PM PRESS

PM Press

Planetbreaker’s Son Summary: This title serves as a good introduction to Nick Nick Mamatas Mamatas's work and thought. His most recent collection Pub Date: 2/1/21 received a starred review from Booklist and his short fiction $14.00 USD is widely published and acclaimed. 128 pages

Sona Books

Sketchbook : Takes You Inside the Minds of Summary: the World's Best Fantasy and Concept Artists The sketching stage is integral to any piece of art. Sketches and Illustrators can often provide interesting insights into the processes and Feng Zhu, Sarah Bankes thinking behind the finished piece as well as showing off Pub Date: 2/1/21 technique and skill. The freewheeling excitement in sketches $39.95 USD —where artists don't hold back, don't over-think, don't 256 pages censor—is hard to beat. Sketchbook is about captured moments bursting with creativity, straight from the minds of the finest illustrators around the world. Whether you're a practicing fantasy artist, a student or even a hobbyist wanting to take your skills further, there's something here for you: so, dive in and discover crazy creatures, cool futuristic vehicles and stunning expansive environments.

Legend Press

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Summary: Robert Louis Stevenson Pub Date: 2/1/21 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella $15.95 USD written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and 96 pages published in 1886. London lawyer John Gabriel Utterson decides to investigate the appearance of the brutish and evil Edward Hyde, which leads him back to his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll. A narrative about the complexities of science and the duplicity of human nature.

Perronet Press

The Gift of Evil Summary: Frank Hinks Sir Tancred Grunch wants an heir, but not a baby. When he Pub Date: 2/1/21 decides to let his granddaughter stay with her parents until $15.99 USD the age of five, the Princess of the Night (source of evil) 80 pages screams in fury. “Stupid man! By the age of five Griselda may be set in the path of good!” The Princess sends birthday presents to ensure Griselda follows the path of evil.

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Perronet Press

The Kingdom of the Deep Summary: Frank Hinks The witch Griselda changes the holiday plans of the boys Pub Date: 2/1/21 and their parents, but on arriving at Morgan Castle $15.99 USD discovers that her cousin Veronica will not allow her to eat 80 pages the boys while they are staying in the castle. In disgust, she magics the boys to the Kingdom of the Deep where (along with octopus, squid, and mermen) she sets out to get them.

Perronet Press

Gary the Frog Prince Summary: Frank Hinks When Gary is kissed by the Frog Princess and turned into a Pub Date: 2/1/21 Frog Prince, Snuggle (family cat and superhero) takes Gary, $15.99 USD the rabbit Scrooey-Looey, and the boys to the Kingdom of 80 pages the Frogs. There they meet man-eating frogs, and Gloria, a vegetarian eagle. But is it just another trick by the witch Griselda, who wants the children for supper? Gary the Frog Prince is written to be enjoyed independently of previous Tales of Ramion stories.

The History Press

Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland Summary: Lisa Schneidau Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered Pub Date: 2/1/21 in woodland. Many of the trees have been cleared, but $19.95 USD connection with the wildwood remains. It is a place of 192 pages danger, adventure and transformation, where anything could happen. Here is a collection of traditional folk tales of oak, ash and thorn, hunting forests and rebellion, timber and triumph in battle, wild ghosts and woodwoses. Lisa Schneidau retells some of the old stories and relates them to the trees and forests in the landscape of our islands today. These stories are essential reading for all those who feel a pull towards the wild in the landscape, and at the edge of our lives.

Gollancz

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld City Watch Summary: Collector’s Edition 2021 Calendar Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby The calendar dates are extensive, and exhaustively Pub Date: 2/2/21 researched, and include all major real-time calendrical data $19.99 USD for Great Britain, Eire, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, as well as notable Discworld dates.

This year's calendar sees us go on a voyage of discovery. As you head through the year, work your way across the Disc's landscapes: take in the meadows of The Chalk, the peaks of the Ramtops, even the titanic span of Great A'Tuin's flippers.

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Erewhon

Rise of the Red Hand Summary: A rare, searing portrayal of the future of Olivia Chadha climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned Pub Date: 2/2/21 revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a $18.95 USD politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic 384 pages government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia.

The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in

BOOM! Studios

Firefly: New Sheriff in the 'Verse Vol. 2 Summary: Mal Reynolds said becoming a Sheriff wouldn’t Greg Pak, Lalit Kumar Sharma change him - but now that he’s been ordered to arrest the Pub Date: 2/2/21 crew of Serenity, the ‘verse is gonna put the former Captain $19.99 USD to the ultimate test! 144 pages SHERIFF MAL REYNOLDS VS SERENITY?! When the notorious outlaw Mal Reynolds agreed to wear a sheriff's badge, he figured he could change a thing or two about how "justice" is dispensed in the 'Verse. And maybe he did. But his former crew members on Serenity are about to find out if the badge has changed him -- when he finally throws them in jail! With the whole 'Verse turned upside down, a new outlaw appears on the scene., calling himself the Bandit

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: 2/2/21 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

IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Summary: A thorough look back at the TMNT’s comic Collection, Vol. 5 book origins with their first stories plus insightful Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Jim Lawson annotations from co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Pub Date: 2/2/21 Laird. $29.99 USD 180 pages Rediscover the underground roots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with this special collection of Mirage Studios’ issues #56-62 which includes the conclusion to the epic “City at War” storyline. With over 180 pages of mutated-martial arts action along with annotations following each issue, this volume is perfect for fans to relive the glorious days of the Turtles’ origins as well as an excellent place for new readers to see where the TMNT phenomenon began.

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IDW PUBLISHING

IDW Publishing

Transformers vs. The Terminator Summary: It’s Skynet vs. Cybertron in a crossover for Tom Waltz, John Barber, David Mariotte, Alex the ages! Milne Pub Date: 2/2/21 1984: When a deadly race of machines emerge from $15.99 USD another time, will a robotic guardian be able to protect the 104 pages Earth from a dire future…or will the T-800 fail in his mission to prevent the world from becoming a plaything to the Decepticons?

The T-800, last hope of its kind, has travelled back to 1984 to destroy the Cybertronians before they can awaken and subjugate his future. But when the Ark systems start to bring the Autobots and Decepticons back online, what will

Titan Comics

Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Art & Summary: Journey to amazing worlds as Star Wars: Imagery Collector's Edition Vol. 2 The Mandalorian, the critically acclaimed series that Titan expands the Star Wars universe, continues to tell the Pub Date: 2/2/21 acclaimed story of the mysterious Mandalorian warrior $19.99 USD Dyn Jarren and The Child. 96 pages This collector’s edition includes stunning artwork from chapters 5-8, featuring the droids, rogues, and soldiers of the Empire as seen in the hit series.

A unique mix of photography, art and concept illustration showcases the Mandalorian, his allies, his foes and his incredible adventures.

Silver Sprocket

That Full Moon Feeling Summary: A witch and a werewolf go on three disastrous Ashley Robin Franklin dates in this magical queer romcom. Follow along with Suzy Pub Date: 2/2/21 & Jada as they navigate online dating awkwardness, hungry $14.99 USD monsters, jealous exes, rude skeletons, boring movies, 64 pages feelings (!!!) & more!

Tundra Books

How to Promenade with a Python (and Not Summary: In this hilarious new graphic non-fiction Get Eaten) : A Polite Predators Book series, a savvy cockroach shares wise tips and tricks to Rachel Poliquin, Kathryn Durst surviving an encounter with a charming predator who Pub Date: 2/2/21 may (or may not) want to be your friend. $12.99 USD 84 pages Celeste is a cockroach, and everyone knows that cockroaches are survivors, so who better to give advice on surviving an encounter with a polite predator? Everyone also knows that taking a moonlit promenade with a deadly reticulated python (named Frank) is a very bad idea. But Celeste loves very bad ideas, and she is willing to put your life on the line to prove herself right! Need to stop a python from swallowing you head-first? Wear a lamp shade as a

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IDW PUBLISHING

IDW Publishing

Marvel Action: Avengers: The Living Summary: A new era of all-out Avengers action Nightmare (Book Four) continues in these middle-grade-friendly graphic Matthew K. Manning, Marcio Fiorito novels! Pub Date: 2/2/21 $9.99 USD The first year of Marvel Action: Avengers comes to a 72 pages thrilling conclusion! The Avengers begin their final attack against A.I.M. and the mastermind behind their woes reveals themselves.

These graphic novels are the perfect starting point for new fans looking for more stories of the adventures of Black Panther, Captain America, Thor, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, and Black Widow! Collects issues #10-12 of the Marvel

DC Comics

Manhunter By Archie Goodwin And Walter Summary: The cult-favorite Manhunter epic from the Simonson Deluxe Edition 1970s is collected for the first time in a Deluxe Edition Archie Goodwin, Walter Simonson hardcover! Pub Date: 2/2/21 $17.99 USD In 1973, revered comics writer Archie Goodwin teamed with 112 pages rising star artist Walter Simonson for a short feature in Detective Comics called Manhunter. Conceived as a colorful contrast to the dark lead stories starring Batman, Manhunter was adventurer Paul Kirk, who criss-crossed the globe in an espionage caper, with the mysterious Council that trained him in pursuit. The story culminated in a team-up with Batman, during which Manhunter was killed in action. This brief but fast-paced epic won two Shazam! Awards, the

DC Comics

Superman in the Fifties Summary: The 1950s was one of the most offbeat and Various inventive decades in the history of the Man of Steel, Pub Date: 2/2/21 which featured the introductions of some of his $34.99 USD greatest foes and most famous plot devices. 344 pages These Superman tales from the 1950s, collected in this reprint of a classic DC book collection, reflect the optimism and carefree excitement of that era. In this bygone decade, Superman’s adventures became more lighthearted and fun as he teamed up with Robin, the Boy Wonder and battled such outrageous foes as Bizarro and the Bride of Bizarro. Also included in this collection are the first appearances of Supergirl, Krypto, and Titano the Super-Ape as well as tales

HarperVoyager

The Ruthless Summary: THE REBEL Peter Newman For years, Vasin Sapphire has been waiting for the perfect Pub Date: 2/2/21 opportunity to strike. Now, as other Deathless families come $16.99 USD under constant assault from the monsters that roam the 448 pages Wild, that time has come.

THE RUTHLESS In the floating castle of Rochant Sapphire, loyal subjects await the ceremony to return their ruler to his rightful place. But the child raised to give up his body to Lord Rochant is no ordinary servant. Strange and savage, he will stop at nothing to escape his gilded prison.

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Nobrow

Gamayun Tales II : An anthology of modern Summary: Enter a world of magic and adventure in this Russian folk tales (Volume II) stunning series based on traditional Russian folklore. Alexander Utkin Pub Date: 2/2/21 Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales are fresh and modern $19.95 USD adaptations of familiar Slavic folktales, teamed with bold 172 pages and beautiful illustrations. Jam-packed with stories of magical quests and talking animals, golden chests that turn into palaces and encounters with terrifying Water Spirits, there’s no end to the adventure in these books! Utkin’s striking art style takes inspiration from classic mid-century Disney animation, drawing readers in for a colorful journey even if they have no familiarty with Russian mythology.

Dutton

Beneath the Keep : A Novel of the Tearling Summary: As a kingdom descends into darkness and Erika Johansen new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins Pub Date: 2/2/21 over a prophecy that will change the course of history $27.00 USD in this much-anticipated stand-alone prequel to the 448 pages bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy.

The Tearling, founded as a utopia, has collapsed and reverted to feudalism. As the gap between rich and poor widens and famine threatens the land, rumors of a prophecy begin to spread: a great hope, a True Queen who will ascend and save the kingdom.

But rumors will not help Lazarus, a boy on the verge of

Disney-Hyperion

Brightly Woven: The Graphic Novel Summary: Alexandra Bracken, Leigh Dragoon, Kit Seaton From #1 New York Times best-selling author Alexandra Pub Date: 2/2/21 Bracken comes a magical graphic novel about $12.99 USD discovering your own power, perfect for fans of the 176 pages Amulet series and Howl's Moving Castle.

Extraordinary things just don't happen to fourteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil, a talented weaver who dreams about life outside of her tiny village. But that all changes when a mysterious young wizard named Wayland North appears and asks for Sydelle's help. He's got a shocking secret that could stop a war between kingdoms-if he can reach the capital with the news in time. North needs a navigator who can

Katherine Tegen Books

Muse Summary: The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the Brittany Cavallaro First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger Pub Date: 2/2/21 problem. While her father prepares to reveal the mighty $17.99 USD weapon he’s created to showcase the might of their 352 pages province, St. Cloud, in the World’s Fair, Claire is crafting a plan to escape.

Claire’s father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift, granted to him by his daughter’s touch. He’s kept Claire under his control for years. As St. Cloud prepares for war, Claire plans to claim her life for herself, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance movement that

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HARPERTEEN

HarperTeen

The Life Below Summary: As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a Alexandra Monir rapidly deteriorating Earth, she watches the world fade Pub Date: 2/2/21 away, and along with it Leo, a Final Six contestant she grew $10.99 USD close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard, but 320 pages what’s ahead, on Europa, could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization but failed mysteriously. With one shot—at this mission and to Europa—Naomi is determined to find out if there is alien life on Europa before she and her crew get there.

Leo, back on Earth, has been working with renegade

HarperTeen

Thorn Summary: Princess Alyrra has always longed to escape the Intisar Khanani confines of her royal life, but when her mother betroths her Pub Date: 2/2/21 to a powerful prince in a distant kingdom, she has little $10.99 USD hope for a better future. Until Alyrra arrives at her new 528 pages kingdom, where a mysterious sorceress robs her of both her identity and her role as princess—and Alyrra seizes on the opportunity to start a new life for herself as a goose girl.

But as Alyrra uncovers dangerous secrets about her new world, including a threat to the prince himself, she knows she can’t remain silent forever. With the fate of the kingdom at stake, Alyrra is caught between two worlds, and ultimately must decide who she is and what she stands for.

HarperCollins

The Tiger’s Apprentice Summary: Tom Lee’s life changes forever the day he meets Laurence Yep a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has Pub Date: 2/2/21 magical powers and great responsibilities that he never $7.99 USD imagined. Despite his doubts and fears, Tom joins Mr. Hu’s 208 pages ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands of the worst possible enemy.

This action-packed fantasy from two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep reveals a hidden world within our own where animals take human form, where friendship is the final weapon in the battle between good and evil, and where a young boy is responsible for saving the world he knows . . . and the one he is just discovering.

Sons of War Summary: The first book in New York Times Nicholas Sansbury Smith bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's gritty Pub Date: 2/2/21 new series following the Moretti Neapolitan crime $9.99 USD family's rise to power in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, and the brave few that risk everything to stop them from destroying what little remains of the city.?

Out of the embers, a lawless new empire will rise …

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore's platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war.

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Blackstone Publishing

And Then She Vanished Summary: He only looked away for a second. Nick Jones Pub Date: 2/2/21 Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy $26.99 USD over twenty years ago, Joseph Bridgeman's life has fallen 375 pages apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn't felt for the longest time: hope. Joseph sets out to travel back to the night Amy went missing and save her. But after several failed attempts, he discovers the farther back he travels, the less time he gets to stay there. And the clock is ticking.

Image Comics

Black Magick Volume 3: Ascension I Summary: Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott New York Times bestselling creators GREG RUCKA and NICOLA SCOTT return Pub Date: 2/2/21 with their chilling witchcra cop saga, BLACK MAGICK! The walls separang $16.99 USD Detecve Rowan Black's worlds of witchcra and police work have begun to 136 pages crumble, and the forces targeng her are now revealed. But what they want, why they want it, and what they’ll do to get it will impact more than Rowan alone. As the occult and infernal collide, those closest to Rowan may find themselves consumed as Rowan herself comes to embrace her power.

Collects BLACK MAGICK #12-16

Humanoids, Inc.

Omni Vol. 2 : No More Hate Summary: A young African-American doctor suddenly Melody Cooper, Enid Balám, Giovanni Valletta and mysteriously gains incredible abilities that put her Pub Date: 2/2/21 at the forefront of human evolution. $17.99 USD 148 pages Dr. Cobbina, able to think at the speed of light and instantly diagnose any situation, heads an enigmatic corporation known only as OMNI, giving her the resources she needs to search for others like her. She’s on a quest to learn the origin of her new powers—but, along the way, discovers that the fate of the entire world may rest on her shoulders!

Collects Omni #5-10

Abaddon

Judge Dredd: Year Three Summary: The third omnibus collecting three great Michael Carroll, Matt Smith, Lauren Sills brand-new novellas about the early years of iconic comics Pub Date: 2/2/21 character Judge Dredd’s career. $11.99 USD 416 pages “Exactly what you’d want: smart, fast-moving sci-fi that’s filled with pulpy thrill power.” -- Wait, What? Podcast

Mega-City One, 2082. In two short years, Judge Joseph Dredd has tackled hardened killers and would-be revolutionaries, he’s taken beat-downs and bounced back, he’s even arrested his own brother.

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VERTIGO

Vertigo

Lucifer Vol. 4: The Devil At Heart Summary: At long last, the Devil returns to Hell. Dan Watters, Sebastian Fiumara Pub Date: 2/2/21 Lucifer may be immortal, but he’s not Endless…What $16.99 USD happens when he trespasses into the Gardens of Destiny? 128 pages Not even Dream’s elder brother could foresee the consequences!

Collects Lucifer #20-24.

Norton Young Readers

The Hatmakers Summary: When Cordelia Hatmaker’s beloved father fails Tamzin Merchant, Paola Escobar to return from an ingredient-hunting expedition, Cordelia is Pub Date: 2/2/21 the only member of the family who knows in her heart that $18.95 USD he can’t be gone for good. Her grief-stricken aunt and uncle 368 pages forge ahead to continue the work of their guild and to fulfill a crucial order from the King for a magical Peace Hat. But the enchantments woven into the carefully crafted goods of the Hatmaker, Bootmaker, Cloakmaker, Watchmaker, and Glovemaker guilds begin causing sudden inducements of rage and chaos. As war looms and the Peace objects backfire, Cordelia must find out who is using the Makers’ creations for dark purposes and uncover the truth about her father’s disappearance.

Tin House Books

Famous Men Who Never Lived Summary: Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both K. Chess reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the Pub Date: 2/2/21 thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an $16.95 USD alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere 328 pages across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes determined to create a

Inkyard Press

This Golden Flame Summary: Orphaned and forced to serve her country’s Emily Victoria ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing more than to Pub Date: 2/2/21 find her brother, long ago shipped away. But family bonds $18.99 USD don’t matter to the Scriptorium, whose sole focus is 384 pages unlocking the magic of an ancient automaton army.

In her search for her brother, Karis does the seemingly impossible—she awakens a hidden automaton. Intelligent, with a conscience of his own, Alix has no idea why he was made. Or why his father—their nation’s greatest traitor—once tried to destroy the automatons.

Suddenly, the Scriptorium isn’t just trying to control Karis;

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DEL REY

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: 2/2/21 master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in $16.00 USD Scotland. 352 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.

Archie Comics

Archie: Modern Classics Vol. 3 Summary: This is Archie’s new sister series to our Archie Superstars all-time best-selling graphic novel series, featuring a Pub Date: 2/2/21 focus on the latest and greatest stories from the $9.99 USD previous year of digests. 256 pages After 80 years of humorous tales, the Riverdale gang are still going strong! Archie is proud to present the best stories from 2020 - collected for the first time ever. Don’t miss these modern classics!

Publication History: Trade Paperback Original

Baen

The Jupiter Knife Summary: EVEN GHOSTS NEED HELP FROM A CUNNING D.J. Butler, Aaron Michael Ritchey MAN. A new novel in the Cunning Man series from Dragon Pub Date: 2/2/21 Award-nominated author D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael $16.00 USD Ritchey. 304 pages Hiram and his son Michael are dowsing a well in Eastern Utah when they hear a cry of help from the ghost of a small boy, torn to pieces by wild animals. Before they can even begin to look into that tragedy, however, a prosperous local rancher is murdered right before their eyes.

In an attempt to both help the ghost and find the killer, Hiram and Michael must navigate an eccentric cast of

Baen

Tyger Bright Summary: A YOUNG GIRL MUST INFILTRATE THE T.C. McCarthy HOME WORLD OF HUMANITY'S GREATEST ENEMIES. Pub Date: 2/2/21 New space opera from former CIA weapons expert T.C. $16.00 USD McCarthy. 272 pages San Kyarr is a noviate within a secretive holy order tasked by Fleet to infiltrate the home world of mankind’s most dangerous enemy: the Sommen. If caught, her mission could bring war to Earth—long before its forces are ready.

When a competing faction within Fleet learns of the clandestine assignment and sends her own brother to destroy her, San is set on a journey toward destinies far

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BAEN

Baen

Gun Runner Summary: THRILLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE Larry Correia, John D. Brown FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA AND Pub Date: 2/2/21 JOHN BROWN $25.00 USD 384 pages The Heart of a Warrior

Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away.

Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission:

Chicken House

The Ash House Summary: Angharad walker An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about Pub Date: 2/2/21 searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, $17.99 USD and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to 336 pages control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.

When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster.

Scholastic Inc.

The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel Summary: #2) Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Nic Stone Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in Pub Date: 2/2/21 this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York $17.99 USD Times bestselling author Nic Stone! 272 pages

With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training.

Soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the Dark Horse Books

Disney Princess: Make Way for Fun Summary: A collection of humorous and heart-filled Amy Mebberson short comics stories featuring all the Disney Pub Date: 2/2/21 Princesses! $10.99 USD 80 pages It’s never a dull time with the Disney Princesses! Get ready to dive into heaps of fun and entertainment! Cinderella tries her hand at a new sport—there’s no such thing as doing it wrong if no one sees it! Merida’s got an eye for art, it’s always a surprise what she’s going to create. Ariel is learning about the world beyond the sea. She’s about to find out what fishing is all about—and give the people on land something they’ve left in the ocean! Jump from one adventure to another in these quirky Princess stories!

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AMBERJACK PUBLISHING

Amberjack Publishing

Yet Another Dreadful Fairy Book Summary: A fairytale for all ages, for everyone who’s ever Jon Etter needed the courage to be their dreadful and true self. Pub Date: 2/2/21 $16.99 USD 352 pages

Akashic Books

Prayer for the Living Summary: Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning Ben Okri author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blurs Pub Date: 2/2/21 parallel realities and walks the line between darkness $24.95 USD and magic. 216 pages "A career-spanning story collection from the Booker Prize– winning Nigerian writer that navigates the blurry line between dream and reality...'Alternative Realities Are True' is a dimension-warping detective story worthy of Philip K. Dick, and 'Don Ki-Otah and the Ambiguity of Reading' is a Don Quixote satire whose metafictional gamesmanship evokes Borges and Achebe...Okri skillfully embeds abstract ideas in concrete, engaging storytelling...Mind-bending and

Akashic Books

Speculative Los Angeles Summary: The debut title in a new city-based Denise Hamilton, Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, anthology series featuring all-new stories with Alex E... speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes--each using Pub Date: 2/2/21 distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad. $16.95 USD 272 pages "Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other." --Michael Connelly, author of the best-selling Harry Bosch series

"The problem of buying books for others can be solved by offering the equivalent of the literary box of chocolates: the Sourcebooks Fire

The First 7 Summary: Clover Martinez and the Last Teenagers on Laura Pohl Earth are busy exploring the galaxy after leaving Earth Pub Date: 2/2/21 behind, even if they can't help but be a little homesick. $10.99 USD 384 pages When their ship receives a distress signal from their former planet, the teens hope against hope it means there are other survivors. But as soon as they arrive, they realize something's deeply wrong: strange crystal formations have popped up everywhere, and there's some sort of barrier keeping them from leaving.

Seeking the origin of the formations and the reason for the barrier, the group discovers a colony of survivors hidden in

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

The Best of R. A. Lafferty Summary: Tor Essentials presents science fiction and R.A. Lafferty fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each Pub Date: 2/2/21 volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. $30.99 USD 288 pages Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, and Gene Wolfe.

The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of

Tor Books

The Best of R. A. Lafferty Summary: Tor Essentials presents science fiction and R.A. Lafferty fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each Pub Date: 2/2/21 volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. $18.99 USD 288 pages Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, and Gene Wolfe.

The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of

Tor Books

A Summoning of Demons Summary: Catagna has been shaken to its core. Cate Glass Pub Date: 2/2/21 The philosophists insist that a disastrous earthquake has $18.99 USD been caused by an ancient monster imprisoned below the 352 pages earth, who can only be freed with magic. In every street and market, the people of Catagna are railing against magic-users with a greater ferocity than ever before, and magic hunters are everywhere.

Meanwhile, Romy has been dreaming.

Every night, her dreams are increasingly vivid and disturbing. Every day, she struggles to understand the

Tor Books

Winter's Orbit Summary: Prince Kiem, a famously disappointing minor Everina Maxwell royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, has been Pub Date: 2/2/21 called upon to be useful for once. He's commanded to fulfill $24.99 USD an obligation of marriage to the representative of the 432 pages Empire's newest and most rebellious vassal planet. His future husband, Count Jainan, is a widower and murder suspect.

Neither wants to be wed, but with a conspiracy unfolding around them and the fate of the empire at stake they will have to navigate the thorns and barbs of court intrigue, the machinations of war, and the long shadows of Jainan's past, and they'll have to do it together.

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DISNEY LUCASFILM PRESS

Disney Lucasfilm Press

Star Wars The High Republic: Into the Dark Summary: Claudia Gray, Giorgio Baroni Pub Date: 2/2/21 Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before $17.99 USD even The Phantom Menace...Jedi lit the way for the 448 pages galaxy in The High Republic.

Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier—and he couldn’t be less happy about it. He’d rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he’s traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds himself at the center of Tordotcom

A History of What Comes Next : A Take Them Summary: Always run, never fight. to the Stars Novel Preserve the knowledge. Sylvain Neuvel Survive at all cost. Pub Date: 2/2/21 Take them to the stars. $24.99 USD 304 pages Over 99 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race.

Imprint

All the Tides of Fate Summary: Instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars Adalyn Grace and Teeth was called “captivating” by Tomi Adeyemi, Pub Date: 2/2/21 “vicious and alluring” by Hafsah Faizal, and “phenomenal” by $18.99 USD Adrienne Young. Now author Adalyn Grace is back with more 368 pages high seas adventure.

Amora has conquered a rebellion and taken her throne. But she’s lost her magic—a secret that could kill her if discovered. And the cursed soul she shares with the pirate Bastian threatens to doom them both. Desperate, she takes her crew on a quest for a mythical artifact that may resurrect her magic, but at a terrible cost.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

What Big Teeth Summary: What you see isn't always what you get. Rose Szabo Pub Date: 2/2/21 Eleanor Zarrin has been distanced from her family for years. $18.99 USD When she returns home after a violent incident at boarding 400 pages school, trying to fit back into the space she left becomes even more difficult when their headstrong matriarch unexpectedly dies. Eleanor's bloodthirsty family is left unchecked for the first time in decades, and when her Grandmere arrives to help the family adjust, it's clear that something dark is lurking beneath her genteel exterior.

Eleanor learns that she has inherited her Grandmere's terrifying gift, which allows her to control people by

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JO FLETCHER BOOKS

Jo Fletcher Books

Our Child of the Stars Summary: Stephen Cox "It's a wonderfully emotional, heart-warming journey Pub Date: 2/2/21 of what it really means to be a parent" --The Los $16.99 USD Angeles Times 496 pages

In this magical, bewitching debut, Molly and Gene Myers' marriage is on the brink of collapse. Then a child arrives, with a remarkable appearance. Will he bring them together, or tear their whole world apart?

Molly and Gene Myers were happy, until tragedy blighted their hopes of children. During the years of darkness and

Rosarium Publishing

Box of Bones : Book One Summary: Ayize Jama-Everett, John Jennings This book is specially designed in Amazon's fixed-layout KF8 Pub Date: 2/3/21 format with region magnification. Double-tap on an area of $19.95 USD text to zoom and read. When Black graduate student 174 pages Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide if she really wants to see what's inside the Box of Bones. Described as "Tales from the Crypt Meets

Head of Zeus

The Children of D'Hara Summary: Terry Goodkind Pub Date: 2/4/21 In 1994 Wizard's First Rule introduced Richard Cypher, a $32.95 USD young woodsman seeking answers and vengeance in the 912 pages aftermath of his father's murder, and Kahlan Amnell, a mysterious young woman pursued by a bloodthirsty tyrant's assassins. The Sword of Truth is one of the most ambitious fantasy series ever written. It was a decades-long masterwork that has been translated into 20 languages and sold 26 million copies. After 16 volumes and one novella, it concluded in 2016 with Warheart. The Children of D'Hara picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Sword of Truth series. This is the first collected volume of the series,

Z2 Comics

The Electric Century Summary: Mikey Way, Shaun Simon, Toby Cypress Johnny Ashford, former sitcom-star, drives drunk through a Pub Date: 2/9/21 storefront and gets tossed in jail. His aspiring actress $19.99 USD girlfriend bails him out and he begins seeing a 136 pages hypnotherapist, who sends him to his “happy place”: 1980's Atlantic City, where he relives his childhood on the boardwalk and the Electric Century casino, hardly noticing shadowy specters all around. His addiction shifts from alcohol to his hypnotic trips to the boardwalk. When his girlfriend winds up there, Johnny has to figure out how to save their lives and escape the Electric Century ...

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FIRST SECOND

First Second

Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic Summary: Eleven-year-old Yasmina and her single dad Wauter Mannaert lead a modest life in a cramped apartment in a bustling city. Pub Date: 2/9/21 But even though money is tight, they eat like kings. Every $14.99 USD day, Yasmina uses her cookbooks and fresh vegetables from 160 pages the community garden to whip up gourmet meals. That is, until the day the garden is bulldozed and replaced by a field of scientifically enhanced potatoes that are, quite literally, addictive! The whole city—and even Yasmina's dad—is going mad for these potatoes. And what's more, they're slobbering, chasing cats, and howling at the moon!

What's the secret ingredient in these potatoes that has everyone acting like a bunch of crazy canines? Yasmina

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Unicorn Island Summary: Beyond the mist lies a magical secret Donna Galanti, Bethany Stancliffe waiting to be discovered . . . From Epic! Originals, Pub Date: 2/9/21 Unicorn Island is a middle-grade illustrated novel $13.99 USD series about a young girl who discovers a mysterious 224 pages island full of mythical beasts and darker dangers!

When Sam arrives in Foggy Harbor, population 3,230, all she can see is a small, boring town that’s way too far from home. And knowing that she’s stuck there all summer with her grumpy Uncle Mitch only makes things worse.

But when Sam discovers a hidden trapdoor leading to a room full of strange artifacts, she realizes Foggy Harbor isn’t

Hero Collector

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 & The U.S.S Defiant Summary: Fourth in the series of STAR TREK Illustrated Handbook : Featuring the Space ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS, this guide takes an Station Deep Space Nine and the U.S.S. in-depth look at the space station Deep Space 9 and the Defiant starship U.S.S. Defiant. Simon Hugo, Ben Robinson Pub Date: 2/9/21 The perfect gift for the Star Trek fan in your life! $34.95 USD 192 pages Exploring the former Cardassian space station in detail, this volume looks at Deep Space 9’s history and operation under the command of Captain Benjamin Sisko of the United Federation of Planets. The chapters feature the station, the warship the U.S.S. Defiant, and the small, multi-purpose runabouts used as transport by the crew. With technical

Fantagraphics

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: New Summary: The Phantom Blot - a power-crazed supervillain Adventures of the Phantom Blot : Disney in a ghostly black cloak - is on the loose, and Mickey, Masters Vol. 15 Donald, and Uncle Scrooge must assemble to stop him! Paul Murry, Del Connell, Bob Ogle From terrifying time travel to usurping "The Crown of Pub Date: 2/9/21 Tasbah," the Blot will stop at nothing to turn the world $34.99 USD upside down! Classic Disney artist Paul Murry teamed with 252 pages writers Del Connell and Bob Ogle to create seven comic book issues starring The Blot. In the process, they introduced Goofy's new secret identity: Super Goof! Will the Blot move too fast for all our heroes? With allies like Mad Madam Mim, the Beagle Boys, and "The Mysterious Mr. X?" He just might!

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OPEN ROAD MEDIA SCI-FI & FANTASY

Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Skeleton Key : A Xanth Novel Summary: There’s no dancing around a demonic threat Piers Anthony in the fantasy world of Xanth in the New York Times– Pub Date: 2/9/21 bestselling series. $16.99 USD 310 pages Squid, the alien cuttlefish, is getting an upgrade: a boost to her shape-changing talent so she can lead a mission against a foreign Demon who’s stirring up trouble in Xanth. At Squid’s side are her rescued siblings and one very special child—Larry, a girl in a boy’s body, who will act as a secret host for their adoptive mother, the Demoness Fornax.

Aboard the Fire Boat, they form a plan to disguise themselves as a traveling dance troupe. Each child is paired

Penguin Group UK

Doctor Who: I Am The Master : Legends of Summary: The Doctor and the Master; their conflict of light the Renegade Time Lord and dark has spanned many times and faces across the Mark Wright, Peter Anghelides, Mike Tucker, Nell universe. This collection - of five short stories and a novella W... - explores the depths of darkness in the Master’s hearts; the Pub Date: 2/9/21 arch-schemer’s secrets and sinister ambitions revealed $16.99 USD through brand new adventures and encounters. 320 pages Join six incarnations of evil, undreamed of adventures, a quest to free alien warlords, a dangerous mission to save a vital ally, a meeting with Bram Stoker, a shattering of lives on a distant world, a trial of wits to gain untold power, and drop in on the Master’s latest incarnation during his 77 years of imprisonment on Earth.

Redhook

The Age of Witches : A Novel Summary: Louisa Morgan In Gilded Age New York, a centuries-long clash Pub Date: 2/9/21 between two magical families ignites when a young $16.99 USD witch must choose between love and loyalty, power 464 pages and ambition, in this magical novel by Louisa Morgan.

In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves by whatever means necessary.

This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman

Image Comics

November, Volume IV Summary: Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier In a city where unseen and incomprehensible forces Pub Date: 2/9/21 conspired to bring three strangers together over the course $16.99 USD of one insane and violent night, daylight breaks and the 80 pages fates of those strangers finally arrives. The conclusion to this noir quartet of graphic novellas is by MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS, ADVENTUREMAN) and ELSA CHARRETIER (The Infinite Loop, Windhaven) with Matt Hollingsworth and Kurt Ankeny.

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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY

The University Press of Kentucky

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : A Hollywood Summary: A love story, memoir, and dual biography of two Memoir of Hollywood's most famous figures, Fay Wray and Robert Victoria Riskin Riskin explores the fascinating lives of two exceptionally Pub Date: 2/9/21 talented people at the center of Hollywood's Golden Age. $21.95 USD Fay Wray (1907--2004) achieved cinematic immortality for 416 pages her role in King Kong (1933). During a long and sterling career, she starred in more than 120 films opposite Hollywood's most famous leading men (Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, William Powell, and Ronald Colman), and worked with master directors including Erich von Stroheim, William Wyler, William "Wild Bill" Wellman, Josef von Sternberg, Dorothy Arzner, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh, and Vincente Minnelli.

Penguin Classics

Monkey King : Journey to the West Summary: A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the Wu Cheng'en, Julia Lovell all-time great fantasy novels—which Neil Gaiman has Pub Date: 2/9/21 said “is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people”—now in a $30.00 USD thrilling new one-volume translation 384 pages A Penguin Classics Hardcover

A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle;

Walker Books US

Sylvie Summary: In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a Sylvie Kantorovitz young artist finds her path apart from the expectations Pub Date: 2/9/21 of those around her. $16.99 USD 352 pages Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the principal, and her home is an apartment at the end of a hallway of classrooms. As a young child, Sylvie and her brother explore this most unusual kingdom, full of small mysteries and quirky surprises. But in middle and high school, life grows more complicated. Sylvie becomes aware of her parents’ conflicts, the complexities of shifting friendships, and what it means to be the only Jewish family in town. She also begins to sense that her perceived “success” relies on the pursuit

Red Giant Entertainment

White Widow, Vol. 1 Summary: Benny Powell, Jamie Tyndall, Iwan Nazif The collection featuring the first five stories of the independent domic Pub Date: 2/9/21 White Widow! This features 120 pages of story and 40 pages of bonus $19.95 USD features that fans and collectors alike will enjoy. The perfect entry-point for 160 pages new readers to grab the entire story. The softcover has a holographic foil logo and satin finish. The hardcover has a holographic foil logo on dust jacket and on Hardcover beneath as well as custom elements.

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RED GIANT ENTERTAINMENT

Red Giant Entertainment

White Widow Cosplay Gallery Summary: Benny Powell, Various, Jamie Tyndall Dive into the sexy world of White Widow cosplay! This 60-page hardcover Pub Date: 2/9/21 colors the stunning models that have donned the costumes of White Widow $24.95 USD and her nemesis, Blood Widow thus far. 60 pages

Orion Children's

The Trapdoor Mysteries: The Lost Treasure Summary: The final book in The Trapdoor Mysteries, a : Book 4 series about Tally, a code-breaking, animal-loving girl Abie Longstaff, James Brown and her best friend, a squirrel named Squill, who solve Pub Date: 2/9/21 mysteries with the help of a secret library... $9.99 USD 160 pages Tally was once a servant girl at Mollett Manor - as well as the Secret Keeper of the magical library hidden underneath the manor's grounds. Along with Squill the squirrel, she used the enchanted books in the library to solve crimes.

Then Tally finds out a secret about her past, her entire life changes. Suddenly she's travelling aboard a huge ship on her way to New York to try and find her mother.

Gallery

Thirsty Mermaids Summary: The raucous and literal fishes-out-of-water Kat Leyh graphic novel from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Pub Date: 2/9/21 Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and $29.99 USD coauthor of the Eisner and GLAAD Award–winning 256 pages series Lumberjanes.

Fresh out of shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids decide to magically masquerade as humans and sneak onto land to indulge in much more drinking and a whole lot of fun in the heart of a local seaside tourist trap. But the good times abruptly end the next morning as, through the haze of killer hangovers, the trio realizes they never actually learned how to break the spell, and are now stuck on land for the

Ace

The Witch's Heart Summary: When a banished witch falls in love with Genevieve Gornichec legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the Pub Date: 2/9/21 gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that $26.00 USD reimagines Norse mythology. 368 pages Angrboda’s story begins where most witch tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love.

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ANGRY ROBOT

Angry Robot

The Moonsteel Crown : Dominion, Book I Summary: The Emperor of Aria is dead, and three Stephen Deas junior members of a street gang are unwittingly caught Pub Date: 2/9/21 up in the ensuing struggle for the throne, in the first $14.99 USD epic adventure in a new fantasy world from a master of 384 pages the genre.

The Emperor of Aria has been murdered, the Empire is in crisis, and Dead Men walk the streets…

But Myla, Fings, and Seth couldn’t care less. They’re too busy just trying to survive in the Sulk-struck city of Varr, committing petty violence and pettier crimes to earn their keep in the Unrulys, a motley gang led by Blackhand.

Rare Bird Books

Ian Fleming's War : The Inspiration for 007 Summary: Mark Simmons In 1953 Ian Fleming’s literary sensation James Bond Pub Date: 2/9/21 emerged onto the world’s stage. Nearly seven decades later $26.00 USD he has become a multi-billion-dollar film franchise, now 312 pages equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming’s creation that battled his way through the fourteen Bond novels, from 1953-1966, was a maverick, a man out of place. Bond even admits it, wishing he was back in the real war...the Second World War. Indeed, the thread of the Second World War runs through all the Bond books, and many were inspired by the real events and people Ian Fleming came across during his time in Naval Intelligence. In Fleming's 007, Mark Simmons explores these remarkable

Poisoned Pen Press

Of One Blood : or, The Hidden Self Summary: When Reuel Briggs, a medical student at Pauline Hopkins, Leslie S. Klinger, Eric J. Harvard, witnesses the performance of the beautiful singer Guigna... Dianthe Lusk at a concert, he's infatuated by her talent and Pub Date: 2/9/21 beauty. That next morning, Reuel is called to treat the $14.99 USD victims of a train accident. Among them is Dianthe, 208 pages seemingly dead, but he revives her using a form of mesmerism.

Reuel falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Wanting to provide for his fiancee, he undertakes a dangerous but lucrative archaeological expedition to Ethiopia, where he discovers more than treasure. Now his special abilities begin to make sense as he learns the truth about his ancestors.

Harper Voyager

A Song with Teeth : A Los Nefilim Novel Summary: The year is 1944, and the daimons are rising. T. Frohock Pub Date: 2/9/21 With the Inner Guard thrown into disarray by the German $18.99 USD blitzkrieg, the daimon-born nefilim of the Scorpion Court 432 pages gather in Paris, scheming to restore their rule over the mortal realm. Working as a double-agent, Diago Alvarez infiltrates his family’s daimonic court, but soon finds himself overwhelmed by his kin’s multiple deceits.

Meanwhile, Ysabel Ramírez hunts a Psalm that will assist Operation Overlord, the Allies’ invasion of Normandy. Her objective takes her to Paris—into the heart of territories controlled by Die Nephilim and her power-hungry uncle, Jordi Abelló, who seeks the same Psalm in his quest to LLF Staff Suggestions for February LibraryReads List - January 2021 Page 20

KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS

Katherine Tegen Books

One Jar of Magic Summary: Rose Alice Anders is Little Luck. Lucky to be Corey Ann Haydu born into the Anders family. Lucky to be just as special, just Pub Date: 2/9/21 as magical, as the most revered man in town—her father. It $16.99 USD feels like the whole town has been waiting for Rose to turn 352 pages twelve, when she can join the town in their annual capturing of magic on New Year’s Day and become the person she was always meant to be.

But when the special day finally comes, Rose doesn’t capture the powerful magic. Or the most interesting magic. She barely captures one tiny jar of magic. So while everyone else celebrates their armfuls of jars, Rose has just the one jar—the least anyone has ever gotten.

Balzer + Bray

In the Shadow of the Moon : America, Russia, Summary: You’ve heard of the space race, but do you and the Hidden History of the Space Race know the whole story? Amy Cherrix Pub Date: 2/9/21 The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken $17.99 USD was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on 336 pages opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country—and your textbooks probably never told you.

These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and warfare. From Stalin’s brutal gulags and Hitler’s concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests Greenwillow Books

Foxheart Summary: Orphan. Thief. Witch. Twelve-year-old Claire Legrand, Jaime Zollars Quicksilver lives as a thief in the sleepy town of Willow- Pub Date: 2/9/21 on-the-River. Her only companions are her faithful dog and $7.99 USD partner in crime, Fox—and Sly Boots, the shy boy who lets 480 pages her live in his attic when it's too cold to sleep on the rooftops. It's a lonesome life, but Quicksilver is used to being alone. When you are alone, no one can hurt you. No one can abandon you. Then, one day, Quicksilver discovers that she can perform magic. Real magic. The kind that isn't supposed to exist anymore. Magic is forbidden, but Quicksilver nevertheless wants to learn. With real magic, she could become the greatest thief who ever lived. She could maybe even find her parents. What she does find,

Repeater

The Repeater Book of the Occult : Tales from Summary: A selection of Repeater authors choose their the Darkside favourite forgotten horror stories for this new Tariq Goddard, Eugene Thacker anthology, with each also writing a critical introduction Pub Date: 2/9/21 for the story of their choice. $22.95 USD 350 pages A selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite horror stories for this new anthology, with each writing a critical introduction for the story of their choice.

Edited by novelist and Repeater publisher Tariq Goddard and “horror philosopher” Eugene Thacker, The Repeater Book of the Occult is a new anthology of horror stories that explores the ever-shifting boundaries between the natural and

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IRON CIRCUS COMICS

Iron Circus Comics

Julian in Purgatory Summary: "A poignant examination of the toll Jon Allen addiction takes."— SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Pub Date: 2/9/21 $15.00 USD "An unforgettable cautionary tale."— FOREWORD 228 pages "Puts the dark in comedy and sheds some light on an addict’s circuitous path to uncertainty." — KIRKUS

Julian is going to change his life! Get off the couch, get a job, stop disappointing everyone he loves. But first: maybe a couple of pills?

Being the mayor's son comes with a lot of pressure: pressure to conform, perform, and live up to expectations.

Dark Horse Books

Colonel Weird: Cosmagog Summary: From the world of the Eisner Award-winning Jeff Lemire, Tyler Crook Black Hammer series comes a bizarre, sci-fi adventure Pub Date: 2/9/21 origin story! $19.99 USD 112 pages Wacky space adventurer Colonel Randall Weird leaves Black Hammer farm and embarks on a strange journey through space and time for something that he’s long forgotten, with his sanity and life at stake!

Collects Colonel Weird: Cosmogog #1-4 from the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeff Lemire and Harrow County’s Tyler Crook!

Dutton Books for Young Readers

City of the Uncommon Thief Summary: A dark and intricate fantasy for readers of Lynne Bertrand The Book of Dust and Leigh Bardugo. City of the Pub Date: 2/9/21 Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city $19.99 USD gripped by fear and of the war that can free it. 400 pages “Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead. We both know he is safer that way.”

In a walled city of a mile-high iron guild towers, many things are common knowledge: No book in any of the city’s libraries reveals its place on a calendar or a map. No living

Amulet Paperbacks

Tell No Tales : Pirates of the Southern Seas Summary: A swashbuckling adventure inspired by the Sam Maggs, Kendra Wells historical exploits of real-life female pirates Pub Date: 2/9/21 $12.99 USD Anne Bonny had it all—her own ship, a pirate crew, and a 160 pages fearsome reputation—but a new enemy has her on the run and it’ll take all of Anne’s courage to stay afloat. The night before a major heist, Anne has an unsettling dream, and come morning, the robbery is thwarted by Woodes Rogers, a zealot who has sworn to eliminate piracy. With no plan to escape, Anne must persuade her crew to seek the meaning of her dream—or perish. Full of sass, solidarity, and swordplay, Tell No Tales is a graphic novel about belonging, belief, and how far we’re willing to go to protect the ones

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LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Summary: In this Princess Bride-style fairy tale romp, Secret a girl strikes out on a quest to find her rightful family Susan Lurie, Jenn Harney —because the one she's been stuck with all these years Pub Date: 2/9/21 is most definitely wrong. $7.99 USD 240 pages Wanda hates her little brother, Zane. But don't judge her for it—Zane is an absolute terror, and her parents blame Wanda for his monstrous behavior. On her eleventh birthday, Wanda makes a wish: to find her true family, because she knows deep down that this one can't be hers.

She gets a surprise visit from a talking bluebird named Voltaire who seems wise and confirms her suspicion that

Quill Tree Books

Game Changer Summary: If you could move through other Neal Shusterman dimensions, how would you know which was the right Pub Date: 2/9/21 one? $17.99 USD 400 pages All it takes is one hit on the football field and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not- really his own.

The changes in his world start small but quickly spiral out of control as he ends up in universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past, and universes where he finds himself as someone he’s Inkyard Press

The Iron Raven Summary: Wicked faeries and fantastic danger… Julie Kagawa Welcome to book one of the new trilogy in New York Pub Date: 2/9/21 Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey $19.99 USD fantasy series, as infamous prankster Puck finally has a 336 pages chance to tell his story and stand with allies new and old to save Faery and the world. For fans of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare!

“YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME…”

Robin Goodfellow. Puck. Prankster, joker, raven, fool… King Oberon’s right-hand jester from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The legends are many, but the truth will now be

Holiday House

Ellie Makes Her Move Summary: A magical spyglass reveals secrets that will Marilyn Kaye bring four girls together in this new series. Pub Date: 2/9/21 $16.99 USD Twelve-year-old Ellie is ordinary. Absolutely, positively 176 pages ordinary. Then her dad’s latest community project makes their whole ritzy town, including all of Ellie’s friends, turn against them. Tired of being ostracized, Ellie’s family moves to the other side of the state to live in a rickety 100-year-old house complete with a turret—and Ellie swears off friendship forever.

That is until Ellie explores the turret and discovers an old-fashioned telescope—a spyglass. When she looks

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DEL REY

Del Rey

Devolution : A Firsthand Account of the Summary: This New York Times bestsellertakes on the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between Max Brooks human and beast—and asks what we are capable of in Pub Date: 2/9/21 the face of the unimaginable. $17.00 USD 304 pages As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined…until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth- shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words

DAW

The Velocity of Revolution Summary: From the author of the Maradaine saga Marshall Ryan Maresca comes a new steampunk fantasy novel that explores a Pub Date: 2/9/21 chaotic city on the verge of revolution. $17.00 USD 368 pages Ziaparr: a city being rebuilt after years of mechanized and magical warfare, the capital of a ravaged nation on the verge of renewal and self-rule. But unrest foments as undercaste cycle gangs raid supply trucks, agitate the populace and vandalize the city. A revolution is brewing in the slums and shantytowns against the occupying government, led by a voice on the radio, connected through forbidden magic.

DAW

Amid the Crowd of Stars Summary: This innovative sci-fi novel explores the Stephen Leigh potential impact of alien infection on humankind as Pub Date: 2/9/21 they traverse the stars and find themselves stranded $26.00 USD on new and strange planets. 352 pages Amid the Crowd of Stars is a grand scale science fiction novel examining the ethical implications of interstellar travel, a topic rarely addressed in science fiction novels. What responsibilities do we have to isolate ourselves from the bacteria, viruses, and other life of another world, and to prevent any of that alien biome from being brought back to Earth?

Black Spot Books

A Flood of Posies Summary: Near-future apocalyptic fantasy that deals with Tiffany Meuret overcoming grief and trauma, and the power of sisterhood. Pub Date: 2/9/21 $17.95 USD 255 pages

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VIKING

Viking

The Absolute Book : A Novel Summary: The epic fantasy that’s taking the world by Elizabeth Knox storm—a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a Pub Date: 2/9/21 mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of $28.00 USD fires, and the book that changed everything 640 pages “Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful.”—Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches

Taryn Cornick believes that the past—her sister’s violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge—is behind her,

Berkley

Rafael Summary: A new book in the Anita Blake series Laurell K. Hamilton featuring Rafael, a powerful rat shifter and trusted ally Pub Date: 2/9/21 of the renowned vampire hunter. $7.99 USD 272 pages Rafael is the king of the Dark Crown Clan and leader of the St. Louis wererats. One of Anita Blake’s closest allies, he is no stranger to darkness and danger, and now he has a new mission to complete.

Series Overview: The popular, long-running series featuring vampire hunter, zombie raiser, and U.S. marshal Anita Blake

Ace

Smoke Bitten Summary: Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and Patricia Briggs shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this Pub Date: 2/9/21 thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling $8.99 USD series. 336 pages I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five-pound coyote and I can fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I’m going to need them.

Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill—until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles

Fantagraphics

The Grande Odalisque Summary: Alex and Carole, friends since childhood, are Jerome Mulot, Florent Ruppert, Bastien Vives now (literal) partners in crime. But the heist - to steal the Pub Date: 2/9/21 Ingres painting The Grande Odalisque from the Louvre in $24.99 USD Paris - is too much for the duo to handle, so they bring in 128 pages Clarence, a bureaucrat’s son with a price on his head by a Mexican drug cartel and, more importantly, an arms dealer. Next is Sam, a stunt motorcyclist and boxer by trade, who proves trigger happy with tranquilizer darts. Using soda can smoke bombs, rocket launchers, and hang gliders, Alex, Carole, and Sam set off a set of circumstances that results in a battle with the French Special Forces - and their partnership, which was on the rocks, will never be the same again. Ruppert and Mulot, two of the most innovative comic

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BOOM! BOX

BOOM! Box

Lumberjanes Vol. 17 Summary: Jen and Rosie plan to take the Lumberjane Kat Leyh, Shannon Watters, Kanesha C. Bryant scouts to see an amazing astronomical event, but with a Pub Date: 2/9/21 gatecrashing goddess, a kitten-napping, and secret crushes $14.99 USD coming to light this is a night no one ever expected! 112 pages STOLEN KITTIES, SECRET CRUSHES & A NIGHT TO REMEMBER! Jen and Rosie plan to take the Lumberjane scouts to see an amazing astronomical event. But their night of star-gazing is thrown off course when half of the Roanoke and Zodiac cabins sneak away into the night in search of aliens, leaving everyone else to deal with a gatecrashing goddess who throws the entire camp into a tizzy. Not to mention there’s a nefarious kitten-napping and

Tor Teen

Storm from the East Summary: War has begun in the South. The days of soldier Joanna Hathaway Athan and Princess Aurelia’s secret summer romance feel Pub Date: 2/9/21 like a long-distant memory. $11.99 USD 496 pages On the frontlines of combat, Athan proves a star fighter pilot as he struggles to justify the violence his father has unleashed.

In the capital, Aurelia discovers a startling and long-buried truth about her mother and joins a campaign that goes against everything she once believed about her family’s right to the throne.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Summary: A twisty fairy tale romp with a Princess Secret Bride tone about a girl who strikes out on a quest to Susan Lurie, Jenn Harney, Unknown find her rightful family, because the one she's been Pub Date: 2/9/21 stuck with all these years is most definitely wrong. $7.99 USD 240 pages Wanda hates her little brother, Zane. But don't judge her for it--Zane is an absolute terror, and her parents blame Wanda for his monstrous behavior. On her eleventh birthday, Wanda makes a wish: to find her true family, because she knows deep down that this one can't be hers.

She gets a surprise visit from a talking bluebird named Voltaire who seems wise and confirms her suspicion that

Tor Books

Engines of Oblivion Summary: Natalie Chan gained her corporate citizenship, Karen Osborne but barely survived the battle for Tribulation. Pub Date: 2/9/21 $17.99 USD Now corporate has big plans for Natalie. Horrible plans. 416 pages Locked away in Natalie's missing memory is salvation for the last of an alien civilization and the humans they tried to exterminate. The corporation wants to control both—completely.

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PRINTERS ROW

Printers Row

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Summary: In a galaxy far, far away, General Leia Editors of Studio Fun International Organa, Rey, Finn, Poe, and all their Resistance friends Pub Date: 2/9/21 try to stop the First Order in this hardcover storybook. $9.99 USD 68 pages In the 2017 film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rey has found Luke Skywalker and must learn the ways of the Force before it’s too late! Join General Leia Organa, Finn, Poe, and all their Resistance friends as they set out to stop the First Order in in this retelling of the film. Star Wars fans of all ages will enjoy reliving the Skywalker saga in this beautifully illustrated storybook.

Printers Row

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Summary: Join Rey, Finn, Poe, and all their Resistance Editors of Studio Fun International friends as they take their final stand against the First Pub Date: 2/9/21 Order. $9.99 USD 68 pages In the 2019 film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Resistance must do everything it can to stop Supreme Leader Kylo Ren from ruling the galaxy. Join Rey, Finn, Poe, and all their friends as they take their final stand against the First Order in this retelling of the film. Star Wars fans of all ages will enjoy reliving the Skywalker saga in this beautifully illustrated storybook.

Printers Row

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Summary: Join Rey, Finn, BB-8, and all their Editors of Studio Fun International Resistance friends as they set out to stop the First Pub Date: 2/9/21 Order from finding Luke Skywalker in a galaxy far, far $9.99 USD away. 68 pages Set 30 years after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) and the fall of the evil Galactic Empire, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) tells the story of the villainous Kylo Ren and the rising threat of the First Order. Only the fledgling Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, stand in the First Order's way from taking control of the galaxy. Join a young scavenger named Rey, and a defector from the First Order known as Finn, as they join the battle to save the galaxy.

Tordotcom

Fireheart Tiger Summary: Fire burns bright and has a long memory…. Aliette de Bodard Pub Date: 2/9/21 Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a $14.99 USD hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a 112 pages child. Now she’s returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria’s royal palace.

Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won't take

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FORGE BOOKS

Forge Books

Finn Mac Cool Summary: Somewhere in the shadowy borderland between Morgan Llywelyn myth and history lies the story of Finn Mac Cool. Mightiest Pub Date: 2/9/21 of the Irish heroes, leader of the invincible army of the $18.99 USD Fianna, he wore many faces: warrior, poet, lover, creator, 400 pages and destroyer. Born into one of the lowest classes of Irish society, Finn Mac Cool, through strength and ambition, rose above his birth to bring his people new respect and status.

He had it all and lost it all, but in the end he gained immortality. Finn Mac Cool is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and awesome adventure.

Marvel Press

Loki : Where Mischief Lies Summary: Catalog Copy: Mackenzi Lee, Stephanie Hans An instant New York Times best seller! Pub Date: 2/9/21 $9.99 USD *"This deft, nuanced examination of identity, destiny, 432 pages and agency is a surprisingly tender addition to the Marvel canon."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

*"This mischievous origin story is sure to satisfy fans of this popular character."—Booklist, starred review

Selected for the ILA-CBC 2020 Young Adults’ Choices reading list.

Third Editions

The Impact of Akira : A Manga (R)evolution Summary: A global manga phenomenon in the early Remi Lopez 1990s, Akira is a futuristic depiction with apocalyptic Pub Date: 2/15/21 elements set in a Neo-Tokyo on the brink of civil war. $29.95 USD Katsuhiro Otomo’s work is a graphical and narrative treasure 192 pages trove, confronting the revolutionary views of a disillusioned youth with the danger of scientific progress spiraling out of control. This book provides the social and historical context of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga, which is reflected in its themes, and is intended to help the Western reader get a better grasp of this major Japanese comic book’s essence.

Third Editions

Berserk : With Darkness Ink Summary: Berserk is a manga which stands out for its Quentin "Alt 236" Boeton rich, twisted and dark universe. It is a clever alchemy Pub Date: 2/15/21 between the stories of Elric of Melnibone, Hieronymus $29.95 USD Bosch’s paintings and Gustave Dore’s engravings. This book 240 pages reviews Berserk’s story and all aspects of Kentaro Miura’s life, the manga’s author. It also deciphers the work’s entire dark fantasy world.

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THIRD EDITIONS

Third Editions

The Works of Hayao Miyazaki : The Master of Summary: His poetic directing and universal themes, such Japanese Animation as the importance of nature, have turned Hayao Miyazaki Gael Berton into one of the most respected artists on the movie and Pub Date: 2/15/21 animation scene. Initially intended for Japan only, his works $29.95 USD eventually reached the Western market. Spirited Away is 200 pages one of the most successful animated movies worldwide. This book aims to explore the personality of this unusual author and his collaborators, and to decipher, movie by movie, the profound themes found throughout his entire work, which reveal the humanist nature of this essential filmmaker.

Graphic Mundi

COVID Chronicles : A Comics Anthology Summary: In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the Kendra Boileau, Rich Johnson, Gene Ambaum, world to its knees. When we weren’t sheltering in place, we Julio A... were advised to wear masks, wash our hands, and practice Pub Date: 2/15/21 social distancing. We watched in horror as medical personnel $21.95 USD worked around the clock to care for the sick and dying. 296 pages Businesses were shuttered, travel stopped, workers were furloughed, and markets dropped. And people continued to die.

Amid all this uncertainty, writers and artists from around the world continued to create comics, commenting directly on how individuals, societies, governments, and markets reacted to the worldwide crisis. COVID Chronicles: A Comics

University Press of Mississippi

Mysterious Travelers : Steve Ditko and the Summary: Steve Ditko (1927–2018) is one of the most Search for a New Liberal Identity important contributors to American comic books. As the Zack Kruse cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Pub Date: 2/15/21 Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. $30.00 USD Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New 304 pages Liberal Identity resets the conversation about his heady and powerful work. Always inward facing, Ditko’s narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self-examination, and with characters like the Question, Mr. A, and Static, Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko’s philosophy-driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand’s Objectivism. Unfortunately, readers often reduce Ditko’s

University Press of Mississippi

R. Crumb : Literature, Autobiography, and Summary: Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply the Quest for Self a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, David Stephen Calonne Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Pub Date: 2/15/21 Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics $30.00 USD including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. 262 pages Crumb’s genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal his personal search for the meaning of life.

R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that chart Crumb’s intellectual

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HEADLINE

Headline

Doing Time Summary: Jodi Taylor Pub Date: 2/16/21 Introducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by $15.99 USD international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor - an 480 pages irresistible spinoff from the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary's series. Perfect reading for fans of Doctor Who, Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde.

'The best way to describe this book: lots of fun' British Fantasy Society

'Inventive and entertaining... a fast-paced and fun first book in what promises to be an excellent new series'

Quercus Publishing

Astra : The Gaia Chronicles Book 1 Summary: Naomi Foyle Pub Date: 2/16/21 Is-land is a Gaian paradise in the middle of a blasted $15.99 USD world - but its success comes at a dark price. 400 pages Like every child in Is-Land, all Astra Ordott has ever wanted is to get her Security Shot, do her National Service and defend her Gaian homeland from Non-Lander 'infiltrators'. But when one of her Shelter mothers, the formidable Dr Hokma Blesser, tells her the shot will limit her chances of becoming a scientist and offers her an alternative, Astra agrees to her plan.

Then the orphaned Lil arrives to share Astra's home and Andrews McMeel Publishing

My Life in Transition : A Super Late Bloomer Summary: The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Collection autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, Julia Kaye documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye’s life Pub Date: 2/16/21 post-transition. $14.99 USD 176 pages My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria and misgendering, learning to lean on friends in times of need,

Manic D Press, Inc.

Steampunk Visions : A Delightful Assortment Summary: of 24 Postcards Depicting a Future That Never Was Fanciful vintage steampunk vision postcards, created in Paris Jean Marc Cote in 1899, colorfully illustrate a future that never was . . . Pub Date: 2/16/21 with airships, robots, and more! Originally from a series $11.95 USD entitled En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000) depicting the 48 pages future's imaginary scientific advances, the original cards were produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, most likely printed for enclosure in cigarette/cigar boxes to promote the World Exhibition.

Little is known about the life and work of commercial artist Jean Marc Côté. He worked as an occasional illustrator for the small French toy company Armand Gervais, which Consortium Fall 2020 Adult Catalog - January 2021 Page 30

PHILOMEL BOOKS

Philomel Books

Twelve Nights Summary: A magical tale of imagination, adventure, Andrew Zurcher and the power of storytelling, perfect for fans of The Pub Date: 2/16/21 Golden Compass and A Wrinkle in Time. $17.99 USD 320 pages Kay’s father has gone missing on Christmas Eve! And when Kay and her sister Ell go to his office, everyone he works with claims never to have heard of him. So later that evening, when Kay wakes up to find two mysterious strangers outside her bedroom window, talking about her father and looking for the last remnants of his existence, she demands to know what’s happened to her dad.

The two strangers, Flip and Will, are wraiths, on a mission

Library of American Comics

Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume Summary: This last volume in the series completes the 29 iconic comic series by Chester Gould. The adventures of Chester Gould this iconic square-jawed detective fighting a menagerie Pub Date: 2/16/21 of grotesque villains remains one of the highlights in $44.99 USD the history of not just comics but crime fiction in 288 pages general.

After 46 years-two months-and-twentyone-days writing and drawing Dick Tracy Chester Gould retired at the age of 77. In these historic final strips, Gould pits his dynamic detective against the latest in a long line of grotesque villains—Pucker Puss, the hitman who literally spits death at his opponents. Tracy, meanwhile, takes his law and order

Penguin Books

Rules for Vanishing Summary: In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Kate Alice Marshall Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing Pub Date: 2/16/21 girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to $10.99 USD find her sister—at all costs. 432 pages Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons. Lucy’s game isn’t for the faint of heart. If you win, you escape with your life. But if you lose….

Sara’s sister disappeared one year ago—and only Sara knows where she is. Becca went to find the ghost of Lucy Gallows and is trapped on the road that leads to her. In the

G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found Summary: Magic has all but disappeared in Brooklyn, Rucker Moses, Theo Gangi but one tenacious young magician is determined to Pub Date: 2/16/21 bring it back in this exciting middle grade mystery. $17.99 USD 288 pages Kingston has just moved from the suburbs back to Echo City, Brooklyn—the last place his father was seen alive. Kingston’s father was King Preston, one of the world’s greatest magicians. Until one trick went wrong and he disappeared. Now that Kingston is back in Echo City, he’s determined to find his father.

Somehow, though, when his father disappeared, he took all of Echo City’s magic with him. Now Echo City—a ghost of its

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MARVEL

Marvel

Luke Cage Epic Collection: Retribution Summary: Luke Cage burst onto the comics scene in 1972 Archie Goodwin, Steve Englehart, Tony Isabella, as the "Hero for Hire." Equal parts Marvel Method and Le... Blaxploitation boldness, he was a new kind of hero for a Pub Date: 2/16/21 new era, the historic first African-American character to $39.99 USD headline his own series. Cage's adventures depicted New 480 pages York City's 1970s grit and the plight of its people with a realism that was gripping in its time, all while incorporating larger-than-life villains including Black Mariah and Doctor Doom. This Epic Collection present page after page of classic Luke Cage adventures: Including his origin, his growing relationship with Clare Temple, the first appearance of Cottonmouth, a battle with Iron Man and a fight to the finish for the name Power Man.

The MIT Press

Science Fiction Summary: How science fiction has been a tool for Sherryl Vint understanding and living through rapid technological Pub Date: 2/16/21 change. $15.95 USD 224 pages The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don’t understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New World nightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and

Bloomsbury Publishing

A Court of Silver Flames Summary: Nesta Archeron has always been prickly—proud, Sarah J. Maas swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being Pub Date: 2/16/21 forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her $28.00 USD will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the 768 pages strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta’s orbit. But her temper isn’t the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each

Magnetic Press

Aster of Pan Summary: The year is 2068. The place, Fontainebleau Merwan forest, ancient home of some of France’s mightiest Pub Date: 2/16/21 monarchs on the outskirts of what was once Paris. The $29.99 USD post-apocalyptic society of Pan survives by growing rice and 200 pages scavenging among the ruins of a destroyed civilization. Their precarious existence comes under threat when the powerful, technologically advanced Federation of Fortuna forces them into a dangerous choice—submit to Fortuna’s rule, or try to best them in a barbaric, ritualized game known as Celestial Mechanics. Pan’s only hope? A hot-headed outcast they’d rejected for being “un-Pan”: a girl named Aster.

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ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT

Action Lab Entertainment

Sasquatch in Love Volume 1 Summary: An unlikely romantic triangle forms between Jason Nutt, Nicole D'Andria, Alexis Vivallo lonely Holden, the world’s last Sasquatch; Grace, the Pub Date: 2/16/21 documentary filmmaker who comes to a small town in rural $14.99 USD Oregon to expose him; and Holden’s love-scarred best friend 128 pages Felix, the town veterinarian. A four-issue comedy about longing, belonging, and Bigfoot.

William Morrow Paperbacks

Stardust : A Novel Summary: “Beautiful, memorable . . . A book full of Neil Gaiman marvels.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Pub Date: 2/16/21 $16.99 USD Go and catch a falling star… 256 pages Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria Forester—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that stone barrier, Tristran learns, lies Faerie, a world of lords and witches . . . and the most exhilarating adventure of the young man’s life.

HarperCollins

Cathedral of Bones Summary: Simon Frost lives in a curious place where A. J. Steiger magic is used by the very best Animists to do wondrous Pub Date: 2/16/21 things—like call upon imps, wraiths, and all manner of $16.99 USD monsters to right wrongs, deliver justice, and accomplish 368 pages feats no human could achieve.

Simon Frost is not one of those Animists, though he’s been trying to become one for years.

When a plea arrives from a distant hamlet, preyed upon by an abominable monster, Simon sees the opportunity to finally prove his worth. But upon arriving in the tiny village, Simon finds not just a monster but a key to his past—and a pathway into an unbelievable future. HarperCollins

Imagine Me Summary: Hello world. You won’t forget me. Tahereh Mafi Pub Date: 2/16/21 Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which $12.99 USD is the lie? 480 pages Now that Ella knows who she is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.

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The Seventh Sun Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his Lani Forbes emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready Pub Date: 2/16/21 for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the $17.99 USD power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading-and the end of the world may be at hand.

For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor's death may mean that she is next. Prince Ahkin must be married before he can ascend the throne, and Mayana is one of six noble daughters presented to him as a possible wife. Those who are not chosen will be sacrificed to the gods.

The Jade Bones Summary: Four young people risk their lives to save Lani Forbes the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating Pub Date: 2/16/21 sequel to The Seventh Sun. $18.99 USD Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately, they are not unequipped. Mayana's royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself. Ometeotl, the Mother goddess, provides them with other gifts-and an ominous warning that one of them

Flame Tree Publishing

Holes in the Veil Summary: "Packed full of adventure and ending with a Beth Overmyer cliffhanger that leaves readers anxiously awaiting a Pub Date: 2/16/21 sequel." -- Booklist on The Goblets Immortal, Book 1 in $14.95 USD the series. 240 pages Having killed his lifelong enemy, Aidan Ingledark finds himself in possession of a map to the Questing Goblet, one of the Goblets Immortal that gives the drinker luck beyond measure. Meraude seeks this Goblet to wipe out magic-kind. Aidan and his traveling companion are determined to find it first but they must battle through illusion and doubt.

Jinn’s a Sightful seeking the Summoner. She wants to kill

Flame Tree Publishing

The Searching Dead Summary: “An absolute master of modern horror. And a Ramsey Campbell damn fine writer at that” - Guillermo del Toro Pub Date: 2/16/21 $14.95 USD 1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic 256 pages Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can’t suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. A monstrous discovery beneath a church only hints at terrors that are poised to engulf the world as the trilogy brings us to the

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PLOUGH PUBLISHING HOUSE

Plough Publishing House

Freiheit! : The White Rose Graphic Novel Summary: The dramatic true story of a handful of Andrea Grosso Ciponte students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their Pub Date: 2/16/21 lives, now in a stunning graphic novel. $24.00 USD 112 pages With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The university students who formed the White Rose, an undercover resistance movement in Nazi Germany, knew that doing so could cost them their lives. But some things are worth dying for.

The White Rose printed and distributed leaflets to expose Nazi atrocities and wake up their fellow citizens. The

Del Rey

The Last Human : A Novel Summary: “The Last Human gives us aliens, Zack Jordan adventure, mystery, and big ideas in a thoroughly fresh Pub Date: 2/16/21 package. If you love a good old-fashioned space opera, $18.00 USD this book is for you.”—Andy Weir, #1 bestselling author 448 pages of The Martian

Sarya is the civilized galaxy’s worst nightmare: a Human.

Most days, Sarya doesn’t feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she’s got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station.

Warhammer Adventures

Plague of the Nurglings Summary: The fifth book in the Warped Galaxies Cavan Scott series. An exciting new series of sci-fi books for Pub Date: 2/16/21 middle-grade reeaders from Black Library. Brave $8.99 USD champions and the forces of the Imperium battle alien 224 pages beasts and mechanical tyrants accross the gulf of space.

Zelia, Talen and Mekki arrive at Aparitus, a planet of huge industrial machines and the cybernetic race called the Mechanicus. Now under the protection of the mysterious Inquisitor Jeremias, they still search for a way to reach Zelia’s mother, but all is not what it seems on the forge world. A strange plague begins to spread, infecting

Titan Comics

Legends of Today Summary: Legends of Today brings together the first Enki Bilal, Pierre Christin three volumes that Enki Bilal has created in Pub Date: 2/16/21 collaboration with the scriptwriter Pierre Christin: The $39.99 USD Cruise of Forgotten (1975), The Stone Vessel (1976) 176 pages and The City That Did Not Exist (1977).

Antagonised by an enigmatic character with supernatural powers, which serves as a theme for the trilogy, the three stories delve into the lives of various traditional communities (a village of the Landes, a Breton fishing port, a small working-class town in the North) as they fight against the police, the army, and all those in power, whose action, at the time, was very controversial.

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DC COMICS

DC Comics

John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 24: Summary: John Constantine is a bastard. But just how Sectioned much of a bastard? Peter Milligan, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Sean Murphy Pub Date: 2/16/21 John Constantine struggles with his sanity as he is haunted $34.99 USD by memories of Epiphany. He gets so desperate, he’s even 352 pages willing to summon Shade, the Changing Man! Constantine’s journey to sanity is a twisted one that takes him back to Meta to settle old scores.

And will Constantine be able to have his “happily ever after”? After he proposes to Epiphany, will more conspire to stop Constantine from getting married? This time it’s different—this time, it’s Epiphany. Find out if the uninvited

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Witches of Ash and Ruin Summary: E. Latimer Modern witchcraft blends with ancient Celtic mythology Pub Date: 2/16/21 in an epic clash of witches and gods, perfect for fans of $10.99 USD V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic trilogy and The Chilling 384 pages Adventures of Sabrina.

Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really matters to her is ascending and finally, finally becoming a full witch—plans that are complicated when another coven, rumored to have a sordid history with black

HarperTeen

Reaper of Souls Summary: “I couldn’t get enough of Kingdom of Souls. Rena Barron Wonderfully written, and full of dark magic and danger, Pub Date: 2/16/21 it was a story I couldn’t wait to escape into. Highly $18.99 USD recommended!”— Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times 448 pages bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series

After so many years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has the one thing she’s always wanted—at a terrible price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she’s been left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom in shambles, and long-buried secrets about who she is.

Desperate not to repeat her mother’s mistakes, Arrah must Crown

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee Summary: The definitive, revelatory biography of : The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, an artist and Abraham Riesman entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a Pub Date: 2/16/21 steep personal cost $28.00 USD 416 pages Stan Lee—born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922—is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor…the list seems to never end. On top of that, his

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PANTHEON

Pantheon

The Memory Theater : A Novel Summary: From the award-winning author of Amatka Karin Tidbeck and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about Pub Date: 2/16/21 friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical $25.95 USD place where no one ages, except the young 240 pages In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It’s a place where feasts never end, games of croquet have devastating consequences, and teenagers are punished for growing up. For a select group of masters, it’s a decadent paradise where time stands still. But for those who serve them, it’s a slow torture where their lives can be ended in a blink. In a bid to escape before their youth betrays them, Dora and Thistle—best friends and

Top Shelf Productions

Johnny Boo and the Silly Blizzard (Johnny Summary: James Kochalka’s beloved Eisner-award- Boo Book 12) winning series takes a wintry turn as Johnny Boo and James Kochalka Squiggle discover the delights of eating snow—and the Pub Date: 2/16/21 importance of staying warm! $9.99 USD 40 pages Kids love to eat snow! It looks a lot like ice cream…hey, maybe it really IS ice cream! Johnny Boo and Squiggle are excited to find out, unless the Ice Cream Monster eats it all first. Armed with his gigantic and mighty Ice Cream Fork, he seems unstoppable…until all that cold snow in his tummy knocks him down for the count. Can Johnny Boo and Squiggle warm up their frozen frenemy with mittens from their secret mitten box? Or will they get lost in the silly

Flux

Of Silver and Shadow Summary: Ren Kolins is a silver wielder—a dangerous thing Jennifer Gruenke to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been Pub Date: 2/16/21 outlawed for a century. Ren is just trying to survive, sticking $14.99 USD to a life of petty thievery, card games, and pit fighting to 480 pages get by. But when a wealthy rebel leader discovers her secret, he offers her a fortune to join his revolution. The caveat: she won’t see a single coin until they overthrow the king.

Behind the castle walls, a brutal group of warriors known as the King’s Children is engaged in a competition: the first to find the rebel leader will be made King’s Fang, the right hand of the king of Erdis. And Adley Farre is hunting down

Solaris

The Black Coast Summary: Epic world-building at its finest, in an upcoming Mike Brooks author’s fantasy debut. The Black Coast is the start of an Pub Date: 2/16/21 unmissable series filled with war-dragons, armoured knights, $14.99 USD sea-faring raiders, dangerous magic and crowd-pleasing 670 pages battle scenes.

War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise.

When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black

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ONI PRESS

Oni Press

Girl Haven Summary: Full of wonder, humor, and heart, Girl Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter Haven is the newest original story from the author of Pub Date: 2/16/21 Lumberjanes. $14.99 USD 160 pages Three years ago, Ash’s mom left home and never returned, leaving behind a husband and child and a shed full of mystical curiosities related to the all-girl fantasy world she’d created as a child—Koretris. One day Ash invites a new group of friends from Pride Club over, and they try one of the spells to enter Koretris. To their amazement, they’re all transported to a magical realm filled with human-sized talking animals who are fiercely protective of their world and are ready to fight to protect it. But if Koretris is real, why is

Oni Press

Courtney Crumrin Vol. 7 : Tales of a Warlock Summary: Aloysius Crumrin may be a warlock, but that Ted Naifeh doesn't mean he's sympathetic to others of his Pub Date: 2/16/21 kind—especially when they step outside the bounds of $12.99 USD Ravenna's Law and take their magic to dangerous heights. 128 pages Working for lawyer and magic connoisseur Horace Crisp gives Aloysius the chance to track down these rogue witches and warlocks and strip them of their power. He just needs to keep his own magical ancestry—and powers—to himself.

But he doesn't count on Alice Crisp, Horace's tenacious daughter, accompanying him on missions, or on trusting her with his secret. And he doesn't count on falling in love... which proves more dangerous than anything when Horace

Rebellion

Night of the Devil: War Picture Library Summary: Night of the Devil by comics legend Hugo Pratt Hugo Pratt, Tom Tully is the fourth in a major series of new collections - joining Pub Date: 2/16/21 the War Picture Library’s mission to bring all of the $19.99 USD long-lost UK of war comics master artists back into print. 128 pages "A rare chance to see one of the undisputed greats of the comic book medium growing into the full strength of his talents." - Hollywood Reporter

In Night of the Devil, take a hallucinatory trip through the oppressive heat of the Burmese jungle along with British soldiers engaged in desperate skirmishes with the enemy. In Bayonet Jungle, Private Jack Green’s presence is seen as an

CAEZIK SF & Fantasy

Lest Darkness Fall & Timeless Tales Written Summary: Rarely do books have such a great influence on in Tribute a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, David Drake, Frequently quoted as one of the favorite books of many of S... the masters in this genre, this book by L. Sprague de Camp Pub Date: 2/16/21 helped establish alternate-history as solid sub-genre of $34.99 USD science fiction. 328 pages An indication of the influence and longevity of the book is by the number of best-selling writers who have written stories in direct response to, or influenced by, Lest Darkness Fall. The original tribute volume (titled Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories, reprinted three such stories by Frederik Pohl, David Drake and S. M. Stirling written over a period of

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DC COMICS

DC Comics

Books of Magic Vol. 3: Dwelling in Possibility Summary: Destined to become the most powerful Kat Howard, Tom Fowler magician in the universe, will Tim Hunter end up the Pub Date: 2/16/21 greatest sorcerer the world has ever known? Or the $24.99 USD greatest evil that the universe will need to stop? 248 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

Archaia

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Summary: An official prequel to the hit Dark Crystal: Age Resistance: The Journey into the Mondo of Resistance series on Netflix featuring fan favorite Leviadin All-Maudra Mayrin. Matthew Erman, Jo Cheol-hong Pub Date: 2/16/21 AN OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES! Return $24.99 USD to Thra in a time before the Age of Resistance and discover 112 pages the untold origin of All-Maudra Mayrin, the fan-favorite Gelfling leader from Netflix’s hit Dark Crystal series. Mayrin takes her place as the leader of all Gelfling clans, but she feels unprepared for the great responsibility before her. When whispers of a Gelfling rebellion reach her, she must decide who she can trust—and if she herself is truly worthy of this responsibility... Based on a story by Jim Henson’s

Tor Books

Silence of the Soleri Summary: Solus celebrates the Opening of the Mundus, a Michael Johnston two-day holiday for the dead, but the city of the Soleri is Pub Date: 2/16/21 hardly in need of diversion. A legion of traitors, led by a $29.99 USD former captain of the Soleri military, rallies at the capital’s 384 pages ancient walls. And inside those fortifications, trapped by circumstance, a second army fights for its very existence. In this follow-up to Soleri, Solus is besieged from within as well as without and the Hark-Wadi family is stuck at the heart of the conflict.

Tor Books

Fairhaven Rising Summary: Sixteen years have passed since the mage L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Beltur helped to found the town of Fairhaven, and Taelya, Pub Date: 2/16/21 Beltur's adopted niece, is now a white mage undercaptain in $29.99 USD the Road Guards of Fairhaven. 464 pages Fairhaven's success under the Council has become an impediment to the amibition of several rulers, and the mages protecting the town are seen as a threat.

Taelya, a young and untried mage, finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy to destroy her home and the people she loves, and she may not be powerful enough to stop it in time.

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TOR BOOKS

Tor Books

The Echo Wife Summary: “When they said all happy families are Sarah Gailey alike, I don’t think this is what they meant…” Pub Date: 2/16/21 $24.99 USD Evelyn Caldwell’s husband Nathan has been having an affair 256 pages — with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica.

After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan’s body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast—before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell.

The Echo Wife is a non-stop thrill ride of lies, betrayal, and

Marvel

Morbius: Preludes and Nightmares Summary: Sink your teeth into the early years of Morbius, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Mike Friedrich, Joe the Living Vampire! Dr. Michael Morbius made his (bite) Keat... mark on the Marvel Universe when a doomed experiment Pub Date: 2/16/21 left him with a vampiric lust for blood. And his disturbing $15.99 USD debut couldn't have come at a worse time for Spider-Man - 144 pages who recently grew four extra arms! Can Spidey find a way to return to normal when all six of his hands are full dealing with Morbius and the Lizard? The Human Torch and the X-Men help Spidey battle the Living Vampire - but Morbius soon sets off on his own, seeking redemption for his past ad a cure for his cursed affliction! Plus: a modern-day tale explores Michael's youth - and the fateful experiment that changed him forever!

Tordotcom

Soulstar Summary: With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting C. L. Polk Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and Pub Date: 2/16/21 intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning $17.99 USD Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost 304 pages love haunt the pages of this thrilling final volume.

For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that would have her imprisoned by the state. But when Grace Hensley comes knocking on Clan Thorpe’s door, Robin’s days of hiding are at an end. As freed witches flood the streets of Kingston, scrambling to reintegrate with a kingdom that destroyed their lives, Robin begins to plot a

Swoon Reads

We Are the Fire Summary: In the cold, treacherous land of Vesimaa, Sam Taylor children are stolen from their families, forced to undergo a Pub Date: 2/16/21 horrific transformative procedure and serve as magical $18.99 USD fire-wielding soldiers. Pran and Oksana—both taken from 416 pages their homes at a young age—only have each other to hold onto in this heartless place.

Pran dreams of one day destroying the empire; Oksana only dreams of returning home.

When they discover the emperor has a new, more terrible mission than ever for them, Pran and Oksana vow to escape his tyranny forever. But they soon find that the only way to

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ORBIT

Orbit

Goldilocks Summary: Laura Lam A gripping science fiction thriller where five women Pub Date: 2/16/21 task themselves with ensuring the survival of the $16.99 USD human race—if you mixed ". . .The Martian and The 384 pages Handmaid's Tale, this sci-fi novel would be the incredible result" (Book Riot).

“Best of 2020” –Library Journal “Best of 2020” –Kirkus “Best of 2020 – runner up” –Polygon “Our favorite books of 2020” –GeekDad

Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on

John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Unfinished Land Summary: Greg Bear Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the Pub Date: 2/16/21 drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English $26.00 USD village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange 384 pages encounters—not just with press gangs hoping to fill English ships to fight the coming Spanish Armada, but strangers who seem to know him—one of whom casts a white shadow.

The village’s ships are commandeered, and after a fierce battle at sea, Reynard finds himself the sole survivor of his uncle’s devastated hoy. For days he drifts, starving and dying of thirst, until he is rescued by a galleon, also lost—and both are propelled by a strange current to the

Artists Writers & Artisans

Devil's Highway Summary: Benjamin Percy (Wolverine) and Brent Benjamin Percy, Brent Schoonover Schoonover (Batman ‘66) present a pulse-pounding thriller, Pub Date: 2/23/21 based on real FBI data, examining murder in the dark $9.99 USD underbelly of America’s heartland. A young woman with a 144 pages dark family secret embarks on a quest to hunt down the serial killer that brutally murdered her father – only to discover he is just one piece of a national network of evil that snakes across the country and hides in plain sight. To catch the devil she must first embrace the darkness within.

Margaret K. McElderry Books

A Dark and Hollow Star Summary: The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this Ashley Shuttleworth thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Pub Date: 2/23/21 Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing $19.99 USD to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the 512 pages hidden world of faeries to humans.

Choose your player.

The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.

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KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS

Katherine Tegen Books

Bone Crier's Moon Summary: Bone Criers are the last descendants of an Kathryn Purdie ancient famille charged with shepherding the dead into the Pub Date: 2/23/21 afterlife. Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become $10.99 USD the matriarch of the Bone Criers, but first she must 480 pages complete her rite of passage and kill her soulmate. When her ritual goes awry and she’s kidnapped by him instead, it leaves the spirits of the dead trapped and restless. With the help of her best friend, Sabine, she’ll have to escape before the next new moon, or the dead will begin to prey on the living.

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: 2/23/21 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.

Clover Press, LLC

The Grievling Summary: Steve Niles and Damien Worm have teamed up Steve Niles, Ted Adams, Damien Worm once again! The team behind the hit comic turned Netflix Pub Date: 2/23/21 show, October Faction, have reunited to bring you, The $17.99 USD Grievling. Set in a small town in middle America, The 96 pages Grievling is a tale of death and revenge featuring a young girl who returns from the grave after a bullying incident taken too far leads to her accidental murder.

Steve Niles is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line.

Titan Books

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales The Art of Summary: Official art book of the PS5 launch game the Game Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, featuring concept Matt Ralphs art created during the development of the game. Pub Date: 2/23/21 $39.95 USD Be greater, be yourself as Miles Morales swings onto the 192 pages scene in his own video game for the first time. Learning the ropes as Spider-Man in Peter Parker’s absence, Miles must find the balance between keeping his new home, Harlem, safe and rising up to take on new challenges and enemies that test his abilities and loyalties to the limit.

The creative process of this much-anticipated game is captured in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales - The Art of

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RAZORBILL

Razorbill

Rebelwing Summary: “Mixing everything that’s best about Andrea Tang dragons, dystopia, and generational conflict, Tang Pub Date: 2/23/21 delivers a high flying debut that pulls no punches.” $11.99 USD —E.K. Johnston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author 368 pages Things just got weird for Prudence Wu.

One minute, she’s cashing in on a routine smuggling deal. The next, she’s escaping enforcers on the wings of what very much appears to be a sentient cybernetic dragon.

Pru is used to life throwing her some unpleasant surprises—she goes to prep school, after all, and selling

Dutton Books for Young Readers

The Desolations of Devil's Acre Summary: The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Pub Date: 2/23/21 $22.99 USD The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went 512 pages dark was a terrible, familiar face.

Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began—his grandfather’s house. Jacob doesn’t know how they escaped from V’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.

After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob

DC Comics

Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Vol. 3 Summary: The shadows of the bayous in Louisiana Martin Pasko, Tom Yeates hold a terrifying secret. Inside them hides a creature Pub Date: 2/23/21 seen only in fleeting glimpses…a twisted, vegetative $39.99 USD mockery of man…a SWAMP THING. 416 pages Created by legendary writer LEN WEIN and artist BERNIE WRIGHTSON, this shambling, muck-encrusted figure swiftly became one of DC’s most iconic characters during the Bronze Age of comics, and his shocking stories have become classics in the gothic horror genre. In this brilliant collection, Swamp Thing is joined by the Phantom Stranger as he goes up against an electronics genius—before having to face off against Anton Arcane!

Dutton

The Last Day : A Novel Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NOW Andrew Hunter Murray IN PAPERBACK Pub Date: 2/23/21 $16.00 USD A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a 384 pages terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today’s headlines—in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled onto a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden.

A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light.

It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a

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MARVEL

Marvel

Morbius Epic Collection: The Living Vampire Summary: Cursed by an experiment gone wrong, Dr. Steve Gerber, Don McGregor, Roy Thomas, Gerry Michael Morbius is possessed by an unquenchable thirst for Conw... blood, yet his heart beats like any other man. He is a living Pub Date: 2/23/21 vampire! From his first appearance and solo color comic $39.99 USD through his black-and-white adventures, this Epic Collection 432 pages begins Morbius' tragic adventure into fear. The sometimes mad, sometimes misunderstood doctor contends not just with super heroes but bizarre cultists and satanic demons. They're stories that will take you to the darker side of Marvel, a world of horror and the supernatural that overtook the industry in the 1970s and defined comics for a generation.

Marvel

Captain America by Ta-Nehisi Coates Vol. 4 Summary: Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his blockbuster Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jason Masters examination of the Living Legend with the ominous next Pub Date: 2/23/21 chapter of Cap's modern masterpiece: "All Die Young!" $17.99 USD Steve Rogers has given up being Captain America. Framed, 144 pages disgraced and hunted, he has been forced underground - but he's not down and out yet. If Captain America embodies any one thing, it is perseverance in the face of evil. He's been fi ghting his way back to the light, one step at a time. And the hour is drawing nigh when Steve Rogers will once again pick up the shield and don the stars and stripes!

COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA (2018) 20-25

Titan Comics

The Moorcock Library: Elric The Eternal Summary: Michael Moorcock’s epic fantasy, illustrated Champion Collection by two visionary artists. Michael Moorcock, Philippe Druillet, James Cawthor... Seminal sword-and-sorcery author Michael Moorcock weaves Pub Date: 2/23/21 stunning blend of magic, heroism, and wonder as his $19.99 USD legendary Eternal Champion Elric features in two rarely seen 56 pages adventures, featuring artwork from legendary French artist Phillippe Druillet.

David Zwirner Books

Crumb's World Summary: R. Crumb’s obsessions—from sex to the Robert Crumb, Robert Storr Bible, music, politics, and the vicissitudes and Pub Date: 2/23/21 obscenities of daily life—are chronicled in this $45.00 USD comprehensive book of work by the illustrious 192 pages American comic artist.

Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb has ruptured and expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. Presenting a slice of Crumb’s unique universe, this book features a wide array of printed matter culled from the artist’s five-decade career—tear sheets of drawings and

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ANGRY ROBOT

Angry Robot

Glow Summary: A man battles his addiction to a devastating Tim Jordan nanotech drug that steals identities and threatens the Pub Date: 2/23/21 survival and succession of mankind as a galactic $14.99 USD species. 400 pages After the Nova-Insanity shattered Earth’s civilization, the Genes and Fullerenes Corporation promised to bring humanity back from the brink. Many years later, various factions have formed, challenging their savior and vying for a share of power and control.

Glow follows the lives of three very different beings, all wrestling mental instability in various forms; Rex – a

Orion

The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons Summary: This is the definitive, the official, the most Bob McCabe, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John lavish, the completely-different-to-anything- Cleese... done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to Pub Date: 2/23/21 coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows. $19.99 USD 464 pages Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact has been felt on the world ever since. From its humble beginnings, it blossomed into the most influential movement in modern comedy.

Storm King Productions

John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids Summary: : Grimms Town Terror Tales Rise of the Candy In this spine-tingling tale of mystery and adventure, Hansel Creeper & Gretel must face off against the nefarious Hildaga Vontrix, Neo Edmund, Sandy King, Renae De Liz a devious witch that commands a legion of ghouls, ghosts, Pub Date: 2/23/21 and goblins. Hansel & Gretel's tale begins when they return $19.99 USD home to find their family's home ransacked and their 136 pages parents are missing. They soon find their way into a hidden liar under the family house where they discover their mother and father have been leading a secret double life, as suburban parents by day and heroic monster hunters by night; a family tradition dating back hundreds of years.

Hansel & Gretel must now pick up where their parents left

William Morrow

Master of the Revels : A Return to Neal Summary: This fast-paced sequel to the New York Times Stephenson's D.O.D.O. bestselling near-future adventure The Rise and Fall of Nicole Galland D.O.DO. picks up where the original left off, as Tristan Pub Date: 2/23/21 Lyons, Mel Stokes, and their fellow outcasts from the $29.99 USD Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) fight to 560 pages stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from using time travel to reverse the evolution of all modern technology.

Chief amongst Gráinne’s plots: to encrypt cataclysmic spells into Shakespeare’s “cursed” play, Macbeth. When her fellow rogue agents fall victim to Gráinne’s schemes, Melisande Stokes is forced to send Tristan’s untested, wayward sister Robin back in time to 1606 London, where Edmund Tilney,

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HARPER VOYAGER

Harper Voyager

Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis : A Novel Summary: Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, Nicky Drayden the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, Pub Date: 2/23/21 space faring creatures known as the Zenzee. Abused and $16.99 USD exploited by humans for generations, these majestic animals 336 pages nearly went extinct, but under the command of its newly minted ruler, Doka Kaleigh, life in the Parados I has flourished. Thanks to careful oversight and sacrifice by all of its crew, they are now on the brink of utopia, and yet Doka’s rivals feel threatened by that success.

The Senate allowed Doka to lead their people believing he’d fail spectacularly—a disaster that would cement the legitimacy of their long-standing matriarchy. Despite vocal

DC Comics

Teen Titans Vol. 4: Robin No More Summary: The Djinn War has begun! Adam Glass Pub Date: 2/23/21 Adam Glass is joined by new co-writer Robbie Thompson $19.99 USD (Spider-Man/Deadpool, Spidey, Meet the Skrulls) and new 256 pages artist Eduardo Pansica (Supergirl) for the Teen Titans’ next thrilling adventure! Trapped in her ring with no escape, Djinn finds herself on the inside looking out as the Teen Titans go hunting for Djinn’s older brother Elias, the only one capable of saving her. But Elias’s dark side is the stuff of legends…and the Teen Titans know he can’t be trusted. With Deathstroke, Lobo, and the Other in their rearview mirror…this team is about to go on their most dangerous mission yet.

Iron Circus Comics

The Crossroads at Midnight Summary: "Unsettling in the best way." — KIRKUS, Abby Howard Starred Review Pub Date: 2/23/21 $18.00 USD "Wonderfully terrifying." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 320 pages Starred Review "Gets under your skin." — GEEK MOM

A masterful collection of tales from the faded border between our day-to-day world and the horrifying unknown on the other side of midnight.

An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected — and unsettling — visitor, throwing her quiet

Clover Press, LLC

Possessed Summary: In Nazi-occupied Budapest, a young woman Steve Niles, Gyula Nemeth sees her mother and father brutally murdered by an SS Pub Date: 2/23/21 Officer. She escapes with her Grandfather and the help of a $17.99 USD Rabbi. Filled with rage and hatred, the Grandfather asks the 80 pages Rabbi for help and he shows them an ancient box that contains a demon filled with hate and violence. They can have the revenge they want but only by giving up their sense of right and wrong.

Horror master, Steve Niles, pairs up with his Criminal Macabre artist, Gyula Nemeth, on this poignant and terrifying tale of a family driven to rage and vengeance.

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

The World of Black Hammer Library Edition Summary: An expanded look at the past and future of Volume 2 Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Eisner Award-winning Jeff Lemire, Ray Fawkes, Willfredo Torres, Dave Black Hammer universe, with two complete series St... drawn by Wilfredo Torres and Matt Kindt! Pub Date: 2/23/21 $49.99 USD Far in the future of Black Hammer, a collection of 296 pages superheroes, inspired by the legendary heroes of Black Hammer Farm, must band together to save the planet from an authoritarian regime.

During the Golden Age of superheroes, an elite Air Force crew called the Black Hammer Squadron bands together to combat the Nazis, a host of occult threats, and their

DC Comics

Nubia: Real One Summary: Can you be a hero…if society doesn’t see L. L. McKinney, Robyn Smith you as a person? Pub Date: 2/23/21 $16.99 USD Nubia has always been a little bit…different. As a baby she 208 pages showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor’s cat. But despite her having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she’s no Wonder Woman. And even if she were, they wouldn’t want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she’s reminded of how people see her: as a threat. Her moms do their best to keep her safe, but Nubia can’t deny the fire within her, even if she’s a little awkward about it sometimes. Even if it means people assume the worst.

Pushkin Children's Books

The Tunnels Below Summary: A twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected Nadine Wild-Palmer, Ellen Shi turn when a girl finds herself at the centre of a plot to Pub Date: 2/23/21 save a community from the brutal Corvus rule $12.95 USD 256 pages On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus.

DAW

Transgressions of Power Summary: The second book of The Broken Trust Juliette Wade continues a deadly battle for succession, in this Pub Date: 2/23/21 sociological sci-fi novel where brother is pitted against $27.00 USD brother in a singular chance to win power. 480 pages To marry into the most powerful family in Varin is to step into a trap. Della has spent thirteen years under the scrutiny of Pelismara’s political elites, supporting Tagaret in a dangerous pretense as his brother Nekantor’s closest ally. In secret, however, they’ve planned to escape, and to break down the restrictions of Varin’s caste society. When Nekantor offers to send them to Selimna, the city where their caste experiments can be carried out, how can they

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DARK HORSE BOOKS

Dark Horse Books

The Complete Emily the Strange: All Things Summary: Pop culture phenomenon Emily the Strange Strange returns! Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner, Brian Brooks, Buzz Park... Emily is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl—she’s got a Pub Date: 2/23/21 razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of $29.99 USD moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! 432 pages The Complete Emily the Strange: All Things Strange collects all three volumes of Emily the Strange in a brand new paperback! It’s a perfect time to be strange.

Collects Emily the Strange Volumes 1-3.

Series Overview: Collects Emily the Strange Volumes 1-3.

Titan Books

Alien - Alien: Into Charybdis Summary: The critically acclaimed author of Alien: The Alex White Cold Forge takes readers to a rogue colony where Pub Date: 2/23/21 terror lurks in the tunnels of an abandoned Weyland- $24.95 USD Yutani complex. 560 pages

“Shy” Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought they’d have an easy job—set up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as “Charybdis.” There are just two problems: the colony belongs to the Iranian state, so diplomacy is strained at best, and the complex is located above a series of hidden

Titan Books

The Swimmers Summary: A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the Marian Womack hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of Pub Date: 2/23/21 The Golden Key. $15.95 USD 352 pages

After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young

DAW

Sword of Fire Summary: Now in paperback, this first novel of an epic Katharine Kerr fantasy trilogy reintroduces readers to the beloved and Pub Date: 2/23/21 bestselling world of Deverry, blending magic, politics, $7.99 USD and adventure in an unforgettable setting. 400 pages The bards are the people’s voice—and their sword.

All over the kingdom of Deverry, the common people are demanding reform of the corrupt law courts. In Aberwyn, the situation catches fire when Gwerbret Ladoic, second in authority only to the High King, allows a bard to starve to death rather than hear their grievances.

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ACE

Ace

The Girl and the Stars Summary: Now in mass market, the first book in a Mark Lawrence stunning new epic fantasy series following a young Pub Date: 2/23/21 outcast who must fight with everything she has to $7.99 USD survive, set in the same world as Red Sister. 416 pages In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’s people call it the Pit of the Missing, and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would.

To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the

DAW

Calculated Risks Summary: The tenth book in the fast-paced InCryptid Seanan McGuire urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price Pub Date: 2/23/21 family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the $7.99 USD world of magical creatures living in secret among 448 pages humans.

Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn’t get worse, she’s had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much

Oni Press

One Soul: Tenth Anniversary Edition Summary: Oni Press is proud to present the Tenth Ray Fawkes Anniversary Edition of Ray Fawkes' critically acclaimed and Pub Date: 2/23/21 deeply moving graphic novel. $24.99 USD 176 pages One Soul details the lives of eighteen individuals throughout history whose lives unfold simultaneously. Comprised entirely of double-page spreads split into eighteen panels with each panel featuring one character's life, cartoonist Ray Fawkes uses an experimental narrative structure to artfully craft eighteen linear stories into one non-linear masterpiece.

Nominated for the 2012 Eisner Award in the "Graphic Album: New" category, One Soul is a powerful and

Titan Books

Wolves Summary: A chilling literary dystopia for those who Simon Ings love Iain Banks and JG Ballard Pub Date: 2/23/21 $8.99 USD Conrad is desperate for an escape after a devastating 400 pages accident changes his way of life. When his childhood friend, Michel, invites him to come and see the boat that he and his partner are refurbishing, Conrad sees his chance to leave it all behind. But rekindling their friendship unearths old fears and dangerous secrets, and Conrad is soon desperate to flee again.

Through it all, Conrad becomes ever more entrenched in Augmented Reality - living in worlds dreamt up by other

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BAEN

Baen

Ship of Destiny Summary: SURROUNDED BY DEATH, THE SECRET OF Frank Chadwick IMMORTALITY IS WITHIN REACH Pub Date: 2/23/21 $8.99 USD When a mysterious alien probe materializes from Jump 656 pages Space and remotely reprograms USS Cam Ranh Bay’s star drive, naval reserve officer Sam Bitka and his crew begin an involuntary voyage that takes them three thousand light years out of known space and into the heart of an ancient, unknown civilization.

Now Sam and his crew must elude capture, find some means of reprogramming their own star drive, and then return with the news of a powerful new civilization bent on

Baen

The Eleventh Gate Summary: A NOVEL OF SPACE ADVENTURE FROM Nancy Kress MULTIPLE NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD-WINNING Pub Date: 2/23/21 AUTHOR NANCY KRESS $8.99 USD 480 pages SEEK BEYOND THE ELEVENTH GATE

No one wants the city-states of the Eight Worlds to repeat the Terran Collapse by going to war. But when war accidentally breaks out, everyone seeks ways to exploit it for gain. The Landry and Peregoy ruling dynasties see opportunities to grab territory, increase profits, and settle old scores. The downtrodden underclasses use war to fuel rebellion. And suddenly ambitious heirs across the Eight

Baen

Forced Perspectives Summary: EGYPTIAN DEATH MAGIC IN A HAUNTED Tim Powers LOS ANGELES Pub Date: 2/23/21 $8.99 USD Fugitive federal agents Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine, 544 pages both sensitive to the ghosts that haunt the modern Los Angeles highways, byways, and secret nooks and crannies, are plunged into the supernatural secrets of the vast city and its history—from the fallout of Satanic indie movies of the Sixties, to the unquiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to a haunted sunken city off the coast of San Pedro seeking to rise again.

They may be old hands at dealing with the spirit world, but

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: 2/23/21 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.

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FANTAGRAPHICS

Fantagraphics

Crashpad Summary: In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Gary Panter Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in Pub Date: 2/23/21 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of $39.99 USD psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. 80 pages Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a riff on underground comics creators such as Zap's R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Robert Williams, and other icons of that era. An art object itself, it will be reproduced as both a deluxe, oversized hardcover reproducing Panter's pages at full size on heavy art paper, as full-color facsimiles of the originals. In addition, Crashpad will be printed as an old-fashioned and stapled black-and-white (with color covers) underground comic book, on newsprint, approximately 6" x 9", inserted

Fantagraphics

Hypnotwist / Scarlet By Starlight Summary: In the Eisner Award-winning wordless comic Gilbert Hernandez (silent movie?) "Hypnotwist," Hernandez's B-movie star Fritz Pub Date: 2/23/21 plays a character who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, $24.99 USD until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings 96 pages become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate: "Killer" cameos! Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material. "Scarlet by Starlight" is a B movie that's Star Trek meets Heart of Darkness. "Scientists," or colonizers, are doing research, surrounded by "primitive" fauna they affectionately nickname or treat like pests. Fritz plays Scarlet, a peaceful, catlike humanoid with a mate and children. When she becomes infatuated

Fantagraphics

NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump Summary: Greta is a handful. She rips the heads off her Cathy Malkasian dolls, lashes out at the other kids at her school, and tries Pub Date: 2/23/21 her weary parents’ patience. But with the help of a dapper $16.99 USD tortoise named NoBody, Greta softens her grumpy ways. 120 pages Having learned her lesson, Greta must now team up with her new friend Gabby and their shelled companion to solve a strange mystery: Why have the kindhearted denizens of Friendlytown suddenly become so mean? And what can they do to make Friendlytown friendly again? In NoBody Loves You, Greta Grump Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Cathy Malkasian conjures a fully-realized fantasy world cast with an array of colorful characters including tech whiz cats, ornery gopher librarians, and gangs of squirrels in matching

BOOM! Studios

Forever Home Summary: Willow’s nomadic childhood takes a surprising Jenna Ayoub turn as her military parents bring her to the historic Pub Date: 2/23/21 Hadleigh House, where her chances of finding her $12.99 USD permanent home aren’t looking good when she meets some 176 pages unexpected occupants—GHOSTS!

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE (A HAUNTED) HOME.

Willow has never had a place she can call home. With two parents in the military and a nomadic childhood, finding a place to make her own has become a total pipe dream. And when the family arrives at their latest stop—the historic Hadleigh House—Willow encounters something that doesn’t

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SMALL BEER PRESS

Small Beer Press

Never Have I Ever : Stories Summary: “Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping Isabel Yap the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban legends and Pub Date: 2/23/21 immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection $17.00 USD jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, “A 248 pages Spell for Foolish Hearts” to the terrifying tension of the urban legend “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.”

Tor Books

Otaku Summary: Ditchtown. Chris Kluwe Pub Date: 2/23/21 A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old $18.99 USD Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping 352 pages ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents.

Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits.

Within Infinite Game, a virtual world requiring physical

Orbit

Out Past the Stars Summary: K. B. Wagers Gunrunner empress Hail Bristol must navigate alien Pub Date: 2/23/21 politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies $16.99 USD war, in the explosive finale to the Farian War space 400 pages opera trilogy.

When Hail finally confronts the Farian gods, she makes a stunning discovery. There are no gods—only the Hiervet, an alien race with devastating powers who once spread war throughout the galaxy long before humanity’s ancestors crawled out of the sludge of Earth’s oceans.

But this knowledge carries with it dire news: the Hiervet

Tordotcom

Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters Summary: One woman will travel to the stars and beyond Aimee Ogden to save her beloved in this lyrical space opera that Pub Date: 2/23/21 reimagines The Little Mermaid. $13.99 USD 112 pages Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan are dying of a virulent plague, and Atuale’s sole hope for finding a cure is to travel off-planet. The one person she can turn to for help is the black-market mercenary known as the World Witch—and Atuale’s former

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GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING

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: 2/23/21 extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation $16.99 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

Del Rey

Shadow Fall (Star Wars) : An Alphabet Summary: The daredevil Republic pilots of Alphabet Squadron Novel return in this exciting new entry in the Star Wars: Alexander Freed Alphabet Squadron trilogy. Pub Date: 2/23/21 $9.99 USD After their narrow victory over Shadow Wing, Alphabet 528 pages Squadron is on the attack, hunting their adversaries within the Imperial Remnant. Shadow Wing is desperate for direction and leadership—and they find both in the iron will of Major Keize, their former commander and Yrica Quell’s one-time mentor. As battle lines blur, Alphabet Squadron finds itself not only fighting their resurgent foes, but their leader’s own deadly shadow.

Papercutz

Asterix Omnibus #4 : Collects Asterix the Summary: In “Asterix the Legionary,” one of the three Legionary, Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield, classic Asterix graphic novels collected here, Asterix and and Asterix and the Olympic Games Obelix do as the Romans do and join the Roman Legion in René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo hopes to get closer to Obelix’s big crush in the process. Pub Date: 4/6/21 Instead, the troops are sent far from Gaul to North Africa. $22.99 USD Then, in “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield” with the village 152 pages chief away, Caesar and his men come to play—and get their hands on a priceless Gaul shield! Asterix must foil their search and protect his village. Then Asterix heads to Greece to participate in the Olympic games. But how do the Gauls register themselves? As Romans? And is their powerful potion an ancient form of performance enhancers? It’s an international bout for the ages and just when you think you

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