MPH Apr'14 Fiction titles (highlights)

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FICTION

APR 2014

Highlights

9780062069412CONVENANT(Soft Cover)HARPER USS$22.00 GF

FICTION TITLESAPR 2014

MPH Distributors (S) Pte Ltd

9780007569106CRUCIBAL OF GOLD(Soft Cover)NAOMI NOVIKHARPER UKS$18.00 FAN

Naomi Novik's stunning series

of novels follow the global

adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting

dragon Temeraire as they are

thrown together to fight for

Britain during the turbulent time

of the Napoleonic Wars. Former Aerial Corps captain Will

Laurence and his faithful

dragon, Temeraire, have been

put out to pasture in Australia -

and it seems their part in the war has ended just when they

are needed most.

9780552168953THE CITY(Soft Cover)STELLA GEMMELLTRANSWORLDS$16.00 FAN

Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire

series, a brilliant combination of

fantasy and history that reimagines

the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a

twenty-first-century classic.

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in

Japan with no memory of Temeraire

or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself

tangled in deadly political intrigues

that threaten not only his own life but

England's already precarious position

in the Far East.

The City is ancient and vast and has been waging almost constant

war for centuries. At its heart

resides the emperor. Few have

ever seen him. Those who have

remember a man in his prime - and yet he should be very old. Some

speculate that he is no longer

human, others wonder if indeed he

ever truly was. And a few have

come to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to halt the

emperor's unslakebale thirst for war

is to end his unnaturally long life.

The haunting gothic tale started in

Archon continues-a mesmerizing

work of the paranormal in which a young woman discovers that she is

caught in a labyrinth of intrigue where

angels, demons, and all the creatures

between Heaven and Hell will stop at

nothing to possess her.A year ago, Angela Mathers, a

talented artist with a tortured soul,

enrolled at the Westwood Academy

and encountered the angels who

haunted her dreams. Then she discovered the dark truth … she is

the Archon, a being of supreme

power who will determine the fate of

the universe.

9780007569083BLOOD OF TYRANTS(Soft Cover)NAOMI NOVIKHARPER UKS$18.00 FAN

9780307739759MADONNA ON THE MOON(Soft Cover)ROLF BAUERDICKRANDOM HOUSES$25.00 GF

November, 1957. The Soviets have just launched the Sputnik, and

communism rules in Eastern

Europe, but the village of Baia

Luna, nestled in the Carpathian

mountains, is a world unto itself, populated with gypsy-philosophers

and mysterious priests. But for

fifteen-year-old Pavel Botev, this

world begins to come apart the day teacher asks him to hang a photo

of the new party secretary, then

whispers a startling directive into

his ear.

9780440246572CIRCLE OF DESIRE(Soft Cover)KERI ARTHURRANDOM HOUSES$15.00 FAN

A TEMPTING FATE

Two children have been found

dead, their souls torn from their

bodies. Two more are missing, and

Ethan Morgan’s niece is one of them. A dedicated cop, Ethan has

every intention not only of bringing

her back alive but of catching the

monster behind these kidnappings.

And he will use anyone and everyone to achieve those aims—

even a crazy woman who claims to

be a witch. But time is ticking. The

victims rarely stay alive for more

than seven days. Four of those days have already passed.

9780345522313SHADES OF TIME (Soft Cover)LYNN FLEWELLINGRANDOM HOUSES$15.00 FAN

Acclaimed author Lynn

Flewelling brings her beloved

Nightrunners series to a close—at least for now—with

a thrilling novel of murder,

mystery, and magic.

The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his

mistress have been killed inside

a locked and guarded room.

The sole witnesses to the

crime—guards who broke down the doors, hearing the screams

from within—have gone mad

with terror, babbling about

ghosts . . . and things worse

than ghosts.

9780552164566ANGEL CITY(Soft Cover)JON STEELTRANSWORLDS$16.00 FAN

Jay Harper, one of the last 'angels'

on Planet Earth, is hunting down

the half-breeds and goons who infected Paradise with evil.

Intercepting a plot to turn half of

Paris into a dead zone, Harper

ends up on the wrong side of the

law and finds himself a wanted man. That doesn't stop his

commander, Inspector Gobet of the

Swiss Police, from sending him

back to Paris on a recon mission

...a mission that uncovers a truth buried in the Book of Enoch.

FANTASY

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9780007467488A COLDER WAR(Soft Cover)CHARLES CUMMINGHARPER UKS$26.00 GF



9780007481361ON A SINGLE BREATH(Soft Cover)LUCY CLARKEHARPER UKS$18.00 GF

The deeper the water, the darker

the secrets There were so many

times I thought about telling you the truth, Eva. What stopped me was

always the same thing...When

Eva's husband Jackson tragically

drowns, she longs to meet his

estranged family. The journey takes her to Jackson's brother's doorstep

on a remote Tasmanian island. As

strange details about her husband's

past begin to emerge, memories of

the man she married start slipping through her fingers like sand, as

everything she ever knew and

loved about him is thrown into

question.

9780593071564SURROUNDED BY WATER(Soft Cover)STEPHANIE BUTLANDTRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

The internationally acclaimed

author of The House on Mango

Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a

lyrically told, richly illustrated fable

for grown-ups about a woman’s

search for a cat who goes missing

in the wake of her mother’s death.

Elizabeth's world is turned upside down

when her husband dies in a tragic

drowning accident. How typical of her kind, generous husband to sacrifice his

own life saving a complete stranger's.

At the heart of this village that has lost

its most respected police officer is a

woman who has lost life as she knows it. Or so she thinks. Before Elizabeth

can begin trying to piece her heart back

together, it might just need to be broken

again.

Perfect for fans of John le Carre, a

gripping and suspenseful spy

novel from 'the master of the

modern spy thriller' (Mail on

Sunday) MI6's Head of Station in Turkey is killed in a mysterious

plane crash. Amelia Levene, chief

of the Secret Intelligence Service,

wants the incident investigated -quickly and quietly. The only man

she can trust is Thomas Kell, a

disgraced spy searching for

redemption.

9780307743862HAVE YOU SEEN MARIE?(Soft Cover)SANDRA CISNEROSRANDOM HOUSES$23.00 GF

9780857522160CAMPARI FOR BREAKFAST(Soft Cover)SARA CROWETRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes

for ever. Her mother dies, leaving

her feeling like she's lost a vital

part of herself. And then her father

shacks up with an awful golddiggercalled Ivana. But Sue's mother

always told her to make the most

of what she's got - and what she's

got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives.

9780307743923LIGHT IN THE RUINS(Soft Cover)CHRIS BOHJALIANRANDOM HOUSES$25.00 GF

1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills of Tuscany, the Rosatis, an

Italian family of noble lineage,

believe that the walls of their

ancient villa will keep them safe

from the war raging across Europe. But when two soldiers—a

German and an Italian—arrive at

their doorstep asking to see an

ancient Etruscan burial site, the

Rosatis’ bucolic tranquility is shattered.

9781848271203PURGATORY(Soft Cover)KEN BRUENTRANSWORLDS$18.00 GF

Purgatory by Ken Bruen is #10 in

the Jack Taylor gritty adventure

series, and, perhaps, the best novel of the series. The protagonist

is an ex-cop from the Galway

Guard struggling with a horde of

addictions, and has finally

managed to kick the myriad substances that have had a

stranglehold over his painful life.

But he has a few friends, only

Stewart, a drug dealer turned Zen

master, and Ridge, a tough and an unlikely gay sergeant of the Guard

comes to mind.

9780062322661WHEN THE CYPRESS WHISPERS(Soft Cover)YVETTE MANESSIS CORPORONHARPER USS$25.00 GF

On a beautiful Greek island, myths,

magic, and a colorful cast of

characters come together in When the Cypress Whispers, Yvette

Manessis Corporon’s lushly

atmospheric story about past and

present, family and fate, love and

dreams that poignantly captures the deep bond between an

American woman and her Greek

grandmother.

The daughter of Greek immigrants,

Daphne aspires to the American Dream, yet feels as if she’s been

sleepwalking through life. Caught

between her family’s old-world

traditions and the demands of a modern career, she cannot seem

to find her place.

9780061656040NO WAY BACK(Soft Cover)ANDREW GROSSHARPER USS$17.00 GF



9780062316868THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME(Soft Cover)HAZEL GAYNORHARPER USS$22.00 GF

Inspired by true events, The Girl

Who Came Home is the

poignant story of a group of Irish

emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and

fiction that explores the tragedy’s

impact and its lasting

repercussions on survivors and

their descendants.Ireland, 1912. Fourteen

members of a small village set

sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to

find a better life in America. For

seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is

bittersweet.

9780062059826DRIVING LESSONS(Soft Cover)ZOE FISHMANHARPER USS$22.00 GF

Experience the sultry Southern

atmosphere of Atlanta and the

magic of the Carolina Lowcountryin this funny and poignant tale of

one audacious woman's quest to

find the love she deserves, from

New York Times bestselling author

Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last

Original Wife among her husband

Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta

social set.

From the author of BALANCING ACTS and SAVING RUTH comes

the funny, heartwarming, and

utterly relatable story of three

women, each facing her own

transitional moment, and all grappling with the idea of

motherhood...

No Way Back is a thrilling page-

turner from Andrew Gross, the


of 15 Seconds and The Blue Zone.One woman is framed for a horrific

crime, and desperate to prove her

innocence.

A chance meeting with a stranger

in a hotel ends in a shocking murder. Wendy Gould is an

average mom—and the only

witness. Nanny Lauritzia Velez

knows a shocking secret that

could prove to be deadly. Both of their lives in danger, this unlikely

pair must work together against a

network of dangerous men who

want nothing more than to see

them dead.

9780062132475THE LAST ORIGINAL WIFE(Soft Cover)DOROTHE BENTON FRANKHARPER USS$22.00 GF

9780062109880BLACK HORIZON(Hard Cover)JAMES GRIPPANDOHARPER USS$34.00 GF

In Black Horizon, a riveting and

timely thriller drawn from

tomorrow's headlines, New York

Times bestselling author James

Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney

Jack Swyteck in an international

case involving a devastating oil

spill that pits him against his

most villainous adversaries yet.Three summers after the

Deepwater Horizon catastrophe,

oil is again spewing into the

ocean—from a drilling explosion in Cuban waters sixty miles off

the Florida Keys, creating a

politically complex and volatile

situation.

9780593072004KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE(Soft Cover)PAULA DALYTRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

What would you do if your best friend stole your life? A new

psychological thriller from the

author of Just What Kind of

Mother Are You?

9780007548675CANNOT SEE(Soft Cover)ANTHONY DOERRHARPER UKS$26.00 GF

The epic new novel, set during

WW2, from Sunday Times Short

Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a

perfect miniature of their Paris

neighbourhood so she can

memorize it by touch and navigate

her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee

with a dangerous secret. Werner is

a German orphan, destined to

labour in the same mine that

claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering.

9780062213792IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS(Soft Cover)HARPER USS$22.00 GF

From the critically acclaimed

author of the New York Times

bestseller The Confessions of Max

Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously

romantic story of a woman who

finds herself transported to the

“other lives” she might have lived.

After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of

her long-time lover, Greta Wells

undergoes electroshock therapy.

Over the course of the treatment,

Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the

present.

GENERAL FICTION



9780552158015THE DEVIL’S PACT(Soft Cover)JAMES HOLLANDTRANSWORLDS$18.00 GF

July, 1943. With North Africa

secured, the Allies launch an

invasion of Sicily, and the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire

Rangers are in the van of the

assault on the Italian beaches. But

promotion to Company

Commander has brought him fresh trouble for Jack Tanner. Not

only has his new Battalion

Commander decided to make his

life as difficult as possible, they

soon find themselves battling against some of the toughest,

most determined troops in the

Wehrmacht. In the bitter fighting

that follows, Tanner witnesses a new reality. Rule books are

thrown away.

9780062276025UNDER A SILENT MOON(Hard Cover)ELIZABETH HAYNESHARPER USS$30.00 GF

Mary Hogan’s powerful and

poignant debut novel about two

sisters—opposites in every way—plus their mother and the secrets

and lies that define them all.

One family, two sisters, a lifetime

of secrets . . .

The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant

has always been an outsider.

Short, dark-haired and round, she

worships her beautiful blonde

sister, Pia, and envies the close bond she shares with their mother,

Lidia.

P. D. James meets E. L. James

in Under a Silent Moon, this first

novel in an exciting British crime series--a blend of literary

suspense and page-turning

thriller that introduces formidable

Detective Chief Inspector Louisa Smith--from suspense talent

Elizabeth Haynes, author of the

bestselling Into the Darkest

Corner.In the crisp, early hours of

an autumn morning, the police are called to investigate two

deaths. The first is a suspected

murder at a farm on the outskirts

of a small village.

9780062279934TWO SISTERS(Soft Cover)MARY HOGANHARPER USS$22.00 GF

9780062207975HEART OF GOLD(Soft Cover)BEVERLY JENKINSHARPER USS$19.00 GF

NAACP nominee and bestsellingauthor Beverly Jenkins returns to

the charming town of Henry

Adams, Kansas—a place that

always feels like home—in this heartwarming story of family,

friendship, and the surprises

hidden in our lives.

Henry Adams has had its fair share

of drama ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town with her

divorce settlement. Now just when

things are starting to settle down,

it’s about to get crazy again . . .

9780062270399CLEVER GIRL(Hard Cover)TESSA HADLEYHARPER USS$34.00 GF

Clever Girl is an indelible story

of one woman’s life, unfolded

in a series of beautifully

sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from

the 1960s to today, from one

of Britain’s leading literary

lights—Tessa Hadley—the author of the New York Times

Notable Books Married Love

and The London Train.

Like Alice Munro and Colm

Tóibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty,

innocence, and irony of

ordinary lives—

9780593068199WOLF (Soft Cover)MO HAYDERTRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

I believe, from what I can hear,

that either my daughter or my wife

has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is

silent. Fourteen years ago two

teenage lovers were brutally

murdered in a patch of remote

woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was

imprisoned. Now, one family is still

trying to put the memory of the

killings behind them. But at their

isolated hilltop house ...the nightmare is about to return.

9780062267016THE ABOMINATION(Soft Cover)JOHNATHAN HOLTHARPER USS$22.00 GF

Set in two Venices, the modern

physical world and its virtual

counterpart, The Abomination by Jonathan Holt is a propulsive tale

of murder, corruption, and

international intrigue—the first

book in an outstanding new trilogy

in which Carabiniere Captain Kat Tapo must unravel a dark

conspiracy linking the CIA and the

Catholic Church.

GENERAL FICTION

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9780062284396MIND Of WINTER(Hard Cover)LAURA KASISCHKE HARPER USS$30.00 GF

Laura Kasischke, the critically

acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The

Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a

dark and chilling thriller that

combines domestic drama with

elements of psychological suspense and horror—an

addictive tale of denial and guilt

that is part Joyce Carol Oates and

part Chris Bohjalian.

9781608873951WORLD ACCORDING TO WOLVERINE (Hard Cover)MATTHEW K MANNINGHARPER USS$39.00 GF



9780552162418BROTHER’S FURY(Soft Cover)GILES KRISTIANSTRANSWORLDS$16.00 GF

In the footsteps of Bernard

Cornwell, Giles Kristian

continues his thrilling and

acclaimed story of the Rivers family, whose lives are turned

upside down by that most

brutal and tragic of wars -- the

English Civil War.

Rebel cast out from his home,

rejected by his family, Tom

Rivers returns to his regiment.

But his commander believes the young hothead’'s

recklessness and contempt for

authority has no place in his

troop.

9780552774802THE SUNSHINE YEARS(Soft Cover)AFSANEH KNIGHTTRANSWORLDS$18.00 GF

The pistol appeared in his hand

the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it

materialized out of thin air. “You

think I won’t do it right here in

the open. But you’d be

surprised. . . . You’ll drop before you get the breath to scream.”

The truck driver is decked out

like a rhinestone cowboy, only

instead of a guitar he’s slinging a

gun—and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though

he narrowly dodges a bullet,

Do you ever wonder where your

life is going? You are not alone.

Story (that's his name) can feel a

middle-youth crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a great flat

and great mates: Mac, who is

obsessed with biscuits; JP, who

never says anything if it's nice;

Cannie, whose only admirer is the bird that lives outside her

window; and Vincent, who has

finally proposed to his girlfriend

after nineteen years.

In The World According to

Wolverine, Marvel Comics’

favorite stoic loner finally opens

up on a range of topics that are close to his mutant heart. With

helpful tips on everything from

clawed combat to outdoor

survival and dealing with the

agony of adamantiumimplantation, this book will

delight fans who want to learn

how to be just like the grizzled

hero

9780553593082DEEPLY ODD(Soft Cover)DEAN KOONTZRANDOM HOUSES$16.00 GF

9780062334503NIGHT DIVER (Soft Cover)ELIZABETH LOWELLHARPER USS$25.00 GF


Elizabeth Lowell plunges into the

adventurous and deadly world of underwater treasure hunters in a

heart-stopping tale that superbly

combines atmosphere, action,

romance, and suspense.

After a family tragedy, Kate Donnelly left the Caribbean behind

forever. But a series of bad

management decisions has left her

family's diving and marine recovery

business drowning in red ink. Now her brother pleads with her to

come back to the island nation of

St Vincent. Without Kate's financial

expertise, the iconic treasure-hunting enterprise started by her

grandfather will go under.

9780007531653THE BOOK OF YOU(Soft Cover)CLAIRE KENDALHARPER UKS$26.00 GF

A terrifying psychological thriller about obsession and power,

perfect for fans of Gone Girl and

Before I Go to Sleep. Clarissa is

becoming more and more

frightened of her colleague, Rafe. He won't leave her alone, and he

refuses to take no for an answer.

He is always there. Being

selected for jury service is a relief.

9780007507498BURIED ANGELS(Soft Cover)CAMILLA LACKBERGHARPER UKS$26.00 GF

No. 1 international bestseller and

Swedish crime sensation Camilla

Lackberg's new psychological thriller

featuring Detective Patrick Hedstromand Erica Falck - irresistible for fans

of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. YOU

CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST

Easter 1974. A family vanishes from

their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left

everything behind - including their

one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now,

years later, Ebba has returned to the

island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child

and are looking to make a fresh start.

But within days, their house is the

target of an arson attack.

GENERAL FICTION

9780307950734INFATUATIONS (Soft Cover)JAVIER MARIASRANDOM HOUSES$20.95 GF

A New York Times Book Review

Notable Book, NPR Great

Reads, and Onion A.V. Club Best Book of 2013

Each day before work María

Dolz stops at the same café.

There she finds herself drawn to

a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their

seemingly perfect life helps her

escape the listlessness of her

own. But when the man is

brutally murdered and Maríaapproaches the widow to offer

her condolences, what began as

mere observation turns into an

increasingly complicated entanglement.

9781400133141FORGET ME NOT(Soft Cover)FERN MICHAELSKENSINGTON S$15.00 GF



9780062299314DECEIVING LIES(Soft Cover)MOLLY MCADAMSHARPER USS$22.00 GF

The irresistible, blazing-hot

sequel to New York Times

bestselling author Molly McAdams's Forgiving Lies

Rachel is supposed to be

planning her wedding to Kash,

the love of her life. After the

crazy year they've had, she's ready to settle down and live a

completely normal life. Well,

as normal as it can be.

With a popular comic strip, card

line, and children's cartoon to

her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the

ache of a cold, lonely childhood

lingers on. Even though she still

lives in the New Jersey house

where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents

since they moved to Florida five

years ago. Then Lucy receives a

call that her parents have been

killed in a car crash.

9780062283146UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE(Soft Cover)MARY MCNEARHARPER USS$22.00 GF

In the tradition of Kristin Hannah

and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear

introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the

unforgettable people who call it

home.

It's summer, and after ten years

away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside

tranquil Butternut Lake, where as

a teenager she spent so many

carefree days. She's promised her

five-year-old son, Wyatt, they will be happy there. She's promised

herself this is the place to begin

again after her husband's death in

Afghanistan.

9780062274175HOTELLES(Soft Cover)EMMA MARSHARPER USS$22.00 GF

Paris, a hotel room, the middle

of the afternoon . . .

So begins the story of

Annabelle, a young escort in Paris who has accepted her

final proposition before marrying

the powerful and generous man

of her dreams, media mogul

David Barlet. But the mysterious handwritten notes she has been

receiving—notes that detail

personal fantasies no one could

possibly know—don't prepare

her for the fact that her new client is her fiancé's brother,

Louie.

9780062246875ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTSINTO AIR (Soft Cover)DARRAGH MCKEONHARPER USS$22.00 GF

All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a

gripping end-of-empire novel,

charting the collapse of the Soviet

Union through the focalpoint of the Chernobyl disaster. Part historical

epic, part love story, it recalls The

English Patient in its mix of

emotional intimacy and sweeping landscape.

In a run-down apartment block in

Moscow, a nine-year-old piano

prodigy practices silently for fear of

disturbing the neighbors. In a factory on the outskirts of the

city, his aunt makes car parts,

trying to hide her dissident past.

9781476759180THREE GRAVES FULL(Soft Cover)JAMIE MASONSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$16.00 GF

There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.

But it could always be worse…

More than a year ago, mild-

mannered Jason Getty killed a man he wished he’d never met.

Then he planted the problem a

little too close to home. But just as

he’s learning to live with the

undeniable reality of what he’s done, police unearth two bodies on

his property—neither of which is

the one Jason buried.

9780062257406AFTER HER(Soft Cover)JOYCE MAYNARDHARPER USS$22.00 GF

The New York Times bestselling

author of Labor Day and The

Good Daughters returns with a

haunting novel of sisterhood,

sacrifice, and suspense. I was always looking for

excitement, until I found some . .

.Summer, 1979. A dry, hot

Northern California school

vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister, Patty—

the daughters of a larger-than-

life, irresistibly handsome (and

chronically unfaithful) detective

father and the mother whose heart he broke.

GENERAL FICTION

9780062280589TAMPA(Soft Cover)ALISSA NUTTINGHARPER USS$22.00 GF

In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-

year-old middle-school teacher in

Florida, unrepentantly recounts her

elaborate and sociopathically

determined seduction of a 14-year-old student.

9780062202727NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY(Soft Cover)RON RASHHARPER USS$22.00 GF



9780062283108THE IDEA OF HIM(Soft Cover)HOLLY PETERSONHARPER USS$22.00 GF

From the New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Manny--a vibrant novel

of love, life lessons, and learning to

trust yourselfAllie Crawford has the

life she always dreamed of--she's

number two at a high-profile P.R. firm; she has two kids she adores;

and her husband is a blend of

handsome and heroic. Wade is

everything she thought a man was supposed to be--he's running a

successful newsmagazine and, best

of all, he provides the stable yet

exciting New York City life Allie

believes she needs in order to feel secure and happy.

9781848271418BLINK(Soft Cover)NIAMH O’ CONNORTRANSWORLDS$16.00 GF

Gangland boss Harry Larkin has

taken three bullets and lies dying

in a Dublin hospital. Amongst his

delusional ravings to Senior Ward Nurse Eveleen Morgan,

one name stands out: Detective

Inspector Leo Woods. Harry’s

message for his old ‘friend’ Leo:

find my daughter Whitney.Leo is drawn into the murky

world of the Larkin family, a hell

he thought he had escaped from

thirty years earlier. With the help

of Detective Sergeant Helen Troy, his search for Whitney

turns up more questions than

answers, more darkness than

light.

A hitman DI Gavin Sexton is

looking into a spate of teenage

suicides when he encounters a young girl, paralyzed with locked-in

syndrome. Unable to communicate

in any other way, she blinks the

words: 'I hired a hitman'. Was it

suicide? Recovering from loss of sight, Sexton's old partner DI Jo

Birmingham is keeping her promise

to investigate the apparent suicide

of Sexton's own wife, Maura.

From Ron Rash, PEN /

Faulkner Award finalist and

New York Times bestselling

author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable

stories set in Appalachia that

focuses on the lives of those

haunted by violence and

tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the

present day.

The darkness of Ron Rash’s

work contrasts with its

unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty in a manner that

could only be accomplished by

this master of the short story

form.

9781848271616SLEEPING DOGS(soft Cover)MARK O’SULLIVANTRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

9780062334411THE CRYING OF LOT 49(Soft Cover)THOMAS PYNCHONHARPER USS$23.00 GF

Thomas Pynchon's classic satire of

modern America, about Oedipa

Maas, a woman who finds herself

enmeshed in what would appear to

be an international conspiracy.When her ex-lover,

wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce

Inverarity dies and designates her

the co-executor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Mass

is thrust into a paranoid mystery of

metaphors, symbols, and the

United States Postal Service.

Traveling across Southern California, she meets some

extremely interesting characters,

and attains a not-inconsiderable

amount of self-knowledge.

9780062195708BLACK DAHLIA & WHITE ROSE(Soft Cover)JOYCE CAROL OATESHARPER USS$22.00 GF

A mesmerizing storyteller who

seems almost unnaturally able to

enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”

—Denver Post

Black Dahlia & White Rose is a

brilliant collection of short fiction

from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling

author Joyce Carol Oates, one of

the most acclaimed writers of our

time. These stores, at once lyrical

and unsettling, shine with the author’s trademark fascination with

finding the unpredictable amidst

the prosaic

9780062249906VISITATION STREET(Soft Cover)IVY POCHODAHARPER USS$22.00 GF

Chosen by Denis Lehane for his

eponymous imprint, Ivy

Pochoda's Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set

against the rough-hewn

backdrop of the New York

waterfront in Red Hook.It's summertime in Red Hook,

Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside

neighborhood. June and Val,

two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft

out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.And then

they disappear. Only Val will

survive, washed ashore; semi-

conscious in the weeds.

GENERAL FICTION

9780062240507CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION(Hard Cover)PETER ROBINSONHARPER USS$32.00

Multiple award-winning, New

York Times and #1

internationally bestsellingauthor Peter Robinson returns

with Children of the

Revolution, a superb tale of

mystery and murder that takes

acclaimed British Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks

back to the early 1970s—a

turbulent time of politics,

change, and radical student

activism.



9780062258397THE RICH AND THE DEAD(Soft Cover)LIV SPECTORHARPER USS$19.00 GF

To solve the crime of the

century, she'll have to go back in time....

Welcome to Star Island, where

Miami's wealthiest residents

lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling

mansions. It's a blissful escape

from the hot and dirty city—or it

was, until New Year's Day 2015,

when twelve of the most powerful people in the world

were found murdered in the

basement of a Star Island

mansion.

9780007525379ASTONISH ME(Soft Cover)MAGGIE SHIPSTEADHARPER UKS$26.00 GF

From internationally bestselling

author Paullina Simons comes

another compelling saga of

heartbreak and redemption,

and the devastating love story that led to The Bronze

Horseman

Love was just the beginning of

their journey

Gina and Harry gave up everything to be together. But

they both want different

things—from their marriage,

from life, from each other . . .

and from the shifting world around them.

From the prize-winning author of

Seating Arrangements comes an

exquisitely written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the

demanding world of professional

ballet and its magnetic hold over

two generations. Astonish Me is

the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps

a Soviet ballet star, the great

Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A

flash of fame and a passionate

love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is

destined to remain in the shadows.

After her relationship with Arslan

sours, Joan decides to make a new life for herself.

9780062098139BELLAGRAND(Soft Cover)PAULLINA SIMONSHARPER USS$23.00 GF

9780593068915THE KING’S RETURN(Soft Cover)ANDREW SWANSTONTRANSWORLDS$28.00 GF

Murder, deceit and lies under a new

monarch in 17th century London.

Spring, 1661. Thomas Hill travels from his home in Romsey to London

to attend the coronation of King

Charles II. His sister Margaret has

died, and both his nieces are now

married. At a dinner party after the Coronation, Thomas meets the

charming Chandle Stoner, and Sir

Joseph Williamson, security advisor

to His Majesty, and in charge of the

newly restored Post Office. Learning of Thomas's skill with codes,

Williamson asks him to take charge

of deciphering coded letters

intercepted at the Post Office.

9780007518197CUT DEAD(Soft Cover)MARK SENNENHARPER UKS$16.00 GF

He could be out there right now.

Passing you on the street. You'd

never know ...' DI Charlotte

Savage is back, chasing a killer

who was last at large ten years ago, a killer they presumed dead

...Now he's back and more

dangerous than ever. When three

headless bodies are found

mutilated in a pit, it's a particularly challenging case for DI Savage

and her team. The victims bear the

hallmarks of a killer who butchered

girls to their death; a killer who was

never caught. Could this be a copycat or has the original

murderer resurfaced?

9780552166119THE KING’S EXILE(Soft Cover)ANDREW SWANSTONTRANSWORLDS$18.00 GF

Spring, 1648.

When Thomas Hill, a

bookseller living in rural

Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little

idea of the trouble that will

follow. He is quickly arrested,

forced on a boat to Barbados

and condemned to life as a slave to two of the island’s

most notoriously violent

brothers.

9780552778916THE ASYLUM(Soft Cover)JOHAN THEORINTRANSWORLDS$16.00 GF

This title comes from the

winner of the CWA International Dagger 2010 for

the Darkest Room. "If you like

Stieg Larsson, try a much

better Swedish writer".

(Observer). Who amongst us can really say they're sane?

Jan has just started working at

the Dell nursery. But this is no

normal nursery. It's linked to a

high-security asylum by a dimly-lit underground tunnel,

which is used for the children

to visit their parents. Who are

some of the most dangerous

psychopaths in the country. And Jan has complicated

reasons for being here.

Cover art to

come

GENERAL FICTION

9780007458011LAST LOVERS(Soft Cover)WILLIAM WHARTONHARPER UKS$20.00 GF

A middle-aged man abandons

his corporate life to follow his dream to become a painter. On

the way, he develops an

unlikely but beautiful

relationship with an older woman. Jack is a middle-aged

American living as a squatter in

a Paris attic. He paints in a

public square and sells his work

to survive. There he meets Mirabelle, a blind, 71-year-old,

self-appointed pigeon lady who

cares for the birds who flutter

about his easel.



9781455599271FIRE INSIDE A CHAOS NOVEL(Soft Cover)KRISTEN ANGELHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

Lanie Heron isn't looking for love-no surprise, considering her last

serious relationship nearly got her

killed. So when Lanie propositions

Hop Kincaid, all she wants is one

wild night with the hot-as-hell biker who patrols with the Chaos

Motorcycle Club . . .

For Hop, Lanie has always been

untouchable. She's too polished and too classy for his taste. But

when she gives Hop the once-over

with her bedroom eyes and offers

him a night in paradise, he can't

say no. And he doesn't regret it when he finds that Lanie is the best

thing that's ever happened to him-

in or out of bed.

9780062268419HOLD ME IN CONTEMPT(Soft Cover)WENDY WILLIAMSHARPER USS$22.00 GF

In Leaving Everything Most Loved by


Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian

immigrants in London. The year is

1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an

Indian gentleman who has come to

England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago.

Scotland Yard failed to make any

arrest in the case, and there is reason

to believe they failed to conduct a

thorough investigation.

Move over 50 Shades, there's a

new romance in town. Superstar Wendy Williams

brings on the heat in her first

ever, no-holds-barred, down

and dirty, romance novel.Kimberly Kind is trying to

get beyond her roots. A

successful, beautiful, smart

lawyer, she's finally finding

direction in her life and getting out of the streets. But a terrible

accident threatens to throw her

carefully laid plans off course.

Now Kim's hiding a huge

secret...

9780062049617LEAVING EVERYTHING MOST LOVED(Soft Cover)JACQUELINE WINSPEARHARPER USS$22.00 GF

9780007458059SCUMBLER(Soft Cover)WILLIAM WHARTONHARPER USS$20.00 GF

A joyous novel of art, love, and

one man's unquenchable thirst

for life, from one of America's

best loved authors. Sixty-year-old American painter Scumbler

('Scum' to his friends) makes a

living by creating rentable

apartments out of the most unlikely Parisian spaces. He

spends his days jaunting around

the Left Bank in Paris, stopping

regularly to paint, and revelling

in the art of creation and the remarkable characters he

meets along the way: students,

prostitutes, and craftsmen, like

him.

9780062317452SUDDENLY ROYAL(Soft Cover)NICHOLE CHASEHARPER USS$12.00 ROM

Samantha Rousseau is used to

getting her hands dirty. Working

on a master's degree in wildlife biology while helping take care of

her sick father, she has no time

for celebrity gossip, designer

clothes, or lazy vacations. So

when a duchess from the small country of Lilaria invites her to

dinner, Samantha assumes it's to

discuss a donation for the

program. The truth will change

the course of her life in ways she never dreamed . . .

9781420118438RAPTURE BECOMES HER(Soft Cover)SHIRLEE BUSBEEKENSINGTON S$13.00 ROM

The sorrow of loss. The magic of a

new life. Award-winning author Tory

Cates takes us to the snow-covered mountains to share in the start of a

fresh love. . . .

Kristin Jonsson’s life in Albuquerque

is falling apart— a critic pans her

photographs, the gallery owner pulls her show, and her boyfriend proves

to have no respect for her art or

affection for her. Kristin, however, is

determined to transform the

wreckage into a wonderful opportunity. Quitting her mindless job

as a graphic artist for an electronics

firm, she heads for the high peaks of

the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as a cross-country ski instructor.

To save her village and what's left

of her family fortune from her

wastrel cousin, gently bred Emily Townsend secretly leads a ring of

smugglers. With the king's forces

and deadly rivals closing in, she

has but one last shipment to

acquire. But when her men rescue an injured stranger from

the sea one stormy night, Emily

faces her most formidable - and

tempting - adversary ever. For

Barnaby, the new Viscount Joslyn, is determined to uncover

who tried to kill him the moment

he set foot in England.

9781476732572WHERE ASPENS QUAKE(Soft Cover)TORY CATESSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$15.00 ROM

ROMANCE

9780062317476RECKLESSLY ROYAL(Soft Cover)NICHOLE CHASEHARPER USS$12.00 ROM

Catherine has spent her life

being the perfect princess. She’s

kept her hands clean, her head

down, and most importantly—men at arm’s length. After all,

most men are after only one

thing, and for Cathy there’s a lot

more at stake than her bed; she

has to worry about the fate of an entire nation. But at the rate

she’s going, Cathy is afraid she’ll

give the Virgin Queen a run for

her money.

GENERAL FICTION



9780446540223UNDER A TEXAS SKY(Soft cover)DOROTHY GARLOCKHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

Growing up poor and largely

abandoned on the streets of

1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until

a talent manager discovers her

and brings her into the world of

theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first

movie. Arriving on location in

Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna

steps off the train and collides

into Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates

how the big city out-of-towners

are gawking at the small-town

locals like him.

9781455522880WHAT A RECKLESS ROGUE NEEDS(Soft Cover)VICKY DREILINGS$15.00 ROM

A LADY WITH A SECRET

Running for her life, exhausted and out of options, Olivia Holladay

wants nothing more than the

chance to make a home for herself.

So when she realizes that the

infamous Duke of Marwick might hold the key to her freedom, she

boldly disguises herself as the

newest and bravest in a long line of

the duke’s notoriously

temperamental housekeepers. Little does she know that the wickedly

handsome Alastair de Grey has

very different plans for her. . . . -

Regardless of the ton's whispers,

Lady Angeline Brenham won't settle for anything less than true

love. After rejecting more than

her share of suitable suitors,

spinsterhood looms before her-

until the devilishly handsome Colin reappears in her life with a

proposition. Angeline vows to

keep her feet on the ground and

her heart in check. That is, until one searing kiss melts her

resolve and reignites a burning

desire for more . . .

9781476741352FOOL ME TWICE(Soft Cover)MEREDITH DURANSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$15.00

9780758285423THREE WEEKS WITH A BULL RIDER(Soft Cover)CAT JOHNSONKENSINGTON S$18.00 ROM

One Broken Heart...Tara Jenkins

learned a lot in her sports medicine

courses, but not how to fix her broken

heart. So when her brother Tucker suggests using her skills on the

rodeo, it gives her the perfect

opportunity to ride off into the sunset

- or at least run away. Three Weeks Together...Only problem is, Jace and

Tara have had a hate-hate

relationship for over a decade,

putting up with each other for

Tucker's sake. With their long history as frenemies, they know sparks will

fly now that they're on the same

circuit, they just never expect them to

flare into scorching passion...

9780345542458TURNED(Soft Cover)VIMA DEPAULRANDOM HOUSES$15.00 ROM

Perfect for fans of J. R. Ward,

Nalini Singh, and Lara Adrian,

bestselling author Virna DePaul’s

new series of paranormal romances introduces readers to a

thrilling world where vampires

secretly co-exist with humans,

seduction rules the night, and the

stakes are nothing less than life and undeath.

Welcome to a mesmerizing world

where vampires hide among

humans. This centuries-old species has its own rules, code of

conduct, and taboos. Only the FBI

knows that vampires exist—

9780062223890THREE WEEKS WITH LADY X(Soft Cover)ELOISA JAMESHARPER USS$15.00 ROM

The next fabulous romance by New York Times bestselling

author Eloisa James.

Having made a fortune, Thorn

Dautry, the powerful bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs

a wife. But to marry a lady, Thorn

must acquire a gleaming, civilized

façade, the specialty of Lady

Xenobia India. Exquisite, headstrong, and

independent, India vows to make

Thorn marriageable in just three

weeks.

9781420131246CONFESSION OF A ROYAL BRIDEGROOM(Soft Cover)VANESSA KELLYKENSINGTON PUBLISHINGS$15.00 ROM

Some men are born into scandal.

Others pursue it with a passion.

Griffin Steele, secret son of the Duke of Cumberland, is guilty on

both counts. Yet somehow

London's most notorious

scoundrel has been saddled with

an abandoned baby boy - and with the unflappable, intriguing

spinster summoned to nurse

him...Justine Brightmore may be

a viscount's niece, but she's also

a spy's daughter, determined to safeguard the infant when his

suspected royal parentage makes

him a target. Yet how to protect

herself from the rakish Griffin?

9781617730887SMOKIN HOT(Soft Cover)LYNN LAFLEURKENSINGTONS$23.00 ROM

Stephen is an adrenaline junkie.

And then he meets Julia and

her sexy curves. He's on fire

with the need for her, a Texas-sized blaze that jumps from one

to five alarms the moment their

lips touch...Marcus lost

everything - his wife, his family, his business. Then nearly his

life fighting fires. But out of the

ashes he found something that

never stopped burning. And this

time he won't let go...

ROMANCE



9780345528834STARTING NOW(Soft Cover)DEBBOE MACOMBERRANDOM HOUSES$15.00 ROM

Debbie Macomber returns to

Seattle’s beloved Blossom

Street in this heartfelt tale of friendship, renewal, and

discovering what’s truly

important in life.

Warmly told and richly textured,

Starting Now is filled with the promise of new beginnings and

the unending delights of

companionship and love.

9780758227270WHEN HE WAS BAD(Soft Cover)SHELLY LAURENSTON(Soft Cover)S$15.00 ROM

ONCE BURNED

Sadie Howard never dates a guy more

than once-but Fate has other plans for her when it comes to Aiden Downey,

the one that got away. Aiden loved

her, left her, and broke her heart. Yet

suddenly she's bumping into him at

every turn, driven to distraction by his wicked grin and rock-hard body. Now

she can't resist finishing what they

started-as long as she doesn't let

herself fall in love . . .

This is a scorching after-dark anthology featuring Alpha

males so hot, so wild, and so

bad, they may just be the best

you've ever had...Shelly

Laurenston Miss Congeniality. I'm young, good looking, and

one day I'll be Alpha Male of

my family's Pack. But Professor

Irene Conridge acts like I don't even exist. Now she's got

enemies coming out of the

woodwork and I have to protect

her. Of course, it doesn't hurt

that while I work to secure her safety, she'll be hanging out at

my house - right where I want

her.

9781455573783HARD TO HANDLE(Soft Cover)JESSICA LEMMON HACHETTE BOOK GRPS$12.00 ROM

9781455575800A MATCH MADE IN TEXAS(Soft cover)KATIE LANEHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

A MATCH MADE IN TEXAS is

the sixth book in Katie Lane's

bestselling, witty and sexy Deep

in the Heart of Texas series. Living with four over-protective

brothers is enough to make a

good girl go bad. But the day

Brianne Cates hits the road for

a taste of freedom, she gets more trouble than she

bargained for when she's

arrested by a sexy sheriff in

mirrored shades.

9781455519514THE SEDUCTION OF MISS AMELIA BELL (Soft Cover)PAULA QUINNHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

Lady Amelia's duty is to marry well, but

that hasn't stopped her from fantasizing about true love. So when a

sexy Scot appears in her home, she's

beguiled. When he kidnaps her, she's

furious. Yet as Edmund introduces her to a world of passion beyond her

wildest dreams, can she leave her

family behind for this handsome

Highlander? And will Edmund risk the

only true home he's ever known to capture the heart of this lovely lass?

9780062231345MOONLIGHT ON MY MIND(Soft Cover)JENNIFER MCQUISTONHARPER USS$13.00 ROM

This is book 4 in the New York

Times and USA Today bestsellingAccidentally Yours paranormal

romance series.

Meet Dr. Antonio Acero. Heir to Spain's wealthiest family, world-

renowned physicist, and dedicated

bachelor. While on vacation in

southern Mexico, Antonio

discovers an ancient Mayan tablet. Local legends say it contains

magical properties, properties that

could put his stalling research on

the map.

But is this really his lucky break?

To ruin a man's life once takes a

regrettable mistake. To do so twice takes a woman like Julianne

Baxter.

Eleven months ago, Julianne's

statement to the authorities

wrongly implicated Patrick, the new Earl of Haversham, in his

older brother's death. The chit is

as much trouble as her red hair

suggests, and just as captivating.

Now she has impetuously tracked him to the wilds of Scotland,

insisting that he return home to

face a murder charge and save

his family from ruin.

9781455546992VAMPIRES NEED NOT…APPLY?(Soft Cover)MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFFHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

ROMANCE

9780062231260WALLFLOWER GONE WILD(Soft Cover)MAYA RODALEHARPER USS$15.00 ROM

In the second in Maya Rodale's

delightful Wallflower series,

London's Least Likely to Cause a Scandal is taking Society by

storm . . .

Being good has worked out very

badly for Lady Olivia Archer. All

she has to show for four seasons on the marriage mart is

the nickname Prissy Missy. Her

prospects are so bleak that her

parents have betrothed her to a

stranger with a dire reputation. If Phinneas Cole—aka The Mad

Baron— wants a biddable bride,

perhaps Olivia can frighten him

off by breaking every ladylike rule.



9781608873944WORLD ACCORDING SPIDER-MAN (Hard Cover)DANIEL WALLACEPERSEUS INTERNATIONALS$39.00 SCI-FICTION

It’s not easy being a Super Hero

when you’ve got a steady job to

hold down and girlfriend

problems to deal with. Somehow, Peter Parker (aka

Spider-Man) manages to do it

while regularly saving New York

City from a rogues’ gallery of

super villains. In The World According to Spider-Man, the

wisecracking hero spills the

beans on how he balances his

two lives and manages to keep

his trademark sense of humor, even while he’s tangling with

Doc Ock or the Green Goblin.

9780007549252FINCHES OF MARS(Soft Cover)BRIAN ALDISSHARPER UKS$20.00 SF

The United Federation of Planets has

weathered its first major crisis, but its

growing pains are just beginning.

Admiral Jonathan Archer hopes to

bring the diverse inhabitants of the powerful and prosperous Rigel system

into the Federation, jump-starting the

young nation’s growth and stabilizing a

key sector of space. Archer and the Federation’s top diplomats journey to

the planetoid Babel to debate Rigel’s

admission . . . but a looming

presidential race heats up the

ideological divide within the young nation, jeopardizing the talks and

threatening to undo the fragile unity

Archer has worked so hard to

preserve.

My final Science Fiction novel' -Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has

announced that this book, Finches

of Mars, will be his final science

fiction novel. And what a way to

end one of the most illustrious careers in the genre. Set on the

Red Planet, it follows a group of

colonists and the problems they

have in setting up a new society. Life can be sustained but new life

will not prosper - the women on

the planet only ever give birth to

stillborn children. Exploring many

of the author's classic themes, this is a landmark novel in any genre.

9781476749648ST: ENTERPRISE: RISE OF THE FEDERATION(Hard Cover)CHRISTOOHER L BENNETTSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$15.00 SF

9781455553075MAD ABOUT YOU(Soft Cover)LORI WILDEHACHETTE BOOK GROUPS$15.00 ROM

Two Lori Wilde romances together

for the first time in print!

LICENSE TO THRILL

Las Vegas private eye Charlee

Champagne is absolutely fearless. But when handsome Mason Gentry

strides into her office, demanding to

know where his grandfather is, she

can't control the goosebumps. It's

not like Mason to be in Sin City while the biggest deal of his banking

career wraps up without him, but

one moment with Charlee brings out

his wild side.

9780785165040ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MANVOL 4 (Soft Cover)BRIAN MICHAEL BENDISMARVELS$30.00 GRP

Miles Morales finally has his costume

and web-shooters - and now he has his first A-list Spider-Man villain.

There's a new Venom in town, and

he's hungry! But who exactly is the

new Venom, what is his terrible connection to Miles' father, and how

does he know so much about Miles?

As his father lies in critical condition, a

desperate Miles turns to the one

person who can help him: Gwen Stacy! The final showdown with Venom

looms, but how does Gwen figure into

it - and how will the battle change both

her and Miles' lives forever? Plus: the

Daily Bugle is on the hunt to find out everything they can about the new

Spider-Man.

9780785184591MVL: WOLVERINE(Soft Cover)JASON AARONMARVELS$52.00 GRP

Brian Bendis heads a team of

Daredevil legends to tell the last tale of the Man Without Fear.

Years after the world last set eyes

on him, Daredevil finally returned to

Hell's Kitchen, only to be brutally slain by his deadliest foe in a very

public battle. But Matt 's enigmatic

last word leads Daily Bugle

reporter Ben Urich to take on one

final story: the truth behind what happened to his old friend. Where

did Matt go - and what brought him

back, only to die? But while Urich

hunts down answers from

Daredevil's array of allies, enemies and former lovers, he is being

watched from the shadows -

Wolverine stars in a brand-new

adventure from the mind of super-star writer Jason Aaron

(WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN,

THOR ) that pits Wolverine

against classic villains and a

threat unlike any he has ever faced!

9780785143376DAREDEVIL(Soft Cover)BRIAN MICHAEL BENDISMARVELS$45.00 GRP

SCIENCE-FICTION GRAPHIC NOVELROMANCE

9780785154167MVL: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN2 PRELUDE (Soft Cover)TOM COHENMARVELS$22.00 GRP

You've seen The Amazing

Spider-Man, now get the full

story! Spider-Man swings from the comic page to the silver

screen and back again in this

adaptation of the blockbuster

movie - including "deleted

scenes" in an additi onal tale inspired by the fi lm. As Peter

Parker gets his first taste of

power, life is about to hand him

his greatest lesson.



9780785189466MVL: CABLE AND X-FORCEVOL 4 (Soft Cover)DENNIS HOPELESSMARVELS$30.00 GRP

Father and daughter are reunited as Cable's and Hope's

separate missions converge!

Cable has finally solved one of

his most vexing problems - but a

dozen more are still on the horizon! There's no rest for the

weary as Hope, Cable, and the

rest of X-Force converge to

tackle an ominous new threat!

9780785166535MVL: AVENGERS VOL 2(Soft Cover)JOHNATHAN HICKMANMARVELS$30.00 GRP

The Illuminati must reassemble to

prevent the collision of our universe

with another! It's the Marvel Universe's

most powerful and brilliant team -Black Panther, Iron Man, Dr. Strange,

Black Bolt, Mr. Fantastic, Sub-Mariner

and the Beast - armed with the six

Infinity Gems against an infinite legion

of parallel realities. But their task is complicated by old wounds, lies and

secret agendas. When the Illuminati

experiences its first dimensional

incursion, can the members of this

loose brotherhood trust each other enough to use the Infinity Gems in

unison?

The Avengers scramble to deal with the threat of another

Universal System as the New

Adam's true self is revealed -

and the most dangerous hero

on Earth is created! As the team faces the World Breaker

and discovers the imminent

threat to the Avengers World,

the hidden connections between the events of

Avengers and New Avengers

are slowly revealed. What good

is a White Event if it destroys

the planet it was meant to transform?

97807851666MVL: NEW AVENGERS VOL 1(Soft Cover)JOHNATHAN HICKMANMARVELS$30.00 GRP

9781455553075MVL: MIGHTY AVENGERSVol 1 (Soft Cover)AI EWINGMARVELS$15.00 GRP

Infinity tie-in! The Avengers'

main squad is light-years away

in space, contending with the

Builders! Thanos' marauders are ransacking the Earth, doing

as they please! Who will defend

mankind? The all-new Mighty

Avengers! Luke Cage! The

Superior Spider-Man! Spectrum! The White Tiger! The new

Power Man! A mysterious figure

in an ill-fitting Spider-Man

Halloween costume! And more!

9780785187967MVL: SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN VOL 5 (Soft Cover)DANN SLOTTMARVELS$27.00 GRP

The crew deals with the repercussions

of stealing the head of Silvermane! Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber

continue Mighty Marvel's Superior

Sleeper hit!

9780785189510MVL: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL 3(Soft Cover)RICK REMENDERMARVELS$37.00 GRP

Will the Avengers kick Spidey off

the team in light of his recent violent actions? The ghostly

revenant of Peter Parker fights to

regain control of his body, his mind

and his destiny! Is this the beginning of the end for Otto

Octavius? Who will emerge as the

one, true Spider-Man? Then, the

Spider-Slayer is scheduled for

execution, and Mayor J. Jonah Jameson has called in the one man

he can trust to oversee everything:

the Superior Spider-Man!

Ever since his rebirth in the

present day, Captain America has been a man out of time. But now

he finds himself even further out

of synch with the world he knows,

as he returns home to deal with

the repercussions of his years in Dimension Z! And as always, Cap

rarely gets a chance to reflect and

catch up, as his return coincides

with shocking news: someone

has set the deranged super-soldier Nuke loose in a foreign

nation...and he's on a rampage!

The disturbing existence of the

Weapon Minus program is

revealed -

9780785154488MVL: SUPERIOR SPIDER-MANVOL 2 (Soft Cover)DAN SLOTTMARVELS$52.00 GRP

GRAPHIC NOVEL

9780785188766MVL: WOLVERINE MA VOL 3(Soft Cover)JASON STARRMARVELS$25.00 GRP

On the outskirts of the casinos

and neon lights of Las Vegas is

a world of trailer parks and

tumbleweeds - a world that Wolverine wants to call home.

There he finds work as an

extreme fi ghter, taking out his

aggressions for pay in abandoned warehouses and

backwoods bars. But he's still

not sure why he came to Sin

City in the first place. Who

wrote the note that led him here?



9780785185505MVL: IRON MAN EPIC COLLECTION (Soft Cover)MARVELS$60.00 GRP

At last, John Byrne's complete Iron Man run is collected in one

volume! Tony Stark has a bullet

lodged in his spine...but if it

wants to kill him, it had better get in line! The ghost of an old

enemy, the machinations of a

vengeful madman and a

menace from within Tony's own

body combine into Armor Wars II, the cataclysmic sequel to one

of Iron Man's most infamous

storylines! Next, the Mandarin

has returned once again -

9780785154426MVL: DAREDEVIL VOL 7(Soft Cover)MARK WAIDMARVELS$30.00 GRP

Someone has Spider-Man in their

crosshairs and the only person in the

Marvel Universe who can save him

is...Peter Parker's sister?! As the web-slinger meets family he never knew,

will she end up becoming his greatest

ally...or the one who damns him? And

what does the KINGPIN have to do

with it? This all-new, original graphic novel, written by Eisner Award

Winning writer Mark Waid

(DAREDEVIL) and acclaimed author

James Robinson (Superman), and

fully painted by the legendary Gabriele Dell'Otto (SECRET WAR) comes to

you in a high-end, oversized format to

give you the web-slinger's darkest

hour - and greatest triumph!

The Serpent Society has been buying off the New York justice

system and using it to their own

sinister means. The only man

that stands in their way? Matt

Murdock, the man known as DAREDEVIL! It's Daredevil

versus the Sons of the Serpent

in an all-out battle for the soul

of truth and justice in New York City!

9780785184409MVL: SPIDER-MAN (Soft Cover)MARK WAIDMARVELS$37.00 GRP

9780785161059MVL: DAREDEVIL VOL 5(Soft Cover)MARK WAIDMARVELS$25.00 GRP

A mystery takes Daredevil to

the edge like never before!

When Matt Murdock receives

fateful news about someone

close to him, will he be forced to abandon his super-hero identity

to save one of his dearest

friends? As a life-or-death

medical drama plays out in Matt

's personal life, the hidden foe behind Daredevil's recent

troubles steps out of the

shadows to play his trump card.

The Man Without Fear comes

face-to-face with his opposite number -

9781401246846DC: GREEN LANTERN VOL 3:THE END (Soft Cover)JOHNS GEOFFDC COMICSS$30.00 GRP

Comics' hottest writer Geoff Johns

continues his historic run on one of the

best-selling titles of DC Comics The New 52, GREEN LANTERN! The

universe is in shambles and the

Guardians are the cause. Their

mysterious Third Army has risen

across the cosmos like a plague, destroying everything in its path and

Hal Jordan and Sinestro are nowhere

to be found. It is up to wrongfuly

accused Simon Baz to clear his name

and become the hero that the Corps needs in order to get to the bottom of

Hal and Sinestro's disapperance and

the Rise of the Third Army!

9781939130631DC: CARDFIGHT! VANGUARDVOL 1 (Soft Cover)ITOU AKIRADC COMICSS$30.00 GRP

A New York Times Best Seller!

DC Comics/Vertigo will publish the

official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium

Trilogy," starting in Fall 2012 with

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON

TATTOO, the international publishing phenomenon. Each

book in the "Millennium Trilogy" will

be adapted in two hardcover

graphic novel volumes.Harriet

Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared

over forty years ago. All these

years later, her aged uncle

continues to seek the truth.

From the makers of "YuGiOh",

this manga was the inspiration

behind the hit "Vanguard" card game. A teenage cast play a

high-fantasy card game for kicks,

until the stakes grow much

higher. This special edition

contains a starter deck, playing board and an exclusive, limited

edition playing card.

9781401242862DC: GIRL WITH THE DRAGONTATTOO (Soft Cover)MINA DENISEDC COMICSS$37.00 GRP

GRAPHIC NOVEL

9781401246983DC: JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL 3:THRONE OF ATLANTIC(Soft Cover)JOHNS GEOFFDC COMICSS$25.00 GRP

When Atlantis is struck by a

U.S. Naval missile gone awry,

Atlantis--led by Aquaman's

brother Ocean Master--attacks the East Coast of the United

States flooding its major cities

such as Boston, Metropolis,

Gotham City and several

others. The Justice League comes together to help

Aquaman turn back the tide, but

they soon learn that they are

woefully overmatched by the

Atlantean Army, and must find a way to save the world from total

annihilation.



9781401246464DC: THE JOKER: DEATH OF THE FAMILY (Soft Cover)SYNDER SCOTTS$37.00 GRP

After having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes

his horrifying return in this new

epic that features Batman's

entire network of partners in

crimefighting, including Batgirl, Catwoman, Nightwing, Robin,

the Teen Titans and more.

While The Joker threatens the

very existence of Gotham City, these heroes --and villains--

must find a way to survive.

9781612626789DC: ATTACK ON TITAN 12(Soft Cover)ISYAMA HAJIMEDC COMICSS$16.00 GRP

In The World According to

Wolverine, Marvel Comics’

favorite stoic loner finally opens up on a range of topics that are

close to his mutant heart. With

helpful tips on everything from

clawed combat to outdoor

survival and dealing with the agony of adamantium

implantation, this book will

delight fans who want to learn

how to be just like the grizzled

hero. Also featuring Logan’s ruminations on an extremely

long and checkered life, his

global travels, and the art of

picking the perfect dive bar,

GRAPHIC NOVEL

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