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Angel Fire Eastby Terry BrooksISBN 0345435257 (0-345-43525-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel Fire East'Book summary:Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Nest Freemark-John Ross saga, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. After a long layover in Seattle for the middle book, Knight of the Word, the fantasy-meets-modernity action returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void, this time in the form of ancient demon Findo Gask, who favors a black-clad evil preacher getup for his menacing needs.
Brooks's well-realized and likable cast from the previous books is back, from Nest (now 29) to Ross (haggard as ever) to Pick (still just a few inches tall) and even grown-up versions of Nest's childhood friends from Running, including Bennett, now a junkie with child. Of course, Findo Gask has assembled a creepy little Legion of Doom to harry these nice folks: a giant albino demon; a formless, flesh-eating ur'droch; and a knife-wielding Orphan-Annie-gone-bad named Penny Dreadful. And Angel Fire's main plot thread is even compelling: John Ross has caught a shape-changing, wild-magic creature of enormous power, a gypsy morph, that he and Nest must discover how to turn to the Word before Gask and his crew can capture it for the Void.
But as with Knight of the Word, wooden pacing and unconvincing transitions keep this tale from rising to the level of Brooks's previous masterworks, such as the excellent Shannara and Landover series. If you've read the first two books, it's certainly worth seeing off your old friends in Angel Fire East. But if you're--heaven forbid--new to Terry Brooks, check out his earlier work, or even his very capable novelization of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Art of Arrow Cuttingby Stephen DedmanISBN 0312868324 (0-312-86832-4)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Arrow Cutting : A Novel of Magic-Noir Supence'Book summary:Agreeable but aimless, Michelangelo Magistrale has a photographer's eye for form and detail and a knack with women. It hardly seems out of the ordinary when penniless Amanda Sharmon asks him for bus fare and gives him a room key in return. After Amanda catches a bus west, Magistrale becomes the focus of incomprehensible attacks and nightmarish supernatural manifestations. Luckily, he happens to bunk with sometime-stuntman-ninja Charles Takumo at a youth hostel, and Magistrale's weird experiences engage Takumo's interest. What is the key really for? Where is Amanda Sharmon? Why was she so skittish and sad? Who is behind the attacks, and what is their purpose? Egged on by Takumo and pressured by his unknown and ubiquitous pursuers, Magistrale applies himself to figuring out how he, the strange key, and Amanda are connected.
Stephen Dedman's first novel is one long, suspenseful chase scene. It's reminiscent of Tim Powers's work, but without Powers's sprawl. Dedman's characters are suitably charming (or menacing), and the mythic and contemporary Japanese details are entertainingly skewed in fantastical Hong Kong cinema style: everything is just a little exaggerated, just larger than life. The structure is filmlike, too--tightly paced and without unnecessary digressions. Plan to put your feet up and read this book all in one sitting! [via]
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Artemis Fowlby Eoin ColferISBN 030734309X (0-307-34309-X)
Softcover, Montena
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The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legendby L. A. BanksISBN 0312324081 (0-312-32408-1)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legend'Book summary:She is a woman who lives between pleasure and pain--the pure, scintillating pleasure of the flesh and the kind of pain that has rocked the world and left it strewn with chaos set to a hip-hop beat. Her name is Damali Richards. And when she makes love to a master vampire, it changes everything in a struggle between good and evil--with the future of humanity hanging in the balance& THE BITTENIn L.A. Bank's astounding new Vampire Huntress novel, an unforgettable scene of seduction touches off a violent race around the world--and into a realm beneath us. For Damali, once a pawn, has been given a new, pulsating power of her own--bitten by lover and vampire extraordinaire Carlos Rivera. Between them, they know how high the stakes have risen. A powerful lord of darkness has hijacked a mystical key containing the blood of Christ. And for a world where blood runs like a river, one drop of this blood will be the end&[via]More editions of The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legend:
Bones of the Moonby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312873123 (0-312-87312-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Bride of the Rat Godby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345381017 (0-345-38101-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bride of the Rat God'Book summary:Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen in Hollywood, California, in the year 1923. Then an elderly Chinese gentleman warned her that a trinket she'd worn in her last movie had marked her to be the bride of an ancient devil-god of Manchuria. Now the Rat God is stalking closer, and Chrysanda is discovering that there's no mousetrap big enough to keep her from being dragged unwilling to the altar! [via]
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Brisingamenby Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0425088030 (0-425-08803-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Bronze Kingby Suzy McKee CharnasISBN 0395383943 (0-395-38394-3)
Hardcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bronze King'Book summary:When Valentine starts noticing odd things are vanishing from New York City, she unknowingly summons a wizard from Sorcery Hall who enlists her help in his fight against a dreaded monster of darkness. [via]
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The China Gardenby Liz BerryISBN 0380732289 (0-380-73228-9)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The China Garden'Book summary:When Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker.Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned China Garden. Then her mother reveals that their own past is tragically linked to the estate. But when Clare discovers that Ravensmere is in grave danger, will she risk her future-and Mark's-to save it?
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Dance With the Devilby Sherrilyn KenyonISBN 0312949383 (0-312-94938-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance With the Devil'Book summary:"Dance with the Devil cinches Sherrilyn Kenyon's place as a master of the genre! Zarek is a hero to die for". -Julie Kenner, author of Aphrodite's Secret. He promises the most forbidden disire - and the most tempting... [via]
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence/Silver on the Tree/the Grey King/Greenwitch/the Dark Is Rising/over Sea, Under Stoneby Susan CooperISBN 0020425651 (0-02-042565-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Is Rising Sequence/Silver on the Tree/the Grey King/Greenwitch/the Dark Is Rising/over Sea, Under Stone'Book summary:Joined by destiny, the lives of the Drew children, Will Stanton, and a boy named Bran weave together in an exquisite, sometimes terrifying tapestry of mystery and quests. In the five-title series of novels known as The Dark Is Rising Sequence, these children pit the power of good against the evil forces of Dark in a timeless and dangerous battle that includes crystal swords, golden grails, and a silver-eyed dog that can see the wind. Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed fantasy novels, steeped in Celtic and Welsh legends, have won numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal and the Newbery Honor. Now all five paperback volumes have been collected in one smart boxed set. These classic fantasies, complex and multifaceted, should not be missed, by child or adult. The set includes Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver on the Tree. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Devil's Dueby Rachel CaineISBN 0373513879 (0-373-51387-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Dogsbodyby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0064410382 (0-06-441038-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dogsbody'Book summary:The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried for murder by his heavenly peers and found guilty. His sentence: to be reborn on Earth as a dog until such time as he carries out the seemingly impossible mission imposed on him.
In his Earth guise, Sirius, renamed Leo, truly lives a dog's life. Although he is the pet of a girl who loves him, both child and dog are mistreated by the family with whom they live. But the worldly obstacles Leo faces are minor when compared with his chilling encounters with the Dark Powers that are set against him. His quest seems hopeless until at lost Sol, Moon, and Earth itself come to his aid.
Dogsbody is a tense, exciting, sciencefiction fantasy, a thriller, and a touching dog story all in one.
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Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Dogsbody: ISBN 0333187911 (0-333-18791-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Dogsbody: ISBN 0394820312 (0-394-82031-2)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Dogsbody: ISBN 0064410382 (0-06-441038-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Dreambuilderby Tom DeitzISBN 0380762900 (0-380-76290-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dreamseeker's Roadby Tom DeitzISBN 0380774844 (0-380-77484-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dry Waterby Eric S. NylundISBN 0380785420 (0-380-78542-0)
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Enchantmentby Orson Scott CardISBN 0345416880 (0-345-41688-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enchantment'Book summary:Enchantment is the story of a Ukraine-born, American grad student who finds himself transported to the ninth century to play the prince in a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. Early in the story, he muses that in a French or English retelling of the tale, the prince and princess would live happily ever after. But, "only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale."
Although his fears turn out to be warranted, as he and his cursed princess contend with the diabolical witch Baba Yaga--easily Russia's best pre-Khrushchev villain--to save the princess's kingdom, Enchantment is ultimately a sweet story. Mixing magic and modernity, the acclaimed Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) has woven threads of history, religion, and myth together into a convincing, time-hopping tale that is part love story, part adventure. Enchantment's heroes, "Prince" Ivan and Princess Katerina, must deal with cross-cultural mores, ancient gods, treacherous kinsmen (and fianceés), and ultimately Baba Yaga herself.
Card has a knack for coming across like your nerdy dad at times, when he runs on too long or makes some particularly wince-inducing observation or reference ("Daaad, Bruce Cockburn is not cool!"). But, as you might expect of a good dad, as uncool as he might be, Card still manages to tell a good bedtime story. --Paul Hughes [via]
Expecting Someone Tallerby Tom HoltISBN 0312014260 (0-312-01426-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Fair Perilby Nancy SpringerISBN 0380784130 (0-380-78413-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fair Peril'Book summary:Embittered by her divorce, fortyish storyteller Buffy Murphy brings home a talking frog and refuses his pleas for a kiss, but her teenage daughter ignores her mother's warnings and finds herself entranced by a blond amphibian. [via]
For a Few Demons Moreby Kim HarrisonISBN 0060788380 (0-06-078838-0)
Hardcover, Eos
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Forbidden Magicby Cheyenne McCrayISBN 031293761X (0-312-93761-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Forever Kingby Warren Murphy, Molly CochranISBN 0312852274 (0-312-85227-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Ghostcountry's Wrathby Tom DeitzISBN 0380768380 (0-380-76838-0)
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Girl Goddessby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 006447187X (0-06-447187-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Goddess #9'Book summary:Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie Bat books, Block blossoms in this collection of short stories about love: straight, gay, familial, and otherworldly. Very few young adult authors talk as frankly as Block about sex and some of the other yearnings we feel in this world, yet she guides her readers toward the self-respect and courage necessary to make smart choices about those yearnings. [via]
Girl's Guide to Witchcraftby Mindy KlaskyISBN 0373896077 (0-373-89607-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Hanged Manby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064408329 (0-06-440832-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanged Man'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block explores love in The Hanged Man, a novel that is not part of the Weetzie Bat series even though it shares the same Los Angeles backdrop. It's the story of 17-year-old Laurel, who lives just below the famous Hollywood sign. Her mind twisted and scarred from painful childhood experiences, Laurel becomes an addict and is driven toward reckless passions and empty mirages of "love." Only when she finds the strength to confront her inner demons is she able to reach out and feel a strong, true love for others, and herself. [via]
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Harp Of The Grey Roseby Charles De LintISBN 0142400602 (0-14-240060-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harp Of The Grey Rose'Book summary:[via]He is the Songweaver, but before he was a master of song he was merely Cerin of Wran Cheaping-a seventeen-year-old orphan raised by a wildland witch. Then he encountered the Maid of the Grey Rose-the lone survivor of the war that devastated the Trembling Lands and the promised bride of Yarac Stone-Slayer, the feared and terrible Waster. The mysterious beauty captured Cerin's heart, drawing him into a world both dark and deadly, until armed with only a tinkerblade and the magic of song, he would take on a man's challenge...and choose a treacherous path toward a magnificent destiny. The Harp of the Grey Rose is award-winning fantasist Charles de Lints first novel, long out of print-and it hints of the wonderful stories to come.
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Heartlightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312865090 (0-312-86509-0)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The House Between the Worldsby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0345316460 (0-345-31646-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House Between the Worlds'Book summary:Fenton was only a 'tweenman, without body or shadow; his body lay back in the laboratory where Dr Garnock was experimenting with a new drug. Yet Fenton was in the fairy world of the Alfar, helplessly watching the Faerie Queen of the Alfar attacked and caputured by the hideous, goblinlike ironfolk. And he was fading, irresistibly being drawn back to his body. He had to return to save the Faerie Queen - and to save his own world from the ironfolk. But not even Sally Lobeck would believe him. Garnock refused him more drug and confiscated the talisman that would have let him return in his body as a worldwalker, free to move through the Gateways between worlds. His only hope lay in findinf the mysterious House between the Worlds. But the House could only be found when and where it wanted. And apparently it didn't want Fenton to find it! [via]
The Hunted: A Vampire Huntress Legendby L. A. BanksISBN 0312320302 (0-312-32030-2)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunted: A Vampire Huntress Legend'Book summary:Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can't let her grief stand in her way. Several gruesome deaths, starting with an American research team, have come to Damali's attention in Brazil. The nature of the deaths leads Damali to believe that the killer is anything but human...[via]
Unknown to Damali, the life of Master Vampire Carlos Rivera was saved by a most unlikely group: a band of monks also dedicated to fighting the Dark Realm. In exchange, they want Carlos to help stop the inhuman murders plaguing Brazil-and they will use Damali as bait if they have to. Reunited, Damali and Carlos give in to the erotic passion they have fought for so long. Together, they are a powerful force. But Damali has made a terrifying enemy who won't rest until the beautiful Neteru is dead...More editions of The Hunted: A Vampire Huntress Legend:
The Inheritorby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312862938 (0-312-86293-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Iron Councilby China MievilleISBN 0345458427 (0-345-45842-7)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Council'Book summary:China Miéville's novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad's masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council's uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem.
Miéville (The Scar, Perdido Street Station) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes--imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism--all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues Miéville's macabre remaking of the fantasy genre. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
Knight of the Wordby Terry BrooksISBN 0345424646 (0-345-42464-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Landslayer's Lawby Tom DeitzISBN 0380786494 (0-380-78649-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Looking For Jakeby China MievilleISBN 0345476077 (0-345-47607-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking For Jake'Book summary:What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published talesone set in Miévilles signature fantasy world of New Crobuzon. Among the fourteen superb fictions are
Jack Following the events of his acclaimed novel Perdido Street Station, this tale of twisted attachment and horrific revenge traces the rise and fall of the Remade Robin Hood known as Jack Half-a-Prayer.
Familiar Spurned by its creator, a sorceresss familiar embarks on a strange and unsettling odyssey of self-discovery in a coming-of-age story like no other. [via]More editions of Looking For Jake:
Magic Streetby Orson Scott CardISBN 0345416902 (0-345-41690-2)
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The Marriage of Sticksby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312872437 (0-312-87243-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Sticks'Book summary:Jonathan Carroll is a writer other writers envy. He's been described as a "cult favorite" whose works go out of print too quickly in the USA, despite his popularity in Europe and the admiration of reviewers. It may be because Carroll uses fantastic elements, but doesn't write genre fantasy; his books are often haunting, even frightening, but they're not horror novels. He puzzles you, surprises you, and always makes you think about how what he's saying might apply to your life.
In The Marriage of Sticks, Miranda Romanac is a thirtysomething dealer in rarities who loves her work and lifestyle, but feels unfulfilled. As her friend Zoe says,
you don't expect anything better to happen because you've lived too long and seen too much to have any more hope. I'm luckier than you. I don't think life's very friendly either, but I know we can control hope. You can turn it on and off like a spigot. I try to keep mine on full blast.
Miranda struggles to change her life after upsetting revelations at a high school reunion. She has an affair with a married man who leaves his wife and children for her. She lives with ghosts of her past and future, with what might have been and could be. She's forced to face the consequences of her actions and the effect she has on others' lives by being who she is. Finally, she learns "to live without everything" and be content. --Nona Vero [via]
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Memory of Fireby Holly LisleISBN 038081837X (0-380-81837-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memory of Fire'Book summary:Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina -- and she crosses over, driven by a strange compulsion she can neither resist nor comprehend. Molly McColl is brought there against her will -- kidnapped from her trailer and carried into a realm that traps her, terrifies her...yet offers her a strange and wondrous escape.
In an extraordinary universe of magic and monsters, two strangers sharing only pain and loss must now pursue the destiny that has united them. Because worlds are suddenly threatened by an evil beyond imagining -- the world they have entered...and the one the have left behind.
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Mortal Dangerby Eileen WilksISBN 0425202909 (0-425-20290-9)
Softcover, Berkley Sensation
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Mortal Loveby Elizabeth HandISBN 0060755342 (0-06-075534-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mortal Love'Book summary:Lush, thrilling, and erotically charged, a triumph of suspense and dazzling imagination, Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love is an extraordinary work that spans more than a century, uniting genius past and present with strange, tensile strands of inspiration, obsession, and lust.
A tragedy that occurs in a hospital for the insane in Frankfurt, Germany, will have repercussions across decades and eras. Several weeks after the death of a female patient in a terrible fire, the poet Algernon Swinburne follows a mysterious woman through the shadows toward a remarkable event at once enthralling, stimulating, and terrifying beneath the streets of London. Years later, at the start of a new century, a struggling young artist, Radborne Comstock, is introduced to a ravishing beauty who immediately becomes his muse, his desire, and his greatest torment. It is a legacy of pleasure and madness that will be passed down to his grandson, the dilettante actor Valentine Comstock, who is plagued by disturbing and increasingly erotic visions. And in the present day a journalist named Daniel Rowlands is seduced by the bewitching and mercurial Larkin Meade, who holds the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating to imagine.
What connects these men -- and others whose grand destinies are to imagine and create -- is one woman. Eternal, unknowable, the very ideal of beauty and desirability, she exists somewhere beyond the boundaries of time, a sensuous dream of flesh and fantasy to inspire or destroy, an immortal lover ... or an angel of death. [via]
Night Embraceby Sherrilyn KenyonISBN 0312949375 (0-312-94937-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Life is great for me. I have my chicory coffee, my warm beignets, and my best friend on the cell phone. Once the sun goes down, I am the baddest thing prowling the night: I command the elements, and I know no fear. For centuries, I've protected the innocent and watched over the mankind, making sure they are safe in a world where nothing is ever certain. All I want in return is a hot babe in a red dress, who wants nothing more from me then one night.
Instead, I get a runaway Mardi Gras float that tries to turn me into roadkill and a beautiful woman who saves my life but can't remember where she put my pants. Flamboyant and extravagant, Sunshine Runningwolf should be the perfect woman for me. She wants nothing past tonight, no ties, no long-term commitments.
But every time I look at her, I start yearning for dreams that I buried centuries ago. With her unconventional ways and ability to baffle me, Sunshine is the one person I find myself needing. But for me to love her would mean her death. I am cursed never to know peace or happiness-not so long as my enemy waits in the night to destroy us both.
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Night Playby Sherrilyn KenyonISBN 0312992424 (0-312-99242-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Play'Book summary:Bride McTierney has had it with men. They're cheap, self-centered, and never love her for who she is. But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor.[via]
She just never expected her knight in shining armor to have a shiny coat of fur...
Deadly and tortured, Vane Kattalakis isn't what he seems. Most women lament that their boyfriends are dogs. In Bride's case, hers is a wolf. A Were-Hunter wolf. Wanted dead by his enemies, Vane isn't looking for a mate. But the Fates have marked Bride as his. Now he has three weeks to either convince Bride that the supernatural is real or he will spend the rest of his life neutered--something no self-respecting wolf can accept...
But how does a wolf convince a human to trust him with her life when his enemies are out to end his? In the world of the Were-Hunters, it really is dog-eat-dog. And only one alpha male can win.More editions of Night Play:
Ninth Keyby Meg CabotISBN 0060725125 (0-06-072512-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Practical Magicby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425190374 (0-425-19037-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Magic'Book summary:For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Practical Magic: ISBN 0425152499 (0-425-15249-9)
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Reunionby Meg CabotISBN 0060725133 (0-06-072513-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Silent Strength of Stoneby Nina Kiriki HoffmanISBN 0380777606 (0-380-77760-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Tale of the Body Thiefby Anne RiceISBN 034538475X (0-345-38475-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of the Body Thief'Book summary:It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.
The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Tempting Dangerby Eileen WilksISBN 0425198782 (0-425-19878-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Thread That Binds the Bonesby Nina Kiriki HoffmanISBN 0380772531 (0-380-77253-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thread That Binds the Bones'Book summary:Tom Renfield, a drifter possessed of extraordinary powers, and Laura Bolte, the equally gifted daughter of an ancient family, are wed amid a supernatural tumult that threatens the thread that binds the bones. [via]
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The Travelerby JOHN TWELVE HAWKSISBN 030727859X (0-307-27859-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Traveler'Book summary:A world that exists in the shadows of our own.A conflict we will never see.One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins-a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living "off the Grid"-that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula-ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms-one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. [via]
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Witchlightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312858310 (0-312-85831-0)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witchlight'Book summary:Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of the most beloved and praised fantasy storytellers of our time, has once again written a compelling and powerful novel with larger-than-life characters.[via]
Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tissue-thin. She seem to be possessed--objects shatter when she passes, the corpses of animal appear on her doorstep. And she has the terrible feeling that something horrible happened in her empty past--results of which are now haunting her with unbridled fury.
Seeking help, Winter turns to Truth Jourdemayne and learns that the key to unlocking her lost memories lies within herself--and in the magickal circle of friends in college. But the circle was broken long ago. Winter must reconstruct it is she is to save her life.
Not just the story of a woman's search for her missing past, Witchlight is a powerful novel of contemporary fantasy that pulls readers in and hold them until the final page. Anyone who loves good contemporary fiction will devour Witchlight. -
Wizard's Holidayby Diane DuaneISBN 0152052070 (0-15-205207-0)
Softcover, Magic Carpet Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard's Holiday'Book summary:In the wizarding world, a "wizards holiday" is somewhat of an inside joke, being a "vacation or pleasure trip that rapidly turned into something else, usually involving work, but that was still pleasant in a strange way, simply because of the change." Diane Duanes seventh novel in the Young Wizards series is a perfect example of a wizards holiday. Fresh from their most recent adventures inside an autistic boys mind (A Wizard Alone), wizard partners Nita and Kit are offered an unexpected windfall--a cultural exchange program halfway across the galaxy to a seemingly perfect world--when Nitas wizard whiz-kid sister Dairine misbehaves and is galactically grounded by her mentor. Meanwhile, Dairine, stuck at home, plays host to three alien counterparts in the cultural exchange. For once, it seems like everyone will get a little break--there are no universes to save, no underwater exploits, no battles between good and evil. Which brings us back to that wizardly joke. As Nita realizes at the conclusion of Wizards Holiday, the "Powers That Be" never send any wizard anywhere without reason. Its up to the wizards to figure out just what that reason is--and get on with the business of saving universes and battling evil. Excellent, intelligent writing, with enough technology intermingled with magic to please the palate of every fantasy and science fiction reader. Even readers outside the genre should take a look; you wont be disappointed! (Ages 9 and older)--Emilie Coulter [via]
The Wooden Seaby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312878230 (0-312-87823-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Xxxholic 4by William Flanagan, Clamp, Anthony Gerard, Dana HaywardISBN 0345470583 (0-345-47058-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Xxxholic 4'Book summary:Watanuki Kimihiro is haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits. Seemingly by chance, he encounters a mysterious witch named Yuuko, who claims she can help. In desperation, he accepts, but realizes that hes just been tricked into working for Yuuko in order to pay off the cost of her services. Soon hes employed in her little shopa job which turns out to be nothing like his previous work experience!
Most of Yuukos customers live in Japan, but Yuuko and Watanuki are about to have some unusual visitors named Sakura and Syaoran from a land called Clow. . . .
XXXHolic volume one crosses over with Tsubasa volume one!
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Alice 19th, 5by Yuu WataseISBN 8484495507 (84-8449-550-7)
Softcover, Pujol & Amado S.L.L.
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Cardcaptor Sakura 1by ClampISBN 9879882016 (987-98820-1-6)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Cardcaptor Sakura 2by ClampISBN 9879882024 (987-98820-2-4)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Un amante de ensueno/ Fantasy Loverby Sherrilyn KenyonISBN 8497939794 (84-9793-979-4)
Softcover, Cisne
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un amante de ensueno/ Fantasy Lover'Book summary:La extraña maldición que pesa sobre Julian de Macedonia desde hace 2.000 años le ha condenado a pasar la eternidad atrapado en un libro hasta que una mujer le invoque para satisfacer sus deseos. Esclavo sexual, al fin y al cabo, Julian ha tenido mucho tiempo para perfeccionar sus habilidades y es capaz de hacer realidad las fantasías más secretas de cualquier mujer para proporcionarle un placer inimaginable. Pero cuando Julian es convocado para ser el amante de Grace Alexander durante un mes, descubre en ella a la mujer capaz de hacer realidad un sueño oculto: un amor que llene el vacío de su corazón y, quizá, sea capaz de poner fin a la maldición.
Autora de varias series de éxito, Sherrilyn Kenyon vive en las afueras de Nashville y conoce bien a los hombres, pues creció con ocho hermanos y tiene tres hijos. Su novela Un amante de ensueño fue votada entre las diez mejores de 2002 por los miembros de la prestigiosa asociación Romance Writers of America. Esta novela es el prolegómeno de la famosa serie de los «Cazadores Oscuros», de próxima publicación.
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El Vampiro Armandby Anne RiceISBN 9500824094 (950-08-2409-4)
Softcover, Atlantida Editorial S.A.
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LA Fabbrica Di Cioccolatoby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 8877823445 (88-7782-344-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Ennen Paivanlaskua Ei Voiby Johanna SinisaloISBN 951311886X (951-31-1886-X)
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