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Jul 2015 . Highlights
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FICTION TITLES July 2015 FANTASY
9781481443081 SEA OF TROLLS (Soft Cover) NANCY FARMER SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 FAN From National Book Award winner Nancy Farmer, this first book in the Sea of Trolls trilogy is epic fantasy at its best. After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his halftroll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
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9780008121006 KILLING PRETTY (Soft Cover) RICHARD KADREY FONTANA1 S$18.00 FAN A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. KILLING PRETTY is the seventh book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series. Stark follows a sordid trail deep into LA’s subterranean world, from vampire-infested nightclubs to talent agencies specializing in mad ghosts, from Weimar Republic mystical societies to sleazy supernatural underground fight and sex clubs. Along the way he meets a mysterious girl –distinguished by a pair of graveyard eyes – as badass as Slim: she happens to be the only person who ever outwitted Death. But escaping her demise has had dire consequences for the rest of the world . . . and a few others.
9781481440936 RED FIRST LIGHT (Soft Cover) LINDA NAGATA SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$17.00 FAN There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere: Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive-because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him-but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger . . . as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear.
9781481425506 ISLE OF BLOOD (Soft Cover) RICK YANCEY SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 FAN When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the “Holy Grail of Monstrumology” with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in Victorian New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can’t let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns, claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated—and not convinced…
Cover art to come 9780008138325 HALF A WAR (Soft Cover) JOE ABERCOMBIE HARPER UK S$25.00 GF
9781849708739 XENOS (Soft Cover) DAN ABNETT SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$23.00 GF
ONLY HALF A WAR IS FOUGHT WITH SWORDS The deep-cunning Father Yarvi has walked a long road from crippled slave to king's minister. He has made allies of old foes and stitched together an uneasy peace. But now the ruthless Grandmother Wexen has raised the greatest army since the elves made war on God, and put Bright Yilling at its head - a man who worships only Death. SOMETIMES ONE MUST FIGHT EVIL WITH EVIL Some - like Thorn Bathu and the sword-bearer Raith - are born to fight, perhaps to die. Others - like Brand the smith and Koll the wood-carver - would rather stand in the light. But when Mother War spreads her iron wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness ...
Part one of the epic Eisenhorn trilogy returns The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanity with uncompromising ruthlessness. When he finally corners an old foe, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn is drawn into a sinister conspiracy. As events unfold and he gathers allies – and enemies – Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark power of daemons, all racing to recover an arcane text of abominable power: an ancient tome known as the Necroteuch.
9780007482283 COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOL 2 (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$31.00 GF The second collection of Brian Aldiss' short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. All of the stories Brian Aldiss wrote during the 1960s, gathered together in one volume for the first time. Includes stories previously only available in magazines. This is a book in the Brian Aldiss Short Story Collection, which collects all of the short stories Brian wrote between 1950s and the present day by decade.
9780552779944 JUST FOR THE SUMMER (Soft Cover) JUDY ASTLEY TRANSWORLD S$16.00GF Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. They close up their desirable semis in smartish London suburbs having turned off the Aga and turned on the burglar alarm - and look forward to a carefree, restful, somehow more fulfilling summer. Clare is more than usually ready for her holiday. Her daughter, Miranda, is hitting adolescence bigtime, and her husband Jack is harbouring unsettling thoughts of a change in lifestyle. No wonder that Clare is contemplating a bit of extra-marital adventure, possibly with Eliot, the successful, heavy-drinking author in the adjoining holiday property. Unexpected disasters occur, revelations are made and, as the summer ends, real life will never be quite the same again.
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9780062313454 FRENCH CONCESSION (Hard Cover) XIAO BAI HARPER US S$38.00 GF Even with the helpful list of dramatis personae, this novel of 1930s Shanghai from Xiao (Game Point) remains a hot mess of murky political intrigue, steamy couplings, foreign profiteering, and often-naive Communist fervor. It’s hard to keep the players and their shifting allegiances straight when the characters themselves—most of whom go by multiple names, to make matters even more confusing—frequently find themselves in the same bind. Can central figure Hseuh, a half-Chinese, halfFrench photographer, become a useful undercover operative for the French police controlling the Concession, or will he remain a dilettante boy toy to the sexually insatiable White Russian arms dealer (who might really be German) alternately known as Therese Irxmayer and Lady Holly? Is Leng, the mysterious beauty who bewitches Hseuh, a Communist true believer or a muddled borderline supporter?
9781848271913 ANOTHER HEARTBEAT IN THE HOUSE (Soft Cover) KATE BEAUFOY HARPER US S$16.00 GF A dazzling, sumptuous historical novel from the author of Liberty Silk. A spellbinding story of two women one hundred years apart, brought together by the beautiful and haunting Irish home they both love. A gorgeous, evocative story of a love that echoes through the centuries.
9780062302700 THE VISITORS (Soft Cover) SALLY BEAUMAN TRANSWORLD S$26.00 GF Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the excitement that surrounds the hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, the two girls spy on the grown-ups and a lifelong bond is formed. Haunted by the ghosts of her past, the mistakes she made, Lucy disinters her past. And she finally comes to terms with what happened after Egypt, when Frances needed Lucy most.
9780857522511 I'M TRAVELLING ALONE (Soft Cover) SAMUEL BJORK TRANSWORLD S$32.00 GF When a six year old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm travelling alone'. Holger Munch, veteran police investigator, is immediately charged with reassembling his homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kruger - a brilliant but troubled investigator - to return from the solitary island where she has retreated with plans to take her own life. Reviewing the evidence, Mia identifies something no one else has noticed - a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail: the number 1. Instinctively, she knows that this is only the beginning. To save other children from the same fate, she must find a way to cast aside her own demons and confront the most terrifying, coldhearted serial killer of her career...
Cover art to come 9780593069219 LITTLE BLACK LIES (Soft Cover) SHARON BOLTON TRANSWOLD S$29.00 GF What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you? Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident and two children are dead. Yours. Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost - your family, your future, your sanity. How long before revenge becomes irresistible? With no reason to go on living, why shouldn't you turn your darkest thoughts into deeds?
9780008104603 PRICE OF BLOOD: EMMA OF NORMANDY SERIES (Soft Cover) PATRICIA BRACEWELL FONTANA1 S$20.00 GF 1006 AD. Queen Emma, the Norman bride of England's King Ethelred, has given birth to a son. Now her place as second wife to the king is safe and Edward marked as heir to the throne. But the royal bed is a cold place and the court a setting for betrayal and violence, as the ageing king struggles to retain his power over the realm. Emma can trust no one, not even the king's eldest son Athelstan, the man she truly loves. Elsewhere Viking threats to the crown are gaining strength, and in the north the powerful nobleman Elfhelm is striking an alliance with the Danes. His seductive daughter Elgiva, former mistress to the king, is forced to act as a pawn in his plan, and is given as wife to a Viking Lord. Can King Ethelred finally listen to Athelstan, whose plan to strengthen the kingdoms' ties will put off the Viking threat once and for all? Emma must protect her only child without abandoning her noble position. And her inner conflict, between maternal instinct and royal duty, will be played out against the dramatic and bloody struggle for Britain's rule.
9780007511365 MISSING HUSBAND (Soft Cover) AMANDA BROOKE FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF When Jo pretends to be asleep as her husband leaves for work the morning after an argument, she doesn't realise how deeply she will come to regret the opportunity to say goodbye. By nightfall, her life has changed irrevocably. David has disappeared and there doesn't seem to be any trace of him. But Jo is five months pregnant and her marriage is full of secrets - not least, David's unwillingness to start a family. As the mystery around David's disappearance shows no sign of being solved, Jo must choose: will she give up her baby to make the man she loves come home?
9780007597390 LOVELIEST LITTLE VILLAGE COMPETITION (Soft Cover) ALEXANDER BROWN FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF Tindledale is in a tizzy . . . The Village Show competition is coming around again and after last year’s spectacular failure, the villagers are determined to win. Meg, teacher at the local school, is keen to help and to impose some much-needed order. After a terse encounter with a newcomer to the village, Meg discovers that it is celebrity chef and culinary bad boy, Dan Wright. Meg thinks he is arrogant and rude but rumour has it that Dan is opening a new restaurant in the village which could really put Tindledale on the map. As things come together, villagers old and new all start to come out of the woodwork, including new arrival Jessie, who seems to have it all. But first impressions can be deceptive and Meg discovers that when it comes to Tindledale – and Dan – nothing is ever quite as it seems . . .
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9780552778213 THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY (Soft Cover) WILEY CASH TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF
9780062280022 A BRAVE MAN SEVEN STOREYS TALL (Soft Cover) WILL CHANCELLOR HARPER UK S$26.00 GF
Winner Of The 2014 Crime Novel Of The Year Award. "Exciting and suspenseful, as well as moving, with a captivating heroine, this is a tremendous book." (Guardian). Wade is a loser. A father who gave up on his daughters three years ago. Wade is also a thief. Like the day he climbs through the window, steals his girls back and takes them away in his car. He doesn't want to hurt them. All he wants is to make up for lost time: another shot at being a dad. But Wade can't escape his mistakes. And now a man is on their trail - a man who wants Wade dead. Down the wide, open roads of North Carolina, with summer falling behind them, Wade must protect his children and outrun a terrifying past that is always one step ahead...
A beautiful and compulsively readable literary debut that introduces Owen Burr—an Olympian whose dreams of greatness are dashed and then transformed by an epic journey—and his father, Professor Joseph Burr, who must travel the world to find his son. After his athletic career ends abruptly, Owen flees the country to become an artist. He lands in Berlin where he meets a group of art monsters living in the Teutonic equivalent of Warhol’s Factory. After his son’s abrupt disappearance, Burr dusts off his more speculative ideas in a last-ditch effort to command both Owen’s and the world's attention. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall offers a persuasive vision of faith, ambition, art, family, and the myths we write for ourselves.
9780007563364 THE BLUE (Soft Cover) LUCY CLARKE FONTANA 1 S$18.00 GF They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht, with a wandering crew. They spend day after languorous day exploring the pristine white beaches and swimming beneath the stars, and Lana drifts further away from the long-buried secrets of home. But the tide turns when death creeps quietly on deck. A dangerous swell of mistrust and lies threatens to bring the crew’s adventures to an end – but some won’t let paradise go…whatever the price.
9781501122620 EVERY DEAD THING (Soft Cover) JOHN CONNOLLY SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$27.00 GF Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.
Cover art to come 9781501122637 DARK HOLLOW (Soft Cover) JOHN CONNOLLY SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$27.00 GF The second thriller in John Connolly's chilling series featuring haunted private investigator Charlie Parker. Charlier Parker, a former New York City detective with a haunted past, befriends a down-and-out mother with a small child. When she turns up dead, Charlie's first suspect is her estranged husband. Charlie follows the man's trail to Maine and there he becomes entangled in a series of strange occurances which all seem to harken back to a string of unsolved murders that took place generations before. The murders were never solved and now Charlie must hunt for a killer and the connection between two crimes that span a century.
9780062307538 SEASON OF THE DRAGONFLIES (Soft Cover) SARAH CREECH HARPER US S$24.00 GF
For generations and hidden in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Lenore women perfumery guards unique, mysterious ingredients. The Lenores' signature elixir is the key to success for the world's most powerful women. Willow, the coolly elegant matriarch, is the brains behind the operation. Her gorgeous golden-haired daughter, Mya, is its heart and can "read" scents and envision their power to influence events. But Willow's younger daughter, dark-haired, soulful Lucia, claims no magical touch; wanting no part of the family business, she has left the mountains to make her own way in New York City. When a divorce leaves Lucia at loose ends, she returns to the Blue Ridge Mountains and discovers trouble brewing. With the Lenore empire at stake, Lucia has suddenly begun to show signs of possessing her own special abilities. And her return to the mountains— heralded by a swarm of blue dragonflies—may be the answer they all need.
9781632060358 A LEGEND OF THE FUTURE (Soft Cover) AGUSTIN DE ROJAS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$26.00 GF This mesmerizing novel, reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a sciencefiction survival story that captures the intense pressures—economic, ideological, psychological—inside Communist Cuba. A Legend of the Future by Agustín de Rojas, the father of Cuban Science Fiction, takes place inside a spaceship on a mission to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, while back on Earth, warring super powers threaten the fate of humanity. When
the ship malfunctions on the return journey, the crewmembers must face their innermost fears amidst experiments in psychological and emotional conditioning and aliens that may or may not be real.
9780062194121 THE THREE EMPERORS (Soft Cover) WILLIAM DIETRICH SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$17.00 GF New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich's captivating historical thriller sprints from the fury of the Napoleonic wars to the mystical puzzles of Central Europewhere a medieval machine promises power over the future. Venice: Ethan Gage has escaped after surviving the naval battle of Trafalgar. His plan: to circumvent the French Empire and rescue his wife, Astiza, and son, Harry, from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and from an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague's Golden Lane.
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9780008125585 PAUL TEMPLE AND THE FRONT PAGE MEN (Soft Cover) FRANCIS DUBRIDGE FONTANA 1 S$18.00 GF
9781451668353 HEART HAS ITS REASONS (Soft Cover) MARIA DUENAS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$26.00 GF
9780008125523 SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE (Soft Cover) FRANCIS DURBRIDGE FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF
The detective novel ‘The Front Page Men’ is a resounding success, but its author Andrea Fortune keeps herself hidden from the public. When a series of robberies are committed, a calling card is left bearing the legend of ‘The Front Page Men’.
Declared "a writer to watch" ("Publishers Weekly," starred review), "New York Times "bestselling author Maria Duenas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances
In the dead of night, a watchman is brutally attacked and with his dying breath cries out, "The Green Finger!" It is the latest in a series of robberies to take place that have left Scotland Yard mystified, and with no other choice but to call upon the expertise of Detective Paul Temple. Aided by the beautiful journalist Louise Harvey affectionately known as Steve - the duo discover that this is not the first victim to warn of the dangerous and elusive 'Green Finger' ... who or what is it? The pair must work together to solve the deepening mystery.
Then the murders begin. Paul and his wife Steve assist Scotland Yard in finding the murderers, but Steve is in grave danger and the clock is ticking.
Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, "The Heart Has Its Reasons "is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew. .
9780008125608 NEWS OF PAUL TEMPLE (Soft Cover) FRANCIS DURBRIDGE FONTANA 1 S$18.00 GF As detective Paul Temple turns his hand to playwright, his leading lady Iris Archer pulls out shortly before the play is due to open and declares that she is heading for France. However, shortly after her disappearance Paul Temple receives a guest at his Scottish holiday home - none other than that of Iris Archer. The mystery deepens as Temple is asked by a young man to act as postmaster in delivering a letter. Meanwhile someone acting under the codename of Z4 seems to have control of events. Could this be Doctor Steiner, and just who is he? It is all up to Temple ...
Cover art to come 9780857522900 FIELD SERVICE (Soft Cover) ROBERT EDRIC TRANSWORLD S$32.00 GF Captain James Reid and his compatriots are tasked with the identification and burial of innumerable corpses as they assimilate the events of the past four years. But it is only when the daily routine is interrupted by a visit from two women, both seeking solace from their grief, that the men are forced to acknowledge the part they too have played.
9780007592883 PRESCRIPTION FOR A SUPERIOR EXISTENCE (Soft Cover) JOSH EMMONS FONTANA1 S$20.00 GF
9780007577606 PIANO MAN PROJECT (Soft Cover) KAT FRENCH FONTANA1 S$16.00 GF
‘A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of contemporary environmental and political threats’ The New York Times
A delightfully romantic, heartwarming read for everyone who’s ever looked for The One and found someone better.
Jack Smith’s life revolves around work, alcohol, painkillers, and pornography, and he sees no reason to change. But when he falls in love with the daughter of the leader of a new Californian religion known as Prescription for a Superior Existence, his humdrum life is changed forever.
A hilarious, feel-good, sexy romantic comedy for fans of Lucy Diamond, Paige Toon and Giovanna Fletcher.
Abducted and enrolled at one of PASE’s spiritual training centres near San Francisco, Jack’s scepticism is challenged by a sense of community and purpose previously unknown to him. He discovers that he might not be average. He might be extraordinary. But nothing is as it seems, and the question of whether he and those around him are headed toward transcendence or annihilation soon takes on global significance.
9780062371058 NEVERWHERE (Hard Cover) NEIL GAIMAN HARPER US S$36.00GF Part fiction, part fantasy, part hyper-reality, this is a story about the Other London, where people live in the cellars and sewers and abandoned Underground lines. It is a London divided into "Baronies", in which the common names of London places take a new and strange reality.
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Cover art to come 9780062326607 CROOKED RIVER (Soft Cover) VALERIE GEARY HARPER US S$24.00 GF
9780593071496 IMMORTAL THRONE (Soft Cover) STELLA GEMMELL TRANSWORLD S$34.00 GF
9780345511539 DARK DISCIPLE: STAR WARS (Soft Cover) Christie Golden RANDOM HOUSE S$42.00 GF
Still grieving the sudden death of their mother, Sam McAlister and her younger sister, Ollie, move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear, their beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive, a young woman is found dead floating in Crooked River, and the police arrest their eccentric father for the murder.
The emperor is dead...long live the emperor! The fervent hope of the victorious rebels and the survivors of the uprising that liberated the City from tyranny is that the accession of Archange to the imperial throne will usher in a new era of freedom, peace and stability.
Based on unproduced episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this new novel features Asajj Ventress, former Sith apprentice turned bounty hunter and one of the great antiheroes in the Star Wars galaxy.
The City is under siege - from both without and within...With this new novel, Stella Gemmell brings the astonishing story of the City to a spectacular climax and confirms her place as a master of epic fantasy.
Cover art to come 9781476796444 RACING THE SUN (Soft Cover) KARINA HALLE SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$25.00 GF From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky comes a new adult novel about a young woman who becomes a nanny in Capri and falls for her charges’ bad-boy brother. It’s time for twenty-four-year-old Amber MacLean to face the music. After a frivolous six months of backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia, she finds herself broke on the Mediterranean without enough money for a plane ticket home to California. There are worse places to be stuck than the gorgeous coastline of southern Italy, but the only job she manages to secure involves teaching English to two of the brattiest children she’s ever met.
9780062394385 LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS (Soft Cover) JORDAN HARPER HARPER US S$26.00 GF In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart. A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to rob the store where she works. A man earns the name “Mad Dog” and lives to regret it. Crackling with cinematic energy, raw and disquieting yet filled with pathos and a darkly vital humor, Love and Other Wounds is an unforgettable debut from an electrifying new voice.
9780062396099 THE SUNRISE (Soft Cover) VICTORIA HISLOP HARPER US S$26.00 GF From the internationally bestselling author of The Island comes a stirring novel about loyalty, love, and resilience in the face of tremendous upheaval—a saga of survival set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d’état that tells the intersecting stories of three families whose lives are decimated when brewing ethnic tensions erupt into conflict. Juxtaposing a powerful narrative of war against the glittering affluence of the 1970s Mediterranean coast, The Sunrise is a moving story about the measures we take to protect what we love.
9780008113438 ALL THE DAYS AND NIGHTS (Soft Cover) NIVEN GOVINDEN FONTANA1 S$20.00 GF The East Coast of America, 1980. Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement. John Brown, her husband and life-long muse, has left; walked out of their home one morning to travel crosscountry in search of the paintings he has sat for. As their stories unfold – independently, for the first time in many years – a passionate unconventional relationship is revealed, between two people living through the most tumultuous decades of modern history. All the Days and Nights is the story of an art hunt during a twilight period of painting. It lays bare two relationships that are ever changing and incomparable: of the artist and the muse, and of lovers. It is an exploration of what it means to create, what it means to inspire, what it means to live.
Cover art to come 9780857522061 VANISHING GAMES (Soft Cover) ROGER HOBBS TRANSWORLD S$29.00 GB From the bestselling author of GHOSTMAN. I work alone. I may be the best thief in the world but no one will ever know a single thing about me. Well, almost no one. A lifetime ago I had a mentor, Angela. She taught me how to be a criminal, how to run a heist. And now, six years after she vanished and left me high and dry on a job in Kuala Lumpur, she's sent me an SOS. Or at least I think it's her. If it is, then I've got to go. I owe her that much. So soon I'll be on a plane to Macau, either to see a friend or walk into a trap. Or both. But that's the way I like it. Sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is risking my life.
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9780007493364 INVENTION OF FIRE (Soft Cover) BRUCE HOLSINGER FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF
9780062297662 DANCE OF THE BONES (Hard Cover) J.A. JANCE FONTANA1 S$37.00 GF
9780008124779 TOLKIEN CALENDAR 2016 (Soft Cover) TOVE JANSSON FONTANA 1 S$24.00 GF
The richly atmospheric new historical thriller featuring John Gower, poet and trader of secrets. Set in the turbulent 14th Century, this is perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom.
J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career.
Known as 'the handgonne', it would put untold power into the hands of whoever perfected its design. But who has commissioned this weapon? A man who would stop at nothing to achieve his secret goal.
Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would release him from prison with time served. Lassiter wants Brandon and The Last Chance to find Amos's "real" killer and clear his name.
Jansson illustrated The Hobbit in 1961 for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. Never before published in an English-language edition, the 2016 calendar contains all twelve of these illustrations, many of the vignettes, and a full-colour centrefold featuring her dramatic cover painting of Smaug attacking the Dwarves.
9780062389732 TYRST (Soft Cover) S.L.JENNINGS HARPER US S$23.00 GF My name is Heidi DuCane. I might seem like your average happily married woman with average desires. But don’t let looks fool you. I have needs that are begging to be satisfied. So what do I want more than anything else? I want my most secret fantasy fulfilled. Have I got your interest now? Are you wondering what my most illicit, dark fantasy involves? I want my husband, Tucker, to watch while another man brings me to pleasure. While I do love Tucker, I’ve always suspected there’s much more out there waiting for me to explore. And my hunch was proven when I met rock superstar Ransom Reed - every woman’s wet dream. I would’ve been insane not to take him up on his offer to share one wild night with him and Tucker. The sex was mind-blowing!
Cover art to come 9780062373106 KILLING PRETTY (Hard Cover) RICHARD KADREY HARPER US S$35.00 GF Sandman Slim investigates Death’s death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he’s come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death. Someone has tried to kill Death— ripping the heart right out of him— or rather the body he’s inhabiting. Death needs Sandman Slim’s help: he believes anyone who can beat Lucifer and the old gods at their own game is the only one who can solve his murder.
9780007586028 MY NAME IS N (Soft Cover) ROBERT KARJEL HARPER US S$27.00 GF
9780062339584 THE SWEDE (Hard Cover) ROBERT KARJEL HARPER US S$37.00 GF
Jo Nesbo meets Homeland in this sophisticated debut literary thriller about a Swedish security force agent sent to the U.S. for a special assignment, which delivers a breathtaking global twist on the darkly riveting narrative tradition of Nordic noir. Ernst Grip of the Swedish security police has no idea why he is being summoned to the U.S. When he lands at a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, his escort, FBI agent Shauna Friedman, asks him to determine whether a prisoner who has been tortured by the CIA is a Swedish citizen. At the military base, the prisoner, known only as N., refuses to talk. It appears he was involved in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in Topeka, Kansas. The attack was real, but the motivations behind it are not so simple. Evidence points to a group of desperate souls who survived the 2004 Thailand tsunami: a ruthless American arms dealer, a Czech hit man, a mysterious nurse from Kansas, a heartbreakingly naive Pakistani and a Swede. Meanwhile, Grip himself is leading a double life.
A sophisticated debut novel about a Swedish security force agent on a mysterious special assignment to the U.S., The Swede fuses the psychological tension of Jo Nesbø’s thrillers with the gripping international intrigue of I Am Pilgrim and Red Sparrow.
9780345549372 CHAOS UNLEASHED (Soft Cover) DREW KARPYSHYN RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF The Demon Cycle meets The Wheel of Time in this action-packed adventure! From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed videogame writer Drew Karpyshyn comes the third and final novel in an original epic fantasy trilogy for fans of Terry Goodkind, Peter V. Brett, and Brandon Sanderson.
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Cover art to come 9780310342670 THE BAXTERS TAKE THREE (Soft Cover) KAREN KINGSBURY HARPER US S$18.50 GF
9780062119575 STRANGE ANIMALS (Soft Cover) CHAD KULTGEN HARPER US S$26.00 GF
9780008122904 THE HUNT (Soft Cover) TIM LEBBON FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF
For the sake of a dream . . . or the love of fame?
A thought-provoking and darkly witty novel about freedom, motherhood, greed, and religion—a surprising new direction from the controversial author of Men, Women & Children and The Average American Male.
She will hunt down the men who took her family. She will have blood. Rose is the one that got away. She was the prey in a human trophy hunt organised by an elite and secret organisation for bored super-rich clients seeking a unique thrill. She paid a terrible price - when she escaped The Trail murdered her family. Every moment since she has been planning her revenge. Watching, waiting … And now her day has come. Chris returns from his morning run to find his wife and children missing and a stranger in his kitchen. He's told to run. If he's caught and killed, his family go free. If he escapes, they die. Rose is the only one who can help him, but Rose only has her sights on one conclusion. For her, Chris is bait… The hunt is on …
Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films―and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America’s top young movie star to play the lead in their next inspirational movie. But life takes a sudden turn for Chase, removing him from Jeremiah Productions permanently. In the process, Keith brings on one of the Baxter family members and the moviemaking continues.
9780316250832 CALIFORNIA (Soft Cover) EDAN LEPUCKI HACHETTE BK GRP S$25.00 GF •"In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities." ---Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.
Cover art to come 9780345539274 THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND (Soft Cover) ROBERT LUDLUM RANDOM HOUSE S$17.00 GF In Zurich . . . in Moscow . . . in Washington, D.C. . . . the machinery has already been set in motion. In a quiet suburb, an odd assortment of men and women gather for a momentous weekend. At stake is nothing less than the very existence of the United States of America—and, with it, the future of the entire free world.
9781476788814 ALMOST FAMOUS WOMEN (Soft Cover) MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$26.00 GF The world wasn’t always kind to the women who star in these stories, but through Mayhew Bergman’s stunning imagination, they receive the attention they deserve. Almost Famous Women is “addictive and tantalizing, each story whetting our appetite for more”.
9780062348890 NAME OF THE DEVIL (Soft Cover) ANDREW MAYNE HARPER US S$26.00 GF In this electrifying sequel to the crowd-pleasing thriller Angel Killer, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood must once again draw on her past to go up against a brutal murderer desperate for revenge at any price. Can she stop a cold-blooded killer obsessed by a mortal sin—or will she become the next target in a twisted, diabolical game of hunter and prey…?
9780062195425 A POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE (Soft Cover) D.A.MISHANI HARPER US S$24.00 GF Haunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children in this evocative and gripping tale of mystery and psychological suspense that is the follow-up to The Missing File, the acclaimed first novel in D. A. Mishani’s literary crime series that was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award.
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Cover art to come 9780062375858 NEWPORT (Soft Cover) JILL MORROW HARPER US S$24.00 GF
9780553393309 TAMING LILY (Soft Cover) MONICA MURPHY RANDOM HOUSE S$24.00 GF
Following in the steps of Beatriz Williams and Amor Towles, this richly atmospheric, spellbinding novel transports readers to the dazzling, glamorous world of Newport during the Roaring Twenties and to a mansion filled with secrets as a debonair lawyer must separate truth from deception.
Perfect for fans of Christina Lauren, Emma Chase, and Maya Banks, the anticipated finale in New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy’s sexy contemporary romance series about three fiery and determined sisters with their own ideas about life and love.
A skillful alchemy of social satire, dark humor, and finely drawn characters, Newport vividly brings to life the glitzy era of the 1920s.
9780008102128 NO PLACE FOR A LADY (Soft Cover) GILL PAUL FONTANA 1 S$16.00 GF 1854. Britain is fighting a gruesome war. There has been no news of Lucy Gray since she eloped with handsome and impetuous Captain Charlie Harvington and embarked with him to the Crimea. Dorothea Gray will not rest until she finds her sister. She determines to join Florence Nightingale and the other courageous women travelling to the battlefield hospitals as nurses. Lucy, however, is on a very different journey, a journey through tragedy, trauma and true love. But neither sister is prepared for the challenges they will face, the passion they will each taste and the simple fact that they might never see one another again …
9781476727332 REMARKABLE COURTSHIP OF GENERAL TOM THUMB (Soft Cover) NICHOLAS RINALDI SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$27.00 GF An irresistible novel that "charts a harrowing tour through the Civil War" (Connecticut Post) and chronicles the life of Tom Thumbthe tiny man who became, in his time, America's most famous entertainer.
Cover art to come 9780062240514 CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION (Soft Cover) PETER ROBINSON HARPER US S$24.00 GF
9780062400246 AFTERMATH (Soft Cover) PETER ROBINSON HARPER US S$24.00 GF
The body of disgraced college lecturer Gavin Miller is found on an abandoned railway line by a woman out walking her dog early one winter morning. In the four years since Miller's dismissal, he's been living like a hermit. So where did he get the thousands in cash found in his pocket? Leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to suspect that the victim's distant past may be connected to his death. Forty years ago the dead man attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter passions. And as the seasoned detective well knows, some grudges are never forgotten—or forgiven.
From New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author Peter Robinson comes this brilliant novel of suspense—a thrilling tale of family secrets and past evils that have spread from one generation to another and wreaked havoc on an unsuspecting town. Showcasing the dark forces of human nature, master of suspense Peter Robinson is at the height of his storytelling powers in a novel that will leave readers guessing until the final page.
9780007542536 VULGAR THINGS (Soft Cover) LEE ROURKE FONTANA1 S$20.00 GF
9780062415523 EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT (Soft Cover) LISA SCOTTOLINE HARPER US The second novel from Lee Rourke, S$26.00 GF author of the cult hit 'The Canal'. Jon Lisa's books draw on her Michaels - a divorced, disaffected and experience as a trial lawyer and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in Everywhere That Mary Went is the North London - wakes up to a phone call first — and best — example. The informing him that his uncle has been novel is the story of an associate in found dead in his caravan on Canvey a prestigious Philadelphia law firm Island. Dismissed from his job only the much like the one Lisa practiced in. day before and hung-over, Jon reluctantly Everywhere That Mary Went was agrees to sort through his uncle's nominated by the Mystery Writers belongings. What follows is a quixotic of America for an Edgar Award, the week on Canvey as Jon, led on by desire equivalent of an Academy Award in and delusion, purposeful but increasingly the suspense business. disorientated, unfolds a disturbing secret, ever more enchanted by the island - its landscape and its atmosphere. Haunted and haunting, 'Vulgar Things' is part mystery, part romance, part odyssey: a novel in which the menial entrances and the banal compels.
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Cover art to come 9780062392985 FUNNY BOY (Soft Cover) SHYAM SELVADURAI HARPER US S$24.00 GF
An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the TamilSinhalese conflict--one of the country's most turbulent and deadly periods. Arjie is "funny.“ The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own "different" identity .Refreshing, raw, and poignant, this is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy's coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one's self no matter the obstacles.
9780008134778 ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINALS (Soft Cover) LIONEL SHRIVER FONTANA1 S$20.00 GF
9780446698313 THE GIRLS OF AUGUST (Soft Cover) ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS HACHETTE BK GRP S$24.00 GF
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. She now finds herself in Belfast, a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence. As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, Farrell O'Phelan courts the company of destruction. Technically a Catholic, he shuns allegiance of any kind. For these two, normal life is anathema; love is a trap. What ensues is an affair between two loners who are beset with a fear of domesticity and a hunger for devastation
Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began in their twenties when their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. The only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire was to strengthen far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the women dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that change them in ways they never expected.
9780062335951 THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA (Soft Cover) KATY SIMPSON SMITH HARPER US S$26.00 GF Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love. In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy Simpson Smith captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we travel in the name of renewal.
Cover art to come 9780544084087 SHAPESHIFTERS (Soft Cover) SEGAN SPJUT HACHETTE BK GRP S$23.00 GF Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found. Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there’s a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. She’s devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that the trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won’t hesitate to close its deadly ranks. Mixing folklore and history, suspense and the supernatural, The Shapeshifters is an extraordinary journey into a frozen land where myth bleeds into reality.
9780062304599 FISH TAILS (Soft Cover) SHERI S.TEPPER HARPER US S$27.00 GF In her 35th novel, science fiction master Sheri S. Tepper boldly weaves together the storylines of eleven of her previous works—from King’s Blood Four (1983) to The Waters Rising (2010). In FISH TAILS, two of Tepper's beloved characters - Abasio and Xulai (A PLAGUE OF ANGELS and THE WATERS RISING) - and their children travel from village to village scattered across the sparsely populated land of Tingawa. They are searching for others who might be interested in adopting their seadwelling lifestyle.
9780857520067 THE VOICES BEYOND (Soft Cover) JOHAN THEORIN TRANSWORLD S$32.00 GF Summer on the beautiful Swedish island of Oland. Visitors arrive in their thousands, ready to enjoy the calm and relaxation of this paradise. Amongst them is Jonas Kloss, excited at the prospect of staying with his aunt, uncle and older cousins. But it is not as he had hoped. One night he takes a boat out onto the moonlit sea. A ship looms out of the darkness and the horror he finds on board is unimaginable. Fleeing for his life, Jonas arrives at the door of an elderly islander, Gerlof Davidsson. Once Gerlof has heard his tale of dead sailors and axe-wielding madmen, he realizes that this will be a summer like none other Oland has ever seen. For one man - the Homecomer - this is a very special journey. He seeks revenge that he's waited a lifetime to exact...
9781476782638 FIFTH HOUSE OF THE HEART (Soft Cover) BEN TRIPP SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$27.00 GF Filled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Asmodeus “Sax” Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by globetrotting for the finest lost objects in the world. Only Sax knows the true secret to his success: at certain points of his life, he’s killed vampires for their priceless hoards of treasure.
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Cover art to come 9780062259318 THE STORY HOUR (Soft Cover) THRITY UMRIGAR HARPER US S$26.00 GF
9780062338303 ORPHAN NUMBER EIGHT (Soft Cover) KIM VAN ALKEMADE HAREPR US S$24.00 GF
9780812980196 LISETTE'S LIST (Soft Cover) SUSAN VREELAND RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a “perceptive and . . . piercing writer,” comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.
A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters’ historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.
From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war.
9780593071854 HEREWARD: THE IMMORTALS (Hard Cover) JAMES WILDE TRANSWORLD S$37.00 GF 1073 – under the merciless sun of the east, a dark force has risen - a Norman adventurer who could rival the feared King William for bloody ambition. He has conquered his land, built his fortress, amassed his army. And taken Constantinople's ruler as his prisoner… With this rousing adventure full of brutal sword play, treachery, camaraderie and honour, James Wilde continues his bestselling account of the action-packed life and times of England's great and now, thanks to his his fiction, perhaps notso-forgotten hero - Hereward the Wake.
Cover art to come 9780553593822 DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS (Soft Cover) AMANDA KYLE WILLIAM RANDOM HOUSE S$12.00 GF Hailed by The Atlanta JournalConstitution as “one of the most addictive new series heroines,” Keye Street is the brilliant, brash heart of a sizzling thriller full of fear and temptation, judgments and secrets, infidelity and murder.
9780008134921 HUNDRED SUMMERS (Soft Cover) BEATRIZ WILLIAMS FONTANA1 S$18.00 GF New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal... Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family have summered for generations. She's hoping for an escape from the city and from her heartbreak, but when Budgie and Nick Greenwald - her now-married former best friend and former fiance show up, she soon finds herself sucked back in by Budgie's glamorous and enticing influence. As the summer progresses, Lily and Budgie renew their friendship against the looming spectre of war in Europe and the prospect of a cataclysmic hurricane. As uneasy secrets are revealed, an emotional storm threatens to destroy everything...
9780316282468 9780008134938 SEASON TO TASTE TINY LITTLE THING (Soft Cover) (Soft Cover) NATALIE YOUNG BEATRIZ WILLIAMS HACHETTE BK GRP FONTANA1 S$25.00 GF S$18.00 GF A summer of secrets, scandal and No short description available. indiscretions from the New York Times bestseller, Beatriz Williams. It's the summer of 1966, and Christina Hardcastle - 'Tiny' to her illustrious family - is spending what should be an idyllic vacation at her husband's family estate on Cape Cod. Despite her lush surroundings though, Tiny is beginning to feel more like a prisoner than a guest. As the season gets underway, three unwelcome visitors appear in Tiny's perfect life: an envelope containing an incriminating photograph; her volatile sister Pepper; and the intimidating figure of her husband Frank's cousin, Vietnamwar hero Caspian, who knows more about Tiny's past than anyone else. As she struggles to break free, secrets start unravelling ...
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Cover art to come 9781455533220 RIDE STEADY (Soft Cover) KRISTEN ASHLEY HACHETTE BK GRP S$14.00 ROM Once upon a time, Carissa Teodoro believed in happy endings. Money, marriage, motherhood: everything came easy---until she woke up to the ugly truth about her Prince Charming. Now a struggling, single mom and stranded by a flat tire, Carissa's pondering her mistakes when a vaguely familiar knight rides to her rescue on a ton of horsepower.
9780062349088 EXIT STRATEGY (Soft Cover) LENA DIAZ HARPER US S$10.00 GF Lena Diaz launches her thrilling new series featuring the undercover vigilantes of EXIT Inc. with a skilled operative putting his life—and his heart—on the line for a woman in trouble When Sabrina Hightower awakens to the sound of an intruder, she figures he's there to rob her, murder her— or worse. She doesn't expect to be carried off by a muscle-bound stud with malemodel good looks . . . or that he came to rescue her. Mason Hunt became an enforcer with EXIT Inc. to eliminate the bad guys—terrorists, militia groups, all those who would do America harm. But his latest target is innocent. If EXIT could lie about sultry, strong-willed Sabrina, what darker truths might they be concealing? Going rogue in the rugged North Carolina mountains, Mason risks everything to keep Sabrina close, especially now that EXIT's lethal assassins are chasing them down. The heat is on . . . but it's nothing compared to the slow burn of seduction.
9781455561568 A PROMISE OF FOREVER (Soft Cover) MARILYN PAPPANO HACHETTE BK GRP S$14.00 ROM
9780804178273 HER LAST WHISPER (Soft Cover) KAREN ROBARDS RANDOM HOUSE S$12.00 ROM
Sergeant First Class Avi Grant's return to Tallgrass, Oklahoma is a long-deferred wish come true. With her final tour in Afghanistan over, Avi can focus on her future-a job here at home and a family of her own. There's just one thing she has to do first: visit her beloved commanding officer's widow and share her grief. The last thing she expected was to feel an instant attraction to the woman's son. Too bad the sexy surgeon is impossible to ignore . . . and even harder to resist.
Readers who relish heated passion and chilling suspense love New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards’s acclaimed novels featuring Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone. A heroine with a keen mind for catching killers and a soft heart for bad boys, Charlie is back in this third sizzling paranormal romance thriller.
9780062352224 PUT UP YOUR DUKE (Soft Cover) MEGAN FRAMPTON HARPER US S$14.00 ROM He was once happily bedding and boxing, but in the newest Duke's Behaving Badly novel, Nicholas Smithfield has inherited a title and a bride . . . To keep his estate afloat, the new Duke of Gage must honor an agreement to marry Lady Isabella Sawford. Stunningly beautiful, utterly tempting, she's also a bag of wedding night nerves, so Nicholas decides to wait to do his duty— even if it means heading to the boxing saloon every day to punch away his frustration. Groomed her whole life to become the perfect duchess, Isabella longs for independence, a dream that is gone forever. As her husband, Nicholas can do whatever he likes—but, to Isabella's surprise, the notorious rake instead begins a gentle seduction that is melting every inch of her reserve, night by night . ..
9781455586738 SECOND CHANCE SUMMER (Soft Cover) JILL SHALVIS HACHETTE BK GRP S$10.00 ROM RESCUE ME Cedar Ridge, Colorado, is famous for crisp mountain air, clear blue skies, and pine-scented breezes. And it's the last place Lily Danville wants to be. But she needs a job, and there's an opening at the hottest resort in her hometown. What has her concerned is the other hot property in Cedar Ridge: Aidan Kincaid-firefighter, rescue worker, and heartbreaker. She never could resist that devastating smile . . .
9780062267948 HARD TO LET GO (Soft Cover) LAURA KAYE HARPER US S$14.00 ROM A tough, stubborn prosecutor, Kat visits her brothers' Hard Ink Tattoo shop following a bad break-up--and finds herself staring down the barrel of a stranger's gun. Beckett is hard-bodied and sexy as hell, but he's also the most infuriating man ever. Worse, Kat's brothers are at war with the criminals her office is investigating. When Kat joins the fight, she lands straight in Beckett's sights . . . and in his arms. Not to mention their enemies' crosshairs. Now Beckett and Kat must set aside their differences to work together, because the only thing sweeter than justice is finding love and never letting go.
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9781476756332 STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE: SACRAMENTS OF FIRE (Soft Cover) DAVID R.GEORGE III SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$15.00 SF Nine expanded universe crossover, from New York Times bestselling author David George! Days after the assassination of Federation President Nan Bacco on Deep Space 9, the unexpected appearance of the dazed and confused stranger raises serious concerns. He offers his identity as Altek, of which there is no apparent record, and he claims not to know where he is or how he got there. A quick scan confirms the visitor is armed with a projectile weapon—a firearm more antiquated than, but similar to, the one that took President Bacco’s life. But the Bajoran liaison to the station believes that Altek has been sent from the Prophets, out of a nearby wormhole. The last time such an event occurred, it was to reassure Benjamin Sisko of his place as the Emissary. For what purpose has Altek now been sent out of the Celestial Temple?
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Cover art to come 9780008139100 ANNIHILATION: SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY 1 (Soft Cover) JEFF VANDERMEER FONTANA1 S$20.00 SF
9780008139124 ACCEPTANCE: SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY 3 (Soft Cover) JEFF VANDERMEER FONTANA1 S$20.00 SF
9781401254681 DC: BATWOMAN VOL 6 (NEW 52) (Soft Cover) MARC ANDREYKO RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
‘Annihilation’ is the story of the twelfth expedition and is told by its nameless biologist. Introverted but highly intelligent, the biologist brings her own secrets with her. She is accompanied by a psychologist, an anthropologist and a surveyor, their stated mission: to chart the land, take samples and expand the Southern Reach’s understanding of Area X.
The highly anticipated third volume of the haunting, disturbing and evocative Southern Reach trilogy. It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown - navigating new terrain and new challenges - the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this last instalment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound - or terrifying.
The new storyline "Batwoman and the Unknowns" starts with new artist Georges Jeanty (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)! Batwoman is neck-deep in danger with her new allies Ragman, The Demon, Clayface and Red Alice! What is going on and how did Batwoman end up here?
The best-selling video game comes to comic books in BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS!
9781401254865 DC: SINESTRO VOL 2 (NEW 52) (Soft Cover) CULLEN BUNN RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
9781401254728 DC: GOTHAM ACADEMY VOL 1 (Soft Cover) BECKY CLOONAN RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
9781401255183 DC: BATMAN: NEW ADVENTURES (Soft Cover) LLAN MAX COLLINS RANDOM HOUSE S$30.00 GRP
9781401254940 DC: TRINTY OF SIN VOL 1 (Soft Cover) J.M. DEMATTEIS RANDOM HOUSE S$30.00 GRP
The Green Lantern Corps is on it's last legs - which means it's Sinestro and the Sinestro Corps to the rescue. But is bringing their sworn enemies to the heart of their stronghold a good move? Sinestro's actions and motivations are often two different things, and not all is as it seems.
Olive’s supposed to show new student Maps Mizoguchi the ropes. Problem: Maps is kid sister of Kyle, Olive’s ex. Then there’s the ghost haunting the campus…the secret society conducting bizarre rituals…and Bruce Wayne, the weirdo billionaire who funds the Academy - and may know the secret to Olive’s big mystery.
After an encounter with Gotham City street criminals, Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Robin, is injured. When Batman goes into action on his own, he meets a young hoodlum called Jason Todd. Determined to guide Jason away from a life of crime, Batman takes him under his wing. These 1988 stories take Batman into police procedural territory, and set the stage for the bestselling BATMAN: A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. Written by acclaimed mystery novelist Max Allan Collins, best known for his graphic novel THE ROAD TO PERDITION, which was made into a Academy Award winning movie starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Jude Law. .
But they soon find out that they are being manipulated by forces both strange and all too familiar. An unmapped tunnel is not as it first appears. An inexplicable moaning calls in the distance at dusk. And while each member of the expedition has surrendered to the authority of the Southern Reach, the power of Area X is far more difficult to resist.
9781401254650 DC: BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS (Soft Cover) ADAM BEECHEN RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
In the video game Batman: Arkham Origins, Black Mask orders a hit on the Dark Knight and assassins from all across Gotham City answer the call. Batman must defeat the likes of Deathstroke, Bane, The Joker, Copperhead and others while trying to find out what Black Mask is up to.
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Pandora, The Phantom Stranger and The Question have hated each other for centuries...and nothing has changed! Now the Trinity of Sin are forced to work together to save humanity and uncover the darkest secrets of the universe in this new collection.
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9781401254582 DC: ARKHAM MANOR VOL 1 (Soft Cover) GERRY DUGGAN RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
9781401254803 DC: INFINITY MAN & THE FOREVER PEOPLE VOL 1 (Soft Cover) KEITH GIFFEN RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GRP
9781401254759 DC: GREEN LANTERN CORPS VOL 6 (NEW 52) (Soft Cover) VAN JENSEN RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP
9781401255527 DC: BATMAN: JIRO KUWATA BATMANGA VOL 2 (Soft Cover) JIRO KUWATA RANDOM HOUSE S$19.00 GRP
When catastrophe strikes Arkham Asylum, where will Gotham City house the world's most dangerous criminals, and when inmates are found murdered, what is Batman prepared to do in search of justice? Arkham's madness comes home in ARKHAM MANOR! A bold new collection brought to you by Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Nova) and Shawn Crystal (Deadpool, Wolverine and the X-Men).
Four of the best students from New Genesis arrive on Earth to study and aid in the advancement of humanity but they soon discover a darker purpose to their mission: a threat so great that it may bring the multiverse itself to its knees! The only thing that stands between them and total destruction is the mysterious entity known as the Infinity Man! Don't miss the start of this new series by Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen, the team that brought you the over-the-top adventures of O.M.A.C.! This book collects Infinity Man and the Forever People issues numbered 1-9.
The Green Lanterns have taken on tyrants and monsters before…but even they are no match for gods. The New Gods of New Genesis are laying a trap for their ancient enemy Darkseid, and Earth and the Green Lantern Corps are simply pawns to be played in this game. But John Stewart of Earth is no one’s pawn, man or god. Now, to rally his Corps to victory, John Stewart will have to become something more than just a Green Lantern. But what is the cost of Lantern Stewart’s incredible new power?
The second volume of the nowlegendary Batman Manga adventures, first published in Japan in 1966-67, now finally available in newly restored English translations from DC Comics. Batman manga stories from Japan now available in English!
Cover art to come 9781401253332 DC: BIG BURN: BATMAN & ROBIN VOL 5 (Soft Cover) PETER J.TOMASI RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GRP The origin of Two-Face begins as Batman finds himself in the crossfire of a vengeful war between Two-Face and Erin McKillen! Both are hell bent on killing each other and anyone else who dares to step between them. And what are the mysterious connections between Harvey Dent's life and the origin of Carrie Kelley!
9780785197430 MVL: FANTASTIC FOUR BY AGUIRRE-SACA & MCNIVEN (Soft Cover) ROBERTO AGUIRRE- SACASA MARVEL S$37.00 GRP It's the Fantastic Four like you've never seen them before, courtesy of comics superstars Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Steve McNiven! Marvel's first family faces its most personal crisis yet: bankruptcy! To overcome it, they'll need to call on the humor, determination and family ties that have delivered them from danger time and time again. Metal-faced despots, intergalactic deities and subterranean savages couldn't destroy the Fantastic Four, but will the team be torn apart by the realities of life? Then, Reed, Sue and Ben take Franklin and his friends camping in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. But their getaway takes a terrifying turn when the campers realize that something otherworldly is stalking them in the woods.
9780785197690 MVL: AVENGERS (Soft Cover) AL EWING MARVEL S$30.00 GRP From the pages of Jonathan Hickman's AVENGERS, witness the Ultron Singularity of the 25th Century! Machines have inherited the Earth, with Ultron as their All-Father. Mankind's only hope will be a time-torn team in the tradition of AVENGERS FOREVER! An early Hulk, Jim Rhodes as Iron Man and a Hela-cursed battle-armor Thor are plucked from the past. The unlikely duo of Vision and Black Widow are drawn from our present. And from the near and not-so-near future, the new Thor and an even newer Captain America, with her own heroic legacy to live up to! Who cries "Assemble" to this unique group? The one and only Dr. Doom! Caught between Ultron and Doom, can the Avengers find a way to save forever?
9780785193562 MVL: ANGELA: ASGARD'S ASSASSIN VOL. 1 (Soft Cover) KIERON GILLEN MARVEL S$27.00 GRP All her life, Angela -- the finest warrior of Heven -- was raised to hate Asgard with every fiber of her being. And now Angela knows the truth about her identity: She is Thor's sister. She is an Asgardian. Cast out of her home and wanting nothing to do with Asgard, Angela must now strike out on her own! But what does Angela have that both Asgard and Heven want? And why are they so eager to get it? Visionary writers Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett team with the legendary art team of Phil Jimenez and Stephanie Hans to finally throw the spotlight onto the Marvel Universe's most dangerous inhabitant!
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9780785191605 MVL: LEGENDARY STAR-LORD VOL. 2 (Soft Cover) SAM HUMPHRIES MARVEL S$25.00 GRP
9780785192374 MVL: UNCANNY AVENGERS VOL. 1 (Soft Cover) RICK REMENDER MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785198048 MVL: INHUMAN VOLUME 3(Soft Cover) CHARLES SOULE MARVEL S$19.00 GRP
9780785154365 MVL: IRON FIST: THE LIVING WEAPON VOLUME 2 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP
Peter comes face to face with Mr. Knife! And you won't believe who's behind that snazzy mask. And all this craziness seems to have put a little strain on Peter and Kitty's relationship. You know what'll fix that right up? SPACE DATE ! Or rather...SPACE PRISON BREAK! Peter Quill, what a catch. Couples fight. We all know they do. Especially when one half of the couple is Peter Quill. You know what we find often helps a rough patch? Space mischief and scoundreling! That's a word, right? Of course, it can also distract you from the whole...guarding the galaxy thing. Relationships, am I right?
From the ashes of AXIS an allnew, all different Avengers assemble! The tragedy at the end of AXIS has left the Uncanny Avengers vulnerable, and someone is taking advantage of it. One of the Avengers' oldest foes returns with a terrible secret that will, all hyperbole aside, shatter the lives of two members of the squad. What is Counter-Earth? What terrible secrets does it house?
QUEEN MEDUSA VERSUS KING BLACK BOLT with the fate of the Inhumans in the balance! The NuHumans are a valuable currency in the new world order and someone is working hard to control their destiny.
Can the broken hands of Danny Rand re-form to IRON FISTS? There's a hostile takeover of Rand Tower. VERY hostile. Young Danny Rand discovers the mechanical heart of K'Un-Lun!
Cover art to come 9780785189220 MVL: AVENGERS VOLUME 6 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785189602 MVL: NEW AVENGERS VOLUME 4 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
Original Sin tie-in! Remember when the Illuminati erased Captain America's knowledge of their existence? So does Captain America! The Illuminati have fortified themselves to save the Earth but Captain America will remind them of the cost. And as Avenger faces Avenger, the Time Gem reappears and takes the team on a peril-filled journey forward into days-to-come! 50 years into the future, the Avengers meet with the legacy of their actions! Then, 5,000 years into the future, the rogue planet's mysterious origin is revealed! And finally, 50,000 years into the future, Earth's Mightiest Heroes find themselves on Holoworld, captured in conceptual space. But as they try to figure out how to defeat an idea, the first Avenger meets the last Avenger, the Avengers World crumbles, and you won't believe what comes next.
It's the battle you didn't know you wanted to see - until now! In all creation, only one Earth has successfully met and triumphed over each Incursion that has threatened it: the Earth of the heroes of the Great Society! And guess which Earth is on a collision course with ours? Now, the New Avengers must take on the combined power of the Great Society and only one parallel Earth can survive! But how far is Dr. Strange willing to go to protect the Marvel Universe? Which New Avenger will find the strength to press the button that destroys a world? And what will come in the aftermath? As the Illuminati shatters under the weight of an exploding planet, follow the broken would-be world-savers through their last day on Earth.
9780785189916 MVL: THOR GOD OF THUNDER VOLUME 4 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785190769 MVL: CYCLOPS VOLUME 2 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP
Thor battles to save Earth, but who can he fight when the planet itself is dying? S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Roz Solomon has a suggestion: the nefarious energy company Roxxon and its ruthless new CE O, 'the Minotaur!' Has Thor met his match in the form of a multinational supercorporation? Meanwhile, millennia from now, King Thor and his granddaughters, the Warriors of Thunder, face a very different battle to save what remains of the earth from Galactus! But even if Thor wins, is the Earth still doomed ‌?
RESCUED ! But by whom? And is it really a rescue...or does this put Scott at greater risk than before? And what bounty are they hunting? Lots of shooting and things blowing up! The bad news: the Starjammers are about to die! The good news: Cyclops is no longer a Starjammer. Scott Summers is aboard a new space pirate ship, with a cruel, cutthroat captain, and a crew of criminals and killers. None of them trust Scott-- and a few just might want to kill him! But, hey, that Captain's daughter is kinda cute, right?
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9780785190806 MVL: SPIDER-MAN 2099 VOLUME 2 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP
9780785191629 MVL: STORM VOLUME 2 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785192268 MVL: HULK VOLUME 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785192282 MVL: DAREDEVIL VOLUME 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$24.00 GRP
Miguel O'Hara is finally back in his home era, the year 2099! But there's no time for nostalgia as Spider-Man 2099, Lady Spider, and the sixarmed Spider-Man are on the run for their lives from the dangerously ravenous Inheritors! Spider-Man 2099 and Lady Spider, of the steampunk 1800s, bring past and future science to bear as they study Daemos, desperate for a clue to help battle Morlun and his family. But can they make it back to the rest of the spiders in time to turn the tide of the final battle? Who will survive the Spider-verse? Will Miguel finally be able to return home for good? And what happens when he finds that his future is now...imperfect? Gueststarring that classic green-skinned future menace, the Maestro!
Finishing her business with Yukio in Las Vegas, Storm hitches a flight home. But unbeknownst to her, she's got some stowaways in her carry-on luggage: vengeful assassins armed to the teeth! And they intend to make sure Storm doesn't reach her destination. Then, Over the course of her recent adventures, Storm has made some powerful enemies. And now they've pulled some strings and had her branded Public Enemy Number One! Can Storm evade the authorities long enough find out who's gunning for her and clear her name?
GAMMA, GUNS AND GLORY!!! DOC GREEN 'S wayward artificial intelligence causes more problems. Doc Green receives training from an unexpected tutor...IRON FIST ! Then, DOC GREEN hires DEADPOOL for a very sensitive mission. Is he more trouble than he's worth? An unexpected person voices concern over Doc Green's ANTI -GAMMA campaign. DID WE MENTION DEADPOOL?
Daredevil's recent traumas have left him coping in an unexpected way! A mystery that's been building since issue one starts to pay off big! San Francisco now has TWO men without fear -- and only one will be left standing!
Cover art to come 9780785192343 MVL: AMAZING SPIDERMAN VOLUME 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$37.00 GRP It's the biggest Spider-event ever! When the evil Inheritors begin exterminating spidercharacters throughout the multiverse, every single Spider-Man ever is needed to save the day! A spider-army gathers to fight Morlun and his deadly family, and the Superior Spider-Man intends to lead it! Our universe's amazing Spider-Man has an issue with that...but the army doesn't have time for this in-fighting, as the Inheritors continue slaughtering Spidertotems left and right! As the first skirmishes unfold into all-out war, Miles Morales shows his stuff, Silk finds a valuable edge, and a surprising Spider-character makes the scene! As the Prophecy comes to fruition, every spider must fight...and no spider is safe! But what does the Superior Spider-Man have up his sleeve? And what will the war's fallout mean for Peter Parker...and the rest of the spiders?
9780785192572 MVL: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$25.00 GRP
9780785193159 MVL: MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$15.00 GRP
Last year, Cullen Bunn brought us NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL, the hit tale of the Merc with the Mouth trapped in the zombie apocalypse. In the end, our hero found a "cure" of sorts to this horrible outbreak - any zombie that ate Deadpool transformed...into another Deadpool. And they lived happily ever after? Not so fast, as Cullen Bunn returns, joined by the amazing artwork of Nik Virella, to let us know that wandering hordes of Deadpools might just be worse than flesh-hungry walking corpses.
Based on the hit new series, follow the further adventures of the Guardians of the Galaxy! It's a dangerous galaxy, be glad these guys are on our side!
9780785193623 MVL: S.H.I.E.L.D. VOL.1 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP High-tech weapons. High-stakes missions. High-octane adventure! For the men and women of S.H.I.E.L.D., it's just another day in the field! Special Agent Phil Coulson brings together the best and the brightest, the gifted and the elite, normal people and superhumans from across the Marvel Universe on an as-needed basis to confront, combat and curtail dangers beyond the scope of any conventional peace-keeping force!
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9780785193869 MVL: MAGNETO VOLUME 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP
9780785197003 MVL: SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
9780785197102 MVL: SECRET AVENGERS VOL. 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$25.00 GRP
9780785197133 MVL: OPERATION: S.I.N (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$27.00 GRP
In his war against those who would see his kind extinguished, Magneto has one steadfast ally: the mysterious woman called Briar Raleigh. But what are her true designs for the Master of Magnetism? On the island of Genosha, the backdrop for his greatest triumphs and most devastating tragedies, Magneto is confronted by S.H.I.E.L.D.! But the Master of Magnetism doesn't stand alone...
Meet the Jean Grey Academy's new guidance counselor: Spider-Man! What's a nonmutant doing at a school for mutants? What secret suspicion has fueled the formation of his special student class? And because you demanded it! Sauron and Stegron the Dinosaur Man! The villain team 65 million years in the making! You didn't demand it? Well somebody did.
Hawkeye and Coulson face off. Who survives? Why is this even happening? Vladimir makes a deal with the Fury. Is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing? We won't tell! But you'll find out. Helicarrier is under attack. Spider-Woman engages. M.O.D.O.K. gets the message.
Tying into the explosive events of ORIGINAL SIN , see an untold story from the origins of the Marvel Universe! After an alien energy source is discovered in Russia in the early 1950s, it's up to Peggy Carter and Howard Stark to find out what happened. But a newly risen terrorist group going by the name Hydra also happens to be on the hunt for their own nefarious purposes! It's only when a mysterious operative going by the name of Woodrow McCord enters the picture to aid Peggy and Howard that they realize just how far some people are willing to go to keep the Earth safe!
9780785197263 MVL: X-MEN VOLUME 5 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$19.00 GRP
9780785197355 MVL: WOLVERINES VOL. 3 (Soft Cover) MARVEL S$24.00 GRP
When a sinkhole appears under mysterious circumstances in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, the X-Men go to investigate... But little do they suspect that the phenomenon has connections to old allies...and enemies! Then, trapped deep underground in the sinkhole, STORM battles her claustrophobia while trying to find answers. Meanwhile, her teammates above ground discover that the phenomenon has ties to old enemies...
Romance is brewing between X-23 and, well, you'll have to read to find out! But is it unrequited or unwise for heroes to get tangled in love? The battle inside the man known as Shogun is now risking the lives of his teammates and friends...looks like evil may prevail? What does that mean for the overall mission at hand? Fantomelle and Culpepper have been fighting tooth and claw for an unknown benefactor, risking their lives for everything...but who are they risking it all for?
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