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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroixby Stephen KingISBN 0451190556 (0-451-19055-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'Book summary:Time has run out for one of the inmates at the Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial audiobook that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. [via]
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Beyond The Pale: The Darkwing Chronicles Book Oneby Savannah RusseISBN 0451215648 (0-451-21564-8)
Softcover, Signet
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Blood And Ironby ELIZABETH BEARISBN 0451460928 (0-451-46092-8)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood And Iron'Book summary:[via]She is known as Seeker. Spellbound by the Faerie Queen, she has abducted human children for her mistresss pleasure for what seems like an eternity, unable to free herself from servitude and reclaim her own humanity.
Seekers latest prey is a Merlin. Named after the legendary wizard of Camelot, Merlins are not simply those who wield magicthey are magic. Now, with the Prometheus Clubs agents and rivals from Faerie both vying for the favor of this being of limitless magic to tip the balance of power, Seeker must persuade the Merlin to join her causeor else risk losing something even more precious and more important to her than the fate of humankind.&
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BloodAngelby Justine MuskISBN 0451460529 (0-451-46052-9)
Softcover, Roc
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Borderlandby Terri Windling, Mark Alan ArnoldISBN 0451141725 (0-451-14172-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderland'Book summary:Charles De Lint, Ellen Kushner, Stephen R. Boyett, and Bellamy Bach contribute to this "fresh, lively interpretation of the . . . concept of a netherworld on the edge of time" (Booklist)--the Borderlands, where magic meets rock and roll on the streets of an American city transformed by the reappearance of the Border between the Faerie and the human worlds. Previous publisher: Signet/NAL. [via]
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Bordertownby Terri Windling, Mark A. ArnoldISBN 0451145275 (0-451-14527-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Coffey on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190572 (0-451-19057-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey on the Mile'Book summary:The Green Mile is creatively packaged as a six-part series of small paperbacks--serial fiction for a new age. The story, set during the Great Depression, tells of John Coffey, an African American convicted of rape and murder who awaits his death in a Southern prison. Coffey has strange powers, and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts, and of God's. The mystery is enhanced by the succession of installments. [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190548 (0-451-19054-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Crystal Sageby Kara DalkeyISBN 0451456408 (0-451-45640-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Dark Groundby Gillian CrossISBN 0525473505 (0-525-47350-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dark Loverby J. R. WardISBN 0451216954 (0-451-21695-4)
Softcover, Signet Eclipse
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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.More editions of Dark Lover:
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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glassby Stephen KingISBN 0451211243 (0-451-21124-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass'Book summary:Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower features one of Stephen Kings most powerful creationsThe Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreamsand nightmares.[via]More editions of Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass:
Dead Man Risingby Lilith SaintcrowISBN 0446616710 (0-446-61671-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Digging Leviathanby James P. BlaylockISBN 044114800X (0-441-14800-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Doomsday Bookby Connie WillisISBN 0553081314 (0-553-08131-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doomsday Book'Book summary:Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
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The Door to Ambermereby J. Calvin PierceISBN 0441159443 (0-441-15944-3)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Doppelgangerby Marie BrennanISBN 0446616982 (0-446-61698-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doppelganger'Book summary:When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For a witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? This debut is an original adventure fantasy about a young witch who must kill her twin in order to survive. Original. [via]
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The Dragon Delasangreby Alan F. TroopISBN 0451458710 (0-451-45871-0)
Softcover, Roc
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Dragonsby Pamela BlanpiedISBN 0446904813 (0-446-90481-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Dragons, an Introduction to the Modern Infestationby Pamela Wharton BlanpiedISBN 0446512052 (0-446-51205-2)
Hardcover
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Dragons on the Townby Thorarinn GunnarssonISBN 044115526X (0-441-15526-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Drawing of the Threeby Stephen KingISBN 0451210859 (0-451-21085-9)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Three'Book summary:The second volume in Stephen Kings acclaimed, epic Dark Tower series.[via]
After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Seaeach leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must "draw" three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the "Ka-tet" of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely?
The stunning Plume edition features full-color illustrations by Phil Hale and is a collectors item for years to come.
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- The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452284708 (0-452-28470-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Drawing of the 3: ISBN 0451163524 (0-451-16352-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452262143 (0-452-26214-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452279615 (0-452-27961-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0451210859 (0-451-21085-9)
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- The Drawing of the Three: ISBN 0452284708 (0-452-28470-8)
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Drink down the Moonby Charles De LintISBN 0441168612 (0-441-16861-2)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drink down the Moon'Book summary:1990 1st Ed. Ace 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 [via]
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Duckling Uglyby Neal ShustermanISBN 0525475850 (0-525-47585-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Expecting Someone Tallerby Tom HoltISBN 044122332X (0-441-22332-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Expecting Someone Taller'Book summary:Inheriting a magic ring from a dying badger, Malcolm Fisher suddenly finds himself in the much-coveted position of Ruler of the World and must fight off many enemies despite the ring's terrible curse. Reissue. PW. [via]
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A Fine and Private Placeby Peter S. Beagle, Darrell SweetISBN 0451450965 (0-451-45096-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fine and Private Place'Book summary:This classic, mesmerizing tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and the eternal power of love.
Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura...and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.
Praise for Peter S. Beagle:
"Wit, charm, and a sense of individuality." --New York Times Book Review
"It's a fully rounded region, this other world of Peter Beagle's imagination...an originality...that is wholly his own." --Kirkus Reviews
"Both sepulchral and oddly appealing...[Beagle's] ectoplasmic fable has a distinct, mossy charm." --Time
"Delightful." --San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of A Fine and Private Place:
Fledglingby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0446696161 (0-446-69616-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Fool on the Hillby Matt RuffISBN 0446357723 (0-446-35772-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fool on the Hill'Book summary:It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion. Not your usual first effort, Fool on the Hill is a full-blown epic of life and death, good and evil, magic and love.[via]
Think of the imaginative daring of Mark Helprins Winters Tale. The zany popism of Tom Robbinss Another Roadside Attraction. The gnomish fantasies of J.R. Tolkien. Think of these and you begin to get some idea of one of the most remarkable first novels to come along in years.
In the world of Fool on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if youre the sensitive type, or drunk enough, you might see them cavorting across the lawn), and the Bohemians, a group of Harley- and horseback-riding students dedicated to all things unconventional, hold all-night revels for the glory of their cause.
Then there is Stephen Titus George, the novels youthful hero, who somehow finds himself the main player in a story that began well over a century ago. George is a mild-mannered flier of kites, a sometimes writer of bestselling fiction, and would-be knight looking for a maiden. George will find his girl and the century-old story will provide the proverbial dragon whose slaying will sanctify their love. But it will not be a sword that fells the foe but the transforming power of the imagination.More editions of Fool on the Hill:
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Hornby Robert HoldstockISBN 0451458575 (0-451-45857-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Glass Housesby Rachel CaineISBN 0451219945 (0-451-21994-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glass Houses'Book summary:This is the first in a YA vampire series. A bright young girl in her teens goes to college in what she discovers is a town run by vampires. [via]
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The Golden Threadby Suzy McKee CharnasISBN 0553058215 (0-553-05821-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Gossamer Axeby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451450256 (0-451-45025-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gossamer Axe'Book summary:Mass market paperback book [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451933028 (0-451-93302-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be one of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.
Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colourful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.
The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Gunslingerby Stephen KingISBN 0451210840 (0-451-21084-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gunslinger'Book summary:[via]Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worseleft dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joinedkhef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
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- The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452284694 (0-452-28469-4)
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Softcover, New Amer Library - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452261341 (0-452-26134-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452279607 (0-452-27960-7)
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0449212602 (0-449-21260-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
"Deserves the highest praise."
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A Hawk in Silverby Mary GentleISBN 0451142373 (0-451-14237-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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I'll Be Watching Youby Samuel M. KeyISBN 0515112771 (0-515-11277-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Into the Out ofby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0446345598 (0-446-34559-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald DahlISBN 055315317X (0-553-15317-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Kitty Goes to Washingtonby Carrie VaughnISBN 0446616427 (0-446-61642-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Knight Lifeby Peter DavidISBN 0441451306 (0-441-45130-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Land of Laughsby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0441469876 (0-441-46987-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land of Laughs'Book summary:Thomas Abbey is a man stuck in a rut. An English teacher in a small Connecticut prep school, Abbey is in a crisis. His career is unfulfilling, he has no social or love life to speak of, and he cannot break out of the shadow of his famous father, the actor Stephen Abbey. To kick-start his life, he takes a sabbatical to work on a biography of his favorite writer, Marshall France. France's books were the only thing that kept Abbey sane during his childhood, and though he was renowned for his lyrical and imaginative children's books, nearly nothing was known about the writer's life.
Although Abbey has been warned that France's daughter Anna has blocked all previous attempts at her father's biography, he and Saxony Garder--an intense woman also obsessed with France's life--head to Galen, Missouri, with high hopes of breaking down Anna's resistance. They are surprised to find Anna the soul of small-town hospitality and quite excited about Abbey's proposal--even eager to get the project finished as soon as possible. Even stranger than Anna's behavior is the town of Galen itself. On the surface, all is as a small midwestern town should be. But the people of the town seem to know what their future holds--freak accidents and all--down to the hour and are as eager for Abbey to finish the biography as Anna is.
As far as plot goes, The Land of Laughs doesn't break any new ground--it is a riff on a very old literary theme--and the more interesting issues the story raises--fate, free will, and the creative power of the written word--receive only a glancing blow as the story careens to its somewhat unsatisfying Gothic ending. That said, Carroll does show a good ear for dialogue and a deft hand at creating complex characters and quietly ominous moods. And the story--hoary plot line and all--immediately grabs you and doesn't let go. If you already know Jonathan Carroll from his other novels, you will want to add this reissue of his first novel to your library. And if you haven't yet been introduced to this inventive author, The Land of Laughs is the perfect place to begin. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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Lincoln's Dreamsby Connie WillisISBN 0553051970 (0-553-05197-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lives of the Monster Dogsby Kirsten BakisISBN 0446674168 (0-446-67416-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Monster Dogs'Book summary:A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable of Frankenstein's monster several giant steps farther, might have written this fable of a novel about a tragic race of monster dogs--in this case, genetically and biomechanically engineered dogs (of several major breeds). Created by a German mad scientist in the 19th century, the monster dogs possess human intelligence, speak human language, have prosthetic humanlike hands and walk upright on hind legs. The dogs' descendants arrive in New York City in the year 2008, still acting like Victorian-era aristocrats. Most important, the monster dogs suffer humanlike frailties and, ultimately, real suffering more serious and affecting than the subject matter might at first glance suggest. [via]
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Love and Sleepby John CrowleyISBN 0553096427 (0-553-09642-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Lover Awakened: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhoodby J. R. WardISBN 0451219368 (0-451-21936-8)
Softcover, Signet Eclipse
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Lover Eternal: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhoodby J. R. WardISBN 0451218043 (0-451-21804-3)
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Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. Hes the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious loverfor inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him.
Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships, is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and reliant on Rhages protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for love. Her faith in miracles was lost years ago. But when Rhages intense animal attraction turns into something more emotional, he knows that he must make Mary his alone. And while their enemies close in, Mary fights desperately to gain life eternal with the one she loves&
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Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhoodby J. R. WardISBN 0451412354 (0-451-41235-4)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampireby Lionel FennISBN 0441519709 (0-441-51970-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Mulengroby Charles De LintISBN 0441544843 (0-441-54484-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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New York by Knightby Esther FriesnerISBN 0451144961 (0-451-14496-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Night Journeyby Stephen KingISBN 0451190564 (0-451-19056-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Journey'Book summary:Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment. [via]
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Of Saints and Shadowsby Christopher GoldenISBN 0515113883 (0-515-11388-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Paper Grailby James P. BlaylockISBN 0441651275 (0-441-65127-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paper Grail'Book summary:A California museum curator goes to Mendocino to pick up a nineteenth-century woodcut sketch for his collection and runs into strange characters who seem to think the folded scrap of paper holds magnificent powers. Reprint. AB. PW. [via]
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Passageby Connie WillisISBN 0553111248 (0-553-11124-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passage'Book summary:Most of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel Passage make a living at it. Joanna Lander is a medical researcher specializing in Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and how the brain constructs them. Her partner in this endeavor is Richard Wright, a single-minded scientist who induces NDEs in healthy people by injecting a compound that tricks the brain into thinking it's dying. Joanna and Richard team up and try to find test subjects whose ability to report their experiences objectively hasn't been wrecked by reading the books of pop-psychologist and hospital gadabout Maurice Mandrake. Mandrake has gained fame and fortune by convincing people that they can expect light, warmth, and welcoming loved ones once they die. Joanna and Richard try to quantify NDEs in more scientific terms, a frustrating exercise to say the least.
The brain cells started to die within moments of death. By the end of four to six minutes the damage was irreversible, and people brought back from death after that didn't talk about tunnels and life reviews. They didn't talk at all.... But if the dying were facing annihilation, why didn't they say, "It's over!" or, "I'm shutting down"?... Why did they say, "It's beautiful over there," and, "I'm coming, Mother!"
When Joanna decides to become a test subject and see an NDE firsthand, she discovers that death is both more and less than she expected. Telling anything at all about her experience would be spoiling the book's suspenseful buildup, but readers are in for some shocks as Willis reveals the secrets and mysteries of the afterlife. Unfortunately, several running gags--the maze-like complexity of the hospital, Mandrake's oily sales pitch, and a tiresomely talkative World War II veteran--go on a little too long and threaten the pace of the story near the middle. But don't stop reading! We expect a lot from Connie Willis because she's so good, and Passage's payoff is incredible--the ending will leave you breathless, and more than a little haunted. Passage masterfully blends tragedy, humor, and fear in an unforgettable meditation on humanity and death. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Private Demon: A Novel of the Darkynby LYNN VIEHLISBN 0451217055 (0-451-21705-5)
Softcover, Signet Eclipse
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Riddle of the Wrenby Charles De LintISBN 044172230X (0-441-72230-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddle of the Wren'Book summary:Minda Sealy is afraid of her own nightmares. Then, one night, while asleep, she meets Jan, the Lord of the Moors, who has been imprisoned by Ildran the Dream-master-the same being who traps Minda. In exchange for her promise to free him, Jan gives Minda three tokens. She sets out, leaving the safety of her old life to begin a journey from world to world, both to save Jan and to solve "the riddle of the Wren"-which is the riddle of her very self. The Riddle of the Wren was Charles de Lint's first novel, and has been unavailable for years. Fans and newcomers alike will relish it. [via]
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The Sandman Libraryby Neil GaimanISBN 0446393630 (0-446-39363-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Silver Gloveby Suzy CharnasISBN 0553054708 (0-553-05470-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sister to the Rainby Melisa MichaelsISBN 0451457307 (0-451-45730-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Slaves of the Volcano Godby Craig Shaw GarnerISBN 0441769772 (0-441-76977-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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The Snow Spider: Library Editionby Jenny NimmoISBN 0525443061 (0-525-44306-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sorceress of Ambermereby J. Calvin PierceISBN 0441337414 (0-441-33741-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Soul Catcherby Frank HerbertISBN 0441776906 (0-441-77690-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul Catcher'Book summary:The Indian ran away with the Innocent, disappearing into the deep unknown of the dark forests. There he conjured up the strengths of his ancestral spirits. The battle that ensued was no ordinary fight, rather a struggle between two worlds - the seen and the unseen. The author has written "Dune". [via]
Spires of Spiritby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451455681 (0-451-45568-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Stealing the Elf-King's Rosesby Diane DuaneISBN 0446609838 (0-446-60983-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Steel Roseby Kara DalkeyISBN 0451456394 (0-451-45639-4)
Softcover, Signet
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Strands of Sunlightby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451454081 (0-451-45408-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Starsby Steven BrustISBN 0441790992 (0-441-79099-2)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Sunshineby Robin McKinleyISBN 0515138819 (0-515-13881-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sunshine'Book summary:[via]There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts.
Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.
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Tamsinby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0451458206 (0-451-45820-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamsin'Book summary:Peter S. Beagle creates magic in this coming-of-age ghost story, returning to a subgenre he first explored in A Fine and Private Place. When her mother remarries, 13-year-old narrator Jenny Gluckstein moves from New York City to a run-down, haunted, 300-year-old farm in Dorset, England. In slow-moving early chapters, unhappy Jenny's beloved Mister Cat is quarantined for six months and she must attend an English girl's school. Jenny's voice is painfully genuine, her self-description merciless. If early adolescence brings on flashbacks, wait to read this book.
The pace picks up when Mister Cat returns and Jenny meets Meena Chari, whose belief in the supernatural comes from growing up in ghost-ridden India. First Mister Cat finds a new girlfriend, a ghostly Persian Cat only he and Jenny can see. Then she and her younger stepbrother, Julian, confront a boggart who's been playing tricks on the family. The gnome-like boggart is dressed in a Seven Dwarves hat, Robin Hood garb, "and heavy little boots, ankle-high--I'd have taken them for Doc Martens, except I don't think they make them in boggart sizes." The boggart warns her to beware of the ghost cat, her mistress, and "the Other One" most of all. But one afternoon she follows Mister Cat to meet Tamsin Willoughby, ghost of the farm-founder's daughter. Tamsin is friendly, but won't tell Jenny anything about the Other One, or talk about Edric, apparently her lost love. To free Tamsin's ghost, Jenny must relive the tragic history of 17th-century Dorset and face grave danger.
Tamsin is vintage Beagle: there's a shape-shifting Pooka, a ghostly love story, music, the Goddess, and the Wild Hunt. It's beautifully written and can be read on several levels, including as a loving homage to Thomas Hardy's moody novels (Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd) and poetry (Selected Poems). Or you can lose yourself in the story. Fans of The Last Unicorn will enjoy this one. --Nona Vero [via]
Tiger Eyeby Marjorie M. LiuISBN 0505526263 (0-505-52626-3)
Softcover, Love Spell
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553099957 (0-553-09995-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
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To Visit the Queenby Diane DuaneISBN 0446608556 (0-446-60855-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Visit the Queen'Book summary:"A purr at the right time can do wonders," says Rhiow, the furry, black heroine of To Visit the Queen,. Diane Duane's mettlesome cats can work wonders with more than their purring: they're wizards, capable of casting spells, walking on air, traveling through space and time, and speaking to humans--if they choose to. In this sequel to the bestselling The Book of Night with Moon, Rhiow and her team are called in to troubleshoot a malfunctioning magical portal in the London underground. Gradually, they unravel a conspiracy that threatens to twist their reality into a nightmarish alternate history--one in which Victorian England gets a boost from future science and uses nuclear technology to terrorize the world. This perfidious design rests upon the assassination of Queen Victoria, and it's up to Rhiow, Arhu, Urruah, and the London cats to save the queen.
Duane has earned an enormous following with her stories of the unending battle between the evil Lone Power and the forces of life, here championed by Rhiow and the other wizard cats. Although her stories are usually lively reads, in To Visit the Queen, Duane takes a long time to build up to the action and burdens the narrative with large lumps of magic terminology that's more than reminiscent of computer programs or mathematical theorems. But there's a lot of fun to be had from the wheels-within-wheels universes going awry, in spotting tidbits of history, and in following the chain of events as the traitor in the pride reveals its claws. --Blaise Selby [via]
The Tombby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0515088765 (0-515-08876-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Tooth Fairyby Graham JoyceISBN 0451184351 (0-451-18435-1)
Hardcover, Signet Books
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Voice of Our Shadowby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0441865844 (0-441-86584-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Waiting for Godalmingby Robert RankinISBN 0552147427 (0-552-14742-7)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for Godalming'Book summary:Robert Rankin's wondrously oddball fantasies have caused addicted readers' heads to spontaneously explode on five separate continents, most of them in Brentford. Some call him the Terry Pratchett of seedy suburbia, but only if they want a punch in the chops...
Waiting for Godalming reports the greatest case of private eye Lazlo Woodbine, hired to investigate God's murder and the suspicious fact that Earth was inherited not by the meek but by God's other son Colin--edited out of the Bible when Jesus got full artistic control. Woodbine is strong on gunplay, dark alleys, rooftop confrontations and talking bizarre drivel in bars, but one worries about the Holy Guardian Sprout called Barry living inside his head.
Meanwhile, light-fingered Icarus Smith discovers the "Red Head" reality pills that reveal the disguised demons among us for the awful, scaly, insect-mouthed horrors that they are. Meanwhile, Prof. Bruce Partington's "spectremeter" device raises ghosts but can't make them go away again. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists will shiver to the dread Ministry of Serendipity hidden under Mornington Crescent station, and its awful uses for barbers' chairs.
As Rankin's anarchic storylines go, this is unusually sober and logical. There's a flood of running gags, self-referential japes, author interjections, allusions to a million Sherlock Holmes titles, and deranged one-liners like this architectural description of Wisteria Lodge:
To the original Georgian pile had been added a Victorian bubo, an Edwardian boil and a nineteen-thirties cyst.
Full of inspired silliness throughout, this is Rankin in good form. --David Langford [via]
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White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Filesby Jim ButcherISBN 0451461401 (0-451-46140-1)
Hardcover, Roc
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Wizard of the Pigeonsby Megan LindholmISBN 0441894674 (0-441-89467-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of the Pigeons'Book summary:The fifth book in the Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb) backlist.Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City.Subtle magic seeps through the cracks in the paving stones of the sprawling metropolis. But only the inhabitants who possess special gifts are open to the city's consciousness; finding portents in the graffiti, reading messages in the rubbish or listening to warnings in the skipping-rope chants of children.Wizard is bound to Seattle and her magic. His gift is the Knowing a powerful enchantment allowing him to know the truth of things; to hear the life-stories of ancient mummies locked behind glass cabinets, to receive true fortunes from the carnival machines, to reveal to ordinary people the answers to their troubles and to safeguard the city's equilibrium.The magic has its price; Wizard must never have more than a dollar in his pocket, must remain celibate, and he must feed and protect the pigeons.But a threat to Seattle has begun to emerge in the portents. A malevolent force born of Wizard's forgotten past has returned to prey upon his power and taunt him with images of his obscure history; and he is the only wizard in Seattle who can face the evil and save the city, his friends and himself. [via]
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Wolf Moonby Charles De LintISBN 0451154878 (0-451-15487-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Working for the Devilby Lilith SaintcrowISBN 0446616702 (0-446-61670-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working for the Devil'Book summary:When the devil needs a rogue demon killed, he calls Dante Valentine--a cross between Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan--in this sassy debut novel by Saintcrow. Original. [via]
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Ysabelby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0451461290 (0-451-46129-0)
Hardcover, Roc
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