Uncle Hugo's Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407

Newsletter #98 June — August, 2012

Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Sat. 10 am to 6 pm; Sun. Noon to 5 pm Already Received Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Doctor Who Magazine #443 (The Seeds of Doom; missing episodes found; more) Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 ...... $8.99 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Doctor Who Magazine #444 (All the latest news on the 2012 series; on the trail Website: www.UncleHugo.com of the missing episodes: how the Daleks exterminated Doctor Who's history; 'Shada', the lost story by Douglas Adams, published at last; more)...... $8.99 Award News Doctor Who Magazine #445 (Sophie Aldred remembers; Doctor Who overseas part 2; more)...... $8.99 Doctor Who Magazine #446 (Jenna-Louise Coleman is the Doctor's new The nominees for the Hugo companion; Daleks & Weeping Angels; more)...... $8.99 Award for Best are Leviathan & Science Fiction March / April 2012 (New fiction, reviews, more) Wakes by James S. A. Corey ($15.99)...... $7.50 Deadline by Mira Grant ($9.99), A Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2012 (New fiction, reviews, more)$.7.50 Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Locus #614 March 2012 (Interviews with Paul Di Filippo and Sarah Pinborough; Martin ($35.00), Embassytown by Nebula Awards ballot; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 China Mieville ($16.00), and Among Locus #615 April 2012 (Special sf and fantasy art issue, including interviews with Others by ($14.99). Brom and John Picacio, plus art and commentary from many of the top artists in the field; industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 The finalists for the Nebula Locus #616 May 2012 (Interviews with Seanan McGuire and Nick Mamatas; for Best Novel are God’s War ballot; industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 by Kameron Hurley ($14.99), The Aiken, Joan The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (Kids; 24 Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin stories (4 previously unpublished). Because of a wish their mother made before they were ($7.99), Firebird by Jack McDevitt born, Mark and Harriet Armitage lead lives full of and strangeness)...... $16.00 ($24.95), Embassytown by China Ballantyne, Tony Blood and Iron (Robot Wars #2: Sangrel's new army commander tries to establish Mieville ($16.00), Mechanique: A Tale relations between the robot population and the newly arrived humans. Kavan and the of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Uncertain Army retreat to Stark to plan the overthrow of Artemis after that city's generals Valentine ($14.95), and make an alliance with the humans. And Karel is on a journey to be reunited with his wife by Jo Walton ($14.99). Susan, and learn more about his place on Penrose)...... $9.99 Berman, Ruth Bradamant's Quest (It sounded straightforward when Oberon proposed it - gather The Philip K. Dick award for up the magical the fairies had given her family and give them back, now that King best original science fiction paperback Charlemagne's war with Spain was over. But Bradamant finds that her relatives don't want published for the first during 2011 to give up the talismans. What's a warrior to do when valor alone is not enough to complete in the U.S. went to The Samuil a quest?)...... $15.95 Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden Billingsley, Franny Chime (YA; National Book Award finalist; Andre Norton Award finalist. Briony's (which consists of Equations of Life stepmother made sure Briony blamed herself for all the family's hardships. Now she has ($7.99), Theories of Flight ($7.99), and worn her guilt for so long it's become a second skin. She often escapes to the swamp, where Degrees of Freedom ($7.99). A special she tells stories to the Old Ones. But only witches can see the Old Ones - and witches are citation was given to The Company sentenced to death. Briony lives in fear her secret will be found out, even as she believes she Man by Robert Jackson Bennett deserves the worst kind of punishment)...... $8.99 ($13.99). Bisson, Terry Any Day Now (1960s: Clay is a small-town boy whose future is all mapped out. His travels take him to an isolated New Mexico commune under threat from a national The Edgar Award winners revolution, with Clay battling to find his place in the new America - and hoping desperately included Best Novel to Gone by Mo to forget what happened back East with the girl he loved)...... $24.95 Hayder ($14.00), Best First Novel to Bradbury, Ray The Illustrated Man (Reissue; Collection; 18 classic sf stories)...... $7.99 Bent Road by Lori Roy ($15.00), and Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles (Reissue; Collection; classic sf tales of colonizing Mars) Best Paperback Original to The ...... $7.99 Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett ($13.99). Bray, Libba Beauty Queens (YA; Tiptree Award shortlist. When a plane crash strands 13 teen Several awards were presented beauty contestants on an island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to at the Left Coast Crime convention. The combat the island's other diabolical occupants - and to learn their dance numbers in case Lefty (for most humorous mystery of they are rescued in time for the competition)...... $18.99 2011) went to The Real Macaw by Briggs, Patricia et al Moon Called Vol. 2 (Mercy Thompson GN #1: PBO; Full color graphic novel; reprints Donna Andrews ($24.99 hc, $7.99 pb issues 5-8 of the comic book)...... $16.99 due early June). The Bruce Alexander Bujold, Lois McMaster (Vorkosigan #2: Reissue; Hugo winner. HC reprint of PB original; Signed Memorial Historical Mystery Award copies)...... $26.00 went to Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker Carriger, Gail et al Soulless: The Manga Volume 1 (Parasol Protectorate GN #1: PBO; Black & white ($24.95 hc or $14.95 tr pb). The Golden graphic novel; adaptation of the novel)...... $12.99 Nugget (for best mystery novel set in Carson, Rae The Girl of Fire and Thorns (YA; Andre Norton Award finalist. Once a century, one California) went to City of Secrets by person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. She could be everything to those who Kelli Stanley ($24.99 hc, $14.99 tr pb need her most - if the prophecy is fulfilled, if she finds the power deep within herself, if she due mid-July). The Eureka! (for best doesn't die young. Most of the chosen do)...... $17.99 first mystery novel) went to Nazareth Crumb, R. The Early Years of Bitter Struggle (Complete Crumb Comics #1: Reissue; Child by Darrell James ($14.95). The Graphic novel; adults only. Underground comix and illustrations; black & white with a Dilys Award (for the mystery that the center section in color)...... $24.99 Independent Mystery Booksellers Delany, Samuel R. Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (PBO; In 2007, just before Eric's Association members most enjoyed 17th birthday, he moves to a coastal Georgia town, and meets 19-year-old Morgan. The two selling) went to Ghost Hero by S. J. boys spend the next decades together as a working class gay interracial couple).. $21.95 Rozan ($25.99). Dick, Philip K. The Crack in Space (Reissue; When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity: a way to ease Earth's overcrowding; a place to The Agatha Award for Best set up a personal kingdom; or a spot to hide an inconvenient mistress. When a civilization Mystery Novel went to Three Day is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack scramble to discover their Town by Margaret Maron ($25.99) and motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill- for Best First Novel went to Learning to intentioned as the people of this world?)...... $13.95 Swim by Sara J. Henry ($15.00). Dick, Philip K. Eye in the Sky (Reissue; When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, The finalists for the Thriller where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world Awards for Best Hardcover Novel are plunges them into a Communist dystopia, then into a world where everything is an enemy) Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder ...... $13.95 ($9.99), A Hard Death by Jonathan Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle (Reissue; Hugo winner. America, 1962: Slavery is legal Hayes ($7.99), 11/22/63 by Stephen once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the King ($35.00), The Ridge by Michael I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United Koryta ($24.99), and The Two Deaths States lost a war, and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan)...... $13.95 of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey Dick, Philip K. Ubik: The Screenplay (In 1974, Dick was commissioned to write a screenplay based ($15.00). on his novel Ubik. The film wasn't produced, but the screenplay was saved. It features scenes The finalists for Best Paperback that are not in the book, and a surreal playfulness)...... $13.95 Original are The Last Minute by Jeff Dick, Philip K. The Zap Gun (Reissue; The Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western Abbott (was a paperback original in the governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse, wherein each U.K., but will be coming out in the U.S. side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons - that don't work. But when as a $24.99 hardcover in July), Threat aliens invade, the top designers of both sides have to come together to make a real Warning by John Gilstrap ($7.99), The doomsday device - if they don't kill each other first)...... $13.95 Glass by Helen Grant ($15.00), DiTerlizzi, Tony A Hero for WondLa (WondLa #2: Kids; Hailey brings Nine and her friends to the The Queen by Steven James ($14.99), colony of New Attica, where humans of all shapes and sizes live in apparent peace and and Already Gone by John Rector harmony. But Eva soon realizes something sinister is going on - and if she doesn't stop it, ($14.95). it could mean the end of everyone on Orbona)...... $17.99 The finalists for Best First Duncan, Dave Against the Light (The Hierarchy rules both the magical kingdom of Albi and its Novel are The Genesis Key by James religion. When missionary student Rollo Woodbridge returns to Albi, he is arrested for Barney ($9.99), She Can Run by heresy and treason. He's rescued from prison, but his family home is destroyed. His siblings Melinda Leigh ($13.95), Spiral by Paul swear vengeance, but Rollo attempts to broker a peace between the faiths, and save his McEuen ($25.00), The Fund by H. T. kingdom's future)...... $14.95 Narea ($9.99), and Midnight Caller by Farmer, Philip Jose The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Wold Newton: Reissue; A secret alien war has Leslie Tentler ($7.99). raged on Earth for years, and is about to culminate in an epic race around the world, as

Fogg undertakes a covert mission to chase down the elusive Captain Nemo - who is none How’s Business other than Professor Moriarty)...... $9.95 by Don Blyly Flanagan, John The Invaders (Brotherband #2: Kids; The Herons have won the Brotherband competition! But their celebration is cut short when the Skandians' most sacred artifact is This past winter it was easier to stolen - and the Herons are to blame. To recover it, they must traverse stormy seas and get around than normal, and much easier battle a group of deadly pirates)...... $18.99 to get around than the previous winter, Foglio, Phil & Kaja Agatha Awakens: The Beetleburg Clank / The Airship City / The so our business was up during the winter. Monster Engine (Girl Genius Omnibus Vol. 1: YA; Full color graphic novel. Reprints But after a hard winter, we usually have issues 1-10 of the comic book)...... $34.99 a bump in sales in the spring as people Frith, R.J. The Nemesis List (Ex-soldier Frank Pak has been hired to escort a runaway back to can suddenly get around and try to catch his family. But Jeven Jones is the result of illegal experimentation, an evolutionary leap. The up on the book buying they couldn’t do government wants him dead. Revolutionaries want to use him to unlock every advancement during the winter. With the unusually the government has denied them. If Jones lives, he'll start a war. If he dies, the future of early spring this year, people were able humanity dies with him)...... $12.95 to get to work on outdoor projects much Froud, Brian et al The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths Volume 1 (Full color graphic novel; earlier than usual, and didn’t have to recounts the legend of Aughra, the rise and fall of the Gelflings, the coming of the alien catch up on their book buying from the Urskeks, and the myth of the Bright Crystal)...... $19.95 winter season because they were able to Grant, Maxwell The Five Chameleons / The Wasp (Shadow #57: Pulp reprints)..... $14.95 buy books all winter long. As a result, Grant, Maxwell Castle of Crime / Dead Man's Chest (Shadow #58: Pulp reprints).. . $14.95 our spring sales were disappointing. I Grant, Maxwell The Green Box / The Getaway Ring (Shadow #59: Pulp reprints).. . $14.95 think that there were also fewer exciting Hambly, Barbara The Magistrates of Hell (James Asher #3: 1912: James Asher, his wife Lydia, and new books being published in the spring occultist and vampire-hunter Dr. Solomon Karlebach journey to the Republic of China to than normal, which contributed to the investigate a rumor that the mindless Undead - the Others that even the vampires fear - problem. But there are a lot of exciting have begun to multiply near Peking. Asher and vampire Don Simon Ysidro embark on a new books coming this summer, so we’ll hunt, while somewhere in the city lurk the Peking vampires with an agenda of their own) hope that sales will pick up...... $28.95 I talked last issue about the Hartwell, David (ed) The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (PBO; Anthology; 20 stories (2 original to this cooling coils being stolen from the air volume) of barbarians, mages, and heroes)...... $15.95 conditioner units on the roof, and how I Herriman, George Krazy and Ignatz 1912-1924: At Last My Drim of Love Has Come True expected the repairs would cost me (PBO; Graphic novel; 3 years of b&w full-page Sunday strips, plus all 22 installments of his $1000 more than the insurance company 1903 b&w daily strip Mrs. Waitaminnit - The Woman Who Is Always Late and the full run would cover. The repair company of his 1926 Sunday-only full-color strip Us Husbands)...... $24.99 recommended that I repair the unit that Hughes, David Tales from Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? was only 8 months old, but strongly (Updated and expanded from the 2003 edition. A journey through the place where scripts recommended that I replace the unit that are written (and rewritten), actors are hired, sets are designed, and then films don't get was over 15 years old. The insurance made. 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When Anna said that each building had a different creates life out of thin air and desperation, no one is prepared for what comes next) insurance company and only one ...... $14.95 insurance company refused to follow the Joshi, S.T. (ed) Weird Fiction Review #2 (PBO; Fiction, essays, poetry, more)...... $25.00 advice of the repair experts, and that was Kibuishi, Kazu (editor) Explorer: The Mystery Boxes (PBO; Kids; Seven short graphic works answer one the same company that I had. I decided simple question: what's in the box? Marvels? Mayhem?)...... $10.95 to go with the advice of the experts Kiernan, Caitlin R. Two Worlds and In Between (Collection; reprints 26 short works of dark fantasy) instead of the advice of the insurance ...... $38.00 company and had the old unit replaced. King, A.S. Everybody Sees the Ants (YA; Andre Norton Award finalist. Lucky has a secret that That turned my $1000 deductible into a helps him wade through his dysfunctional life. In his dreams, he escapes to the war-torn $4000 deductible. I’m now getting bids jungles of Laos, where he can be a hero. It's dangerous and wild - a place where his life just from other insurance companies for next might be worth living. But how long can Lucky hide in his dreams before reality forces its year which starts in late May. way in?)...... $17.99 With expenses constantly going King, Caro Seven Sorcerers (Nin #1: Kids; Nin wakes up to discover that her brother Toby has up and sales not keeping pace, we’re vanished - and she's the only one who remembers him. To save him, she and her friend Jonas going to have to raise our minimum travel to a magical land called the Drift, which is is being destroyed by a plague. Even the price on used books from $2.50 (where Seven Sorcerers who ruled there have succumbed. Nin and Jonas race to rescue Toby and get the price has been for many years) to home before the plague makes it impossible)...... $6.99 $3.00 starting June 1. 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The pale, steely-eyed Joshua XL, and XXL. The colors available are York's reasons for traveling the Mississippi are to be none of Marsh's concern - no matter ash (grey), azalea (a new color for us, how bizarre or capricious York's actions may prove. Not until their maiden voyage does close to pink), black, gold, kelly green, Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than Pacific blue (a new color for us, close to his most fantastic nightmare)...... $7.99 turquoise), purple, red, and royal blue (a Millet, Lydia The Fires Beneath the Sea (Dissenters #1: Kids; When Cara's mother disappears fairly dark blue). The price for the T- and a watery specter begins to haunt their Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers embark shirts is $14.00 through XL and $17.00 on a quest that takes them from the Cape's ancient places to a shipwreck on the bottom of for XXL. 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Jaide and Jack Shield don't know sweatshirts are exempt from sales tax in that the world is under attack, that their dad and their Grandma X are Wardens, or that they Minnesota. themselves are young Wardens just coming into their powers)...... $6.99 As usual, we had lots more new O'Brien, Fitz-James The Diamond Lens and Other Stories (PBO; Collection; 3 sf tales from the titles than we had space for in the paper 1850s)...... $14.95 newsletter. Many books had their O'Malley, Daniel The Rook ('The body you are wearing used to be mine.' So begins the letter Myfanwy is descriptions shortened, and most holding when she awakes in a London park. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy paranormal romances, gaming related follows the instructions her former self left behind. She learns that she is a member of a titles, Doctor Who titles, kids and young secret organization that battles supernatural forces at work in Britain, and that she adult books, reissues, and non-fiction possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own. Now she must discover titles were eliminated from the paper who betrayed her and why)...... $25.99 newsletter, but full information is on our website. There are also more science Obreht, Tea The Tiger's Wife (National Book Award finalist; Crawford Award shortlist. In a Balkan fiction and mystery reviews on the country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, seeks to unravel the circumstances website. surrounding her grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book, and to the stories of his encounters with 'the deathless man'. But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her - the legend of the tiger's Short Recommendations wife)...... $15.00 by Don Blyly Ore, Rebecca Time and Robbery (Vel #2: PBO; Unless immortal time-jumper Vel can help out his younger self, his tribe's descendants - a big chunk of the 21st-century British population -- by will be eliminated from the timeline)...... $16.00 ($24.99, due early June, signing at Uncle Orzel, Chad How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog (PBO; Nonfiction; physics professor Chad Hugo’s Saturday, June 23, 1-2 pm) is Orzel and his inquisitive canine Emmy tackle the concepts of general relativity in this enormous fun, at the expense of introduction to Einstein's physics)...... $16.99 Hollywood. Pang, Allison A Sliver of Shadow (Abby Sinclair #2: PBO; Abby is left in charge when the Freshly graduated Ensign Protectorate leaves for the Faery Court; thing spiral out of control when a spell on Abby Andrew Dahl is thrilled to be assigned to backfires and the Faery Queen declares the Doors between their worlds officially closed) the Intrepid, flagship of the Universal ...... $7.99 Union since the year 2456. But Andrew PopMatter Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion (PBO; An unofficial guide to the and the other new ensigns soon notice Whedonverse, with essays and interviews covering all the TV series, movies, and comic that every Away Mission involves some books)...... $18.95 form of lethal confrontation, which Reeve, Philip No Such Thing as Dragons (Kids; Ansel's master is a dragon-slayer, with shining always results in the death of at least one armor, and scars that prove his heroic stories. But Ansel suspects there are no such things low-ranking crew member. They also as dragons. So what is the man-eating monster that haunts the mountain crags?). $6.99 notice that the more experienced crew Riggs, Ransom Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (YA; Crawford Award shortlist. members always hide whenever a high Tragedy sends 16-year-old Jacob to an island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the ranking officer comes looking for people ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home. As he explores the ruins, it becomes clear that the children to take on an Away Mission. Eventually, may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined for good reason. And, they learn that the fate of these Away impossible though it seems, they may still be alive)...... $17.99 Missions seem to somehow be related to Robeson, Kenneth The Time Terror / The Talking Devil (Doc Savage #55: Pulp reprints)$. 14.95 an ancient televison show produced Robeson, Kenneth The Black Spot / The Terrible Stork (Doc Savage #56: Pulp reprints).$14.95 centuries before on a planet called Earth. 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And Detective Bartholomew Nyquist finds himself in the Last issue I recommended Kate middle of everything)...... $22.50 Griffin’s urban fantasy series set in Russell, C & C The Warrior Sheep Down Under (Warrior Sheep #3: Kids; Tuftella - the fairest London, A Madness of Angels (#1, ewe maiden of them all - is locked away in a tall tower surrounded by a moat full of $7.99), The Midnight Mayor (#2, monsters, waiting to be rescued by a knight in shining fleece. Warrior Sheep to the rescue!) $7.99) and The Neon Court (#3, $7.99)...... $6.99 As I read The Minority Council (#4, Scalzi, John 24 Frames into the Future (Numbered of 961 copies. Collects a big batch of his $7.99), I enjoyed the plot as Matthew zingy, opinionated columns about sf and fantasy TV and films; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Swift successfully took on various new Saturday, June 23, 1-2pm)...... $28.00 supernatural threats to modern London, Smith, Gavin Veteran (Reactivated by his old special forces C.O. and assigned to track down an alien but I noticed how much I’ve come to infiltrator, Jakob Douglas winds up on the run with a teenage hacker, and learns that the love Griffin’s use of language, especially aliens aren't quite what everyone thought)...... $14.95 the frantic, snarky voice used by the Stephenson, Neal et al The Mongoliad Book 1 (1241: The Mongols have swept across Asia and are poised to protagonist. In describing one invade Europe. 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I on a range of topics by one of the world's foremost Tolkien scholars)...... $24.95 was killed by my teacher’s shadow and Vanderhooft/Berman (eds) Heiresses of Russ 2011 (Anthology; 12 of the best short works of lesbian speculative my body dissolved into telephone static fiction published in 2010)...... $18.00 and all they had left to bury was a bit of Wagner, Karl Edward Where the Summer Ends (Best Horror Stories #1: Collection; 9 longer horror blood. Then we came back, and I am we stories)...... $45.00 and we are me, and we are the blue Wagner, Karl Edward Walk on the Wild Side (Best Horror Stories #2: Collection; 26 horror stories) electric angels, creatures of the phones ...... $45.00 and the wires, the gods made from the Wallace, Sean (ed) War and Space: Recent Combat (Anthology; military sf stories). . . . . $15.95 surplus life you miserable excuse for mortals pour into all things electric. I Weiner, Zach The Most Dangerous Game (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal #2: PBO; Full am the Midnight Mayor, the protector of color collection of the webcomic)...... $18.00 the city, the guardian of the night, the Weyn, Suzanne Empty (YA; In the very near future, the fossil fuels are running out. And in the small town keeper of the gates, the watcher of the of Sage Valley, sacrifices need to be made, and society needs to be rethought. And even if walls. We turned back the death of Niki, Tom, and Gwen find what they need to survive, their lives are never going to be the cities, we were there when Lady Neon same again)...... $8.99 died, we drove the creature called Expect Early June Blackout into the shadows at the end of Aaron, Rachel The Spirit War (Eli Monpress #4: Eli is unhappy that someone now has a higher the alleys, we are light, we are life, we bounty than he does: his best friend, master swordsman Josef. Apparently Josef is the only are fire and, would you believe it, the prince of a rather feisty country, and his mother the queen wants him to come home. word that best describes our condition Meanwhile, the Immortal Empress is staging an invasion - but it's not just about politics. right now is cranky. She's targeting Eli, the world's greatest thief)...... $14.99 Would you like to see what Alexander, Cassie Nightshifted (PBO; Nurse Edie Spence is learning the ropes of dealing with paranormal happens when you make us mad? patients. 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When his secrets turn deadly, he and Russinovich, Mark Zero Day (Computer failures cause a series of apparently his neighbor Helen find themselves pursued through London, unrelated disasters, leading a former government analyst to Cambridge, Berlin, and the Scottish countryside).. . $24.99 suspect cyber-terrorism)...... $14.99 Krueger, William Kent Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor #12: Cork's Smith, Alexander McCall The Importance of Being Seven (44 Scotland wilderness bow hunting trip with Minnesota's first Native Street #6: Bertie, about to turn seven, mislays his meddling American governor-elect, Jubal Little, goes very wrong when mother Irene, and learns a valuable lesson: wish-fulfillment Jubal is shot through the heart with one of Cork's arrows. can be a dangerous business. Angus and Domenica Cork knows he's been set up, and as he works to clear his contemplate giving in to romance on holiday in Italy. And Big Lou, usually down-to-earth, is overheard discussing cosmetic surgery)...... $15.00 Steiner, Peter The Resistance (Louis Morgon #4: Detective Louis Morgon finds evidence of a long-ago massacre of WWII Resistance members, unleashing a firestorm of danger, deception, and murder in the French village where he lives) ...... $26.99 Thilliez, Franck Syndrome E (When an old friend develops a case of spontaneous blindness after watching a rare and violent film from the 1950s, detective Lucie Hennebelle discovers that there are unspeakably heinous subliminal images embedded in the film. When nearly everyone who comes in contact with the film starts turning up dead, she enlists the help of Paris police inspector Franck Sharko, who is exploring the film's connection to five murdered men left in the woods). $26.95 Tope, Rebecca A Dirty Death (Den Cooper #1: Reissue; When irascible Guy Beardon is found dead in his slurry pit, only his daughter suspects foul play. Then two more deaths occur, unmistakably murders. For policeman Den Cooper, the difficulty lies in discovering which of Guy's many enemies hated him enough to want him dead, and then went on killing to conceal the truth)...... $16.95 Tope, Rebecca Death of a Friend (Den Cooper #2: Reissue; When a herdsman's body is discovered, DS Den Cooper is happy to make Gordon Hillcock prime suspect. It's no secret that Gordon and the victim were enemies; besides, Den's fiancee Lilah dumped him for Glen. But how far will Lilah go to ensure that Den directs his suspicions elsewhere?).. $16.95 Tope, Rebecca A Death to Record (Den Cooper #3: Reissue; Head- butted by a horse as she protested the local hunt, Nina's death was ruled an accident. But when another protester is found trampled to death, the blows are so precise that they could only have been delivered by a horse with an expert rider. Detective Den Cooper must crack open an insular, divided community to solve the case)...... $16.95 Tope, Rebecca Dark Undertakings (Slocombe #1: Reissue; Jim Lapsford was the picture of health, but his GP is convinced he succumbed to a heart attack. Trainee undertaker Drew Slocombe is convinced there's enough conflicting medical evidence to merit a coroner's inquest. Jim's personal life supplies plenty of suspects, but Drew has only a few days before the cremation to find some proof)...... $16.95 Ward, Amanda Eyre Close Your Eyes (Laura is finally coming to terms with childhood tragedy: her mother's murder at the hands of her father. As she begins to peek under the floorboards of carefully constructed memories, she begins to question the version of her family's past she has clung to so fiercely) ...... $15.00

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Friday, June 8, 6-7 pm at Uncle Hugo’s MaryJanice Davidson–Undead and Unstable

Saturday, June 9, 1-2 pm at Uncle Edgar’s David Housewright–Curse of the Jade Lily Renee Valois (co-author with David)–The Devil and the Diva

Saturday, June 23, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s John Scalzi–Redshirts

Saturday, June 30, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s Kelly McCullough–Bared Blade

Saturday, August 4, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s Patricia C. Wrede–The Far West

Saturday, August 11, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s Tate Hallaway–Precinct 13

Monday, August 27, 5-6 pm at Uncle Edgar’s William Kent Krueger–Trickster’s Point