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FICTION
APR 2013
Highlights
FANTASY
9780007481347 THE SEA SISTERS(Soft Cover) LUCY CLARKE HARPER UK S$18.50 GF
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9780062131812 THE NEW RULES FOR BLONDES (Soft Cover) SELENA COPPOCK HARPER US S$23.00 GF
9780007464166 THE CAMPBELL ROAD GIRLS(Soft Cover) KAY BRELLEND HARPER UK S$16.50 GF
Writer, comedienne, and full-time
Blonde, Selena Coppock offers up
adventures, misadventures, and
golden-hued nuggets of wisdom in a laugh-out-loud anthem for those of us
who really do have more fun. . . .
The modern blonde is savvy, wise, confident, capable, and not afraid to
laugh at herself when the occasion
calls for it. She knows who she is and
is prepared to subvert all stereotypes
(although she's not above wielding her golden tresses to her advantage),
and knows how to be both classy and
a little brassy.
Gritty and gripping saga set on one of
London’s most notorious streets, from
the author of The Street and Coronation Day.
She’s a good girl – in a bad world…
Lucy Keiver has come back from
service in the country to London’s notorious Campbell Road. She’s there
to care for her mum, the forthright and
feisty Matilda, recovering after a
savage attack almost left her for dead.
9781439197639 CITY OF THE DEAD (Soft Cover) DANIEL BLAKE SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF
When Henry Lyte brings his young
bride Frances home to his Somerset
estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of
fruit trees and flower beds, with a
knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a
scholar, and his life’s work is his
‘herbal’ – a book of plants and their medicinal properties, intended for
those who cannot afford physicians’
expensive cures.
New Orleans homicide detective
Selma Fawcett doesn’t hide her
dislike of the FBI intruding on her turf . . . or her distrust of anyone not born
in the Big Easy. But a second similar
murder forces them to work together .
. . or fail. Their suspects range from
unscrupulous politicians in high places to a ruthless woman who
claims to be the reincarnation of the
long-dead voodooienne Marie
Laveau. Both Selma and Franco are
the outsiders now, journeying into the dangerous heart of darkness, a
poisonous miasma of secrecy and
corruption.
Two sisters, one life-changing
journey…
There are some currents in the
relationship between sisters that run
so dark and so deep, it’s better for
the people swimming on the surface
never to know what’s beneath . . .
Katie’s carefully structured world is
shattered by the news that her
headstrong younger sister, Mia, has
been found dead in Bali – and the police claim it was suicide.
9780007313334 THE KNOT (Soft Cover) JANE BORODALE HARPER UK S$21.00 GF
9781848271180 HEADSTONE (Soft Cover) KEN BRUEN TRANSWORLD S$19.00 GF
Some people help the less
fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has
many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but
nothing before has ever truly
terrified him until a group called
Headstone rears its ugly head. An
elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs
boy is brutally attacked. A series of
seemingly random, insane, violent
events even has the Guards
shaken. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the
dead…
9781451688993 DEADLY STING (Soft Cover) JENNIFER ESTEP SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 FAN
Against her better judgment, Gin is
coerced into attending a high society
gala with the rest of Ashland's elite
underworld. On display: the priceless art collection of her deceased
nemesis, Mab Monroe, and an
excess of crime boss swagger. While
not comfortable in her fancy attire, Gin gets vastly more interested in the
evening’s events when a group of
thieves bursts in and tries to seize the
valuable, dangerous gems. Facing a
Die Hard-esque scenario in which she must free hostage partygoers
while herself trapped in the museum,
things get a little bit messy when the
bloodshed begins. Let's just say that
Gin should have chosen the red gown…
9780007500208 THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER (Soft Cover) MEGAN SHEPHERD HARPER UK S$18.50 FAN
A dark, breathless, beautifully-
written gothic thriller of murder,
madness and a mysterious island…
London, 1894. Juliet Moreau has
built a life for herself—working as a
maid, attending church on
Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her
life. After all, no one ever proved
the rumours about her father’s
gruesome experiments. But when
she learns her father is alive and continuing his work on a remote
tropical island, she is determined to
find out if the accusations were
true.
GENERAL FICTION
GENERAL FICTION
9780552161954 LIFETIME (Soft Cover) LIZA MARKLUND TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF
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9780345806697 LORE (MOVIE TIE-IN) (Soft Cover) RACHEL SEIFFERT RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF
9780552162401 THE BLEEDING LAND (Soft Cover) GILES KRISTIAN TRANSWORLD S$17.00 GF
Now a Major Motion Picture: in
"Lore," Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II
on ordinary Germans--both survivors
of the war and the generations that
succeeded them. It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of
Germany. A teenage German girl
named Lore has been left to fend for
herself. Her parents have been
arrested by the Allies, and she has four younger siblings to care for.
Together, they set off on a harrowing
journey to find their grandmother.
England 1642: a nation divided.
England is at war with itself. King
Charles and Parliament each gather
soldiers to their banners. Across the
land men prepare to fight for their religious and political ideals. Civil war
has begun. A family ripped asunder.
The Rivers are landed gentry, and
tradition dictates that their allegiance is
to the King. Sir Francis' loyalty to the crown and his desire to protect his
family will test them all. As the men
march to war, so the women are left to
defend their home against a ruthless
enemy.
9780062076106 TWICE TEMPTED (Soft Cover) JEANIENE FROST HARPER US S$16.00 GF
"Evokes the master of Barcelona-set
narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon".
("Independent"). When the death of a young witness in a case of human
trafficking and voodoo provokes the
normally calm Inspector Salgado to
beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he
is sent to investigate a teenager's fall
to his death in one of Barcelona's
uptown areas. As Salgado begins to
uncover the inconvenient truths behind the city's most powerful
families, two seemingly unsolvable
cases are set to implode under the
hot Barcelona sun.
Dating the Prince of Darkness has its
challenges . . .
Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure
what the future holds. If that weren't
enough, her lover Vlad has been
acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman
who refuses to accept the cold
shoulder treatment forever—
especially from the darkly handsome
vampire who still won't admit that he loves her . . .
The most famous police officer in Sweden, David Lindholm, is found
murdered in his bed. His four-year-old
son has vanished without a trace. His
wife, Julia, is suspected of killing both
of them, and is in clear need of psychiatric help. No one believes her
when she says she is innocent. No one
except for news reporter Annika
Bengtzon. Her personal life in turmoil,
she turns all her energies to her work, investigating the life of the murdered
man. She soon discovers faults in
David's apparently flawless personality.
9780552778268 THE SUMMER OF DEAD TOYS(Soft Cover) ANTONIO HILL TRANSWORLD S$19.00 GF
9781451629309 ICE FIRE (Soft Cover) DAVID LYONS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF
Cajun-born Jock Boucher has overcome
modest beginnings to assume the
prestigious position of U.S. District Judge
for the Eastern District of Louisiana. One of his first cases on the bench involves a
scientist who has been hiding in mortal
fear for more than twenty years. The
fugitive claims that another judge
accepted bribes and helped a relentless global energy company steal his
intellectual property: a way to recover
energy from below the deep sea bed that
could end America’s dependence on
foreign oil.
9780007310326 HERETIC (Soft Cover) BERNARD CORNWELL HARPER UK S$18.50 GF
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to
the number one bestseller
Vagabond, this is the thirdinstalment in Bernard Cornwell's
Grail Quest series.
In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is
suspended by a truce.
But for Thomas of Hookton, the
hero of Harlequin and Vagabond,
there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred
of Christendom's relics, and is sent
to his ancestral homeland,
Gascony, to engineer a
confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille.
9780007491261 THE ACCURSED KINGS (1): THE IRON KING (Soft Cover) MAURICE DRUON HARPER UK S$18.50 GF
“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be
accursed to the thirteenth
generation!”
The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as
cold and silent, as handsome and
unblinking as a statue. He governs
his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons
are weak and their wives adulterous;
while his red-blooded daughter
Isabella is unhappily married to an
English king who prefers the company of men.
GENERAL FICTION
9781451684322 RELENTLESS (Soft Cover) CHERRY ADAIR SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
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9780062019264 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (Soft Cover) VICTORIA ALEXANDER HARPER US S$16.00 ROM
9781451679236 THE TITANIC SECRET (Soft Cover) JACK STEEL SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF
When con artist and actress OpheliaKendrake and her sister visit the town
of Dead End, she is mistaken for the
Countess of Bridgewater, and sees
an opportunity to fleece the
community. But she’s stopped in her tracks when she meets Tyler, Dead
End’s handsome mayor.
Tyler’s ambition is to buy a ranch and
find a wife, until he spies Ophelia. As
he becomes acquainted with the charming actress he falls in love—but
there’s the question of trust.
A covert operation with catastrophic
consequences collides with fate in this
inventive novel of conspiracy, subterfuge,
and murder unfurling against a factual, tragic, and heart-stopping moment in
history.April 1912: Shortly after midnight
in Berlin, mere yards from the British
Embassy, an English spy is shot after a
clandestine meeting with a German government official. He utters three
cryptic words, then dies. It's an ambush
as calculated and cold-blooded as the
scheme it helps set in motion.
9780062248138 THE TIDES OF MEMORIES (Soft Cover) SIDNEY SHELDON HARPER US S$27.00 GF
An urban fairy tale from the
acclaimed author of 99 Reasons
Why.
Urban magic, a sacred pagan pool, a
dysfunctional bullied boy, a beautiful
water nymph, sexual awakening and
a very dark secret are just some of the ingredients of this adult fairy tale
in which Arthur Braxton finds a
mystical world below a derelict
swimming baths.
An addictive, edge-of-your-seat
thriller filled with the hallmark
elements that made New York
Times bestselling author Sidney
Sheldon—"the master of the story-
telling game" (People)—an
international legend: shocking
twists, money, power, and betrayal involving an influential family and
the beautiful and formidable woman
at its center whose dark secrets
can destroy them all.
The find of the century will be lost unless Isis McGee and Connor Thorne
unravel the truth behind an ancient
Egyptian secret. Isis McGee believes
her father, once a world-renowned archeologist, when he claims to have
found the Egyptian tomb that’s been his
life’s work. However, between August
McGee’s crumbled reputation and
painful descent into Alzheimer’s, Isis needs help re-finding the tomb before
the valley where it’s located is flooded
for a much-needed dam.
9780007479092 THE DROWNING OF ARTHUR BRAXTON (Soft Cover) CAROLINE SMAILES HARPER UK S$18.50 GF
9780857500939 THE LAST CAESAR(Soft Cover) HENRY VENMORE-ROWLAND TRANSWORLD S$17.00 GF
AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no
son and no heir. Suddenly there's the
very real possibility that Rome might become a republic once more. But the
ambitions of a few are about to bring
corruption, chaos and untold bloodshed
to the many. Among them is a hero of
the campaign against Boudicca, Aulus Caecina Severus. Caught up in a
conspiracy to overthrow Caesar's
dynasty, he commits treason, raises a
rebellion, faces torture and intrigue - all
supposedly for the good of Rome.
9781847562715 LEFTOVERS (Soft Cover) STELLA NEWMAN HARPER UK S$16.50 GF
A novel about friendship, hope and the
power of pasta.
Susie Rosen’s life is a mess. According
to her best friend Rebecca, she needs
to get over her ex, Jake. Move forward, start online dating – or at least stop
being rude to every guy who tries to
chat her up.
According to a magazine, she’s a ‘Leftover’ – a post Bridget-Jones 30
something who has neither her dream
job, nor a family of her own. She
doesn’t even own 6 matching dinner
plates.
9780007512096 TOUCH (Soft Cover) MARK SENNEN HARPER UK S$16.50 GF
Harry likes pretty things. He likes to
look at them. Sometimes that isn't
enough. He wants to get closer.
Naughty Harry.
DI Savage and her team in Plymouth
are struggling with their investigation
into a string of horrific attacks on
young women. The victims are being drugged, abducted, assaulted and
then abandoned with only a dull
memory of what has happened. But
when the mutilated body of one of
these women is found on a beach, the case becomes a chilling murder
inquiry. Stopping at just one victim
will never be enough … not for this
killer.
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ROMANCE
9780007482160 DRACULA UNBOUND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF
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9780007482184 FRAKENSTEIN UNBOUND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF
9781476709246 FAR HARBOR (Soft Cover) JOaNN ROSS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
When Joe Bodenland is suddenly
transported back in time to the year
1816, his first reaction is of eager curiosity rather than distress. Certainly
the Switzerland in which he finds
himself, with its charming country inns,
breathtaking landscapes and gentle,
unmechanised pace of life, is infinitely preferable to the America of 2020
where the games of politicians threaten
total annihilation. But after meeting the
brooding young Victor Frankenstein,
Joe realises that this world is more complex than the one he left behind.
After her seemingly idyllic marriage
turns out to be a pretty illusion, Savannah Townsend returns to her
hometown of Coldwater Cove,
Washington. Determined to live life on
her own terms, she takes on the task of
restoring the local Far Harbor lighthouse and making it the cozy inn
she had always dreamed of. But she
hasn’t anticipated opposition from the
lighthouse’s owner, her grandmother’s
disturbing memory losses, or the problems of an emotionally wounded
teenage girl.
9780446540100 BY STARLIGHT (Soft Cover) DOROTHY GARLOCK HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM
Ivak Sigurdsson is dead . . . well, sort
of. Guilty of the sin of lust, he's been
given an unusual penance: spend eternity as a Viking vampire angel, or
vangel, fighting Lucipires, Satan's
vampire demons on earth. Now
sequestered in Angola Prison as a
"spiritual advisor," Ivak is finding all these centuries of celibacy
depressing, to say the least. But then,
along comes southern belle Gabrielle
Sonnier. Is she a reward for his good
deeds, or a temptation sent to rattle his lustsome brain?
Colton, Montana, 1931. Struggling
through the Great Depression,
Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save
her family's mercantile store.
Keeping her dangerous new
business partner at arm's length is
no easy task, but her bravery faces its biggest test when Jack Rucker
unexpectedly comes home. He left
town seven years ago, breaking his
promise-and her heart-when he
didn't return so they could get married and start a family. Now
Jack is willing to do anything to
earn her forgiveness . . . anything
except
When Bram Stoker was writing his
famous novel, Dracula, at the end of
the 19th century he received a visitor named Joe Bodenland. While the real
Count Dracula came from the distant
past, Joe arrived from Stoker’s future
– on a desperate mission to save
humanity from the undead.
9780062064639 KISS OF TEMPTATION (Soft Cover) SANDRA HILL HARPER US S$13.00 ROM
9780007478903 THE ZODIAC PLANET GALAXY:A STORY COLLECTION (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF
Finally, all the Zodiac Planets stories
and novellas in one volume.
A collection all the short stories and
novellas that make up the Zodiac
Planets series. Spanning over 40
years these include The Supertoys
Trilogy, the first of which was filmed by Steven Spielberg as the movie A.I.
Also features a brand new novella,
Mission to the Planets of the Zodiac
which has never been seen befor
9780061905889 STOLEN CHARMS (Soft Cover) ADELE ASHWORTH HARPER US S$16.00 ROM
Bored with stuffy balls and
pompous suitors, Miss Natalie
Haislett longs for romance and adventure—and dreams
of wedding England's most
notorious thief, the Black
Knight. To this end, she
approaches the renowned rakehell Jonathan Drake,
reputed to be a friend of
Natalie's would-be lover, and
begs him for an introduction .
. . unaware that the outlaw she so desires is as close to
her as a kiss.
9781451655926 REBEL (Soft Cover) KRISTINA DOUGLAS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM
A rebel angel who lives outside the
world of the Fallen, Cain makes his
own rules. Now he’s returned to make trouble, and he sets his sights
on the unreliably psychic Martha. She
has no interest in getting romantically
involved with Cain, especially when
she can tell he has ulterior motives. But when a mysterious figure tries to
kill Martha, she and Cain must work
together to uncover the villain. The
heat between Martha and Cain grows
undeniable, even as chaos and disaster threaten the very existence
of the Fallen.
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9780785160496 MVL: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOLUME 10: LONG WAY DOWN (Soft Cover) MATT FRACTION MARVEL S$25.00 GRPHe quit being sober. He quit being an
Avenger. Will he really quit being Iron
Man? Tony Stark's life is spiraling out
of control - or so it seems. As his deadly chess match against the
Mandarin reaches its fateful crescendo,
will Tony's inscrutable strategy result in
a hard-fought victory or utter defeat? And if Iron Man is truly no more, what
of Pepper, Rhodey and the Stark
Resilient team? With revamped rogues
from Iron Man's past on the loose - and
the murderous Spymaster finally making his move - all their lives are at
stake, and one will be a horrible
casualty in Stark's war against Hammer
Industries.
9780785160762 MVL: CAPTAIN AMERICA BY ED BRUBAKER - VOL 3 (Soft Cover) MARK ED BRUBAKER MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
It's the beginning of a new era for
Iron Man! Renowned scribe Warren
Ellis joins forces with acclaimed illustrator Adi Granov to redefine the
armored Avenger's world for the 21st
century - a landscape of terrifying
new technologies that threaten to
overwhelm a fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and
what does its emergence portend for
the world?
A new Scourge on the hunt! They
entered the Witness Protection
Program in the hopes of leading new lives. Now, their pasts are
catching up with them. As the
body count rises, Captain
America must contend with a vicious new killer wearing the
demonic visage of his old enemy.
For Cap, the only thing tougher
than taking down the new
Scourge will be learning his identity! Plus: a classic Cap tale
featuring the villainy of the Power
Broker!
9780785183785 MVL: IRON MAN: EXTREMIS (Soft Cover) WARREN ELLIS MARVEL S$22.00 GRP
9780785149347 MVL: DARK TOWER:THE GUNSLINGER:THE BATTLE OF TULL (Soft Cover) ROBIN FURTH MARVEL S$30.00 GRPIn a saloon in the town of Tull, the last
gunslinger is approached by a bizarre
figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What's worse, it
is delivered by a dead man named Nort
whose corpse was animated to serve
this very purpose. And that's only the
beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep
within Mid-World as Roland Deschain
continues his quest for the Man in
Black that has become his obsession.
9780007482191 MOREAU'S OTHER ISLAND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF
He stands very tall, long
prosthetic limbs glistening in the
harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip
clasped in artificial hands. Man-
beasts cower on the sand as he
brandishes his gun in the air.
He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the
fabulous, grotesque island, where
humans are as brutes and brutes
as humans, where the future of the entire human race is being
reprogrammed. The place of
untold horrors. The place of the
New Man.
9780785164678 MVL: WOLVERINE: COVENANT (Soft Cover) CULLEN BUNN MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
Martial arts, super science, and
sorcery! How is Wolverine connected to
the secret society known as the Covenant? As Wolverine battles the
Murderous Lion in a no-holds barred
Kung-Fu throwdown, Melita uncovers
the Covenant's secrets. Who is the Dreaming Maiden - and why does the
mysterious Covenant want her dead?
Wolverine teams with monster-hunter
Elsa Bloodstone, and discovers the
Floating Castle...but with the Covenant hot on their trail, can Wolverine keep
the Deaming Maiden alive? Meanwhile,
Melita makes a discovery that will
change Wolverine - and her - forever!
9780785164616 MVL:X-MEN BY BRIAN WOOD VOL 2:RECKLESS ABANDONMENT (Soft Cover) BRIAN WOOD MARVEL S$30.00 GRP
Brian Wood's X-Men saga continues!
When Storm's field agents are
kidnapped and a weapon of the X-Men's making goes missing, the X-Men
must make a choice...the destruction of
a life, or the survival of a weapon.
Then, Storm's leadership is called into question in the aftermath of the "Mutant
Scare." Will there be a new team
member? And what side are they really
on? The Storm-Cyclops divide widens
as the team starts to unravel, and Colossus has his own agenda. Will he
leave the team to pursue it? Plus:
Domino has always been lucky...or
maybe the people around her are just
unlucky. It's Domino vs. the X-Men!
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An original novel set in the universe
of Star Trek: The Original Series!
Kirk, Spock, and Sulu must protect the
remote Federation colony of Ephrata
from the dreaded Coven—beings from
another galaxy who are seeking starships much like the Enterprise to
spread from world to world, opening
gateways between dimensions to
eventually conquer the entire
Federation.
9781476702834 STAR TREK: THE WEIGHT OF WORLDS (Soft Cover) GREG COXSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$16.00 SF
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