MPH Jan'14 Fiction titles (major)

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JAN 2014

Major & LeadFICTION

9780345523549 RANDOMHOUSE S$15.00

For centuries the Four Lands enjoyed freedom from its demon-haunted past,

protected by magic-enhanced borders from the dark dimension known as the Forbidding and the profound evil imprisoned there. But now the unthinkable is

happening: The ancient wards securing the barrier between order and mayhem have begun to erode—and generations of bloodthirsty, monstrous

creatures, fueled by a rage thousands of years in the making, are poised to spill forth, seeking revenge for what was done to them.

Young Elf Arling Elessedil possesses the enchanted means to close the breach and once more seal the denizens of the Forbidding in their prison. But

when she falls into the hands of the powerful Federation’s diabolical Prime Minister, her efforts may be doomed. Only her determined sister, Aphen, who bears the Elfstones and commands their magic, has any hope of saving Arling

from the hideous fate her captor has in store.

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THE DARK LEGACY OF SHANNARA

By TERRY BROOKS

OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE

By NEIL GAIMAN

9780062325136 HARPERCOLLINSS$15.00

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.

He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he

encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in

decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the

unremembered past comes flooding back.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the

road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in

unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly

incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her

years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told

with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of

stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. A stirring,

terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a

knife in the dark.

9780007487813HARPERCOLLINSS$18.00

The remarkable new novel from the bestselling author of Everything and Nothing is a warm and heartbreaking tale of three generations of women.

In a higgledy-piggledy house with turrets and tunnels towering over the sleepy Welsh village of Druith, two girls play hide and seek. They don't see its

grandeur or the secrets locked behind doors they cannot open. They see lots of brilliant places to hide. Squeezed under her mother's bed, pulse racing with

the thrill of a new hiding place Dot sees something else: a long-forgotten photograph of a man, his hair blowing in the breeze. Dot stares so long at the photograph the image begins to disintegrate before her eyes, and as the

image fades it is replaced with one thought: 'I think it's definitely him.'

DOT is the story of one little girl and how her one small action changes the lives of those around her for ever.


DOTBy ARAMINTA HALL

HEREWARD: END OF DAYS

By JAMES WILDE

9780553825183TRANSWORLDS$18.00

England, 1071. Five years have passed since the crushing Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings. The country reels under the savage rule of the new king, the one they call 'the Bastard'. The North has been left a wasteland - villages razed, innocents put to the sword, land stolen. It seems no atrocity is too great to ensure William's grip upon the crown. Rats feed upon fields of the dead. And now he turns his cold gaze east, towards the last stronghold of the English resistance. After years of struggle, he will brook no further challenge to his power: his vast army masses and his siege machines are readied.

In their fortress on the Isle of Ely, the English have put their faith in the only man who might defeat the murderous invaders. He is called Hereward. He is a warrior and a master tactician – as adept at slaughter as his enemy and plans have been been set in motion for a bloody uprising that will sweep the Norman king off the throne once and for all…

James Wilde's retelling of the story of England's forgotten hero -Hereward the Wake - continues in this new brutal and bloodily exciting novel - a must-read for historical fiction fans!


A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.

British business intelligence operative Iain Black is caught up in the car-bombing of a hotel in Southern Turkey while investigating a murky Lebanese

banker. His partner, Mustafa, is killed in the blast, and Iain vows to find out who is responsible. Working with beautiful Dutch historian Aletta Neuhuis,

who was also affected in the bombing, Iain 's investigative trail leads to Turkey's past - to the invasion of Northern Cyprus in 1974, and further back in time to the Trojan War.

As the connections become clear, Iain and Aletta begin to realize that this

was no random terrorist attack, but something bigger and far more dangerous. And as the hunters become the hunted, Iain and Aletta must dig

deeper to reveal a terrifying conspiracy before they are silenced for good...


CITY OF THE LOSTBy WILLS ADAM

LOVE ROSIE FILM TIE-IN

By CECELIA AHERN


True love, friendship and luck - a warm-hearted novel about where fate can lead you

from the No.1 bestselling author.

First published as WHERE RAINBOWS END, now being filmed as LOVE, ROSIE.

Sometimes fate just can't stop meddling...Best friends since childhood, Rosie and

Alex have always had each other. Through thick and thin, they've shared their hopes,

dreams and fears - but their relationship is suddenly in jeopardy when Alex's family

move to America. Their bond remains unbroken, and as their letters criss-cross the

Atlantic, something bigger starts to grow between them. But misunderstandings,

circumstances and sheer bad luck seem to be conspiring to keep them apart. Can

they gamble everything - even their friendship - on true love?

Movie release in cinemas (USA) in 2014, starring Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Tamsin

Egerton…


A beautiful special edition for Valentine's Day - the classic million-copy bestselling

love story from Cecelia Ahern.

Everyone needs a guardian angel...Some people wait their whole lives to find their

soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each

other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine

Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens.

Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to

her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently

guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'. As the

notes are gradually opened, the man who knows Holly better than anyone sets out to

teach her that life goes on.

With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself

laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before. Life is for

living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.


PS, I LOVE YOU (SPECIAL EDITION)

By CECELIA AHERN

MAYA’S NOTEBOOK

By ISABEL ALLENDE

9780062326058HARPERCOLLINS USS$16.00

Maya’s Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author

Isabel Allende.

This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager

abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley

with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973 with a young son, and her

grandfather Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer.

When Popo dies, Maya goes off the rails. Along with a circle of

girlfriends known as "the vampires," she turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime--a downward spiral that eventually leads to Las Vegas and

a dangerous underworld, with Maya caught between warring forces: a gang of assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol.

Isabel Allende discusses Maya’s Notebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfrSbnzypq0

9780007546350HARPERCOLLINS UKS$16.00


LIFE AFTER LIFEBy KATE ATKINSON

9780316403474HACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$16.00

"One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't

enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving,

joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a

wealthy English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first

breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a

lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For

as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Ursula's

world is in turmoil, facing the unspeakable evil of the two greatest wars in

history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of

civilization -- if only she has the chance?

Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant -- this is Kate Atkinson at

her absolute best.

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Kate Atkinson talks about Life After Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0J-bTRafyg

FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE

By TASH AW


Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.

Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide

with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody. Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur

and guru: five newcomers are lured by the promise of making fortunes and remaking identities.

But they find their lives converging in unpredictable ways, as the Five Star Billionaire's lessons for success wreak havoc. For in a land where dreams

may come true, nothing is ever quite as it seems...


BTB at her superb best. A sweeping saga set around the aristocraticIngham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1.

Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve

them One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales A society beauty: Lady Daphne Ingham is the

most beautiful of the Earl's daugthers.

Being presented at Court and then a glittering marriage is her destiny. But

in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes her future forever, and puts the House of Ingham at risk. Life as the families of Cavendon Hall

know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse season feasts - is about to

alter beyond recognition as the storm clouds of war gather.


CAVENDON HALLBy BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD

RUBBERNECKERBy BELINDA BAUER

9780552779692TRANSWORLDS$16.00

Patrick didn't care what made people work. He was only interested in what

happened when they stopped. Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its challenges. And that's before he is faced with solving a possible murder. Because the body

Patrick is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. And now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery -

while he dissects his own evidence...


This bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Katherine and Daniel used to be together.

Now Katherine hates everyone, but not as much as she hates herself, while Daniel tells his new girlfriend he loves her, because not telling her would be

like telling her he doesn't love her.

From out of the blue comes a message from their old friend, rehabilitated party animal Nathan - now adjusting to his mother's new career as a misery memoirist, her tales of maternal hardships the stuff of Twitter superstardom.

Nathan suggests a reunion, but with the bad blood flowing like cheap wine, it can't end well.

As a bovine plague sweeps across the nation, a toxic dinner party gets underway - its atmosphere so poisonous that none of them will escape

infection ...


IDIOPATHY

By SAM BYERS

DADDY’S GONE A HUNTING

By MARY HIGGINS CLARK

9781476767307SIMON AND SCHUSTERS$15.00

In her latest novel Mary Higgins Clark, the beloved, bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” exposes a dark secret from a family’s past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture

firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night,

leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years.

The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was

Kate—tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer—doing in the museum

when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone isn’t who he claims to be?


Heart-stopping supernatural thriller from the master of suspense.

Addison Goodheart is not like other people...Addison Goodheart lives in

solitude beneath the city, an exile from a society which will destroy him if he is ever seen. Books are his refuge and his escape: he embraces the riches

they have to offer. By night he leaves his hidden chambers and, through a network of storm drains and service tunnels, makes his way into the central library. And that is where he meets Gwyneth, who, like Addison, also hides

her true appearance and struggles to trust anyone.

But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance ae' and nothing less than destinyae' has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast

approaching.


INNOCENCEBy DEAN KOONTZ

THE KILL ROOMBy JEFFERY DEAVER

9781455553389HACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00

It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its

victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United

States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas.

The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is

drafted to investigate. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in

Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself. As details of the

case start to emerge, the pair discovers that not all is what it seems.

When a deadly, knife-wielding assassin begins systematically eliminating all

evidence--including the witnesses--Lincoln's investigation turns into a chilling battle

of wits against a cold-blooded killer.


A stunning novel set in the wake of the Second World War, Little Exiles tells the

extraordinary story of the forced child migration between Britain and Australia that

took place after World War II and how this flight from home shaped the identity of a

generation of children.

What if someone you loved asked you to pack a bag and said that they would see

you again soon?

When Jon Heather’s mother leaves him by the door of the Chapeltown Boys’ Home

of the Children’s Crusade, one cold night in post-war Leeds, he is convinced there

has been a dreadful mistake. But several weeks later, nine-year-old Jon finds

himself on a boat bound for Australia.

Promised paradise, he soon realizes the reality of the Australian outback is very

different: a life of hard labour on unforgiving terrain, under an alien sun. So begins a

journey that will last a lifetime, as Jon Heather and his group of unlikely friends

battle to make their way back home.


LITTLE EXILESBy ROBERT DINSDALE

AUTUMN ROSEBy ABIGAIL GIBBS


The highly anticipated sequel to The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire Autumn Rose has the chance to save the world she loves. But how much will she have to sacrifice to achieve it? In Autumn Rose, book two of her

breathtaking series, Abigail Gibbs draws us even further into the dangerous and romantic world of the Dark Heroines.

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Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find

another story.‘

Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short

stories that showcases Joanne Harris's exceptional storytelling art. Sensuous, wicked, mischievous, uproarious and wry, here are tales that

combine the everyday with the unexpected; wild fantasy with bittersweet reality.

From the house where it is Christmas all year round, to a ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline; from the Congo where a young girl braves the raging

rapids to earn a crust of bread, to Norse gods battling for survival in Manhattan; and a newborn baby created with sugar, spice and lashings of

cake, these stories will ensnare and delight you with their variety and inventiveness.


A CAT, A HAT, AND A PIECE OF STRING

By JOANNE HARRIS

THE DEATH TRADE

By JACK HIGGINS


THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED!

One man with the key to Armageddon. One chance for Sean Dillon to find him.

The hunt is on, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder, terrorism and

revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING When an eminent Iranian scientist makes a startling

breakthrough in nuclear weapons research he knows that any regime, including his

own, will use it to achieve global supremacy. Desperate, he is left with only one

course of action.

THE BULLETS ARE FLYING When a ghost from her past reaches out to Afghan war

hero Sara Gideon, newest member of the 'Prime Minister's private army', she knows

they must risk everything to avoid apocalypse. Led by Sean Dillon, they are plunged

into the white-hot crucible of the Middle East and North African terror networks and

soon become caught between Iran's secret service and al Qaeda agents in a

desperate battle for the ultimate prize. conclusion..


The incredible new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The

Alchemist. July 14, 1099.

The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates.

There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the

words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the

townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with

questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty and

solitude; and they ultimately turn to questions of beauty, love, wisdom, and what the

future holds.

"What is success?" poses the Copt. "It is being able to go to bed each night with your

soul at peace."

Now, centuries later, the manuscript containing the Copt's extraordinary insights on

courage, solitude, loyalty and loss has been unearthed from a cave in Cairo.

A Manuscript Found in Accra is a revelatory exploration of our most enduring

and transcendental values, and a testimony to everyday wisdom.


MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA

By PAULO COELHO

THE TENTH CIRCLE

By JODI PICOULT


From "New York Times" bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that

explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether

you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime--or if your mistakes are carried

forever.

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her

father, Daniel's life--a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school;

a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned

upside down with a single act of violence.

Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family--and herself--seems to be

a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the

one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to

make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret

tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to

protect his daughter.


The hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling New Adult novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER – a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller

He was taking the long road. She was taking the road to nowhere. It just

so happened that it lead to the same place…

Camryn Bennett and Andrew Parrish wanted a life less ordinary – and together, against the world, it’s only getting better. But out of the blue, their perfect life together is rocked by tragedy…


EDGE OF ALWAYSBy J.A. REDMERSKI

THE EYE OF GODBy JAMES ROLLINS


In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James

Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past.

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive

search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of

dark energy—and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in

utter ruin.

At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled

with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that

both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall

of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a

weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

View the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QCdcAS9y2Q


The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were

children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother basks in the limelight as a New York jazz musician. But when Edison arrives in Iowa, suddenly in need of a place to stay, Pandora

literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?

Soon Edison’s appalling diet and know-it-all monologues are driving

Pandora and her husband Fletcher insane. And it’s only a matter of time before Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum, it’s him or me.


BIG BROTHERBy LIONEL SHRIVER

SISTERLANDBy CURTIS SITTENFELD

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For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift they call 'the Senses', a special kind of intuition that can allow them to see things that

are yet to come.

After Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, they are set on diverging paths into their adult lives. Twenty years later

Kate is a suburban housewife who suppresses her premonitions in the hope of leading a normal family life, while Violet lives alone and works as a psychic medium.

Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake

in the St Louis area where they live. As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, the sisters must grapple with the legacy of the past, the confusion of the present, and the unsettling glimpses they both

have of the future.

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Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting

and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers,

and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between

righteous courage and deepest evil.

Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him

posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon,

Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and

he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful

ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara

Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him…

In a novel of fierce intensity, shifting allegiances, and shocking twists, two

investigations collide with a conspiracy straddling both sides of the law. Karin

Slaughter’s latest is both an electrifying thriller and a piercing study of human

nature: what happens when good people face the unseen evils in their lives.

View book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXFpAX6IQc


UNSEENBy KARIN SLAUGHTER

THE MACHINEBy JAMES SMYTHE


Haunting memories defined him. The machine took them away. She vowed to

rebuild him.

From the author of The Testimony comes a Frankenstein for the twenty-first

century. Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She came here

to rebuild her life following her husband's return from the war. His memories

haunted him but a machine promised salvation. It could record memories,

preserving a life that existed before the nightmares.

Now the machines are gone. The government declared them too controversial, the

side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She

knows that memories can be put back, that she can rebuild her husband piece by

piece.

A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of

memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Two couples, four decades apart. One believes that if lovers die, they find each other


UNTIL THE END OF TIMEBy DANIELLE STEEL

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From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine

comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of

ruining it all with a wedding.

Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years—forty years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love—the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the

bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it’s over.

James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife’s family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has

seen every kind of wedding—beach weddings, backyard weddings, castle weddings—and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own.

THE ENGAGEMENTSBy J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN

9780552159098TRANSWORLDS$16.00

again in another life. Or perhaps they wind up as stars side by side in the

sky, together forever. Who knows how it really ends?

Danielle Steel breaks new ground in her career as a perennial New York

Times bestseller with the poignant story of two parallel destinies, and the kind of love we all hope will be everlasting.

GOLEM AND THE DJINNI

By HELENE WECKER


If you were bewitched by The Night Circus...If you were mesmerised by A

Discovery of Witches...If you were enthralled by Jonathan Strange & Mr

Norrell...You will be enchanted by THE GOLEM & THE DJINNI.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who

dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who

commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and

adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.

Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old

copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a

tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is

not entirely free - an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world.

The Golem & The Djinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose

tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures - until the night a terrifying

incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon

bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them

to make a fateful choice.

View book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TQ_VxzVC3U

9780785165194MARVELS$16.00

Iron Man was forged out of advanced technology, but now that same future tech

threatens to doom Tony Stark.

A dangerous terrorist has ingested a techno-organic virus called Extremis,

transforming him into a superhuman killing machine. Now immensely powerful,

but driven mad by the virus' effects, the Extremis creature seems unstoppable.

To halt this madman's psychotic rampage, Iron Man must face the Extremis

virus head-on - in a life-or-death battle that will drive Tony Stark closer than

ever to the thin line between man and machine.

Experience Warren Ellis's blockbuster reimagining of the armored Avenger like

never before in this new adaptation!

IRON MAN: EXTREMIS PROSE NOVEL

By MARIE JAVINS


Cover art

to come

JUST ONE NIGHTBy KYRA DAVIS

You should sleep with a stranger . . .” Her best friend whispered in her ear.

Kasie Fitzgerald knows who she’s supposed to be. Responsible. Reliable. Predictable. She’s an ambitious workaholic who is devoted to the sensible man she plans to marry. But one wild, impulsive night in Vegas is about to

open her eyes. . . .

Trying her luck at a blackjack table, Kasie meets him. Intense. Flirtatious. Dangerous. She accepts his invitation for a drink . . . and then to his hotel room. She doesn’t know his name. But she’ll never forget the sex. Hard.

Thrilling. Explosive.

So when her mystery man shows up at her office unexpectedly, she succumbs to his mastery, both in bed and in the boardroom. There’s no telling where the

powerful, wealthy Robert Dade will lead her. But there’s also no resisting her desire. The only question is who she’ll be when the journey ends.

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A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping.

Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth

-- but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core

American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth –and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity'’s

thoughtless exploitation... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned byLobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

THE LONG WAR (LONG WAR EARTH 2)

By TERRY PRATCHETT &

STEPHEN BAXTER

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TRANSFORMERS:RETRIBUTION

By DAVID J. WILLIAMS

9780345519870RANDOMHOUSES$16.00

For decades, Transformers fans across the globe have marveled at the mighty clashes of Megatron and Optimus Prime, and speculated about their arrival on planet Earth.

Now, in Transformers: Retribution, the prequel to the Transformers animated

series, the epic odyssey of these two great warriors is finally revealed asAutobots and Decepticons battle one another . . . and the most diabolic foe

they’ve ever encountered.


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