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

Newsletter #100 December, 2012 — February, 2013

Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Sat. 10 am to 6 pm; Sun. Noon to 5 pm Already Received Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Doctor Who Magazine #450 (Exclusive interview: Matt & Pat! We bring two Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 doctors together across time; more)...... $8.99 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Doctor Who Magazine #451 (Exclusive previews: Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs Website: www.UncleHugo.com on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy; more)...... $8.99 Doctor Who Magazine #452 (Exclusive previews: The Power of Three, The Angels 32nd Anniversary Sale Take ; more)...... $8.99 100 Scariest Monsters (Doctor Who: Kids; Full color. A look at the aliens, creatures, mutants, and other bad things the Doctor has faced over the years)...... $13.99 December 1 marks Uncle Postcards from Time and Space (Doctor Who: Boxed set of 100 full color Edgar’s 32nd anniversary. Come into postcards, featuring iconic characters, terrifying monsters, and incredible places).$17.99 Uncle Edgar’s or Uncle Hugo’s and save & Science Fiction November / December 2012 (New fiction, 10% off everything except discount reviews, more)...... $7.50 cards, gift certificates, or merchandise Fantasy & Science Fiction September / October 2012 (New fiction, that is already marked 40% off. (All the reviews, more)...... $7.50 jigsaw puzzles and most of the games Locus #620 September 2012 (Interviews with John Scalzi, Richard Kadrey, Nancy are already 40% off.) A discount card Pearl; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 will save you even more–you’ll get both Locus #621 October 2012 (Interviews with , Stanley Schmidt; 2012 Hugo 10% savings from the discount card and winners; report; industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 10% off from the sale. (Sale prices Locus #622 November 2012 (Interviews with Gregory Benford, Tim Pratt; apply to in-store purchases, but not to industry news, reviews, more)...... $6.95 mail orders.) The 32nd Anniversary Barrett Jr., Neal Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett Jr. (Collection; 28 genre-bending Sale runs Friday, November 30 through stories, with an emphasis on odd, dark, and funny; Signed copies)...... $40.00 Sunday, December 9–giving you two Baxendale, Trevor Claws of the Macra (Doctor Who: Decide Your Destiny: Kids; Danger and adventure weekends to take advantage of the sale. await you on a school trip to a gas refinery infested by giant crustaceans! Only you can help We will also be having our the Doctor and Amy put a stop to the Macra's plans and save Earth)...... $9.99 annual inventory reduction sale Bear, Greg Primordium (Halo: Forerunner Saga #2: Novel based on the game)...... $15.99 December 26-31, but that will feature Bechdel, Alison Are You My Mother? (A graphic novel about her mother: voracious reader, music deep discounts on things we really, really want to get rid of. It will not be a lover, amateur actor. Also a woman unhappily married to a closeted gay man, with artistic store-wide sale like the 32nd aspirations that simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood, and who stopped Anniversary Sale. touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when Bechdel was seven). . $22.00 Bechdel, Alison Fun Home (In this graphic novel, Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her distant and exacting father. It wasn't until college, when she had recently come out as a Award News lesbian, that she discovered her father was also gay. A few weeks later, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve)...... $13.95 The for Best Bell, Alex Fighting With Fire (Lex Trent #2: PBO; The Games are about to begin again, and Novel went to Among Others by Jo the Goddess of Luck wants Lex to defend their title. It's a challenge he can't resist, despite Walton ($14.99). the risk of death, because the final round will take place in the Wild West, giving Lex the chance to claim the legendary Sword of Life, and who wouldn't want that?). . . . . $11.95 Many mystery awards were Beryk, M.M. The Unveiled Rose (Thane and his allies must overcome traitors, an evil wizard, and announced at Bouchercon: dangerous criminals to find incriminating evidence to cripple the intergalactic organization The Anthony Awards included known as Unveiled Rose; Signed copies)...... $15.00 Best Novel to A Trick of the Light by Blecher, Lone & George Swedish Folktales & Legends (Reissue; 150 stories of sirens, trolls, princesses, Louise Penny ($14.99), Best First Novel dunces, rakes, and more, ranging from the ribald to the magical)...... $18.95 to Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry Brake, Colin The Coldest War (Doctor Who: Decide Your Destiny: Kids; You're in the TARDIS when ($15.00), Best Paperback Original to it loses power and crash-lands in a deserted, snowy landscape. Something is sucking the Buffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy energy from everything that passes. Is it the Sycorax? Or something else entirely? Help the ($7.99), and Best Non-Fiction to The Doctor and Amy unravel the mystery, before it's too late!)...... $9.99 Sookie Stackhouse Companion edited Christian, Claudia Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction (PBO; by Charlaine Harris ($18.00). Nonfiction; the actress talks about her life in Hollywood, her alcohol addiction, and her The Barry Awards included desperate battle to reclaim her life)...... $16.95 Best Novel to The Keeper of Lost D'Aulaire,Ingri & Edgar Children of the Northlights (Reissue; Kids; Full color picture book; brings to life Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen ($16.00), the Sami people and culture of northern Scandinavia, following the daily lives of siblings Best First Novel to The Informationist Lise and Lasse)...... $16.95 by Taylor Stevens ($14.00), Best British Dark, Juliet The Demon Lover (Fairwick #1: PBO; Since accepting a teaching position at Fairwick to Dead Man’s Grip by Peter James College, Callie McFay has experienced the same erotic dream every night. She soon realizes ($14.99), Best Paperback Original to that she has a demon lover, who will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very Death of the Mantis by Michael life from her. The tenured witches of the college and the resident in the woods are Stanley ($14.99), and Best Thriller to prepared to cast out the demon. But can Callie banish this supernatural lover from her The Informant by Thomas Perry heart?)...... $15.00 ($14.95). Davis, Gerry Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (Doctor Who: Classic reprint featuring the The Shamus Awards included final adventure of the First Doctor, Ben, and Polly)...... $6.99 Best Hardcover P.I. Novel to A Bad Defoe, Gideon The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics (Pirates #5: While Night’s Sleep by Michael Wiley visiting the shores of Lake Geneva, the Pirate Captain and his crew encounter the ($24.99), Best First P.I. Novel to The swaggering Lord Byron, the oddly shifty Percy Shelley, and his smart, attractive betrothed Shortcut Man by P. G. Sturges Mary. Amid haunted castles and feminism, the Pirate Captain confronts some important ($15.00), and Best Paperback Original questions)...... $14.95 P.I. Novel to Fun & Games by Duane Dempsey, Luke Monty Python's Flying Circus Complete and Annotated (Roughly 6 lbs. Swierczynski ($14.99). of silliness: the complete scripts for all 45 episodes of the TV series, plus over 2000 color The Macavity Awards included photos and illustrations. Annotations in the margins explain the in-jokes, running gags, and Best Mystery Novel to Claire DeWitt foreign-language bits, as well as providing color commentary)...... $50.00 and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran Deutsch, Barry How Mirka Got Her Sword (Hereville #1: Kids; Full color graphic novel; 11-year- ($13.95), Best First Mystery Novel to old Mirka wants to fight dragons! Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around the All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen Orthodox Jewish community where she lives, but that doesn't stop Mirka from honing her ($29.00), Best Mystery-Related skills. She stands up to local bullies. She battles a very large, menacing pig. And she accepts Nonfiction to The Sookie Stackhouse a challenge from a witch: to get a dragon-slaying sword, all Mirka has to do is find and Companion edited by Charlaine Harris outwit the giant troll who has it)...... $9.95 ($18.00), and Sue Feder Historical Dick, Philip K. The Penultimate Truth (Reissue; In the future, most of humanity lives in Mystery Award to Dandy Gilver and underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they've fled. Constantly the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens believe they are waiting for the day when by Catriona McPherson ($14.99). the war will be over and they can return aboveground. But when Nick St. James, president of one industrial anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is Holiday Gift Ideas shocking)...... $13.95 Dickinson, Peter Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures (PBO; YA; Collection; 6 short Our single most popular gift works of sf and fantasy)...... $14.95 option continues to be our gift Dicks, Terrance Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (Doctor Who: Classic reprint featuring certificate. We can issue one for any the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT)...... $6.99 amount. It can be used at either or both Drucker, Mort MAD's Greatest Artists: Mort Drucker (A retrospective of his work over the last Uncles. It can even be used for mail five decades. Mostly black & white comic strips, plus some full-color magazine covers. orders, and it can be purchased over the Includes a full-color fold-out poster)...... $30.00 phone (if you have a Visa, Mastercard, Flynn, Michael Captive Dreams (Collection; 6 short works of sf, 3 of them previously unpublished, or Discover Card) and we can mail it that explore the concept of being human)...... $14.99 either to the purchaser or to the Grant, Maxwell The Ribbon Clues / Death Rides the Skyway (Shadow #64: Pulp reprints) recipient, or we can just enter the ...... $14.95 balance on a credit file here at the store Grant, Maxwell Gypsy Vengeance / The Veiled Prophet (Shadow #65: Pulp reprints)$.14.95 to avoid the risk of the gift certificate Hamilton, Peter F. Manhattan in Reverse (Collection; 7 short works of sf, including a previously being lost. unpublished novella featuring Paula Myo that takes place in the aftermath of Judas Calendars are another popular Unchained)...... $40.00 gift item. The standard wall calendars Hand, Elizabeth Errantry: Strange Stories (PBO; Collection; 10 tales of fantasy and horror$)1.6.00 include Art of Dreams (art of Daniel Hayles, Brian Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors (Doctor Who: Classic reprint featuring the Merriam, $14.99), Brian Froud’s Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria)...... $6.99 World of Faerie ($14.99), Buffy the Herbert, Emily Matt Smith: The Biography (Doctor Who: Nonfiction; the inside story of the new Vampire Slayer ($13.99), Cattitude is Doctor and his rapid rise to stardom. Color photos)...... $14.95 Everything (Garfield, $13.99), Cinema Herren/Redmann (ed) Night : Queer Horror (PBO; Anthology; 14 stories)...... $16.95 Noir ($13.95), Cult Attack (mainly old Hoffman, Nina Kiriki Permeable Borders (Collection; 16 previously uncollected fantasy stories). $16.99 movie posters, $13.95), Dexter (stills Kadrey, Richard Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim #2: Reissue; In town as an advisor on a biopic of his life, from the tv show, $13.99), Dilbert Lucifer needs protection, and wants Stark as his bodyguard. Not a bad gig - until a zombie ($13.99), Dragons (art by Ciruelo, plague complicates matters)...... $12.99 $14.99), Edward Gorey ($13.99), Kasturi/Villegas (ed) Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (PBO; Fractal Creation ($13.95), Get Fuzzy Anthology; 37 stories and poems)...... $15.95 ($13.99), Game of Thrones (stills from Kilpatrick, Nancy (ed) Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (PBO; Anthology; 26 the HBO series, $13.99), George R. R. stories about humanity's interactions with the Angel of Death)...... $14.95 Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire King, D.L. (ed) Seductress: Erotic Tales of Immortal Desire (PBO; Anthology; 21 stories of (paintings by Marc Simonetti, $17.00), succubi)...... $15.95 Mass Effect 3 (art from the video game, King, Stephen The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower: In the guilt-ridden year following $14.99), Master of Illusion (art by Rob his mother's death, Roland Deschain is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a Gonsalves, $14.99), The Princess Bride murderous shapeshifter. Taking charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is (stills from the movie, $13.99), Pulp the sole surviving witness of the recent slaughter, Roland calms him by reciting a story from Attack (pulp-style covers of “dangerous the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime)...... $16.00 dames”, $13.95), The Simpsons Kirk, Daniel Library Mouse (Library Mouse #1: Kids; Full color picture book. When the people go ($15.99), A Star Is Born (space home, Sam comes out of his hole to read library books. Then he writes some books himself, photography, $13.95), Starcraft (video leaving them out on the shelves. They're a hit, but when people want to meet him, the shy game art, $14.99), Star Trek Ships of mouse has an even better idea for a 'meet the author' event)...... $15.95 the Line ($14.99), Supernatural (stills Kirk, Daniel A Friend's Tale (Library Mouse #2: Kids; Full color picture book. Tom can't find a from the tv show, $13.99), Tintin partner for a book-making assignment - until he finds Sam's hole at the library. Will the (Herge’s original artwork, not the movie, pair be able to work together? And will Tom protect the secret of Sam's identity?).$15.95 $13.99), Tolkien: The Hobbit (art by Kirk, Daniel A World to Explore (Library Mouse #3: Kids; Full color picture book. Sam meets John Howe & , not the movie, Sarah, an adventurous mouse who loves to climb and explore. Sam prefers reading and $14.99), True Blood (stills from the tv writing, and introduces Sarah to the joy and adventure of books. Sarah wants to return the series, $13.99), World of WarCraft (art favor. Can she help Sam overcome his fear of climbing?)...... $16.95 from the game, $14.99), Worlds of Kirk, Daniel A Museum Adventure (Library Mouse #4: Kids; Full color picture book. Sam and Fiction (some pulpy covers, some Sarah set out to explore the museum next door. Sam plans to write in his journal about what international movie posters, $13.95), and he sees, but Sarah isn't sure that explorers have time for journals, until she realizes that You Might Be A Redneck If... ($13.99; journals are a good place for stamps, and ticket stubs, and drawings of interesting things. we ordered Robots, we got billed for And there are surprises in store at the museum, including a most unexpected resident artist) Robots, but somebody in the warehouse ...... $16.95 threw this into the box instead and we’re Koja, Kathe Under the Poppy (Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner. Under the Poppy is a brothel stuck with it, and we still haven’t been owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert, who is in love with Decca's brother able to get them to send us Robots). Istvan. When Istvan and his louche puppet troupe come to town, hearts are broken as old The page-a-day style calendars we’re betrayals and new alliances take shape, while the townsmen seek refuge from approaching received are Close to Home ($14.99), war by watching the girls of the Poppy cavort onstage with Istvan's naughty puppets) Dilbert ($14.99), Garfield ($14.99), ...... $16.00 Get Fuzzy ($14.99), and The Simpsons Kolehmainen/Bowman/Bianco Tales from a Finnish Tupa (Reissue; Full color illustrations. Humorous stories, ($15.99). The only desktop calendar tales, and fables)...... $15.95 we’ve received is Dilbert ($13.99), and Laws, Robin D. Blood of the City (Pathfinder Tales: PBO; Novel based on the game)...... $9.99 the only mini-wall calendar we’ve Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea #1: Reissue; YA; After he recklessly looses a terrible received is evil on the world, apprentice wizard Ged must master mighty words of power, tame an (Edward Gorey, $7.99). We’ve already ancient dragon, and cross death's threshold to restore the balance)...... $7.99 sold out of a couple of designs (not Le Guin, Ursula K. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea #2: Reissue; YA; Newbery Honor Book. Chosen as listed) and we’re already down to our high priestess to the Powers of the Earth, young Tenar is now guardian of the Tombs of last copy of some of the calendars listed. Atuan. As she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, Ged comes to steal the tombs' Another very popular gift idea greatest treasure. He brings with him the light of magic, and together he and Tenar escape is signed books. We don’t have space in from the darkness that has become her domain)...... $7.99 this newsletter to list all the signed titles, Le Guin, Ursula K. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea #3: Reissue; YA; National Book Award winner. The so go to our website, click Browse Our world and its wizards are losing their magic. Ged - Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord - sets New Books, scroll about half-way down out with young Prince Arren; they travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause the next (long) page and click Signed of these evil disturbances, and to restore magic to their land)...... $7.99 Books (for either Edgar’s or Hugo’s or Le Guin, Ursula K. Tehanu (Earthsea #4: Reissue; YA; winner, Mythopoeic Award finalist. All). Tenar and Ged join forces again to help a physically and emotionally scarred child whose destiny has yet to be revealed)...... $7.99 How’s Business Le Guin, Ursula K. The Other Wind (Earthsea #5: Reissue; YA; winner, Nebula and by Don Blyly Mythopoiec finalist. The dead are pulling the sorcerer Alder to them at night, hoping that through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. The threat can be confronted Let me start by talking about only in the holiest place in the world, where king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a parking meters. Several years ago last stand)...... $7.99 Minneapolis started replacing the old Le Guin, Ursula K. Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea: Reissue; YA; Collection; 2 novellas and 3 stories, plus style parking meters (where you stick a an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic)...... $7.99 quarter into the meter you parked next Lumley, Brian No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories (Collection; reprints 12 macabre to) in downtown with this new parking tales; Signed copies)...... $40.00 system. You park next to a sign with a Maitland, Sara From the Forest (UK title: Gossip from the Forest) (Nonfiction. With each number on it, and then you have to look chapter focusing on a different story and a different forest visit, Maitland offers a history around to find where the control box is of forests and how they shape the themes of the fairy tales we know best)...... $28.00 located (usually around the middle of the Marter, Ian Doctor Who and the Ark in Space (Doctor Who: Classic reprint featuring the block). You then have to walk to the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan)...... $6.99 control box and enter the 5-digit number Parent, B.K. Journey's Middle (Arial returns from a day gathering herbs to discover her home on the sign you parked next to and feed ransacked, her grandmother unconscious, and her father missing. A note from her father the control box some money or a credit says that if he has not returned in ten days, she should hide her identity and take to the card. (In downtown, a quarter only road. Changing her name to Nissa, she travels with her hunting cat Carz, gathering bought 6 minutes, so being able to pay companions who will join her on an adventure involving an power-hungry regent, a princess with a credit card is very useful for those coming of age, and folks taking sides; Signed copies)...... $28.95 who don’t normally walk around with Ratcliffe, Samuel Fashion (Art book; full color photos of clothing, jewelry, and gadgets many dollars in quarters in their from some of the top steampunk fashion studios)...... $24.95 pockets.) The city found that they made Raymond, Alex War on the Planet Mongo (Complete Flash Gordon #1: Full color collection of a lot more money on the new parking comic strips, originally run in the Sunday papers from 1/7/1934-4/18/1937. Their system than they did with the old parking adventures on the planet Mongo pit Flash Gordon and his companions against diabolical meters, primarily for two reasons. First, mastermind Ming the Merciless)...... $39.95 with the old meters, somebody might pay Robeson, Kenneth The Man Who Fell Up / The Three Wild Men (Doc Savage #61: Pulp for an hour and leave after half an hour, reprints)...... $14.95 and then somebody else would pull in, Robeson, Kenneth The Flaming Falcons / The Too-Wise Owl (Bama cover) (Doc Savage see half an hour still on the meter and get #62: Pulp reprints)...... $14.95 free parking for that half hour, while Robeson, Kenneth The Flaming Falcons / The Too-Wise Owl (Clarke cover) (Doc Savage with the new system it’s impossible to #62: Pulp reprints)...... $14.95 tell if there is still time on your space, so Sanderson, Brandon Legion (Novella; Stephen Leeds has a unique mental condition that allows him to everybody pumps money into the control generate a multitude of personae. He and his aspects are drawn into the search for a missing box. Second, if people can use a credit inventor whose camera could alter our understanding of history and change the structure card they will often buy more time than of society)...... $20.00 if they are limited to the number of Slade, Christian Sprouting Wings! (Korgi Book 1: Kids; Black & white graphic novel. When young Ivy quarters they happen to have in their and her Korgi cub Sprout stray too far from their village, the wicked Gallump catches them - pocket. So, they started switching to the but keeping them is going to be harder than he expects!)...... $10.00 new parking system in other areas of the Slade, Christian The Cosmic Collector (Korgi Book 2: PBO; Kids; Black & white graphic novel. A city. mysterious hunter has been catching Mollies and clipping off their wings. When one of Ivy's Our area merchant association wings is stolen, she and Sprout set out to get it back - which turns out to be more held a joint meeting with the Lyndale- Lake merchant association about 6 complicated than they expected)...... $10.00 months ago to discuss common problems Slade, Christian A Hollow Beginning (Korgi Book 3: PBO; Kids; Black & white graphic novel. Curious and the solutions each group had come about a shard of stained glass they found, Ivy and her dog Sprout show it to Korgi Hollow's up with, and one of the topics was the librarian. He recognizes the castle on the shard from an illustration in a book, and tells new parking system. The new parking them the story of how Korgi Hollow came to be)...... $9.95 system had been installed in the Smith, Gavin G. War in Heaven (Jakob Douglas #2: The never-ending war with Them might be over, Lyndale-Lake area about a year before, so now humanity has turned on itself. But Jakob Douglas has had enough of fighting, of and everybody hated it. The city had putting his mostly machine body back together again. He's just after one last piece of increased the cost of parking and the revenge - but things never go as he plans)...... $15.95 hours of operation in the Lyndale-Lake Stockbridge/Henderson Shadow of Evil (Spider: Richard Wentworth wonders if his long struggle against the area, so it was more expensive to park forces of evil has been worth it. Should he continue, or grab for personal happiness while there while shopping. The new system he can? Just as he makes his decision, fate unleashes the most hellish horrors of all time was confusing to people who hadn’t against NYC)...... $6.99 already used the system downtown, and Szereto, Mitzi (ed) Thrones of Desire: Erotic Tales of Swords, Mist and Fire (PBO; the signage was very poor. Lots of Anthology; 14 stories)...... $15.95 customers tried to stop to shop, couldn’t Taylor, Calista Steampunk Your Wardrobe (PBO; Full color. A step-by-step guide to creating figure out the system, and just drove steampunk clothing and accessories for women)...... $19.99 away. And the merchants wondered how Tolkien/Hanrahan/McKinstry Tolkien's World (Full color. An unofficial, unauthorized guide to Middle-earth) well the system would survive a heavy- ...... $24.99 snow winter and the snow plows. VanderMeer, Ann (ed) Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (PBO; Anthology; 27 stories (3 original About 4 months ago, I saw that to this volume) and 4 essays (3 original to this volume))...... $15.95 the city was planning to replace all the Wilson/Thompson The Red Mark (A young man is afflicted with an ancient curse; a young woman with old parking meters in the entire city with strange powers helps him; Signed copies)...... $13.95 the new parking system by the end of the Wurts, Janny Initiate's Trial (Wars of Light and Shadow: Sword of the Canon #1: Arithon has been fall. About 2 months ago, the city took magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. His daughter is being raised away most of our parking meters and put and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but will eventually learn of her father's in the new parking system. Again, the existence, and choose her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the signage is not good, so we have lots of Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon) people come into the store and ask what ...... $9.99 they are supposed to do with the new Due Early December system. Fortunately, the city did not Abraham, Daniel The Price of War: An Autumn War / The Price of Spring (Long Price #3 increase the price or extend the hours in / #4: Omnibus reprint; 2 fantasy novels)...... $18.99 our area. Also, fortunately, you don’t Alexander, Cassie Moonshifted (Edie Spence #2: PBO; Edie's nursing skills are put to the test when she have to walk half a block to get to the witnesses a hit-and-run on her lunch break. The injured pedestrian isn't just a werewolf - control box–it’s locate between the KFC he's the pack leader. And now Edie's stuck in the middle of a were-war)...... $7.99 parking lot and the Dental Clinic parking Andrews, Ilona Steel's Edge (Edge #4: PBO; Blueblood Charlotte de Ney vows to help swordsman lot. (Some of our older or disabled Richard Mar destroy slavers who are trafficking humans in the Weird)...... $7.99 customers still dislike having to walk so Asimov, I/Reichert, M To Protect (I, Robot #1: 2035: Susan Calvin is a resident at a Manhattan teaching far instead of being able to just plug the hospital where select patients are being injected with nanobots that can unlock and map meter at the spot where they park.) The the human mind. She begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. control box (powered by solar power) Her superiors ignore her warning, wanting to keep the project far from scrutiny. But what takes quarters, dollar coins, and charge no one knows is that the technology they have given life is now under the control of those cards, and prints out a receipt with your who seek to spread death)...... $7.99 parking space number and the time your Asprin/Nye, Jody Lynn Myth-Quoted (Myth #19: PBO; M.Y.T.H. Inc. has dealt with all manner of vile “meter” will expire (very handy). creatures. But not even a magician of Skeeve's claiber is prepared to face the most However, you have to be sure that you duplicitous monsters of all: politicians)...... $15.00 enter your 5-digit number correctly, or Barant, D.D. Undead to the World (Bloodhound Files #6: PBO; On a trip home to Kansas, Jace you’ll be paying for somebody else’s gets pulled into a case: somebody is possessed, and the bodies are piling up). . . . . $7.99 space and might end up with a ticket. Baum/Shanower/et al The Marvelous Land of Oz (Kids; Full color graphic novel; collects issues 1-8 of the What’s really strange is that the comic book adaptation of Baum's classic fantasy novel)...... $24.99 city did not replace the 4 parking meters Bertin, Joanne Bard's Oath (Dragonlords #3: Over the years, the ranks of the dragonlords have directly across the street from us with the thinned, weakening their authority. And now a more direct threat to their reign has new system. At first, they left the 4 old emerged: to avenge a death, a master bard has fashioned a harp that compels others to do meters in place (although they removed his bidding)...... $25.99 all the other meters on that side of the Bova, Ben Power Play (An ambitious politician hopes to be elected to the US Senate by promising street the same day they removed the old a new source of cheap power; the incumbent won't give up his seat without a fight; caught meters from our side of the street), and in the middle is the scientist researching the new power source, which is still being later they replaced the old meters with developed and may carry deadly risks)...... $7.99 new meters that work just like the old Bowden, Oliver Forsaken (Assassin's Creed #5: PBO; Novelization of Assassin's Creed III. A new agent meters, but they also have solar panels to of death wages a silent battle for vengeance during America's fight for independence) power either a red or a green blinking LED to make it easy for a meter monitor ...... $9.99 to tell if the meter has expired, and they Bujold, Lois McMaster Captain Vorpatril's Alliance audiobook (Vorkosigan #14: Unabridged) accept credit cards as well as quarters ...... $34.95 and dollar coins. Butcher, Jim Cold Days (Dresden Files #14: Harry realizes that maybe death wasn't all that bad. We’ve been promoting the Because he is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. And Liaden Universe books of Sharon Lee her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants and Steve Miller since the 1980s, and we him to go - and no matter who she wants him to kill; Signed copies expected). . . $27.95 do very well with signed books by them. Carr, Caleb The Legend of Broken (Medieval : In the kingdom of Broken, legend meets history, science defies all expectation, and a solder struggles to save a fortress city besieged by enemies within On August 28 we received a shipment of and without; Signed copies expected)...... $28.00 500 signed copies of Dragon Ship by Cassidy, Dakota The Accidental Genie (PBO; Asked to open a bottle of rare gin, caterer Jeannie Lee & Miller and 120 signed copies of Carlyle is shocked when she gets trapped inside. She calls OOPS in a panic, but when Monster Hunter #4: Legion by Larry werewolf Sean Flaherty arrives to rub the bottle, Jeannie emerges dressed like a character Correia. As I was taking the cases of from Arabian Nights and starts calling Sean 'master'. Now they need to figure out how to books off the truck, I immediately break their unwanted bond before the wishes Jeannie can't stop granting cause more trouble noticed that 3 cases of Dragon Ship had than even the OOPS girls can handle)...... $15.00 been punctured by forklift tines. Amazingly, only 2 books were damaged Chan, Kylie Heaven to Wudang (Journey to Wudang #3: The most powerful of Simon Wong's by the three punctures. I started filling demon associates allies with Kitty Kwok to prepare a trap for Emma and Simone. Wudang mail orders for both titles, and all the Mountain is enveloped by dark foreboding as Xuan Wu begins to reappear - sometimes copies of Monster Hunter #4: Legion human, sometimes turtle, but without memory. Emma and Simone race to rescue were in good condition. But I quickly Xuan Wu before the demons capture him)...... $7.99 found that 2 of the 25 cases of Dragon Conroy, Robert Rising Sun (Summer, 1942: After trouncing the US at the Battle of Midway, the Japanese Ship had the wrong dust jacket. Baen have invaded Alaska, blockaded Hawaii, and started bombing cities on the west coast. Can Books had decided to use different a plan to lure the Japanese into an ambush restore the balance in the Pacific?). . $25.00 ISBNs and different prices ($1.00 Dane, Tami Blood of Dawn (Sloan Skye #3: PBO; Paranormal profiler Sloan Skye faces the difference) between the signed copies ultimate horror: a trip back to her high school, where someone - or something - is draining and the unsigned copies, and the bindery blood from teenage girls as they sleep)...... $7.99 had shipped me some signed books with Dick, Philip K. Valis (Reissue; When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named the dust jackets for the unsigned version. Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate (There were also 3 copies of Dragon Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether Ship that arrived with dust jackets where a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world)...... $13.95 3 different jackets from 3 different Dietz, William C. A Fighting Chance (Legion of the Damned #9: Earth has fallen, and the men, women, publishers were printed on the same and of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final piece of paper–very colorful, but very stand against the alien aggressors)...... $7.99 difficult to read.) I let Baen Books know Dietz, William C. Andromeda's Fall (Legion of the Damned Prequel #1: Lady Catherine Carletto lived about the problems with the shipment, a pampered life until most of her family was wiped out during Imperial Princess Ophelia's but kept on filling orders with the copies power grab. On the run, Cat finds sanctuary among the most dangerous of society's misfits. with the correct jackets. I was filling Welcome to the Legion)...... $25.95 and shipping 40 to 50 orders per day, Dyachenko, Sergey & Marina The Scar (Egert is a member of the elite guards. But after he kills an innocent student and had shipped about 260 copies of in a duel, a mysterious man challenges him, scarring his face and leaving him cursed. Egert Dragon Ship before I found another case embarks on an odyssey to undo the curse and the horrible damage he has caused. Saddened with the wrong jackets. And the next by her love's death, Toria hates Egert - but may be the one to save him)...... $7.99 case also had the wrong jackets. And so Evans, Erin M. Lesser Evils (: Brimstone Angels #2: PBO; As Farideh tries to find a did the next case. I opened up all the way to rescue her mentor from the Abyss, she is drawn into a plot that pits the secret society cases and found that 200 of the 500 of Harpers against a host of enemies)...... $7.99 copies of Dragon Ship had been shipped Farnsworth, Christopher Red, White and Blood (Nathaniel Cade #3: 2012: When one of the president's with the wrong jackets. That was about political operatives and a party volunteer are murdered in a compromising position, a a 6.5 foot tall pile of boxes of books message written in their blood puts vampire Cade on the trail of an ancient horror known with the wrong jacket. Baen Books and as the Boogeyman)...... $9.99 I exchanged a number of e-mails on how Flint, Eric (ed) Grantville Gazette VI (Ring of Fire: Anthology; stories about the to deal with this mess, and they ended up 20th-century American town of Grantville, which was hurled back to Europe in the middle sending me hundreds of little blue round of the Thirty Years War)...... $7.99 stickers about the size of a quarter to Flynn, Michael In the Lion's Mouth (Spiral Arm #3: In the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees cover over the wrong price on the inside the Shadows, there is a clandestine civil war of sabotage and assassination between those of the jacket with the correct price and who would overthrow Those of Name and the loyalists who support them. And Donovan, ISBN. Obviously, the problem was not once a Confederal agent, has been recalled to take a key part, willing or not). . . . . $7.99 the fault of the authors, or Baen Books, Flyte, Magnus City of Dark Magic (Sarah lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloguing or Uncle Hugo’s, but was entirely the Beethoven's manuscripts. As she tries to make sense of her mentor's cryptic notes, she fault of the bindery, and all but one of manages to get arrested, have tantric sex in a public fountain, and discover a time-warping my customers were very understanding. drug. Sarah also catches the attention of a 400-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, We still have some signed copies left of Dragon Ship, and you can choose and a US senator desperate to keep her secrets hidden)...... $16.00 between a copy with a little blue sticker Foglio, Phil & Kaja Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess ( Novel #2: Agatha and or a copy without the little blue sticker. Krosp hide in plain sight as part of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, traveling towards More publishers are cutting Mechanicsburg and the ancestral home of the Heterodynes. But with many perils standing back on the number of titles coming out in her way, it will take more than a spark of Mad Science for Agatha to get there). $15.99 in mass market paperbacks and instead Foster, Alan Dean The Sum of Her Parts (Tipping Point #3: In South Africa's Namib desert, a research doing trade paperbacks of their titles. At facility promises answers to Ingrid and Whispr's questions about the thread. With assassin the regional booksellers convention, I Napun Mole on their trail, they may not survive long enough to get there)...... $15.00 pointed out to one salesman that the Gilman, Felix The Rise of Ransom City (Liv is lost on the edge of the world with Creedmor, an sales volume for his company’s books agent of the Gun, and the powerful Line will stop at nothing to find them. And Harry had gone down significantly since they Ransom, con man and mad inventor, is setting the edge of the world aglow).. . . . $25.99 stop putting out mass market paperbacks Golden, Christie Ascension (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi #8: Luke Skywalker, his son Ben, and the Sith for most of their titles. He responded Vestara are in hot pursuit of the dread power called Abeloth, who has joined forces with the that if the customers at my bookstore Sith in a bid to take over the galaxy)...... $7.99 still wanted to buy mass market Greatshell, Walter Terminal Island (PBO; Henry grew up on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland, but paperbacks, my bookstore must be the even today ghastly images haunt his dreams from his childhood there. But, at his wife's only bookstore in the country where that insistence, he is returning to the island, to face his fears, exorcise his demons, and reconcile was true. with the one he fears most - his mother)...... $14.99 As usual, lots of stuff had to be Hearne, Kevin Trapped (Iron Druid #5: PBO; Atticus is finally ready to bind his apprentice Granuaile cut from the paper version of the to the earth, but on the eve of the ritual, the world that thought he was dead abruptly newsletter. The full list of titles with full discovers that he's still alive. Atticus, his wolfhound Oberon, and Granuaile travel to the descriptions, plus more book reviews, base of Mount Olympus, where the Roman god Bacchus is anxious to take his sworn revenge. are available at our website. He'll have to get in line behind an ancient vampire, a band of dark elves, and an old god of mischief, who all seem to have 'kill the druid' at the top of their to-do lists)...... $7.99 Short Recommendations Hickman, Tracy Wayne of (When disturbing bits of information lead to reopen the by Don Blyly case file on his parents' murders, he discovers a father and mother that he never knew - and the darkest secrets of his family's past)...... $15.99 It seems that most of the better Hodder, Mark A Red Sun Also Rises (Aiden, a bookish priest, and Clarissa, a hunchback, find books I’ve read in the last few months themselves transported to an alien world, where they encounter a race of enthusiastic have been . Stands A Shadow mimics who reshape their society using impressions picked up from Clarissa's mind, creating by Col Buchanan ($7.99) is the second a faux Victorian London. But why does the peaceful city require guards? The rising of the Heart of the World novel, after planet's red sun brings with it a destructive evil: the Blood Gods)...... $17.95 Farlander ($7.99). What had started as Hodgell, P.C. Honor's Paradox (Kencyr #6: Jame has discovered her past and her heritage as an urban cult plotting to overthrow a Highborn. Now she must survive the politics and dangers of haunted Tentir College, a school ruling family has now become an evil for warriors)...... $7.99 religous empire trying to conquer the Hodgson, William Hope The Ghost Pirates and Others (Collection; reprints the 1909 supernatural world. Lot of military action, various adventure novel, plus supernatural short fiction)...... $16.99 kinds of assassins, lots of interesting Hoyt, Sarah A. Darkship Renegades (Darkship #2: PBO; On their return to space habitat Eden, characters. It should appeal both to fans Thena and Kit are arrested for the crime of coming back alive. To escape a death sentence, of Glen Cook’s Black Company series they'll have to return to Earth and bring back the lost secret to creating the Powertrees and fans of . I energy source)...... $14.00 enjoyed both books very much and look King, William Blood of Aenarion (Warhammer: Tyrion & Teclis #1: Twins Tyrion and Teclis come forward to the next. from the line of Aenarion, and are meant for a great destiny. When the Witch King Malekith learns of their existence, their lives are in danger. They are taken to Lothern for safety, and Benedict Jacka has issued three to learn the arts of war)...... $11.99 books so far in the Alex Verus series, King, William Sword of Caledor (Warhammer: Tyrion & Teclis #2: As the high twins hunt Fated ($7.99, #1), Cursed ($7.99, #2), desperately through the deadly jungles of Lustria for the lost sword of Caledor, Malekith and Taken ($7.99, #3), and all three continues his assault on Ulthuan, sending an assassin to kill the Everqueen. And in the received starred reviews from Realm of Chaos, Morathi makes a pact with a sinister daemon)...... $24.99 Publishers Weekly. Alex is sort of like Koch, Gini Alien vs. Alien (Alien #6: PBO; Kitty and the American Centaurion Diplomatic Corps a Harry Dresden of London. He is a are outgunned as they race to find the kidnapped Jeff Martini and Charles Reynolds, keep diviner, one who can see multiple the peace between Middle Eastern countries, and search for super-soldier bases). . $7.99 possible futures and figure out which set Kress, Adrienne The Friday Society (YA; Edwardian London: When a ball ends with the discovery of of actions will lead to the desired end a murdered mystery man, it's up to three young women - Cora, a lab assistant; Michiko, a (usually involving his own survival). flight assistant; and Nellie, a magician's assistant - to solve the crime in this steampunk He’s not a very powerful mage, and he’s whodunit)...... $17.99 caught between the Dark mages (utterly Kyme, Nick Tome of Fire (Warhammer 40,000: Tome of Fire #3: PBO; Collection; in these short ruthless and obsessed with personal stories and novellas, as a new prophecy unfolds, the Salamanders Space Marines find power) and the Light mages (many of themselves tested to the point of destruction - and one of their number will either save them whom are just as obsessed with personal or damn them)...... $8.99 power as the Dark mages, but sneakier in Lackey, Mercedes (ed) Elemental Magic (Elemental Masters: PBO; Anthology; original stories set in Lackey's their approaches to gaining power). fantasy version of Edwardian Britain)...... $7.99 When he starts receiving offers he can’t Lasky, Kathryn Frost Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond #4: Kids; Exiled as a pup, then shunned for his refuse from both Dark and Light mages connection to the bears, Faolan has struggled to earn a place in the pack. Now a terrible to join their plots, survival becomes danger is looming, and Faolan is the only one who knows how to fight it)...... $6.99 challenging. The first book was good Mack, David Silent Weapons (Star Trek Next Generation: Cold Equations #2: PBO; Captain Picard popcorn for a tired mind, but as the main and his crew answer a distress call, only to become targets in a deadly game. To protect a character develops and his circle of vital diplomatic mission, they must identify the spies hiding in their midst)...... $7.99 (sometimes) trustworthy associates Madison, Shawntelle Kept (Coveted #2: PBO; Fresh from defending her werewolf pack in battle, Nat wants a grow, the books get better. I thought the little rest. But her father is missing, captured by the Russian werewolf Mafiya. And as Nat second book was very good popcorn, steps up to save her dad from the mob, her alpha ex Thorn and new flame Nick step in to and the third book was well above the play another round for her heart)...... $7.99 popcorn level. I went through all three Martin/Dozois (ed) Down These Strange Streets (Anthology; 16 original stories of novels in five days, and have been death and magic)...... $16.00 recommending them ever since. McCullough, Kelly Crossed Blades (Fallen Blade #3: PBO; Aral's past has caught up to him in the form Prince of Thorns by Mark of Jax, a fellow Blade - and former flame - who claims that the forces that destroyed Lawrence ($7.99) is the beginning of a everything Aral once held dear are on the move again, and that she needs his help to stop very interesting fantasy trilogy. The first them; Signing at Uncle Hugo's Saturday, December 1, 1-2pm)...... $7.99 couple of chapters provide a light, McKenna, Juliet E. Defiant Peaks (Hadrumal Crisis #3: PBO; Archmage Planir and the wizards of breezy look at a batch of stone-cold Hadrumal have demonstrated their devastating powers, and the corsair threat is no more. killers in what seems to be a typical But the mainland rulers' relief is overshadowed by fear that the Archmage will now threaten medieval-style fantasy setting. Then their dominions)...... $8.99 things start to get much stranger and Norton, Andre Moonsinger's Quest: Flight to Yiktor / Dare to Go A-Hunting much more interesting. As the (Moonsinger #3 / #4: Omnibus reprint; 2 novels)...... $7.99 Ochse, Weston SEAL Team 666 (Whisked away to join four SEALs and their dog for a special ops background of the 13-year-old head thug mission, promising SEAL cadet Jack Walker soon finds himself in a whirlwind of is filled in, he becomes much more otherworldly events, battling demons, possessed humans, murderous cults, and evil in its interesting and almost sympathetic. most ancient form)...... $24.99 While there are certainly major magical Patton, Brett Rogue (Armor Wars #2: PBO; Assigned to a border world that is home to a elements, we learn that the book is dark secret underlying the foundation of the Universal Union, Matt Lowell isn't sure which taking place at least 1100 years in the side he and his Mecha team should be fighting for)...... $7.99 future, and there are still weapons of Rendahl, Eileen Dead on Delivery (Messenger #2: When a delivery leads supernatural messenger mass destruction around, although Melina to a dead man, her cop boyfriend starts grilling her about the job. She doesn't know nobody remembers how to use them. who sent the package or what was in it - but this isn't the first time it's happened).$7.99 There are plenty of battles and scheming Scott, M/Freedman, C The Thirteen Hallows (Hallows #1: The Hallows of Britain are ancient magical to keep the plot flowing quickly, but treasures that have been used time and again to battle Demonkind and to seal the entrance there are also scattered bit of finely to the Otherworld. The last time they were all gathered was during the age of Arthur. Now, polished writing between the battles. someone is gathering them again - with all their potential for great good, or absolute evil) The second book of the trilogy, King of ...... $7.99 Thorns ($25.95), came out in August, Singh, Nalini Tangle of Need (Psy-Changeling #11: Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war, wolf and the final volume, Emperor of changeling Adria and SnowDancer lieutenant Raiz - who is sworn to another - must make Thorns, is scheduled for next August. a decision that might break them both)...... $7.99 Smith-Ready, Jeri Lust for Life (WVMP Radio #4: PBO; A psychotic DJ, a wannabe necromancer, and a Dodger by Terry Pratchett posse of vengeful hippies would all love to see fledgling vampire Ciara get her day in the sun ($17.99) is a delightful stand-alone novel - literally)...... $7.99 being marketed as a young adult novel. Strahan, Jonathan (ed) Edge of Infinity (PBO; Anthology; original hard sf stories about moving from our home The main character, Dodger, is a 17- world out into the solar system)...... $8.99 year-old street urchin who gleans a Tolkien/Porter, L The Hobbits: The Many Lives of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and living from London’s sewers early in Pippin (Nonfiction; a look at the changes made to the hobbits' characters, by Tolkien and Queen Victoria’s reign. When he by various adaptations for radio, television, film, and stage)...... $17.00 intervenes to rescue a girl trying to Turtledove, Harry Eruption (Supervolcano #1: An eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud escape her abductors, he’s thrown into flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout an international power struggle, during destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who which he meet the mad barber Sweeney survive have no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world)...... $8.99 Todd, newspaperman , Turtledove, Harry All Fall Down (Supervolcano #2: After the eruption in Yellowstone Park, North America and politician Benjamin Disraeli. The is covered in ash. Farmlands cannot produce food, machinery has been rendered useless, book is labeled as a fantasy, but the only cities are no longer habitable, and the climate is growing colder. Ex-cop Colin Ferguson's fantasy element I noticed was rumors of family is spread across the US, separated by the catastrophe, and struggling to survive as a Roman goddess of the sewers, which the nation attempts to recover)...... $26.95 Dodger never sees but many of the sewer Tyler, J.D. Black Moon (Alpha Pack #3: PBO; A mutual brush with death awakens passion gleaners believe in. This is a humorous between Dr. Mackenzie Grant and panther shifter and sorcerer Kalen Black - and places historical (with the historical details re- Mackenzie in the path of a deadly enemy)...... $7.99 arranged a bit to help the plot) action- Warren, Christine Drive Me Wild (Others #14: PBO; Witch Tess Menzies has been made envoy to broker adventure novel that should appeal to all a truce between her kind and Manhattan's fiercest were-creatures. And that means Terry Pratchett fans, and many other readers as well. outwitting tantalizing Council of Others leader Rafael De Santos)...... $7.99 Wells, Martha The Siren Depths (Raksura #3: PBO; A rival court has laid claim to Moon, and Jade About a year ago I may or may not be willing to fight for him. He must travel to a distant realm, where he will recommended The Hundred Thousand finally face the secrets of his past. And the vicious shape-shifting Fell menace groundlings Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin ($7.99), the and Raksura alike, determined to crossbreed with the Raksura for arcane purposes, driven award-inning first novel of The by an ancient voice)...... $14.99 Inheritance Trilogy. But I kept putting Werner, C.L. The Siege of Castellax (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles #11: PBO; The off reading the rest of the trilogy because Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Legion, long renowned as masters of siege the first novel was so good that I was warfare, find the tables turned when they become the target of a massive ork invasion) afraid I’d be let down, as happens so ...... $12.99 often with the middle book of a trilogy. Whyte, Jack The Forest Laird (Guardians #1: 1305: In a London prison on the eve of his I finally got around to reading The execution, William Wallace - hero to the Scots, outlaw to the English - tells the tale of his Broken Kingdoms ($7.99, #2) andThe life to the Scottish priest who has come to hear his confession)...... $15.99 Kingdom of Gods ($7.99, #3), and they Williams, Walter Jon The Boolean Gate (Samuel Clemens escapes the grinding toil of being Mark Twain by are also excellent, and I should have cultivating a friendship with eccentric scientist Nicola Tesla. But Clemens begins to sense read them all together while the another, stranger intelligence behind Tesla's inventions - alternating current, wireless characters from the first novel were still communications, death rays, robot weapons. Has Tesla somehow opened the gateway to an fresh in my mind. The books are set far alien intelligence, or is it Tesla himself that will bring the world to Armageddon? Signed enough apart in time that only the gods copies expected)...... $38.00 and godlings are continuing characters Willingham, Bill et al Fairest Vol. 1 (PBO; Full color graphic novel. Not for kids. Collects issues 1-6 of the from book to book. The second book comic book; the misadventures of Briar Rose when she is stolen away by the army) features a blind woman who can only see ...... $14.99 when magic is present, so she moves to Willingham/Black et al A Flight of Angels (Full color graphic novel exploring the diverse mythology of angels) Shadow, beneath the World Tree, and ...... $17.99 supports herself as an artist. She Wingrove, David Daylight on Iron Mountain (Chung Kuo Prequel #2: The campaign to secure the becomes caught up in the search to border from China to Iraq has reached a strange impasse: the Arabs and Jews have united discover who is murdering godlings. against their common enemy. But the Emperor cannot decide: destroy the Middle East in The third book features (among many one blinding flash, or take another path? And so General Jiang Lei finds himself appointed other things) the godling of childhood to orchestrate the last great war against the West: the total dominion of America. being forced into adulthood. Meanwhile, with his every move scrutinized, Jake Reed must serve the bureaucracy of the new China. But he is not alone in his discontent with the new order)...... $12.95 Crown by David Expected Mid-December Tallerman ($7.99) is the sequel to Giant The Hobbit Chronicles: An Unexpected Journey (Art book; over a thousand Thief, and is a lot of fun, but should not images of concept artwork, photographs, and development paintings for the films, with be read without reading Giant Thief commentary. Plus a fold-out map printed in glow-in-the-dark ink, and a giant four-page first. Unfortunately, we sold out of fold-out of Bilbo's contract)...... $39.99 Giant Thief a few days after Crown Adams, Alex White Horse (30-year-old Zoe is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals Thief arrived, and have been trying ever when the US president announces that humans are no longer a viable species. When Zoe since to get more copies. But the realizes everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running)...... $15.00 publisher and the wholesalers have been Bullington, Jesse The Folly of the World (PBO; 1421: After a massive flood devastates the Low out of it for the last 6 weeks, with not Countries, a thug, a con man, and a half-feral girl arrive in Dordrecht, where betrayals born indication or when or if the first volume of greed, rage, and lust are simply politics as usual. So even if their scheme succeeds, these will be reprinted. uneasy confederates may not live long enough to enjoy it)...... $15.99 Cameron, Miles The Red Knight (Traitor Son #1: Possessing the advantages of birth, training, and the Clean by Alex Hughes ($7.99) luck of the devil, the Red Knight hires his company of mercenaries out to protect an abbey. is the only sf novel I’ve completed in the The smart, deadly monster from the Wild that's preying on the abbey is something he can last three month worth recommending. deal with. He thinks it's just a job, but it's going to be a war)...... $16.99 Set about 250 years in the future, a Clegg, Brian Armageddon Science (Nonfiction; everything you wanted to know about the man- telepathic recovering drug addict is made threats to our world, from global climate change to the risk of nuclear war).$15.99 working with the police in the Atlanta Cross, Julie Tempest (YA; 2009: Jackson is a college student who can jump back through time. When area, mostly helping workaholic strangers attack, Jackson's girlfriend Holly is killed, and Jackson jumps. But this time he's Detective Isabella Cherabino work on a stuck in 2007. Desperate to save Holly, he learns what he can about his abilities. But before serial killer case, but his telepathic long the strangers from 2009 come looking for Jackson in 2007, determined to recruit the abilities also come in real handy when time-traveler, or kill him)...... $9.99 questioning suspects in all kind of other Jones, Howard Andrew The of the Old Ones (Dabir & Asim #2: A cabal has ensorcelled Najya, a crimes. In an investigative novel like Persian noblewoman, to track down ancient magical tools of tremendous power. To stop the this, it’s natural for the reader and the cabal and save her, Dabir and Asim venture into the worst winter in human memory, hunted characters to find out many things at the by a shape-changing assassin)...... $25.99 same time, but there’s also a lot of Lee, Mike The Rise of Nagash: Nagash the Sorcerer / Nagash the Unbroken / background information that the main Nagash Immortal (Warhammer Time of Legends: Omnibus reprint; 3 novels of the characters are basing their actions on first necromancer)...... $22.50 which the reader isn’t aware of at first. If the author is too slow at filling in this Lyle, Anne The Merchant of Dreams (Night's Masque #2: PBO; Swordsman turned spy Mal background information, I get irritated. Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks. But when Mal's dream On the other hand, if the author is filling about a skrayling shipwreck in the Mediterranean proves to be true, it sets him on a path in the background information too fast, it to Venice - and a conflict of loyalties that will place him and his friends in even greater slows down the action and make me feel danger)...... $7.99 as if I’m being lectured to. I felt that the Naam, Ramez Nexus (A psychedelic wonder drug can link mind to mind. When a young man is caught background information was filled in too improving it and making it available to kids in the San Francisco music scene, he's thrust slowly in this novel, but once I had over his head into a world of international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone enough background to understand the realizes)...... $14.99 motivations of the characters, I really Reynolds, Anthony Neferata (Warhammer Time of Legends: PBO; A queen without a kingdom, her vampire began to enjoy the novel and I’m eagerly children scattered, Lahmia sets her sights on a capital for her new empire: the stronghold looking forward to the next in the series. of Silver Pinnacle. She calls her allies to battle, but can she truly trust Ushoran, Lord of Masks, and his bestial Strigoi vampires?)...... $8.99 Recommendations Rucker, Rudy Nested Scrolls (Autobiography of the mathematician and sf novelist)...... $15.99 by Elizabeth LaVelle Saunders, Kate Magicalamity (Kids; 11-year-old Tom has just discovered that his dad is a fairy. And now Tom must trust his life to three fairy godmothers - but two of them are hardened criminals, and one falls out of the window when she tries to fly. Will their magic be enough The Peter Grant series by Ben to help Tom rescue his dad from some killer fairies?)...... $16.99 Aaronovitch is a great combination of Sedia, Ekaterina But Dreaming (Collection; fantasy stories)...... $15.95 urban fantasy and police procedural, set Wolfe, Gene Peace (Reissue; The melancholy memoir of an embittered old man whose imagination has in modern-day London with lots of the power to obliterate time and reshape reality)...... $15.99 action, a decidedly British sense of Expected Early January humor, and a refreshingly diverse cast of Ahmed, Saladin Throne of the Crescent Moon (Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1: Three companions character. Police constable Peter Grant discover that a series of supernatural massacres in the city of Damasawaat are connected hails from the Peckwater housing estate; to the power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious Falcon Prince. They his mum is from Sierra Leone, and race against time to unravel a sorcerous plot that threatens to turn the city into a bloody works as a cleaning lady; his dad comes ruin)...... $7.99 from a long line of cockney geezers, and Anderson, Kevin J. Unnatural Acts (Dan Shamble #2: PBO; When a local senator and his goons picket used to be a notable trumpeter. In a ghostly production of Shakespeare - condemning the troupe's 'unnatural' lifestyles - Midnight Riot ($7.99), Peter has just zombie PI Dan Shamble smells something rotten. Throw in a hairy hitman, a necromaniac, completed his two-year probationary and a bank robber who walks through walls, and Dan's plate is full)...... $15.00 period, and appears to be destined, much Andrew, Ilona Magic Bites special edition (Kate Daniels #1: Reprints the novel, plus prequel to his dismay, for the unit that takes care story 'A Questionable Client' and scenes from the novel from Curran's point of view. Plus in- of all the paperwork. All that changes depth info about the characters, factions, and places of Kate's world)...... $15.00 one freezing night when he interviews a Anthony, Piers Luck of the Draw (Xanth #36: Summoned to Xanth as part of a wager between the murder witness who turns out to be a Demons Earth and Xanth, Bryce has left behind his home and family and aged body forever, ghost. He finds himself assigned to DCI in exchange for youth and magic and a quest: he must court and marry the unwilling Nightingale, the last remaining member Princess Harmony)...... $25.99 of a Met division that doesn't officially Archer, Alex The Third Caliph (Rogue Angel #40: PBO; On a dig in Morocco, Annja finds herself exist: a magic practitioner who is called caught between a devious terrorist - whose family honor depends on destroying a scroll she in on all the 'special' cases. Peter found - and a ruthless CIA team)...... $6.99 becomes his apprentice, and with some Axler, James Nemesis (Deathlands #108: PBO; Ryan Cawdor and his companions hire on as crew for help from Peter's classmate, PC Leslie a merchant's wag-train, heading towards what once was Montana. Only as they approach May, they set out to stop a revenant their destination do they learn there's a map to a mysterious valley rich with predark spirit from London folklore who's stockpiles)...... $6.99 jumping from host to host, leaving a trail Baker, K/Bartholomew, K Nell Gwynne's on Land and at Sea (Novella. For their summer vacation, the of corpses and mayhem in his wake. Ladies of Nell Gwynne's have retired to a respectable boarding house in Torquay. However, And they also have to sort out a Torquay has recently been invaded by an eccentric American, who has peculiar intentions, territorial dispute between Mother toward both the placid coast of Tor Bay and the unassailable privacy of Lady Beatrice. 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Saturday, November 24, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s Kij Johnson–At the Mouth of the River of Bees

Friday, November 30 to Sunday, December 9 Uncle Edgar’s 31st Anniversary Sale 10% Off at Uncle Edgar’s and Uncle Hugo’s

Saturday, December 1, 1-2 pm at Uncle Hugo’s Kelly Barnhill–Iron Hearted Violet Kelly McCullough–Crossed Blades

Closing at 5 pm on December 24, Closed December 25

Wednesday, December 26-Monday, December 31 Inventory Reduction Sale–Markdowns on Selected Items

Closing at 5 pm December 31, Closed January 1