Ruin follows in the wake of Torrlond's victorious army and the beasts its priests enslave, leaving no corner of Eormenlond untouched by the inferno of its war.

Kingdoms and tribes line up on opposing sides as the conflict rages, rekindling ancient hatreds and avenging old wrongs.

As Dayraven struggles to contain the vast power of his curse, he Sequara confront the destruction of all they hold dear.  To salvage their world, they must sacrifice what most makes it precious.

With twists as wrenching as they are unexpected, The Prophet of Edan reveals the War of the Way's culmination.

Phssthpok the Pak has been travelling for most of his 32,000 years - his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before...

Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around the outer asteroid belt.  The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler.  The Belt worlds has been tracking the Pak ship for days - Brennan figured to meet that ship first...

He was never seen again - at least not by those alive at the time.

Civil war on the world of the atevi is finally over.  Even the complex shifts of power that inevitably follow any war are mostly sorted out.  Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with the dominant Western Association, has finally returned to the capital from the southern coast, where he negotiated a daring redistribution of the atevi legislature - one that grants certain of the remaining rebel provinces political stature.  But Bren's official duties have undergone a critical change.

Since the War of the Landing, hundreds of years before, when the atevi nearly eradicated the humans on their planet and exiled those who survived to the island of Mospheira, Bren's post had been held by solitary translators between the endangered, but technologically advanced, human society and the atevi of the mainland.  But in the years that Bren has held that position, the world has changed.

Humans and atevi now interface daily on a shared space station and have traveled to the stars together.  But rather than becoming extraneous, Bren's stature in the atevi world has only increased.  He still wears the white ribbon that represents his office, but now he performs the duties of that office in the ancient manner originally intended, objectively negotiating between atevi adversaries.  It was in this capacity that he had achieved a reformation of congress that ended the bloodshed of civil war.

Now, back in his old apartments in the capital, Bren has settled into the home he knew prior to the war.  But life at the atevi court is never easy.  Though his position has changed, Bren's political affiliations remain - he is still allied with Tabini-aiji, head of the Western Association.  And Bren has also developed a close relationship with Tabini's young son Cajeiri, who was with Bren in space.

Cajeiri is within a few days of his fortunate ninth birthday, and his father has firmly promised that his son's young human associates from the space station can come down to the planet for his birthday celebration.

But things are not going well within the aiji's own household.  For Tabini's political marriage seems to be splintering, and Cajeiri's mother may be less than trustworthy.

Can Bren protect Cajeiri and the unsuspecting human children who are to be his guests in an atevi household that is on the brink of political explosion?

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

Harry has no friends on the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined (and they may have a point). However, now vampire wars have thinned out the wizards a little, they need him. So before he can blink, he's assigned to investigate rumours of black magic.

Harry's other problem is an old friend's daughter - all grown-up and in trouble already. Her boyfriend insists he's innocent of something resembling a crime straight out of a horror film. This first impression turns out to be... well, pretty accurate, as Harry discovers malevolent entities feeding on fear. All in a day's work for a wizard, his dog and a talking skull named Bob.

MAGIC - IT CAN GET A GUY KILLED

'The body count from the magical mêlées would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud'
Publishers Weekly

'This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight'
Boolist

ROUGH
ROAD TO MANHOOD
Young Kearney McRaven had already traveled some rough trails, but tracking his father's killer was a man-size task.  Especially since he himself was being hunted by mysteri-ous gunmen in long, black coats.  From the desert to the Spanish Peaks, they followed his every move until Kearney stopped running and started shooting.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
with the three stars playing the Sackett brothers in THE SACKETTS, a major NBC-TV drama.  L'Amour, with over 80 million copies of his books in print worldwide, is "the most prolific, bestselling and most highly rated Western writer in the country today."
- The New York Times

It's Reading Week at the University of East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop.

The wood is still haunted.  Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing, precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department.  The department deads still think the Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results.  A grizzly murder remains unsolved by local police.  The students are still holding seances in the graveyard.

When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are caught up in events that are spiralling out of control.  Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor takes the waters.  But soon it isn't just the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question - it's the whole of existence.

'Hear me, Lord of Time.  We are a vengeful people.  Our reach is infinite and our patience eternal.  For your actions, we aill have vengeance.  And the vengeance of the Chronovores is terror beyond imagining.'

Five thousand years ago, the Priest Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronovores.  They failed, with catastrophic results.  Thirty years ago, the Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their seperate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more.  While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

As the Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome thier differences.  If they don't, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant.  And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

THE TRAIL OF PROPHECY
Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand.

The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He has never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.

This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, began in Pawn of Prophecy, set among strange lands against a background of a war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years - a novel of strange fate and a prophecy that must come true!

"Eddings Belgariad is exacly the kind of fantasy I like.  It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."
- PIERS ANTHONY

Publisher's Summary from audible.com

King Severn Argentine's fearsome reputation precedes him: usurper of the throne, killer of rightful heirs, ruthless punisher of traitors. Attempting to depose him, the Duke of Kiskaddon gambles...and loses. Now the duke must atone by handing over his young son, Owen, as the king's hostage. And should his loyalty falter again, the boy will pay with his life.

Seeking allies and eluding Severn's spies, Owen learns to survive in the court of Kingfountain. But when new evidence of his father's betrayal threatens to seal his fate, Owen must win the vengeful king's favor by proving his worth - through extraordinary means. And only one person can aid his desperate cause: a mysterious woman, dwelling in secrecy, who truly wields power over life, death, and destiny.

VIZ GRAPHIC NOVEL

NO NEED FOR TENCHI!
Science fiction comedy based on the anime series from Pioneer, as seen on the Cartoon Network!  It all started when high school student Tenchi freed the alien pirate Ryoko from her captivity on Earth.  Soon enough, her friends and enemies showed up: alien princess Ayeka, mad scientist Washu, ditzy space cop Mihoshi...  Surrounded by beautiful, feuding alien women, poor Tenchi is either the luckiest or the most miserable boy on Earth!

RYOKO'S SHOCKING SECRET
After a slightly-too-big party, the Tenchi household wakes to face one of the most dreaded events in the universe...  they're broke!  Following a strange dream and a buried memory, Ryoko leads the group into space in search of a lost treasure... only to find their potential source of revenue is guarded by the man she loved before Tenchi?  With a villainous space pirate and a "chu"-squeaking robot pursuing them, Ryoko must decide whether to trust her love for Tenchi or face up to her relationship with Ibara... a love lost 800 years in the past....

"Fun, weird, and crazy... art and layouts are crystal-clear, and Okuda is adept at both the funny stuff and the drama.  I'd never seen the cartoon of the comics before, and I had no trouble following along or getting hooked into rooting for the characters.  At its core, this is both a love story and an outerspace adventure and handles both with equal aplomb; it's fun reading."
- Comics Buyer's Guide

THE IMPOSSIBLE SAINT

Time after time, the legendary Camber - one-time Saint of the half-magic race of Deryni - had intervened in the affairs of young Kelson, King of Gwynedd.  Yet Camber was known to have died two hundred years before!

Now Kelson set forth with his blood brother Dhugal to search out relics of this mysterious patron of his, leaving his uncle Nigel to rule in his absence.

Then word came that Kelson and Dhugal had fallen from a crumbling cliff during a storm.  No trace of their bodies could be found in the raging waters below.  The king was dead and Nigel must become king.

But to Conall, son of Nigel, the temptation of the throne was too great.  In rage, he struck down his father with secretly gained Deryni power.  Now he would be king!

But Conall had overlooked Saint Camber...

FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK

QUEST FOR
THE FUTURE

Here is a kaleidoscopic new novel of brilliant ideas, startling conceptions and fast-paced adventure that touches on the enigma of Time itself - and offers new insights into the probability worlds that link the past and the far future in a single web.

Any novel from the author of Slan! and The World of Null-A is a major science-fiction event.  This novel adds luster to one of sf's most distinguished names...

A.E. VAN VOGT
"The undisputed idea man of the futuristic field." -FORREST J ACKERMAN

MAROONED
ON THE
WELL WORLD

For eleven bitter years, Mavra Chang had been a prisoner on the Well World - the master-world where hundreds of impossible races existed, each in its own strange environment.  Her once-human companions had been mutated into alien forms, and she was isolated and abandoned.  Worse, her body was cruelly changed to a monstrous and useless travesty of what she had been.

Above her circled the planetoid which contained Obie, the supercomputer that could restore her body and her powers.  But the only means of reaching him was by a spaceship that was stranded in the northern hemisphere - where no flesh-and-blood creature could exist.

To make matters worse - if that were possible! - her enemies were plotting to steal the ship and escape from the Well World without her.  Other, even more wicked enemies were coming to kill her.  Her last shred of hope was gone.

But Mavra Chang had never learned to surrender to fate... and this wasn't the time to start!

FIRST TIME IN PRINT

THE SAGA OF THE WELL WORLD
Volume 1: Midnight at the Well of Souls
Volume 2: Exiles at the Well of Souls
Volume 3: Quest for the Well of Souls

TANITH
LEE

He called himself by the name of the father he had never known.  Vazkor, king of a forgotten land. In his veins were mingled the blood of that regal warrior and that of his witch mother, the silver-masked, snowy-haired survivor of the hated Old Race.  He had sworn that she would die at his hands in the name of his father and all that his world had become.

Across the barbaric and age-haunted planet his quest went relentlessly on.  As he searched, so grew his own powers, his fearful heritage.  Across wide seas, in conquered cities, and among haunted mountains, the hunt took him.  And as he drew closer to his objective, the clearer became the way she must be slain, the more certain his ability to sunder her witchcraft and ancient science to rid the world once and for all of his creator - the white witch from the volcano.

Here is high fantasy on a par with the best - the windup of Tanith Lee's BIRTHGRAVE, the shattering conclusion of a panoramic vision of a faraway world.

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

THE QUESTING
OF  KEDRIGERN

His name is Kedrigern.  Wizard extraordinaire.  Counterspell expert.  Lazy homebody.  And when he's asked to lecture at the annual wizard's convention, his lady friend Princess is delighted to get out of the house.

But tragedy strikes the Wizcon when a pair of drunken conjurers inadvertently turn Princess into a toad.  Again.  And since counterspells only work once, it's up to Kedrigern to go out and find a new solution.

So begins a most extraordinary quest.  With strange companions at his side - and Death at his heels - Kedrigern must cross a maelstrom of magic and a sudden detour into a dangerous future land called L.A. - or else his Princess will have to live on a diet of flies for the rest of her life!

YOUTH IS
WASTED ON
THE YOUNG

Being grown up is a drag... or so thinks Lacuna, one of the mischevious Castle Zombie twins.  So she makes the Good Magician Grey an offer he can't refuse.  Thirsty for a taste of the Elixir of Youth, she'll help him outwit the evil Com-Pewter if he'll send her to Hell (in a handbasket, no less) to find Humphrey, the missing sorcerer.  And while there, she'll learn the True History of Xanth (simplified) and help rescue a blushing Rose from the demon X(A/N)^th... with the help of a gorgon or two.

QUESTION QUEST

THE THRILLING NEW
XANTH ADVENTURE!

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past - mile by frightening mile.

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery - abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona.  Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life.  Until the day of "strange magnetism."  It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere.  It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money.  And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him.  Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past Bridget knows what it's like to be Quinn.  She's hunted, too.  The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.

Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable.  With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview - an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn.  Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.

www.deankoontz.com

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SWORD AND SORCERY
SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL...

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Geoffery Gallowglass is a young man in demand - who must make a choice.  Should he trust the beautiful, brave Quicksilver - a bandit who stole the land of a lord for herself?  Or should he fall for the sultry, subversive Moraga - a witch who will do anything for the throne of Gramayre?

It's a choice fit for a fool.  Or a man bewitched by love...

Quicksilver's
Knight

Praise for Christopher Stasheff's Warlock series:

"Fresh... well-written and entertaining!"
- W.D. Stevens, Fantasy Review

"Enchanting adventure... one starts to get the feeling of what it's like to be a child with magical powers."
- Fanzine

John Smith is just a typical teenager growing up in a typical American town in 1960... Or is he?

He has a dog - that can climb trees and understand very complex commands.

He has parents - who watch him constantly, taking notes when they think he's not looking.

He has a girlfriend - a girl he's never met, whom he has been told he must marry.

John knows something is wrong, but until he crosses the boundary fence late one night, he doesn't realize just how much.  For wherever, whenever he lives, it is definitely not America, circa 1960!

RACE AGAINST
TIME

ONE MAN STAND

He was educated by life and bound to the land he loved.  Then beautiful Angelina Foley came up from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land.  Radigan reasoned with them, stood up to them, and when they tried to drive him from his home he fought back, determined to make his enemies taste the bitterness of their greed, their stupidity... and their blood.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now more than 225 million copies of his books in print around the world.

From audible.com:

In New York Times best-selling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she's glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes.

Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship.

'Join the Unwashed...  Join the Unforgiving.  Join the Ragged, for we are the way.'

A convoy of disenchanted ragamuffins is winding its way through the south-west of England.  At it head, a filthy cattletruck containing for punk mummers... and something else.  The band plays sudden, violent and hate-filled gigs along the way: Dartmoor, Glastonbury Tor, and old cemetery in Bristol.  And every time they play, people die in unspeakable ways.  Aristocrats, high-flying stockbrokers, police officers, all find themselves victims of a Class War that is threatening to shatter society.

Within the dark cattletruck, a malevelont force is leading this ragged army on a Magical Mayhem Tour towards its final, secret destination.  With Jo powerless to resist its seductive influence and the Doctor lost in a nightmarish void, can the band from hell be prevented from staging its final society-cracking performance, and thus spelling the end of the road for... everything?

CITY
OF THE
DAMNED

Tart Cabot was a warrior of Gor - the world that Earth could never see.  Normally, he was a proud and mighty warrior.  But now he was bound for Port Kar, the only city with no home stone to give it a heart.  It was a city of reavers and looters... of outcasts without allegiance.  Merchants and pirates stalked its quays beside the beautiful Sea of Thassa.

Tarl Cabot was headed for the sinkhole of the planet, a teeming den of iniquity.  And that was no place for an honest warrior from far Ko-ro-ba.

But he was no longer Tarl Cabot, the warrior.  Now he was only Bosk... a miserable slave!

From librivox.org:

The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are centered on the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to avoid becoming a junior wife of the head of a local church, while The Rainbow Trail contrasts the older Mormons with the rising generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not seek it.

HE'S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT.  THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE....

It's summer in Memphis.  The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels.  Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life.  Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer... except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.

"THE PACE IS FAST, THE CHARACTERS QUIRKY, THE RESULT ENTERTAINING... WILL BE JOHN GRISHAM'S MOST POPULAR NOVEL SINCE THE FIRM"
- USA Today

"GREAT FUN TO READ... THE COMPLEX PLOTTING IS GRISHAM'S MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT."
- Los Angeles Times

By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him.  And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and maneuverings.  A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill, and outright violence - a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land....

From amazon.com:

Parent, if you have a young son and you want him to grow up to be a man, then you need to keep him away from pop culture, public school and a lot of Nancy Boy churches. If metrosexual pop culture, feminized public schools and the effeminate branches of evanjellycalism lay their sissy hands on him, you can kiss his masculinity good-bye because they will morph him into a dandy.

Yeah, mom and dad, if- if- you dare to raise your boy as a classic boy in this castrated epoch, then you’ve got a task that’s more difficult than getting a drunk to hit the urinal at Chili’s.

Read this bold and hard-hitting guide by Doug Giles, the politically incorrect master, on how to raise your son in a world which more and more seems to hate masculinity.

From amazon.com:

It has been said that daughters are God’s revenge on fathers for the kind of men they were when they were young. Some would say that both Doug Giles and I, given our infamous pasts, are charter members of that club. However, Doug and I know that his two wonderful daughters and my equally wonderful daughter and two granddaughters are truly God’s fantastic gift. With the wisdom of hindsight and experience Doug has written the ultimate manual for dads on raising righteous and rowdy daughters who will go out into the world well prepared- morally, physically, intellectually and with joyful hearts- to be indomitable and mighty lionesses in our cultural jungle. Through every raucous and no-holds-barred page, Doug, the incomparable Dad Drill Sergeant, puts mere men through the paces to join the ranks of the few, the proud, and the successful fathers of super daughters. The proof of Doug Giles’ gold-plated credentials are Hannah and Regis Giles- two of the most fantastic, great hearted and accomplished young ladies I have ever known. This is THE BOOK that I will be giving the father of my two precious five and three year old granddaughters. Tiger Mom meet Lion Dad!

- Pat Caddell
Fox News Contributor -

Ralph's pesky cousins are wrecking his motorcycle, and his janitor friend, Matt, is in trouble because there seem to be mice in the hotel. All in all things are not going well at the Mountain View Inn. So Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school. Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan's classmates. But he doesn't like being forced to run through a maze or the threat of an exterminator coming to the school. Worst of all, Ryan gets into a fight with a classmate, and Ralph's precious motorcycle is broken. Is Ralph S. Mouse smart enough to steer this sad situation to a happy ending?

Ramona just wants everyone to be happy. If only her father would smile and joke again, her mother would look less worried, her sister would be cheerful, and Picky-picky would eat his cat-food. But Ramona's father has lost his job, and nobody in the Quimby household is in a very good mood.

Ramona tries to cheer up the family as only Ramona can -- by rehearsing for life as a rich and famous star of television commercials, for instance -- but her best efforts only make things worse. Her sister, Beezus, calls her a, pest, her parents lose patience with her, and her teacher claims she's forgotten her- manners. But when her father admits he wouldn't trade her for a million dollars, Ramona knows everything is going to work out fine in the end.

Beverly Cleary has given books to each member of the Quimby household except Mrs. Quimby. Now she gets her turn at last in a story that hits the high and low points of a working mother's life as seen from Ramona's seven-and-a-half-year-old viewpoint.

Inevitably domestic tensions, not without their amusing side, occasionally arise. Mr. and Mrs. Quimby sometimes forget who is to do what, as when the Crock-Pot is not plugged in and dinner remains uncooked. Beezus acquires a ludicrous teased hairdo at the student body shop while Ramona gets a becoming pixie haircut. Ramona, who feels unloved, takes to twitching her nose like a rabbit in a cozy picture book until her teacher becomes concerned that something is making her nervous.

Yet Ramona is wrong. She is loved, and readers will rejoice with her when she discovers the wonderful truth. Few writers today are as skilled as Mrs. Cleary at showing families in the round, and here she is at the peak of her powers.