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FICTION

JUL 2013

Highlights

CLASSIC

9780307946706 THE INVESTIGATION (Soft Cover) PHILIPPE CLAUDEL RANDOM HOUSE S$27.00 GF

FICTION TITLESJul 2013

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9780316126625 THE DEMANDS (Soft Cover) MARK BILLINGHAM HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$23.00 GF

The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

9780345533630 HUNTED: IRON DRUID CHRONICLES BK #6 (Soft Cover) KEVIN HEARNE RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 FAN

Justice is blind. Justine isn’t. Book

two in the Saturn's Daughter series, in which Tina Clancy is

gifted with the power to dispense

justice...for good or evil.

Tina Clancy is adapting to her new life as one of Saturn’s Daughters while living in the toxic part of Baltimore known as The Zone, and occasionally acting as a champion of the downtrodden, the weird, the innocent...and the sometimes not-so-innocent.

For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he’s being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt—Artemis and Diana—for messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, Granuaile, and his wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha DéDanann. His usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so instead of playing hide-and-seek, the game plan is . . . run like hell.

The Investigator, a humble and ordinary man, has been ordered to conduct an Investigation into a series of suicides that have taken place at the Enterprise—a huge, sprawling complex in an unnamed Town. But the Investigator’s train is delayed. When he finally arrives, no one is there to meet him at the station. When he reaches the Enterprise, he is denied entrance. The harder the Investigator tries to fulfill his task, the more senseless obstacles he encounters: regulations hamstring him, street layouts befuddle him, and—perhaps most unnervingly—he senses someone watching and recording his every movement.

9781451656374 DAMN HIM TO HELL (Soft Cover) JAMIE QUIAD SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 FAN

9780758214027 TUSCAN HOLIDAY (Soft Cover) HOLLY CHAMBERLIN KENSINGTON S$16.00 GF

Bestselling author Chamberlin sweeps readers away to beautiful Tuscany in this smart and tender novel about a mother and daughter whose Italian vacation changes them both forever.

9780345805737 SHOW BOAT (Soft Cover) EDNA FERBER RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 CLS

Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is once again available in hardcover as a facsimile of the first edition. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap’n Andy, his shrewd wife Parthy, and their beautiful daughter Magnolia her remarkable daughter Kim was made famous on Broadway in 1927, when the legendary Jerome S. Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on the musical.

9781420124033 FORSAKEN BY THE OTHERS (Soft Cover) JESS HAINES KENSINGTON S$16.00 FAN

Have a one night stand with a vampire, and you can end up paying for it for eternity. P.I. Shiarra Waynest, an expert on the Others, knows that better than most. Yet here she is, waking up beside charismatic vamp Alec Royce with an aching head...and neck. Luckily, Shia has the perfect excuse for getting out of town - namely, a couple of irate East Coast werewolf packs who'd like to turn her into a chew toy. On Royce's suggestion, Shiatemporarily relocates to Los Angeles. But something is rotten-literally-in the state of California, where local vampires are being attacked by zombies.

GENERAL FICTION

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9780552166812 PARTY GAMES (Soft Cover) JO CARNEGIE TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF

Although the countryside town ofBeeversham looks picture-perfect, nothing is quite as it seems. Behind closed doors, three women are struggling to lead the lives they want. Vanessa seems like she simply must have it all -she's beautiful, rich and married to gorgeous actor, Conrad. But beneath the glitz, she is asking herself whether this really is the life she wants to lead - when she has so much, why does she feel so empty? Meanwhile, Fleur is trying desperately to save the farm that her family have lived on for hundreds of years, when playboy Beau makes her an offer she can't refuse. And Catherine has given up the high-flying career she thought she always wanted, and is trying to build a wonderful new life in the country.

FANTASY

GENERAL FICTION

9780062225283 BLOOD AND ASHES (Soft Cover) MATT HILTON HARPER US S$17.00 GF



9780007492312 SACRIFICE (Soft Cover) PAUL FINCH HARPER UK S$16.00 GF

Innocent people are dying. Who will be next? Find out in the second Detective Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenbergfrom #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch.

A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims.

When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine’s Day – each with an arrow through the heart –something more sinister becomes clear. A ‘calendar killer’ is on the loose.

9780007528646 MIDDLESEX (Soft Cover) JEFFREY EUGENIDES HARPER UK S$20.00 GF

In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys – commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year.

As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death.

Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. The Virgin Suicides was adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola.

‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.’

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-AmericanStephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

How does one man stay alive with a dozen assassins targeting him? Ex-soldier Joe Hunter once employed his killer instincts for Don Griffiths. Together, they brought down extremist groups and domestic terrorists before they could implement their destructive plans against the country. It was a job that nearly cost Hunter his life—and his humanity. So he severed all ties with Griffiths. But when Griffiths' daughter is murdered and the rest of his family is targeted by supporters of CarswellHicks, an enemy from his past and long believed to be dead, Hunter knows he can't stand by and let innocent people get hurt.

9780007524303 THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Soft Cover) JEFFREY EUGENIDES HARPER UK S$20.00 GF

9781476737850 THE HUMANS: A NOVEL (Soft Cover) MATT HAIG SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$24.00 GF

When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and go back home, to the planet he comes from, and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.

9781476739205 MACRIEVE (Soft Cover) KRESLEY COLE SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$26.00 GF

A BEAST IN TORMENT

Uilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood.

A BEAUTY IN CHAINS

Seized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave.

A FULL MOON ON THE RISE

With enemies circling, MacRievespirits Chloe away to the isolated Highland keep of his youth.

9780007506095 INDISCRETION (Soft Cover) CHARLES DUBOW HARPER UK S$18.00 GF

The Great Gatsby meets The Secret History in this torrid novel of love, lust and deception. Harry and Madeleine Winslow are blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is an award-winning author on the cusp of greatness. Madeleine is a woman of sublime beauty and grace whose elemental goodness belies a privileged upbringing. Bonded by deep devotion, their marriage is both envied and admired by friends who spend summers at their East Hampton idyll. When a holiday fling turns disastrously wrong, 26-year-old Claire falls into theWinslows' welcoming orbit.

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9780062026880 GODIVA (Soft Cover) NICOLE GALLAND HARPER US S$26.00 GF

Nicole Galland, author of The Fool’s

Tale, turns her clever pen toward re-imagining the famous legend of Lady Godiva in this expertly crafted historical novel set in Anglo-Saxon England.

A 12th-century noblewoman, Lady Godiva is infamous for riding naked through Coventry to relieve her people of her husband’s unfair and oppressive taxation. Leofric, Earl of Mercia, said he would ease the tax burden if she would ride through the streets, wearing only her glorious, long hair. In doing so she risked everything, including her home and well-being.

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GENERAL FICTION

9780307949769 ELSEWHERE (Soft Cover) RICHARD RUSSO RANDOM HOUSE S$24.00 GF



9780552778411 THE CHOCOLATE MONEY (Soft Cover) ASHLEY PRENTICE NORTON TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF

An innocent little girl. A phenomenal fortune. A mother like no other. Ten-year old Bettina and her mother, Babs, are heiresses to one of America's biggest fortunes. But Bettina's whole life is overshadowed by that of her beautiful, hedonistic mother, the glamorous but domineering Babs. At fifteen, Bettina escapes to New England and an exclusive, preppy boarding school calledCardiss, where she hopes she can finally start to figure out who she really is. But while she thinks that fitting in with the other students represents her best chance of surviving the cliques and politics of Cardiss, soon she's making choices that show that Babs' maternal shadow still looms long over her.

9780007349289 THE ARRIVALS (Soft Cover) MELISSA MARR HARPER UK S$26.00 GF

Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend - and fellow Sister - Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death. She desperately wants to get a confession out of Darlene -and to ensure the safety of Larry's daughter, Olivia.

The second adult novel from the internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr

Chloe knew she shouldn’t have gone into the bar last night. Now, in addition to a pounding headache and weak limbs, she’s got the guilt of five years sobriety down the drain.

When she wakes, she’s not in the world she knows. She’s in The Wasteland, a world populated by monsters and unfamiliar landscapes, in the company of people just like her, pulled to the Wasteland out of time and place, for reasons no one knows or understands.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother—and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Anyone familiar with Russo’s novels will recognize Gloversville—once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States. By the time Rick was born, ladies had stopped wearing gloves and Gloversville was on its way out. Jean Russo instilled in her son her dream of a better life elsewhere, a dream that prompted her to follow him across the country when he went to college.

9781420121483 GOTCHA! (Soft Cover) FERN MICHAELS KENSINGTON S$16.00 GF

9781451668650 RESURRECTION EXPRESS (Soft Cover) STEPHEN ROMANO SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF

But for the past two years, he’s been incarcerated in a maximum-security hellhole after a job gone bad, driven to near-madness by the revelation of his beloved wife’s murder. Now a powerful and mysterious visitor who calls herself a “concerned citizen”offers Elroy his freedom if he’ll do another job, and sweetens the deal with proof that his wife might still be alive. All Elroy has to do is hack into one of the most complicated and deadliest security grids in the world—clear and simple instructions for the best in the business. Or so he thinks.

9780552161350 AVENGER OF ROME (Soft Cover) DOUGLAS JACKSON TRANSWORLD S$18.00 GFEmperor Nero's grip on power is weakening. In every shadow he sees an enemy and like a cornered animal he lashes out at every perceived threat. His paranoia settles on the figure of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Rome's greatest General who leads the imperial legions in the East. So popular isCorbulo with his men that he effective presides over an Empire within an Empire. Is Corbulopreparing to march against Rome and take the purple?

9780786032877 BELOW (Soft Cover) RYAN LOCKWOOD KENSINGTON S$17.00 GF

In all his years as a professional diver, Will Sturman has never encountered a killing machine more ferocious than the great white shark or as deadly as the piranha. Now, off the coast of California, something is rising from the deep - and multiplying. Voracious, unstoppable, and migrating north, an ungodly life form trailed by a gruesome wake of corpses. With the help of the brilliant and beautiful oceanographer Valerie Martell, Will finds himself in a race against time to stop the slaughter-by a predator capable of devastating the world's oceans.

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9780786031580 UNSPEAKABLE (Soft Cover) KEVIN O'BRIEN KENSINGTON S$17.00 GF

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GENERAL FICTION

9781455599257 OWN THE WIND (Soft Cover) KRISTEN ASHLEY HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$13.00 ROM



9780307949295 THE NEWS FROM SPAIN (Soft Cover) JOAN WICKERSHAM RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF

The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own.

9780007213535 THE SCENT OF DEATH (Soft Cover) ANDREW TAYLOR HARPER UK S$18.00 GF

A terrifying novel about internet dating, secret desires and a chilling serial killer. From bestselling authors Mark Edwards and Louise Voss.He's posted on your wall.He's following you on Twitter.He knows where you are right now…When Amy receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried. Becky would never do such a thing on a whim.

‘Andrew Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular’ Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence.‘This is the story of a woman and a city. I saw the city first, shimmering from afar like the new Jerusalem in the setting sun. It was Sunday, 2nd August 1778.’

Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship . . . Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. She's beautiful, smart, and as his friend's daughter, untouchable.

9780007460748 FORWARD SLASH (Soft Cover) LOUISE VOSS HARPER UK S$16.00 GF

9780552160841 GOOD PEOPLE (Soft Cover) MARCUS SAKEY TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF

'What would you do if, like Tom and Anna Reed, you stumbled on $400,000 that seemed heaven sent? After reading Sakey's masterful third crime thriller, you'd probably leave it untouched. In increasing debt from failed attempts to produce a child, Tom and Anna can't resist taking the money they discover hidden in their deceased tenant's apartment. After the initial euphoria, the Reeds find themselves dealing with a deadly drug dealer who wants something they don't have, a vengeful robber looking for the money they do have and a suspicious cop who knows they're holding out on him.

9780345548207 UNSEEN (Soft Cover) KARIN SLAUGHTER RANDOM HOUSE S$31.00 GF

Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling novels are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil. Bill Black is a scary guy: a tall ex-con who rides to work on a Harley and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. In Macon, Georgia, Bill has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer and his cunning girlfriend. They think Bill might be a useful ally. They don’t know that Bill is actually a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent named Will Trent.

ROMANCE

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9781847563576 MIDSUMMER MAGIC (Soft Cover) JULIA WILLIAMS HARPER UK S$16.00 GF

Recently engaged Josie and Harry are visiting Josie′s parents in the country to make plans for the wedding, together with her best friend Diana, and his best friend, Ant. Unbeknownst to Josie and Harry, Ant and Diana have met previously and don′t get on. Sparks fly from the minute they meet, and one thing is certain, come the big day this is one Best Man who won′t be making eyes at the Chief Bridesmaid...

9781420129021 HOW TO BE A SCOTTISH MISTRESS (Soft Cover) ADRIENNE BASSO KENSINGTON S$16.00 ROM

When newly widowed Lady FionaLibourg flees to Scotland in need of protection, Lord Gavin McLendon is powerless to refuse the British beauty. Especially when she offers herself in exchange. Now the brooding Scottish warrior can think of nothing else but ravishing his delectable new mistress, even though he's duty bound to marry another...Fiona is shocked when Gavin accepts her scandalous offer-and fretful at the thought that he will discover how little she knows of seduction.

ROMANCE

9781455523399 THE DUTCHESS HUNT (Soft Cover) JENNIFER HAYMORE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM



9780758267658 AVENGING ANGEL (Soft Cover) CYNTHIA EDEN KENSINGTON S$23.00 ROM

Earthly DelightsWith a messed up family background and a tendency to grow claws and fangs, Tanner Chance isn't exactly the boy next door. But he's a decent cop, and he keeps himself on the side of the good guys. Convenient, because when he rescues a survivor of a horrific shifter attack he finds himself instantly smitten--with an honest-to-goodness angel, as innocent as she is irresistible.

9780758290113 SOUL STRIPPER (Soft Cover) KATANA COLLINS KENSINGTON S$23.00 ROM

•Coming out of seclusion after a series of rapes and murders threaten her fellow shapeshifters, Lily Cheval meets the son of a charismatic cult leader who, using magic to shift into wolf form, takes her to new heights of ecstasy that leaves her sated and feeling utterly alive. Original.

It's called Sin City for a reason. Nowhere else are the temptations so great, the sex so good, and the demons so bad . . . By day, Monica is a barista in a local café. It doesn't pay a lot but it puts her up close and personal with her sexy boss, Drew. Unfortunately that's as far as a succubus can go unless she wants to take his soul. Monica needs mind blowing sex to sustain her and she finds her victims every night at a local strip club where she's an exotic dancer. But when her powers begin to diminish and her fellow succubi start turning up dead, all bets are off.

THE DUKE'S DESIRE

Simon Hawkins, duke of Trent, is no stranger to scandal. Rumors and innuendo have darkened the House of Trent for decades, and it has fallen to Simon to restore his tattered family name. He lives by a strict code of honor, but when he is called home to investigate his mother's disappearance, the distinguished duke will tangle with temptation. For there waits the only woman he has ever loved-and the last woman he should desire . . .

9780758288189 DARK WOLF (Soft Cover) KATE DOUGLAS KENSINGTON S$25.00 ROM

9780758242280 HIS SLAVE (Soft Cover) VONNA HARPER KENSINGTON S$23.00 ROM

DUTYReporter Cheyenne Stenson’s latest assignment has her trembling with fear - and simmering with secret desire.DESIREFrom the moment Cheyenne finds herself bounds and throbbing in Mace’s arms, she yearns to yield to him in all ways.DESTINYThe game becomes all too real when Cheyenne’s employers become her captors.

9781455515769 CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE (Soft Cover) MOLLY CANNON HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROMEtta Green kissed Everson, Texas, goodbye years ago. A big city chef, she intends to return only long enough to settle her beloved grandmother's estate and then hightail it back to Chicago. But Grammy Hazel had other plans. In her will, she left Etta part-ownership of a B&B that's about to go bankrupt before it even opens. And what's worse--Etta's partner is Donny Joe Ledbetter, a handsome devil with some serious bad boy charm. Growing up, Donny Joe didn't give Etta a second glance. Now, she's got his whole attention.

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9780345532565 A WOMAN ENTANGLED (Soft Cover) CECILIA GRANT RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM

Kate Westbrook has dreams far bigger than romance. Love won’t get her into London’s most consequential parties, nor prevent her sisters from being snubbed and looked down upon—all because their besotted father unadvisedly married an actress. But a noble husband for Kate would deliver a future most suited to the granddaughter of an earl. Armed with ingenuity, breathtaking beauty, and the help of an idle aunt with connections, Kate is poised to make her dreams come true.

9781420111385 DARKNESS AVENGED (Soft Cover) ALEXANDRA IVY KENSINGTON S$16.00 ROMThe vampire Santiago and the sensual, raven-haired Nefri must frustratingly put their passions on hold as they try to stop Gaius from decimating the mortals--and their reward is the carnal pleasure of each other's company.

ROMANCE

9780062107534 A KISS OF BLOOD (Soft Cover) PAMELA PALMER HARPER US S$16.00 ROM



9780345543912 HUNTER: HIGHLAND GUARD NOVEL (Soft Cover) MONICA MCCARTY RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM

Prized for his unbeatable tracking skills, Ewen “Hunter” Lamont accepts a dangerous assignment: locate a missing undercover courier. But this is no ordinary target. Ewen has met his prey before as “Sister Genna,” a fiery, forbidden woman forever etched in his memory after one stolen, sinful kiss. Now that he knows her real identity, he’s more determined than ever to keep her safe. But without the protection of the veil between them, fighting the allure of the beautiful lass may be the toughest battle this extraordinary warrior has ever faced.

9780758280534 HONEY PIE (Soft Cover) DONNA KAUFFMAN KENSINGTON S$23.00 ROM

More than one beautiful woman's hopes have been dashed on the rocky shoals of Jonathan Redmond's heart. With his riveting good looks and Redmond wealth and power, the world is his oyster—until an ultimatum from his father and a chilling gypsy prophecy send him hurtling headlong toward a fate he'll do anything to avoid: matrimony.

Bestselling author Kauffman's fourth novel in her Cupcake Club series is a delicious mix of small-town life, hot romance, and tasty confections. Honey isn't sure how to put down roots when she has nowhere to plant them. But a sexy, softhearted mechanic is determined to help.

Only one woman can save vamp city . . . One of the few humans who managed to escape the deadly twilight world of Vamp City, Quinn Lennox vows never to return. But the vampires want her back, for only she has the power to renew the magic of their crumbling world and free the vampires trapped within.

9780062118073 IT HAPPENED ONE MIDNIGHT (Soft Cover) JULIE ANNE LONG HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

9780758289018 HE'S THE ONE (Soft Cover) LINDA LAEL MILLER; JILL SHALVIS KENSINGTON S$16.00 ROM

Batteries Not Required: The only boyfriend Gayle Hayes has is the battery-operated kind. But when she returns to her small Montana hometown, rodeo bad boy Tristan McCullough gives her a whole new lesson in power surge...Captivated: James Scott warned his investigator ex-wife Ella to be more careful. Now he finds the irate woman nearly naked and handcuffed to the towel rack in his Mexican vacation condo. He should release her. Then again...

9781451693461 WHAT THE DUKE DESIRES (Soft Cover) SABRINA JEFFERIES SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROMMaximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from investigator Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke’s brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan’s sister.

9781420131963 ONE WRONG MOVE (Soft Cover) SHANNON McKENNA KENSINGTON S$16.00 ROM

Alex Aaro just wants to keep his head down and earn a living. But now his crazy Aunt Tonya is dying. She's the sole family member he gives a damn about, enough to blow decades of hiding out from his Ukrainian mafia clan in order to say goodbye. Just as Alex lands in New York, his friend Bruno calls for a favour.

9781455520046 A HERO TO COME HOME TO (Soft Cover) MARILYN PAPPANO HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$13.00 ROM

Known for her intensely emotional stories, Marilyn Pappano is the USA Today bestselling author of nearly forty books with more than four million copies in print. She has made regular appearances on bestseller lists and has received recognition for her work in the form of numerous awards. Though her husband's Navy career took them across the United States, he and Ms. Pappano now live in Oklahoma high on a hill that overlooks her hometown. They have one son.

ROMANCE

9780062237224 ANYTHING BUT SWEET (Soft Cover) CANDIS TERRY HARPER US S$13.00 ROM



9780061963117 AN ENGLISH BRIDE IN SCOTLAND LYNSAY SANDS HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

She never expected to marry Annabel was about to take the veil to become a nun, when her mother suddenly arrived at the abbey to take her home . . . so that she can marry the Scottish laird who is betrothed to her runaway sister! She knows nothing about being a wife, nothing about how to run a household, and definitely nothing about the marriage bed.

9781451678680 SHIVER (Soft Cover) KAREN ROBARDS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love, but Tiffany Warren is marrying to end a feud. Honoring her mother’s wishes, Tiffany reluctantly travels west to meet her estranged father and his enemy’s eldest son, rancher Hunter Callahan. Once the Warrens and the Callahans are united by marriage, both clans will stop squabbling over a disputed strip of land.

Samantha Jones was just trying to get by. Left to make her own way on the mean streets of East St. Louis, the pretty twenty-three-year-old single mother supported herself and her son as best she could by repo-ingcars. When she hooked her tow truck up to the BMW she’d been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk—or to be catapulted into a terrifying fight to survive.

He's stubborn and thoroughly male . . . If Charlotte Brooks thinks she and her TV makeover show can turn Reno Wilder's hometown upside-down, he'll be happy to prove her wrong. The ex-Marine has seen too much turmoil and he likes Sweet, Texas, just the way it is. Traditional. Familiar. A little dull. Everything Charli isn't. But instead of backing off from his scowls like everyone else, Charlidigs in her skyscraper heels.

9781476739182 ONE HEART TO WIN (Soft Cover) JOHANNA LINDSEY SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$25.00 ROM

9781420126518 SEDUCING THE HIGHLANDER (Soft Cover) MICHELE SINCLAIR KENSINGTON S$16.00 ROM

In the 14th century Scottish Highlands, Craig McTiernay is willing to place duty before love--until he is enchanted by the last woman he expects.

9781451695915 CAGED WARRIOR (Soft Cover) LINDSEY PIPER SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

Ten years ago, Audrey MacLarenchose to marry her human lover, making her an exile from the Dragon Kings, an ancient race of demons once worshiped as earthly gods. Audrey and her husband managed to conceive, and their son is the first natural-born Dragon King in a generation—which makes him irresistible to the sadistic scientist whose mafia-funded technology allows demon procreation. In the year since her husband was murdered, Audrey and her little boy have endured hideous experiments.

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9780758291936 THE LADY'S TUTOR (Soft Cover) ROBIN SCHONE KENSINGTON S$25.00 ROM

Elizabeth Petre, a perfect Victorian lady, is trapped in a cold, loveless marriage, yet she is loyal to her marriage vows. Determined to seduce her indifferent husband, she enlists the help of Ramiel Devington, but soon the lessons in sensual delight become a temptation neither can resist.

9781476731001 HEART OF THE WEST (Soft Cover) PENELOPE WILLIAMSON SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

Clementine Kennicutt, a ladylike New Englander, aches to leave her home and her oppressive father. So when Gus McQueen, a cowboy with laughing eyes and big dreams, presses her to elope with him to his Montana ranch, she is ready. But nothing has prepared her for the harsh realities of frontier life, or for the unpredictable yearning of her heart—and least of all for the fact that almost from the first moment she sets eyes on Rafferty, Gus’s dashing, ne’er-do-well brother, she knows he’s the one she was destined to love.

9780785160809 MVL: AVX VS AVENGER VOL 4 (Soft Cover) BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS MARVEL S$30.00 GRP



9780345511423 STAR WARS: CRUCIBLE (Hard Cover) TROY DENNING RANDOM HOUSE S$40.00 SF

The possibilities are endless. (Just be careful what you wish for. . . .) 1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some say mad, others allege dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished.

When Han and Leia Solo arrive atLando Calrissian’s Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart a hostile takeover, their aim is just to even up the odds and lay down the law. Then monstrous aliens arrive with a message, and mere threats escalate into violent sabotage with mass fatalities. When the dust settles, what began as corporate warfare becomes a battle with much higher stakes—and far deadlier consequences.

AVX tie-in! When the cosmic Phoenix Force threatens the planet, it's up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes to stop it - but the X-Men have a different plan. The struggle between the two teams becomes a battle unlike any the Avengers have ever faced - and every Avenger will be challenged like never before.

9780062068682 THE LONG EARTH (Soft Cover) TERRY PRATCHETT HARPER US S$19.00 SF

9781401240363 DC: CAMELOT 3000 (Soft Cover) MIKE W. BARR RANDOM HOUSE S$30.00 GRP

In the year 3000, an armada of destructive aliens has unleashed an all-out assault on Earth and is poised to conquer the planet. But when a young boy stumbles upon the crypt of King Arthur, the legendary monarch and the Knights of the Round Table are magically reincarnated.

9781476706740 STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE: RISE OF THE FEDERATION: (Soft Cover) CHRISTOPHER BENNETT SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 SFA new nation has arisen from the ashes of the Romulan War: the United Federation of Planets, an unprecedented union of diverse species cooperating for the good of all. Admiral Jonathan Archer—the former captain of the Earth starship Enterprise, whose efforts made this union possible—envisions a vibrant Fed-eration promoting galactic peace and a multispecies Starfleet dedicated to exploring strange new worlds.

9780785165484 MVL: GAMBIT - VOLUME 2 (Soft Cover) JAMES ASMUS MARVEL S$24.00 GRP

The ragin' Cajun X-Man's solo adventures continue! Receiving a distress call from an imperiled ESU archaeology team, Gambit makes a detour on his way back to the Big Apple and heads to the Forever City! But how exactly will he outwit the hyper-evolved locals and snatch the students (and some loot) from their clutches?

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9780785165774 MVL: WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN BY JASON AARON - VOL 5 (Soft Cover) JASON AARON MARVEL S$27.00 GRP

The next era of the most talked-about new X-book starts here! One of the students is at death's door, and the faculty must try to keep them alive...and find who did it! Plus, it's fresh faces aplenty as a new student enrolls - and Storm joins the faculty! Then: Wolverine is a clown? Iceman is a fire swallower? Rachel Grey is a fortune teller?

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9780785160786 MVL: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL 4 (Soft Cover) ED BRUBAKER MARVEL S$30.00 GRP

Captain America faces his greatest challenge yet - from the American people! TV pundit Bill Braxton is calling for Cap's retirement, and the populace is taking his message to heart. Meanwhile, the mysterious, super-powered terrorists known as the Discordians are striking U.S. targets. Torn between discovering the truth and saving a citizenry calling for his head, Cap's spirit is tested to its limit! It's the end of an era as Ed Brubaker's powerful, years-long run reaches its stunning conclusion!

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9781401240936 DC: HELLBLAZER CURSE CONSTANTINES (Soft Cover) PETER MILLIGAN RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GRP



9781401240516 DC: SM PHANTOM ZONE (Soft Cover) STEVE GERBER RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRPExplores the history of Krypton and the origins of The Phantom Zone, Krypton's other-dimensional prison. This title comes from the mind of Steve Gerber, writer of DC's acclaimed series Hard Time and creator of Marvel's Howard the Duck.

9780785166634 MVL: FF - VOLUME 1 (FANTASTIC FAUX) (Soft Cover) MATT FRACTION MARVEL S$24.00 GRP

Tony Stark has always been obsessed with the future. Whether starting his first company, designing the Mark I Iron Man armor or launching Stark Resilient, his optimism has always been guided by the question, "What comes next?" Six months after quitting Resilient, he's found the answer. The sanctity of his mind violated by the Mandarin, he is a man beaten down to his knees, a prisoner within his own body, an indentured servant to an insane cause known only to his captor. For Tony Stark, this is the future - and there's no way out.

The Fantastic Four have formed a new team to guard the planet, and their wards in the Future Foundation, while they're on an interdimensional jouney: Scott Lang, the incredible shrinking Ant Man! Jen Walters, the original gamma-spawned She-Hulk! Medusa, queen of the Inhumans! And...Ms. Thing ! But how does the world respond when this new FF take to the streets and make their public debut?

John Constantine had no intention of tracking down his long-lost nephew, despite the promise John made to his dead mom. But mysterious circumstances and a series of murders send Constantine out to Ireland in search of his forgotten relative.

9780785165224 MVL: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOLUME - 11 (THE FUTURE) (Soft Cover) MATT FRACTION MARVEL S$30.00 GRP

9781401240240 DC: JL DARK VOL 02 BOOKS OF MAGIC (Soft Cover) JEFF LEMIRE RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GRPVampires across the world have gone berserk, attacking anything with a pulse. Fearing her apocalyptic vision of the future has come to pass, Madame Xanadu mobilizes the team to intervene. But everything the Justice League Dark members know about how to slay a vampire is useless, for the world has changed.

9781401237110 DC: BM DK VOL 01 KNIGHT TERRORS (Soft Cover) DAVID FINCH RANDOM HOUSE S$37.00 GRP

The Dark Knight continues his crusade as defender of Gotham City, taking on his greatest foes during a breakout atArkham Asylum. But when his enemies gain powers and abilities far beyond their normal capacities, the Caped Crusader's crusade may finally be at an end.

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9780785149361 MVL: DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER (Soft Cover) STEPHEN KING MARVEL S$30.00 GRPWhen last we saw the gunslinger Roland, he was following the Man in Black's path to find the Dark Tower and set Mid-World right. Along the trail, Roland came to Tull, a sleepy little town in the middle of the desert where the Man in Black's sinister power had taken hold. Barely escaping with his life and leaving a pile of bodies in his wake, Roland arrived at the Way Station, where he meets Jake Chambers.

9780785168478 MVL: DARK AVENGERS (MASTERS OF EVIL) (Soft Cover) JEFF PARKER MARVEL S$22.00 GRP

What force on this planet - nay, this universe - can turn Earth's deadliest villains into heroes? Find out as Skaar, Moonstone andRagnarok go to war with...the deadly Doctor Strange! Then: Dr. June Covington is turned loose in Tony Stark's Frankensteinianlaboratory. Her first subject for "improvement"? Ragnarok! Plus: trapped in a dangerous world, the Dark Avengers may have found the secret to returning home! But can they fight their way out of King Thing's torture pit? All this, and the return of U.S.Agent!

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9781612620084 KC: SAILOR MOON #12 (Soft Cover) NAOKO TAKEUCHI RANDOM HOUSE S$18.50 GRP

New creative team! New direction! The Superior Age begins, as the all-new Superior Spider-Man teams with Wolverine and the X-Men! Then, Spider-Man faces the future...the Future Foundation, that is. The Superior Spider-Man is forced to work with the FF as the literal future comes crashing in on them, threatening to destroy the Foundation itself and expose Spider-Man's ultimate secret!

As Galaxia picks off one Sailor Guardian after another, even those of the outer planets, Usagi finds new companions to help her fight her most nefarious enemy yet.

This new edition of Sailor Moon features:

- An entirely new, incredibly accurate translation!- Japanese-style, right-to-left reading!- New cover art never before seen in the U.S.!- The original Japanese character names!- Detailed translation notes!

9780785165361 MVL: AVENGING SPIDER-MAN (SUPERIORITY COMPLEX) (Soft Cover) CHRIS YOST MARVEL S$25.00 GRP

9781401236861 DC: SM VOL 01 WHAT PRICE TOMORROW (Soft Cover) GEORGE PEREZ RANDOM HOUSE S$22.00 GRP

A New York Times Best Seller! As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics - The New 52 event of September 2011, comics legend George Perez and artist Jesus Merino present the new adventures of the Man of Steel! Metropolis fears him. The Daily Planet agrees. This new volume of Superman finds our hero with a startling new status quo. As Superman finds ways to dodge the scrutiny placed upon him by the public and media, he must stop a monstrous threat to Metropolis - one that he somehow is the cause of! The next chapter in the legendary history of the Man of Steel is built here.

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