the Doctor succeed in averting a catastrophic attack?</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>An Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji novel. The first settlers of New Jupiter were a handful of humans, with androids to help make the planet habitable. Many generations down, the New Jupitan President, John F Hoover, faces a challenge to his hereditary role. His popularity is threatened by the Association for New Jupitan Independence - ANJI - who want to establish New Jupitan Independence. So Hoover has set up an Earth Tneme Park - EarthWorld. It is nearly complete and will enormously boost the planet's income from off-worlders - and thus the President's popularity. He has no intention of telling anyone that there are people entering EarthWorld who are mysteriously never seen again. Meanwhile the President has three triplet daughters to succeed him in his hereditary role. Unbeknown to him, they have been tampering with EarthWorld's androids - but why? And can the Doctor find out before the problems on New Jupiter get out of control? </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The planet Khnemu is a closed system where space travel is prohibited by the white and black holes that distantly ring the galaxy. Each person on the planet carries in their genes a hereditary "Godswitch" which enables "God" to monitor their every move. People on their deathbeds are told the meaning of their life by God, but increasing numbers of people seem to be dying of unnatural causes. It is the job of the Destinists to investigate these people's lifestyles in order to explain the reasons for their premature deaths to their families.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>On 49th century Earth, mankind has developed time-travel technology, and a government security force has been set up to control illegal time jumps.Special Agent Kala Golightly has been assigned the mission of recovering a devastating weapon that has been accidentally sent back through time. Traced to Wiltshire, 1934, the timer on this weapon is running and if Kala doesn't recover it before it activates, it will become capable of genetically re-engineering everything that comes into contact with it. In this event, Kala is under orders to detonate a nuclear device that will destroy the entire area.Charles Rigby, resident of the small village of Marpling, discovers the device in his back garden. It is accidentally triggered and takes over some wasps whose nest was nearby. They are transformed into carriers of psionic intelligence.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor has been staying on the planet Hitchemus for the past few months where he has been learning to play the violin from gifted young composer Karl Hassan. Hitchemus is a planet with two distinctive features -- the humans who live there have a formidable reputation for composing, playing and appreciating a wide range of music -- while its tiger population is showing unusual signs of intelligence.Although Anji is greatly unnerved by the sight of a tiger taking a book out of a library, no one is prepared for the day when the tigers take over the planet. Their demands are unusual though -- they want to be taught to play instruments as well as the humans, and to this end kidnap all of the planet's most eminent musicians.Why are these tigers so intellectually advanced, and can the population of Hitchemus resolve their conflict to avoid civil war? The Doctor sympathises with the tigers and humans alike, but needs to help both parties to resolve their differences before they both begin tosee him as a traitor...</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Slow Empire's advanced and complex technology is helping the Vortex Wraiths to materialize. The Empire's pride in its advanced communications systems has invited in a menace that could mean the end of the confederation altogether. But, as the Doctor discovers, this may be no bad thing... </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconstitute it with seed and chemicals to grow crops. Suddenly a dozen babies are born with alien physiology and telekinetic and telepathic powers. The Doctor realizes that an archaeologist has roused up the planet's long-dead inhabitants. Available in October.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Fitz, Anji, and the Doctor are in New Orleans in 2000 to relax, but find the city is a center for the occult as practitioners converge on an ancient graveyard. The Doctor is also having strange dreams of something is seeking him out. A bone artifact found on board the TARDIS may be the key to a chain of murders, but can the Doctor and his companions discover the true source of the evil? Available in October.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The TARDIS arrives on a planet inhabited by a lost human colony that is dangerously close to an energy-emitting white hole. The Doctor and his companions are intent on discovering more about the territory, and find it is no ordinary planet. Various visitors contend for control over what will happen to this exotic shape-shifting world in the universe beyond. Available in October.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>At the outer reaches of the universe, where human consciousness cannot reach, time goes "soft", allowing mankind to meets its own animal and subconscious limitations in the form of the brutal baboon-like Beast. In London, and all major cities of the Napoleonic era, covens of witches are using ancient techniques to attain time-consciousness. Perceiving time in a new way, they call on the Beast.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor's rather manic attempts to refamiliarise himself with the workings of the TARDIS result in the crew finding themselves stranded on an extremely inhospitable planet, as the TARDIS sinks through the cracking ice it landed on. This is Endpoint, the last planet in a crumbled galaxy, where hairless post-humans scrape out an existence on the noxious, barely habitable surface. In their efforts to persuade someone to resurrect the TARDIS, they encounter the real power on Endpoint, a cyborg named Silver, whose enhanced capabilities and mastery of technology mean he dictates what really happens, not only in the capital city, Hope, but on the entire planet. But he is worried: there is something going on that is beyond even his control. In increasing numbers, people are being killed on the streets of Hope. As the Doctor investigates, he discovers a hidden community below the surface of Endpoint, who are desperate enough to kill... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire's hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They're picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there's a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>On an Earth of the not-so distant future, Anji is surprised by the way the world has developed. The EU and US have become rivals, and a situation in North Africa, in which they both have interests that they wish to protect, threatens to turn into full-scale war. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Unnoticed are bound to keep themselves isolated from all history, or face a complete collapse from existence. The Book of the Still is a lifeline for stranded time travellers -- write your location, sign your name and be instantly rescued. When the Unnoticed learn that within the book someone has revealed both their existence and whereabouts they are forced into murderous intercession to find it. Fitz knows where it is, but then he's the one who stole it. Carmodi, addicted to the energies trapped in frequent time travellers, also knows where it is. But she's the one who's stolen Fitz. Anji, alone on a doomed planet, trying to find evidence of a race that has never had the decency to exist, doesn't know where anybody is. Embroiled in the deadly chase, the Doctor is starting to worry about how many people he can keep alive along the way... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence. Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen -- so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again. But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything -- and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again. The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks! </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Spain, 1937. In April, the small town of Guernica was razed to the ground in a firestorm that claimed a thousand or more lives. In May, Barcelona exploded into fierce street fighting as different political factions fought for control of the city. Both events have been the subject of fierce propagandist claims by all sides, but this book examines new evidence to suggest that the two events are more closely linked than previously thought. Who were the shadowy figures working behind the scenes? Who were 'the Doctor', 'Anji' and 'Fitz' and what were their objectives? And were there really monsters roaming the streets? Presented in the form of a novel, History 101 tries to discover if the absolute truth can ever be revealed. It should be read as part of the ongoing 'Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor' history course. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor's second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>With Fitz gone to his certain death and Anji back at work in the City, the Doctor is once more alone. But he has a lot to keep him occupied. At the Naryshkin Institute in Siberia, scientists are busily at work in a haunted castle. Over a century earlier, creatures from a prehistory that never happened attack a geological expedition. Pages from the lost expedition's journal are put on display at the British Museum, and a US spy plane suffers a mysterious fate. Deep under the snowy landscape of Siberia the key to it all remains trapped in the ice. Only the Doctor can see that these events are all related. But he isn't the only person involved. Why is Colonel Hartford so interested in the Institute? Who is the mysterious millionaire who is after the journal? How is the Grand Duchess, descendent of the last Tsar, involved? Soon the Doctor is caught up in a plot that reaches back to the creation of the Universe. And beyond... ...to Time Zero. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor is in trouble. He has his own race to win. Stuck in a parallel dimension, pursuing the mysterious Sabbath, he must unravel a complex plot in which he himself may be a pawn. Following the only lead, the TARDIS arrives on Selonart -- a planet famed for the unique, friction-nullifying light water that covers its surface. A water that propels vast, technological yachts across its waves at inconceivable speeds. All in all, an indulgent, boastful demonstration of power by Earth's ruthless multi-stellar corporations. Is Sabbath's goal to win the race? Who is Bloom, the enigmatic Selonart native? As the danger escalates, the Doctor realises that he is being manoeuvred into engineering his own downfall. Is it already too late for him? </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Within hours one of the Doctor's friends is caught in a deadly explosion, while another appears on television confessing to the murder of twelve people. The TARDIS is stolen by forces intent on learning its secrets. When the Doctor tries to investigate, his efforts are hampered by crippling chest pains. Someone is manipulating events to suppress humanity's development - but how and why? The trail leads to London where a cabal pushes the world ever closer to catastrophe. Who is the prisoner being held in the Tower of London? Could he or she hold the key to saving mankind? The Doctor must choose between saving his friends or saving Earth in the past, present and future. But the closer he gets to the truth, the worse his condition becomes... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The history of the planet Earth has become splintered, each splinter vying to become the prime reality. But there can only be one true history. The Doctor has a plan to ensure that the correct version of history prevails -- a plan that involves breaking every law of Time. But with the vortex itself on the brink of total collapse, what do mere laws matter? From the Bristol riots of 1831, to the ruins of the city in 2003, from a chance encounter between a frustrated poet and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to a plan to save the human race, the stakes are raised ever higher -- until reality itself is threatened. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it's a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it's now time tourism, in fact - and they're not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time! </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>With time running out, the Doctor finally understands why 'our' universe is unique. In proving it, he nearly destroys the TARDIS and all aboard -- and becomes involved with the machinations of the mysterious Timeless organisation. They can fix your wildest dreams, get away with murder and bring a whole new meaning to the idea of victimless crime. Soon, Fitz and Trix are married, Anji's become a mum, and an innocent man is marked for the most important death in the universe's long history. The reasons why force the Doctor into a deadly showdown in a killing ground spawned before time and space began. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Doctor Who is a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords are an immensely powerful race, so named because they were the first to discover how to travel freely through time and space. Bored with his life on Gallifrey, the Doctor steals his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) and sets off to explore the universe. He believes passionately in truth and justice, and finds himself getting involved wherever he finds evil and malevolence - which is everywhere! "Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There's nothing a man - or woman - won't do for true love." 1812: The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At their heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of inspiration - and more besides - for them all. But family friend, Captain Padorin, is acting like a man possessed - by the Devil! 2024: Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel. 5000: Lord General Razum Kinzhal is ready to set in motion the final stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>To lose your memory once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose it twice looks like carelessness. The Doctor's not himself. He's not quite sure who he is, but he's definitely not himself. It doesn't help that he's forgotten quite why he came to the colony world of Espero in the first place, but he's sure it was something important. Whatever the reason, he's not the planet's only visitor. Before long, he's engaged in the search for a time-bomb - a time-bomb that could have consequences not only for Espero, but for the Doctor himself - and his missing past. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There's always one, isn't there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver's Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The latest in a long line of suicide attempts sees Caroline 'Laska' Darnell admitted to the Retreat, a groundbreaking medical center surrounded by woodland. To her horror, she recognizes the Retreat from her recent nightmares of an old building haunted by ghostly dogs with glowing eyes. But who will believe her stories of an evil from the past that has already made one attempt to destroy the building and all its inhabitants? The mysterious Dr. Smith seems curiously aware of the Retreat's past, and is utterly fascinated by Laska's waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr. Smith? </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>There is no such thing as a good night. Maybe, as you fall asleep, you can hide away in dreams. Or so you'd like to think. Because, as every child knows, there are bad dreams. And bad dreams are a glimpse into the real world - where the monsters are. And the things in your nightmares that are worse than monsters: the creeping black memories that can bring fear and pain and blood. Even here, today, tonight ... in the most ordinary of homes, and against the most ordinary people, the terror will strike. An old man will tell his last ghost story... A young family will encounter a deathless horror... And the Doctor and his friends will uncover the terrible secret of the Deadstone Memorial. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The solar system is being spring cleaned. Under the supervision of celebrity planetary make-over decoratiste Arisotle Halcyon, the number of moons of Jupiter is being brought down to an aesthetically pleasing level. But with eco-terrorists taking an active - and deadly - interest in the work, corrupt officials lining their own pockets, and incompetence leading to the demolition of the wrong moon, the Doctor and his companions realize that not everything as is aesthetic and innocent as it seems. Will the Doctor be able to stop dangerous experiments in genetic engineering and overturn a clandestine evil plan to conquer the solar system? Will Trix escape from the deadly space sheep? And will Fitz become the galaxy's next megastar designer on the future equivalent of "Changing Planets?" </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there's a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn't going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won't protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate... </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday's swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can't protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they're only just starting to realise that Sunday's wildlife isn't as harmless as it first seems. Why are the native otters behaving so strangely, and what is the creature in the swamps that is so interested in the humans, and the new arrivals? The Doctor and Martha must fight to ensure that human intelligence doesn't become the greatest danger of all. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Mark Michalowski is the author of two previous Doctor Who novels Relative Dementias and Halflife </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The old village well is just a curiosity - something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well. Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction! But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What terrible consequences will follow the search for a legendary treasure hidden at the bottom? No one wants to believe the Doctor's warnings about the deadly horror lying in wait - but soon they'll wish they had... </p>

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The Doctor's been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brilliant and he hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what's this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out he'll land the TARDIS on the Brilliant, a few days before it vanishes. Then they can see for themselves... Soon the Doctor learns the awful truth. And Martha learns that you need to be careful what you wish for. She certainly wasn't hoping for mayhem, death, and badger-faced space pirates. Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who's patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun and the deadly plans of intergalactic mercenaries, the Doctor and Martha are about to discover just how wild the West can become... </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don't have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more... Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they're not here to arrange flowers... </p>


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Hyperville is 2013's top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it's ready, and it's deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience... Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC Television series.


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the TARDIS materializes in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil's Huntsman. And, after a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realizes the city has good reason to be scared! </p>


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An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping center. Maybe it's a publicity stunt.  A photo shows an immaculately-dressed woman in her best shoes lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon - beside her beloved dog 'Poochie'. Maybe it's a hoax.  But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centers on a secret military base on the moon that's where Amy and the TARDIS are.  The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there's no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens.  Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23.


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250,000 years' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the clock is already ticking. There's a comet in the sky, and it's on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it's up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?


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'Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.' New York - one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as Ice Age creatures come back to life, and the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they're only three inches high. With the Doctor kidnapped, and the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien forcefield, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television


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My watch is running backwards.Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the DoctorAs death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctors own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs outA thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor and Amy look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure - the 'glamour' - and next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the glamour has begun, and only the Doctor and Amy can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it? A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Una McCormack lives in Cambridge, where she reads, writes and teaches. She and her partner have no cats and many Daleks. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... and, as the Doctor and Amy realise, another place... another planet. But if Emmaline Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilization, how come she isn't famous? How come Amy's never heard of her? Come to that, since she's been travelling with him for a while now, how come Amy's never even heard of the Doctor? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be illusion. Obvious illusions could be real - and deadly! A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Gary Russell is one of the script editing team for Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the author of many novels and reference books in the Doctor Who range. A former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, he also was the producer of Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions for eight years. He lives in Cardiff. </p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>From 'shotclog' a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book! This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam Jacot de Boinod's acclaimed books about language - The Wonder of Whiffling, The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo (their fans include everyone from Stephen Fry to Michael Palin) - into one highly entertaining, keenly priced compendium. As Mariella Frostup said 'You'll never be lost for words again!'</p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal's confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China's water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world's population and ensure the Church's world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom's picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom's intense novel __ won't be disappointed. <em>--Jane Adams</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom's frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma's murder?and that he's still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he's the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It's that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There's a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina's master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom's mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampire—changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood. <br />Aida Vida is Sarah's older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida's mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out. <br />Taking place over just twenty-four hours, ALL JUST GLASS tells the story of a game-changing battle that will forever change the world of the Den of Shadows. And at its center is the story of two sisters who must choose between love and duty. Dark, fully-imagined, and hard to put down, ALL JUST GLASS will thrill Amelia's fans—old and new. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES wrote her first novel, <em>In the Forests of the Night,</em> when she was 13 years old. Other books in the Den of Shadows series are <em>Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,</em> and <em>Midnight Predator,</em> all ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five-volume series The Kiesha'ra: <em>Hawksong,</em> a <em>School Library Journal</em> Best Book of the Year and VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List Selection;_ Snakecharm; Falcondance; Wolfcry,_ an IRA-CBC Young Adults' Choice; and <em>Wyvernhail</em>. She is also the author of <em>Persistence of Memory</em>. Visit her online at AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.com. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><em>The Last Time They Met</em> opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer's conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren't old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime's worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what that history contains: there was adultery, we gather, and a car accident, plus some illicit encounters under a pitiless Kenyan sun. Presumably the rest of the book will lead back to the beginnings of this grand passion, right? We think we know where this is going--but that's the tricky part, because we don't.</p><p>The novel does get off to a slow start, with an unnecessarily drawn-out description of a luxury hotel. But it picks up speed as it moves backward in time, from the lovers' vividly evoked interlude in Africa, to their adolescent years in the Massachusetts village of Hull, and finally to Linda's deepest, darkest secret. Only then does the author unveil her final revelation, which should leave most readers somewhat out of breath, and possibly even obliged to turn back to the first page and read the book over again. Shreve is a canny storyteller, and she knows her characters inside and out. (As well she might: Thomas is the husband of Jean, the photographer in __.) And <em>The Last Time They Met</em> is yet another example of the kind of book she does best--one that's as skillfully plotted as a thriller, but with writing that lingers long after the last plot twist is unfurled. No matter whether people actually <em>have</em> affairs like these. Reading this book only makes you wish that they did. <em>--Mary Park</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The latest work by this versatile novelist (The Pilot's Wife; Fortune's Rocks) may be her most mature to date, as she demonstrates new subtleties in the unfolding of a complex plot. Proceeding in reverse chronological order, Shreve recounts the obsessive love between poets Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes; theirs is a highly charged affair, though they connect only three times in 35 years. The novel's three sections ("Fifty-Two," "Twenty-Six" and "Seventeen") refer to Linda's ages when she meets and later encounters Thomas first (last in the book's structure) as a troubled teen near Boston with "only indistinct memories of her mother and no real ones of her father"; then in Kenya, where Linda has joined the Peace Corps and Thomas's wife, Regina, is working with UNICEF; and finally at a literary festival in Toronto where both characters, unbeknownst to each other, are guest speakers. Though each of the novel's segments is intensely powerful, the cumulative effect is especially wrenching, as the reader knows what Linda and Thomas have yet to experience. Their Africa encounter is especially gripping, since both characters are torn between their mutual passion and their love for their spouses. (Linda has also married, and Regina's announcement of her pregnancy adds further tension.) Shreve's compassionate view of human frailties a recurring theme in much of her work is at its most affecting here, as she meticulously interweaves past and present with total credibility. Her fluid narrative perfectly mirrors her protagonists' evolving temperaments and viewpoints, while her overall restraint serves to intensify the novel's devastating conclusion. (Apr.) Water, starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley, is due in theaters later this year. </p><p>Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. The VanderMeers (_Best American Fantasy_) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the New Weird fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of short fiction and critical essays. Highlights include strong fiction by authors such as M. John Harrison, Clive Barker, Kathe Koja and Michael Moorcock whose work pointed the way to such definitive New Weird tales as Jeffrey Ford's At Reparata and K.J. Bishop's The Art of Dying. Lingering somewhere between dark fantasy and supernatural horror, New Weird authors often seek to create unease rather than full-fledged terror. The subgenre's roots in the British New Wave of the 1960s and the Victorian Decadents can lend a self-consciously literary and experimental aura, as illustrated by the laboratory, where more mainstream fantasy and horror authors, including Sarah Monette and Conrad Williams, try their hands at creating New Weird stories. This extremely ambitious anthology will define the New Weird much as Bruce Sterling's landmark <em>Mirrorshades</em> anthology defined cyberpunk. <em>(Mar.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>The title of this collection of stories, essays, and online discussion threads refers to a subgenre of modern horror that has roots in New Wave literature and the off-kilter fantasy spawned by Weird Tales. In contrast to the eerie nostalgia of Bradbury or the haunting supernaturalism of Lovecraft, the New Weird more often leans toward grotesque urban noir and cross-genre experimentation. The contributors here constitute a multitalented lineup ranging from such veterans as Clive Barker and Michael Moorcock to rising stars, such as Jay Lake and Alistair Rennie. Kathe Koje’s “The Neglected Garden” follows the transformation of a spurned lover who takes revenge by crucifying herself on her ex’s wire fence. China Miévelle, whose celebrated Perdido Street Station (2000) epitomizes the subcategory’s visceral blend of fantasy and realism, contributes a gritty tale about the veneration and inevitable capture of an outlaw cyborg. In the anthology’s final section, an experimental collaboration between seven authors embellishing a plot hatched by Paul DiFillipo exemplifies the New Weird’s propensity for pushing the boundaries of literary invention. --Carl Hays </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Newspaper reporter Jack Flynn, last seen in McGrory's Dead Line (2004), investigates a series of contemporary murders that parallel the terrifying Boston Strangler slayings of the 1960s in the author's less than convincing fourth thriller. Somewhat improbably, Flynn must begin by probing the older case and the debate over whether the confessed strangler, Albert DeSalvo, was actually guilty. In the novel's reality, the senior Bay State senator isn't Ted Kennedy but a prosecutor who made his reputation on the DeSalvo case and who's among many in law enforcement discouraging Flynn from re-examining the official line that DeSalvo was the murderer. The sympathetic Flynn, with his train wreck of a private life, compensates for the author not probing more deeply serious questions about the real-life strangler case. Those seeking a rich, compelling look at the possible return of a serial killer would do better to turn to Peter Straub's Blue Rose and its sequels.<br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> Has the Boston Strangler returned, reprising his murder spree of 40 years ago? That question plagues reporter Jack Flynn as he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman that becomes just one in a series, with the killer mailing clues to Jack in the newsroom and at home. What if the man who was convicted of rape, suspected of being the strangler, and murdered in prison wasn't actually the strangler? The very possibility that the strangler may be on the loose threatens the future of the police commissioner, now on the verge of running for mayor, a man who made his career during the 1960s investigation of the murder cases. Working with colleague Vinny Mongillo and retired police detective Hank Sweeney, Flynn tracks down clues from Boston to Las Vegas, dodging attempts on his own life along the way. For Jack, the story provokes a crisis of trust in the police, the management of his beloved <em>Boston Record,</em> and a close friend. McGrory offers delicious descriptions of Boston's food, sights, and characters in this taut page-turner with enough suspense to make readers anxiously await the next installment. <em>Vanessa Bush</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. Baxter's skill with short fiction is confirmed in this stellar collection of 23 stories, seven of which are new. The title story is deservedly a classic, and other favorites, such as "Fenstad's Mother," have gathered resonance as well, and the new stories show Baxter working a quirky beat. In each, the acutely observed real world is rocked by the exotic or surreal. In "Poor Devil," the "devils" are a self-destructive couple headed for a divorce, while, in "Ghosts," a stranger enters a young woman's house and tells her they are soul mates. She accuses him of being a devil, but his intentions are much less sinister than she imagines. "Nightfall had always brought his devils out," the narrator says in "The Old Murderer," a touching story about an alcoholic and an ex-con, each trying to get through the day. In "Royal Blue," arguably the best of the new stories, an undertow of mystery shadows a handsome young art dealer who understands that 9/11 has affected a fundamental change in his life. In Baxter's comic-melancholic world, people may be incapable of averting sadness or violence, but they survive. (Jan.) (c) <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Baxter is a well-regarded short story writer who should be more widely appreciated. He is a consummate chronicler—depictor—of ordinary lives with which the majority of good fiction readers can identify. (“In my university town there are hundreds of men like Harrelson,” says one narrator, whose recognition of the type will be shared by all of us.) Baxter attaches to these lives an eccentric aspect, which, ironically, heightens their universality—we all have our quirks—and which increases our responsiveness to them. This volume pulls stories from the author’s four previous collections and adds seven previously uncollected stories. As in all big compilations, quality varies. The superior stories, including the title story (a delightful first-person narrative, from the perspective of a fourth-grade boy, about an odd substitute teacher), showcase Baxter’s first-rate talents in the form: sophisticated humor, exact writing style, plots at once ordinary and extraordinary, and in, common with all masters of the form, wizardry at the fetching opening line. --Brad Hooper </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>“Reading this book is like sipping hot cider in front of a crackling potbellied stove. Every page is suffused with wit and charm and glowing with warmth.”–_Newsweek_  </p><p>“A lovely book. . . . Honest, moving, homely in the warm and simple sense of the word. . . . It is small, accepting and loving and it succeeds perfectly.”–_Boston Globe_  </p><p>“You’ll find yourself caught up in the novel’s emotion from the very opening scene. . . . Love suffuses every page.”–_The New York Times  </p><p><em>"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age."--</em>School Library Journal. _</p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy  </p><p>at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of  </p><p>any age."--School Library Journal.   </p>


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<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>With the lyricism she was lauded for in More Than You Know, Story has crafted a post-Katrina New Orleans from a fumy cloud of sad jazz and Creole spices. Though this time out her descriptive lushness meshes uneasily with the patchy, if intense, tone and plot. After the storm, Julian Fortier, a successful trumpeter, returns to look for his missing father and ends up dealing with drama: family land is threatened by developers; a past betrayal is dredged up; he's confronted with a failed romance. Amidst all this he navigates his devastated city, confronting the emotional and professional mess of his life both present and past and the more immediate problems left by the storm. Everyone he encounters is boldly drawn, and Julian's father is fantastically sympathetic, but Julian himself, the sulky center of it all, only drags things down. Readers will feel a palpable sense of frustration as plotlines sag after initial tension and the pathos and beauty of the Big Easy becomes abstract, explained more than evoked. Story has created a fine narrative web, peopled it with some skill, and brought her style and grace to the page, but none of these elements feel complete. (Sept.) (c) <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"New Orleans natives struggle to recover their lives as well as their property after Hurricane Katrina.... Story’s musical background infuses her novel with a lyrical rhythm...as engaging characters rebuild their relationships and their city. The current oil-spill crisis only makes the hopefulness of this novel more moving, if heart-wrenching."<br>--Kirkus Reviews</p>

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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in <em>Fall of Hyperion</em>, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in <em>Hyperion</em> and <em>Fall of Hyperion</em>, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue in at least one more volume. </p><p>This series has something for everyone: Simmons's prose is imaginative and stylistically varied; point-of-view and time-scale are handled with finesse; the action is always gripping; the device of Old Earth allows Simmons to work in entertaining references to present-day culture; and the technology raises bizarre questions of ethics and morality in its use of repeated death and resurrection. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>After a recent foray into the horror field (Fires of Eden, LJ 11/15/94), the multitalented Simmons returns to the sf genre with a sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Hyperion (Doubleday, 1989) and The Fall of Hyperion (LJ <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p><strong>Praise for Cherie Priest’s <em>Boneshaker</em></strong>  </p><p>“A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions . . . this book is made of irresistible.”—Scott Westerfeld  </p><p>“Should be sought out by readers of fantasy and horror alike.”—Chiaroscuro   </p><p>“One of 2009’s best novels . . . .is not to be missed.”—Joe Sherry, <em>Fantasy Magazine</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>VAMPIRE FOR HIRE</strong>  </p><p>Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesn’t usually hang with her own kind. She’s too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Raylene finds him impossible to resist—even though Ian doesn’t want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government files—documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesn’t bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic, power-hungry scientist on her trail, a kick-ass drag queen on her side, and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments, the case proves to be one hell of a ride. </p>


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<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In its homage to America’s most rakish hucksters, Broadway’s "Library of Larceny" series reissues this collection of irreverent "low-life" pieces penned by Liebling, a mid-century fixture at the New Yorker renowned for his intimacy with con culture. Originally published in 1942, this sinewy compendium opens the door to the gritty underworld of grifters, showmen and hustlers from a bygone era of deadpan humor, decadent bonhomie and vigorous one-upmanship. With affectionate aplomb, Liebling introduces us to the colorful if unscrupulous denizens of Broadway’s Jollity Building, whose names alone are reminiscent of Garbage Pail Kids: Paddy the Booster, Acid Test Ike, Lotsandlots, Judge Horumph, Count de Pennies and Marty the Clutch (so named for his "custom of mangling people’s fingers when he shakes hands with them"). The "telephone booth Indians" moniker refers to promoters so pressed for cash that they must conduct their wheeling and dealing from one of the lobby’s eight coin-box phone booths. While it’s riveting to learn about the humble, hardscrabble beginnings of the Shubert (yes, as in theater) brothers, what’s most memorable about this masterpiece is the nostalgia Liebling evokes in his reader for larger-than-life characters such as the sartorial peacock Roy Wilson Howard, a newsman whose self-control on the telephone Liebling irresistibly likens to that "of a fat woman waving away a tray of chocolate eclairs." With a foreword by critic and Low Life author Luc Sante. <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>“Liebling remains the nonpareil.” —Anthony Lewis </p>

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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners either run out to reclaim some vacant lots or cringe at the thought that they might one day live next door to and downwind from such a menagerie. Karen White vividly individualizes the colorful locals, including Bobby (who lives in abandoned cars), the Buddhist monks across the way, the skeptical neighbors, the Chinese landlord and the random foragers who help themselves to Carpenter's bounty. Narrated with cheerful verve, White's performance will charm even those readers without the slightest inclination to get up close and personal with their future meals. <em>A Penguin Press hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 20). (Aug.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>[Audio Review] Highways roared in the distance. Gunshots could be heard a few blocks away. And a homeless man slept in an abandoned car down the street. Among these modern-day urban scenes, author Novella Carpenter put down roots literally turning a vacant lot in Oakland, California, into a working mini-farm, complete with vegetables, herbs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Karen White reads these lively accounts of missteps and delicious victories, including recipes, with the author's intelligence, humor, and devotion to the American ideal of hard work and self-sufficiency. Farming is about food, and food is always about people. Carpenter's encounters with third-world neighbors, block parties, and the boy who came to buy a rabbit are beguiling and inspiring. B.P. Â© AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --AudioFile </p>


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<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Bestseller Pelecanos (_The Turnaround_) probes the volatile and fragile relationship between a father, Thomas Flynn, and his son, Chris, in this less than satisfying effort. As a rebellious teen into drugs, Chris had minor brushes with the law and did a stint in juvenile prison. Now 26, he's working for his father's D.C.-area carpet installation business and staying clean. Still, Thomas remains disappointed in his son's lack of achievement or ambition, and Chris remains resentful that he's not accepted for who he is. A rather tired device, a bag of stolen money found by Chris and a friend and fellow former inmate, serves to set in motion a chain of actions that will lead to critical decisions for both Flynns. Pelecanos adroitly sketches the obstacles and temptations that face juvenile offenders in and after prison, but this novel, with its dispassionate style, never manages to generate high suspense or evoke much sympathy for its characters. <em>Author tour. (May)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Notions of revenge, redemption, and justice fuel this thriller, set in Washington, D.C. After a stint in juvenile hall, Chris Flynn sets out to turn his life around, taking a job as a carpet installer for his father, a flooring supplier, despite their contentious relationship. When Chris and a friend find fifty thousand dollars hidden beneath the floorboards at a job site, they must contend with a pair of sadistic ex-cons eager to reclaim the money, stolen during a jewelry heist years earlier. Despite its hard-charging elements, the story unfolds almost languidly, and it is clear that Pelecanos, a seasoned novelist and a writer for “The Wire,” means to provoke more than quickened heartbeats. His passionate advocacy for juvenile-prison reform—and his well-reasoned argument that a poorly run system can punish petty offenders far more severely than their crimes merit—occasionally turns the plot into a polemic. <br>Copyright ©2008_ Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker_</p>

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The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II - and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results: death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become super-human "aces" as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque "jokers." It's a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door. A world of Wild Cards.


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<p>The streets of New York have erupted in celebration of Wild Card Day - the annual event held every September 15th to remember the dead and cherish the living. It is a day for fireworks and street fairs and parades, for political rallies and memorial banquets, for drinking and fighting in the alleys. With each passing year, the festivities become larger and more fevered. And this year - 1986, the fortieth anniversary - promises to be the biggest and best Wild Card Day ever.<p>But lurking in the background is a twisted genius who cares nothing for fun and festivity. The Astronomer has only one concern: destruction...<p><i>The Mobipocket Reader format of this title is not suitable for use on the Palm OS versions of Mobipocket Reader. </i>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success. </p><p>Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art. </p><p>Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: __, <strong>, </strong>. <em>--Dick Adler</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child's aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department's Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda's neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston's crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda's likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. Author tour. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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A Killer Without A ConscienceThe crimes are barbaric. The victims are found in desolate rural areas, naked and impaled on long wooden stakes. There are no clues. No DNA evidence. Just a message, etched over and over again on one broken body: I have returned. Without Control FBI Agent Sam Markham's last investigation ended with a serial killer's death and Sam's promotion. But back then, Sam had luck on his side. This time, the murderer's methods are evolving too fast, his bloodlust growing too swiftly. This time, no one is safe. Without Limits With each mutilated body, new depths to The Impaler's brutality are revealed. And as the clues finally slip into place, Sam will discover how easy it is to cross the line from hunter--to hunted. . . Praise for Gregory Funaro and The Sculptor A stone cold thrill ride! Unique and unexpected twists make this one a keeper! Lisa Jackson Funaro provides clever plotting and plenty of suspense. --John Lutz Fast-paced, exciting. . .Funaro delivers gasp-out-loud terror and relentless suspense. A genuine page-turner! --Kevin O'Brien


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popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.<br><br>Included
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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p><em>Starred Review.</em> Bestseller Katzenbach (_The Traveler_) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller cliché and using it as the basis for a powerful and complex story. The one-night stand that Ashley Freeman, a Boston art history grad student, has with Michael O'Connell, a determined psychopath, leads to dire consequences. O'Connell quickly moves to obsessively control every aspect of Ashley's life, coupling a relentless will with ingenuity and computer skills that soon ensnare Ashley's loved ones as they seek to protect her from him. When their feeble attempts to buy or scare off O'Connell fail, Ashley's divorced parents, as well as her mother's lesbian partner, embark on a convoluted but ingenious plot of their own. The author deftly shifts perspective among his central characters, raising this page-turner above the run-of-the-mill by making all of them emotionally credible. <em>(Sept.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Ashley Freeman is a promising art-history student passionate about every aspect of her life. One night, the twentysomething Bostonian meets Michael O'Connell, a handsome, dark-haired stranger whom she readily forgets after a single steamy session between the sheets. But Mike, a street-smart psychopath who stalks women for sport, has no intention of letting Ashley go. He watches her every move from the shadows and sends her countless e-mails professing his love. Ashley's family and friends shrug it off as a crush, until O'Connell, an ingenious computer hacker, reveals the damage he can do: he sabotages the reputation of Ashley's professor father with a stinging accusation of plagiarism and nearly gets her mother, a lawyer, disbarred. Bribes and threats do nothing to deter him, and when a private investigator assigned to the case turns up dead, the Freeman family takes extreme measures to quash O'Connell's relentless pursuit. Although his ending is a bit too contrived, the best-selling Katzenbach (_The Madman's Tale_, 2004) keeps the pages turning in this unsettling tale of obsessive love. <em>Allison Block</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p><em>Starred Review.</em> Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed from notebooks Kerouac kept in his pocket between 1952 and 1954 turns out to rank with his most interesting work. From clipped descriptions of America's underbelly ("a pile of junk, —&amp; the/ girders of the viaduct have / great black bolt heads/ like knobs of a / sweating steel black/ city") to vague hipster prophesying ("The next great con-/ flict will be between/ Hip &amp; Christ"), Whitmanesque embraces of his fellow man ("...I have cared/ for ye dutchmen"), love notes to famous beatnik friends ("O Allen Sad Allen Ah / Mystery") and sad, self-deprecating prayers ("Drink is good for/ love — good for/ music — let it/ be good for writing"), Kerouac hits all the notes for which he and his fellow beats are known. While not everything here is golden, the immediacy and unpretentiousness of this off-the-cuff writing makes it an intimate glimpse into the consciousness of a man who simply couldn't stop observing. A short, aggrandizing introduction by painter George Condo sets the tone. <em>(Apr.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Kerouac admirers know of the legendary writer's habit of carrying a small notebook in his shirt pocket to jot down his impressions. But it is not common knowledge that this peripatetic observer typed up the contents of the journals he filled from mid-1952 through 1954 to create a manuscript he titled <em>Book of Sketches.</em> This collection of in-the-moment jottings, the literary equivalent of rapidly executed drawings, is now published for the first time. Whitmanesque in his embrace of life, painterly in his details, and enthralled by the texture of language, Kerouac describes the "longroar of sea," hitchhiking in North Carolina, and finding himself naked among trees in Mexico, suffering "the terrible benzedrine / depression after big / night of drinking." He remembers "childhood dreams," wishes for a woman, marvels over the unexpected beauty of a Denver barbershop, and frets over "TV stupidities" and "Americans / who only think in / terms of paranoia &amp; oil." Restless, receptive, and hungry for divinity, Kerouac continues to feed our collective imagination in yet another treasure from his precious archives. <em>Donna Seaman</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><em>Before I Fall</em>, throws readers into a tightly controlled society where options don’t exist, and shows not only the lengths one will go for a chance at freedom, but also the true meaning of sacrifice. --_Jessica Schein_</p><p><strong> Amazon Exclusive: Lauren Oliver’s <em>Delirium</em> Playlist </strong><br /><strong> </strong> (Click on the song name to listen to a sample)   </p><p><hr />This song sounds so passionate and desperate, and I think it’s one of those magical songs that sounds like it was written with my characters in mind (if only!).   </p><p><hr />Taylor Swift always perfectly captures the feeling of isolation, of not fitting in. She nails it in this song.   </p><p><hr />The title is perfect and the sound is great for energizing me at the start of a writing session. And seriously, <em>Delirium</em> could have had this as a sub-title!   </p><p><hr />I love listening to Tegan and Sara and their moody—but somehow optimistic—songs. The title couldn’t be more a propos, obviously.   </p><p><hr />This song is all about trying to be strong and self-sufficient—to deny the interdependence of people. I definitely think the characters in <em>Delirium</em> are trying to be rocks, and often not succeeding.   </p><p><hr />She asks over and over, <em>Will you feel anything at all?</em> Enough said.   </p><p><hr />I listened to it the first time just because of the title . . . and lo and behold! It’s also just a great song. On a side note: The cover art is fabulous and also <em>Delirium</em>-esque.   </p><p><hr />This is one of those anthems that pushes you forward—a good post break-up song but also a good song for remembering you’re in control of your own destiny.   </p><p><hr />I picture this song playing during some of the quieter, more intimate scenes in <em>Delirium</em>. It kind of brings to mind the idea of a secret space, be it physical or just internal.   </p><p><hr />Full disclosure: This song is often on repeat on my iPod. Great song for fighting back, pushing through, and being an individual.   </p><p><hr />Blues Traveler is so underrated—it’s ridiculous. And this is my favorite of their unknown songs. <em>The time is now and you don’t have long</em>… So true, man. So true!   </p><p><hr />Even Ani knows the power of the color grey!   </p><p><hr />James is a young musician I know from NYC. When I hear this song, I imagine him as Alex, playing a song to Lena—maybe while they're in the Wilds! His sound is so stripped-down and also so honest.   </p><p><hr />Nothing like some old school romance—they knew how to do it back in the day. This reminds me of a song Lena’s mom would have liked.   </p><p><hr />There’s something scary about this song. It’s so foreboding and passionate—and I love it.   </p><p><hr />I think I might be in love with Mr. W. His voice is downright haunting and this is a perfect walking-around-NYC-with-my-headphones-on-and-thinking-about-the-meaning-of-life song. Trust me.   </p><hr /><h3>From</h3><p>Oliver’s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: it’s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Alex, a rakish daredevil who, as it turns out, is one of the Invalids—a tribe of uncured who live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. With the clock ticking down to her surgery, Lena is drawn into Alex’s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. Oliver’s masterstroke is making a strong case for love as disease: the anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impulsive behavior of the smitten do smack of infirmity. The story bogs down as it revels in romance—Alex is standard-issue perfection—but the book never loses its A Clockwork Orange–style bite regarding safety versus choice. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko's business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client's request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass's books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz's daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko's unsavory background. While the story twists won't shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character. <em>(Jan.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Bartulin’s debut is an old-fashioned mystery with lots of snappy dialogue and a noir atmosphere. A second-hand book dealer in Australia, Jack just wants a quiet life among his beloved books and far away from his former work as a Mob driver. Broke and with his store struggling, Jack accepts a commission from a local magnate to locate and buy all known copies of any books by a relatively unknown and out-of-print poet. But Jack isn’t the only one tracking down the books, and the businessman drives a tough bargain. The Australian setting doesn’t make a strong impression, but that is more than made up for by the well-rounded and believable characters. With a fast pace and a noir tone, this is bound to appeal to a wide audience of mystery readers but will be especially popular with book lovers and fans of John Dunning’s Cliff Janeway series. A strong debut and a promising series. --Jessica Moyer </p>


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<h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>From the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household slaves were human beings, not mere property. When her mother commits suicide, Caroline is sent first to the Fletcher plantation and then to relatives in Philadelphia. Three years later, as the nation teeters on the brink of civil war, her father brings her home. Caroline is now a determined abolitionist, and she struggles to live in a culture where people believe that slavery is ordained by God. With her fianc‚, father, and cousin off fighting in the war, Caroline embarks on a dangerous path of spying and intrigue that tests her faith and demands risk and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Caroline is the only fully developed character in this work, and the African American characters are all too good to be true; despite these flaws, Austin (Hidden Places; Eve's Daughters; Wings of Refuge) has written a thoroughly engrossing and exciting tale that will appeal to fans of Virginia Gaffney's "Richmond Chronicles" and historical romances. Purchase where historical novels and Austin's other books are in demand. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Book 1 in the Refiner’s Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline’s eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan.…  </p><p>After their victory in Aurënen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to Rhíminee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it is difficult for them to settle in. Hoping for diversion, they accept an assignment that will take them back to Seregil’s homeland. En route, however, they are ambushed and separated, and both are sold into slavery. Clinging to life, Seregil is sustained only by the hope that Alec is alive.   </p><p>But it is not Alec’s life his strange master wants—it is his blood. For his unique lineage is capable of producing a rare treasure, but only through a harrowing process that will test him body and soul and unwittingly entangle him and Seregil in the realm of alchemists and madmen—and an enigmatic creature that may hold their very destiny in its inhuman hands…. But will it prove to be savior or monster? </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Lynn Fleweling was born in Presque Isle, Maine, which—contrary to common assumption—is not an island. She received her undergraduate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where she majored in English, minored in History, and received a teaching certificate she had no intention of ever using. Since then, she has studied literature, veterinary medicine, ancient Greek among other things, and worked as a necropsy technician, a house painter, an office worker, a freelance editor, a freelance journalist (www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/OtherWritings.html), and yes, even as a teacher now and then, an instructor of workshops—on creativity and fiction writing. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis's writing, which is always skillful and consistently seductive--sometimes irritatingly so. Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters, and then, in some unsettling way, encourages us to patronize or disparage them. It's an odd strategy, but it holds our attention. By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes, he focuses us intently on his story line. </p><p>In "Coincidence of the Arts," the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman, aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier, who turns to him for artistic encouragement. When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress, it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin's wife. The consequences reflect well on neither man. In "State of England," we smirk knowingly at Big Mal, a bullshitting East Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son's sports day, but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him. Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as "Let Me Count the Times" have not stood the test of time, and Amis's tales of literary agents, aspiring novelists, and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie. Still, when he is on form, Amis's work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing. <em>--Lisa Jardine, Amazon.co.uk</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen here before, offers a good sampling of his range. This includes, of course, tone-perfect mimicry, which is evident in "State of England," about a disco bouncer with a son at a posh English boys' school, and "What Happened to Me on My Holiday," told in the misspelled, petulant voice of a hurt child. Then there is sharp, edgy comedy based on the notion of role reversal. In "Career Move," much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other's work and vie desperately for publication in ephemeral little magazines that never pay. "Straight Fiction" supposes that the world is predominantly gay but that outposts of heterosexuality remain in areas like New York's Christopher Street and San Francisco's Castro, exerting a malificent influence on the predominant, comfortable culture. "The Coincidence of the Arts" has an aristocratic and evasive English artist in New York trying to avoid reading an ambitious novel thrust upon him by his black doorman. "The Janitor on Mars" is a satirical science fiction yarn. Amis's work is wonderfully clever and often extremely funny, but there is no escaping a certain steely-eyed coldness at the heart of it. Author tour. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p><em>Starred Review.</em> British author Walters's harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house ("a place of anguish") and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (_Disordered Minds_) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and "the secret of freedom, courage." <em>(Aug.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>In this uneven but scary thriller, Connie Burns, a white Zimbabwean war correspondent for Reuters, investigates five gruesome murders in Sierra Leone and follows a hunch, convinced that a British mercenary is using the mayhem of war zones to disguise his taste for raping and killing women. After a mysterious assailant kidnaps her and holds her prisoner for three days in Iraq, she becomes convinced that her quarry is now hunting her. She flees to Dorset, rents an isolated house that turns out to have a troubled history, and is befriended by a reclusive neighbor who, some years before, lost her entire family in a car crash. Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters's ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect. <br />Copyright © 2006 </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>This is a sequel to Assassin's Creed: Renaissance. Ezio, the master assassin, seeks to avenge the death of his uncle. Unbeknownst to him this will pit him against the Knights Templar. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Oliver Bowden</strong> is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist who is also a Renaissance historian. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Nobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O'Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Mary, who collaborate under the joint byline of Perri. This is the fifth in their series about lawyer Nina Reilly. O'Shaughnessy expertly balances Reilly's life between the working half and the private half (raising her 16-year-old son as a single mother and finding the time and place for romance). The fact that both parts take place in the heavenly venue of Lake Tahoe only adds to the reading pleasure. </p><p><em>Acts of Malice</em> begins with a jolt: the manager of one of the area's largest ski resorts is charged with the murder of his brother, and hires Nina to defend him. But this will not be an easy case for Nina since the prosecutor, Collier Hallowell, is the man who shook up her life so violently by walking out on her a year before. Also, Nina and her immediate circle find themselves in danger from the very client that they are defending.</p><p>Other examples of the O'Shaughnessy expertise include <strong> and </strong>. <em>--Dick Adler</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Attorney and single mother Nina Reilly makes her fifth appearance in the bestselling author O'Shaughnessy sisters' (Breach of Promise; Obstruction of Justice) new legal thriller, this one set on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Reilly's client in this case is Jim Strong, a local ski bum whose family owns the swanky Paradise resort. Jim stands accused of killing his younger brother Alex, who was stomped to death by someone wearing ski boots whose imprints on Alex's chest match the soles of Jim's footgear. But the suspect claims he's being framed by his adulterous wife, Heidi, who gave a statement to police and has gone into hiding. The case gives Reilly the willies, as disturbing events ensue that cast doubt on her client. Philip Strong, father of the dead youth and the suspect, is behaving strangely, and the victim's wife, a libidinous ski bunny made wealthy through inheritance, seems to have more feelings for Jim than for her dead husband. And the prosecutor, the passionate Collier Hallowell, warns Reilly off the case, hinting that Jim is a psychopath who killed animals as a kid and will seek vengeance on her if her defense doesn't get him off the hook. Reilly almost takes the latter advice, because she and Hallowell are in love and talking about having kids together. Their romance strains credibility and verges on syrupy: "He kissed her like he was searching for something, looking for her, only her." The central question of whether Jim is a murderer or a sap has an answer as predictable as the love scenes are corny. Sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy (writing under their vaguely disguised pen name) do well to surround Reilly with a well-drawn cast of characters who provide a pleasant diversion even after the suspense has fizzled. $300,000 marketing campaign; author tour. (July) <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Nina Reilly's new client ought to be dancing in the streets. She's just won the biggest slot machine jackpot in Lake Tahoe history. But if Jessie Potter claims it, she's putting herself and her little boy in harm's way. Someone's out to get the young woman, and the only one who seems to be on her side is Kenny Leung, an awkward but likable techno-wizard who's about to go bankrupt. Nina comes up with a plan to help Jessie collect her jackpot without revealing her identity to the powerful man who believes she killed his son. But her client's pursuer is already on the sniff. Though he was unable to convince the police to charge her with homicide, he and his sleazy lawyer counter Nina's maneuver by filing a writ of execution that will deprive Jessie of her rightful winnings. And just to thicken the plot, there's someone else threatening Jessie--a very angry man who believes she stole the jackpot that should have been his. He will kill anyone who stands in the way of his claim.</p><p>Nina may be a crafty lawyer, but she's not quite as deft in juggling her personal and professional lives. Paul van Wagoner, her investigator, isn't happy with their romantic relationship, and Nina herself, still mourning the death of her husband, is reluctant to commit to more than a casual romance. Perri O'Shaughnessy doesn't devote a lot of ink to her heroine's emotional concerns, but she's good at plotting, excellent on the legal maneuvering, and handles her secondary characters well, particularly Leung, whose computer expertise illuminates the technical aspects of slot machine gaming. This is a series that keeps getting better. O'Shaughnessy fans who've stuck with Nina since her somewhat plodding earlier adventures will be glad they stayed the course. <em>--Jane Adams</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A wild, just-barely-believable scenario jump-starts this serviceably written, well-paced and engaging courtroom thriller, seventh in a series by the bestselling duo (sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy) who write under the pen name Perri. On an ordinary night at a Lake Tahoe casino, a young ex-Marine and Native American widow named Jessie Potter punches a button on a slot machine and winds up hitting the jackpot to the tune of $7 million. Rather than jumping for joy, she flees the casino, dragging computer nerd Kenny Leung, the man at the slot machine next to hers, along with her. Jessie, it is revealed, is being stalked and can't sign for her check, for fear of publicity. Desperate for a solution, she convinces Kenny to marry her so she can sign as Mrs. Leung, and to protect her interests, she hires lawyer Nina Reilly, back once more after her adventures in Move to Strike. The story takes off when Jessie's former father-in-law enters the picture with a wrongful death suit, claiming that Jessie killed his son, and a writ of execution that will seize all of Jessie's assets, including the $7 million. Meanwhile, key witnesses to Jessie's win keep turning up dead, and Nina and her arch rival, Jeff Riesner, face off in court. Although development of the interpersonal relationships is rushed, making them never quite as believable as they should be, and the language and dialogue are rendered predictably, the suspenseful and well-executed courtroom scenes provide ample payoff. In particular, the book's final third captivates with its scenes of wily courtroom negotiation. Readers will relish the myriad plot details and the procedural drama, and enjoy the cast of offbeat characters. Major ad/promo; author tour. </p><p>Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A math genius, a tough courtroom adversary and an even tougher judge make the 11th legal thriller in the Nina Reilly series (_Unlucky in Law_, etc.) the most intriguing yet. Back in Lake Tahoe, Nina gets her next case from a masseuse whose aunt was killed during a motel robbery. Unless Nina acts, the lawsuit filed against the Ace High Lodge will be dismissed, as no one has been able to locate the witnesses. Reluctant to call on ex-lover PI Paul van Wagoner for help, Nina hires her assistant's PI son, Wish, who discovers that the witnesses are MIT students with a sideline counting cards. While the old case takes on new life, people connected to it are threatened and worse. O'Shaughnessy (lawyer Pamela and editor Mary O'Shaughnessy) takes the reader inside the beautiful mind of emotionally immature, occasionally delusional, quantitatively inspired Elliott Wakefield as he solves equations, cares for his father and plays blackjack. In thrillers as in math proofs, neatness counts. Here, the Internet and national security bring Elliott's story to an almost too-neat conclusion, while Nina ingeniously solves the problem of replacing Paul in her personal life. As always, O'Shaughnessy keeps legal procedure straight, language crisp and plot consistently absorbing. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>David Hanna witnessed the murder of his wife (and her unborn fetus) outside a hotel on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Now it's two years later, and Hanna enlists the help of Nina Reilly, a formidable attorney of some local notoriety (and star of 10 previous O'Shaughnessy adventures). The plan is to hold the hotel accountable for its lack of security, which made possible the robbery that produced the stray bullet that, in turn, killed Hanna's wife. The perp was never caught, and the three robbery victims, who Nina feels are the key to the case, have been no help, purposely staying in California so that the Nevada court has no jurisdiction over them. Nina's search for the truth takes her all the way to Europe--and into the arms of her former husband. O'Shaunessy (pseudonym for a sister team) has a knack for plotting and for combining suspenseful action with a light and playful tone. Another fine addition to an appealing and popular series. <em>Mary Frances Wilkens</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of 
popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.<br><br>Included
 within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul 
Anderson, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley 
Weinbaum, Alan Nourse, Harl Vincent, and many others. <br><br>This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.<br><br>Contents:<br><br>INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION<br>By Poul Anderson<br>THE MIND MASTER<br>by Arthur J. Burks<br>THE ULTIMATE WEAPON<br>by John Wood Campbell<br>TO REMEMBER CHARLIE BY<br>By Roger Dee<br>LET 'EM BREATHE SPACE!<br>By Lester Del Rey<br>THE DEMI-URGE<br>By Thomas M. Disch<br>PHARAOH'S BROKER<br>By Ellsworth Douglass<br>THE MAN WHO STAKED THE STARS<br>By Charles Dye<br>THE TALKATIVE TREE<br>By H. B. Fyfe<br>CUM GRANO SALIS<br>By Randall Garrett<br>THE DARK WORLD<br>By Henry Kuttner<br>THE INVADERS<br>By Murray Leinster<br>THE SOLAR MAGNET<br>By S. P. Meek<br>THE COFFIN CURE<br>by Alan E. Nourse<br>THE DARK DOOR<br>By Alan E. Nourse<br>NAUDSONC<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>OMNILINGUAL<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>DANGER<br>by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester<br>MR. CHIPFELLOW'S JACKPOT<br>by Dick Purcell<br>THE GREEN BeRET<br>By Tom Purdom<br>A FILBERT IS A NUT<br>By Rick Raphael<br>MEDAL OF HONOR<br>By Mack Reynolds<br>MERCENARY<br>By Mack Reynolds<br>THE DEATH-CLOUD<br>By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat<br>WATCH THE SKY<br>by James H. Schmitz<br>DEATH WISH<br>By Robert Sheckley<br>WARRIOR RACE<br>By Robert Sheckley<br>TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY<br>By Walt Sheldon<br>THE SUCCESS MACHINE<br>By Henry Slesar<br>HELPFULLY YOURS<br>By Evelyn E. Smith<br>NARAKAN RIFLES, ABOUT FACE!<br>By Jan Smith<br>STOP LOOK AnD DIG<br>By George O. Smith<br>THE VENUS TRAP<br>By Evelyn E. Smith<br>THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE<br>by Arthur G. Stangland<br>INSIDE JOHN BARTH<br>By William W. Stuart<br>THE JUNKMAKERS<br>By Albert Teichner<br>HIGH DRAGON BUMP<br>By Don Thompson<br>LARSON'S LUCK<br>By Gerald Vance<br>MARTIAN V. F. W.<br>By G. L. Vandenburg<br>SILVER DOME<br>By Harl Vincent<br>STRANGE ALLIANCE<br>By Bryce Walton<br>THE IDEAL<br>By Stanley G. Weinbaum<br>The RISK PROFESSION<br>By Donald E. Westlake<br>TO MARS VIA THE MOON<br>By Mark Wicks<br>THE INHABITED<br>By Richard Wilson<br>THE VERY SECRET AGENT<br>By Mari Wolf<br>THE GHOST WORLD<br>By Sewell Peaslee Wright<br>NO MOVING PARTS<br>By Murray F. Yaco<br>THE LANSON SCREEN<br>By Arthur Leo Zagat</div></div>


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M. Miller, Roger Aycock, Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Marlowe, Randall 
Garrett, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, and many others. <br><br>This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.<br><br>ONCE UPON A PLANET<br>By J. J. Allerton<br>MR. PRESIDENT<br>By Stephen Arr<br>THE FRIGHTENED PLANET<br>By Sidney Austen<br>PET FARM<br>By Roger D. Aycock<br>THE PLOTTERS<br>By Alexander Blade<br>LOVE STORY<br>By Irving E. Cox, Jr.<br>THE TRAP<br>By Betsy Curtis<br>CLEAN BREAK<br>By Roger Dee <br>THE VARIABLE MAN<br>By Philip K. Dick<br>UNIFORM OF A MAN<br>By Dave Dryfoos<br>CATEGORY PHOENIX<br>By Boyd Ellanby<br>SKIN GAME<br>By Charles E. Fritch<br>LET THERE BE LIGHT<br>By Horace B. Fyfe<br>SUITE MENTALE<br>By Randall Garrett<br>THE MEASURE OF A MAN<br>By Randall Garrett<br>THE SPHERE OF SLEEP<br>By Chester S. Geier<br>A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW<br>By Robert E. Gilbert<br>BOOMERANG BULLETS<br>By James A. Goldthwaite<br>THE DOOR INTO INFINITY<br>By Edmond Hamilton<br>BEYOND THE THUNDER<br>By H. B. Hickey<br>FEET OF CLAY<br>By Phillip Hoskins<br>THE UNLEARNED<br>By Raymond F. Jones<br>PROJECT HUSH<br>By Phillip Klass<br>TAPE JOCKEY<br>By Tom Leahy<br>OOGIE FINDS LOVE<br>By Berkeley Livingston<br>BREEDER REACTION<br>By Winston Marks<br>BROWN JOHN'S BODY<br>By Winston Marks<br>EARTHSMITH<br>By Stephen Marlowe<br>WORLD BEYOND PLUTO<br>By Stephen Marlowe<br>THE HITCH HIKERS<br>By Vernon L. McCain<br>LIFE SENTENCE<br>By James McConnell<br>THE AMBASSADOR<br>By Sam Merwin, Jr.<br>WAY OF A REBEL<br>By Walter Miller, Jr.<br>OF TIME AND TEXAS<br>By William F. Nolan<br>THY NAME IS WOMAN<br>By Kenneth O'Hara<br>THE HELL SHIP<br>By Ray Palmer<br>THE MERCENARIES<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>THE OCTOPUS CYCLE<br>By Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt<br>THE SWORD<br>By Frank Quattrocchi<br>CODE THREE<br>By Rick Raphael<br>THE COMMON MAN<br>By Mack Reynolds<br>THE BOOK<br>By Michael Shaara<br>PROBABILITY<br>By Louis Trimble<br>SUCCESS STORY<br>By Robert Turner<br>THE JUDAS VALLEY<br>By Gerald Vance<br>MOON GLOW<br>By G. L. Vandenburg<br>WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN<br>By Hal K. Wells<br>THE END OF TIME<br>By Wallace West<br>PLANET OF THE GODS<br>By Robert Moore Williams<br>THE GOD IN THE BOX<br>By Sewell Peaslee Wright</div></div>


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<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This 10th novel in the series featuring ex-CIA spook turned marine biologist Doc Ford (Twelve Mile Limit, etc.), finds Doc wallowing deep in his own doldrums. Out of shape, overweight, depressed and drinking heavily to escape from his turbulent past, Doc gets a surprise visit from Sally Minster, a former lover, whose real estate developer hubby, Geoff, is reported to have been drowned in a boating accident off Bimini six months ago. Soon to inherit his estate, Sally is being followed by an insurance investigator who may have evidence her husband is still alive. Accompanied by his hippie Zen master pal, Sighurdhr Tomlinson, Doc follows the insurance investigator deep into the Everglades, where Geoff turns out to have been in cahoots with a phony guru, Bhagwan Shiva, founder of the International Church of Ashram Meditation Inc. Geoff helped him build one of his new "theme" ashrams to attract rich South Floridians and jet setters, destroying precious Everglades forest in the process. The Bhagwan and his henchman, Izzy Kline, a Mossad-trained former Israeli soldier, are plotting to engineer a series of explosions, enacting the mythic Seminole Chief Tecumseh's earthquake prophecy of 1811. Free-love religious cults, ecological destruction, murder and kidnapping propel Doc and his band of quirky Florida Gulf Coast beach denizens on a dizzying airboat race across the Everglades, where Doc battles his own demons when he's not battling a real live bull shark. The busy plot gets a bit ragged in places, but while it's not White's career best, this satisfying, madcap fare could well go seismic on the regional bestseller lists. <br>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> Much of the tension in today's best tough-guy detective series comes from the hero's fear of his own toughness. From Spenser in Boston to Robicheaux in New Orleans to Doc Ford on Sanibel Island, these introspective sleuths brood about their propensity for violence. Ford, White's former special-ops agent turned mild-mannered marine biologist, tends to brood more than his peers, perhaps because the disconnect between his twin personalities is greatest. In this superlative tenth episode in the acclaimed series, that disconnect has turned Ford against himself, despairing over the number of friends who have been sucked into his violent world and died as a result of it. Then a woman from his past turns up with a problem: her husband has disappeared after becoming involved with a Bhagwan-like cult in the Everglades. Ford, with hippie cohort Tomlinson in tow, heads to the Glades to investigate but not before a one-on-one encounter with a shark prompts an epiphany about his predatory nature. Along the way, Ford has the opportunity to dispense a wealth of fascinating information on swampland ecology and Seminole history. These forays are one of the things that makes this series so consistently satisfying, but this time the real core of the book is the process by which Ford deals with his inner demons. Too often in the mystery genre, this "I'm nice; no, I'm tough" dichotomy descends to cliche, but in White's hands, it leads to genuine insight. The human brain, he tells us, has a tiny region, the a_mygdala_, or "lizard brain," whose sole purpose is survival. When Ford finally quits waffling and lets his lizard brain out of jail, the result is pulsating action and a kind of atavistic catharsis. Righteous indignation never felt better. <em>Bill Ott</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>

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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with <em>Breakout</em>. </p><p>This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In <em>Breakout</em>, he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler. </p><p>While there are rough spots here and there, <em>Breakout</em> is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that's just what it is. <em>--Jeremy Pugh</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This fifth book about master criminal Parker since his welcome return from a 20-year hiatus is packed so tightly with the painstaking details of everything from the dank tedium of prison life to the architecture and construction of a Midwestern shopping complex that it comes as a shock to realize the volume isn't bigger than it is. Stark, the nom de crime adopted for this series by MWA Grand Master Donald Westlake, is an artist of compression, with the ability to create a complex, frightening character in very few words. Of an Asian lawyer visiting Parker in prison, he writes, "Li was amused, not by Parker in particular but by his own entire life; it made him easy to be around, but suggested there were circumstances when he might not be completely reliable." But Stark is also remarkable because he seems to know how everything works and can explain it without slowing down the story. Stuck in a fortress-like holding prison "on the outskirts of the only large city in this big empty midwestern state" after a robbery goes bad, Parker links up with two other prisoners in a totally logical way, then plans a breakout (the first of several in the book) so credible that we're swept up in its mechanics. But before he can return to his haven in rural New Jersey, Parker has to pay off the help he received by taking part in another robbery that falls apart in a different way that's just as exhilarating. Watching artists like Stark and Parker at work is a great pleasure, which an increasing audience will be delighted to share. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. You just can't get good criminal help these days. That's what Stark's heist-meister Parker quickly discovers as he tries to make a score to repair his sagging finances—no doubt wounded by recent economic ills. First, the plan of would-be hijackers of dental gold in Cincinnati turns to rubbish when one of the conspirators is found wearing a wire. Then a genial idiot with a workable plan for a robbery during a bank merger is found to be carrying too much emotional baggage, especially in his sexual connection to the wife of one of the bankers. And finally, a coldhearted bounty hunter who's almost as good at his job as Parker is threatens everything when he stumbles across the bank robbery scheme while looking for the wire-wearer. Stark (aka MWA Grandmaster Donald Westlake) offers lots of bleak fun as well as intriguing physical details of the illegal variety and righteously sharp descriptions of people we pass every day on the street. A sentence like "She wasn't slender; she was bone thin, and inside the stylish clothes she walked with a graceless jitteriness, like someone whose medicine had been cut off too soon" nails the banker's wife in an instant. This stellar series just gets better and better. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>Adult/High School–When a game of seven-card stud among a group of criminals produces a potential police informer with a communications device taped to his chest, Parker loses no time in strangling him. The group cancels its heist plans and breaks up, but Parker and three others soon reconvene. With inside information from the wife of a local bank president, they plan on robbing an armored car. Parker and his cohorts manage to pull off the job and stash the cash, but the cops are hot on their trail. Action scenes provide motion and movement. Characters often seem sketchy at first, but they round out as the story unfolds. Even the secondary figures stand out as clearly defined individuals, and their roles, which may be small, remain key elements in the plot. The tension builds with the thieves' reactions as the story winds tightly toward the ending. Stark's careful control over every element results in a fascinating novel, a look at the true price of crime, and an opportunity to enjoy another book by this master writer (aka Donald Westlake)._–Pam Johnson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA_ <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p>


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  This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction 
short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors.  Most 
of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of 
popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.<br><br>Included
 within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Mack 
Reynolds, Randall Garrett, Robert Sheckley, Stanley Weinbaum, Alan 
Nourse, Phillip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Raymond Z. 
Gallun, Andre Norton, and many others. <br><br>This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.<br><br>Contents:<br><br>THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA<br>By Robert Abernathy<br>THE DRAW<br>By Jerome Bixby<br>CONTROL GROUP<br>By Roger Dee<br>THE EEL<br>By Miriam Allen DeFord<br>BADGE OF INFAMY<br>By Lester del Rey<br>SECOND VARIETY<br>By Philip K. Dick<br>OUT OF THE EARTH<br>By George Edrich<br>THE VERY BLACK<br>By Dean Evans<br>THE WEDGE<br>By H. B. Fyfe<br>THE PLANET STRAPPERS<br>By Raymond Z. Gallun<br>HAIL TO THE CHIEF<br>By Randall Garrett<br>THIN EDGE<br>By Randall Garrett<br>SPACE PRISON<br>By Tom Godwin<br>THE TERRIBLE ANSWER<br>By Arthur G. Hill<br>THE WOMAN-STEALERS OF THRAYX<br>By Fox B. Holden<br>THE DAY OF THE DOG<br>By Andersen Horne<br>ADVANCED CHEMISTRY<br>By Jack G. Huekels<br>FIELD TRIP<br>By Gene Hunter<br>THE SHINING COW<br>By Alex James<br>ROUGH TRANSLATION<br>By Jean M. Janis<br>JOHN JONES'S DOLLAR<br>By Harry Stephen Keeler<br>SECURITY<br>By Ernest M. Kenyon<br>THE MAD PLANET<br>by Murray Leinster<br>THE THIEF OF TIME<br>By S. P. Meek<br>REEL LIFE FILMS<br>By Sam Merwin<br>SONG IN A MINOR KEY<br>By C. L. Moore<br>STAR HUNTER<br>By Andre Norton<br>CONTAMINATION CREW<br>By Alan E. Nourse<br>DERELICT<br>By Alan E. Nourse<br>ALL DAY WEDNESDAY<br>By Richard Olin<br>THE HAPPY MAN<br>By Gerald W. Page<br>OOMPHEL IN THE SKY<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>OPERATION R.S.V.P.<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD<br>By Frederik Pohl<br>SUMMIT<br>By Mack Reynolds<br>LION LOOSE<br>By James H. Schmitz<br>DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY<br>By Robert Sheckley<br>THE WORLD THAT COULDN'T BE<br>By Clifford D. Simak<br>TELEMPATHY<br>By Vance Simonds<br>LOOT OF THE VOID<br>By Edwin K. Sloat<br>COLLECTOR'S ITEM<br>By Evelyn E. Smith<br>PERFECT CONTROL<br>By Richard Stockham<br>SOLAR STIFF<br>By Chas. A. Stopher<br>MAN MADE<br>By Albert R. Teichner<br>PLEASANT JOURNEY<br>By Richard F. Thieme<br>THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW<br>By V. E. Thiessen<br>THE POINT OF VIEW<br>By Stanley G. Weinbaum<br>ROBOTS OF THE WORLD! ARISE!<br>By Mari Wolf<br>THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472<br>By Sewell Peaslee Wright<br>MEMBERSHIP DRIVE<br>By Murray F. Yaco</div></div>


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of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of 
popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.<br><br>Included
 within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Randall
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Gallun, Robert Bloch, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many others. <br><br>This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.<br><br>Contents<br><br>RING ONCE FOR DEATH<br>By Robert Arthur<br>THIS CROWDED EARTH<br>By Robert Bloch<br>THE LANI PEOPLE<br>By J. F. Bone<br>MIZORA: A PROPHECY<br>By Mary E. Bradley<br>THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE<br>By Marion Zimmer Bradley<br>FELONY<br>By James Causey<br>THE SKY IS FALLING<br>By Lester del Rey<br>STAMPED CAUTION<br>By Raymond Z. Gallun<br>CARD ... TRICK<br>By Randall Garrett<br>DAMNED IF YOU DON'T<br>By Randall Garrett<br>MECCANIA: THE SUPER-STATE<br>By Owen Gregory<br>BREAKING POINT<br>by James E. Gunn<br>THE SMILER<br>By Albert Hernhunter<br>THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN<br>By David C. Knight<br>THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME<br>By R. A. Lafferty<br>MARS CONFIDENTIAL!<br>By Jack Lait &amp; Lee Mortimer<br>THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER<br>By Murray Leinster<br>THE WATER EATER<br>By Win Marks<br>BEYOND PANDORA<br>By Robert J. Martin<br>MOTHER AMERICA<br>By Sam Mcclatchie, M.D.<br>WHEN CAVERNS YAWNED<br>By S. P. Meek<br>THE LINK<br>By Alan E. Nourse<br>POLICE OPERATION<br>By H. Beam Piper<br>SONNY<br>By Rick Raphael<br>HOLES INCORPORATED<br>By L. Major Reynolds<br>WHERE I WASN'T GOING<br>By Walt and Leigh Richmond<br>DECISION<br>By Frank M. Robinson<br>THE PREMIERE<br>By Richard Sabia<br>OPERATION LORELIE<br>By William P. Salton<br>FELINE RED<br>By Robert Sampson<br>ZERO DATA<br>By Charles Saphro<br>WATCHBIRD<br>By Robert Sheckley<br>JIMSY AND THE MONSTERS<br>By Walt Sheldon<br>THE VILBAR PARTY<br>By Evelyn E. Smith<br>BRKNK'S BOUNTY<br>By Jerry Sohl<br>B-12's MOON GLOW<br>By Charles A. Stearns<br>GARTH AND THE VISITOR<br>By L. J. Stecher<br>VITAL INGREDIENT<br>By Gerald Vance<br>THE OBSERVERS<br>By G. L. Vandenburg<br>VULCAN'S WORKSHOP<br>By Harl Vincent<br>FORGET ME NEARLY<br>By F. L. Wallace<br>TO EACH HIS STAR<br>By Bryce Walton<br>THE WORLDS OF IF<br>By Stanley G. Weinbaum<br>THE SEED OF THE TOC-TOC BIRDS<br>By George Henry Weiss<br>THE CAVERN OF THE SHINING ONES<br>By Hal K. Wells<br>THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON<br>By H.G. Wells<br>COGITO, ERGO SUM<br>By John Foster West<br>CAT AND MOUSE<br>By Ralph Williams<br>HOMO INFERIOR<br>By Mari Wolf<br>THE INFRA-MEDIANS<br>By Sewell Peaslee Wright</div></div>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><strong>Penzler Pick, </strong> Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.</p><p>When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she's "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age. </p><p>This edgy thriller's protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she's got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles. <em>--Otto Penzler</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner. Now Carol's a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carol's pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers' site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Red's various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didn't. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggio's killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to Columbia/Tri-Star. (May) <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Robert Ferrigno continues to surprise. In 2001's darkly mesmeric __, he not only delivered his usual trove of offbeat bad guys, but finally created a protagonist who was equally arresting: Jimmy Gage, a trouble-seeking reporter for the tabloidish <em>SLAP</em> magazine. The sequel, <em>Scavenger Hunt</em>, takes Ferrigno one evolutionary step further, its tale of ambition and guilt in Southern California driven by dense, circuitous plotting, rather than the familiar emotional tension between a flawed male lead and some treacherously captivating femme fatale.</p><p>"I want you to write an article about me, about what I'm working on. I even have a title for you: 'The Most Dangerous Screenplay in Hollywood,'" says Garrett Walsh, an egotistical, Oscar-winning film director who, after spending seven years in the slammer for killing teenage actress-aspirant Heather Grimm, now tells Gage he was set up, possibly by the husband of an unnamed "good wife" with whom he'd been having an affair. Walsh plans to expose this neat frame in a movie script, and wants Gage to publicize his efforts before anyone can stop him. The reporter is dubious--until Walsh is found dead in a koi pond and his "dangerous screenplay" goes missing. Intent on learning whether the director was murdered, Gage will first have to identify the "good wife," swap body blows with an aging action star, resolve questions surrounding a too-helpful retired cop with a doughnut jones, and determine if Heather Grimm was really as innocent as she appeared. Although there are several throwaway scenes in <em>Scavenger Hunt</em> (including one in which Gage and his cop girlfriend try to nab a "lover's lane" rapist), they don't detract seriously from this often edgy, sometimes humorous yarn, composed in a style that's pleasantly less restrained than several of Ferrigno's earlier thrillers. <em>--J. Kingston Pierce</em></p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Jimmy Gage is a reporter for Slap magazine, a tell-all entertainment rag in Los Angeles. He's young, curious, and pushy, with a nose for news that gets him close to the "in people" and even closer to real trouble. A party prank scavenger hunt, devised by his publisher, gets Jimmy face time with Garret Walsh, a has-been director fresh out of prison for murdering an ing nue starlet. Needing to "borrow" an Academy Award statue for the scavenger hunt, Jimmy goes to Walsh's ramshackle trailer and gets caught up in his attempt to break back into the biz with a script he calls "the most dangerous screenplay in Hollywood." Two weeks later, Walsh is floating dead in a nearby koi pond, and Jimmy questions the police report that lists the death as accidental. On the pretext of researching an article on Walsh's rise and fall, Jimmy tails the police and does quite a bit of investigating on his own. His publisher is indulgent, sensing a tantalizing lead article for his next issue until this "scavenger hunt" turns deadly and Jimmy ends up at the top of someone else's list. Ranging up and down the sometimes glitzy, sometimes grubby Southern California coast, this latest noir thriller by Ferrigno (Horse Latitudes; Dead Silent) is slender, fast-paced, and populated by colorful characters who run the gamut from high rollers to the dregs of Hollywood wannabes. Edgy and darkly humorous, it will fit nicely into collections alongside Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, and Jonathan Kellerman.<br /><em>--Susan Clifford Braun, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA </em><br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A minor matter of airport rudeness sets off a major killing spree in Ferrigno's seventh novel, an overplotted affair that features a battle between a former espionage agent, a figure from his spooky past and two L.A. drug dealers. When Frank Thorpe sees a hard-charging businessman humiliate a young Latino peddler at LAX airport, he decides to teach the jerk a lesson. And after using his spy skills to find out that the man is an art dealer, Thorpe sets up a forgery scam that gets the dealer accused of selling phony Mayan art to an ambitious, nouveau riche L.A. couple. Unfortunately for Thorpe, the female half of the couple, the delightfully bitchy Missy Riddenhauser, becomes furious after a local gossip columnist embarrasses her by exposing the incident, and she quickly talks her husband, Clark, a former surfer turned designer drug dealer, into going after Thorpe. The plotting and character writing remains sharp and clever through the first half, and the art angle makes the novel read like a cross between a Ludlum thriller and one of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels. But the plotting careens off track when Thorpe needlessly gets involved with the cartoonish thugs who handle the violent end of Clark's drug business, and those scenes dull the impact of Thorpe's final showdown with a mysterious, dangerous figure from the agent's past known as the Engineer. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Here's another hugely entertaining thriller from the underappreciated Ferrigno. Although the plot, at times, is overly convoluted, making it difficult to keep track of who is double-crossing whom, the novel offers outsize villains; supersmart, rapid-fire dialogue; and a streak of the downright bizarre. Special-ops agent Frank Thorpe has just been let go from the independent shop he has worked at for years. A planned sting backfired, leaving several agents dead. Set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation, he spots a hard-charging executive backhand a 10-year-old Mexican vendor, which triggers Frank's always seething sense of moral outrage. He decides to give the guy a "wake-up . . . to show him how quickly the storm clouds could roll in on his sunny world." Inevitably, the wake-up proves far more complicated and dangerous than even the canny Frank anticipated. He is soon rubbing elbows with a calculating, drug-dealing social climber; her brainy chemist husband; and their ruthless bodyguards, including a childlike victim of Romanian medical experiments. Another riveting, intense read from the always reliable Ferrigno. <em>Joanne Wilkinson</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The TARDIS brings the third Doctor, Jo, and Captain Yates to Nooma, a planet in the midst of an industrial revolution. There, they discover that survival of the fittest has become a religion and even the planet appears to be at war with itself.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki find themselves at a crucial moment in British history: London, November 1605. When they uncover a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, they think they know what to expect. But they're in for a very unpleasant surprise. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A primitive city built on the foundations of a ruined high tech civilisation forms the backdrop to this adventure featuring the second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor, Romana and K9 are in 1930s London, planning to rest after their recent adventures. But what connects the Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by Percy Closed? Why has Hepworth Stackhouse hired an assassin? And what is the infe.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The shadow of Weng-Chiang, an original novel reaturing the fourth Doctor, Romana and K9. The search for the fourth segment of the key to Time brings the Tardis to 1930s Shanghai: a dark and shadowy world, riven by conflict and threatened by the expansion of the Japanese Empire. Meanwhile, the savage Tongs pursue their own mysterous agenda in the city's illegal clubs and opium dens. Manipulated by an elusive foe, the Doctor is obliged to follow the Dragon Path-the side-effect of a disastrous experiment in the far future. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The second Doctor and his companions come face to face with the Master on the faded neuron star Darkheart. The last enclave of the Earth Empire is located on one of the dead planets surrounding the star and the Doctor must discover why the Empire came to this desolate sector.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A wry literary masterpiece, <em>God Hates Us All</em> is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody's self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss -- a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure -- runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother's desperate expectations, his father's endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city's mecca of ambitious slackers -- the Chelsea Hotel -- where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star's girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice, <em>God Hates Us All</em> is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Hank Moody's critically acclaimed novel, <em>God Hates Us All</em>, was made into the major motion picture_ A Crazy Little Thing Called Love_. Originally from New York, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where the sunshine exacerbates his writer's block. He has a twelve-year-old daughter, Becca, with his ex-girlfriend Karen, and until the three of them are together, he'll take whatever he can get. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><blockquote><p>The world they knew is ashes. </p><p>The world that remains is in peril. </p><p>And five extraordinary survivors are humankind's last, best hope. </p></blockquote><p>The Change that devastated the earth did not destroy Theo Waxnicki. It made him something more than human—eternally young, eternally beautiful . . . but not immortal. When he dies on a mission against the Strangers, he is lost to the darkness . . . until a miracle lady brings him back. </p><p>Born during the apocalyptic storms and earthquakes that left the world in ruins, Selena has dedicated her life to easing the pain of others. But Theo is the first in her care to survive. Responding to Selena's tender touch, Theo starts to live again, to feel and desire again. But joined in a world of terrors, the secrets they can never share make them targets. And love could be the ultimate betrayal. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Joss Ware has an English degree and an MBA from the University of Michigan. After more than fifteen years in sales and marketing, she owned her own business and worked in a variety of roles for two startup companies. She's traveled to London, Paris, and Tahiti, and currently resides with her family near Ann Arbor, where she writes full-time. </p><p>Joss loves to hear from her readers, and encourages them to visit her website for updates and sneak peeks of future Envy books. </p>

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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Hoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of the first settlers, among them a pragmatic English woman, Hallie, and her profligate, braggart husband, William. Hallie makes an immediate and intense connection to the wilderness, and the tragic severing of that connection results in the creation of the red garden, a small, sorrowful plot of land that takes on an air of the sacred. The novel moves forward in linked stories, each building on (but not following from) the previous and focusing on a wide range of characters, including placid bears, a band of nomadic horse traders, a woman who finds a new beginning in Blackwell, and the ghost of a young girl drowned in the river who stays in the town's consciousness long after her name has been forgotten. The result is a certain ethereal detachment as Hoffman's deft magical realism ties one woman's story to the next even when they themselves are not aware of the connection. The prose is beautiful, the characters drawn sparsely but with great compassion. (Jan.) (c) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> The lush and haunted wildlands of Massachusetts provide fertile ground for Hoffman’s endlessly flowering imagination. Like The Probable Future (2003) and Blackbird House (2004), The Red Garden, a sequence of beguiling, linked stories, is rooted in colonial times and reaches into the present. The first foolhardy white folks—the Motts, Partridges, Starrs, and Bradys—to settle in this land of blackflies, bears, eels, and harsh winters in 1750 only survive because Hallie Brady, the first of a line of determined and adept women in what becomes the small town of Blackwell in Berkshire County, goes out into the snowy wilderness to find sustenance. As spring allows the founding families to cultivate the strange red soil in the village’s first garden, Johnny Appleseed stays for a spell, and, later, Emily Dickinson happens by. Generation by generation, humans and animals form profound bonds; women’s lives change, somewhat; men go to war; people are poor and in despair; illness and violence rage; strangers find refuge; and love blossoms impossibly, extravagantly, inevitably. In gloriously sensuous, suspenseful, mystical, tragic, and redemptive episodes, Hoffman subtly alters her language, from an almost biblical voice to increasingly nuanced and intricate prose reflecting the burgeoning social and psychological complexities her passionate and searching characters face in an ever-changing world. --Donna Seaman </p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>It is the year 2146. Answering a distress call from the dilapidated Hotel Galaxian, the Tardis crew discover a games enthusiast is using the hotel to host a murder-mystery weekend. But then it seems that someone is taking the games too seriously. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's C19 security division investigates. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A novel featuring Doctor Who and Ace. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, a silver sphere falls from the sky, and several large, humanoid figures emerge. The Doctor and Ace realize that the sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology, and whatever it contained is now loose in London. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Doctor Who adventure set in the time of Cromwell. The Civil Wars have ended with victory for the Roundheads, and Charles I is threatened with execution. In a country of divided loyalties, strangers are looked upon with suspicion, and the crew of the Tardis soon finds itself in danger. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Whilst the Doctor and Jo are away from Earth the Brigadier is confronted with open warfare on the streets of Britain. He and UNIT have to rely on an old adversary to help them save Earth. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor and Leela travel back to Victorian times to unravel the mysteries of the Easter Island statues, and solve the conundrum of how nearly 18,000 islanders left their home without using boats. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The original Doctor Who (from the 1960s) attempts repairs to the Tardis. Unfortunately, he chooses Salem, Massachusetts at the time of the witch hunts, as the place to do the job. The result is that he and his crew are thrown into danger by Susan's latent telepathic powers. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A jubilant Doctor has been given freedom again by the Time Lords to roam time and space. But when he and Sam arrive on the planet of Catastrophea, he begins to wish perhaps his exile on Earth had remained imposed, for the Doctor becomes embroiled in the schemes of off-world drug-smugglers. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>In his fourth incarnation, the Doctor landed on the planet Zeta Minor, a world located on the edge of the known universe, the bridge-point for the opposite universes of matter and anti-matter.Now in his fifth life, the Doctor meets the same race the landed there before, and once again they are eager to harness its secrets -- with terrifyingly dangerous results.Caught up in a situation akin to a Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Doctor must fight his way through layers of court intrigue before he can try to stop the people really in control from allowing the forces of Anti-matter free reign to destroy every life-form in the universe.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Landing on a barren asteroid, the Doctor and his friends discover the final pages of a drama that has torn apart an empire are being played out.Who is the man in the mask, and how are his chess games affecting life and death in his prison? What is the secret of the knights in armor that line the bleak walls of the settlement. And what is the nature of the alien ship approaching -- and what will it want when it arrives?Soon the TARDIS crew find themselves under siege with a deadly robotic race and human traitors to defeat -- and the future of an entire stellar empire hangs in the balance: if the Doctor cannot triumph it will become a force not for good, but for evil.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Arriving on a jungle planet, the Doctor and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien life form that appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh. But who has created it?A band of humans arrives on the planet in search of something deadly and illegal -- the robot? Or the things that created it?Assuming the Doctor to be involved in the monstrous crimes against nature on the planet, the humans make life difficult for the TARDIS crew -- but who is waiting and watching in the shadows -- and for whose benefit is the arena of peril set up?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>It is Victorian London and Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets -- or is it the Doctor?A crystal from the TARDIS' telepathic circuits has a serious effect on the Doctor's mind, and Ace finds herself isolated and in danger.What part is the Doctor being forced to play? What is the secret of the 12 shadow-TARDISes which eerily wait in silence for events to play out? Only as Ace runs for her life does she realize that the Doctor is at the mercy of a terrifying force from his own future -- one he may be powerless to stop.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Gallifrey. The Doctor's home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infinity. and eternity, harnessed science, conquered death. They are the Lords of Time, and they have used their powers carefully.But now a new force has been unleashed, one that is literally capable of anything. It is enough to give the Time Lords nightmares. More than that: it is enough to destroy them.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>New York, 1965. A time of conflict between ideologies, races, generations and genders, when crime runs rife and an unpopular war drags on in a distant land. In the midst of this turmoil, people cry out to their gods. And now, it seems, the gods have answered their call. Walking the slums and tenements of downtown Manhattan, demonstrating extraordinary powers, five strangers are gathering a growing crowd of worshippers.Steven wants to believe in miracles, but the Doctor is more skeptical. What are the strangers' real motives, and why does history make no mention of these events? As New York begins to tear itself apart, the Doctor's non-interventionist principles are tested to their limits.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>From the wastes of Siberia to the intrigue of the imperial court at St. Petersberg, 1916, the Third Doctor, Jo and Liz are involved in the machinations of the mad monk Rasputin.As history plunges onward inexorably, the Doctor's companions realize that history books can lie. But the Doctor can see the threads that hold all time together -- can he and his companions escape the depravities of this decadent Russia without unraveling the history of Earth?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>When a lighthouse keeper reports seeing a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands, UNIT sends Mike Yates to investigate. He is surprised to bump into an old friend, the Doctor, who has brought his friends Tegan and Turlough there for a holiday -- a holiday which is short-lived after the crew of the boat Papillon are discovered slaughtered.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Doctor Who historical adventure. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, aspiring war correspondent Winston Churchill is befriended by two strangers - the Doctor and Peri. Suspecting mysterious forces at work behind the scenes, the Doctor determines to keep a close eye on Churchill's career. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world's computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them. In Britain panic has set in, what can the time-travelling Doctor do to help? </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the original population to die out, but tales of vicious monsters proliferate.An underwater massacre makes the Doctor and Ace wonder if one aspect of the legends, the acquatic Krill, might be real after all -- and if so, if they are as deadly as the stories say.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Tardis lands the time travellers on the deserted observation deck of a skyscraper-like building. Giant screens show programmes about an evacuation procedure and reveal that "Zero Time" is an estimated 35 days away. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>To most, the entity known as the Celestial Toymaker is an abstract pan-universal force, whose powers, origins and intentions are unknown. To a select few the Toymaker is a god, a being to be worshipped, without whom there would be no existence. But to others, the Toymaker is the embodiment of evil, a force to be thwarted at every possible juncture. Aeons past, the Time Lords of Gallifrey tried to comprehend the Toymaker, and the role this force played in the cosmos. To one group of young Time Lords centuries later, understanding the Toymaker represented a goal, a mission.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Doctor and Leela land on the planet Kaldor, home of the Sandminer crew that they recently saved from the dreaded Robots of Death.Intrigue abounds still further on the homeworld. The twisted genius that perverted the robots from their function to serve man, the late Taren Kapel, has become the deity of a cult that is causing chaos. Leda finds herself caught up in their mayhem while the Doctor learns that the survivors of the original sandminer crew are being killed off one by one.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The beautiful village of Culverton is dominated by the presence of the local Aerodrome, closed by recent defence cuts. When several locals disappear, and Spitfire veteran Captain Alec Bainbridge witnesses black-uniformed troops unloading ominous, coffin-like containers from the hangars, he contacts his old friend the Brigadier who promises to investigate.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who perceived these Higher Dimensions went insane. The Vanier disappeared into the gateway and all that remains of them is shimmering, golden palace floating in the clouds...The Doctor inadvertently materializes on Ashkellia, where Valdemar's tomb lies. The Doctor must escape imprisonment by Neville, a debauched aristocrat, to save both the universe and himself from the Higher Dimensions.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the hospital, they are watched by an oddly-dressed boy and gift, who quickly vanish. Meanwhile the train passengers die and crumble into a green powder -- Verdigris.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The TARDIS materializes on an island named Dorsill, which has recently been bought by a DNA scientist named Sheldon. At first the villagers aren't suspicious when they notice a few people dying, and attribute it to natural causes. Little do they realize that they are in fact now part of Sheldon's closed experiment. The Doctor must discover what dark experiments Sheldon is carrying out on the innocent people of Dorsill.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>There's a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What's more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programs of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The TARDIS materializes on the far side of the moon and the time safe alarm goes off. Inside is a diary kept by a Captain Richard Halliwell, describing his mission from Earth to the Moon -- in the year 1878. The TARDIS returns to 1878 where the Doctor meets up with the expeditions and the remains of the massacred team member are discovered. The Doctor must find the alien creature responsible for the murder and solve why there is no record of Victorian space travel.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Stuck in the end of a hyperspace tunnel lies a huge, chaotic, space city known as the G-Lock -- the end product of the most terrible intergalactic traffic jam in history. It has now been transformed into a death-themed park, where the major attraction is a death-simulator known as the Beautiful Death. However, the power generated by people enjoying the ride is being diverted to a mysterious destination. A creature called the Repulsion is on the loose, offering resurrection in two hundred year's time to anyone who will surrender to it, allowing it to exist in the real world. Can the Doctor defeat it, and escape from the G-Lock before the interface between hyperspace and real space collapses?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The TARDIS lands on the planet Mendeb, where Ace meets a merchant adventurer named Kedin. She falls for him, seduces him -- and then discovers him to be a slave trader. When, horrified, she tries to flee, he feeds her the will-sapping spore drug that turns independent citizens into obedient slaves, and sells her. The Doctor is on a mission to liberate the Mendeb slaves and lead them in revolt against the emperor Vathran -- but can they survive without the support of their generous employers? Meanwhile, Ace finds herself sold into the henads of Kedin's arch-enemy Vathran, where she learns the reason for Kedin's slave trading -- Vathran has imprisoned Kedin's family and is threatening to have them put to death.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Two alien races -- the Jex and the Canavitchi -- are engaged in a battle to invade and either conquer or destroy the planet Earth. The Doctor is summoned to a meeting with Brigadier who shows him a photograph of a powerful media mogul named Sanger -- who has bought enough plutonium to destroy the world ten times over. UNIT are on the case and it seems that Sanger is one of a frightening number of alien Jex who came to Earth twenty years ago to sow the seeds of their ruthless world-domination... When the Canavitchi launch their counter-attack and their alien fleets embark upon full-scale destruction, the Doctor finds himself engaged in a race against time to save planet Earth.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>In a university on planet Sweeney Earth, Paul and Arlene Cole have designed TITAN -- designed to penetrate the vortex and access the very foundations of reality. The Master, who is being pursued by the Chronivores, thinks that TITAN could be the perfect means of revenge...Mel's old friend Anjeliqua also works at the university and the Master charms her into giving him access to TITAN. He recalibrates its settings and locates the Quantum Archimage, the power source of the Chronivores. When this energy is channeled into Anjeliqua herself, she is transformed into the Quantum Archangel, the living embodiment of the Chronivores' power source. With her new-found power, her plan is to "make things better. For everyone".If she goes ahead, reality will begin to fracture, as conflicting realities struggle to coexist. Otherwise, when the Chronivores detect the alternate timelines, they will consume every last bit of it. Can the Doctor intervene before the universe disintegrates?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A fireball crash lands in the forests of the Ukraine and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the center of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket contains the body of an angel sent to Earth to give hope to the people.Centuries later the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in Kiev, 1240 -- a city under attack by the Mongols. They are enforced guests of the governor, Dmitri, whose assistant Yehven believes that if the coffin is desecrated, then "all who threaten us will be destroyed".When the coffin is opened by a group of men, a terrifying, skull-faced creature is freed, and kills a member of the group before fleeing. A spate of violent deaths ensue -- but this creature certainly isn't killing indiscriminately. How is this creature choosing its victims? Where has it come from -- and most importantly, can the Doctor do anything to halt its murderous trail of destruction?</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Third Doctor, Jo and Unit novel. In Dartmoor, a punk band get into a fight with a group of rich and rowdy young students, whose Range Rover crashes into their car. The groups are spurred on to insane acts of violence by a mysterious force, and the punk band singer hears a voice in his head which directs him towards a rusty knife buried in the ground. Murder ensues and blood soaks into the rock. It is much later on that a creature emerges from the bloody rock, greedily anticipating the chaos that it plans to cause...The Tardis alerls the Doctor to an incongruous energy fluctuation in the southwest of England. There, he finds himself part of the audience of one of the band's gigs, and their anarchic music is attracting an ever-growing convoy of violent disciples. What is the dormant force that has been awakened, and what are its destructive aims? How many more people must suffer a brutal death before the Doctor can halt the bloody trail of the convoy? </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>In Anterctica, nearly fifty years after the end of World War 2, Nazi Initiates inhibit a secret base; around them move the shadows and reflections of strange, Imp-like figures...The village of Turelhampton in Dorset is still a restricted military zone, cordoned off from the outside world. When a rogue film-crew breaks in, welrd damons, invisible to the naked eye, appear on camers...And in a remote country-house in Cornwall, a freelance investigative journalist is horrified to discover neo-Nazis performing an occult ritual involving a functional, accurate, crystal ball - the Scrying Glass. And in the background, the figure of Hilter watching, exactly as he appears in the last pictures of him alive...What really did happen in the Berlin bunker in 1945, when Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly committed joint suicide? And what connection does this have with the uncanny imps that can be seen only in reflections and shadows? Why is it so imperative that no-one discover the secret of Turelhampton? It is up to the Doctor and the faithful Brigadier to find out. </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Oxford, 1278 -- the Doctor is keen to put a stop to the pioneering scientific experiments of Roger Bacon. Bacon has developed ideas for submarines, explosives, telescopes and aeroplanes -- history will be cast into chaos if any of these ideas see the light of day.Bacon is living among Franciscan friars who consider him to be a heretic embarrassment. When a friar is found dead in suspicious circumstances, they are keen to implicate Bacon and have him locked away for good.However, more and more murders are being committed and it's increasingly obvious that Bacon cannot be held responsible for them all.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The planet Rocosia consists of nothing but immaculately-cultivated plant life, which propagates and cultivates itself -- there are no mammals, insects, aquatic or avian creatures living there. So the plants seem to exist for no apparent ecological reason, but visitors to the planet are soon distracted from the enigma by the dazzling beauty of the gardens.One night, Peri spots a strange, multi-limbed creature picking fruit from one of the trees, and she decides to follow it. She gets lost though, and ends up attacked by a Decimator, a vicious, thorny plant. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself the captive of a humanoid fox in tight-fitting leather who is clearly very excited about eating her...Meanwhile the Doctor finds Rocosia in a state of chaos as the Decimators appear in force and embark upon systematic destruction of the entire planet. The Doctor is rescued by the Valethske -- the creatures holding Peri captive. What are the Valethske doing on Rocosia and why are the Decimatorstrying to destroy the planet? And will the Doctor and Peri be able to escape before the entire planet is consumed by fire?</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Attempting to cover the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, Sarah Jane Smith stumbles upon alien activity. The Tzun have been trapped on Earth while searching for the location of a lost ship that will allow them to leave. But with the CIA, the Chinese Secret Police, and UNIT on the ship's trail, it won't be easy. Sarah discovers that the Tzun have the wisdom and ingenuity of the Doctor on their side, but finds they are not being put to the best use. Available in October.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>Feynman College receives a grant for parapsychology research to be done by devious Barry Hitchens. During a routine test, he identifies five students who have genuine gifts. The students hold a seance at the site of a murder and one of the girls dies under mysterious circumstances. The Doctor arrives to attend a lecture on time travel, and is mistaken for Hitchens and finds himself drawn into the eerie events at the college. (Available in October.)</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>The Doctor finds himself in Hollywood where a fantastic new movie that's playing in town is everything each one of its viewers ever wanted from a film. But the ex-fiance of the new movie's producer thinks the film is evil, and risks her life to prevent its screening. Then a friend of the Doctor's is found murdered, and his death seems linked to the activities of a secret society, FOCAL. Available in October.</p>


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A tall, thin Albino man, in various guises, appears in different parts of the world where he holds secret meetings with an array of agents. These agents believe that they are working for the French Secret Service, but are in fact on the payroll of a sinister crime organization known as the Magnate. They come from all walks of life -- the one thing they have in common is that they are all psychometrically linked to one another.The Doctor is on Earth and alerted to a cult that attracts an array of young, vulnerable people. When the leader of the cult is held responsible for the abduction of a Magnate agent, the Doctor must work out what the connection is -- and find out exactly what plans the Magnate have for planet Earth.</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A Seventh Doctor novel with Ace. After the end of the interstellar Tulkan wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony. Their weapons, advanced slavery devices and planet destroying armaments in development, hidden in a secret cache before the end of the war, are bound to remain secret forever, the access codes to their stasis chamber wiped with the Tulk's memories. But in an old people's home in Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Brunner, Unit scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimers patients, has noticed disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate. What he and Ace find goes beyond disturbing, with campers murdered, the denizens of the home wired up to some sort of enormous calculating machine, and Ace being followed around by a mysterious figure, always remaining just beyond the edges of vision. They receive help from Annarenes, members of a race devoted to keeping the Tulkan menace down, but help from any quarter has to be regarded with utmost suspicion. Nothing, here, is sure to be what it soems... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>White consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Screams are carried on the frosty winds, but as the troops break in they find the house deserted. A gunfight with no victims. The Doctor, hoping to give Leela a taste of life among the tribes of Native America, finds he has fractionally misjudged his coordinates, and they too are trapped in the frozen wastes, for he has strangely lost his homing affinity with the TARDIS. In the nearby small town of Winnipesaukee, a little girl called Amber Mailloux, distressed by the disappearance of her father, frustrated with her mother's roaming, unsettled life, feels almost at one with the heartless, lonely raging of the storm. But none of them know that the snow, the ice is not just a backdrop, but the real enemy. At the heart of the drift is a living presence, glorying in the cold, inhuman structures of the ice. And it's hungry... </p>

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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>A Sixth Doctor novel with Peri Brown Interstellar tyrant Glavis Judd has usurped the royal family of the world-kingdom Esselven, with intergalactic freelance reporter Dexel Dynes close behind him, faithfully advising the universe of Judd's humanitarian 'liberations'. However, Judd's ambitions for complete conquest are thwarted, as the royal family have escaped the planet just before his arrival, taking with them - in their genetic make-up - the keys to vital archives and systems essential to Esselven's governance. In another time and place, the Doctor and Peri have landed in an exquisitely kept ornamental garden, peopled by strange playful creatures, and wild roaming 'scavengers'. This, it turns out, is the Esselvanian royal retreat, a small planetoid where the monarch could relax and recuperate. It is also where Judd strongly suspects they have escaped to now. Determined to avenge his humiliation on Esselven, Judd attacks the planetoid, only to find that, in the year it had taken him to track the family down, things have moved on much quicker than he could have imagined...</p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Doctor Who disguises himself as a watchmender and visits 1950s London to discover the cause of a mysterious fatality in the East End. 4000 people died here - their deaths linked to a choking smog that blanketed the area. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A chain of events has been set in motion that will change the Doctor and Peri forever. A chain that involves old enemies as well as old friends. How does Peri come to be the leader of a gang of rebel fighters on an outlying planet? Who is the mysterious 'General' against whom they are rebelling so violently? Where does the so-called 'Supremo', leader of the Alliance forces ranged against the General, come from, and why is he so interested in Peri? The answers lie in the origins of a conflict that will affect the whole cosmos - a conflict that will find humans, Sontarans, Draconians and even Cybermen fighting together for the greater good and glory. For the Supremo. It is a conflict that will test both the Doctor and Peri to the limit, and bring them face to face with the dark sides of their own personalities. </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Far out in space, on the ragged edges of Earth's bloated empire, an elite unit of soldiers is on a training mission. But deep in the heart of the hollowed-out planetoid that forms their battleground, a chilling secret waits to be discovered: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of violent, bloody death. The bodies are those of the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war of attrition devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that slaughtered them still lurking in the dark tunnels of the training ground? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? When the Doctor arrives on the planetoid with Ben and Polly, he soon scents a net tightening about them. And as the soldiers begin to disappear one by one, paranoia spreads; is the real enemy out there in the darkness, or somewhere among them? </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>When 400-year-old tribal mummies inexplicably return to life and begin murdering tourists on an exotic alien island, the Doctor's initial urge to investigate lands himself, Jamie and Victoria right in the middle of a jungle holocaust. Ferocious cannibals and deadly beasts stalk the swamps, mummies lurk amongst the trees and the peaceful, civilised locals are reverting to long-forgotten head-hunting practices. Something is giving a clarion call to savagery, something that can only be found in the deepest darkness at the heart of the hostile rainforest. It could well be the end of the river for the TARDIS companions as they find themselves involved in a horrific jungle conflict between desperate guerrilla tribesmen and merciless colonial forces. Cannibalism could be the least of their worries as evil stirs the pot and the dead reach for the living... </p>

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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>In England a hotel worker has been turned to stone, an ancient lake has vanished, and the inmate of a mental hospital is being terrorised by unseen creatures. In Israel, in the shadow of Masada, an archaeological dig unearths something that should have stayed buried. The Doctor is sure he is dealing with a local and relatively straightforward temporal anomaly. Troy Game, a refugee from the planet Caresh, is not so certain. She believes the impending destruction of her home world is somehow linked to the events on Earth, and she is pinning her hopes on the Doctor to avert the catastrophe. But can the Doctor interfere with a planet's destiny? And should he risk his new-found freedom to do it? </p>

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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Nobody visits Heritage. Why would they? Dry, dusty and hot, it's nothing but a failed mining colony too stupid to realise that it's actually dead. No-one wants to visit, least of all Ace. But the Doctor's got his hearts set on a flying visit, just while they're in the neighbourhood. That's when he finds out that Heritage wants visitors just as much as visitors want them. So, while Ace is getting friendly with the locals, the Doctor is trying his best to convince them he's not interested in their secrets. All he wants is a few quiet days and a nice cup of tea. Trouble is, secrets have a way of unearthing themselves when the Doctor's around. Whether he wants them to or not. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon's only moon, searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics -- and help uncover much more than ancient history. Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction. An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point -- and beyond. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the Age of the Personal Computer, the newborn 'Internet' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters our homes. Across the technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents. A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious hacker known only as 'The Doctor' join forces to combat an electronic threat fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw. Respected computer journalist Charles 'Chick' Peters was an eyewitness as these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation's vunerable capital - and inside the world of the computer. Blue Box is the compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally change the way you think. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>A novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and his fan-favorite sidekick Ace. The Doctor knows Ace is going to die. Knows very well, because although she is sitting in the TARDIS watching the TV news, she is also beside him as a corpse. And there is something very, very strange about the autopsy results. In London, 1959, the Doctor does all he can to prevent Ace's tragic death, due to occur in a few hours. In the process, he discovers further anomalies - swarms of giant ants emerging from the ground being among the least of his worries. A disturbing fetish for Cyberisation has taken hold of Britain, and the Doctor can probably guess who's behind it! Against a background of international (and trans-dimensional) espionage, giant ants and Cyber-primates, and quite possibly the end of the world as we know it, the Doctor struggles to save his companion from a fate which she seems more and more determined to bring upon herself. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>The year is 2539. Arriving on Axista Four the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie find the colony in a state of chaos. A breakaway group of colonists -- the 'Realists' -- has abandoned Ransome's Back to Basics ideals and is creating a new high-tech settlement. The 'Loyalists' who remain are dwindling in number and face total extinction. Meanwhile, a spaceship from Earth has arrived with news that 80,000 refugees are about to descend upon the planet; the Realists are staging raids on the wreck of the colony ship, and in a secret underground bunker mysterious aliens who claim to be the planet's first colonists are beginning to awake. Who are the dog-like aliens who call themselves Tyrenians? What is the secret agenda of the sinister Federation Administrator Greene? And what really happened when the colony ship crash-landed on Axista Four 100 years ago? </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the aftermath of the Second World War, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - then a young subaltan - was involved in intelligence operations in the Greek islands. But now his problems are rather closer to home. The Doctor and Jo are caught up in mysterious events in a small English village. Sergeant Benton and Captain Yates are ready to rush to the rescue. A sinister cult holds unholy ceremonies and prepares for a day of reckoning. And the Doctor has a shrewd idea who might be behind it all. This might seem like business as usual, but things are not always as they seem. The Brigadier finds himself trying to separate the truth from the lies, and the past from the present. Can he once again help prevent the end of the world? His friends and colleagues are not so sure - because this time, the Brigadier has fallen in love... </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Kennet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don't like going out onto the streets at night, they don't like making too much noise, and they certainly don't like strangers asking too many questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth? While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up to date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In 1855, a boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He grows up to become one of England's most celebrated spiritualists. In 1863 the British Empire is effectively without a leader. Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert. The monarch's last hope is a secret seance. The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan's sudden departure. Trying to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851, the time travelers are shocked when Adric's ghost appears in the TARDIS, beckoning them to the Other Side. What is hidden in a drowned village guarded by the British Army? Is there life after death and can it be reached by those still alive? And why is the Doctor so terrified of facing his own ghosts? </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In interesting times, love can be a weakness, hatred an illusion, order chaos, and ten tigers not enough. The TARDIS crew have seen many times. When they arrive in China in 1865, they find banditry, rebellion, and foreign oppression rife. Trying to maintain order are the British Empire and the Ten Tigers of Canton, the most respected martial arts masters in the world. There is more to the chaos that mere human violence and ambition. Can legends of ancient vengeance be coming true? Why does everyone Ian meets already know who he is? The Doctor has his suspicions, but he is occupied by challenges of his own. Sometimes the greatest danger is not from the enemy, but from the heart... This adventure features the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and on Reef Station One, Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners. But an ancient, dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvelous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic's greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor's oldest enemies. If they can't unravel the link between the two, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time... </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Edgar Allen Poe lies dying in a gutter in Baltimore... The Doctor and Ace cannot help him - his death has already happened. Poe will be taken to a hospital, and will die in three days time without ever coming out of his coma. But even as the Doctor explains this, the man in the gutter groans and expires. Bewildered, the Doctor hurries Ace back to the TARDIS. At the door, they look back and see that the gutter is empty. In a moment, Poe staggers around the corner, drops to his knees in the gutter, then gets up and stumbles into another bar... Can the Doctor discover what is causing the time anomaly? Will he be able to prevent the universe itself from unraveling when everyone seems to have turned against him - even the TARDIS? Will he be able to escape the cold hell of absolute order? The answer, it seems, lies in the algebra of ice... </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Thirty years ago, the Earth was covertly attacked by the alien Myloki, who brainwashed humans and seeded them into Earth society as terrorists and assassins. Earth governments pooled their resources and financed Operation PRISM to fight - and win - the secret war against the Myloki. Now the successor to PRISM, the SILHOUETTE organization, runs a series of Early Warning devices in space, should the dreaded Myloki return. But the financial burden of the war has caused global financial meltdown and Earth stands on the brink of anarchy. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover the war was in fact faked by a corrupt Earth dictatorship that has turned the planet into a tightly controlled utopia. Drugs keep the population under strict and docile control. Humanity is reduced to little more than work units. With the help of war hero Captain Grant Matthews, a PRISM agent accidentally made indestructible during the war, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe gradually discover the truth - but in doing so they face the opposition of a whole planet. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>There were the contracts, the agents, the local sponsors, the pay-per-view broadcasts, the independent verification of results, the laws which made murder legal in carefully defined circumstances... It had taken a long time for the system of freelance duelists to be established, and an even longer time to develop the league of interplanetary superstars the others fought to reach and to challenge. And just when it was all working satisfactorily and profitably someone or something started interfering with the set up. Famous fighters died in private duels. Up-and-coming professional fighters began to fall victim to casual, one-time challengers - the sort of psychos and testosterone-addled drunks who would themselves be expected to die quickly and routinely. When Leela is challenged to a duel to the death, the Doctor realizes that there is more to the situation than simple murder and mayhem. But before he can sort it out, he needs to save his client - Leela. How long can she survive on a planet where not to kill is an offense punishable by death? </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult. Business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can the Doctor and his friends uncover the truth in time to avert disaster? </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He's never heard of such a thing. Mel on the other hand has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she's never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers are watching every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? Just as Mel thinks she's got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family to challenge everything she believes to be real... </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>In the 22nd Century, a few short years of interstellar contact have taught Man a hard lesson: there are powerful, unstoppable, alien forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. It's a realization that deals a body blow to Man's belief in his own superiority and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. The fight against alien forces is no job for an amateur, and for a Doctor only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo? </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, schoolteachers Ian and Barbara are eager to explore their own future. But they have arrived in the middle of a war, a war that has left London a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, and with no way of proving otherwise, the Doctor's granddaughter and companions find themselves in the execution block on the Isle of Dogs. The Doctor has no choice but to help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Los Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways than one. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist; Ace is his driver and research assistant. They are here because someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history at this most delicate point and destroy the human race. Playing detective among the A-bomb scientists, the Doctor tries to avoid falling under suspicion himself, but the head of Los Alamos security is convinced that something is not quite right about the small, eccentric Scottish research physicist calling himself Dr John Smith. As the minutes tick away to the world's first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens, and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension. </p>


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The human race stands at a worrying political crossroads. UNIT is up to its ears in alien sightings, reporting of UFOs and threats from other worlds - and for good reason - the devil goblins from Neptune have landed. </p>

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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When Krytell, the wealthy head of a hugely powerful interplanetary corporation, asks Benny to do an unofficial and somewhat shady job, the benefits are immediately apparent, or are they? On board a luxurious cruise-liner, wealthy fellow travelers begin dropping dead like flies. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, "Doctor Who" has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books - over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries - the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor's new companion Martha Jones and is sure to be snapped up by all fans of the show. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>'I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he's been too clever by half'. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets out to find the truth. The answer is scary - the Krillitanes are back on Earth, and everyone is at risk! Last time they took over a school. This time they have hijacked the internet. Whatever they are up to, it's big and it's nasty. Only the Doctor can stop them - if he isn't already too late...A short, sharp shot of adventure, featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit series from BBC Television. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Justin Richards is Creative Consultant for BBC Books' Doctor Who range. He has written many novels, including The Death Collector and The Parliament of Blood, and he works with writer Jack Higgins on his thrillers for young adults. Justin also writes for radio, stage and screen. He is married with two children (both boys) and lives and works in Warwick, within sight of one of Britain's best castles. </p>


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<div><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke's work also are present here. <br>Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"Clarke once again sounds his grand theme...man is most himself when he...challenges the very laws of the universe." -- <em>-The New York Times Book Review</em></p>

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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the xenos invaders in one of the many battlezones. But as the orks numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in vain. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British author with his beginnings in the videogame and RPG industries. He was the Senior Writer on the million-selling MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. He's been a deeply entrenched fan of Warhammer 40,000 ever since he first ruined his copy of Space Crusade by painting the models with all the skill expected of an overexcited nine-year-old. He lives and works in York, UK. His hobbies generally revolve around reading anything within reach, and helping people spell his surname. </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know What a writer!' Roald Dahl 'Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain' Esquire 'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' Washington Post 'One of those rare sweet delights one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year' San Francisco Chronicle </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Pursuing a cunning murderer who has escaped with his band deep into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and a cantankerous youth who is bent on revenge. Reissue. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Nina Pryce, one of a select few women attached to the Army's elite Delta Force, is on an extended medical leave, recovering from a firefight with a terrorist that claimed the lives of two teammates and left her badly injured. While her body has begun to heal, her psychic wounds are still raw; unable to care for her daughter, repair the damage to her marriage, or face the fact that her military career is over, she and her family take refuge in a remote Minnesota town. But trouble seems to follow in her wake, and what begins as a schoolyard fight between her daughter and a bullying classmate soon escalates into a terrifying standoff with a clan of backwoods methamphetamine "cookers" and a hitman bent on revenge against Nina's husband Phil Broker, a former undercover cop. Logan expertly balances the tough and the tender, as Broker attempts to nurse his wife back to health, protect eight-year-old Kit from the effects of her mother's post-traumatic depression, and guard those he loves from the legacy of his own violent past. Logan's solid pacing, strong narrative drive, and expert rendering of two complex characters whose unusual relationship is as fascinting as they are make this sixth title in an excellent series a standout guaranteed to keep the reader's attention riveted until the last page. <em>--Jane Adams</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>U.S. Army Maj. Nina Pryce and ex-undercover detective Phil Broker return from Logan's <em>After the Rain</em> in this follow-up thriller. After Pryce endures a debilitating psychological and physical breakdown from a nasty tangle with a psychopath, the estranged spouses reunite. Eager for a fresh start, Broker, Pryce and plucky young daughter Karson ("Kit") move from St. Paul to bucolic, frosty Glacier Falls, Minn., home to howling wolves and an elementary school mixed in with "all the special-ed students in the county." When Kit gives playground bully Teddy—scion of the town's notoriously disruptive, methamphetamine-cooking Klumpe family—a black eye, a blood feud is ignited that accelerates with increasing menace. A slashed tire, a stolen cat and a housebreak all lead up to Broker being outed as a former cop—the very same cop who was involved in the death of Jojo, the son of Danny Turrie, Klumpe compadre and imprisoned murderer. Revenge plots boil as Turrie looks for a way to get at Broker—and his family. Logan is terrific on the particular ex-army, ex-cop tension between Pryce and Broker, and gives his bleak rural setting real menace. With a special low "summer price," Logan's latest should easily cool numerous beachgoers with icy thrills. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the __ will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of <em>The Fiery Cross</em>. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! <em>--Alison Trinkle</em></p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Get ready for Gabaldon. Starting in July, the publisher will set the stage for her latest by actively promoting her backlist titles featuring 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In the new novel, Jamie learns from his 20th-century wife that the American Revolution is coming. <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p><em></em>Praise for _DragonKnight<br />_<em></em><br /><em>“DragonKnight </em>is a thoroughly enchanting fantasy where dragons speak, tiny mouse-like guardians protect normal-size folk, and young people search for identity. Woven through Donita K. Paul’s carefully crafted world is a strong theme of love, redemption, and the sufficiency of God to see His children through all trials. The icing on this delightful cake is a surprise ending that brings tears of joy!”<br />–Douglas Hirt, author of the Cradleland Chronicles series  </p><p>“Donita K. Paul’s inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Fresh ideas for new races of people and unusual creatures keep flowing from her gifted pen. In <em>DragonKnight</em>, we meet a few of these and rejoin old friends like Kale, Bardon, Regidor and the ever-huggable Toopka on a rollicking adventure. As always, this author has a whole bag of tricks up her sleeve–unexpected plot twists, heart-tugging relationships, and captivating characters. Classic is written all over this series.” <br />–Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of <em>Reluctant Burglar</em>   </p><p>“_DragonKnight_ swept me into the exciting exploits of Bardon and his loyal friends. The inventive and richly compelling characters quickly drew me into their lives and into a fast-paced fantasy adventure.”<br />–Faye Spieker, playwright and author of ministry tools for children  </p><p>“Charming characters in a colorful make-believe world full of beauty and danger. Classic good against evil with wonderful spiritual truths layered throughout and enough twists to keep the reader engaged from first page to last.”<br />–Sandra D. Moore, Director, American Christian Fiction Writers Association  </p><p>“Donita K. Paul’s new novel examples the skillful weaving of a fantasy story with strong moral lessons and spiritual insights. Throughout her series, Paul has created fascinating characters who battle powerful enemies and learn what it means to live life in the process. As a result, <em>DragonKnight</em> is both fun and important reading. Young readers will love the action–and readers of all ages will appreciate the insights.”<br />–Paul Moede, co-Author, _Good News About Your Strong Willed Child<br />_</p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Trapped in an evil spell… can the knights of Paladin be rescued?  </p><p>Before vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight, Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter, N’Rae, on a mission to rescue the woman’s son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladin’s knights are imprisoned–and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kale’s missing father.  </p><p>The secret is in their hands–and hearts.  </p><p>The band travels north, uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber, they discover a dozen knights–who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need, and overcome even graver obstacles, to rescue the knights?<br />Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in <em>Dragonspell</em> and <em>DragonQuest,</em> in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Here you'll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you'll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe. </p><h3>From the Inside Flap</h3><p>Here you'll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you'll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>Sweet Revenge?</strong>   </p><p>When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murders—and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcorn’s powerful bestseller spins off from <em>Deadline </em>and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.   </p><p>_<strong>Can One Man’s Search for Justice Stand Up to the Forces of Evil Threatening to Destroy Him?</strong> _   </p><p>A shocking murder drags black newspaper columnist Clarence Abernathy into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict. In a desperate hunt for answers to the violence (and to his own struggles with race and faith), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, Clarence and Ollie soon find themselves sharing the same mission: victory over the forces of darkness vying for dominion.   </p><p>Filled with insight—and with characters so real you’ll never forget them—_Dominion _is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope.   </p><p><em>I don’t know when I have read a novel that affected me so profoundly. Randy Alcorn has combined a superb mystery/detective story with a lesson in racial relations in America, gang dynamics and symbols, Christian values, and spiritual warfare. </em>   </p><p>—Dave Kirby, Troy (Alabama) Broadcasting Corporation   </p><p><em>Even better than its predecessor…Alcorn’s writing remains top-notch. </em>   </p><p>—Sean Taylor, <em>CBA Marketplace</em>   </p><p><strong>READER’S GUIDE INCLUDED </strong>   </p><p><strong>Story Behind the Book</strong>  </p><p>Randy Alcorn thoroughly researched his characters, spending time in the inner city with homicide and gang detectives to better create the scenes for this bestselling novel. He set the story in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and the main character, Clarence Abernathy, is a black journalist whose unforgettable father played baseball in the old Negro Leagues. Randy has received many letters from readers who assume he is African American due to his accurate portrayals of racial issues. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Randy Alcorn</strong> is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include <em>Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,</em> and <em>Safely Home</em>. He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including <em>Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,</em> and <em>The Grace and Truth Paradox</em>. Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren. </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>“I have just finished reading Randy Alcorn’s new novel. <em>Deception</em> is the same high quality as Randy’s related novels <em>Deadline</em> and <em>Dominion</em>. All three are page-turners…Randy is a gifted writer. I strongly recommend that you read his books.”<br />- Chuck Norris, six-time World Karate champion, international film and television star  </p><p>“_Deception_ was as engaging to me as books by Chricton or Clancy…I’m sure glad Randy can’t paint, or I’d be in big trouble!”<br />- Ron DiCianni, award-winning artist, author of <em>Beyond Words</em>  </p><p>“Randy Alcorn is amazing. He’s one of my all-time favorite authors.”<br />- Karen Kingsbury, bestselling author of the Redemption series and the Firstborn series   </p><p>“Alcorn has written a novel that combines the suspense of John Grisham and the theological pondering of C.S. Lewis.”<br />- New Man Magazine for <em>Deadline</em>  </p><p>“[_Deadline_] is for clear thinkers who enjoy a good argument. There can be no mistaking — and there should be no ignoring — the vital message of this book.”<br />- Frank Peretti, bestselling author of <em>This Present Darkness</em>  </p><p>“Randy Alcorn has hit it out of the park. <em>Deadline</em> is riveting. Motivating. Intriguing. Provocative. And it’s for the mystery lovers too. Many books feed the mind. Some feed the heart. <em>Deadline </em>nourishes both.”<br />- Stu Weber, author of Tender Warrior  </p><p>“Alcorn’s writing remains top-notch, and he fills the pages with enough tension to cause ulcers.”<br />- Bookstore Journal for <em>Dominion</em>  </p><p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p><em></em>“Messin’ with me’s like wearin’ cheese underwear down rat alley.”<br />-Ollie Chandler  </p><p><em></em>Homicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when he’s called to investigate the murder of a Portland State University professor, he finds himself going places he’s never gone before.  </p><p><em></em>Places he never wanted to go.<br /><em></em><br />Because all the evidence is pointing to one horrific conclusion: The murderer is someone in his own department. That’s not the worst of it, though. Ollie has nagging doubts…about himself. Where was <em>he</em> during the time of the murder?  </p><p>Joined by journalist Clarence Abernathy and their friend Jake Woods, Ollie pushes the investigation forward. Soon all three are drawn deep into corruption and political tensions that threaten to destroy them–and anyone who tries to help. But they’re in too deep to quit. They’ve got no choice. They have to follow the evidence to the truth…<br /><em></em><br />No matter how ugly–or dangerous–it gets.<br /><em></em><br />A gripping story of murder and spiritual struggle, Deception proves, as never before, the truth of Ollie’s first law: “Things are often not what they appear.”  </p><p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em></p>


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<h3>From</h3><p>Invited to lecture at the White House in February 2002, Gilbert, known as Winston Churchill's official biographer, hopes this commentary "can be of service" to the leaders of the war on terror. Whether George W. Bush and Tony Blair have been consciously imitating Churchill will be left for future historians to discover; Gilbert, for his part, cautions that "Churchill's war leadership can have no parallel," except during a war conducted on the scale of World War II. Caveat announced, Gilbert proceeds point by point to Churchill's direction of affairs, of which his celebrated speeches and buoyancy in public (depicted in the author's photo album <em>Churchill at War</em> [BKL F 15 04]) was only one praiseworthy aspect. Above all, Gilbert credits Churchill's refusal to deal with Hitler in 1940 and rates highly as well Churchill's articulation of the war's aim as the defense of democracy. Beneath the public plane, Churchill's day-to-day activity (such as attending to intelligence and logistical details) was, according to Gilbert, equally integral to his leadership. <em>Gilbert Taylor</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>How does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he deal with setbacks and disasters? In this brilliant close-up look at Winston Churchill's leadership during the Second World War, Gilbert gets to the heart of the trials and struggles that have confronted the world's most powerful leaders, even up to current politicians such as George Bush and Tony Blair.  </p><p>Basing the book on his intimate knowledge of Churchill's private and official papers, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill’s official biographer, looks at the public figure and wartime propaganda, to reveal a very human, sensitive, and often tormented man, who nevertheless found the strength to lead his nation forward from the darkest and most dangerous of times. </p>


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The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights – was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service of the people, whose instrument he believed Parliament to be. “I am a child of the House of Commons,” he told a joint session of the US Congress in December 1941. “I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy. Trust the people – that was his message….”Throughout his career, Churchill did his utmost to ensure that Parliament was effective and that it was not undermined by either adversarial party politics or by elected members who sought to manipulate it. Even the defeat of the Conservative Party in the General Election of 1945, which ended his wartime premiership, in no way altered his faith in parliamentary democracy. “It is the will of the people,” he told a small gathering of friends and family the day after the results were announced. And he meant it. Reflecting on the importance of the Second World War as a means of restoring democracy, Churchill told the House of Commons: “At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper – no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.”Today’s readers will readily compare Churchill’s regard for democracy and the importance of that “little man” with the attitudes of contemporary leaders, and of those who seek leadership.


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>There's a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the moon. That's what this book does: it transcends itself-and with outrageous style. Warner, an early-'80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu's Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. By liberally sharing anecdotes from his own life as a down-and-out punk rocker and maker of monster movies, Warner constantly focuses on the importance of a direct experience of reality in all its rawness over adherence to any set of beliefs-even Zen ones. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality. <br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>Adult/High School--Warner has appropriated the phrase "Question authority," a longtime battle cry for the punk-rock aesthetic, for use as a Buddhist mantra. Much of his book is laid out like a memoir. Readers follow the author from high school and his interest in '70s rock music and philosophical thought through his musical career under names like Zero Defex and Dimentia 13 and finally to his dream job with the Japanese television studio that produces the popular live-action children's show, <em>Ultra Man</em>. The common threads throughout are a rabid interest in transcendental meditation and enlightenment. A conversational tone and endless streams of pop references to everything from Minor Threat to <em>TheMatrix</em> movies make this a readable and even fun book. Warner stresses that enlightenment and meditation do not come easy, which separates his writing dramatically from many other Western books on Buddhism. It's nice to see someone with strong ties to rock coming down so hard on people like Terence McKenna or even the Beatles, who promoted drug use as a way toward higher thought. Although some of Warner's connections between Buddhism and the various pieces of pop culture are simplified, his idea of questioning is particularly striking. Not just questioning authority, but friends, oneself, and, yes, him. This wonderfully engaging primer just might get those more dubious, less willing readers to look at the world a bit differently._--Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale_ <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindi and Vedantic philosophy. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects. </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Noted historical true-crime expert Schechter (The Devil's Gentleman) traces the divergent paths of the Colt brothers in a saga that falls short of the author's usual high standards. Samuel Colt, born to a prosperous Connecticut family in 1814, was fascinated by weaponry from an early age and was determined to make a mark in the field. His older brother, John, drifted, until finally he settled in Manhattan as an accountant. Sam, who allegedly whittled his prototype of a revolving firearm while at sea, received foreign patents though American success was slower. But his life was shattered when, on September 24, 1841, John was arrested for the murder of Samuel Adams, whose decomposing body was found stuffed into a box in the hold of a ship bound for New Orleans. In a high-profile trial--witnesses testified that the financially pressed John bludgeoned Adams over a debt--John was convicted and sentences to hang, but in 1842 he was found in his cell with a knife in his chest. Despite the lively material and fascinating characters, Schechter fails to adequately explore the tragic irony of the situation wherein one brother revolutionizes a handheld killing machine and the other becomes a killer. 7 b&amp;w illus. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>The nineteenth-century murder trial and subsequent sordid demise of John Colt would have been little noticed, except that Colt happened to be the older brother of Samuel Colt. Six years before the trial, Samuel had invented the revolver, and the use of “Judge Colt” became the stuff of western lore and legend. John had also been moderately successful as a writer and accountant, but he tended to be volatile and irresponsible. He was accused of bashing in the head of a Mr. Adams during an argument over a debt and then concealing the corpse in a shipping crate. The trial attracted great attention in New York. Despite an admirable effort by his defense attorney that suggeted self-defense, Colt was convicted. Hours before his scheduled execution, he was found dead in his cell, an apparent suicide. Schechter, a literature professor, has specialized in true-crime writing, and here he captures the early form of “media circus” that surrounded the trial, providing interesting and sometimes tantalizing tidbits concerning relations between the brothers. This is a well-done account of a “sensational” trial and its sad aftermath. --Jay Freeman </p>


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<h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>Grade 7 Up—In this prequel to the "His Dark Materials" trilogy (Knopf), Texas aeronaut Lee Scoresby meets armored bear Iorek Byrnison for the first time. In this short, fantastic adventure, young Scoresby finds himself on the Arctic island of Novy Odense, a community set in an alternate past world. The rich mining company Lars Manganese is trying to control the town, Ivan Dimitrovich Poliakov is a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Captain van Breda is prevented from unloading his cargo unjustly. Scoresby takes on the captain's cause, resulting in an Old West-style shootout. Many readers will likely enjoy this book because of its quick pace and action-filled plot, but some Pullman fans may be disappointed when comparing this short text to the trilogy. Characters are less developed, and events sometimes happen a bit too quickly. The ending is neat and tidy, though it does leave the door open for future adventures. The inclusion of documents and black-and-white engraved illustrations add a nice touch, and the board game Peril of the Pole is tucked into the back inside cover as a bonus.—_Jennifer D. Montgomery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green_ <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> As he did in Lyra’s Oxford (2004), Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials trilogy in this story of how aeronaut Lee Scoresby meets and befriends bear Iorke Byrnison. Pullman is as fine a writer as there is for young people, and this book is a small gem—literally—it’s 112 pages and the size of a paperback. The story begins as Lee’s cargo balloon drifts into the Arctic, landing in the icy environs of Novy Odense. The town is about to elect a new mayor, Ivan Poliakov, who wants to rid the place of bears, and Lee (along with daemon rabbit Hester) finds himself embroiled in local controversies. When Lee learns one of Poliakov’s allies is a vicious criminal with whom he once had a run-in, he knows he must choose sides. Beautifully crafted and spilling over with action, the novel has the feel of an old western (one can almost see Gary Cooper as Lee). Matching Pullman’s carefully calibrated prose is the book’s thoughtful design. Everything works together—from the sturdy, blue cloth cover to the the back matter, which features a miniature board game. Lawrence’s stamp-sized ink engravings  set the tale somewhere between fantasy and history. Grades 7-10. --Ilene Cooper </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p><em>“My love, speak to me.  Tell me everything.”  Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal. </em></p><p><em>“What would you have me say?”  He didn’t meet her eyes.  </em></p><p><em> “Zoey lives.” Neferet’s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.</em></p><p><em>“She does.”</em></p><p><em>“Then you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.”  She started to walk away from him.</em></p><p><em>“Where are you going?  What will happen next?”</em></p><p><em> “It is quite simple.  I will ensure Zoey is drawn back to Oklahoma.  There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.”</em></p><p>Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey.  Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z.  But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there.  Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it?  Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either…</p><p>And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim?  The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship?  Does he betray his father or his heart?</p><p>In the pulse-pounding 8th book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>P.C. Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author as well as an experienced speaker and teacher.  Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Prism, Daphne du Maurier, and Affaire de Coeur, as well as others.  She lives in Oklahoma.</p><p>Her daughter, Kristin Cast, has won awards for her poetry and journalism.  She also lives in Oklahoma, where she attends college in Tulsa.</p>


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"Betrayed," the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group. Best of all, Zoey's made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend...or two. And despite the best efforts of her mother and step-loser John to humiliate her publically during parent visitation, she's earned the respect of her professors and High Priestess, Neferet.Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves, and she must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. PC Cast is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author, as well as an experienced speaker and teacher. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious Prism, Daphne du Maurier, Affaire Du Coeur, and other awards. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Kristin Cast has won awards for her poetry and journalism. She attends Northeastern State University, where she is working toward fulfilling her goal of becoming a biology teacher. Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend . . . or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.


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<h3>Review</h3><p><strong>Praise for the House of Night series:</strong></p><p><strong>On TEMPTED, House of Night Book 6:</strong></p><p>“Cast and Cast pull out all the stops and take this story to shattering new heights with devastating consequences!” <strong>–_Romantic Times_ (4 ½ stars)</strong></p><p>“P. C. And Kristin Cast havef made an absolutely amazing [YA] series. The visuals offered by this fantastic duo are entertaining and imaginative, with nonstop action… This is easily a [YA] series that can entertain adults with action, hot Vampyres, true friendship, budding romance, a loving Goddess, and a twist of the unexpected.” <strong>–HowlingGoodBooks.com (5 stars)</strong></p><p>“I loved every one of the books in the [House of Night] series. Tempted is my definite favorite…. This book had me ripping through the pages.” –<strong>Teen review on Flamingnet.com</strong></p><p><strong>On HUNTED, House of Night Book 5:</strong></p><p>“Move over, Stephenie Meyer.”<strong> –_People_</strong></p><p>“Zoey Redbird’s first-person adventures take on added danger and importance in the latest House of Night release. Forced by circumstance to grow up quickly, Zoey’s emotional and spiritual evolution is fascinating. The Cast duo breathes life and vibrancy into the characters and makes each one an integral part of the saga. Awesome and unforgettable as always!” --<strong><em>Romantic Times</em></strong> (4.5 stars) </p><p>“The Cast duo has done it again!  These ladies appear to be an unstoppable force within the world of YA literature… Teenage readers will be drawn to Zoey’s everyday, angst-riddled life.  Not only does she need to save the world, Zoey needs to solve some major vampyre/human boy drama.  These stories are surreal, yet shockingly accurate when it comes to teenagers and their lives.” –<strong>TeensReadToo.com</strong> (5 stars)  </p><p>“The most masterful part of the writing lies in how the authors take on serious issues sex, peer pressure, bullying, parental alienation, religion, and substance abuse and weave them into the text.  It is a refreshing perspective that doesn’t feel like preaching.” –<strong><em>Tulsa</em></strong><strong>_ World_</strong></p><p>“I absolutely loved this book…. I enjoyed the story line very much and thought that the authors had correctly portrayed the mind of a teenager…. I would recommend this book to vampyre fans and anyone who would enjoy a wondrous fantasy story.” –<strong>Teen review on Flamingnet.com</strong></p><p>“An exceptional vampire tale… P.C. and Kristin Cast do a phenomenal job.” <strong>–Darquereviews.com</strong></p><p>“Hunted is an appealing supernatural thriller… The exciting storyline is filled with teenage angst as Zoey struggles with choices that would cause PTSD in most adults…. This fine entry casts a strong spell on readers.” <strong>–Thebestreviews.com</strong></p><p>“A richly nuanced standout… Even when she’s confused, even when she’s embroiled in teen-angst, Zoey’s choices, delivered in fresh first person, seem believable.  Even better?  They seem smart…. This series has dark themes and subject matter, but the Cast team delivers them with sparkling dialogue, wry humor, and realistic characters driven by genuine humanity.” <strong>–Fictionistas.blogspot.com</strong></p><p><strong>On for <em>Untamed</em>, House of Night Book 4:</strong></p><p>“You have a set up that feels a bit like X-Men meets Harry Potter meets Interview with the Vampire all told in a voice as engaging and spirited as anything recounted by Meg Cabot.” <strong><em>– JanuaryMagazine.com</em></strong></p><p>“This is a series that should not be missed!”  <strong><em>– EnchantingReviews.com</em></strong></p><p>“Untamed is a fast moving and adventure filled read, with engaging characters and just a touch of romantic chemistry to keep fans guessing. This is a well-written young adult series that should easily appeal to both teens and adults.” <strong><em>– Darque Reviews</em></strong></p><p>“The mother and daughter writing team have created a believable world with characters that you can't let go of. The story is addictive and the cliffhanger ending in this installment has me wishing the months till March will fly by! The fifth book Haunted will surely be another great book in this amazing series.”  <strong><em>–ParaNormalRomance.org</em></strong></p><p><strong>On <em>Chosen</em>, House of Night Book 3:</strong></p><p>“Teenage issues can seem like life or death, but in this haunting series, House of Night, that’s really the case. Through Zoey’s eyes readers are led into a world that’s getting more complicated by the minute, where friends and enemies can switch positions in a heartbeat. The remarkable Cast duo continues to build a world that you won’t soon forget!” –<strong><em>Romantic Times</em></strong> (4.5 stars)</p><p>“_Chosen_, The House of Night series book 3, is like the cream in an Oreo cookie holding the two ends together. This story is gearing up for the final showdown between Zoey and Nepheret and mother and daughter team, P.C. and Kristen Cast are setting the stage perfectly for this….Again, P.C. Cast is an auto-buy author for me and this series is also on that auto-buy list.” <strong>–_Paranormal Romance Reviews_</strong></p><p><strong>On <em>Betrayed</em>, House of Night Book 2:</strong></p><p>“The Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural world….The issues faced by these teens are not child's play, and the stakes are life and death. This is extremely craveable reading!” –<strong><em>Romantic Times</em></strong> (4.5 stars)</p><p>“Some would find it hard to write the sequel to a great book like <em>Marked</em>, but the Cast women obviously didn't have that problem. I laughed, sighed, and definitely cried. I thought that I knew where this series was headed but the authors took me completely by surprise. Congrats to P.C. and Kristin Cast, on a fantastic job. Bring on <em>Chosen</em>!” <strong>–_Night Owl Romance Reviews_</strong></p><p>“It does not matter if you are male or female, this series will enthrall you…Authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast are a dangerous writing duo with poisonous pens. Highly recommended.” –<strong><em>Huntress Reviews</em></strong></p><p>“_Betrayed_ continues the House of Night series in a chilling fashion.  PC and Kristin Cast once again prove their talent in telling a tale filled with all the normal teenage angst compounded with becoming a Vampyre….If you liked the first book in the series, you’ll love this one!” –<strong><em>Paranormal Romance Reviews</em></strong></p><p>“P.C. and Kristin Cast make a fantastic writing team.  This enchanting tale is filled with non-stop action, strong relationships, and sweet blossoming romance.  Whether you’re a teen or an adult who loves a great paranormal read, this is a series not to be missed.” –<strong><em>Darque Reviews</em></strong></p><p><strong>“</strong>This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampyre story and is sure to please a wide variety of readers.  Although she is a vampyre, Zoey Redbird’s journey is one for every teen.  Her voice is genuine and … captures the sincerity and frankness of a teenager in search of a new home and a place where she truly belongs. The emotional portrayal of Zoey’s trouble and tribulations enhances the quality of these books. True to life, she struggles with issues of truest, loyalty, love, sexuality, and identity and moves though a myriad of conflicting emotions from happiness to confusion to grief.  These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedly—sometimes all at once.” <strong>–_VOYA_ (on both <em>Marked </em>and <em>Betrayed</em>)</strong></p><p><strong>On <em>Marked</em>, House of Night Book 1:</strong></p><p>“Zoey Redbird… is basically the most relatable vampire — sorry, fledgling vampyre — I've ever read about.” <strong>–MTV.com</strong></p><p>“The Casts have put a very interesting new spin on vampire lore. The action is fast paced and absorbing, interspersing light moments among the intensity. When you reach the climax of the tale, you'll be on the edge of your seat. Though this is labeled a young adult novel, I strongly suspect adults of any age will enjoy it.” –<strong>Huntress.com</strong></p><p>“The Casts, mother and daughter, have written a delightful book that’s aimed at teens but will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. The trials of growing up are presented in the new and original context of a vampire society, and they’re woven into a thoroughly entertaining story. Zoey is a dynamic and spunky heroine who has an amusing and realistic voice. She’s surrounded by secondary characters who are just as engaging. The dialogue is sharp and the references to real people and pop culture add to the story. This promises to be a highly addictive series.” –<strong><em>Romantic Times</em></strong> (4.5 stars)</p><p>“A fantastic, fun-paced read.” –<strong>RomanceJunkies.com</strong></p><p>“_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hinton’s <em>The Outsiders</em>. It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.” –<strong><em>The Beltane Papers</em></strong></p><p>“Readers will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist … A good choice for those libraries serving fans of the occult…” –<strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong></p><p>“From the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me!  Totally awesome new take on vampires!  <em>Marked </em>is hot and dark and funny.  It rocks!” –<strong>Gena Showalter</strong>, author of MTV’s <em>Oh My Goth</em></p><p>“Cast reeled me in from para...</p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames….</p><p>Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s fading fast. It’s seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.  But how?  He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates.  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left… </p><p>Enter  BFF Stevie Rae.  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.  The truth is, Stevie Rae’s hiding a secret that might be the key to getting Zoey home but also threatens to explode her whole world.</p><p>In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite: ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).  She’s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddess’s own voice, whether she wants it or not.  Aphrodite’s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoey’s fate hangs in the balance.</p><p>Three girls… playing with fire… if they don’t watch out, everyone will get <em>Burned.</em></p>


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<h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>Grade 10 Up—This installment picks up exactly where <em>Betrayed</em> (St. Martin's, 2007) left off. Zoey Redbird, leader of the Dark Daughters and vampyre fledgling extraordinaire, has discovered some mysterious and disturbing events occurring at her vampyre finishing school. Her ex-roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae, is "undead" and only due to Zoey's love and belief that she still possesses some humanity has Stevie Rae not become a true monster. Zoey must quickly find a way to reverse what has been done to her before it is too late. To complicate matters, Zoey is forced to keep this a secret from her friends and has been betrayed by her mentor and advisor, Neferet. Zoey knows that Neferet is behind the creation of these "undead" creatures and is not at all what she seems. For help, she turns to her rival, Aphrodite, who becomes her confidante and partner in crime. Horror strikes the House of Night when two professors end up brutally murdered. Cast takes the series up a notch with this installment, and readers will be on the edge of their seats waiting for its continuation. This book is a must for any library with a vampire following—but it does contain explicit language and sexual situations.—_Donna Rosenblum, Floral Park Memorial High School, NY_ <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for The House of Night:</p><p>“The Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural world….The issues faced by these teens are not child's play, and the stakes are life and death.”</p><p>–_Romantic Times_ (4 ½ stars) on <em>Betrayed</em></p><p>“Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. I…devoured it in one sitting.” </p><p>–MaryJanice Davidson, <em>New York</em>_ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on <em>Marked</em></p><p> “_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hinton’s <em>The Outsiders</em>. It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.”</p><p>–_The Beltane Papers_</p>


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<h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>YA-- This first book in a trilogy takes place five years after Return of the Jedi (Ballantine, 1983) by James Kahn. Han and Leia are now married and expecting twins; Luke is continuing his training as a Jedi, while training Leia. The Republic is at peace, having defeated Darth Vader and the evil Empire. Enter Grand Admiral Thrawn, ex-warlord of the empire, with his rogue Jedi knight. They attack the Republic and attempt to kidnap Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for their own nefarious purposes. It's great fun to romp with the <code></code>Star Wars'' cast of humans, droids, and aliens again. While it is not on a par with Zahn's creative, powerful works such as Cascade Point (Baen, 1987), Heir is well written for what it is. Recommended for YA collections needing a Star Wars fix. --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA2-<br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>It's five years after <em>Return of the Jedi:</em> the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the last of the emperor's warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the new Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build. The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale--in short, a story worthy of the name <em>Star Wars.</em></p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Book Description <br />What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil and all he wanted was you?</p><p>At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey's friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren't Neferet's secrets any longer.  But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses.  Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn't want to hear and truths she can't face?</p><p>On the run and holed up in Tulsa's Prohibition-era tunnels, Zoey and her gang must discover a way to deal with something that might bring them all down.  Meanwhile, Zoey has a few other little problems.  The red fledglings have cleaned up well--they've even managed to make the dark, creepy tunnels feel more like home--but are they really as friendly as they seem?  On the boyfriend front, Zoey has a chance to make things right with super-hot ex-, Eric, but she can't stop thinking about Stark, the archer who died in her arms after one unforgettable night, and she is driven to try to save him from Neferet's sinister influence at all costs.  Will anyone believe the power evil has to hide among us? </p><h2>An Interview with P.C. Cast</h2><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> Why vampyres? What was intriguing to you about them? (Also, why "y"?)</p><p><strong>P.C. Cast:</strong> Actually, the idea for the series originated with my fabulous agent, Meredith Bernstein. We were at RWA [Romance Writers of America] Nationals in Reno several years ago and Meredith said she had an idea for a series she'd like to see me write. Then she said the three magic words: vampire finishing school. I instantly thought of YA because I'd been reading the </p><p>Oh, and the spelling is just my choice 'cause I like the way it looks!</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> I don't want to draw too many comparisons between your series and </p><p><strong>PC:</strong> I see my genre as YA, and to me that encompasses everyone from Rowling to Laurie Halse Anderson to Janice Erlbaum. So, yes, <em>Twilight</em> fits in the same genre. And while I enjoy Ms. Meyer's books very much, I think the genre has been growing and changing and gaining popularity steadily over the past decade--mostly thanks to Ms. Rowling! As a high school English teacher I certainly noticed the increase in sophistication and popularity of the genre some time ago. Today's YA has an incredible range and depth, and it deals with real coming of age issues in varied and interesting ways. I'm proud to be a member of the ranks of YA authors!</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> Can you talk a little bit about the role that religion plays in the novels? The whole series revolves around the worship of Nyx, the Goddess of Night, and <em>Hunted</em> really digs into questions of faith and free will (often related to what guy Zoey will be drawn to next...very clever to make that her weakness!). At various points in the series you also have People of Faith, Catholic nuns, and Cherokee legend. How do you see all these elements working together?</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> Very clever of you to recognize the ramifications of Zoey's weakness!</p><p>It's easy for me to weave the different religious elements of the world together because it's not really "religion" I'm dealing with when I create the conflicts and faith foundations in the House of Night. Instead I see it as a way to illuminate coming of age issues, which often deal with conformity and obsession and trying to learn boundaries. I chose to give my heroine a belief system in which to live that is matriarchal because my purpose is to empower young women, and by allowing Zoey to join a world where women are valued as leaders and really have no glass ceiling, except the ones they create for themselves, as exemplified by Neferet, I have a springboard for a lot of girl power.</p><p><strong>Amazon.com: </strong>What were some of your influences for the House of Night school?</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma! I just looked around me and wrote what I saw. I also write what I wish I could see, as in the amazing HoN facility and their very cool classes. I'd love to teach a Vampyre Sociology class!</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> How has Kristin being in school affected the series as it's progressed? The scenes with friends hanging out and geeking out on movies in the dorm seem pretty familiar...</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> When the series started Kristin was nineteen and was still living at home her first semester in college. And then when she did move out it certainly wasn't into a dorm that looked as cool as the House of Night dorms! But she does DEFINITELY geek out with her friends. (She's going to kill me for that…)</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> When did the two of you decide to write a book together? How does your writing process work?</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> I brought Kristin in while I was writing the first three chapters of </p><p>We're on book six of the series, and we have the process down. We do some brainstorming, then I write the first draft, often asking Kristin questions right in the manuscript or leaving blanks for her to fill in. Then I send the entire thing to her, and she goes through it, answering questions, filling in blanks, and asking me questions/making comments of her own. She sends it back to me and I go through it again. Then it's ready to go to St. Martin's and our lovely editor, Jennifer Weis. It sounds like a tedious process, but it's really very freeing for me. I can write whatever and know Kristin has my back.</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> Zoey has a few mother-daughter-like relationships--with her mom, her grandma, Neferet, Nyx. How much does your mother-daughter relationship inform your writing? Is it ever awkward?</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> Hmm...that's a good question. Kristin and I have a unique writing relationship. Actually, I probably wouldn't even consider writing with anyone else--it's unusually easy with my daughter (perhaps because I can beat her?). She and I have always been close, and we have a very honest relationship. Talking with each other has never been a problem, so we're used to communicating. That helps a lot in a co-author situation.</p><p>Regarding the mother-daughter relationships in the book: clearly Zoey's relationship with her own mom is nothing like Kristin and mine. Sadly, both of us have met many Linda Heffers here in Oklahoma, which is why she is so easy--and disturbing--for us to write. When I write Nyx's words I often think about how I feel about Kristin, and then try to expand that to how this goddess would view the vampyres, especially Zoey, as her children.</p><p>We get the awkward question often because of the sexual tension in the books. Kristin and I do discuss the temperature of the books and the specific situations a lot. It doesn't feel awkward between us because we're used to communicating, and because we don't just stick sex in our series to be gratuitous. The sexual issues are there because they're realistic to teenagers. Yes, Zoey has several boyfriends--often at the same time. But in six books she has had sex once, and that was because she was manipulated and used by a charismatic adult. It wasn't awkward writing those parts with my daughter--we believe in the reality of the books and the points we make about mistakes and consequences.</p><p><strong>Amazon.com: </strong>Each of the books sort of has its own personality. </p><p><strong>PC:</strong> I think the shifting emphasis is because of the natural arc of the story. Think about your own life. Doesn't your focus shift from time to time? I know mine does. Actually, sometimes it feels like events happen in waves: lots of guy, no guys, friend stres, no friend stress, crazy stuff at school, kinda calm school, etc. So I guess fiction is just mimicking the patterns I see in life.</p><p><strong>Amazon.com:</strong> Even though it has a satisfying ending (no spoilers!) <em>Hunted</em> certainly doesn't seem like the end of Zoey's story. What's next?</p><p><strong>PC:</strong> Zoey has to save the world! And it's definitely a big job. Seriously, now that the dark influences that have been lurking on the periphery of Zoey's world have been brought out into the open, it's time to deal with them. Of course that's a lot harder than "Okay, Z, kick their butts and save the world now!" sounds. Especially as there are many layers to the House of Night world and often good appears bad, and bad seems terribly attractive.</p><hr /><h3>Review</h3>[HTML_REMOVED]


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">Product Description</h3><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Twenty-five years ago the survivors of the marooned Sith ship Omen bloodlessly conquered the native population of the remote planet Kesh, installing themselves as overlords and transforming the primitive Keshiri civilization into a new Sith society. Letting nothing stand in his way—including his own brother’s life—Omen commander-turned-Grand Lord Yaru Korsin has ruled unopposed ever since. But now his days, and those of the ruthless Sith order on Kesh, may be numbered.Revolt—and revenge—have been brewing in the hearts of the two women closest to Korsin. One is Adari Vaal, the once-outcast Keshiri who rescued the stranded Sith, aided their domination of Kesh, and now leads the secret resistance against them. The other is Seelah, wife of Korsin, widow of his murdered brother, and mastermind of the plot to assassinate the Grand Lord and seize power. But have the comforts of a king and his own arrogance blunted Korsin’s cunning Sith instincts? Or is he ready to deal swiftly and mercilessly with treachery from any quarter? Enemies themselves, Adari and Seelah are unaware of each other’s destiny-altering gambits. They only know that there can be no turning back—and no escaping the consequences if they fail.<div class="emptyClear" style="clear: both; height: 0px; font-size: 0px; "></div></div><h3 class="productDescriptionSource" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.23em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.375em; margin-left: -15px; clear: both; ">From the Author</h3><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">The <i><b>Fate of the Jedi</b></i> novels introduce readers to a hidden Sith society, living apart from the rest of the galaxy for five thousand years. But how did they come to be? <i><b>Lost Tribe of the Sith</b></i> answers that question. Spanning millennia, this series of short stories introduces the original unlikely castaways -- and shows how their society was shaped. <br><br>The fourth episode, <i><b>Savior</b></i>, takes place ten years after the events of <i><b>Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Paragon</b></i>. After years of dominating the natives, the only thing that can threaten the Lost Tribe's hold on Kesh is infighting within the Tribe itself -- and where Sith are involved, there's always a schism or purge just around the corner. But this time, there's a wild card in play. Could the Sith be outsmarted at their own deceitful game?<br><br>To follow the story of the Lost Tribe from the beginning, start with the first chapter,  <i><b>Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice.</b></i></div></span></div>


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<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The mighty Sith dynasty founded on the planet Kesh by the survivors of the shipwrecked Omen has endured for a thousand years -- and so has the merciless Sith code, which prizes power above all else. Lady Orielle Kitai enjoys power as the scion of a noble family and member of the elite Sith Sabers. But Lillia Venn, as reigning Grand Lord of the Sith, possesses absolute power . . . and is determined to keep it.<p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.3; ">When a failed regicide sparks a political -- and literal -- bloodbath, and suspicion falls on Orielle, she is swiftly condemned to slavery by the ruthless Grand Lord Venn. But seeing the cunning power play for what it is, Orielle vows to strike back. And at the ramshackle home of a poor dirt farmer with an astounding secret, she discovers the means to make her vengeance a devastating reality.</p></span></div>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for The House of Night:</p><p>“The Cast and Cast team is back and stirring up deep trouble in their beguiling supernatural world….The issues faced by these teens are not child's play, and the stakes are life and death.”</p><p>–_Romantic Times_ (4 ½ stars) on <em>Betrayed</em></p><p>“Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. I…devoured it in one sitting.” </p><p>–MaryJanice Davidson, <em>New York</em>_ Times_ bestselling author of the Undead series on <em>Marked</em></p><p> “_Marked_ is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. E. Hinton’s <em>The Outsiders</em>. It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.”</p><p>–_The Beltane Papers_</p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you.</p><p>Just ask Zoey Redbird – she’s become an undisputed expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a tight-knit group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast.  And the worst part is, she knows it’s her own fault.  Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead, unMarked, and unable to stop bickering with each other.  So who can blame her for befriending the House of Night’s newest transfer student, the majorly hot Olympic archer, James Stark?  </p><p>Meanwhile, Neferet has declared a war on humans after it appears that the People of the Faith have murdered two vampyres.  But Aphrodite’s latest visions show a world completely different from the High Priestess’s promises, a world full of violence, hatred, and darkness, all because of Zoey’s death—and the only way it seems she can prevent it from happening is to make things right with her friends.  Zoey knows in her heart that fighting with humans is wrong. But will anyone listen to her?  Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast's spellbinding fourth House of Night novel.</p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul's latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall family prepares to move from Long Island to Manhattan, unaware that a menace edges ever closer to kidnapping their teenage daughter, Lindsay. Eerie first-person chapters from the stalker's close-call perspective effectively counterpoint parents Kara and Steve Marshall's stressful relocation hurdles, as intuitive Kara begins sensing the imminence of the threat, but meets with resistance from harried family members. After the anonymous menace snatches Lindsay, Saul broadens the scope to encompass four likely male suspects, including a pair of real estate agents (one dour and one impossibly chipper). Steve Marshall conveniently dies in a car accident; police sergeant Andrew Grant is cautious and unconvinced of foul play. Lindsay's attempts to escape and the criminal's master plan keep the tension high and the plot accelerating, making this solid suspense from the veteran author of <em>Suffer the Children</em> and the Blackstone Chronicles series. <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Saul's take on the sexual-psychopath thriller, whose grand master is surely Thomas Harris in <em>Red Dragon</em> (1981) and <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em> (1988), and whose unacknowledged master is Whitley Strieber in <em>Billy</em> (1990), is a more disquieting book than Saul may have intended. As a literary performance, it doesn't give Harris and Strieber much competition, for its Long Island setting and relentlessly middle-class characters lead Saul into bland prose and shallow psychology. And the mainspring of its plot--who has snatched two pretty teen girls and a twentysomething young mother?--is unexceptional and generically shopworn. Fortunately, by interspersing the thoughts of the perverted perp throughout a third-person text otherwise following either the mother of the second girl kidnapped or the girl herself, Saul adds considerable nasty fascination, though that fascination affords the kind of pleasure that many may think they damn well ought to feel guilty about. What is genuinely upsetting about the book is its depressing implication that hands held out in loving compassion are precisely what shouldn't be trusted. That rather flies in the face of the mother's love that drives the main character (who is eminently trustworthy), and it makes for a brackish, disturbing ending. <em>Ray Olson</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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Born under the sign of the Twins, Rosette is a child of two worlds: Gaela, steeped in magic, and an Earth choked with failing technology. The key to their survival is literally in her blood - part of her DNA - a spell passed down through her family line to preserve the one they're sworn to protect. Unaware of her lineage, Rosette runs scared when her family is murdered, narrowly escaping the same fate. Jarrod, a good friend, helps to cover her tracks while Rosette travels to the Dumarkian Woods and takes refuge with Nell, a shape-shifting high priestess of the ancient blood. There she learns the arts of witchcraft, stars and sword. Shadowed by the fabled Kreshkali, queen of the underworld and mistress of the wolf-like Lupins, Rosette and the Temple Cat, Drayco - her familiar - find themselves on the run, hardly ever more than a step ahead of those who will do anything to control the portal that links the many-worlds ...


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When a portal spins Rosette and Jarrod off in different directions, Rosette is caught in a loop of repeating events. A strange bard helps her find a way back home, but things have changed -- Jarrod is missing, her mentor is a child and women are forbidden to carry swords. While Kreshkali leads the survivors on Earth, Rosette and her Temple Cat turn to the future for help -- but which future? Time is their only hope, and it's playing tricks ...


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Set in worlds both technological and fey, scientific and magical, STRANGE ATTRACTORS brings to the events begun in THE SPELL OF ROSETTE to a dramatic and gripping end. Corsanon's warriors are a vanished race, defeated in the temple wars long ago ... or so Rosette thought. She changes her mind when the portal drops her in the middle of an armed legion. Before she and Drayco can escape, Teg is injured and the Sword Master imprisoned. The glamour she spins to rescue her father sets in motion a series of events that may sunder Earth and Gaela forever. Unknown to all, the corridors hide their greatest threat, weaving magic so tight that even Kreshkali can't see it. A battle ensues and the fabric of the many-worlds starts to unravel. Only one of the Richter blood can put things right, but which descendant will use the spell?


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Passion and friendship get equal billing in this entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer's stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a cultural exchange program, redesigns a room in the Louvre. Lydie is still reeling from the shock of her father's recent death in a murder-suicide with the young woman who was his lover. As Lydie is befriended by sophisticated Patrice d'Origny, a young Bostonian married to the owner of a fashionable jewelry store, Michael begins an affair with an eccentric French biographer who is engrossed in her 17th-century subject, Mme de Sevigne. Asked to design the new d'Origny catalogue, Lydie decides to stage a ball in a nearby chateau. While working on their separate projects, she and Michael try to determine whether their once wholehearted love can be recovered. Lively and appealing characters--notably Lydie herself--the Paris setting and themes of betrayal and forgiveness distinguish this spirited romance. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Once again Rice ( Crazy in Love, LJ 9/1/88; Stone Heart, LJ 4/15/90) weaves a tale of modern-day life that's hard to put down. This time the heroine is Lydie McBridge and the setting is Paris. Lydie is trying to come to grips with a family tragedy while spending a year in Paris with her husband Michael. While Lydie is developing a friendship with American Patrice d'Origny, Michael is drawn into an affair with a French coworker. Michael's betrayal rocks the marriage, and Lydie is forced to examine her feelings about her family and her marriage while virtually separated from both in Paris. This is a novel of friendship, love, and betrayal that lets you into the minds of all the participants. It is one of those books that you don't want to end because you want to know what happens to all of the people in it. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/91.<br /><em>-Kathy Ingels Helmond, Indiana Univ./ Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Lib.</em><br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for <em>Bones of the Dragon</em></p><p>"Weis and Hickman, known for their Dragonlance role-playing game and novels, the "Darksword" series, and the Death Gate cycle, again demonstrate their talent for world building and for creating likable yet flawed heroes. This Norse-flavored series opener should have a large following."<br />--_Library Journal _</p><p>__ </p><p>"Weis and Hickman (_Dragons of the Highlord Skies_) have created a believably human story out of their mix of saga and sorcery."</p><p>--_Publishers Weeky _</p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Welcome to the World of Dragonships!</p><p>Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war. </p><p>But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.</p><p>Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation… and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.</p><p>It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess’s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption. </p><p>Filled with heroes and heroines young and old and exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into <em>the</em> bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.</p>


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Introduction  "If you leave Opi, you'll die with strangers," Irma Vitale's mother always warned. Even after her beloved mother's passing, 20-year-old Irma longs to stay in her Abruzzo mountain village, plying her needle. But too poor and plain to marry and subject to growing danger in her own home, she risks rough passage to America and workhouse servitude to achieve her dream of making dresses for gentlewomen.   In the raw immigrant quarters and with the help of an entrepreneurial Irish serving girl, ribbon-decked Polish ragman and austere Alsatian dressmaker, Irma begins to stitch together a new life . . . until her peace and self are shattered in the charred remains of the Great Chicago Fire. Enduring a painful recovery, Irma reaches deep within to find that she has even more to offer the world than her remarkable ability with a needle and thread  Questions for Discussion  1. Irma's practical skills and world knowledge seem so limited, even compared to those of her brother Carlo. What abilities and traits help her navigate the difficult passages from Opi to Naples and then west?   2. Irma's mother devoutly believes that "If you leave Opi, you will die with strangers." How does this assertion shape Irma's experience and how does she ultimately refine it in a way that allows her to move forward in her journey? How does this family assertion compare to others you may have encountered?   3. Opi, real and remembered, is a powerful force for Irma's self-image and world-view. How does her conception of Opi change through the novel?   4. Unlike many fictional heroines and perhaps many young women, Irma initially has little interest in a romantic union. Why not and what must change for her to have a satisfying intimate relationship?   5. At various times in her journey, Irma makes choices which she herself feels are at odds with the Irma Vitale that she "really is." Is she accurate in this assessment?   6. Irma Vitale is surrounded by immigrants as she makes her passage west. What various ways of relating to "the Old Country" are represented by these other immigrants, her "fellow strangers"?   7. Sofia gives Irma the option to leave Jake and Daisy's flat. Yet Irma stays. How does this choice reflect her course since first encountering Jake?   8. Irma's profession evolves from needle worker to dressmaker and finally surgeon. What inner changes parallel this evolution?   9. Today, as in Irma's time, many people live far from their birthplace for a variety of reasons. What pressures, challenges and supports seem universal about her experience?  About the Author  Pamela Schoenewaldt lived for ten years in a small town outside Naples, Italy. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines in England, France, Italy and the United States. She taught writing for the University of Maryland, European Division and the University of Tennessee and now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her husband, Maurizio Conti, a medical physicist, and their dog Jesse, a philosopher.


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<p class="description">SUMMARY:<br>For Rachel Chavez, every day is a battle with her demons. She only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. It's nearly a 24/7 job. Then an executive from the nearby water agency is killed by a hit-and-run driver and Rachel spots the car that did the deed in her garage. A few days later her stand-in employee dies of peculiar causes. And Rachel unknowingly becomes tangled in the conniving cross-purposes of California water politics.When she uncovers evidence of a crime ring, Rachel believes the mystery of the two deaths is solved. But another official is killed, her own father disappears, and it becomes agonizingly clear that the killer is closing in on Rachel.</p>


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<h3>Review</h3><p>“<strong>A real triumph</strong>….A <strong>vivid</strong> imagining of the restoration London of Charles II with Nell Gwynn as a <strong>powerful and engaging</strong> heroine set in the busy world of the theater. This debut novel captures the <strong>glamorous</strong> world of the amoral court and the struggle of the city. <strong>Priya Parmar is a writer to watch</strong>.”</p><p><strong>—Philippa Gregory</strong></p><p>Author of <em>The Other Boleyn Girl</em>  </p><p>"Clever ... a delight ... irresistible ... I loved this book."</p><p><strong>--</strong> <strong>Sharon Kay Penman</strong>, author of <em>Devil's Brood</em>  </p><p>“Nell is irrepressible, spunky, delightful: who wouldn’t fall in love with her? Her story unfolds through diary entries, letters, news announcements, recipes. It¹s a tasty and often amusing confection, sure to please. I absolutely adored it.”</p><p><strong>—Sandra Gulland</strong>, author of the Josephine B. Trilogy and <em>Mistress of the Sun</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theater’s proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, the scope of her life broadens as well. Soon Ellen is dressed in the finest fashions, charming the theatrical, literary, and royal luminaries of Restoration England. Ellen grows up on the stage, experiencing first love and heartbreak and eventually becoming the mistress of Charles II. Despite his reputation as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heart—and he hers—but even the most powerful love isn’t enough to stave off the gossip and bitter court politics that accompany a royal romance. Telling the story through a collection of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellen’s diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, and home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to life the story of an endearing and delightful heroine. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>Heart-Pounding Murder Mystery </strong>   </p><p>Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This alluring repackage of the R andy Alcorn bestseller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence.   </p><p>_<strong>His Body Hung Suspended Between Two Friends--His Soul Between Two Worlds</strong> _   </p><p><em>Doc’s shoulder jammed into Jake as he swerved the Suburban sharply to the right, cut between a telephone pole and a billboard, then careened into a ten-foot high embankment. Sometime between the sound of Doc’s last cry and the sickening crunch of bent metal from the car’s first roll, Jake lost consciousness. The last sensation he felt was that of being crushed between the two men he had known since childhood… </em>   </p><p>When tragedy strikes those closest to him, award-winning journalist Jake Woods must draw upon all his resources to uncover the truth about their suspicious accident. Soon he finds himself swept up in a murder investigation that is both complex and dangerous. Unaware of the threat to his own life, Jake is drawn in deeper and deeper as he desperately searches for the answers to the immediate mystery at hand and—ultimately—the deeper meaning of his own existence.   </p><p><em>Deadline </em>is a dramatic and vivid novel of substance, filled with hope and perspective for every reader who longs to feel purpose in life.   </p><p><strong>READER’S GUIDE INCLUDED </strong>  </p><p><strong>Story Behind the Book</strong>  </p><p><em>Deadline</em> is Randy Alcorn ’s first novel, which stayed on the bestseller’s list for thirty-six months. A thorough researcher, Randy spent time with Portland homicide detectives and columnists at the <em>Oregonian,</em> as well as observing editorial meetings at the <em>Indianapolis Star</em> so he could accurately create the novel’s murder-mystery storyline, setting, and characters. Randy also creatively portrays characters who have died and gone to heaven, where they view events happening on earth.<strong> </strong></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Randy Alcorn</strong> is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. His novels include <em>Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy,</em> and <em>Safely Home</em>. He has written fourteen nonfiction books as well, including <em>Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle,</em> and <em>The Grace and Truth Paradox</em>. Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Gresham, Oregon. They have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and three grandchildren. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage?   </p><p>Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society.   </p><p>With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself? </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Robin Adair</strong> is a veteran journalist working out of Sydney, and a lifelong student of colonial history. This is his first novel. </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p><em>These are New Year's resolutions worth keeping!</em></p><p><strong>Take a risk.</strong></p><p>At the inaugural New Year's Eve party at Jack's Bar, two lonely revelers decide the best balm for their broken hearts might just be each other.</p><p><strong>Find the perfect work–life balance.</strong></p><p>When a flinty lawyer with a bad-boy addiction meets the quintessential nice guy, sparks fly that consume their expectations of life and love.</p><p><strong>Get those finances in order.</strong></p><p>Working over the holidays on a messy bank takeover is made worse for two federal specialists by an ill-advised kiss that will never happen again…right? </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p>Sunny Archer was seriously considering a legal name change.</p><p>"Come on, Sunny," her uncle Nathaniel said. "Let's go out on the town and see if we can't put a little of that legendary sunshine back into your disposition!"</p><p>Out on the town? she thought. In <em>Virgin River? </em>A town of about six hundred?"Ah, I think I'll pass…"</p><p>"C'mon, sunshine, you gotta be more flexible! Optimistic! You can't lick this wound forever."</p><p>Maybe it was cute when she was four or even fourteen to say things like "Sunny isn't too sunny today!"</p><p>But this was December 31 and she had come to Virgin River to spend a few quiet days with her uncle Nate and his fiancee Annie, to try to escape the reality of a heart that wouldn't heal. And if the hurt wasn't bad enough, her heart had gone cold and hard, too. She looked at her watch—4:00 p.m. Exactly one year ago at this time she was having her hair and makeup done right before slipping into a Vera Wang wedding gown, excited, blushing and oblivious to the fact that her fiance Glen was getting blitzed and ready to run for his life.</p><p>"I'm not really in the mood for a New Year's Eve bash, Uncle Nate," she said.</p><p>"Aw, sweetheart, I can't bear to think of you home alone, brooding, feeling sad," Nathaniel said.</p><p><em>And feeling like a big loser who was left at the altar on her wedding day? </em>she wondered. But that's what had happened. How was she supposed to feel?</p><p>"Nate," Annie said under her breath, "this might be a bad night to push the party idea.. "</p><p>"Ya think?" Sunny said sarcastically, noting to herself that she hadn't been so irritable and sarcastic before becoming an abandoned bride. "Listen, you guys, please go. Party like rock stars. I actually have plans."</p><p>"You do?" they both asked hopefully.</p><p>"I do. I'm planning a ceremonial burning of last year's calendar. I should probably burn three years' worth of them—that's how much time and energy I invested in the scumbucket."</p><p>Nate and Annie were speechless for a moment; they exchanged dubious looks. When Nate recovered he said, "Well all-righty then! We'll stay home and help with the ceremonial burning. Then we'll make some popcorn, play some monopoly, make some positive resolutions or something and ring in a much better new year than the last."</p><p>And that was how Sunny, who wasn't feeling at all accommodating, ended up going to the big Virgin River blast at Jack's Bar on New Year's Eve—because she just couldn't let her uncle Nate and sweet, funny Annie stay home to watch her sulk and whimper.</p><p>There had been a long history in Sunny's family of returning to the Jensen stables for a little rest and rejuvenation. Sunny and her cousins had spent countless vacations around the barn and pastures and trails, riding, playing, inhaling the fresh clean air and getting a regular new lease on life. It had been Sunny's mother's idea that she come to Virgin River for a post-Christmas revival. Sunny's mom was one of Nate's three older sisters, and Sunny's grandpa had been the original owner and veterinarian of Jensen's Clinic and Stable. Now Uncle Nate was the vet and Grandpa was retired and living in Arizona.</p><p>Sunny was her mama's only child, age twenty-five; she had one female cousin, Mary—who it just so happened had managed to get <em>her </em>groom to the church. Since Uncle Nate was only ten years older than Sunny at thirty-five, she and her cousin had had tragic crushes on him. Nate, on the other hand, who had grown up with three older sisters, thought he was cursed with females.</p><p>Until he was thirty, anyway. Then he became a little more avuncular, patient and even protective. Nathaniel had been sitting in the church on New Year's Eve a year ago. Waiting, like everyone else, for the groom to show, for the wedding to begin.</p><p>The past year had passed in an angry, unhappy blur for Sunny. Her rather new and growing photography business had taken off—a combination of her kick-ass website and word of mouth—and rather than take a break after her personal disaster, she went right back to work. She had scheduled shoots, after all. The catastrophic twist was that she specialized in engagement, wedding, anniversary, belly and baby shots—five phases of a couple's life worth capturing for posterity. Her work, as well as her emotional well-being, was suffering. Although she couldn't focus, and she was either unable to sleep or hardly able to pull herself out of bed, she pressed on the best she could. The only major change she'd made in her life was to move out of the town house she had shared with Glen and back into her mom and dad's house until she could afford something of her own. She had her workroom in the basement of her parents' place anyway, so it was just a minor shift in geography.</p><p>During the past year at her parents', Sunny had a revelation. The driving reason behind most young women her age wanting their own space, their independence and privacy, was their being involved in a serious relationship. Since she was determined not to repeat past mistakes by allowing another man into her life, there was no need to leave the comfort, security and economy of her parents' house.</p><p>She was trying her hand at photographing sunrises, sunsets, landscapes, seascapes and pets. It wasn't working—her images were flat and uninteresting. If it wasn't bad enough that her heart was broken, so was her spirit. It was as if her gift was lost. She'd been brilliant with couples, inspired by weddings—stills, slideshows, videos. She saw the promise in their eyes, the potential for their lives. She'd brought romance to the fat bellies of pregnant women and was a veritable Anne Geddes with babies! But now that she was a mere observer who would never experience any of those things firsthand, everything had changed. Not only had it changed, it pierced her heart each time she did a shoot.</p><p>When she confessed this to Annie, Annie had said, "Oh, darling, but you're so young! Only twenty-five! The possibilities ahead are endless if you're open to them!"</p><p>And Sunny had said, "I'm not upset because I didn't make the cheerleading squad, Annie. My fiance dumped me on our wedding day—and my age doesn't matter a damn."</p><p>The town was carpeted in a fresh blanket of pretty white snow, the thirty-foot tree was lit and sparkling as gentle flakes continued to fall, and the porch at Jack's Bar, strung with lights and garlands, was welcoming. There was a friendly curl of smoke rising from the chimney and light shone from the windows.</p><p>Nate, Annie and Sunny walked into the bar at 8:00 p.m. and found the place packed with locals. Jack, the owner, and Preacher, the cook, were behind the bar. There was a festive table set up along one whole wall of the room, covered with food, to which Annie added a big plate of her special deviled eggs and a dill-speckled salmon loaf surrounded by crackers.</p><p>"Hey, looks like the whole town is here," Nate said.</p><p>"A good plenty," Jack said. "But I hope you don't see anyone here you want to kiss at midnight. Most of these folks won't make it that long. We have a strong skeleton crew that will stay late, however. They're busy getting all the kids settled back at Preacher's house with a sitter—it's going to be a dormitory. Vanessa and Paul's two are bunking in with Preacher's little Dana, my kids are sleeping in Preacher's room, Cameron's twins are in the guest room, Brie and Mike's little one is borrowing Christopher's room because he's planning on sitting up until midnight with the sitter. Oh, and to be very clear, the sitter is there for all the <em>little</em> kids—not for Chris," Jack added with a smile. "He's eight now. All man."</p><p>"Jack, Preach, meet my niece Sunny. Sunny, this is Jack and Preacher, the guys who run this place."</p><p>She gave them a weak smile, a nod and a mumbled nice to meet you.</p><p>"Hop up here, you three. As soon as you contribute your New Year's resolution, you get service," Jack said. "The price of admission is a food item and a resolution."</p><p>Sunny jumped up on a bar stool, hanging the strap of her large bag on the backrest. Jack leaned over the bar and eyed the big, leather shoulder bag. He peered at her with one brow lifted. "Going on a long trip right after the party?"</p><p>She laughed a little. "Camera equipment. I never leave it behind. Never know when I might need it."</p><p>"Well, by all means, the first annual New Year's Eve party is your canvas," Jack said. He slid a piece of paper and pen toward her.</p><p>Sunny hovered over it as if giving it careful thought. She knew if she said her resolution was to get this over with as soon as possible, it would open up the conversation as to why she now and would forever more find New Year's Eve the most reprehensible of holidays.</p><p>"Make it a good one, Sunny," Jack said. "Keep it generic and don't sign it—it's anonymous. There's a surprise coming right after midnight."</p><p>Sunny glanced at her watch. God, she thought. At least four hours of this? I'll never make it! She wrote on her slip of paper. "Give up men."</p><p>Drew Foley was a second-year orthopedic resident at UCLA Medical and had somehow scored ten days off over Christmas, which he'd spent in Chico with his two sisters, Marcie and Erin, their guys Ian and Aiden and his new nephew. The three previous Christmases he'd spent with his family, and also his former fiancee, Penny. That somehow seemed so long ago.</p><p>When surgical residents get days off, they aren't <em>real </em>days off. They're merely days on which you're not required in surgery, clinic, class, writing reports or being verbally beaten to death by senior residents and attending physicians. But there was still plenty of studying to do. He'd been hitting the books straight through Christmas even with the distraction of family all around, including Marcie's new baby who was really starting to assert himself. 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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>At 12, Monica Winters is forced to exchange her privileged life in El Salvador as the daughter of the beautiful and headstrong heiress (and amateur marine biologist) Alma Borrero Winters for a humdrum existence in Connecticut with her cuckolded father after unfaithful Alma and her lover are attacked by soldiers at a gathering place for Communist rebels. His body is recovered, but Alma is lost to the sea. Fifteen years later, disinherited by her mother's family, Monica, now a successful massage therapist, is hired by Will Lucero to give Yvette, his comatose wife, a massage. A series of improbable events lands the cast at a clinic in El Salvador where researchers claim to be able to revive comatose patients using the venom of the very cone snail, thought to be extinct, that Monica's mother spent her life searching for. As Will and Monica try to deny their attraction to one another, Monica begins piecing together the truth about her mother's family (and there are many, many things to discover). Though the scenes in El Salvador are vividly rendered, Barron clumsily handles the convoluted plot's ungainly twists, but her debut is intriguing in spite of its excesses. <em>(Sept.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Secrets and lies drive the intricate plot of this first novel, which is both a gripping mystery and an intimate drama of love and betrayal. Growing up in a wealthy established family in El Salvador at the time of the civil war, Monica learns from her beloved mother, Alma, about the exciting science of the ocean, but after Alma drowns, Monica, 12, moves with her American father to Connecticut. Fifteen years later, she is a physical therapist, and one of her patients, in a coma after a car accident, might be helped by an experimental ocean-shell treatment offered in an El Salvador clinic. Why is Monica's father reluctant for her to return to where her mother died? When they do go back, Monica makes astonishing discoveries, past and present, that make her question, "Who was the fragile one after all?" In a contemporary version of the heroic quest story, Monica's search for home opens up a world of revolutionary politics, science, and passion. <em>Hazel Rochman</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Zellie Wells has a devastating crush on Avery Adams, the son of her mom's high school sweetheart. At her sixteenth birthday party, held in the basement of her dad's church, she finally finds the courage to talk to him. Turns out, the devastating crush is mutual. As Avery takes her hand and leads her out onto the makeshift dance floor, Zellie is overwhelmed by her first vision of his death; shocking because not only are they both covered in his blood, but they're old, like 35, and she is pregnant. Afraid to tell anyone about the vision, (she'd just be labeled a freaky black magic witch, right?) Zellie keeps the knowledge of Avery's future to herself and tries to act like any other teenager in love. When they get caught on their way to a secret rendezvous by her mom and his dad, they are forbidden to see each other. Convinced that their parents are freaking out unnecessarily, Avery and Zellie vow to be together no matter what. They continue their relationship in secret until Zellie learns that their parents are just trying to prevent her and Avery from suffering like they did. The visions are hereditary, they're dangerous, and if they stay together the visions will come true. Now Zellie must choose between severing all ties with Avery, like her mom did to prevent his father's death, and finding a way to change Avery's future </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Stacey lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and their two young children. Glimpse is her debut novel. </p>


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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>After <em>A Far Better Rest</em> (2000), an homage to Dickens's <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>, Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who's haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange's ex-lover, Célie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about "mistakenly being the cause of a man's death," Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of Célie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant <em>incroyables</em> (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past. <em>(Mar.)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel,_ A Far Better_ <em>Rest</em> (2000), a reimagining of Dickens' <em>A </em>Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl's past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed. <em>Kristine Huntley</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!</p><p>Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most exciting and popular genre in all literature.</p><p>Known for their bestselling <em>Dragonlance Chronicles </em> and <em>Legends,</em>noted authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have brought together their own personal favorites--the immortal treasures of fantasy that inspired them--into an authoritative collection of imaginative excellence that is an essential addition to every bookshelf. <em>Treasures of Fantasy </em> also includes a new story by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, original to this edition.</p><p>If you truly love great fantasy, here's the one book you must have.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Margaret Weis is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of over thirty books, including the Star of the Guardian series, the Death Gate Cycle, the Darksword Trilogy, and the Dragonlance series. She lives with her husband, Don Perrin, in a converted barn in Wisconsin. </p>


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<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><strong>Ten More Books for Readers of <em>A Discovery of Witches</em></strong></p><p><em>Interested in learning more about magic and science? </em></p><p>I may have written a novel, but I’m still a history professor! Here are some reading suggestions for those of you whose curiosity has been stirred up by the story of Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, and the hunt for the missing alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. All of the titles here are non-fiction, and inspired some aspect of <em>A Discovery of Witches</em>. </p><p>Elias Ashmole, </p><p>Janet Browne, </p><p>Owen Davies, </p><p>Carol Karlsen, </p><p>Robert Kehew, Ezra Pound, and W. D. Snodgrass, </p><p>Bruce Moran’s </p><p>Alexander Roob, </p><p>Lyndal Roper, <em>A Discovery of Witches</em> because it helped me understand how the belief in witches influenced the imagination. Many of the notions we have about witchcraft today have their roots in these terrifying fantasies. </p><p>James Sharpe, </p><p>Bryan Sykes, </p><p><em>--Deborah Harkness</em> (Photo of Deborah Harkness © Marion Ettlinger) </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In Harkness's lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford's Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. </p>


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When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared from the family, 60 years before? What caused such a severe rift? Julie is invited to stay with her cousins who run the plantation founded by her great grandfather in Malaya a hundred years ago, and she decides to visit in the hope of finding clues to this family mystery. What Julie finds sends her spiralling through generations of loves, deaths, tragedy and the challenges of the present until she discovers her grandmother's shocking secret.


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Not since <em>The Thorn Birds</em>  has the lush and romantic land of Australia been brought so vividly to life. <em>Tears of the Moon</em>  is the thrilling and dramatic story of an endless love that overcomes all odds.</p><p>Lily Barton's most prized possession is a beautiful tear-drop pearl pendant. Alone in the world, she has no idea where it came from or why she has it. But she is desperate to learn more of her forgotten past, to find her identity and claim her legacy, whatever it might be. Seeking everwhere for answers, she discovers her great-grandmother Olivia's diary. Across the years it reaches out to her, revealing the truth behind a love that is so profound, so passionate and so complete, that nothing can destroy the power of its magic.   </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Di Morissey is Australia's most popular woman novelist. Well known as a TV presenter on the original <em>Good Morning Australia,</em> Di has always writtne--working as a journalist and advertising copywriter. She has spent ten years living in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Washington, D.C., Hawaii, and Guyana before returning hom. Di now lives and writes in Byron Bay, NSW, in between travelling to research her novels. </p>

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<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In this sequel to 2009's <em>Naamah's Kiss</em>, Moirin, the devoted servant of a sex goddess, journeys across half of a fantasy version of Asia in search of her soulmate, Bao. In Tatar territory, she finds Bao... and his wife. His father-in-law, the Great Khan, is willing to go to great extremes to keep Bao and Moirin apart. Captured by the fanatic Patriarch of Riva, Moirin escapes to find that Bao has vanished again, this time headed toward the distant lair of the Spider Queen and her army of assassins. The romantic tale is marred by Moirin's narcissistic awareness that she is destined for a glorious fate that lesser mortals like Bao's jealous wife may only envy. Carey's storytelling ability is top-notch, however, and readers will applaud her willingness to resolve major plot threads in the middle book of a trilogy. <em>(June)</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From</h3><p>Still chasing her destiny in the sequel to Naamah's Kiss (2009), Moirin follows the urging of her diadh-anam across Tatar territory, looking for Bao, her Ch'in lover, who holds the other half of her divine soul-spark. She finds him married to the Great Khan's daughter, and their plans to smooth this wrinkle go disastrously wrong when the Great Khan arranges to have Moirin kidnapped by fanatical, pious Vralians, while Bao is led into the lands of the Spider Queen. Though this book is packed with new people, new lands, and new gods, the pacing is slow and the tone reflective. Carey's involving depictions of several religions also grow rather pointed. While Bao is never present long enough to gain depth, Moirin grows in strength and compassion, confronting several interesting crossroads in her faith and her way of life. Despite a “middle book” feel, series fans will love it, and an ominous warning about Raphael de Merliot, whom Moirin must “reckon with,” gives us something to look forward to in the next book. --Krista Hutley </p>


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<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Dissolute nobles, master spies, and the unlikeliest of heroes, Alec and Seregil have survived exile, treachery, and black magic. But the road that lies ahead is the most hazardous they’ve ever traveled. For with enemies on all sides, they must walk a narrow path between good and evil where one misstep might be their last.<br /><hr />Having escaped death and slavery in Plenimar, Alec and Seregil want nothing more than to go back to their nightrunning life in Rhíminee. Instead they find themselves saddled with Sebrahn, a strange, alchemically created creature—the prophesied “child of no woman.” Its moon-white skin and frightening powers make Sebrahn a danger to all whom Alec and Seregil come into contact with, leaving them no choice but to learn more about Sebrahn’s true nature.   </p><p>With the help of trusted friends and Seregil’s clan, the duo set out to discover the truth about this living homunculus—a journey that can lead only to danger or death. For Seregil’s old nemesis Ulan í Sathil of Virèsse and Alec’s own long-lost kin are after them, intent on possessing both Alec and Sebrahn. On the run and hunted, Alec and his comrades must fight against time to accomplish their most personal mission ever. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Lynn Flewelling is best known for her Nightrunner series, as well as the Tamir Triad, and her work appears in a dozen languages. She also maintains a lively online presence with her website and her Live Journal, “Talk in the Shadows.” Born in northern Maine, Flewelling is happily transplanted in Redlands, California, with her husband and too many animals. </p>


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Anyone who has followed the adventures of Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions will be waiting for the final installment in this series, in which the heroes at last escape the confines of the mysterious Dungeon.


