BBC PHYSICAL AUDIO

BBC Physical Audio

Doctor Who: Paradise Lost : 11th Doctor Summary: An original adventure for the Eleventh Doctor Audio Original and Clara, exclusive to audio. Darren Jones Pub Date: 8/1/20 $18.95 USD 1 pages

Firefly Books

Escape from Syria Summary: "Groundbreaking and unforgettable." Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche --Kirkus (starred review) Pub Date: 8/1/20 $9.95 USD "This is a powerful, eye-opening graphic novel that will 96 pages foster empathy and understanding in readers of all ages." --The Globe and Mail

"In league with Art Spiegelman's Maus and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, this is a must-purchase for any teen or adult graphic novel collection." --School Library Journal (starred review)

From the pen of former Daily Star (Lebanon) reporter Samya Kullab comes this breathtaking and hard-hitting story Stone Arch Books

Wonder Woman and The Cheetah Challenge Summary: When chaos erupts at the Global Village theme Laurie S. Sutton, Leonel Castellani park, Wonder Woman swoops in to find her archenemy on Pub Date: 8/1/20 the loose! The Cheetah has stolen a golden statue from the $6.95 USD Mayan exhibit and seems bent on causing mayhem. After a 72 pages tense standoff, a cat-and-mouse chase ensues, until the villain challenges Wonder Woman to a showdown in the Greek showcase. Can the Amazon warrior subdue her foe before the feline felon reduces the theme park to ruin? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero fans.

Stone Arch Books

The Flash and the Storm of the Century Summary: A storm is brewing in Central City! The Weather Michael Anthony Steele, Gregg Schigiel Wizard has unleashed the fury of his giant weather wand in Pub Date: 8/1/20 a bid to get the city's citizens to cough up their cash. Only $6.95 USD when his fundraising efforts are complete will he leave 72 pages Central City for good. Now it's up to The Flash to outrun the lightning and bring his own thunder to the climate criminal. Can the Scarlet Speedster stop the Weather Wizard before the villain either robs the city blind or destroys it in the process? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero fans!

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STONE ARCH BOOKS

Stone Arch Books

Superman and the Toxic Troublemaker Summary: When Chemo breaks free at S.T.A.R. Labs, even Laurie S. Sutton, Leonel Castellani Superman has his hands full. The toxic titan is slipperier Pub Date: 8/1/20 than he looks and soon escapes into the surrounding $6.95 USD wilderness. While the Man of Steel tries to track him down, 72 pages Chemo searches for a little peace and quiet. Unfortunately, there's no rest for the radioactive. Can Superman contain the corrosive criminal before he causes an environmental disaster? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero fans.

Stone Arch Books

Batman and the Missing Punch Line Summary: Something funny is afoot in Gotham City, but Michael Anthony Steele, Gregg Schigiel Batman and Batwoman aren't laughing. Robbery victims are Pub Date: 8/1/20 handing over their loot and seem downright delighted to do $6.95 USD so. While investigating this odd behavior, the Dark Knight 72 pages and his crime-fighting cousin uncover the use of Joker toxin. But the Joker is locked up in Arkham Asylum or is he? Can Batman and Batwoman get to the bottom of the jester's joke before the punchline knocks out half of Gotham City? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero fans.

Stone Arch Books

Audrey and Apollo 11 Summary: Science-obsessed Audrey is a fifth grader in Rebecca Rissman, Jacqui Davis Houston, Texas, who dreams of one day working at NASA, Pub Date: 8/1/20 like her dad does. Dad, however, is nothing but $5.95 USD discouraging. Audrey doesn't give up, though. She's created 72 pages her own model rocket. When it doesn't fly, she figures out a way to fix it that ends up helping the Apollo 11 astronauts after they land on the Moon. Will Audrey's dad come around? And will Audrey have a future in science?

Picture Window Books

Trouble on Paradise Island Summary: An enemy has appeared at Paradise Island! Will Steve Korte, Art Baltazar Wonder Woman and her superpowered Kanga, Jumpa, be Pub Date: 8/1/20 able to protect their hidden home? $6.95 USD 32 pages

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PICTURE WINDOW BOOKS

Picture Window Books

Crime-Fighting Cat Summary: Midvale is under attack, and who better to Steve Korte, Art Baltazar protect the city than Supergirl and Streaky? Will the Pub Date: 8/1/20 super-pair be able to out-think a magical imp from the Fifth $6.95 USD Dimension? 32 pages

Picture Window Books

Cave of Kryptonite Summary: A game of hide-and-seek turns deadly as Steve Korte, Art Baltazar Superman and his Kryptonian canine, Krypto, are faced with Pub Date: 8/1/20 rescues that challenge even the mightiest of heroes. Will the $6.95 USD man of steel and his Superdog save the day? 32 pages

Picture Window Books

The Ice Cream Caper Summary: Batman and his crime-fighting dog detective, Steve Korte, Art Baltazar Ace, investigate a robbery at the Gotham City Zoo. Will the Pub Date: 8/1/20 caped crusader and the Bat-Dog find out who is behind the $6.95 USD ice cream caper? 32 pages

Stone Arch Books

Supergirl : An Origin Story Summary: How did Supergirl become one of the Earth's Steve Brezenoff greatest super heroes? Discover the story behind Kara Pub Date: 8/1/20 Danvers' journey from Superman's kid cousin to full-fledged $4.95 USD Justice League member, including the source of her out-of- 48 pages this-world superpowers. With action-packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.

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STONE ARCH BOOKS

Stone Arch Books

Cyborg : An Origin Story Summary: How did Cyborg become a member of the Matthew K. Manning Justice League? Discover the story behind Victor Stone's Pub Date: 8/1/20 journey from technological experiment to one of the World's $4.95 USD Greatest Super Heroes, including the source of his high-tech 48 pages computing powers. With action-packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.

Stone Arch Books

Robin : An Origin Story Summary: How did Robin become Batman's crime-fighting Michael Dahl partner? Discover the story behind the Boy Wonder's Pub Date: 8/1/20 journey from typical teenager to super hero sidekick, $4.95 USD including the source of his acrobatic skills. With action- 48 pages packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.

Stone Arch Books

Batgirl : An Origin Story Summary: How did Batgirl become Batman's crime-fighting Laurie S. Sutton partner? Discover the story behind Barbara Gordan's journey Pub Date: 8/1/20 from commissioner's daughter to super hero sidekick, $4.95 USD including the source of her high-tech gadgetry. With action- 48 pages packed illustrations and easy-to-follow text, these early reader books are perfect for young super hero fans.

Capstone Editions

Save the Day, Wonder Woman! : A Book Summary: Discover the power of FRIENDSHIP in this About Friendship must-have picture book featuring DC Comics' WONDER Michael Dahl, Omar Lozano WOMAN! As one of the World's Greatest Super Heroes, Pub Date: 8/1/20 WONDER WOMAN has many powers and abilities, including $17.95 USD lightning-quick speed, super-strength, and a golden lasso. 32 pages But her most important skill of all? Being a friend! In this addition to the bestselling DC Super Heroes Picture Book series, the Amazon Princess demonstrates the traits and importance of healthy friendships. With bright, bold illustrations and action-packed text, award-winning author Michael Dahl (Bedtime for Batman, Good Morning, Superman, and Be a Star, Wonder Woman) crafts a fresh, exciting way to approach this social and emotional learning

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STONE ARCH BOOKS

Stone Arch Books

Werewolf Hotel Summary: The Full Moon Resort in western Canada looks Steve Brezenoff, Neil Evans all but abandoned when Hunter, his twin sister, Maeve, and Pub Date: 8/1/20 their parents arrive. The outdoor pool is in disrepair and the $5.95 USD cabins are overgrown with strange plants. What a dump! 72 pages And to make matters worse, Hunter and Maueve’s aunt and uncle, as well as their two kids, fail to show up for the family vacation. What is going on and why did they have to come all the way out to the sticks anyway? Before long, the spooked-out siblings find out why—and it’s a very hairy situation indeed!

Stone Arch Books

The Nightmare Gnomes of Neary Heights Summary: Things are not quite right in Neary Heights. Megan Atwood, Neil Evans People are going missing, garden gnomes seem to be Pub Date: 8/1/20 multiplying, and Stan could swear he hears the pitter-patter $5.95 USD of tiny feet behind him when he walks through the 72 pages neighborhood. As Stan begins to wonder if these strange happenings are somehow related, all the garden gnomes take on screaming faces. Can he figure out what is going on with these nightmare gnomes before he it’s too late?

Stone Arch Books

The Watchers of Whitmore Way Summary: Ellie may be new to the gated community of Megan Atwood, Neil Evans Whitmore Way, but she can tell right away that something Pub Date: 8/1/20 about her neighbors is very, very wrong. They dress $5.95 USD perfectly. They speak perfectly. They even act 72 pages perfectly—much too perfectly, in fact. And that’s not all. Every time she looks around, they are watching her. They even have a Neighborhood Watch group they want her parents to join. What is up with these weird people? And why do the mirrors in her house seem like they are watching her too? Mystery abounds as Ellie uncovers the ghastly truth behind the watchers of Whitmore Way!

Stone Arch Books

The Medusa Doll Summary: Jason is so thrilled with the set of 12 Steve Brezenoff, Neil Evans mythological Greek god figures he receives for his birthday Pub Date: 8/1/20 that he carries one with him to a local toy shop. Soon he $5.95 USD discovers that a 13th doll—the Medusa Doll—was also made 72 pages for his set. Surely this rare figure will be too expensive . . . or is it? Much to his surprise, the toy shop owner simply gives him the doll for free! At first, Jason can’t believe his luck. But then strange stone statues start appearing, and Jason discovers that the true price of the Medusa Doll is stone cold fear!

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Oxford University Press

Green Tea : and Other Weird Stories Summary: 'Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Aaron Worth was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid...' Pub Date: 8/1/20 $11.95 USD Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the indispensable figures in the 544 pages history of Gothic and horror fiction-the most important such writer in English, certainly, between Poe and M. R. James. While a number of his sensation and mystery novels were popular with mid-Victorian readers, it was in shorter forms that he truly excelled, and most showed himself an innovator in the field of uncanny fiction. Tales such as 'Carmilla' and 'Green Tea' prompted M. R. James to remark, 'he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer'.

Flesk Publications

Notes from the Shadowed City Summary: Notes From the Shadowed City is the travelogue Jeffrey Alan Love of a young man who sets off on a journey to research Pub Date: 8/3/20 magical swords. He finds himself stranded in a land he does $19.95 USD not know and enters a city with no name over which looms 160 pages an ominous floating citadel. As he seeks a way home, he fills his notebook with drawings and observations of his life in this strange place. It is full of masked swordsmen, cities that walk, ancient gods, swords made from petrified trees and dragons that move mountains. There’s also a mysterious woman who captures his heart. From the imagination of award-winning artist Jeffrey Alan Love comes this illustrated tale of swords and magic, memory and loss, and the overwhelming desire to find a way home no matter

Flesk Publications

The Thousand Demon Tree Summary: Drawn into a strange quest by a bird and a Jeffrey Alan Love sword, a lone warrior travels across a silent landscape of Pub Date: 8/3/20 smoke and dirt and bone. Transformed by what he $24.95 USD encounters along the way, he searches for the Thousand 96 pages Demon Tree, and the hope of a new world that lies beyond it.

Flesk Publications

The Mountain of Smoke : A Jeffrey Alan Love Summary: The Mountain of Smoke is a collection of 51 Sketchbook paintings completed in acrylic, ink and pencil by Jeffrey Alan Jeffrey Alan Love Love. These works are reproduced directly from Jeff’s Pub Date: 8/3/20 sketchbook, which took him seven months to complete. Jeff $34.95 USD is now sharing these personal works for the first time. The 128 pages viewer follows along as the artist loses himself in his practice of letting his mind wander to see what it unveils. The result is a fantasy collection where you create the story. The collection has been professionally photographed to showcase Jeff’s textures and paint strokes to give viewers the intimate feeling that they are holding the actual sketchbook. Over half of the paintings are accompanied by the artist's captions and initial pencil sketches. Details of 19

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FLESK PUBLICATIONS

Flesk Publications

The Art of Frank Cho : A Twenty-Year Summary: The Art of Frank Cho presents Frank’s first full Retrospective career overview in this 20-year retrospective featuring over Frank Cho, John Fleskes 380 pieces of art. They include his early student works, Pub Date: 8/3/20 personal paintings and a section on his creator-owned $39.95 USD properties, followed by an extensive overview of his 336 pages adventure and superhero work completed for the major and independent comic publishers. Frank provides fresh commentary throughout to reveal insight into his art. An interview covers his recent projects with a revealing look at his working process. Frank picked many of his favorite comic covers and interior pages to share for this book. Preliminary pencil sketches from his archives are revealed for the first time. A range of art shows the finished inks direct from the

Flesk Publications

The Big Tease : A Naughty and Nice Summary: Bruce Timm has been creating elegant drawings Collection of women for over 30 years, and nearly all of these Bruce Timm charming nudes were drawn purely for fun after-hours. This Pub Date: 8/3/20 book collects his three Teaser collections—released from $39.95 USD 2011 to 2013 and long sold out—plus Surrender, My Sweet 208 pages from 2015. In addition, Timm has created new material especially for this collection and delved into his personal archives to share pieces not shown before. These culminate in more than 75 additional pages of material not reproduced in any of his previous Naughty and Nice collections. In all, over 260 women drawn in pencil, ink or color fill these pages. Timm’s art is reproduced at an impressive size and showcased in this oversized format. Mature Warning: The

Chicago Review Press

Lame Fate (Ugly Swans) Summary: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Maya Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are Vinokour counted among the best science fiction writers of the Pub Date: 8/4/20 twentieth century, but their relationship with the late-Soviet $18.99 USD literary establishment was often fraught. By the late 1960s, 416 pages publishers had become increasingly reluctant to release their works, but their novels and short stories, retyped by hand, circulated widely through unofficial channels within the Soviet Union and occasionally turned up abroad in unauthorized translation.

The nested novels Ugly Swans and Lame Fate offer insight into this period of enforced silence. Never before translated

Fantagraphics

Prison Pit : The Complete Collection Summary: Prison Pit is a planet full of repugnant Johnny Ryan intergalactic criminals, drug-filled slugs, and now Cannibal Pub Date: 8/4/20 F***face (CF). From 2009 to 2018, the crudely manic pen $39.99 USD and mind of Johnny Ryan documented the mayhem and 736 pages mutation as CF loses his arm to a vile beast, replaces it with a symbiotic bug that gives him a steroid-like jolt, and seeks grisly revenge against any and all creatures that get in his way. To find his way out he must do battle with his arch-enemy Slitt, the only one who knows how to escape the hellscape they inhabit. Finally, CF is pitted against the very system that shaped him into the avatar of death and destruction he has become.

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FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Toybox Americana : Characters Met Along the Summary: In this book, Lane remasters milieus, attitudes, Way and cultural touchstones of the 20th century: wry slice- Tim Lane of-life vignettes are depicted in moodily crosshatched, Pub Date: 8/4/20 noir-inflected drawings. Jazz clubs and pool halls, ballparks $34.99 USD and graveyards, casinos and coffeehouses, back alleys and 272 pages bus stops are populated by roughed-up boxers, bleary gamblers, rowdy winos, philosophical rail-riders, acrobatic fire-swallowers, and femme fatales - woven together into a uniquely designed collection of images and prose.

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Shatter the Sky Summary: New England Book Award Finalist Rebecca Kim Wells Pub Date: 8/4/20 “A top-notch dragon story…Both nuanced and real.” $11.99 USD —Shelf Awareness (starred review) 320 pages “I absolutely devoured it.” —Mackenzi Lee, bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue “Perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce, Renée Ahdieh, and Cindy Pon.” —Saundra Mitchell, author of All the Things We Do in the Dark and editor of YA anthology All Out

A determined young woman sets out to rescue her kidnapped girlfriend by stealing a dragon from the corrupt emperor in this stunning fantasy debut that’s

Image Comics

LCD: Lowest Comic Denominator Volume 1 Summary: Kieron Dwyer, Tony Moore, Hilary Barta, Bill Collects all four existing issues of KIERON DWYER's underground Wray,... cult classic adult humor series. Taking its cues from classic humor Pub Date: 8/4/20 comics and magazines like MAD, National Lampoon, and $17.99 USD underground comix legends like ROBERT CRUMB, LCD: LOWEST 176 pages COMIC DENOMINATOR is a hilarious antidote to political correctness featuring art and stories by KIERON DWYER, TONY MOORE, HILARY BARTA, BILL WRAY, MIKE MANLEY, and JOHNNY RYAN, et al. Includes a foreword by one of LCD's earliest fans and supporters, GARTH ENNIS, creator of Preacher and The Boys.

Collects LCD: LOWEST COMIC DENOMINATOR #0-3 (4 issues)

Fantagraphics

The Winter Of The Cartoonist Summary: In 1957, Editorial Bruguera was one of Spain's Paco Roca largest publishing houses, putting out hugely popular weekly Pub Date: 8/4/20 magazines and comics for young and old — while retaining $21.99 USD all rights and creative control of their artists' work. Spanish 128 pages comics superstar Paco Roca investigates the true story of five cartoonists who, spurred by poor working conditions, arbitrary editorial edicts, and nationwide dictatorial rule, went on a quest for creative freedom. Little did they know that the corporation had begun actively trying to thwart their distribution and publishing efforts, turning their battle into a real-life David and Goliath tale. The Winter of the Cartoonist provides historical context and short profiles of these artists as they serve as everyday heroes for all of

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GOLLANCZ

Gollancz

Smoke in the Glass : Immortals' Blood Book Summary: A thrilling new dark fantasy series about One immortality, war and survival, from the bestselling Chris Humphreys historical author Chris (CC) Humphreys Pub Date: 8/4/20 $15.99 USD Three lands, peopled by humans and immortals. In 368 pages Corinthium a decadent endlessly-lived elite run the world for profit and power. But when a poor, honest solider dies, and is reborn, everything changes. In wintry Midgarth, where immortals are revered as deities, one of them has realized that something - or someone - is killing the gods. And in Ometepe there is only one immortal, for he has murdered every other. Until one woman gives birth to a very special baby. Yet there is a fourth, hidden land, where savage tribes

Canongate Books

The Truth Pixie Goes to School Summary: New school. New friends. Same old pixie. Matt Haig, Chris Mould Pub Date: 8/4/20 "Don't try to be something $14.00 USD You really are not. 128 pages Your one true self Is the best thing you've got."

In this heartwarming adventure, the Truth Pixie and her human friend go to school, face a bully, and learn the importance of friendship and being yourself. With words by the bestselling mastermind Matt Haig and pictures by the inky genius Chris Mould.

Tor.com

Harrow the Ninth Summary: “Unlike anything I’ve ever read. Muir’s Tamsyn Muir writing is as sharp as a broken tooth, and just as Pub Date: 8/4/20 unsettling.” —V. E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth $26.99 USD 512 pages “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth

She answered the Emperor's call.

She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.

In victory, her world has turned to ash.

Tor Books

The Redemption of Time : A Three-Body Summary: At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Problem Novel Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. His Baoshu, Ken Liu decision was the first step in a journey that would take him Pub Date: 8/4/20 to the end of the universe and beyond. $17.99 USD 288 pages His brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft, and launched on a trajectory that will intercept the Trisolarian First Fleet in a few centuries. It is a desperate plan, almost certain to fail. But there is an infinitesimal chance that one day Tianming may, somehow, be able to send valuable information back to Earth. And so he does. His broadcasts from the Trisolarian fleet reveal the secrets of faster than light propulsion and the ultimate

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

The Living Dead Summary: George A. Romero invented the modern zombie George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus in his seminal film, Night of the Living Dead. Without Pub Date: 8/4/20 Romero, there would be no World War Z, no The Walking $27.99 USD Dead. When he died in 2017, Romero's giant, contemporary 656 pages zombie novel was unfinished. Completed by New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water) with the full cooperation of the Romero estate, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale. Not a novelization of any of the films, it is the story of the zombie plague, from the first rising to the fall of humankind...and beyond.

It begins with one body.

Swoon Reads

The Good for Nothings Summary: Cora Saros is trying her best to join the family Danielle Banas business of theft and intergalactic smuggling. Unfortunately, Pub Date: 8/4/20 she's a total disaster. After landing herself in prison $18.99 USD following an attempted heist gone wrong, she strikes a 336 pages bargain with the prison warden: He'll expunge her record if she brings back a long-lost treasure rumored to grant immortality.

Cora is skeptical, but with no other way out, she assembles a crew from her cellmates—a disgraced warrior from an alien planet; a cocky pirate who claims to have the largest ship in the galaxy; and a glitch-prone robot with a penchant for baking—and take off after the fabled prize.

Clover Press, LLC

Deadly Election Summary: When there was a sudden slaughter of the top Mort Castle Mafia dons, and a tripling of violent crimes in Pub Date: 8/4/20 the streets of America...V. Dano Drake knew it was time to $12.99 USD announce his candidacy for 224 pages President of the United States. But one man - the fabulously wealthy Jabez Wonders, owner of the biggest fantasyland in America - knew who was behind the sweeping crimewave, and he planned to stop him. That's when he pulled together three of the most unusual people in the country, and put them into training. A very special kind of training, for a very special assignment!

Johns Hopkins University Press

Detectives in the Shadows : A Hard-Boiled Summary: Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating History outside the police force—and sometimes even the law—is Susanna Lee the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a Pub Date: 8/4/20 shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, $27.00 USD his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit 224 pages cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction. He only asks questions—never answers them. In his stories he is both the main character and the narrator.

America has had a love affair with the hard-boiled detective since the 1920s, when Prohibition called into question who really stood on the right and wrong side of the law. And

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IMAGE COMICS

Image Comics

Pulp Summary: Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips A gorgeous original graphic novel from the best-selling Pub Date: 8/4/20 creators of KILL OR BE KILLED, MY HEROES HAVE $16.99 USD ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, and CRIMINAL. 72 pages Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word - tales of a wild west outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?

One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence,

Magnetic Press

Mister Invincible: Local Hero Summary: Pascal Jousselin, Mike Kennedy Winner of the BEST MIDDLE GRADE COMIC Award at the Bologna Children's Pub Date: 8/4/20 Book Fair! $15.99 USD There's a new superhero in town -- Mr. Invincible! Sure, he wears a mask 96 pages and cape and helps widows and orphans as any self-respecng hero would, but he also thwarts the mad sciensts and bad guys with his amazing super-power that makes him the only true comic book hero: he can reach outside the comic strip panels to affect both space and me! By breaking the boundaries of 'comic book physics' he and his companions are able to do amazing things that are only possible thanks to the magic of comics! A wholly unique and creave twist on convenonal comic-book reading experience, this wacky Middle Grade tle will put your imaginaon to the test!

J. Paul Getty Museum

William Blake : Visionary Summary: A richly illustrated, comprehensive Edina Adam, Julian Brooks, Matthew Hargraves introduction to the visionary British artist William Pub Date: 8/4/20 Blake. $35.00 USD 160 pages Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, William Blake (1757–1827) created some of the most striking and distinctive imagery in art, often combining his poetry and visual images on the page through innovative graphic techniques. He has proven an enduring inspiration to artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide and a fascinating enigma to generations of admirers.

Featuring over 130 color images, this catalogue brings

Universe Publishing

Star Trek: Picard 2021 Wall Calendar Summary: The journey is far from over. Star Trek: CBS Picard 2021 Wall Calendar features Sir Patrick Stewart Pub Date: 8/4/20 reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he $14.99 USD played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next 24 pages Generation.

One of the most beloved stars of the Star Trek franchise explores the next chapter of his storied life, after the U.S.S Enterprise. Sir Patrick Stewart returns to the iconic role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this exclusive limited series from Alex Kurtzman, writer and co-executive producer of Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Featuring the return of fan-favorite characters including Captain

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TITAN COMICS

Titan Comics

Star Wars: The Mandalorian - The Art and the Summary: Explore the amazing world of Star Wars: Imagery Collector's Edition Volume One The Mandalorian, the critically acclaimed series that Titan expands the Star Wars galaxy to incredible new Pub Date: 8/4/20 frontiers. $19.99 USD This deluxe edition collects the stunning artwork from the first four chapters of the Disney+ smash hit, highlighting the characters, creatures, allies, enemies and environments of this all-new Star Wars story.

In addition to showcasing stunning illustrative images and photography, this guide also features Doug Chiang, Christian Alzmann, Ryan Church, Nick Gindraux, John Park, Jama

Disney Lucasfilm Press

Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall Summary: Catalog Copy: Alex Segura Learn more about the dashing hero from the new Star Wars Pub Date: 8/4/20 films! Telling a story hinted at in The Rise of Skywalker.... $17.99 USD 384 pages It's been a few years since Poe's mother passed away, and Poe and his father, who was a pilot for the Rebellion, have had more and more trouble connecting. Not sure what he wants to do with his life, teenage Poe runs away from home to find adventure, and to figure out what kind of man he is meant to be.

Hanover Square Press

The Day Lincoln Lost Summary: Charles Rosenberg Pub Date: 8/4/20 Abby Kelley Foster arrived in Springfield, Illinois with the $27.99 USD fate of the nation on her mind. Her fame as an abolitionist 432 pages speaker had spread west and she knew that her first speech in the city would make headlines. One of the residents reading those headlines would be none other than the likely next President of the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, lawyer and presidential candidate, knew his chances of winning were good. All he had to do was stay above the fray of the slavery debate and appear the voice of compromise until the people cast their votes. The last thing he needed was a fiery abolitionist appearing in town. When Games Workshop

Profit's Ruin Summary: Book 2 in the Kharadron Overlords story C L Werner arch Pub Date: 8/4/20 $16.00 USD Threatened with losing their ship to pay their investors, 320 pages Brokrin Ullissonn and the crew of the Iron Dragon embark on a perilous voyage: to seek out the fabled sky-island of Profit’s Ruin. Glory and riches await them if they can discover the secrets of the infamous legend, but it is a voyage undertaken by only the brave and the desperate. Beset by enemies old and new, Brokrin’s journey is fraught with danger and overshadowed by a terrible truth: no Kharadron vessel has ever escaped from the grip of this floating sea of weeds and vines. Will the Iron Dragon be the

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ACE

Ace

The Black Song Summary: A matchless warrior is pitted against a Anthony Ryan near-God in the second epic installment of the Raven’s Pub Date: 8/4/20 Blade series. $28.00 USD 448 pages It has long been our lot in life, brother, to do what others can’t.

Vaelin Al Sorna was known across the realm as the greatest of warriors, but he thought battles were behind him. He was wrong. Prophecy and rumor led him across the sea to find a woman he once loved, and drew him into a war waged by the Darkblade, a man who believes himself a god—and one who has gathered a fanatical army that threatens all of the

Hanover Square Press

The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Summary: Washington : A Novel Charles Rosenberg British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King’s Pub Date: 8/4/20 Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the $17.99 USD morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full 464 pages swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that.

His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the “aid by Loyalists” proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. Black manages—just—to get Orbit

Chasm City Summary: Alastair Reynolds Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with Pub Date: 8/4/20 this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera $16.99 USD about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface 608 pages of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet.

The once-utopian Chasm City -- a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet -- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit -- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of

Orbit

Century Rain Summary: Alastair Reynolds Part science fiction thriller, part interstellar adventure, Pub Date: 8/4/20 and part noir crime, Century Rain is an astonishing $16.99 USD international bestseller of "blistering powers and style" 592 pages (SF Revu).

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: a mid-20th-century version of Earth, preserved like a fly in

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

Sorcery of a Queen Summary: They called her the Witch Queen... Brian Naslund Pub Date: 8/4/20 Driven from her kingdom, the would-be queen now seeks $19.99 USD haven in the land of her mother, but Ashlyn will not stop 480 pages until justice has been done. Determined to unlock the secret of powers long thought impossible. Ashlyn bends her will and intellegence to mastering the one thing people always accused her of, sorcery.

Meanwhile, having learned the truth of his mutation, Bershad is a man on borrowed time. Never knowing when his healing powers will drive him to a self-destruction, he is determined to see Ashlyn restored to her throne and the

Pegasus Books

Weird Women : Classic Supernatural Fiction Summary: From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a by Groundbreaking Female Writers: brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the 1852-1923 forgotten female horror writers from 1852–1923. Leslie S. Klinger, Lisa Morton Pub Date: 8/4/20 While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as $25.95 USD the first modern writer of horror, the success of her 384 pages immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired dozens of female authors who wrote their own evocative, chilling tales. Weird Women, edited by award-winning anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger, collects some of the finest tales of terror by authors as legendary as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Charlotte Gilman-Perkins, alongside works of writers who were the bestsellers and

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Midnight Sun Summary: Stephenie Meyer It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes Pub Date: 8/4/20 a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this $27.99 USD highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of 672 pages Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view.

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.

This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes

Baen

The Wellstone Summary: A CLASSIC OF HARD SF FROM WIL Wil McCarthy MCCARTHY. Back in print and just as relevant as ever! Pub Date: 8/4/20 Exploring what the economics of abundance will really look $16.00 USD like. 320 pages Humanity has conquered the Solar System. What’s more, death itself has been vanquished. Wellstone—programmable matter—insures that no one need every die, or indeed, age past adulthood. But for the children of immortal parents, life remains a constant state of arrested development. And a prince shall remain a prince forever, never inheriting the throne. So what is a minor royal to do?

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GAMES WORKSHOP

Games Workshop

Imperium at War Summary: A fantastic collection of action packed Danie Ware stories from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Pub Date: 8/4/20 $16.00 USD Three novellas of war and bloodshed in the Dark Imperium, 512 pages where mankind stands on the brink of annihilation…

On the once-glorious shrine world of Chevreuse, the stalemate between Faithful and Defiler is broken when the Adeptus Astartes take to the field, and the Fulminators walk the Storm. Deep in the alien forests of Kallash, Mordian lives are fed to the meatgrinder of war to blunt the advance of a vast greenskin horde, until one hastily built medicae post is all that stands against the tide. And across the gulf

Games Workshop

Trials of the Mortal Realm Summary: A fantastic collection of action packed Nick Horth stories from the Age of Sigmar universe. Pub Date: 8/4/20 $16.00 USD The Mortal Realms are in turmoil. Torn apart by the ravages 464 pages of Chaos and the arcane abomination of Nagash’s Necroquake, the lands reel from the power of the gods. Civilisation lies in ruins. Yet, beneath this devastation, the Mortal Realms hide treasures beyond belief. In Chamon, a Kharadron admiral hunts for the fallen sky-port of Barak- Zhoff. Deep in the wastes of the Eightpoints, the warrior- smiths of the Iron Golems seek a weapon worthy of Archaon. And in Shyish, a masterful thief breaks into the afterlife itself, searching for an artefact of unknown power.

Baen

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath Summary: A NEW NOVEL IN TOM KRATMAN'S Tom Kratman HARD-HITTING MILITARY SF CARRERA SERIES Pub Date: 8/4/20 $25.00 USD When Patricio Carrera’s family was murdered by Salafist 400 pages terrorists aided and abetted by the fleet of alien Earth, the only restraint on his ruthlessness and ambition was also removed. Now, after decades of war and preparation for war in his adopted homeland of Balboa, the last of the Tauran Union Expeditionary Force collapses and is herded into prison camps and ships, where their re-education commences.

An Islamic rebellion explodes inside the Tauran Union,

Berkley

Sucker Punch Summary: A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an Laurell K. Hamilton execution planned, but what if the wrong person is Pub Date: 8/4/20 about to be executed? $28.00 USD 624 pages When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she arrives, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed his uncle in the most gruesome and bloody way possible. As the mounting evidence points to him, a warrant of execution is already under way.

But something seems off about the murder, and Anita has

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BAEN

Baen

1636: The Atlantic Encounter Summary: THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES Eric Flint, Walter H. Hunt CONQUERS THE NEW WORLD! Pub Date: 8/4/20 $25.00 USD It has taken almost five years for the United States of 352 pages Europe to stabilize its position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World, where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule and control them—and equal incentive for other nations to block their path.

The time-displaced Americans know about the future path that led to their own United States in North America, in the

Berkley

Dark Illusion Summary: A mage and a warrior must see beyond their Christine Feehan facades and embrace the bond that links their souls in Pub Date: 8/4/20 this powerful Carpathian novel from #1 New York $7.99 USD Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. 480 pages At any other time, Julija Brennan would find solace in the quiet of the Sierra Mountains, but now the mage is in the race of her life. Having broken free from her controlling family, Julija’s attempt to warn the Carpathians of the coming threat has failed and put a target on her back—and those who are hunting her are close behind….

After centuries locked away in a monastery in the

Baen

Cosmic Corsairs Summary: NEW FICTION AND CLASSICS OF THE Hank Davis, Christopher Ruocchio GENRE COLLECTED BY THE EDITORIAL TEAM BEHIND Pub Date: 8/4/20 SPACE PIONEERS AND OVERRULED! $16.00 USD 336 pages SPACE PIRATES!

Words that conjure up rousing tales of adventure, derring-do, brave heroes battling the scurvy vermin of the galaxy. Those vermin have taken to pillaging cargo ships and, even worse, space liners, relieving the helpless passengers of their valuables, and worse with the comely women passengers, then spacing the lot—unless one or more of the aforementioned brave heroes arrive in the nick

Hero Collector

The Ships of Battlestar Galactica Summary: Featuring the ships from Universal Pictures’ Jo Bourne, Neil Kelly, Richard Mead, Alice Peebles original 1978 US TV series and the reimagined series Pub Date: 8/4/20 from 2003! The first and only complete encyclopedia of $29.95 USD all the ships from both series. 176 pages THIRTY EIGHT SHIPS FROM THE COLONIAL AND CYLON FLEETS With ships of both the Colonial Fleet and the Cylons from the original 1978 US TV series, the reimagined series from 2003, and the ten-part web series Blood & Chrome, this book provides in-universe profiles and plans of the key spacecraft of the shows with detail that has rarely - if ever - been seen before.

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

A Chorus of Fire Summary: A shadow has moved across Lamoria. Whispers Brian D. Anderson of the coming conflict are growing louder; the enemy Pub Date: 8/4/20 becoming bolder. Belkar’s reach has extended far into the $18.99 USD heart of Ralmarstad and war now seems inevitable. 448 pages Mariyah, clinging to the hope of one day being reunited with Lem, struggles to attain the power she will need to make the world safe again. But a power like this is not easily acquired and will test the limits of her mind and body. She will need to look deep inside herself to find the strength to achieve what even the Thaumas of old could not.

Lem continues his descent into darkness, serving a man he

Games Workshop

Horus Rising Summary: Black Library presents the Masterworks – a Dan Abnett curated collection of novels celebrating the very best science Pub Date: 8/4/20 fiction and fantasy set in the worlds of Warhammer. $19.00 USD 416 pages

It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. It is a golden age of discovery and conquest. But now, on the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favourite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, can the idealistic Horus carry out the Emperor's grand plan, or will

Fantagraphics

Nymph Summary: A lone, defenseless pupa has rained down from Leila Marzocchi the sky. An assembly of talking birds and trees agree to Pub Date: 8/4/20 protect "Dolly" as it begins to evolve — but into what? As $29.99 USD the humanoid creature starts showing a predilection for 208 pages flight and music, magical clues start unveiling themselves. Italian award-winning cartoonist Leila Marzocchi's terrifically lush scratchboard drawings are a perfect companion to her witty dialogue and profound storytelling. Nymph gets to the heart of both human and Mother Nature to prove that, to raise a child-like larva, it takes a village. Or at least a forest.

Chronicle Books

They Drew as They Pleased Volume 6 : The Summary: The sixth volume in the They Drew as They Hidden Art of Disney's New Golden Age Pleased series from award-winning Disney historian Didier Ghez Didier Ghez! Pub Date: 8/4/20 $50.00 USD They Drew as They Pleased Volume 6: The Hidden Art 208 pages of Disney's New Golden Age explores the Disney Animation Studios from the 1990s through 2010s.

This gorgeous volume is the culmination of this landmark series, profiling artists Joe Grant, Hans Bacher, Mike Gabriel, and Michael Giaimo.

• Blockbusters like The Little Mermaid, The Lion King,

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MARVEL PRESS

Marvel Press

Who's Who in the Marvel Universe Summary: Catalog Copy: Disney Storybook Art Team The Marvel Universe is full of so many amazing heroes and Pub Date: 8/4/20 villains—how do you keep track? Enter the Who's Who in the $12.99 USD Marvel Universe character storybook, featuring over 40 key 144 pages players every Marvel fan needs to know! Readers can get to know the ins-and-outs through three sections: Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Avengers. Side-bar profiles are paired with adventure stories to introduce each character and their place in the universe.

Rick Riordan Presents

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears Summary: Catalog Copy: Tehlor Kay Mejia Pub Date: 8/4/20 Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, $16.99 USD Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It’s all 368 pages they’ve heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths.

Hating her mother’s humiliating superstitions and knowing that she and her friends would never venture into the water, Pao organizes a meet-up to test out her new telescope near the Gila, since it’s the Grand Central Publishing

The Hollow Ones Summary: A horrific crime that defies explanation, a Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an Pub Date: 8/4/20 extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation $28.00 USD spirals out of control in this heart-pounding thriller. 336 pages Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself -- it's the shadowy presence she thought she

BOOM! Studios

Bill & Ted Omnibus Summary: WHOA... Brian Joines Pub Date: 8/4/20 The most excellent duo is back! After winning the Battle of $29.99 USD the Bands, Bill and Ted must begin an adventure that will 384 pages take them across timelines and all sorts of heinous realities as they work to undo wickedly bad futures and ensure the world isn’t totally destroyed. They’ll team up with people spanning all of Earth’s magnificent history, journey to Hell and back, and even get kidnapped by an alien -- all part of their rad quest to save the universe from the most bogus of fates!

Collected together for the first time in one prestigious

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FLATIRON BOOKS

Flatiron Books

Court of Lions : A Mirage Novel Summary: On a planet on the brink of revolution, Amani Somaiya Daud has been forced into isolation. She’s been torn from the boy Pub Date: 8/4/20 she loves and has given up contact with her fellow rebels to $18.99 USD protect her family. In taking risks for the rebel cause, Amani 320 pages may have lost Maram’s trust forever. But the princess is more complex than she seems, and now Amani is once more at her capricious nature. One wrong move could see her executed for high treason.

On the eve of Maram’s marriage to Idris comes an unexpected proposal: in exchange for taking her place in the festivities, Maram will keep Amani’s rebel associations a secret. Alone and desperate, Amani is thrust into the center

Gibbs Smith

Tales from the Midnight Masquerade Coloring Summary: The seventh coloring book from Sweden’s Book coloring book sensation, Hanna Karlzon. Hanna Karlzon Pub Date: 8/4/20 In Hanna Karlzon’s newest coloring book, you have been $14.99 USD invited to a midnight masquerade at a grand mansion. 64 pages Guests in splendid costumes dance and mingle in an atmosphere of music, lighted candles, lanterns, and all kinds of magical and mystical creatures. Drawn in her highly regarded detailed style, coloring book enthusiasts will love this new series and get lost in the 64 pages of Hanna’s best and most magical work yet.

Scribner

The End of Everything : (Astrophysically Summary: From one of the most dynamic rising stars Speaking) in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look at Katie Mack five ways the universe could end, and the Pub Date: 8/4/20 mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the $26.00 USD most important concepts in cosmology. 240 pages We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. But what happens to the universe at the end of the

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

All Together Now Summary: Middle-schooler Bina is having the best time Hope Larson playing in her new band with her friends, Darcy and Enzo. Pub Date: 8/4/20 But both the band and her friendships begin to crumble $12.99 USD when Darcy and Enzo start dating, effectively relegating 192 pages Bina to third-wheel status.

To make matters worse, Bina's best friend, Austin, starts developing a crush on her . . . one she is not sure she reciprocates. Now Bina must follow her heart. Can she navigate its twists and turns before the lights come up and the music starts playing?

New York Times-bestselling author Hope Larson delivers a

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BANTAM

Bantam

Fire & Blood : 300 Years Before A Game of Summary: The thrilling history of the Targaryens Thrones (A Targaryen History) comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for George R. R. Martin, Doug Wheatley HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House Pub Date: 8/4/20 of the Dragon. Now in trade paperback with five new $22.00 USD illustrations exclusive to this edition! 752 pages Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly

Grand Central Publishing

Mind of My Mind Summary: Octavia E. Butler A young woman harnesses the power of a viral Pub Date: 8/4/20 mutation and challenges the ruthless man who controls $16.99 USD her, in this brilliantly provocative novel from the 256 pages award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield.

Tuttle Publishing

Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories Summary: "As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without : From Japan's Greatest Detective & Crime peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a Writers collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a Ellery Queen, Satoru Saito, Yasutaka Tsutsui, historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, Seic... after Poe, the most important American in mystery Pub Date: 8/4/20 fiction." — Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical $15.99 USD Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction 288 pages A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered—it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer.

Quercus

How to Draw Anything Summary: Scriberia Remember how you used to draw with confidence and joy Pub Date: 8/4/20 as a child? $9.99 USD 80 pages This book will help you harness that natural skill, and along the way you will discover how drawing will give your thoughts clarity, trigger memories, invigorate passions and find solutions.

As children, when we learn to write, we gain an important life skill: a practical means of communicating that we end up using almost every day of our lives, if only to jot down a shopping list or dash out an email. As children, we also

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W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

W. W. Norton & Company

Heart of Darkness Summary: Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a Joseph Conrad, Peter Kuper, Maya Jasanoff visually immersive and profound adaptation of Joseph Pub Date: 8/4/20 Conrad’s enduring classic. $15.95 USD 160 pages

Gemstone Publishing

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Summary: The Bible of serious comic book collectors, Volume 50 – Spider-Man/Spawn dealers and historians marks its Golden Anniversary with Robert M. Overstreet, Todd McFarlane The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #50, complete with Pub Date: 8/4/20 new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the $29.95 USD Overstreet Hall of Fame, new market reports and more. Find 1200 pages out why the Guide has been trusted for five decades! Spawn/Spider-Man crossover cover by acclaimed artist Todd McFarlane, recently recognized bythe Guinness Book of World Records!

Del Rey

The Space Between Worlds : A Novel Summary: An outsider who can travel between worlds Micaiah Johnson discovers a secret that threatens her new home and Pub Date: 8/4/20 her fragile place in it in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s $28.00 USD both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful 336 pages examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from diseases, from turf wars, from vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on three hundred seventy-two worlds in total.

Anchor

The Starless Sea : A Novel Summary: From the New York Times bestselling Erin Morgenstern author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story Pub Date: 8/4/20 set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, $16.95 USD painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a 592 pages starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered and desperate to make sense of what he’s reading, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that

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CIDER MILL PRESS

Cider Mill Press

The Zombie Night Before Christmas : 10th Summary: Have a frenzied zombie-craze Holidaze with this Anniversary Edition monstrous mash-up. Clement C. Moore Pub Date: 8/4/20 Can Santa fight off the zombie ho-ho-hoard? Read the $12.95 USD Zombie Night Before Christmas, the gory parody of the 48 pages cherished 19th century poem, to find out and have a frenzied zombie-craze Holidaze. Blood spattering and brain eating have never looked so good thanks to the ghoulishly detailed illustrations that bring this monstrous mash-up to life. Zombies are a trend that will never die, making Zombie Night Before Christmas the perfect irreverent holiday gift.

Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Monsters 101 Summary: Kids getting ready for Halloween will love Cale Atkinson this laugh-out-loud picture book that finally sets the Pub Date: 8/4/20 record straight about monsters! $17.99 USD 32 pages Monsters! They’re so much more than just that scary thing under your bed. Join Professors Batula McFang, Blobbins, and Howlsworth, and their trusty lab assistant—a zombie named Tina—as they reveal eerie and frankly ridiculous monster facts, never uttered outside a crypt! For example:

• Monsters love competitive board-game nights! • Favorite monster foods include clam pudding with fish heads and pickled ant ice cream!

DC Comics

Teen Titans Go! to Camp Summary: Summer’s in the air and the Teen Titans are Sholly Fisch, Marcelo DiChiara leaving Jump City behind for six fun-filled weeks of Pub Date: 8/4/20 mosquitoes, sunstroke, and poison ivy at summer $9.99 USD camp! 152 pages What the Titans don’t realize until they arrive is that this is Camp Apokolips, where the “bug juice” is made with real bugs, the swimming pool is a fire pit, and the lunch lady is Granny Goodness! Things only get worse when they encounter the bunks they’ll be competing against in the camp’s games: the Titans East and the H.I.V.E. Five! Given all of that, there’s only one thing on Robin’s mind…

Candlewick

Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O'Malley Summary: A captivating retelling of the story of Grace Tony Lee, Sam Hart O’Malley, the Pirate Queen of Ireland, and her struggle Pub Date: 8/4/20 to protect the friends, family, and country that she $12.99 USD loved. 128 pages A true daughter of the fearsome O’Malley clan, Grace spent her life wishing to join the fight to keep Henry VIII’s armies from invading her homeland of Ireland — only to be told again and again that the battlefield is no place for a woman. But after English conspirators brutally murder her husband, Grace can no longer stand idly by. Leading men into battle on the high seas, Grace O’Malley quickly gains a formidable reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland with her prowess

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DAW

DAW

Seven Devils Summary: This first book in a feminist space opera Laura Lam, Elizabeth May duology introduces seven individuals who will free the Pub Date: 8/4/20 galaxy from the ruthless Tholosian Empire—or die $26.00 USD trying. 464 pages When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy’s most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire’s voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray.

Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the information

Vintage

A Cosmology of Monsters : A Novel Summary: A tender and terrifying literary horror Shaun Hamill novel—the author’s debut—that tells the story of a Pub Date: 8/4/20 family (creators of a haunted house attraction called $16.00 USD the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary 336 pages monsters—both metaphorical and all too real—that haunt them.

Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late ’60s, his bookish mother, Margaret, marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters—Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a natural

Gallery Books

The First Sister Summary: Combining the social commentary of The Linden A. Lewis Handmaid’s Tale with the white-knuckled thrills of Red Pub Date: 8/4/20 Rising, this epic space opera follows a comfort woman $26.00 USD as she claims her agency, a soldier questioning his 352 pages allegiances, and a non-binary hero out to save the solar system.

First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new

Gallery / Saga Press

The Deep Summary: Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, Jona... folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Pub Date: 8/4/20 Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed $14.99 USD Diggs’s rap group Clipping. 192 pages Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

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PEGASUS BOOKS

Pegasus Books

My Captain America : A Granddaughter's Summary: A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist the author’s relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Megan Margulies Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. Pub Date: 8/4/20 $27.95 USD In the 1990s, Megan Margulies’s Upper West Side 242 pages neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the “Wild Man of 96th Street,” who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents’ tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five—including some loud personalities—eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space.

Sourcebooks Fire

Prelude for Lost Souls Summary: In St. Hilaire the ability to talk to the dead is a Helene Dunbar requirement for residence. Dec Hampton has always lived Pub Date: 8/4/20 there, but ever since his parents died, he's had enough. All $17.99 USD Dec has to do is pass the GED, and he is out of there. 384 pages His best friend Russ won't be surprised—but he will be heartbroken. Unlike Dec, Russ is a good medium, maybe even a great one. He's made huge sacrifices for his gift.

Dec can't stay, and Russ wouldn't ask, so everything seems all set to slowly slip away, until a train carrying Annie Krylova, the piano prodigy whose music has been Dec's main source of solace, breaks down outside of town. In St.

Tor Books

Space Station Down Summary: When a millionaire space tourist visits the Ben Bova, Doug Beason orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 Pub Date: 8/4/20 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding $26.99 USD and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of 352 pages terror when, together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS—and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred atomic bombs. In doing so, they hope to annihilate the world’s financial system.

All that stands between them and their deadly goal is the lone survivor aboard the ISS, Kimberly Hasid-Robinson, a

Europa Editions

The Missing of Clairdelune : Book Two of The Summary: Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet Mirror Visitor Quartet Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle Pub Date: 8/4/20 In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, "the $11.95 USD plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details 516 pages abound, and the story envelops the reader as the pages fly by." (Le Monde des ados)

When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. her gift—the ability to read the secret history of objects—is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. IPS/PGW/Two Rivers Children's Spring 2020 - July 2020 Page 24

FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Streets Of Paris, Streets Of Murder : The Summary: The second of two volumes presenting all four Complete Noir Of Manchette and Tardi Vol. 2 hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette Tardi, Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi. Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot — Martin Terrier, Pub Date: 8/4/20 killer-for-hire, needs just one more big job so that he can $29.99 USD turn in his guns for good and return home to marry his 196 pages childhood sweetheart. But soon, he’s on the run — not only from the authorities and his treacherous ex-clients, but also from a crime syndicate seeking revenge for an earlier hit on one of theirs. In Run Like Crazy, Run Like Hell, philanthropist Michael Hartog hires Julie, just out of a psychiatric asylum, as a nanny. But he plans to fake the kidnapping of his son, Peter — and frame Julie for it. But Julie is no pushover, and soon, Julie and Peter are on the

Titan Books

Mycroft and Sherlock Summary: The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Pub Date: 8/4/20 Holmes. $8.99 USD 336 pages It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes—now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office—has no interest in the killings; however his brother Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre to the detriment of his studies, much to Mycroft’s frustration.

When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft’s best friend Cyrus Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades

DAW

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow : City of Summary: Now in trade paperback, the first book in Golden Shadow the classic, genre-bending cyberpunk quartet from a Tad Williams master fantasist. Pub Date: 8/4/20 $20.00 USD Otherland. Surrounded by secrecy, this virtual reality is 720 pages home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth’s most valuable resource—its children.

Only a few have become aware of the danger. Fewer still are willing or able to take up the challenge of this perilous and

Tor.com

The Heirs of Locksley Summary: The latest civil war in England has come and Carrie Vaughn gone, King John is dead, and the nobility of England gathers Pub Date: 8/4/20 to see the coronation of his son, thirteen year old King $13.99 USD Henry III. 128 pages The new king is at the center of political rivalries and power struggles, but John of Locksley—son of the legendary Robin Hood and Lady Marian—only sees a lonely boy in need of friends. John and his sisters, Mary and Eleanor, succeed in befriending Henry, while also inadvertently uncovering a political plot, saving a man's life, and carrying out daring escapes.

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SCHOLASTIC INC.

Scholastic Inc.

Orientation (Marvel: Avengers Assembly #1) Summary: Preeti Chhibber, James Lancett A diverse cast of characters -- Kamala Khan (Ms. Pub Date: 8/4/20 Marvel), Miles Morales (Spider-Man), and Doreen Green $13.99 USD (Squirrel Girl) -- team up in their first-ever illustrated 176 pages middle-grade series about ordinary kids with extraordinary powers!

Kamala Khan was an average middle school kid. That is, until a cloud called a Terrigen Mist swept through the New Jersey waterfront and activated her super powers! After taking on the persona of Ms. Marvel, she's been fighting crime in Jersey City, and has caught the eye of some pretty well-established super heroes. But that's not always a good

Graphix

Queen of the Nile (Cleopatra in Space #6) Summary: Mike Maihack The conclusion to Mike Maihack's thrilling graphic novel Pub Date: 8/4/20 series starring a young Cleopatra and her adventures in $14.99 USD space! 240 pages The time has come for Cleo to fulfill the ancient prophecy that declares her a savior and a hero, a prophecy she still struggles to accept. Cleo is joined by both old and new friends as they fight to defend the galaxy she's come to call home against the evil Xaius Octavian. The Queen of the Nile must summon the strength to face down her enemy one last time, and keep her friends -- and herself -- alive. Now a TV series on NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock!

Orbit

Ten Arrows of Iron Summary: Sam Sykes An outcast mage caught between two warring empires Pub Date: 8/4/20 must either save the world or destroy everything she $17.99 USD loves in the second novel of "an unforgettable epic 720 pages fantasy" trilogy (Publishers Weekly).

Sal the Cacophony -- outlaw, outcast, outnumbered -- destroys all that she loves. Her lover lost and cities burned in her wake, all she has left is her magical gun and her all-consuming quest for revenge against those who stole her power and took the sky from her.

When the roguish agent of a mysterious patron offers her

Square Fish

The Bone Garden Summary: Irréelle fears she’s not quite real. Only the Heather Kassner, Matt Saunders finest magical thread tethers her to life—and to Miss Vesper. Pub Date: 8/4/20 But for all her efforts to please her cruel creator, the thread $7.99 USD is unraveling. Irréelle is forgetful as she gathers bone dust. 288 pages She is slow returning from the dark passages beneath the cemetery. Worst of all, she is unmindful of her crooked bones.

When Irréelle makes one final, unforgivable mistake, Miss Vesper threatens to imagine her away once and for all. Desperate, Irréelle flees to the underside of the graveyard and embarks on an adventure to unearth the magic that breathes bones to life, even if it means she will return to

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THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Kent State University Press

The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis : A Critical Summary: Although C. S. Lewis is best known for his prose Edition and for his clear, lucid literary criticism, Christian Don W. King apologetics, and imaginative Ransom and Narnia stories, he Pub Date: 8/7/20 considered himself a poet for the first two and a half $24.95 USD decades of his life. Owen Barfield recalls that anyone who 485 pages met Lewis as a young man in the early 1920s at Oxford University quickly learned he was one “whose ruling passion was to become a great poet. At that time if you thought of Lewis you automatically thought of poetry.”

The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis offers readers, for the first time, a one-volume collection of Lewis’s poetry, including many poems that have never appeared in print.

TASCHEN

Jamie Hewlett – 40th Anniversary Edition Summary: From the legendary Tank Girl to live-action Jamie Hewlett, Julius Wiedemann animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese contemporary opera to Pub Date: 8/8/20 an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlett is $25.00 USD one of the most energetic figures of contemporary pop 512 pages culture.

With influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the groundbreaking cartoon band Gorillaz. The award-winning virtual pop group of animated characters is a truly global phenomenon. Gorillaz have topped charts around the world, toured the

Angry Robot

Triumff Summary: Vivat Regina! Dan Abnett Pub Date: 8/11/20 It is the year 2010, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth XXX $14.99 USD sits upon the throne of the Anglo-Hispanic Empire. Fuelled 384 pages by alchemy and superstition, the Elizabethan era has endured unchallenged for almost 450 years. But now, a shadow conspiracy threatens to bring it to a violent end…

Unfortunately for roguish adventurer Sir Rupert Triumff, lately fallen from favour at court, he makes the perfect scapegoat. If Triumff is to uncover the plot, save the Queen, and clear his name, he’ll need all his wit, skill, and charm, and every tool in his magical Coutteau suisse. Even the nail

Gollancz

Episodes Summary: Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed Christopher Priest writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, Pub Date: 8/11/20 for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of $15.99 USD his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from 368 pages the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing.

Eleven stories are included, along with commentary and reflection from the author. Within these pages you will discover the stage magic-inspired horror of 'The Head and the Hand', the timeslip accidents of 'futouristic.co.uk', the impossible romance of 'Palely Loitering' and the present-day

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GOLLANCZ

Gollancz

Episodes Summary: Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed Christopher Priest writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, Pub Date: 8/11/20 for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of $24.99 USD his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from 368 pages the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing.

Eleven stories are included, along with commentary and reflection from the author. Within these pages you will discover the stage magic-inspired horror of 'The Head and the Hand', the timeslip accidents of 'futouristic.co.uk', the impossible romance of 'Palely Loitering' and the present-day

Gollancz

Dragon Heart Summary: For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Peter Higgins Cronin, this is the story of one family's battle for Pub Date: 8/11/20 survival in a world where evil has already won. $15.99 USD 416 pages As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope's chest, they fear they'll lose her to a battle they can't possibly help her win . . .

Critically acclaimed author Peter Higgins has written a richly

Hodder & Stoughton

The Orphanage of Gods Summary: Twenty years ago, the humans Helena Coggan Pub Date: 8/11/20 came for their gods. $13.99 USD In the bloody revolution, gods were all but wiped out. Ever 416 pages since, the children they left behind have been imprisoned in an orphanage, watched day and night by the ruthless Guard. Any who show signs of divine power vanish from their beds in the night, all knowledge of their existence denied.

No one has ever escaped the orphanage.

Until now.

John Murray

No Dominion Summary: 'A vivid, action-packed journey through a Louise Welsh post-apocalyptic world. Terrifying and touching in Pub Date: 8/11/20 equal measure, the novel is a love story, an adventure, $15.99 USD a road movie, a family drama and a murder mystery 384 pages rolled into one' The Times Scotland

It is seven years after the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. Survivors settled on the Orkney Islands are trying to build a new society but their world crashes for a second time when the islands' teenagers vanish. Stevie and Magnus are the only ones who can bring them home.

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

Cuphead Volume 1: Comic Capers & Curios Summary: Revisit the colorful characters of the Zack Keller, Shawn Dickinson Inkwell Isles in this collection of brand new Cuphead Pub Date: 8/11/20 and Mugman tales! $10.99 USD 72 pages Prone to unexpected predicaments and thrilling adventures, Cuphead and Mugman feature front and center in a series of short but sweet side stories that reimagine the world of the all-cartoon magical wondergame. This original graphic novel features all-new original tales, authentically drawn to match the glorious, award-winning vintage animation style of Cuphead!

Don’t miss Cuphead and Mugman’s graphic novel debut in

Bloomsbury Publishing

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell : A Novel Summary: In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, Susanna Clarke most people believe magic to have long since disappeared Pub Date: 8/11/20 from England—until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his $19.00 USD powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. 864 pages Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals,

Tor Books

The Wizard Knight Summary: Tor Essentials presents new editions of Gene Wolfe science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and Pub Date: 8/11/20 lasting value, each volume introduced by an $19.99 USD appropriate literary figure. 912 pages A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of works of fantasy like The Once and Future King, or The Wizard of Earthsea, that drink directly from the wellspring of myth.

A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of epic proportions,

Tor Books

By Force Alone Summary: Everyone thinks they know the story of King Lavie Tidhar Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. Pub Date: 8/11/20 $27.99 USD 416 pages They fact is they know only lies.

Arthur is no romantic hero. Merlin is no paternal sage. And a sword is just a sword, until it runs you through.

A savage and cutting epic fantasy, equally poetic and profane, BY FORCE ALONE is at once a timely political satire, a magical adventure, and a subversive masterwork.

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FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Terror Train And Other Stories Summary: This volume collects stories Feldstein wrote and Al Feldstein drew about "The Machine-Gun Mad Mobsters" and "The Case Pub Date: 8/11/20 of the Floating Corpse," as well such horror gems as "The $35.00 USD Mummy’s Curse," "The Thing in the Swamp!" and our title 296 pages story, "Terror Train." Plus: the most unlikely origin story of them all — the tongue-in-cheek origin of EC Comics itself, in "Horror Beneath the Streets!" There are more than 30 stories in all, with essays and commentary by EC experts.

VIZ Media LLC

Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution Summary: Awesome Pokémon adventures inspired by the Machito Gomi best-selling Pokémon movies! Pub Date: 8/11/20 $9.99 USD The graphic novel tie-in to the latest Pokémon movie of the 128 pages same name, a CGI remake of the first Pokémon movie released in theaters nationwide.

When researchers discover a fossil of the Mythical Pokémon Mew, they bring upon themselves a creation that goes against the very laws of nature: Mewtwo, a Legendary Pokémon intended for use as a tool of destruction. But as Mewtwo becomes aware of its existence, it begins to resent its human creators and seeks revenge—and Ash, Pikachu

Marvel

Marvel-Verse: Captain America Summary: Steve Rogers is the most inspirational hero in Stan Lee, Roger Stern, Brian Clevinger, Len Wein, the Marvel-Verse - the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America! ... Now discover why he's known as a living legend with some Pub Date: 8/11/20 of Cap's most action-packed adventures! First, flash back in $9.99 USD time for a thrilling re-examination of Captain America's 112 pages incomparable origin story! See frail Steve Rogers became a super-soldier, and thrill to his first mission as the Fighting Avenger of World War II! Plus, the Black Panther and Agent 13 join Cap in battle with one of his greatest foes, Baron Zemo - but is more going on than meets the eye? And a classic team-up between Captain America and Spider-Man on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D.! Can the shield-slinger and the web-slinger stop the stony Grey Gargoyle?

IDW Publishing

Fishtown: Brotherly Love Edition Summary: How far would you go to get what you Kevin Colden want? Pub Date: 8/11/20 $17.99 USD In Fishtown, life isn’t easy. Philadelphia is a big city, but all 128 pages its problems come alive here, in this place. That’s where Justin, Keith, Adrian, and Angelica hang out, and it’s where they realize that all they need to be happier is to get some money. So that’s what they’re gonna do.

Though getting money in Fishtown isn’t easy either. But Angelica knows a guy with a job. He’s nice, and he likes her, so maybe he can help. And if he doesn’t, well, maybe they have a plan for that too…

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ORBIT

Orbit

The Burning White Summary: Brent Weeks In this stunning conclusion to the epic New York Times Pub Date: 8/11/20 bestselling Lightbringer series, kingdoms clash as Kip $19.99 USD struggles to escape his family's shadow in order to 992 pages protect the land and people he loves.

Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves. Success will condemn his entire empire.

As the White King springs his great traps and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile must

Centennial Books

Horror : An Illustrated History of Vampires, Summary: Take a deep dive into all things scary from the Zombies, Monsters & More present day to legends dating back a thousand years. Neil Turitz Everything from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Twilight and True Pub Date: 8/11/20 Blood for the vampire fans. But why stop there? $19.99 USD Frankenstein, werewolves, mummies, zombies, witches and 192 pages warlocks (yes, they’re real), the supernatural, aliens and much more are all covered in this comprehensive, illustrated guide.

Spanning books to film to legends, horror is one of the highest grossing franchises around. At a time when Americans spend $6 billion at retail every Halloween, this book is the backbone of what makes being scared so

HarperTeen

Star Daughter Summary: The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is Shveta Thakrar used to keeping secrets. But when a flare of starfire injures Pub Date: 8/11/20 her human father, Sheetal needs a full star’s help to heal $17.99 USD him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long 448 pages ago.

Sheetal’s quest will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must act as her family’s champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens—or risk never returning to Earth at all.

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets a rich landscape of Hindu mythology and celestial intrigue in this sparkling YA fantasy St. Martin's Griffin

Cry of Metal & Bone : Earthsinger Chronicles, Summary: The Mantle dividing Elsira and Lagrimar has Book 3 fallen. As the two kingdoms struggle to unify, one threat L. Penelope stands above them all. Pub Date: 8/11/20 $18.99 USD As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance at 496 pages a better life in Elsira, a shadowy group with ties to the Elsiran government launches an attack on their own soil. With threats of more violence, an unlikely crew is assembled to investigate. Among them are Lizvette Nirall, a disgraced socialite seeking redemption for past mistakes, and Tai Summerhawk, a foreign smuggler determined to keep a promise he made to a dead man.

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

Luna: Moon Rising Summary: A hundred years in the future, a war wages Ian McDonald between the Five Dragons—five families who control the Pub Date: 8/11/20 Moon’s leading industrial companies. Each clan does $18.99 USD everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the 448 pages food chain—marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations.

Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel.

Witness the Dragons' final battle for absolute sovereignty in

Pocket Books/Star Trek

More Beautiful Than Death Summary: An original novel based on the thrilling new David Mack Star Trek movies! Pub Date: 8/11/20 $16.00 USD Based on the “Kelvin Universe” movie saga! 352 pages Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet’s denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won’t turn his back on people in danger. After a harrowing encounter with the dark-energy “demons,” Kirk’s belief in a rational universe is

Tor Books

The Shadow Commission Summary: November 1963. Cade and Anja have lived in David Mack hiding for a decade, training new mages. Then the Pub Date: 8/11/20 assassination of President Kennedy trigger a series of $21.99 USD murders whose victims are all magicians—with Cade, Anja, 352 pages and their allies as its prime targets. Their only hope of survival: learning how to fight back against the sinister cabal known as the Shadow Commission.

Archaia

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation Vol. 2 Summary: The untold origin of the Goblin King from Jim Jim Henson Henson’s cult-classic film, Labyrinth. Pub Date: 8/11/20 $16.99 USD As the clock ticks ever closer to the thirteenth hour, Maria 112 pages struggles through the canals of the Labyrinth alongside her peculiar band of companions, wishing desperately to be reunited with her son. While she may be no closer to the Owl King’s castle, Maria begins to uncover the secrets of the Labyrinth and her own power within the walls of this magical domain. But from deep in the shadows, the Owl King watches her every move, plotting and waiting to bring her demise by any means necessary. Written by Simon Spurrier (Jim Henson’s The Power of the Dark Crystal) and

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Summary: The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and Seth Dickinson sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Pub Date: 8/11/20 Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The $35.00 USD secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is 656 pages among them.

But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain.

Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when

DAW

Mirage Summary: The second book in the Web Shifter’s Julie E. Czerneda Library series returns to the adventures of Esen, a Pub Date: 8/11/20 shapeshifting alien who must navigate the perils of a $26.00 USD hostile universe. 432 pages Relationships get complicated when you don’t know who—or what—you really are. Esen must find a way to rescue a hapless group of chimeras, beings who are a new and unique blend of species she knows, when she can’t become one herself. As she races to save them from persecution by the “still pure,” she unwittingly discovers that Evan Gooseberry isn’t what he believes himself to be, shattering his self image. Before he can help Esen, he must not only

Tor Books

The Last Uncharted Sky : Book 3 of The Risen Summary: Isabelle and Jean-Claude undertake an airship Kingdoms expedition to recover a fabled treasure and claim a hitherto Curtis Craddock undiscovered craton for l'Empire Celeste. But Isabelle, as a Pub Date: 8/11/20 result from a previous attack that tried to subsume her, $32.50 USD body and soul, suffers from increasingly disturbing and 448 pages disruptive hallucinations. Disasters are compounded when the ship is sabotaged by an enemy agent, and Jean-Claude is seperated from the expedition.

In a race against time, Isabelle must figure out how to ward off her ailment before it destroys her and reunite with Jean-Claude to seek the fabled treasure as ancient secrets and a royal conspiracry threaten to undo the entire realm.

Berkley

Sword and Pen Summary: With the future of the Great Library in Rachel Caine doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone Pub Date: 8/11/20 must decide if it’s worth saving in this thrilling $9.99 USD adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. 368 pages The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library…or see everything it stood for crumble.

Story Locale: Alternate Alexandria

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HARPERTEEN

HarperTeen

Kingdom of Souls Summary: Born into a family of powerful witch doctors, Rena Barron Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But as she fails at bone Pub Date: 8/11/20 charms, fails to call upon the ancestors, and fails to see the $10.99 USD future, her ambitious mother looks upon her with 512 pages ever-growing disapproval.

There is only one thing Arrah hasn’t tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the city’s children begin to vanish, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit.

What she uncovers is even more horrifying. The Demon King, whose hunger for souls nearly destroyed the world before he was defeated and imprisoned by the ancient Countryman Press

Catland : The Soft Power of Cat Culture in Summary: In Japan, cats rule. And the country’s feline love Japan affair is now a worldwide phenomenon. From cat cafés and Sarah Archer Hello Kitty to the familiar sight of a maneki neko Pub Date: 8/11/20 (“beckoning cat”) waving its paw from a shop window, cat $19.95 USD lovers all over the world are more immersed in Japan’s cat 192 pages culture than they may realize.

With charming storytelling, Catland will introduce you to cats practicing to become monks, a designer who makes cat costumes inspired by the fashions of 18th-century France, and skilled craftsmen who build pieces of fine furniture precisely scaled down to suit feline customers. Packed with photographs, works of art, pop culture and folklore, Catland

47North

Debt of Loyalty Summary: An uncivil war in space sends a planet Christopher G. Nuttall spinning out of control in the next thrilling Kat Falcone Pub Date: 8/11/20 novel by bestselling author Christopher G. Nuttall. $14.95 USD 400 pages The Commonwealth has fractured, its interstellar order breaking down into civil war. On one side is Hadrian, the outlaw king of Tyre, driven from his homeworld and forced into a fragile alliance with the colony worlds; on the other sits a parliament determined to restrain him at all costs. The time for talk is over. The matter can be settled only by war.

Loyal to the king, Admiral Kat Falcone leads her fleets into battle, joined by allies with motives of their own. But her friend and former comrade Commodore William McElney has Start Publishing LLC

Fill in the Spank The Editors of Cleis Press Pub Date: 8/11/20 $9.95 USD 112 pages

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PIKE AND POWDER

Pike and Powder

Drowned Secrets Summary: From the depths of the Trident Realms, Ben Stoddard treachery and war impact the lands of Mantica Pub Date: 8/11/20 $18.00 USD After a bitter betrayal a young naiad, Ashal, and her 320 pages bodyguard, are exiled from their home in the watery depths of the Trident Realm. Swearing revenge against those who have wronged her, Ashal begins her quest to seek out and destroy the people responsible for her sorrow. Her journey takes her to the remote Abbey of Danos on the outskirts of the human empire of Basilea where the first on her list has taken up residency. Waiting there will force her to face some uncomfortable truths about herself and the world in which she lives as well as open her eyes to a greater darkness

Night Shade

Hilldiggers : A Novel of the Polity Summary: They have extraordinary power and aren’t Neal Asher afraid to use it . . . Pub Date: 8/11/20 $7.99 USD Two planets in the same solar system are locked in war, 464 pages when some kind of cosmic super-string is discovered. It seems packed with alien technology, or even perhaps life. And for safety it is stored – in four segments – within a maximum-security space station. A female research scientist falls pregnant on the station soon after, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide. But why?

By the war’s end, one planet is devastated. It fell victim to the other’s incredible hilldigger weaponry – so named as

Aladdin

Moongobble and Me Magical Collection : The Summary: Enjoy the complete Moongobble and Me Dragon of Doom; The Weeping Werewolf; The collection from bestselling author Bruce Coville! Evil Elves; The Mischief Monster; The Naughty Nork Edward is bored with his life in the small town of Pigbone. Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville But things get much more exciting when he accepts a job Pub Date: 8/11/20 helping two newcomers—Moongobble the Magician and his $32.99 USD faithful toad, Urk. As it turns out, Moongobble needs a lot of 448 pages help, as he’s not a very good magician (his spells keep turning things to cheese). Joined by Fireball the dragon, this motley crew adventures to save Moongobble’s magic, break a curse, complete epic quests, and find a runaway princess.

This boxed set contains all five of the Moongobble and Me

Titan Books

Blade Runner 2049 - Interlinked - The Art Summary: The official art book for Blade Runner 2049 Tanya Lapointe and a companion volume to The Art and Soul of Blade Pub Date: 8/11/20 Runner 2049. $50.00 USD 224 pages Film audiences experienced a bold, breathtaking vision of the future in 1982’s ground-breaking Blade Runner. With the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve returned to that world, as a young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.

A companion to The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049,

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MEERKAT PRESS, LLC

Meerkat Press, LLC

The Invisible Summary: Seb Doubinsky It’s election time in New Babylon, and President Maggie Pub Date: 8/11/20 Delgado is running for re-election but is threatened by the $14.95 USD charismatic populist Ted Rust. Newly appointed City 206 pages Commissioner Georg Ratner is given the priority task to fight the recent invasion of Synth in the streets of the capital, a powerful hallucinogen drug with a mysterious origin. When his old colleague asks him for help on another case and gets murdered, things become more and more complicated, and his official neutrality becomes a burden in the political intrigue he his gradually sucked into. Supported by Laura, his trustful life partner and the Egyptian goddess Nut, Ratner decides to fight for what he believes in, no

Image Comics

Last of the Independents Summary: Matt Fraction, Kieron Dwyer A bank in the middle of nowhere. A crew with nothing to lose. And the Pub Date: 8/11/20 haul of a lifetime too big to just disappear. $17.99 USD 112 pages This busted-knuckles crime thriller by MATT FRACTION and KIERON DWYER returns to print for the first time in more than a decade. What should've been a simple stickup turns infinitely more complex when a crew of robbers ends up with way more than they bargained for-literally. And when the mob they just accidentally robbed comes looking to even the score, there's only one way out for all involved...

A low-key, character-driven desert noir that pits cowboys against

Marvel

Ms. Marvel Meets the Marvel Universe Summary: Kamala Khan is Jersey City's own friendly G Willow Wilson, Mark Waid, Amy Reeder, neighborhood super hero, and she's making a huge Brandon Mo... impression across the Marvel Universe - whether sharing an Pub Date: 8/11/20 adventure with Wolverine or a Ms. Marvel Team-Up with $12.99 USD Spider-Man! Kamala discovers her Inhuman legacy with 248 pages Medusa and the oversized hound Lockjaw, enjoys spy games with S.H.I.E.L.D., and comes face-to-face at last with her idol Captain Marvel - just in time for the end of the world! Witness Kamala's first adventure with the All-New, All-Different Avengers - and see her join a new generation of heroes in the Champions! Plus, two young super hero sensations unite when Ms. Marvel meets Moon Girl!

Amulet Paperbacks

On the Edge of Gone Summary: Corinne Duyvis A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult Pub Date: 8/11/20 literature’s boldest new talents. $11.99 USD January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to 480 pages hit—the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll never reach the shelter in time. A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelter—a generation ship, scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But everyone on the ship has been chosen because of their

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IDW PUBLISHING

IDW Publishing

Corto Maltese: Mu, The Lost Continent Summary: In this final entry of Hugo Pratt’s epic Hugo Pratt series, the master graphic novelist returns to the Pub Date: 8/11/20 theme he first explored in the initial episode—the $34.99 USD search for the lost continent of Mu, the mythical 176 pages Atlantis.

A premonition hovers over the entire dreamlike story, as if fate had decided in advance that this would be Corto Maltese’s last adventure. The feeling is underscored by the return of most of the major characters seen throughout the long-running saga, like actors giving their final curtain call: Gold Mouth, Morgana, Tristan Bantam, Levi Colombia, Professor Steiner, “the Monk,” Cain Groovesnore, Soledad,

Mad Libs

Trick or Treat Mad Libs Summary: Trick-or-Treat! Move over, bite-size candy Tristan Roarke bars, it’s time to put some Halloween Mad Libs stories Pub Date: 8/11/20 in your pumpkin basket! $4.99 USD 48 pages What better way to celebrate Halloween than with these 21 new and hilarious fill-in-the-blank Mad Libs stories, full of creepy tales, costumes, and funny frights!

Harper Voyager

Failed State : A Novel Summary: In the aftermath of a second American Christopher Brown revolution, peace rests on a fragile truce. Though the ruling Pub Date: 8/11/20 regime has been deposed, the former dictator president has $16.99 USD vanished, escaping justice. Some believe he is dead; others 384 pages fear he is in hiding, gathering forces to make a comeback. As the political leadership in Washington works to rewrite laws and restore order, Donny Kimoe seeks justice. He intends to settle scores—and win lawsuits—over what happened when civil war tore the country apart.

Donny isn’t the only one looking to right the wrongs of the past. The rebels he once defended are now exacting their own kind of justice. Amid the flooded ruins of New Orleans,

Design Originals

Mystical & Majestic Animals : A Fantastic Summary: Discover an amazing world filled with dragons, Coloring Adventure tigers, snow leopards, phoenixes, and more! An imaginative Kayomi Harai escape, this coloring book for adults makes for a unique and Pub Date: 8/11/20 intricate coloring experience. From talented Japanese artist, $9.99 USD Kayomi Harai, comes this one-of-a-kind coloring book filled 80 pages with over 30 realistic designs of mythical and majestic creatures to color into life. Each Japanese art design is printed on a single side of high-quality paper with perforated edges for easy removal and display.

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ANGRY ROBOT

Angry Robot

Bystander 27 Summary: After his pregnant wife is senselessly killed Rik Hoskin in a clash between the mysterious super-powered Pub Date: 8/11/20 ’costumes’, ex-Navy SEAL Jon Hayes fights to discover $14.99 USD the truth about their identity and origins. 400 pages For Jon Hayes, the super-powered ’costumes’ are just part of ordinary life in New York City, until the day his pregnant wife Melanie is senselessly killed in a clash between Captain Light and The Jade Shade.

But as Hayes struggles to come to terms with his loss, and questions for the first time who the costumes are and where they come from, the once sharp lines of his reality begin to

Pegasus Books

The Man in the Willows : The Life of Kenneth Summary: A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, Grahame author of the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows, and Matthew Dennison of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it. Pub Date: 8/11/20 $17.95 USD During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat 352 pages behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; on weekends he retired to the house in the country that he shared with his fanciful wife, Elspeth, and their fragile son, Alistair, and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, "tempted by the treasures of hedge and ditch; the rapt surprise of the first lords-and-ladies, the rustle of a field-mouse, the splash of a frog."

Simon & Schuster

Barnum : An American Life Summary: “Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first Robert Wilson full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés Pub Date: 8/11/20 for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and $18.00 USD the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street 368 pages Journal

P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history.

First Second

Science Comics: Rocks and Minerals Summary: Every volume of Science Comics offers a : Geology from Caverns to the Cosmos complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the Andy Hirsch solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. These Pub Date: 8/11/20 gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining $12.99 USD views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader 128 pages doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!

In this volume, join a crystal-crazy fanboy and a famous rock hunter on a geological journey that will take them to the summit of a volcano, deep within the earth, and even into outer space! They'll learn about the unstoppable forces that shape our planet and they might even pick up a

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FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Disney Masters Vol. 13: Paul Murry with Carl Summary: Mickey and Goofy are lost at sea, and they get Fallberg : Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The caught in a pitched battle between buccaneer Pete and Sunken City sneaky submarine commander Captain Grapple. At stake: Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry the ancient gold of Port Rancid, a pirate stronghold that Pub Date: 8/11/20 sank beneath the waves — and is now guarded by a pack of $29.99 USD very jealous sea monsters! Then, Mickey and Goofy have 176 pages their hands full with a host of mystery puzzlers — from canoe-going ghosts in "Legend of Loon Lake" to hi-tech arsonists in "The Phantom Fires" to a piratical parrot in "The Castaways of Whale Bay!"

Fantagraphics

Seeds And Stems Summary: In 2016, Hanselmann began producing Xeroxed Simon Hanselmann zines starring the depressive Megg (a green-skinned witch), Pub Date: 8/11/20 her abusive boyfriend Mogg (an actual cat), their submissive $29.99 USD roommate Owl (a vaguely humanoid owl), and the 360 pages self-destructively hedonistic Werewolf Jones (half human, half wolf) in print runs of 300 to 500 copies, with hand-painted covers, custom stamps and hologram security stickers. Seeds and Stems collects all of these out-of-print, self-published stories produced by the artist between 2016-2019, along with a generous smattering of rarities from various anthologies and magazines. Megg and Mogg and friends explore the worlds of lucid dreaming, banking scams, cinema, mixed drinks, alien invasions, and budget

Dover Publications

The Tell-Tale Heart : And Other Stories Summary: Edgar Allan Poe This hair-raising collection presents some of Edgar Allan Pub Date: 8/12/20 Poe's most ingenious and gripping tales, notably "The $5.99 USD Tell-Tale Heart," in which the guilt-ridden narrator recounts 224 pages his compulsion to commit murder. Other captivating stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher," concerning a most unnerving visit to the home of an old friend; "The Cask of Amontillado," a parable of an attempt at revenge that goes way too far; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the forerunner of modern detective fiction, starring a sleuth even cleverer than Sherlock Holmes; and other riveting yarns: "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Ligeia," "William Wilson," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The

FLAME TREE PRESS

Stoker's Wilde West Summary: The sequel to Stoker's Wilde, praised by Steven Hopstaken, Melissa Prusi Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Pub Date: 8/13/20 $14.95 USD Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind 288 pages them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. A train robbery by a band of vampire gunslingers sets off a series of events that puts Bram on the run, Oscar leading a rescue party and our heroes being pursued by an unstoppable vampire bounty hunter who rides a dead, reanimated horse.

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FLAME TREE PRESS

FLAME TREE PRESS

Sins of the Father Summary: Henry Gilman has spent years trying to JG Faherty separate himself from his father’s legacy of murder and Pub Date: 8/13/20 insanity. Now he has the chance – all he has to do is figure $14.95 USD out who’s been killing people in Innsmouth. Then he’ll be a 288 pages hero and win the heart of the woman he loves, Flora Marsh. But soon he’s caught in a web of danger, with the undead stalking the streets at night, a terrible monster lurking below the city, and a prophecy of destruction about to come true. In the process, his actions cause unwanted consequences and to save Flora he has to do the very thing he’s spent his life trying to avoid: follow his father’s footsteps into madness. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018

FLAME TREE PRESS

The Apocalypse Strain Summary: A multi-national research team, led by a Jason Parent medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an Pub Date: 8/13/20 ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. $14.95 USD Called "Molli" by the research team, the organic substance 288 pages reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction.

The researchers soon learn that even in the right hands, Molli is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame

Tachyon Publications

Driftwood Summary: In this first novel set in award-winning Marie Brennan author Marie Brennan’s incomparable Driftwood Pub Date: 8/14/20 fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where $15.95 USD the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of 224 pages worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide—the one man who seemed immortal, but may have been a fraud.

[STARRED REVIEW] “Exploring found family, adaptation, and hope in the face of apocalypse, Brennan imbues this high-concept fantasy with a strong emotional core. Fantasy fans will be thrilled.”—Publishers Weekly

Rutgers University Press

Comics Studies : A Guidebook Summary: In the twenty-first century, the field of comics Charles Hatfield, Bart Beaty studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic Pub Date: 8/14/20 books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of $34.95 USD comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new 336 pages publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars

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LYONS PRESS

Lyons Press

Makeup Man : From Rocky to Star Trek The Summary: Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood’s heyday, Westmore almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the Michael Westmore, Jake Page makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a Pub Date: 8/15/20 time when Westmores weren’t shaping the visages of $19.95 USD stardom. For their century-long dedication to the art of 320 pages makeup, the Westmores were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. In this lively memoir, Michael Westmore not only regales us with tales of Hollywood’s golden age, but also from his own career where he notably transformed Sylvester Stallone into Rocky Balboa and Robert DiNiro into Jake LaMotta, among many other makeup miracles. Westmore’s talent as a makeup artist first

DC Books

Dead White Males Summary: Who is Vera A. Utall? Why has she entwined Ann Diamond celebrity Nick Maggot and legendary literary genius Orville Pub Date: 8/17/20 Goner in her sexual web? Soft-boiled private eye (and $17.95 USD hairdresser) David Dennings is hired to track the vanished 150 pages siren. Through a hallucinatory labyrinth only Ann Diamond could have created, the trail leads him to the nefarious Dead White Males.

Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick meet Virginia Woolf in this unconventional whodunit in which Dennings' very life depends on finding the solution that lies buried within an elusive master's thesis. Will he make it before the hourglass runs out?

Penn State University Press

Menopause : A Comic Treatment Summary: Like so many other issues surrounding women’s MK Czerwiec reproductive health, menopause has been treated as a Pub Date: 8/17/20 cultural taboo. On the rare occasions that menopausal and $29.95 USD perimenopausal women are depicted in popular culture, they 144 pages are stereotypically cast as the butt of demeaning jokes that encourage us to laugh at their deteriorating bodies and emotional volatility. The result is that women facing menopause often feel isolated and ashamed. In a spirit of community and support, this collection of comics presents a different view of menopause that enables those experiencing it to be seen and to feel empowered.

Balancing levity with sincerity, these comics unapologetically

DC Comics

Batman Adventures: Batgirl-A League of Her Summary: Batgirl takes on Gotham City’s toughest Own villains including Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy in these Paul Dini timeless, all-ages stories set in the world of the Pub Date: 8/18/20 seminal Batman: The Animated Series! $9.99 USD 152 pages In these previously uncollected stories inspired by the hit Batman: The Animated Series, Batgirl swings across the rooftops of Gotham City alongside Batman, Nightwing, and Robin to battle the likes of Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Ra’s al Ghul. She even finds time to team up with her father, Commissioner Gordon, to catch two escaped convicts. These stories are written and illustrated by top Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Adventures

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DC COMICS

DC Comics

Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Love is a Battlefield Summary: Wonder Woman survives her Vol. 1 Just G. Willow Wilson, Various War battle against young god Ares only to discover her Pub Date: 8/18/20 mother and goddess of love, Aphrodite’s son are $19.99 USD missing! 192 pages Wonder Woman’s mother is missing, and so is the goddess of love, Aphrodite’s son! Together, they’ll turn the world upside down to find them…but they must fight a pack of wayward Titans first and convince Diana’s foe Dr. Doris Zuel, a.k.a. Giganta, to join the fight. After Steve Trevor joins to support Diana and Aphrodite, and they find Aphrodite’s missing son, who might know the secret to reunite Wonder Woman with her long-lost family and home on Paradise

Fantagraphics

The Flapper Queens : Women Cartoonists Of Summary: Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a The Jazz Age gorgeous oversized hardcover collection of full-color comic Trina Robbins strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known Pub Date: 8/18/20 cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and $34.99 USD Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins 168 pages introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the '20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith Stevens, who chronicled the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of the '20s and '30s in the pages of The Boston Globe; and Virginia Huget, possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, whose girls, with their angular elbows and knees, seemed to always exist

Image Comics

Cruel Summer Summary: Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL epic, collected in a gorgeous hardback Pub Date: 8/18/20 edion. $34.99 USD 288 pages In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starng down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives.

An epic tale of tragedy handed down from generaon to generaon, CRUEL SUMMER is a crime comic masterpiece from the most celebrated noir masters in the industry, creators of CRIMINAL, FATALE, KILL OR BE KILLED, and THE FADE OUT.

Dynamite Entertainment

Turok : Valley of the Lost Summary: A new hero rises! Turok pursues his kidnapped Ron Marz, Roberto Castro brother... in the Badlands of the Old West! In the waning Pub Date: 8/18/20 days of the Indian Wars, the U.S. cavalry has captured $19.99 USD Andar, but Turok will stop at nothing to rescue him. But that 120 pages quest will lead Turok, Andar and even the soldiers to a strange, lost land inhabited by creatures beyond their imaginations. This is Turok as you've never seen him before ... and Turok as you've always seen him!

Written by acclaimed storyteller Ron Marz (Green Lantern, Silver Surfer, Witchblade), with exquisite art by Roberto Castro (Red Sojna, Flash Gordon).

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DRAWN AND QUARTERLY

Drawn and Quarterly

I Want You Summary: Before the critically acclaimed animated shows, Lisa Hanawalt the bestselling graphic novel Coyote Doggirl, or the humor Pub Date: 8/18/20 collections Hot Dog Taste Test and My Dirty Dumb Eyes, $21.95 USD cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt was a comic-book-industry 140 pages sensation with her Ignatz Award-winning minicomic series I Want You. Hanawalt’s outlandish humor and ingenious formalism are evident in the comics collected here. Her love of anthropomorphism and scatology are on full display, all lovingly and grotesquely drawn by Hanawalt in obsessive, unnerving detail.

The stars here are She-Moose, who we join sex-toy shopping, and He-Horse, who we learn mid-flight suffers

IDW Publishing

The Marvel Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt Summary: Fans of classic fantasy illustration, and Greg Hildebrandt, Tim Hildebrandt Marvel’s most iconic characters, are in for a one-of- Pub Date: 8/18/20 a-kind treat with this deluxe, oversized artbook! $59.99 USD 284 pages Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, collectively known as the Brothers Hildebrandt, have been at the forefront of fantasy illustration for six decades. In the 1970s their wildly popular and universally acclaimed J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings calendars helped to reintroduce new generations to this seminal fantasy work. Over the decades, the Brothers have created iconic images for Star Wars, Harry Potter, Magic The Gathering, and many more.

Strange Attractor Press

There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man Summary: A compendium of strange fiction and : More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory hallucinatory tales by both renowned innovators of the Tales weird and little-known scribes of the macabre. David Tibet Pub Date: 8/18/20 An arcane compendium of strange fiction and hallucinatory $21.95 USD tales, There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man collects 416 pages chilling stories by renowned innovators of the weird and by many little-known and underrepresented or forgotten scribes of the macabre.

Selected by artist, writer, and musician David Tibet, this widely-sourced collection of supernatural rarities continues the bibliographic archaeology initiated with The Moons At Your Door (Strange Attractor Press, 2016), offering lyrical IDW Publishing

The Haunted Mansion: Frights of Fancy Summary: Welcome, foolish mortals…to the Haunted Sina Grace, Egle Bartolini Mansion, where the crypt doors creak and the Pub Date: 8/18/20 tombstones quake. The happy haunts are getting ready $9.99 USD to throw a swinging wake, and all the goblins and 72 pages ghoulies are invited, so be sure to bring your death certificate!

Sydney is the newest resident of the Haunted Mansion, a retirement home for wayward ghosts. Now she has to learn how to scare visiting mortals in order to earn her keep—all while resident mean ghost Constance is out to make it all as difficult as possible! But with the help of our favorite grim, grinning ghosts, Sydney just might pull it off!

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TITAN BOOKS

Titan Books

The Loosening Skin Summary: Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Aliya Whiteley John W. Campbell Award, British Fantasy Awards and Pub Date: 8/18/20 the Brave New Words Award. $14.95 USD A gripping and strange story of shedding skins, love 256 pages and moving on from the award-winning author of The Beauty. Includes an exclusive short story set in the world of The Loosening Skin.

Rose Allington is a bodyguard for celebrities, and she suffers from a rare disease. Her moults come quickly, changing everything about her life, who she is, who she loves, who she trusts.

Games Workshop

The First Wall Summary: Book 3 in the Global best selling Horus Heresy Gav Thorpe Siege of Terra series Pub Date: 8/18/20 $18.00 USD The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer 528 pages defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus's vast armies at bay. In Perturabo, the Traitor siegebreaker, Dorn faces an adversary worthy of his skill. A terrible, grinding attrition ensues. The crucial battle for the Lion's Gate spaceport is at the heart of this conflict. With it in their possession, the Traitors can land their most devastating weapons on Terran soil. Dorn knows it must not fall. But

Tor.com

Drowned Country Summary: "A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of Emily Tesh the heart. Deep and green and wonderful."—Naomi Pub Date: 8/18/20 Novik $13.99 USD 160 pages He had forgotten the size of the man.

Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he’ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea—a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him.

Games Workshop

The Buried Dagger Summary: Book 54 in the bestselling series, The Horus James Swallow Heresy. Pub Date: 8/18/20 $9.99 USD 400 pages The skies darken over Terra as the final battle for the Throne looms ever closer... As the Traitor primarchs muster to the Warmaster’s banner, it is Mortarion who is sent ahead as the vanguard of the Traitor forces. But as he and his warriors make way, they become lost in the warp and stricken by a terrible plague. Once thought of as unbreakable, the legendary Death Guard are brought to their knees. To save his Legion, Mortarion must strike a

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REDHOOK

Redhook

A Witch in Time Summary: Constance Sayers A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through Pub Date: 8/18/20 many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated $16.99 USD artist, in this haunting debut novel. 480 pages Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930's Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles -- only she doesn't know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he's watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning.

At first, Helen doesn't believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman's. Then she begins having

Games Workshop

Kal Jerico: Sinner's Bounty Summary: Kal Jerico is back! Josh Reynolds Pub Date: 8/18/20 Kal Jerico returns to Hive Primus, chasing his biggest bounty $16.00 USD yet: the maniacal preacher Desolation Zoon, racing 368 pages downhive in a mining hauler bristling with stolen Guilder weaponry… but with a prize like this at stake, every other Venator worth the name will be hunting down the Redemptionist. Can Kal claim Zoon’s head, or will he find a rival’s knife in his back?

Harper Voyager

Noumenon Ultra : A Novel Summary: Deep in the heart of an alien mountain range, Marina J. Lostetter I.C.C. has lain dormant, its ships silent, for eons. Now, after Pub Date: 8/18/20 one hundred thousand years, the AI is awakening. Someone $16.99 USD is roaming the convoy's halls—someone that isn't human. 576 pages This planet, Noumenon—created by the megastructure known as the Web—is too young and brutal to have evolved intelligent life. Its surface is bombarded by unusual meteors. Crystal trees abruptly and violently arise from its bedrock. Its solar system is surrounded by a frightening space-time anomaly. So where did these visitors come from? What do they want? And do the people of Earth, whose ancestors launched Convoy Seven, know they are here?

Hard Case Crime

Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Summary: Celebrating Ray Bradbury’s centennial, a Ray Bradbury deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his Ray Bradbury finest crime stories—tales as strange and wonderful as Pub Date: 8/18/20 his signature fantasy. $39.99 USD 304 pages Time travelers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master’s less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury

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IDW PUBLISHING

IDW Publishing

Star Trek: Picard: Countdown Summary: Witness the events leading to the epic Kirsten Beyer, Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez series Star Trek: Picard. The Countdown starts here! Pub Date: 8/18/20 $15.99 USD Before he retired to his vineyard, Jean-Luc Picard was the 96 pages most decorated admiral in Starfleet. Then one mission changed his life forever. After discovering that a looming supernova threatens the entirety of the Romulan Empire, the Federation launches a mission of unparalleled scale. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard heads to the colony to plan the evacuation but makes a shocking discovery!

Written by Star Trek: Picard co-creator and supervising producer Kirsten Beyer and fan-favorite Mike Johnson with

Warhammer Crime

Bloodlines Summary: The first title in the new "Warhammer Crime" Chris Wraight imprint. Try to unravel the secrets lurking in the sprawling Pub Date: 8/18/20 city of Varangantua. $16.00 USD 384 pages In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight. The people demanding answers, though, are powerful and ruthless, and he is soon immersed in a world of criminal cartels and corporate warfare where even an enforcer’s survival is far from guaranteed. As he follows the evidence deeper into the

Games Workshop

Scions of the Emperor: An Anthology Summary: An amazing collection of Horus Heresy Primarch David Guymer short strories. A must have for all fans of Horus Heresy Pub Date: 8/18/20 $21.00 USD Canticle by David Guymer 192 pages Crash landed upon a world of perpetual gloom, a young Ferrus Manus is forced to fight for his survival. Upon discovering a strange vessel, he investigates the ship but quickly finds himself battling monstrosities he is ill-prepared for. The Verdict of the Scythe by David Annandale Heavily criticised by his brothers over the brutal campaign at Galaspar, Mortarion attempts a new approach during the compliance of Absyrtus. However, discovering treachery at

IDW Publishing

Life in the Stupidverse Summary: Welcome to the Stupidverse! Good luck Tom Tomorrow finding an exit. Pub Date: 8/18/20 $19.99 USD Relive all the trauma of the first several years of the Trump 128 pages presidency through the Pulitzer-nominated cartoons of Tom Tomorrow! You’ve never laughed quietly to yourself so much at humanity’s impending doom!

It’s a hilarious but nightmarish trip down memory lane, from the Great Inaugural Crowd Size debate to the nomination of Bret (“I LIKE BEER”) Kavanaugh, from Muslim bans to concentration camps, from the Mueller report to the latest outrageous thing you just read about this morning—Tom

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PERMUTED PLATINUM

Permuted Platinum

The Water Lily Warriors : A Novel of Senior Summary: It's a year after a suspected EMP attack on Survival their country. D.A. Francis Pub Date: 8/18/20 It's a year after a suspected EMP attack on their country. A $17.00 USD small group of senior citizens in Happy Valley—a large 240 pages retirement community in South Carolina’s Low Country —realize that their situation is becoming more and more desperate. They must leave if they are to survive, but where to go? What new dangers will they face along the way? What they will have to do if they wish to continue to prevail in an unimaginably threatening environment?

Games Workshop

Avenging Son Summary: Book 1 of the brand new 9 part mega-series Guy Haley from Warhammer 40,000. Pub Date: 8/18/20 $16.00 USD A great darkness has befallen the galaxy, and the armies of 248 pages Chaos are rampant. To survive, humanity must retaliate and take back what they have lost. By the will of the reborn primarch, Roboute Guilliman, is the Indomitus Crusade launched – a military undertaking that eclipses all others in known history. From the Throneworld of Terra does the Avenging Son hurl his fleets, their mission the very salvation of mankind.

BOOM! Box

Lumberjanes Vol. 15 Summary: The New York Times bestselling graphic novel Kat Leyh series continues with the biggest Lumberjanes birthday Pub Date: 8/18/20 party yet - that is, if Jo can make it back in time to $14.99 USD celebrate! 112 pages BIRTHDAYS TO THE MAX!

Jo’s birthday is coming up, and April is determined to pull out all the stops for her best friend! But when her elaborate plans for a huge, over-the-top celebration fall through, April recruits the yetis and some fellow ‘Janes to put on a play for Jo, instead.

Puffin Books

Pippi Longstocking Summary: Celebrating seventy-five years of Pippi Astrid Lindgren, Susan Beard, Ingrid Vang Nyman Longstocking—a beloved story of a strong, spunky girl Pub Date: 8/18/20 and her hilarious adventures. $8.99 USD 144 pages Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether Pippi’s scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic, or stirring things up at a fancy tea party, her flair for the outrageous always seems to lead to another adventure.

“A rollicking story.”—The Horn Book

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AMULET PAPERBACKS

Amulet Paperbacks

Lumberjanes: Ghost Cabin (Lumberjanes #4) Summary: Mariko Tamaki, Brooklyn Allen Pub Date: 8/18/20 Based on the bestselling graphic novels, this series of $8.99 USD middle-grade novels contains all-new adventures 256 pages Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin—Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley—love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen . . . and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella’s, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Book four, the last book of the novel series, will Amulet Books

Raybearer Summary: The epic debut YA fantasy from an Jordan Ifueko incredible new talent—perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi Pub Date: 8/18/20 and Sabaa Tahir $18.99 USD 368 pages Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy?

Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council

Del Rey

Pebble in the Sky Summary: The third and final book in the Galactic Isaac Asimov Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Pub Date: 8/18/20 Foundation series, by one of history’s most influential $17.00 USD writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov 256 pages After years of bitter struggle, Trantor at last completed its work—its Galactic Empire ruled all 200 million planets of the Galaxy…all but one. On a backward planet called Earth were those who nurtured bitter dreams of a mythical, half-remembered past when the planet was humanity’s only home. The other worlds despised it or merely patronized it—until a man from the past miraculously stepped through a time fault that spanned a millennium, living proof of

Del Rey

The Currents of Space Summary: The second book in the Galactic Empire Isaac Asimov series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Pub Date: 8/18/20 Foundation series, by one of history’s most influential $17.00 USD writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov 256 pages Trantor had extended its rule over half the Galaxy, but the other half defied its authority, defending their corrupt fiefdoms with violence and repression. On the planet Florina, the natives labored as slaves for their arrogant masters on nearby Sark. But now both worlds were hurtling toward a cataclysmic doom, and only one man knew the truth—a slave unaware of the secret knowledge locked inside his own brain.

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DEL REY

Del Rey

The Stars, Like Dust Summary: The first book in the Galactic Empire series, Isaac Asimov the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation Pub Date: 8/18/20 series, by one of history’s most influential writers of $17.00 USD science fiction, Isaac Asimov 256 pages His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann—a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty of cruelty and domination among the stars.

Farrill’s own father had been executed for trying to resist

Del Rey

The End of Eternity Summary: A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Pub Date: 8/18/20 Foundation series $17.00 USD 256 pages Due to circumstances within our control…tomorrow will be canceled.

The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will.

You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan

IDW Publishing

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Volume Summary: Great stories, great adventures, and 19 valuable lessons, brought to you by Twilight Sparkle, Christina Rice, Jeremy Whitley, Casey W. Coller, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, K... and all your pony friends! Pub Date: 8/18/20 $17.99 USD It’s exam time at the School of Friendship, and Ocellus has 120 pages come up with an idea for a stellar project that’s sure to impress all her teachers—a history of Equestria shown through her own unique Changeling abilities! Then, Applejack helps Apple Bloom learn about the meaning of courage when she tells her sister a story about facing the biggest fear she had as a young filly: the water! And, when painfully shy Marble Pie tries to make friends at school, she

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

City of Beasts Summary: Corrie Wang A teenage girl living in a post-nuclear town embarks on Pub Date: 8/18/20 a quest to save her brother from the other side of a $9.99 USD dividd world in this dystopian adventure novel for fans 400 pages of Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now.

For seventeen years, fees have lived separate from beasts. The division of the sexes has kept their world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most other fees her age. She adores her neighborhood's abandoned Costco, can bench her body weight, and she knew twenty-seven beast counterattack moves by the time she was seven. She has never questioned the separation of the sexes or the rules that

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VIKING BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

Viking Books for Young Readers

Ikenga Summary: Nnedi Okorafor’s first novel for middle Nnedi Okorafor grade readers introduces a boy who can access super Pub Date: 8/18/20 powers with the help of the magical Ikenga. $16.99 USD 240 pages Nnamdi’s father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determined to root out the criminals that had invaded the town. But then he was murdered, and most people believed the Chief of Chiefs, most powerful of the criminals, was responsible. Nnamdi has vowed to avenge his father, but he wonders what a twelve- year-old boy can do. Until a mysterious nighttime meeting, the gift of a magical object that enables super powers, and a charge to use those powers for good changes his life

Berkley

The Haunted Summary: With his “ability to disgust (and delight) Bentley Little even the most seasoned horror enthusiast” (Publishers Pub Date: 8/18/20 Weekly), Bentley Little conjures up your greatest fears $9.99 USD as he dares you to spend a night with the haunted. 352 pages Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city’s historic district. But something isn’t right.

The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he’s

BOOM! Studios

Strange Skies Over East Berlin Summary: A chilling and intense thriller about an American Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren spy who encounters a terrifying inhuman threat at the heart Pub Date: 8/18/20 of the Cold War. $14.99 USD 112 pages East Berlin, 1973. Herring, a disillusioned American spy, has spent the entire Cold War infiltrating the inner circles of East German intelligence for a cause he barely believes in anymore. He’s seen everything and done anything his government asked, but his latest mission pits the brilliant, embittered operative against an enemy force so vast it could obliterate all of humanity.

The Space Race had greater consequences than even the

Gallery / Saga Press

The Vanished Queen : A Novel Summary: When a country is held in thrall to a vicious, Lisbeth Campbell despotic king, it’s up to one woman to take him down. Pub Date: 8/18/20 $27.99 USD Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it 496 pages was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself.

But after finding the missing queen’s diary, Anza—impassioned by her father’s unjust execution and inspired by Mirantha’s words—joins the resistance group to overthrow the king. When an encounter with Prince Esvar thrusts her into a dangerous game of court politics, one misstep could lead to a fate worse than death.

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FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Ghostwriter Summary: Barcelona, 1943. Thirty-two-year-old Laia has it Rayco Pulido all — a job on a popular radio advice program, a devoted Pub Date: 8/18/20 husband, and a baby on the way. But when her husband $19.99 USD goes missing while a vicious killer is terrorizing the city, 96 pages Laia's world is shattered. Desperate, she turns to Maurice, a detective. When he hypnotizes her, it is revealed that there may be more to this unassuming housewife and kindly advice columnist than meets the eye. Ghostwriter is both a pitch black comedy and a mesmerizing mystery. Rendered in a clean-line chiaroscuro style and masterfully paced, Ghostwriter takes the reader on a wild ride full of twists and turns right through to its thrilling conclusion.

Poisoned Pen Press

Vathek Summary: Vathek, the ninth caliph of the Abassides in William Beckford, Joe R. Lansdale, Leslie S. Arabia, ascends to the throne at an early age and reigns Kling... with an iron fist, inspiring terror and unrest among his Pub Date: 8/18/20 people. His intense thirst for knowledge (which makes him $14.99 USD feel more powerful) and his constant desire for pleasures of 176 pages the flesh will ultimately lead to his downfall.

When he purchases mysterious glowing swords from a strange merchant, he learns the swords have inscriptions and powers he cannot understand or translate. Vathek sells his soul to find out what they say and becomes eternally damned.

First Second

Displacement Summary: Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when Kiku Hughes suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese- Pub Date: 8/18/20 American internment camp that her late grandmother, $17.99 USD Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. 288 pages These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive.

Ohio State University Press

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Summary: In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as Lisa Yaszek, Isiah Lavender III a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that Pub Date: 8/20/20 communicates the experience of science, technology, and $34.95 USD race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan 248 pages Coogler and Janelle Monáe may have helped bring the genre into contemporary pop consciousness, it in fact extends back to the writing of eighteenth-century poet Phyllis Wheatley and has continued in the work of Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and many others. In examining this heritage, contributors in this volume question generic boundaries, recover lost artists and introduce new ones, and explore how the meteoric rise of a

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

University of Illinois Press

Bradbury Beyond Apollo Summary: Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, Jonathan R. Eller friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end Pub Date: 8/22/20 of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and $34.95 USD success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of 336 pages science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans.

Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him

University of Illinois Press

Ray Bradbury Unbound Summary: A successful, award-winning writer on the brink Jonathan R. Eller of placing Fahrenheit 451 in the American canon, Ray Pub Date: 8/24/20 Bradbury entered the autumn of 1953 as a literary figure $24.95 USD transcending fantasy and science fiction. Jonathan R. Eller 352 pages continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved writer's evolution from a short story master to a multi-media creative force and outspoken visionary.

Drawn into screenwriting by the chance to adapt Moby Dick for Hollywood, Bradbury soon established himself in film and television. Though the work swallowed up creative energy once devoted to literary pursuits, Bradbury's successes

Titan Books

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju Summary: The new novel in the acclaimed alternate Kim Newman history vampire series from Kim Newman. Pub Date: 8/25/20 “Compulsory reading…glorious” Neil Gaiman on Anno $8.99 USD Dracula 400 pages It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon - in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance, culture and innovation.

After a century overshadowed by the malign presence of Dracula, Christina decrees the inauguration of an Age of

Titan Books

Sealed Summary: Sealed is a gripping modern fable on Naomi Booth motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people Pub Date: 8/25/20 under threat from their own bodies. $8.99 USD 288 pages ’We came out here to begin again. We came out here for the clear air and a fresh start. No one said to us: beware of fresh starts. No one said to us: God knows what will begin.’

Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood, a terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is an unforgettable story about a mother’s

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TITAN BOOKS

Titan Books

Night Train Summary: “David Quantick is one of the best kept David Quantick secrets in the world of writing. He’s smart, funny and Pub Date: 8/25/20 unique. You should let yourself in on the secret.” - Neil $14.95 USD Gaiman From Emmy-Award winning author David 320 pages Quantick, Night Train is a science-fiction horror story like no other.

A woman wakes up, frightened and alone. The room shaking and jumping like it’s alive. The noise is terrifying. Where is she? Stumbling through a door, she realizes she is on a train carriage. A carriage full of the dead. A personal hell unfolding in an apocalyptic future. This is NIGHT TRAIN. A terrifying ride set on a driverless locomotive, heading for a

Top Shelf Productions

From Hell: Master Edition Summary: Meet the most notorious serial killer of all Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell time, Jack the Ripper—and meet the vast and vibrant Pub Date: 8/25/20 communities of Victorian London where his foul deeds $49.99 USD gave birth to the modern era. In this remarkable new 576 pages edition, the award-winning bestseller FROM HELL now features astonishing colors by Eddie Campbell!

Jack is back—and this time, the blood is red.

Experience FROM HELL as never before: fully restored and in color for the first time!

Five unsolved murders. Two of the greatest creators in the

Top Shelf Productions

They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition Summary: The New York Times bestselling graphic George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei Harmo... returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with bonus Pub Date: 8/25/20 material! Experience the forces that shaped an $29.99 USD American icon—and America itself—in this gripping tale 224 pages of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

Now with sixteen pages of bonus content from George Takei and his co-creators: a new afterword plus a behind- the-scenes tour of the process of researching, writing, drawing, and promoting They Called Us Enemy, featuring historical documents, scripts, sketches, photos, and more!

Titan Books

Firefly - The Magnificent Nine Summary: The second original novel from the James Lovegrove much-missed Space Western Firefly, produced with Pub Date: 8/25/20 Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV $14.95 USD series and the movie Serenity. 384 pages A cosmic cry for help

Captain Mal Reynolds is in a fix. He’d like nothing more than to find honest smuggling work that stays under the Alliance’s radar and keeps the good ship Serenity in the sky. But when an old flame of Jayne Cobb’s sends a desperate plea across the galaxy, his crew has other ideas.

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AVON

Avon

Emerald Blaze : A Hidden Legacy Novel Summary: As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her Ilona Andrews sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless Pub Date: 8/25/20 grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her $7.99 USD family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of 400 pages Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart.

The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him

Street Noise Books

Spellbound : A Graphic Memoir Summary: The meticulous artwork of transgender Bishakh Som artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see Pub Date: 8/25/20 the world through another lens. $18.99 USD This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, 160 pages explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author’s daily life and explore her thoughts on themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss.

Flatiron Books

FKA USA : A Novel Summary: FKA USA is a wildly imaginative, funny, oddly Reed King prescient, and brilliantly futuristic dystopian tale with eerie Pub Date: 8/25/20 contemporary relevance about a young man in 2085 who $17.99 USD realizes the world he lives in might be its very own Emerald 480 pages City.

Reed King's amazingly audacious novel imagines a final, disastrous president of the United States, whose self-interested rule provoked the splintering of the states into individual countries. The novel follows Truckee Wallace, a young man plucked from obscurity from the factory line where he works, hand-picked by the president to lead a covert mission: to bring a talking goat to the other side of

Marvel

Spider-Gwen: Amazing Powers Summary: Gwen Stacy has lost her spider-powers - Jason Latour, Tom Taylor, Robbi Rodriguez, Chris making this a very bad time to find herself in Frank Castle's V... crosshairs! So when the Mary Janes head to a haunted Pub Date: 8/25/20 house, is Gwen along for the fun, or will she be one of the $12.99 USD ghosts? Thanksgiving should be a happy time with friends 224 pages and family - unless crime lord Matt Murdock and his ninjas crash the party! Is it time for Gwen to put a stop to the Kingpin of Crime - or does Matt have a thing or two to teach her? Plus, the Mary Janes get loud, and Gwen spends some time with her ever-expanding social circle - including Captain America! She-Hulk?! Her BPFF (best pig friend forever) Spider-Ham! And her new body-swapping bud, the All-New Wolverine!

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MARVEL

Marvel

Spider-Ham: Aporkalypse Now Summary: Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tail! Zeb Wells, Will Robson (Get it?) Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, returns Pub Date: 8/25/20 to the pages of his very own series! And as if the swiney $15.99 USD super hero's recent adventures across the various 112 pages dimensions of the Spider-Verse weren't enough, Spider-Ham now finds himself jumping through time! And accompanied by Spider-Man (the human version), no less! It's the human/ porcine/arachnid Marvel Team-Up you've been waiting for! But can Ham and Man prevent the horrors of - Aporkalypse Now?!

COLLECTING: SPIDER-HAM (2019) 1-5

Image Comics

The Clock Summary: Matt Hawkins, Colleen Doran Within three weeks, hundreds of millions of healthy people worldwide Pub Date: 8/25/20 contract various forms of aggressive cancer, and the proliferation, $14.99 USD seemingly a viral outbreak, stumps the best scientific minds available. 128 pages But after a leading cancer researcher loses his wife and watches his nine-year-old daughter begin to succumb to the same illness, he must race against the clock to end a global conspiracy that could propel the world straight into WWIII...or worse.

Collects THE CLOCK #1-4.

Top Shelf Productions

Kodi (Book 1) Summary: The gorgeous story of two friends separated Jared Cullum by everything in the world—except love. Readers and Pub Date: 8/25/20 animal-lovers of every age will want to relive this $14.99 USD journey over and over again. 176 pages Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she’s ever seen…an enormous kodiak bear with a gentle heart and a knack for fishing. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend. It’s a wild journey packed with breathtaking views, brave new

Chronicle Books

Star Wars: Darth Vader and Family School Summary: A new title in the bestselling series! Years Keepsake Journal Jeffrey Brown Parents and young Padawans alike will love this keepsake Pub Date: 8/25/20 album for recording treasured memories from preschool $19.95 USD through eighth grade, plus family trips, celebrations, and 13 pages more. Featuring new and favorite artwork from Jeffrey Brown's Darth Vader and Son series, 13 expandable pockets can be filled with photos, report cards, art projects, and mementos; and writing prompts help keep track of friends, hobbies, and other milestones.

CREATE A FAMILY HEIRLOOM: Fill this book with photos, report cards, projects, and mementos from

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TITAN COMICS

Titan Comics

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40th Summary: A 40th anniversary special edition Anniversary Special Book celebrating Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Titan Pub Date: 8/25/20 This deluxe collector’s edition presents interviews, features $19.99 USD and unseen images from the fan favorite movie. 144 pages Story Locale: In a galaxy far, far away…

Series Overview: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in this special behind- the-scenes retrospective edition, collecting together a wealth of features and interviews, including key cast and crew members, and presenting rare photos and behind the scenes

Marvel

Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Summary: Darth Vader's imperious rise continues! As the Sith Vol. 2 Empire's grip on the galaxy tightens, the stirrings of a Charles Soule, Chuck Wendig, Giuseppe rebellion begin in the Mon Cala system. The fearsome Darth Camuncoli, L... Vader knows that order must be maintained at all costs - Pub Date: 8/25/20 but bringing Mon Cala to heel means finding the surviving $34.99 USD Jedi that foment this unrest. As Vader, Tarkin and their 336 pages Inquisitors hunt their targets, the seas will weep! Meanwhile, Vader discovers a theft - and when the thief faces the consequences, Emperor Palpatine rewards his disciple with a chilling gift! Seeking the path to destiny, Vader returns to the place of his greatest defeat. Darkness rises above Mustafar as Vader's brutal design begins to take shape - but will the planet's inhabitants stand for this

Disney Lucasfilm Press

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light Summary: Catalog Copy: and Dark An epic clash between the forces of light and dark, between the Galactic Lou Anders, Tom Angleberger, Preeti Chhibber, Republic and the Separatists, between brave heroes and brilliant Zora... villains…the fate of the galaxy is at stake in the Emmy Award-winning Pub Date: 8/25/20 animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In this exciting anthology, $17.99 USD eleven authors who are also fans of the series bring stories from their 384 pages favorite show to life. Gathered here are memorable moments and stunning adventures, from attempted assassinations to stolen bounties, from lessons learned to loves lost. All of your favorite characters from The Clone Wars are here: Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex, Darth Maul, Count Dooku and more!

Contributors: Lou Anders, Tom Angleberger, Preeti Chhibber, E. Anne

Golden Books

The Rise of Skywalker (Star Wars) Summary: An exciting Little Golden Book based on Star Golden Books Wars: The Rise of Skywalker! Pub Date: 8/25/20 $4.99 USD Can Rey, Finn, General Leia, Poe Dameron, and the heroes 24 pages of the brave Resistance save the galaxy from Kylo Ren and the evil First Order? The epic space saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! Featuring stunning retro illustrations, this book is perfect for Star Wars—and Little Golden Book—fans of all ages!

Star Wars has captivated millions worldwide for almost forty years. The phenomenon began with the 1977 theatrical

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CHRONICLE BOOKS

Chronicle Books

My Little Occult Book Club : A Creepy Summary: My Little Occult Book Club is a hilarious Collection collection of Steven Rhodes' parody book covers for the Steven Rhodes aspiring occultist, exorcist, necromancer, and more, Pub Date: 8/25/20 illustrated in his fan-favorite artistic twist on retro '70s $14.95 USD and '80s children's books. 80 pages The humorous fake titles include Sell Your Soul! (Economics for Children), Necromancy for Beginners, and Caring for Your Demon Cat, and much more.

Written in a playful voice that parodies subscription book catalogs Features puzzles, activities, and even a free fold-out

Tor Books

The Memory of Souls Summary: What would you give to save all you've ever Jenn Lyons known? Pub Date: 8/25/20 $27.99 USD Now that Relos Var’s plan to free the dark god Vol Karoth 640 pages has been revealed and with more demons rampaging across Quur every day—the end of the world is closer than ever.

To buy time for humanity, Kihrin, Janel, and Thurvishar must convince the king of the Manol vané to perform an ancient ritual that will strip the vané of their immortality—a ritual that certain vané will do anything to prevent. Including assassinating the ones bringing the news.

Pike and Powder

The Lunar Trilogy Summary: Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Jerzy Zulawski Moon Trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Pub Date: 8/25/20 Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and $18.00 USD 1911. It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German 350 pages and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in Poland, but never into English.

Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911. It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in Poland, but never into English.

Tor Fantasy

The Ruin of Kings Summary: WHEN DESTINY CALLS, THERE'S NO Jenn Lyons FIGHTING BACK. Pub Date: 8/25/20 $8.99 USD Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, raised on tales of 752 pages long-lost princes and magnificent quests. When he is claimed as the missing scion of a royal family, Kihrin discovers that being a long-lost prince is nothing like what the storybooks promised.

The storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, true love, and how the hero always wins.

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VAULT COMICS

Vault Comics

Cult Classic: Creature Feature Summary: Eons ago, visitors from outer space buried an Eliot Rahal, Adrian F. Wassel, John Bivens item of unimaginable power in the primordial swamps that Pub Date: 8/25/20 would one day become King Lake—a quaint little basin on $17.99 USD the edge of Whisper, USA. Millions of years later, a comet’s 160 pages radioactive waves awaken the monster slumbering beneath the lake. As the beast feeds on America’s sweet, delicious youth, brain-slugs infect the quiet town, causing victims to vomit up their kill-hungry, zombified skeletons. But for seventeen-year-old Jarrod Parker, none of that stuff matters much. For him, this isn’t about the Apocalypse. It’s about payback. Nothing—not his friends, not the undead, not even the end of the world—will keep him from vengeance.

Holiday House

The Bottle Imp of Bright House Summary: School vacation for a year. Eternal Tom Llewellyn, Gris Grimly happiness. You could wish for anything—but if it came Pub Date: 8/25/20 at someone else’s expense, would you still do it? $9.99 USD 224 pages When a mysterious millionaire sells thirteen-year-old Gabe a bottle containing a wish-granting imp, it comes with a warning: any time Gabe makes a wish, someone else, somewhere, is going to lose something. Maybe something big.

That means each of Gabe’s wishes should be a difficult ethical dilemma—but as he scores a Ferrari, a hot tub, and all the pizza and sub sandwiches a kid could want, he’s

Fantagraphics

Vision Summary: A vision-impaired, Victorian spinster in need of Julia Gfrörer primitive cataract surgery has little time for herself between Pub Date: 8/25/20 needing to take care of her demanding, invalid sister-in-law, $16.99 USD and investigating her brother’s mysterious nighttime 96 pages activities. To escape it all, she engages in a sexual relationship with a haunted mirror in her bedroom. Gfrörer’s delicate and dark line-work perfectly complements the period era of the book’s setting, bringing the lyricism and romanticism of her stories to the fore.

Plexus Publishing

David Lynch: Weirdsville USA : The Obsessive Summary: David Lynch, maverick Hollywood director, has Universe of David Lynch pursued his contrasting obsessions more than most movie- Paul A Woods makers would dare. In a wildly varying career, he has Pub Date: 8/25/20 experienced cult adulation, mainstream success, virtual $22.95 USD rejection by the film industry, and a renaissance which has 224 pages seen him established as the brand name of ‘Weird Americana.’

Weirdsville USA charts Lynch’s work from the experimental art-school years and the Midnight Movie hit Eraserhead, the mainstream success of The Elephant Man and the resounding failure of Dune, through the Weird Americana prototypes of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, the heyday of the

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ONI PRESS

Oni Press

Frankie Comics Summary: Fans of Johnny Wander, Pusheen, and Chi's Rachel Dukes Sweet Home will love this collection of the hit Pub Date: 8/25/20 webcomic Frankie Comics by Rachel Dukes. $17.99 USD 144 pages When they discover a kitten asleep in their doorway, real-life artist couple Rachel and Mike immediately fall prey to her charms. Soon, the new queen of their home is a blue point Siamese cat named Frankie. Stealing snacks, making mischief, and taking snuggling very seriously, Frankie proves, again and again, the wholesome joys of a feline companion.

Hilarious indie comics darling Frankie Comics is collected for

Dutton

The Hierarchies : A Novel Summary: Your Husband is the reason for your Ros Anderson existence. You are here to serve him. Pub Date: 8/25/20 $26.00 USD You must not harm your Husband. Nor may you harm 352 pages any human.

Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband’s every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife, and concealed from their child.

Between her Husband’s visits, deeply curious about the

Del Rey

Resistance Reborn (Star Wars) : Journey to Summary: In this “Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Skywalker” novel, Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rebecca Roanhorse Rey, and Finn must struggle to rebuild the Resistance Pub Date: 8/25/20 after their defeat at the hands of the First Order in Star $9.99 USD Wars: The Last Jedi. 432 pages Story Locale: The Star Wars Galaxy

Publication History: Del Rey HC (11/19)

Del Rey

Ink & Sigil : From the world of The Iron Druid Summary: New York Times bestselling author Kevin Chronicles Hearne returns to the world of his beloved Iron Druid Kevin Hearne Chronicles in a spin-off series about an eccentric Pub Date: 8/25/20 master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in $28.00 USD Scotland. 336 pages Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white mustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails—and a most unique magical talent. He can cast spells with magically enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect our world from rogue minions of various pantheons, especially the Fae.

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TURNER

Turner

Burnt Tongues Anthology Summary: “The lessons and the antidotes and the Richard Thomas, Dennis Widmyer, Chuck essays that went into Consider This were originally Palahniuk written for The Cult website. The stories that went into Pub Date: 8/25/20 Burnt Tongues were exercises based on those lessons. $17.99 USD So if you like Consider This, please check out Burnt Tongues and see how those lessons were put into practice.”—Chuck Palahniuk

Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images—nothing safe or dry.

Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and IDW Publishing

I Can Sell You A Body Summary: A down-on-his-luck TV medium finds Ryan Ferrier, George Kambadais himself on the run from the cops, the mob, the Vatican, Pub Date: 8/25/20 and a legion of ghosts looking for available bodies. $15.99 USD 96 pages Denny Little is a former TV psychic turned clairvoyant for hire turned supernatural real-estate agent. Since discovering he can perform “reverse exorcisms”—transferring spirits into living bodies—he’s become LA’s most in-demand realtor, giving the dead a new lease on life. But when Denny falls in love with a new property, the family of the prospective tenant, a former mob boss, will get their money and revenge over our hapless hero’s dead body.

Kodansha Comics

Saint Young Men 3 Summary: The divine live among us…in a flat in Hikaru Nakamura western Tokyo! After centuries of hard work, Jesus and Pub Date: 8/25/20 Buddha take a break from their heavenly duties to relax $23.99 USD among the people of Japan, and their adventures in this 288 pages lighthearted buddy comedy are sure to bring mirth and merriment to all!

Buddha the Enlightened One and Jesus, Son of God have successfully brought the 20th century to a close, and after a few millennia of guiding humanity to salvation, these two sacred ones are in need of some rest and relaxation. They decide to share an apartment on Earth in Tokyo, but living among mortals in the 21st century is no cakewalk for the

Crown Books for Young Readers

Once Upon a Unicorn Summary: A science-minded unicorn and a (literal) Lou Anders fiery horse team up in this fantasy adventure perfect Pub Date: 8/25/20 for fans of Fablehaven and the Wizards of Once series. $16.99 USD 288 pages Have you ever heard of a unicorn who is more interested in science experiments than magic?

Or a flaming horse who’s a walking fire hazard?

When a pumpkin-headed menace called Jack o’ the Hunt and monsters untold threaten their home, this unlikely pair must team up to save all of the Whisperwood—and themselves!

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CLOVER PRESS, LLC

Clover Press, LLC

The Art of Popeye Artists and Comic Summary: This hardcover collection celebrates the Strippers' : Versions of the Spinach-Eating incredible art of Popeye illustrated by scores of artists over Superhero the years with a special focus on the Popeye’s Cartoon Club Craig Yoe, E.C. Segar by King Features Syndicate. Pub Date: 8/25/20 $29.99 USD Also included are highlights from The National Cartoonists 120 pages Society’s celebration of Popeye’s 90th year, and a collection of rare cover illustrations by popular counter-culture artists done for IDW comics.

Clover Press, LLC

Pete Von Sholly’s Lovecraft Illustrated Summary: A full color collection of over 325 images- Pete Von Sholly covering ALL the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft arranged in the Pub Date: 8/25/20 order in which the stories were written. The book also $29.99 USD features notes. sketches and an intro by S. T. Joshi. 208 pages Pete Von Sholly has storyboarded over 100 films including THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, MARS ATTACKS!, DARKMAN, and THE MIST. His work has also been seen in his satiric magazines as well as Last Gasp's FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE and NEUROCOMICS, which he did with Timothy Leary.

Baen

Stellaris: People of the Stars Summary: THE STARS WILL CHANGE US. STORIES AND Les Johnson, Hampson E. Robert ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Pub Date: 8/25/20 Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity $8.99 USD by best-selling authors and scientists. 448 pages BECOMING THE PEOPLE OF THE STARS

Fundamental transformation. That is what it may take to reach our final destination. And we may not have a choice as dangers from without and pressure from within human civilization force us to adapt to a new star-traveling heritage. We may find that Homo sapiens is on its way to becoming a new and unique species—Homo stellaris: people

Baen

Straight Outta Deadwood Summary: Things that Go Bump at High Noon! Tales of David Boop the Weird Wild West from Charlaine Harris, Mike Resnick, Pub Date: 8/25/20 D.J. Butler, Stephen Graham Jones, and more. $8.99 USD 384 pages THE WEIRD AND WILD RIDE AGAIN!

First there was Straight Outta Tombstone. Now we venture to an even wilder frontier town: Deadwood and its creepy environs. And to do so, here’s an all-new posse of top authors to explore it with. Charlaine Harris gives us a glimpse inside her new series as a tormented gunfighter faces a true demon of her past. Mike Resnick reveals what Doc Holliday thought was so funny on his last day. Jeffrey

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BAEN

Baen

The Waters and the Wild Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill ENTRY #10 IN MERCEDES LACKEY'S CELEBRATED Pub Date: 8/25/20 SERRATED EDGE URBAN FANTASY SERIES! $8.99 USD 336 pages A DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNKNOWN

Deeply depressed Olivia, whose parents are divorcing, is ripe for manipulation, and swimming star Blake is looking for someone just like her. Although her best friend tries to warn her, Olivia falls for Blake’s ploys and accepts an invitation to go to the Adirondack resort camp of Lake Endor with him and his family.

Aladdin

Alkyoneus and the Warrior Queen Summary: Zeus and Hercules face a very hungry giant Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams, Tracey West, Craig in this latest Heroes in Training chapter book! P... Pub Date: 8/25/20 Zeus and Hercules may have gotten a scale from the $5.99 USD nine-headed hydra, but that isn’t enough for King 112 pages Eurystheus to forgive Hercules for egging his temple. For their next task, the Oracle Pythia reveals that, to make Eurystheus happy, they have to get the golden belt from the queen of the Amazons—a band of warrior girls.

Although the Amazons are friendly enough, there’s just one problem…they think that boys are stinky! And Hercules hasn’t been great at getting people to like him.

Harper Voyager

Ballistic Kiss : A Sandman Slim Novel Summary: As the battle between warring angels continues, Richard Kadrey James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now Pub Date: 8/25/20 that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s $28.99 USD Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by 368 pages violent spirits, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them—it’s Stark.

Armed with the Room of Thirteen Doors, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with

Tor Books

Zero Sum Game Summary: ZERO SUM GAME Best of Lists: S. L. Huang * Best Books of the Month at The Verge, Book Riot, Pub Date: 8/25/20 Unbound Worlds, SYFY, & Kirkus $8.99 USD * The Mary Sue Book Club Pick 384 pages * Library Journal Best Debuts of Fall and Winter

Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight. She can take any job for the right price and shoot anyone who gets in her way.

As far as she knows, she’s the only person around with a

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TOR FANTASY

Tor Fantasy

Kingmaker Summary: The swashbuckling adventures of Captain Margaret Weis, Robert Krammes Kate Fitzmaurice continues in this thrilling conclusion Pub Date: 8/25/20 to the epic tale of the Dragon Corsairs. $9.99 USD 704 pages War!

Jonathan Smyth has launched his invasion of Freya, in one swoop he has killed a queen and taken her heir apparent, Prince Thomas, hostage. Now Captain Kate must partner with Thomas’s fiancé, Princess Sophia, and her longtime alley Dalgran, if they hope to save Tom from his fate as a puppet king propping up a tyrant.

HarperTeen

Verify Summary: Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. Joelle Charbonneau Pub Date: 8/25/20 When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels $10.99 USD pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over 336 pages which the government presides. But when Meri’s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother’s state of mind in her last weeks, she is faced with a choice between accepting the “truth” or embracing a world the government doesn’t want anyone to see—a world where words have power, and the wrong one can get Meri killed.

Titan Books

Mike Hammer - Murder, My Love Summary: A brand new mystery in the iconic Mike Max Allan Collins Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Pub Date: 8/25/20 Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition. $8.99 USD 216 pages Hammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, United States Senator from New York, and Jamie’s lovely, very smart wife, Nicole, considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being blackmailed, and Hammer is given a list of suspects who may be behind the threats to the Senator’s contemplated White House bid.

But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realizes there is more to this case than just a salacious

DAW

Resurgence Summary: Now in paperback, the twentieth book in C. J. Cherryh the beloved Foreigner saga returns to the trials of Pub Date: 8/25/20 diplomat Bren Cameron, as he must once again act as $8.99 USD liaison between two opposing factions. 368 pages Bren Cameron, human diplomat in residence, usually represents Tabini-aiji, the ruler of the aishidi’tat, the dominant political entity on the alien world of the atevi. But Tabini’s grandmother Ilisidi, the dowager, has been known to borrow Bren’s services from time to time—and she has her own notions how to solve the simmering hostilities in the south of the atevi continent. Her plan requires trusting a southern warlord about whom Bren has intense misgivings,

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DAW

DAW

The Unkindest Tide Summary: Now in paperback, the thirteenth novel of Seanan McGuire the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Pub Date: 8/25/20 Daye urban fantasy series! $8.99 USD 416 pages Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.

When the Luidaeg—October “Toby” Daye’s oldest and most dangerous ally—tells her the time has come for the Selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that Toby must be a

DAW

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse Summary: Now in paperback, Rory Thorne must use : Book One of the Thorne Chronicles the fairy blessings gifted to her to change the K. Eason multiverse—or possibly destroy it—in the first book in Pub Date: 8/25/20 this space opera duology. $7.99 USD 368 pages Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she’d inherit her father’s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world.

DC Comics

Tiny Titans Vol. 1 Summary: Awwww yeah, Titans! Superhero stories for Art Baltazar, Franco Aureliani the young reader featuring kid versions of characters Pub Date: 8/25/20 from the DC Universe. $9.99 USD 144 pages Written and drawn by the amazing Art Baltazar and Franco, check out what life is like for the very young heroes of Sidekick Elementary as they get a puppy, bake a cake, spend an afternoon in the Batcave, and see if Robin keeps his new identity as Nightwing! Also, introducing new pals Blue Beetle and Supergirl. All this plus even more fun as the Tiny Titans virtually leap off the pages in this all-ages, all-fun volume!

Titan Books

The Book of Hidden Things Summary: From “one of the most significant figures of Francesco Dimitri the last generation of fantasy”, comes Francesco Pub Date: 8/25/20 Dimitri’s debut novel in English, an enthralling and $8.99 USD seductive fantasy following four old friends and the 400 pages secrets they keep.

Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town in Puglia they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and creator of the pact, insists that the agreement must remain unshakable and enduring. But this year, he never shows up.

A visit to his house increases the friends’ worry; Art is

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IDW PUBLISHING

IDW Publishing

Marvel Action: Captain Marvel: A.I.M. Small Summary: Carol Danvers may be used to going higher, (Book Two) further, faster, but on an adventure with the Sam Maggs, Sweeney Boo Unstoppable Wasp she’ll be going smaller, lower, Pub Date: 8/25/20 slower! $9.99 USD 72 pages She’s been a fighter pilot, an Avenger, and a friend of flerkens, but now she’s facing her most difficult job yet…driving instructor! And teaching Nadia Van Dyne—a.k.a. The Unstoppable Wasp!—how to drive gets a whole lot harder when A.I.M. gets ahold of some Pym Particles. Suddenly tiny, can Carol and Nadia figure out A.I.M.’s plot before it’s too late?! It’s a new pint-sized Marvel Action adventure!

Tor.com

City Under the Stars Summary: God was in his Heaven—which was fifteen miles Gardner Dozois, Michael Swanwick away, due east. Pub Date: 8/25/20 $14.99 USD Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson 272 pages works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what’s left of humanity from their gods.

One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves York, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond.

Tor Books

Architects of Memory Summary: Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost Karen Osborne everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be Pub Date: 8/25/20 damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie $17.99 USD her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. 352 pages When she and her crewmates salvage a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon.

Orbit

A Little Hatred Summary: Joe Abercrombie The New York Times bestselling first book in Joe Pub Date: 8/25/20 Abercrombie's The Age of Madness Trilogy where the $16.99 USD age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses 512 pages to die.

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from

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THE O'BRIEN PRESS

The O'Brien Press

Queen of Coin and Whispers : A kingdom of Summary: 'She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a secrets and a game of lies bloodied blade' Helen Corcoran Pub Date: 8/31/20 When Lia, an idealistic queen, falls for Xania, her new $16.99 USD spymaster--who took the job to avenge her murdered 464 pages father--they realise all isn't fair in love and treason.

Lia won’t mourn her uncle: he's left her a bankrupt kingdom considered easy pickings by its neighbours. She’s sworn to be a better ruler, but if she wants to push through her reforms, she needs to beat the Court at its own games. For years, Xania's been determined to uncover her father's murderer. She finally gets a chance when Lia gives her a

Enfant

Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi Summary: Lulu Moppet is back with even more outlandish John Stanley adventures and misadventures, as the cartoonist John Pub Date: 9/1/20 Stanley settles into kooky and entertaining suburban $29.95 USD storylines starring Lulu, Tubby, Alvin, and the rest of the 272 pages gang.

Lulu is a strong, assertive young girl who is both entertaining and empowering to girls and women of all ages—even if she sometimes finds herself in hot water. In Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi, she outsmarts criminals who mistake her for a wealthy young girl, gets into high jinks during a day at the beach, and plays hooky—but only by accident! Over the course of these stories, Stanley excels

William Morrow Paperbacks

Full Throttle : Stories Summary: A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale Joe Hill wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a Pub Date: 9/8/20 gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs $18.99 USD behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh 496 pages reads to the dead in “Late Returns.”

In “By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain”—now an episode on Shudder TV’s Creepshow—two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water’s edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws

TASCHEN

Fairy Tales. Grimm & Andersen: 2 in 1 – 40th Summary: More than 200 years ago, two brothers from Anniversary Edition Kassel, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, published the first Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Noel volume of their collection of German folktales. Over time the Dani... stories in their collection grew until finally they numbered Pub Date: 9/13/20 200 fairy tales and ten legends. What was initially an $25.00 USD attempt to preserve German traditions for posterity is today 512 pages the most widely read collection of stories after the Bible. From Snow White to Cinderella and Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm left behind a canon of fairy tales that have become classics of children’s literature, part of the UNESCO world heritage, and an indispensable piece of our history and culture.Hans Christian Andersen’s own life seemed to be out of a fairy tale—Charles Dickens

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PAPERCUTZ

Papercutz

Geeky Fab 5 Vol. 4 : Food Fight For Fiona Summary: A new girl has just transferred into the GF5’s Liz Lareau, Ryan Jampole, Lucy Lareau class at Earhart Elementary along with her little brother. Pub Date: 9/15/20 Fiona is quiet and thin and a bit forgetful as she didn't bring $7.99 USD her lunch or snack to school. Lucy, Marina, Zara, A.J., and 64 pages Sofia, The Geeky F@b 5, befriend Fiona, who is particularly impressed with Sophia’s tablet, Marina’s knowledge of space, and Lucy's fluffy kitty, Hubble. When Fiona gets called away to the principal’s office after school, the GF5 don't know why. When walking home they discover she lives in a nearby motel, not a home. As they begin to understand Fiona's story, the girls learn that she and other kids like her are homeless and don't always have food. To help, the GF5 launch a citywide student food drive among grade schools.

IDW Publishing

The Mueller Report: Graphic Novel Summary: It’s the greatest WHODUNIT of our time…or Shannon Wheeler, Steve Duin a new low for “Presidential Harassment!” Pub Date: 9/15/20 $15.99 USD Shannon Wheeler, Eisner Award-winning New Yorker 208 pages cartoonist (Too Much Coffee Man, Sh*t My President Says, God is Disappointed in You), and veteran journalist Steve Duin (The Oregonian, Comics: Between the Panels, Oil and Water) turn their critical eye on the Mueller Report—a comprehensive, understandable, and readable graphic novel version of the book every patriot needs.

Fight the spin spewing forth from both parties and political pulpits and check out this graphic novel that brings a

Titan Comics

Lone Sloane Chaos Summary: THE NEXT INCREDIBLE INSTALMENT IN Philippe Druillet AWARD-WINNING MASTER COMICS CREATOR Pub Date: 9/15/20 DRUILLET’S LONE SLOANE SAGA! $24.99 USD 72 pages Legendary comics artist Druillet brings his classic baroque, psychedelic vision to life once again in this latest Lone Sloane masterpiece edition.

Set ten years after the best-selling 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane, Chaos sees Druillet’s complex and existential protagonist continuing to explore the endless mysteries of the universe. This time, he comes face to face with his old enemy, Shaan…

Pen and Sword History

Ian Fleming's Inspiration : The Truth Behind Summary: James Bond is possibly the most well known the Books fictional character in history. What most people don’t know Edward Abel Smith is that almost all of the characters, plots and gadgets come Pub Date: 9/19/20 from the real life experiences of Bond’s creator - $34.95 USD Commander Ian Fleming. 232 pages In this book, we go through the plots of Fleming’s novels explaining the real life experiences that inspired them. The reader is taken on a journey through Fleming’s direct involvement in World War II intelligence and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond’s world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming’s life which were also taken as inspiration. Most notably, the friends who

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ORBIT

Orbit

The Doors of Eden Summary: Adrian Tchaikovsky From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Pub Date: 9/22/20 Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat $17.99 USD of the imagination and a page-turning adventure about 608 pages parallel universes and the monsters that they hide.

They thought we were safe. They were wrong.

Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back.

Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And

CAEZIK SF & Fantasy

And the Last Trump Shall Sound Summary: “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the Harry Turtledove, James Morrow, Cat Rambo last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall Pub Date: 9/22/20 be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”— First $16.99 USD Corinthians 15:52

From New York Times bestselling author, Harry Turtledove, critically-acclaimed novelist, James Morrow, and Nebula Award finalist, Cat Rambo, comes a masterful anthology of three sensational novellas depicting a dark fictional future of the United States.

And the Last Trump Shall Sound is a prophetic warning about where we, as a nation, may be headed. Mike Pence is President of the United States after years of divisive, DC Comics

John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 1: Marks of Summary: One of DC’s most iconic characters—John Woe Contantine, Hellblazer—is back the way you remember Simon Spurrier, Aaron Campbell him, and now a part of the Sandman Universe, in this Pub Date: 9/29/20 brand-new series! $19.99 USD 216 pages John Constantine is back in London, back to his old tricks—and just in time, as things have become very dark indeed in his old stomping grounds. A small-time gang lord has found himself dealing with a big-time outbreak of supernatural weirdness…and, without any allies to call on and nothing left to call his own, John doesn’t have much choice about taking a paycheck from one of London’s worst, or accepting the help of one of the gang lord’s would-be foot

Night Shade

The Best Science Fiction of the Year : Volume Summary: From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Five Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Neil Clarke Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Pub Date: 10/6/20 $19.99 USD Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and 624 pages cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke,

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

Witchfinder Volume 6: The Reign of Darkness Summary: Sir Edward Grey takes on Victorian London’s Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Christopher Mitten, most infamous killer: Jack the Ripper! ... Pub Date: 10/6/20 Abandoned by Scotland Yard when he insists on an occult $19.99 USD purpose to the murders, Grey finds an ally in American 144 pages occult adventurer Sarah Jewell. Their investigation leads them to the Proserpine Home for Wayward Women, and a dangerous conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of British political power!

Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, and Christopher Mitten tell the story of this turning point in the Witchfinder’s history with help from colorist Michelle Madsen and letterer Clem

Marvel

Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane: The Secret Summary: In the wake of shocking revelations, just what Thing is the story between Mary Jane and Peter Parker? How Sean McKeever, Terry Moore, Takeshi Miyazawa, about between Mary Jane and Spider-Man? Peter and Gwen Davi... Stacy? Spider-Man and...Firestar?! Things are getting Pub Date: 10/13/20 complicated in the life of your favorite teen, Mary Jane $12.99 USD Watson, and her classmates, including the irrepressible Liz 288 pages Allan - but will true love finally run smooth for MJ? Face it, tiger: You can't wait to find out! As a new school year begins, MJ finally begins to feel like she might have things in order. Good friends, good classes and a good relationship with a certain wall-crawler...but is there someone behind the scenes who's got it in for our rambunctious redhead? The sophomore jinx strikes for Mary Jane!

Valiant Entertainment, LLC

Quantum and Woody: Earth's Last Choice Summary: Supervillains and mad scientists are on the Christopher Hastings, Ryan Browne loose and only the world's worst superhero duo can save us! Pub Date: 10/13/20 $14.99 USD Eric and Woody Henderson have been a lot of things – 112 pages fractious foster brothers, washed up failures, and, ever since the freak accident that gave them their powers, reluctant crimefighting partners. But now against all odds they'll be Earth’s LAST hope of stopping a coalition of mad scientists from destroying the planet!

Superstar scribe Christopher Hastings (The Unbelievable Gwenpool) and astonishing artist Ryan Browne (Curse Words) team up for a side-splitting superhero adventure!

Fayetteville Mafia Press

Laura's Ghost : Women Speak About Twin Summary: Peaks In 1990, the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks, Courtenay Stallings, Sheryl Lee co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, opened with a Pub Date: 10/20/20 murder mystery when a beautiful homecoming queen, $29.99 USD wrapped in plastic, washed up on a cold and rocky beach. 200 pages Laura Palmer’s character began as a plot device that triggered a small town to face its fractured self. But after three seasons and a film, Laura Palmer is no longer just a plot device. Instead of solely focusing on the murderer, like most traditional storytelling at the time, the audience gets to know the victim, a complex young woman who explores her sexuality and endures incredible abuse. Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks is an examination of Laura

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MARVEL

Marvel

Marvel-Verse: Venom Summary: Venom has been one of the most vicious villains Nel Yomtov, David Michelinie, Bob Budiansky, in the Marvel-Verse - and one of its most lethal protectors! Fred ... Get to know the sinister symbiote with some of his most Pub Date: 10/27/20 action-packed adventures! It all begins with Spider-Man's $9.99 USD symbiotic black costume - a killer outfit in more ways than 120 pages one! And Spider-foes, including the Rhino and the Shocker, will find out just how dangerous it is! But after Spidey scorns and abandons the alien suit, the vengeful symbiote bonds with disgraced reporter Eddie Brock to become...Venom! Together, the two target Spider-Man for destruction - and nearly succeed! Venom eventually turns over a heroic new leaf - but how will Spidey react when his former deadliest foe swings back into town wanting to

Aconyte

The Last Ritual : An Arkham Horror Novel Summary: A mad surrealist’s art threatens to rip open S A Sidor the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch Pub Date: 11/3/20 horror and conspiracy, from the wildy popular world of $16.95 USD Arkham Horror. 352 pages Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham’s social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr’s mock rituals

Seven Seas

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Papercraft Summary: Fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic can El Joey Designs now bring their favorite characters to life using this unique Pub Date: 11/3/20 craft book! Featuring original templates that come $19.99 USD pre-scored and die-cut, each paper character is ready to pop 160 pages out, fold, and glue. The adorable designs and simple instructions make this a fun collectible for My Little Pony fans of all ages.

CHARACTER LINE-UP:

Twilight Sparkle - Rainbow Dash - Fluttershy - Pinkie Pie - Rarity - Applejack - Spike - Princess Celestia - Princess Luna - Princess Cadance - Shining Armor -

Texas A&M University Press

Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art Summary: Recipient of three National Endowment for the Bob Wade, W. K. Kip Stratton Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Pub Date: 11/4/20 Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil $35.00 USD Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” 256 pages Wade has been “keeping it weird” since 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s coif and dragster earned him his trademark moniker, and the abstract, welded sculptures he fashioned from automobile bumpers in his frat house basement laid the foundations for the distinctive, larger-than-life art pieces that would eventually make him famous.

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

The Troll Guide Summary: Have you ever encountered a troll and not Anders Skoglind known what to do? Don’t panic—The Troll Guide has Pub Date: 11/10/20 you covered! $19.99 USD 104 pages This essential handbook is filled with tips and tricks on what to do when encountering trolls, as well as a comprehensive list of the different kinds of trolls and mountain creatures. This guidebook will turn even the most novice of troll scholars into experts!

Scholastic Inc.

Welcome to Galar! (Pokémon Level 2 Reader) Summary: Scholastic, REBECCA SHAPIRO The new Pokémon are here, and kids gotta catch 'em Pub Date: 11/10/20 all! This reader with stickers features the cool, $4.99 USD brand-new Galar Pokémon from Nintendo's new games 32 pages for Nintendo Switch, Sword & Shield.

Join Ash and Pikachu on an adventure in Galar, the newest Pokémon region! They'll meet and catch some amazing new Pokémon in this reader, including Galar First Partners Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. Includes stickers!

Pike and Powder

Rise of the Alchemist Summary: A steampunk alternative history set in the US, Craig Gallant 100 years after the failed revolution. The first novel in a Pub Date: 11/17/20 shared author universe where crystals open a door to magic $17.00 USD 325 pages After the failed revolution of the American Colonist, Benedict Arnold is able to carve out a kingdom of his own called Albion and still break free of England. In the year 1880 in the Kingdom of Albion, Nicholas Hawkes sets out on a journey to find the keys of magic thorugh a philospher's stone. His journies take him across the new world in search of this wonder and against those in the numerous petty kingdoms that would try to stop him.

Vault Comics

Dark One Volume 1 Summary: Brandon Sanderson, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, From Hugo Award winning, New York Times Best-Selling ... author, Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Pub Date: 11/17/20 Stormlight Archive series) comes DARK ONE, a new graphic $24.99 USD novel series from Vault Comics. 224 pages Paul is a young man who sees visions of strange and fantastic worlds—visions he initially believes are hallucinations. But these visions turn out to be prophesies, dark projections of a world in which Paul is a tyrant who destroys the world and the creatures that reside there. Dark One examines the dual roles we often take on in life - the ability to be a savior as well as a destroyer.

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PAPERCUTZ

Papercutz

Gillbert #3 : The Flaming Carats Evolution Summary: Something fishy is going on! The Pyrockians, Art Baltazar those fiery little invaders from outer space, are back and Pub Date: 11/24/20 they’re planning something seriously strange. And what $9.99 USD exactly are they doing with an undersea volcano? Would you 88 pages believe they’re evolving into diamonds? It is up to the little merman, young prince Gillbert, to figure out what those pesky Pyrockians are really up to -- but he’s gone, with his best bud, Sherbert, to a strange mysterious place in the ocean, called Phiblothian, to meet with Anne Phibean and her pham — oops, family! Gillbert meets the Phibian Phather, Phinius, Phibster, Phinny, Phil, Phylu, Phibling, Philbert, Phred, Phernando, and the rest. This graphic novel is the latest comics creation from super-

Albatross Funnybooks

The Goon: Bunch of Old Crap Volume 3: An Summary: Fear and misery plague the nameless town on Omnibus the edge of Horse-Eater’s Wood. An ancient curse is drawing Eric Powell the most powerful and vile creatures to the town with only Pub Date: 12/1/20 one hope for protection -- the Goon. But when it draws an $29.99 USD enemy thought long gone, even the Goon's lifelong foe, the 416 pages Zombie Priest, is subjugated to this power’s evil will. Collects The Goon Volumes 7–9 of Eric Powell’s Eisner Award winning series with bonus material.

Valiant Entertainment, LLC

Bloodshot (2019) Book 3 Summary: Beaten, battered… Burned! Tim Seeley, Marc Laming Pub Date: 12/1/20 Unthinkable monsters are unleashing hell on Earth! $14.99 USD Bloodshot and his allies in the coalition of former agents 112 pages known as the Burned will be put to the test… but all is not as it seems. Now, surrounded by enemies, who can Bloodshot trust?

New York Times best-selling writer Tim Seeley (Nightwing) joins blistering artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) for the next bullet riddled volume of the series Screen Rant calls "undeniably slick".

Dark Horse Books

The Butcher of Paris Summary: In 1944, as Swastikas flew over Paris, one Stephanie Phillips, Dean Kotz, Jason Wordie of the most notorious and prolific serial killers in Pub Date: 12/15/20 history turned the occupied city into his personal $19.99 USD hunting ground. 112 pages Under the guise of opportunity and freedom, a killer preys on those desperate to flee…until a gruesome discovery alerts the police. In a city on the brink of war, the hunt for a serial killer begins as a French detective races to catch the villain before the Nazis beat him to it.

Written by Stephanie Phillips (Descendent, Devil Within) with art by Dean Kotz (Mars Attacks), The Butcher of Paris

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AFTERSHOCK COMICS

Aftershock Comics

Man Who F#&%ed Up Time Summary: TIME IS NOT ON HIS SIDE. John Layman, Mike Marts, Karl Mostert Pub Date: 12/22/20 Sean Bennett is just your everyday, ordinary lab worker in a $16.99 USD high-tech lab with a prototype time machine. And, yeah, 120 pages he's got the same temptations any of us would have about going back in time, just a bit, to correct mistakes of the past and right old wrongs. So when he meets a version of himself from the future who encourages him to do just that, Sean takes the temporal plunge. Only ... can you guess what happens next? Did you read the book title? Yup. All of TIME is f#&%ed up now, and it's up to Sean to correct it - or else!

Image Comics

Motor Crush Volume 3 Summary: Brenden Fletcher, Babs Tarr, Cameron Stewart, YALSA’s 2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Rob ... Pub Date: 12/22/20 The acclaimed sci-fi action-adventure series MOTOR CRUSH returns $16.99 USD with another burst of hot pink energy! 160 pages Domino Swift is used to gunning for victory on the racetrack. But what happens when a far bigger trophy is on the line? As Domino struggles to understand her mysterious past and tumultuous present, the future of all humanity rests in her hands. Will she make it to the finish line?

Collects MOTOR CRUSH #12-16

DC Comics

Wonder Woman Vol. 3: Loveless Summary: Wonder Woman Vol. 3: Return of the G. Willow Wilson Amazons collects issues #74-81 from “Year of the Pub Date: 12/29/20 Villan—Evil Unleashed.” Written by G. Willow Wilson, $17.99 USD the author of the New York Times bestselling comic 208 pages book series Ms. Marvel, winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.

Wonder Woman’s journey through the broken realm has reached its end—but who waits for her there? And what exactly created this place between dimensions in the first place? The answer will shock Diana and provide the missing piece of a puzzle that’s defined her entire life! But in the wake of Ares’ escape from his prison, who among the

Marvel

Ghost-Spider Vol. 2 : Party People Summary: Gwen Stacy has it all! Two worlds - two lives - Seanan McGuire, Ig Guara in perfect harmony, with endless realities and infi nite Pub Date: 12/29/20 possibilities to explore with her friends! And don't forget her $15.99 USD dad, a police Captain whose cases Gwen likes to help solve 112 pages when she can! But what will George Stacy's latest mystery mean for Ghost-Spider? Prepare to learn the answer to the question you didn't even know to ask: whatever happened to the Susan and Johnny Storm of Earth-65?! Plus, rock and roll dreams come true for the Mary Janes as Gwen takes her band on a rip-roaring multiversal concert tour! But not all those eyes belong to starstruck fans. There's something symbiotic and sinister stirring in the Prime Universe - and something unsettling is happening to Ghost-Spider's

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DC COMICS

DC Comics

Birds of Prey: Blood & Circuits Summary: Popular writer Gail Simone’s action-packed Gail Simone Birds of Prey is reprinted for the first time ever! Pub Date: 1/12/21 $29.99 USD After being paralyzed by the Joker, former Batgirl Barbara 360 pages Gordon became Oracle and formed a crime-fighting team with other female heroes including the martial artist with a devastating sonic scream, Black Canary, the vigilante known as the Huntress and the mysterious Lady Blackhawk! In this collection, the team is shaken up as members depart and new teammates are added to the roster. Who will be asked to join Oracle in her all-new Birds of Prey? Who will refuse, and who will fly the coop for good?

Dark Horse Books

47 Ronin Summary: Japan’s enduring national legend comes to Mike Richardson, Stan Sakai, Lovern Kindzierski comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to Pub Date: 1/26/21 avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code $19.99 USD of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have 152 pages done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated, this collection of the acclaimed miniseries recounts this sweeping saga of honor and violence in all its grandeur. Opening with the tragic incident that sealed the fate of Lord Asano, 47 Ronin follows a dedicated group of Asano’s vassals on their years-long path of vengeance!

* From Mike Richardson (Star Wars: Crimson Empire) and

DC Comics

Books of Magic Vol. 3 (The Sandman Summary: Destined to become the most powerful Universe) magician in the universe, will Tim Hunter end up the Kat Howard, Tom Fowler greatest sorcerer the world has ever known? Or the Pub Date: 2/16/21 greatest evil that the universe will need to stop? $29.99 USD 312 pages In the wake of October’s The Sandman Universe Presents Hellblazer #1, John Constantine is loose in our world again—and unfortunately for Tim Hunter, he’s convinced the only way for the human race to survive is if Tim is taken off the board. But from where Tim’s standing, he’s the only one with the power to save us all. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? And is there room in London for the both of them? The scribes of Books of Magic and John Constantine: Hellblazer

Victionary

INK: The Art of Tattoo II Summary: Originating as an ancient tribal practice that Victionary marked rites of passage, symbols of religious devotion, and Pub Date: 3/16/21 badges of courage, tattoo art has evolved into a modern $39.95 USD tool of expression encompassing fashion statements, 288 pages memorials for loved ones, and pledges of philosophies or beliefs. From contemporary line work and graphic patterns to vintage illustrations and tribal-inspired layers, the new wave of tattoos embodies an anything-goes aesthetic movement that is deeply rooted in a love of art.

INK: The Art of Tattoo II showcases a brand new curation of talents from all over the world who continue to redefine and rejuvenate the scene with their original and eye-catching

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

The EC Archives: Shock Illustrated Summary: Illustrated tales designed to shock! Daniel Keyes, Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Reed Crand... Enjoy the complete run of Shock Illustrated, an innovative Pub Date: 4/20/21 “Picto-Fiction” magazine containing illustrated prose stories $49.99 USD of switch parties, thrill killers, and more of society’s dark 248 pages underbelly—written and illustrated by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and more!

Features the lost fourth issue, with pencils from Frank Frazetta!

This archive volume contains Shock Illustrated issues 1

Pushkin Children's Books

Duncan Versus the Googleys Summary: A quirky and hilarious debut about Kate Milner scheming old ladies, mechanical monsters and fearless Pub Date: 6/15/21 children from an award-winning illustrator $12.95 USD 224 pages Duncan just wants to spend all summer at home playing games on his phone. Instead, his parents leave him with his Great Aunt Harriet at Arthritis Hall retirement home, a community of hostile old ladies with a diabolical secret…

Duncan quickly befriends Ursula, the caretaker’s daughter who knows every secret passageway in the building, and the two must work together as they become embroiled in a plot involving bizarre electronic creatures, a sinister knitting

Krause Publications

The Ultimate Guide to Vintage Star Wars Summary: Abundantly visual and painstakingly meticulous, Action Figures 1977-1985 The Ultimate Guide to Vintage Star Wars Action Mark Bellomo Figures, 1977-1985, 2nd edition, by nationally renowned Pub Date: 8/3/21 toy expert Mark Bellomo, offers the definitive reference to $35.00 USD vintage Star Wars action figures. 304 pages This big, bold and beautiful hardcover book includes 700 detailed color images, information, variations and secondary market values for every action figure produced by Kenner during this time, as well as accessories, creatures, playsets and vehicles, all to create the finest Star Wars action figure guide on the market.

Krause Publications

Star Wars - A Galaxy of Collectibles : Movie Summary: The foundation of popular culture was shaken to Props, Original Art, Rarities, Classic Toys its core in 1977 when George Lucas released one of the Eric Bradley, John Jackson Miller most important films in modern American history: Star Pub Date: 8/3/21 Wars: A New Hope. A hardcover, richly illustrated joyride $30.00 USD Star Wars: A Galaxy of Collectibles, frames four decades 224 pages of intergalactic adventures with rare collectibles, astonishing collections and classic Star Wars images.

Showcasing fabulous movie props, original art, prototypes, movie posters, rarities, classic toys, and exclusive interviews with artists who created some of the most iconic scenes from the original movie trilogy, Star Wars: A Galaxy of Collectibles pulls back the curtain to reveal a stunning

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PUSHKIN PRESS

Pushkin Press

American Midnight : Tales of the Dark Summary: A chilling collection of classic weird and Laird Hunt, Various supernatural tales from the dark heart of American Pub Date: 8/31/21 literature $18.00 USD 192 pages A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American literature, filled with unforgettable imagery and simmering with tension. From Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Zora Neale Hurston, the authors of these classics of supernatural suspense have inspired generations of writers to explore the dark heart of the land of the free.

Solaris

The Burning Horse Summary: A wonderful, magical book, full of ancient myth, Paul Kearney set in 1930s Oxford between the wars. Pub Date: 3/14/22 $14.99 USD Anna is twelve, and she has already killed a man. Except he 320 pages was not a man at the time. It is 1930 and the new decade is complicated, even in the depths of rural Oxfordshire.

An orphan from a faraway country, Anna lives with an old farmer named Gabriel who may be a demon, or an angel, or both. Her best friends are a doll named Pie and a werewolf. Her long-lost mother was an Anatolian witch, and there are those who say that in Anna the witchcraft lurks too.

Puffin Books

The Witches : Movie Tie-In Summary: From the bestselling author of Charlie and Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Pub Date: 1/4/50 $7.99 USD This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. 224 pages Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There’s nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma’s stories—but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!

Gallery / Saga Press

A Longer Fall Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Pub Date: 12/31/50 “gripping, twisty-turny” (Karin Slaughter, New York $9.99 USD Times bestselling author) Gunnie Rose series, in which 368 pages Lizbeth is hired to transport a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it.

In this second “immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing” (Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series) installment of the Gunnie Rose

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