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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction A WALK ON THE NIGHTSIDE Simon R. Green The first three novels of the Nightside. “Green’s writing is addictive...urban fantasy with a splatterpunk attitude, a noir sensibility, a pulp sense of style and a horror undercoating.” —Green Man Review. An Ace paperback September 400 pp. 0-441-01448-8 $15.00
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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction LOGOS RUN WHEN GODS DIE LADY SINGS THE CRUELS William C. Dietz ASEBASTIAN ST. CYR MYSTERY Eric Pete Making good on a promise to a dead C. S. Harris Singer Amelia Bonds entrances Ike, man, interstellar courier Jak Rebo When a Marchioness dies wearing an a corrections officer. But their affair must deliver an AI to a mysterious ancient necklace with ties to himself, takes a drastic turn when he reveals backwater planet. Sebastian must investigate her death shocking ties to her past. An Ace hardcover and his own possible connection to it. An NAL paperback original October 368 pp. An NAL hardcover November 320 pp. 0-441-01428-3 $24.95 November 352 pp. 0-451-21954-6 $13.95 0-451-21968-6 $23.95
SINGING WITH THE TOP DOWN Debrah Williamson “With writing that sparkles, a story that shines, and a narrator who’s nothing if not spunky, this is a story you can fall into and believe until the journey’s end.”—Lisa Wingate. An NAL paperback September 320 pp. 0-451-21926-0 $12.95
TEMPTING THE DEVIL Patricia Potter A Southern thriller about a love affair between a journalist and FBI agent HARROWING THE DRAGON investigating the Mafia from a master FALLING INTO THE WORLD Patricia A. McKillip storyteller Booklist called “adept at Karen Brichoux “One of fantasy’s most elegant and penning both enthralling historicals A tragic car accident left Augustina to luminescent writers brings together and captivating contemporary raise her younger sister, Saphi, who 25 years of short fiction into one novels.” promptly ran away. Six years later, lyrical volume”—Library Journal. A Berkley Sensation paperback Saphi returns, and all of Augustina’s An Ace paperback September 304 pp. choices now seem wrong. November 320 pp. 0-425-21258-0 $7.99 An NAL Accent paperback original 0-441-01443-7 $14.00 November 272 pp. A MEETING AT CORVALLIS 0-451-21843-4 $12.95 MURDER, SHE WROTE: S. M. Stirling THREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE DEAD The daughter of the Lord Protector has KNIGHT TENEBRAE Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain fallen into Clan MacKenzie’s hands, and Julianne Lee Jessica is on hand to see the son of her a plan to retrieve her threatens to plunge A bizarre plane crash strands reporter friends knock in the winning run in a the entire region into open warfare. Lindsay Pawlowski and Navy pilot AA baseball game. But, the next morning, A ROC hardcover Alexander MacNeil in 14th-century his bitter rival on the team is found dead. September 528 pp. Scotland. An NAL hardcover 0-451-46111-8 $25.95 An Ace paperback original October 288 pp. September 368 pp. 0-451-21967-8 $19.95 0-441-01439-9 $7.99
CHILDE MORGAN QUEEN OF SHADOWS ANEW NOVEL OF THE DERYNI ANOVEL OF ISABELLA, Katherine Kurtz WIFE OF KING EDWARD II “Kurtz’s fidelity to the customs and Edith Felber mores of medieval Europe gives a Due to his rumored relations with men, richness of detail to her alternate Parliament has forced Edward to share medieval world.”—Library Journal. his throne with the Queen. With the help An Ace Hardcover of her noble lover, Isabella plots a coup. December 288 pp. An NAL paperback original 0-441-01282-5 $24.95 November 304 pp. 0-451-21952-X $14.00 WHAT MATTERS MOST Nicole Bokat STRAIGHT ON ‘TIL MORNING Georgia Merkin’s father sheltered her Christopher Golden from her fiercely ambitious mother. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE When Kevin Murphy’s longtime crush But when he dies, Georgia finally finds Emily Franklin mysteriously disappears, it’s up to the courage to confront her mother. Love Bukowski makes a sudden him to find her—in a neverland from An NAL Accent paperback original departure from London to go to the which he might never return. October 304 pp. side of her Aunt Mable, who begins A ROC paperback original 0-451-21948-1 $12.95 dropping more hints than ever about September 352 pp. Love’s mystery mother’s identity. 0-451-46106-1 $14.00 An NAL Jam paperback original September 256 pp. 0-451-21961-9 $9.99
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Advance Publication Newsletter/Fiction THE GREAT BETRAYAL Millenia Black NORA ROBERTS The Cavanaughs of West Palm have a perfect home with few complications—but mother Leslie is not who she claims to be. An NAL paperback original December 320 pp. 0-451-21953-8 $13.95
HINTERLAND BOOK TWO OF THE GODSLAYER CHRONICLES James Clemens To allay the unease throughout Myrillia THE TRANSFORMER TRILOGY after the discovery of a skull, Tylar must M. A. Foster enter the Hinterland, from which no The classic science-fiction trilogy back Shadowknight has ever returned. in print after two decades. “Solid, well- A ROC hardcover written, thoughtful.”—Locus. MORRIGAN’S CROSS November 480 pp. A DAW paperback BOOK ONE OF THE CIRCLE TRILOGY 0-451-46113-4 $24.95 November 640 pp. Nora Roberts 0-7564-0356-1 $15.00 Charged by the goddess Morrigan with stopping a powerful vampire, THE GREAT TREE OF AVALON a medieval sorcerer begins a quest SHADOWS ON THE STARS that will throw him into the arms of T. A. Barron a mysterious woman. “Barron builds on his popular A Jove paperback Lost Years of Merlin saga, creating September 352 pp. an elaborate, richly detailed world.” 0-515-14165-8 $7.99 —Booklist (starred). An Ace paperback VALLEY OF SILENCE October 384 pp. BOOK THREE OF THE CIRCLE TRILOGY 0-441-01447-X $7.99 Nora Roberts Only one vampire dare stand against FORBIDDEN PLANETS the vampire Lilith, and his love for the Edited by Peter Crowther scholarly queen of Geall will complete Introduction by Ray Bradbury the circle of six. Afterword by Stephen Baxter A Jove paperback original BLOODRING An anthology of new short stories by November 352 pp. Faith Hunter today’s top science-fiction authors to 0-515-14167-4 $7.99 “A bold interpretation of commemorate the 50th anniversary of what-might-be, presented by a new, the classic film Forbidden Planet. BORN IN DEATH strongly unique voice in the dark A DAW paperback original Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb fantasy genre.”—Kim Harrison. November 320 pp. When one of the moms-to-be in Mavis’s A ROC hardcover 0-7564-0330-8 $7.99 birthing class fails to show for her November 400 pp. shower, Mavis wants no one else on the 0-451-46108-8 $14.00 THE EYE OF CHARON job but her good friend Lt. Eve Dallas. ASOLDIER’S QUEST, VOLUME II A Putnam hardcover THE CRACKED THRONE Richard A. Knaak November 352 pp. Joshua Palmatier On his first mission Nermesa of the 0-399-15347-0 $24.95 Varis was a child of the slums of Black Dragons uncovers a plot to bring Amenkor skilled in the art of survival. King Conan to his knees. Now, can she harness that talent to An Ace paperback original TEXAS RAIN save the city from a fiery doom? October 288 pp. Jodi Thomas A DAW hardcover 0-441-01445-3 $6.99 The first time Rainey Adams meets November 400 pp. Texas Ranger Travis McMurray, she 0-7564-0403-7 $24.95 THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD steals a kiss—and then his horse. Now William Brodrick Travis resolves to track her down and DUST Father Anslem, the barrister-cum- bring her back—as his wife. ARICHARD JURY MYSTERY monk-cum-detective, is drawn deep A Berkley paperback original Martha Grimes into the past of an attorney found November 384 pp. The latest title in the popular Richard dead in London’s seedy East End. 0-425-21279-3 $7.99 Jury Mystery series is centered A Viking hardcover around the investigation of a wealthy September 368 pp. BESTIARY bachelor’s murder. 0-670-03498-3 $24.95 Robert Masello A Viking hardcover When his wife is commissioned to January 400 pp. restore an ancient bestiary, paleontol- 0-670-03786-9 $25.95 ogist Carter Cox will be led by it into Also available as a a living menagerie of horrors. Penguin Audiobook A Berkley paperback original 13 hours, 11 CDs Unabridged November 464 pp. 0-14-305903-3 $39.95 0-425-21280-7 $7.99
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