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FICTION
JUN 2013
Highlights
FANTASY
9780061007224 EXORCIST,THE (Soft Cover) WILLIAM PETER BLATTY HARPER US S$16.00 GF
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9780552162463 SKY DRAGONS (Soft Cover) ANNE McCAFFREY TRANSWORLD S$17.00 FAN
After a vicious plague swept
through the world of Pern, there are
no longer enough dragons to fight off the current onslaught of Thread,
the deadly spore that falls like rain
from the skies and devours
everything organic in its path.
Pern's last best chance to rebuild the decimated dragon population
lies with a group of young dragon
riders and their dragons left
stranded on an unexplored island.
9780007445981 SANDMAN SLIM (Soft Cover) RICHARD KADREY HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN
Book six in the Downside Ghosts
series.
The sixth book in the Downside Ghosts series.
Supernatural fantasy has a new
antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this
gripping, gritty new series by RichardKadrey
Life sucks and then you die. Or, if
you’re James Stark, you spend
eleven years in Hell as a hitman
before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los
Angeles.
The chilling movie we could not
forget . . .
The Exorcist changed popular culture forever. Forty years ago,
the movie that was based on
William Peter Blatty's runaway #1
bestseller—a groundbreaking
story of faith and supernatural suspense—held audiences
captive. Now this special edition
commemorates the 40th
anniversary of the iconic film that
paved the way for the entire genre that followed it: the
unforgettable The Exorcist.
9780007437788 DOWNSIDE GHOSTS 6 (Soft Cover) STACIA KANE HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN
9780316128100 TEMPEST REBORN (Soft Cover) NICOLE PELLER HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 FAN
Anyan may be trapped in an evil
dragon and Blondie may be gone, but
Jane knows one thing: she's not about to give up. She's ready to tear
down heaven and earth to save her
lover, despite those who believe he's
lost.
Luckily for Jane, those who've given up on Anyan do not include those
closest to her. Defying The Powers
That Be, Jane and Company form
their own crack squad of misfits, in
whose hands the fate of the world may well rest.
9780007463251 BONELAND (Soft Cover) ALAN GARNER HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN
The crowning achievement of an
astonishing career, 'Boneland'
concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone
of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper
wakes, the dream dies...Professor
Colin Whisterfield spends his days
at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister
in the Pleiades.
9780007446001 KILL THE DEAD (Soft Cover) RICHARD KADREY HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN
Supernatural fantasy's best antihero
returns, in the high-octane follow-up to
Richard Kadrey's acclaimed Sandman Slim
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim,
crawled out of Hell, took bloody
revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and
saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore?
You take a lousy job tracking down
monsters for money. It's a depressing
gig, but it pays for your beer and
cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.
GENERAL FICTION
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9780345500922 SKY DRAGONS (Soft Cover) ANNE McCAFFREYRANDOM HOUSE S$17.00 FAN
Scores of dragons are dead after
plague swept across the world of Pern,
and now the Weyrs are struggling to rebuild before Threadfall destroys
everything—and everyone—left alive.
Their best hope lies with a group of
new dragonriders who have
volunteered to brave the dangers of an unexplored island populated by vicious
wild felines and voracious tunnel-
snakes to create a safe home for their
young dragons, whose offspring will
hopefully replenish Pern’s decimated population. But their leader, Xhinna, the
first female rider of a blue dragon,
faces an uphill battle to win the respect
of her peers, especially after tragedy leaves the new colony reeling.
GENERAL FICTION
9780007476336 THE SKULL AND THE NIGHTINGALE (Soft Cover) MICHAEL IRWIN HARPER UK S$26.00 GF
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9780857500953 BRYANT & MAY AND THE INVISIBLE CODE (Soft Cover) CHRISTOPHER FOWLER TRANSWORLD S$18.00 GF
Two small children are playing a game
called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch
in a church courtyard and wait for her
to die. An hour later the woman is
indeed found dead inside St Bride's
Church - a building that no-one else has entered. Unfortunately Bryant &
May are refused the case. Instead,
there are hired by their greatest enemy
to find out why his wife has suddenly
started behaving strangely. She's become an embarrassment to him at
government dinners, and he is
convinced that someone is trying to
drive her insane.
9780552777346 IN HER SHADOW (Soft Cover) LOUISE DOUGLAS TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from
weary, recession-scarred America, a
struggling businessman named Alan
Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his
daughter's college tuition, and finally
do something great. In A Hologram
for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one
man fights to hold himself and his
splintering family together.
Before Ellen, things were easier and
less complicated. They were either
good or bad, right or wrong, black or
white and I understood the difference. Since Ellen, everything has been
coloured in shades of grey. From the
author of "The Secrets Between Us",
part of the 2012 Richard and Judy Summer Reads, comes this dark,
thrilling novel that is perfect for your
book group. It's set twenty years ago
against a backdrop of dreamy Cornish
summers, a place where childhood friendship becomes young love, where
love becomes obsession, and where
obsession ultimately ends in betrayal
and a tragic death.
Set in England in the early 1760s, this
is a chilling and deliciously dark tale
of manipulation, sex, and seduction. Set in England in the early 1760s,
The Skull & The Nightingale is a
chilling and deliciously dark tale of
manipulation, sex, and seduction.
When Richard Fenwick, a young man without family or means, returns to
London from the Grand Tour, his
wealthy godfather, James Gilbert,
has an unexpected proposition.
9780307947512 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (Soft Cover) DAVE EGGERS RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF
9780593064955 I AM PILGRIM (Soft Cover) TERRY HAYES TRANSWORLD S$31.00 GF
Can you commit the perfect crime?
Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a
wealthy American family, he once
headed up a secret espionage unit for
US intelligence. Before he disappeared
into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal
investigation. But that book will come
back to haunt him. It will help NYPD
detective Ben Bradley track him down.
And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a
woman is found facedown in a bath of
acid, her features erased, her teeth
missing, her fingerprints gone.
9780007483525 OVERBITE (Soft Cover) MEG CABOT HARPER UK S$18.00 GF
The sequel to Meg Cabot's
bestselling paranormal romance with
bite - Insatiable Meena Harper has
bitten off more than she can chew ...Meena has a special gift, but only
now does anyone appreciate it. Her
ability to predict how everyone she
meets will die has impressed the Palatine Guard-a powerful secret
demon-hunting unit of the Vatican-
and they've hired her to work at their
new branch in Lower Manhattan.
Sure, Meena's ex-boyfriend was Lucien Antonescu, son of Dracula.
9780552777537 THE WAR OF THE WIVES (Soft Cover) TAMAR COHEN TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GFImagine being happily married for 28
years. You have three children, a lovely
house and a husband who travels a lot
- but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being
happily married for 17 years. You have
one daughter, a lovely home and
though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then
one day you get a call that turns your
world upside down: your husband is
dead. You are devastated.
9780062266071 A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS : A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL (Soft Cover) JAMES L. BURKE HARPER US S$17.00 GF
Clutching the shards of his shattered
life, Cajun detective Dave
Robicheaux has rejoined the Newlberia police force.
His partner is dead—slain during a
condemned prisoner's bloody flight to
freedom that left Robicheaux critically
wounded . . . and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
Now he's trailing a killer into the
sordid heat of the Big Easy, caught
up in the lethal undercurrents of a
mob double-cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemy—himself . . .
GENERAL FICTION
9780007481200 TREACHERY (Soft Cover) S.J. PARRIS HARPER UK S$24.00 GF
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9780007298563 CROWBONE (Soft Cover) ROBERT LOW HARPER UK S$18.00 GF
The long awaited return to Robert
Low’s Oathsworn series
Island of Mann, 979AD. A monk lies dying with a sworn secret he must pass
onto Crowbone, the true heir to
Norway’s throne, before he breathes
his last. The monk’s words will decide
the fate of a kingdom. But once the secret is revealed,
Crowbone’s long-time enemy,
Gunnhild, the Witch Mother of Kings,
threatens his path to the crown and will
stop at nothing to prevent him from attaining his royal destiny. Crowbone
and his men must survive an
unforgiving journey and face their
sworn rival.
9780007328239 THE KILLING GAME (Soft Cover) J.A. KERLEY HARPER UK S$18.00 GF
Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or
lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where
he comically navigates Manhattan's
art and literary scenes, to Taipei,
Taiwan, where he confronts his
family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born
on the internet and blooms into an
unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.
Detective Carson Ryder’s reputation
is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal
vendetta, constructing his crimes to
hit Carson’s weak spot.
He’s coming to get you…
After a humiliating encounter with a cop, Romanian immigrant Gregory
Nieves launches a vendetta against
the Mobile Police Department,
Alabama. Nieves can’t fight a
department, so he selects one man who symbolize
Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and
The Name of the Rose, the fourth
historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy.
Summer, 1585: As English ships are
held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an
Invincible Armada, built by King Philip
II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to
embark on an expedition by royal
commission to cross the Atlantic and
seize major Spanish ports, diverting
Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno,
radical philosopher and spy,
accompanies his friend Sir Philip
Sidney to Plymouth to oversee Drake's departure.
9780307950178 TAIPEI (Soft Cover) TAO LIN RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF
9781848271432 YOU AND I (Soft Cover) EMILY GILLMOR MURPHY TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GFEach September, thousands of
students walk through the doors of
University College and Trinity College, Dublin. This year, Olive
and Tom will be among them.
Eighteen-year-old Olive is fresh
from the country, and her eyes are
opened wide by the big-city goings on of her new friends. When she
starts to be pursued by Tom, the
scruffy maverick who's seduced
half the girls she's met, she's
adamant he's not for her. But when a tragedy befalls her family, it's
Tom who proves her best friend -
until that is, she discovers his real
motivations.
9781847562036 ALWAYS YOU (Soft Cover) ERIN KAYE HARPER UK S$16.00 GF
A warm and highly emotive Irish
writer who deals with issues that affect real women.
It’s 1992 and Sarah is in love with
Cahal, a boy from the wrong side of
the tracks. As they plan to graduate
from university, all seems set for their happily ever after…
Fast forward to 2012 and something’s
gone wrong. Cahal is out of the
picture and Sarah is divorced from
Ian by whom she’s had two children. What happened? As Cahal walks
back into Sarah’s life, can they
overcome past decisions and
surrounding prejudice and make it work a second time around?
9780007467754 THE FIRE WITNESS (Soft Cover) LARS KEPLER HARPER UK S$22.00 GF
The No 1 Swedish bestseller by the
author of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare. Flora has seen it all, but
nobody believes her. The girl is dead,
someone killed her. She was only
fourteen years old, named Miranda,
and was found in her room at the institution for young women in distress,
north of Stockholm. The walls were
splashed with blood, the sheets were
soaked with it. None of the other girls
know what happened, but one of them has fled into the night. What Flora does
not know is that it is the redoubtable
Joona Linna who will be investigating
the worst and most puzzling crime of his career.
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9780062219657 SCORPION DECEPTION (Soft Cover) ANDREW KAPLAN HARPER US S$17.00 GF
In Switzerland, a brutally efficient hit
squad storms the U.S. embassy,
stealing classified files and leaving no witnesses alive. Under intense
political pressure to find those behind
the attack—with Congressional
leaders demanding military action—
the CIA turns to the deadliest agent they know: Scorpion. But Scorpion is
unwilling to get involved . . . until he
learns his name is at the top of one of
the stolen lists.
GENERAL FICTION
9781455500147 DARKNESS BRED (Soft Cover) STELLA CAMERON HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM
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9780553825176 HEREWARD: THE DEVIL'S ARMY (Soft Cover) JAMES WILDE TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF1067. The battle of Hastings has been
lost; Harold Godwinsson is dead. The
iron fist of William the Bastard has
begun to squeeze the life out of England. Villages are torched and men,
women and children put to the sword
as the Norman king attempts to impose
his cruel will upon this unruly nation.
But there is one who stands in the way of the invader's savagery.
9780345806079 HEARTBROKEN (Soft Cover) LISA UNGER RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 GF
Kate has written a novel based on a
tragic love story from her family’s
past. Emily is a struggling waitress whose toxic relationship with the
wrong man has led her to make a
horrible, life-altering decision. Without
knowing each other, and with lives
that couldn’t be more different, they head to the same point on the map:
Heart Island. It’s an idyllic place in
the middle of an Adirondack lake, and
home to harsh and unyielding
matriarch Birdie Burke. These three women find themselves on a heart-
wrenching collision course—with dark
memories, restless ghosts and each
other.
Ever since shapeshifter Elin escaped
to Whidbey Island, danger has
stalked her every move. Her human
traits, combined with her unique supernatural gifts, make her a prized
being to be possessed . . . or
destroyed. It is only the passionate
attraction she shares with werehound
Sean Black that gives her hope for her future-if she can elude the lethal
predators who are hot on her scent.
9780062076076 SURRENDER TO THE EARL (Soft Cover) GAYLE CALLEN HARPER US S$16.00 ROMAudrey Blake's impromptu plan—
asking a visitor to help her take
ownership of her rightful property—
is unraveling in spectacular fashion. Robbed of her sight by a childhood
fever, Audrey has been kept in
virtual seclusion by her family. And
now the enigmatic Robert Henslow,
Earl of Knightsbridge, has complicated her scheme to gain
independence, insisting they
pretend to be engaged.
9780857520128 LONG WAR: LONG EARTH BK 2 (Hard Cover) TERRY PRATCHETT; STEPHEN BAXTER TRANSWORLD S$32.00 GF
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...
9781439193020 BLACK LIST (Soft Cover) BRAD THOR SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$17.00 GF
An explosive thriller from #1 New
York Times bestselling author
Brad Thor: Scot Harvath must survive a stunning masterwork
of action, intrigue, and ingenious
plot twists.
Somewhere deep inside the United
States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress
never get to see it—only the
President and a secret team of
advisers. Once your name is on the
list, it doesn’t come off…until you’re dead.
Someone has just added
counterterrorism operative Scot
Harvath’s name.
ROMANCE
9780062067777 THE LONG WAR (Hard Cover) TERRY PRATCHETT HARPER US S$32.00 GF
A new America called Valhalla grows
restless under the controlling long
arm of the Datum government, while
all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to
react to humanity's thoughtless
exploitation, bringing humankind to
the brink of war. 75,000 first printing.
When America’s controversial
Phoenix Program was buried
during the Vietnam War, a new program rose from its ashes: a
top-secret Special Operations
unit, with a core mission to
combat terror wherever they find
it. With bin Laden dead, the leaders within al-Qaeda struggle
to assume his role at the top, but
the president of the United States
doesn’t want any of them left to
dominate…and that means he has only one choice.
9781451675696 OUTCASTS: A SEAL TEAM SIX NOVEL (Soft Cover) HOWARD E. WASDIN; STEPHEN TEMPLIN SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF
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9781451641851 A WITCH'S HANDBOOK OF KISSES AND CURSES (Soft Cover) MOLLY HARPER SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
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9780345534903 FOREVER (Soft Cover) JACQUELYN FRANK RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM
After being brought back from
death, police officer Jackson
Waverly receives the shock of his
life: he has become host to aBodywalker, a spirit that is reborn in
flesh and blood, and part of a
proud, ancient race that uses its
extraordinary gifts to battle dark,
evil forces. Jackson’s spirit is a powerful one—none other than the
Egyptian pharaoh Menes, who
longs to reunite with his eternal
love, the Egyptian queen
Hatshepsut.
9781455522873 WHAT A WICKED EARL WANTS (Soft Cover) VICKY DREILING HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM
Only she can satisfy . . .
When Rafe Bancroft wins Forton Hall in a card game, this rogue finds
himself saddled with responsibility he
cannot wait to foist off. The sooner he
can sell the blasted estate, the sooner he can be off on his next
adventure. Yet he doesn't count on
running into the very alluring Felicity
Harrington, who ignites an all-
consuming desire in him quite like no other woman.
Andrew Carrington, Earl of
Bellingham, believes in being a
gentleman, whether it's fishing a soggy stranger out of the Thames or
assisting a fetching lady into his bed.
If the stranger becomes a friend and
the lady a mistress, all the better. He
certainly welcomes the opportunity to help Laura Davenport, a dazzling
young widow with a rebellious
stepson. Her gratitude, he hopes, will
take an amorous form. But from the
moment he sets foot in her drawing room, he gets far more than he
bargained for ...
Nola Leary would have been content to
stay in Kilcairy, Ireland, healing
villagers at her family’s clinic with a mix of magic and modern medicine. But a
series of ill-timed omens and a
deathbed promise to her grandmother
have sent her on a quest to Half-Moon
Hollow, Kentucky, to secure her family’s magical potency for the next
generation. Her supernatural task? To
unearth four artifacts hidden by her
grandfather before a rival magical
family beats her to it.
9780380798865 TAMING RAFE (Soft Cover) SUZANNE ENOCH HARPER US S$16.00 ROM
9781451689334 EXPOSED (Soft Cover) LAURA GRIFFIN SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
With the click of her camera,
Maddie Callahan inadvertently
added herself to the hit list of a
criminal mastermind the FBI’s been investigating for months. Agent
Brian Beckmann is determined to
protect the sexy photographer, but
she may be his only lead.
As a forensic photographer, Maddieis used to seeing violence up close,
but she’s never before been a
target. When a freelance photo
shoot goes awry, she realizes she
may have seen, and perhaps photographed, the kidnapping of a
key witness in a federal probe.
9780062240125 ANY DUCHESS WILL DO (Soft Cover) TESSA DARE HARPER US S$13.00 ROM
What's a duke to do, when the girl
who's perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can't live without?
Griffin York, the Duke of Halford,
has no desire to wed this
season—or any season—but his diabolical mother abducts him to
"Spinster Cove" and insists he
select a bride from the ladies in
residence. Griff decides to teach
her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. He
chooses the serving girl.
9781455521951 THE SWEET SPOT (Soft Cover) LAURA DRAKE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$13.00 ROM
A Love as Big as Texas . . .
Charla Rae Denny was the perfect wife with a perfect life, content to
keep the home fires burning while
her husband, JB, competed as a
champion bull rider. Then their son died in a tragic accident-and
everything fell apart. Divorced and
saddled with a hill of bills and a
failing ranch, Charla must now
cowboy up to put her life back together.
9780062202451 SECRET LIFE OF LADY JULIA, THE (Soft Cover) LECIA CORNWALL HARPER US S$16.00 ROM
One kiss, then another, and before
she knows it, Lady Julia Leighton
succumbs to the breathtaking charms
of a stranger . . . at the ball
celebrating her betrothal to a man who considers her a sister. The
steamy encounter changes her life in
more ways than one. When she
meets her seducer again, Julia is no
longer a lady, but an outcast, a paid companion to a lady who used to be
her equal— and her desire for him
burns as strong as ever.
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9780007482085 THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES: VOLUME ONE -THE 1950s (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$22.00 SF
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9781455521128 IT HAD TO BE YOU (Soft Cover) JILL SHALVIS HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM
Ali Winters is not having a good
day. Her boyfriend left her,
everyone in town thinks she's a
thief, and now she's about to be kicked out of her home. Her only
shot at keeping a roof over her
head and clearing her name is to
beg for help from a police detective
who's as sexy as he is stern....
9780345525291 LOVER BE MINE (Soft Cover) NICOLE JORDAN RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM
Savannah Moore arrives in Eternity
Springs alone, determined to put her troubled past behind her. Her
handcrafted-soap shop fits right in
with the magic of this warm and
welcoming community—but the sexy,
suspicious local sheriff promises to upset her hard-won happiness.
The last thing Sophie Fortin expects
at a masquerade ball is a dazzling kiss from a pirate. Her desire quickly
falters when she learns that her
masked gentleman is devilishly
scandalous Lord Jack, a member of
the captivating Wilde clan—and a man she’s forbidden to acknowledge.
But when Jack begins a breathtaking
seduction, Sophie can barely resist.
The first in a series collecting every
Brian Aldiss story ever published.
In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are
being collected together for the first
time.
Volume one takes us from his very
first story – A Book in Time, published in The Bookseller in 1954
and never seen again until now –
right up to his establishment as a
major new voice in science fiction
by the end of that decade.
9780345542267 REFLECTION POINT (Soft Cover) EMILY MARCH RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM
9780062218933 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: A CUPID, TEXAS NOVEL (Soft Cover) LORI WILDE HARPER US S$16.00 ROMIn the first in a dazzling new series,
Lori Wilde welcomes us to Cupid,
Texas, where every wish for love
comes true . . ."When it hits, you just know . . ."
Natalie McCleary couldn't believe
her eyes—a lean-muscled, darkly
tanned, nearly naked man stood in
her path . . . and then it hit her: love. Everyone always told her it
would hit like a thunderbolt, and
she never believed them. But now
she knew: practical, sensible
Natalie was head over heels in love—with a stranger.
9781420118483 SOMETHING WICKED (Soft Cover) LISA JACKSON; NANCY BUSH HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM
Some refer to it as the Colony.
To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal
hamlet of Deception Bay have
ever been invited to the inner
sanctum of Siren Song. Even
the sisters, who live there, far from strangers who might recoil
at their unnerving psychic
abilities, don't know all the
terrors buried within its walls.
9780062223876 ONCE UPON A TOWER (Soft Cover) ELOISA JAMES HARPER US S$16.00 ROM
As an extremely wealthy laird,
Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross,
can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem is
they are all English and Gowan is
not so certain they are suitable. He
is accustomed to the hard-working
lasses from his Highlands, not these dainty noblewomen who
spend their days drinking tea or
some other such nonsense. But
then he makes the acquaintance of
Lady Edith Gilchrist. Utterly bewitched by the emerald-eyed
beauty with lush golden locks, he
knows he must have her.
SCIENCE-FICTION
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9781451685206 HOW TO PURSUE A PRINCESS (Soft Cover) KAREN HAWKINS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
The sensible solution to her family’s
dire financial woes is for Lily Balfour
to marry the Earl of Huntley, a
wealthy widower handpicked by her
matchmaking godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe. Huntley is
pleasant and attractive, the perfect
candidate in every way. But Lily
knows she’s in big trouble as soon as
passionate, unprincipled PrinceWulfinski sweeps a hot, possessive
glance over her.
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9780316098113 2312 (Soft Cover) KIM STANLEY ROBINSON HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$18.00 SF
Novelist Daniel Abraham and
illustrator Tommy Patterson are not
merely turning George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Game of Thrones into
a graphic novel: They are
meticulously translating one art form
into another, and capturing the
intricate nuances of Martin’s novels just as HBO is doing with the
blockbuster series. The
Abraham/Patterson collaboration is
more than just a faithful adaptation. It
is a labor of love—and a thrilling masterwork in its own right.
The year is 2312. Scientific and
technological advances have opened
gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only
home; new habitats have been created
throughout the solar system on moons,
planets, and in between. But in this
year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its
present, and its future.
The first event takes place on Mercury,
on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an
unprecedented scale. It is an
unexpected death, but one that might
have been foreseen. For Swan ErHong, it is an event that will change her
life. Swan was once a woman who
designed worlds. Now she will be led
into a plot to destroy them.
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Located far beyond the boundaries of
explored space, the Goeg Domain is
a political union of dozens of planets and races. When the U.S.S.
Enterprise arrives in its territory to
investigate an interstellar
phenomenon, Commander Laspas of
the Domain Defense Corps is at first guarded, then fascinated to discover
the existence of an alliance of worlds
much like his own, and finds a
kindred spirit in Captain James T.
Kirk. And when the Enterprise is attacked by the Domain’s enemies,
crippling the starship’s warp capability
and leaving its crew facing the
prospect of a slow, months-long journey home, the Goeg leader
volunteers the help of his own ship,
offering to combine the resources of
both vessels to bring the Enterprise
to a nearby Domain facility to make the necessary repairs.
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Wraith Squadron: The elite X-wing
unit of rogues and misfits who
became legends of the Rebellion,
specializing in carrying out the most
dangerous and daring operations before breaking up and going their