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FICTION

JUL 2013

Major & Lead

9780345523518

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BLOODFIRE QUEST: DARK LEGACY OF SHANNARA

By TERRY BROOKS

The quest for the long-lost Elfstones has drawn the leader of the Druid

order and her followers into the hellish dimension known as the

Forbidding, where the most dangerous creatures banished from the

Four Lands are imprisoned. Now the hunt for the powerful talismans

that can save their world has become a series of great challenges: a desperate search for kidnapped comrades, a relentless battle against

unspeakable predators, and a grim race to escape the Forbidding

alive. But though freedom is closer than they know, it may come at a

terrifying price.

THE TRAITOR QUEENBy TRUDI CANAVAN

9780316037907

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$16.00

Discover the magic of Trudi Canavan with her brand new novel in the

Traitor Spy trilogy...

Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his

exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the

huge task of brokering an alliance between his people and the

Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in

order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic. This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians - or

make Lorkin an outcast forever.

The Traitor Spy trilogy, which began with The Ambassador's Mission

and The Rogue, is the new series set in the world of the international bestselling Black Magician trilogy.

9780857501356

HARPER UK

S$18.00


FORGE OF DARKNESSBy STEVEN ERIKSON

Now is the time to tell the story of an ancient realm, a tragic tale that

sets the stage for all the tales yet to come and all those already

told...It's a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the realm of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to

many a power. And even death is not quite eternal. The commoners'

great hero, Vatha Urusander, is being promoted by his followers to

take Mother Dark's hand in marriage, but her Consort, Lord Draconus,

stands in the way of such ambitions. The impending clash sends fissures throughout the realm, and as the rumors of civil war burn

through the masses, an ancient power emerges from the long dead

seas. Caught in the middle of it all are the First Sons of Darkness,

Anomander, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin of the Purake Hold...

GUILD WARS: SEA OF SORROWS

By REE SOESBEE

9781416589624

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$17.00

An original novel based on Guild Wars—the award-winning epic

fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game!

The lost kingdom of Orr lies beneath the ocean waves, an entire

civilization swallowed by an ancient cataclysm. For centuries, the

depths have lain dormant, those ancient secrets lost. Until now. The

Elder Dragon Zhaitan has risen. In its wake, the drowned kingdom of

Orr is reborn—and another destroyed. The city of Lion's Arch, for generations a cornerstone of civilization in Tyria, is brutally swept

beneath the waves, leaving nothing but ruins. Among the survivors is

Cobiah Marriner, a human sailor shipwrecked by the tsunami and

stranded at sea. When he is rescued by a ferocious charr, Cobiah

knows that he's been plunged into a world forever changed.

9780007477203

HARPER UK

S$16.00


ONE HUNDRED NAMESBy CECELIA AHERN

Kitty Logan has lost her way…

As a journalist, she’s spent the past few years chasing the big scoops

– no matter the consequences. When she makes a terrible mistake,

she finds herself mired in scandal, her career implodes and even her

personal relationships are tested to the limit.

At a loss, Kitty finds distraction in a list of one hundred names that her

late mentor and boss, Constance, has left her. Kitty’s been given one final chance, the most important assignment of her life – to write the

story behind the one hundred names as a tribute piece to Constance.

As she tracks down the people on the list and tries to work out what

connects them, Kitty meets some extraordinary people.

9780062248657

HARPER US

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ONE HUNDRED NAMESBy CECELIA AHERN

The uplifting and thoughtful novel from the uniquely talented author.

Everyone has a story to tell...Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been

destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's

bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to

write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of

one hundred names. There is no synopsis, nothing to explain what the

story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late. With everything to

prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life - to write the

story her mentor never had the opportunity to. Kitty has to not only

track down and meet the people on the list, but find out what connects

them. And, in the process of hearing ordinary people's stories, she uncovers Constance's - and starts to understand her own...

THE MIDDLESTEINSBy JAMI ATTENBERG

9781455547777

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

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For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a

solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things

are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she

doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard

abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control.

Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay

for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle-- a whippet thin

perfectionist-- is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task

proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai

mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating

choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?

9781455546732

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

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FUSEBy JULIANA BAGGOTT

We want our son returned.

This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we

will kill our hostages one at a time.

To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred

the earth, and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to

survive amid smoke and ash. Now, at the command of Partridge's

father, the Dome is unleashing nightmare after nightmare upon the

Wretches in an effort to get him back.



REVENGERBy TOM CAIN

9780552165068

TRANSWORLD

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Ex-marine Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to worse people.

He is used to being in complete control. So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on

his instincts and years' of training as the riot turns into a battleground.

Someone planned this riot for political gain and now Carver - in the

wrong place at the wrong time - looks like the perfect scapegoat.

Wanted by the police for murder, if he is to clear his name he is going to have to find out who is really behind these events. The truth will

shock even Carver - and find him pitted against a deadly enemy who

knows all of Carver's secrets and in a fight that will bring him face to

face with a killer without conscience.

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TRANSWORLD

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RANDOM HOUSE

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LAST TO DIE: A RIZOLI & ISLES NOVEL

By TESS GERRITSEN

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has

survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely

escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past,

Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass

murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized

teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD

puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what

seemed like a coincidence is instead just one

horrifying part of a relentless killer’s merciless

mission.

Watch book trailer here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5TiKWJPklU


SUMMERLANDBy ELIN HILDERBRAND

9780316099943

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$16.00

A summer's night, a deadly crash, and four lives changed forever--

in the page-turning new bestseller from Elin Hilderbrand.

A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a

graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car

crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother

in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her

friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before

Penny took the wheel.

Watch book trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFDKnCv06E

9780552778015

TRANSWORLD

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WALK ME HOMEBy CATHERINE RYAN HYDE

Carly and her little sister Jen are walking. Something terrible has happened. Something that has left Carly in charge, her faith in humanity

shattered. She knows they need help. But she is terrified of her sister

being taken away from her. All they have is each other. Carly wants them

to find their way back to the last person she knew she could trust - their stepfather. But Jen holds a secret about him which, if she's telling the

truth, will put them both at far more risk than they could imagine. And so

begins a journey, across hundreds of miles, which neither girl could have

anticipated. It isn't an easy one, and is often dangerous. But along the

way they are also confronted with the unexpected kindness of strangers. And ultimately, should they choose to accept it, some new relationships

that hold the potential to change everything.


ABOUT A GIRLBy LINDSEY KELK

9780007498000

HARPER UK

S$16.00

The brand new summer bestseller from the immensely popular

Lindsey Kelk I'd lost my job. I'd lost the love of my life. My mum

wasn't talking to me. My best friend was epically pissed off. And myflatmate probably had a hit out on me by now. I never meant for

things to get so out of hand...Tess Brookes has always been a Girl

with a Plan. But when her carefully constructed Plan goes belly up,

she's forced to reconsider. After accidently answering her flatmate

Vanessa's phone, she decides that since being Tess isn't going so well, why shouldn't she try out being Vanessa? With nothing left to

lose, she accepts Vanessa's photography assignment to Hawaii -

she used to be an amateur snapper, how hard can it be? Right? Cover art to

come

9780345545862

RANDOM HOUSE

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COMPLETE MEBy J. KENNER

Beautiful, strong, and commanding, Damien Stark fills a void in me

that no other man can touch. His fierce cravings push me beyond the

brink of bliss—and unleash a wild passion that utterly consumes us both.

Yet beneath his need for dominance, he carries the wounds of a

painful past. Haunted by a legacy of dark secrets and broken trust, he

seeks release in our shared ecstasy, the heat between us burning

stronger each day.

Our attraction is undeniable, our obsession inevitable. Yet not even

Damien can run from his ghosts, or shield us from the dangers yet to come.


DEAR LIFE: STORIESBy ALICE MUNRO

9780804168915

RANDOM HOUSE

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Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often

brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again

everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance

encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that

turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into a new way

of being or thinking. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first

literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper columnist, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, toward a

hoped-for but completely unplanned meeting. A young soldier,

returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the

train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning

a life on the move.

9781455546749

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$14.91

ALEX CROSS, RUNBy JAMES PATTERSON

Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creemfor sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail,

and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a

new face.

A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex

is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing

newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. All of

Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered,

rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy.

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TWO GRAVES (OVERSIZE)By DOUGLAS PRESTON &

LINCOLN CHILD,

9780446555005

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$17.00

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special

Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly,

tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast

retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.

But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several

Manhattan hotels--perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture--NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta

asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast

soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's

kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?

9780007523184

HARPER UK

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THE EDGE OF NEVERBy J.A. REDMERSKI

Twenty-year-old Camryn has always felt different from everyone

else around her – not content to be tied down by life's conventions,

she’s always known that she wants a life less ordinary. But when tragedy forces her to abandon her plans, she vows never to let her

walls down again – and never to fall in love.

But one night in the hottest club in town, her world is turned upside

down. Desperate to escape, Camryn packs up the bare necessities

and boards the next Greyhound bus leaving town, to find the true

self she knows is out there. What she finds instead is a young man who is more like her than she knows. Andrew Parrish needs to find

himself too, and harbours his own dark secrets…


THE ENGLISH GIRL INTL By DANIEL SILVA

9780062277787

HARPER US

S$27.00

Daniel Silva delivers another spectacular thriller starring Gabriel

Allon, The English Girl. When a beautiful young British woman

vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister’s career is threatened with destruction. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli

intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what

it seems...and where the only thing more dangerous than his

enemies might be the truth…

Silva’s work has captured the imagination of millions worldwide; his #1 New York Times bestselling series which chronicles the

adventures of art-restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon has earned

the praise of readers and reviewers everywhere. This captivating

new page-turner from the undisputed master of spy fiction is sure to

thrill new and old fans alike.

THE ENGLISH GIRL INTL By DANIEL SILVA

9780007433391

HARPER UK

S$27.00

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a

spellbinding new thriller from No.1 bestselling author Daniel Silva.

For all fans of Robert Ludlum. When a beautiful young British

woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. And Gabriel Allon, master art

restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where

nothing is what it seems ...and where the only thing more dangerous

than his enemies might be the truth ...

9781416550679

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$39.00


WORLD OF WARCRAFT: VOL'JIN: SHADOWS OF THE HORDE

By MICHAEL A. STACKPOLEVol’jin, courageous leader of the Darkspear tribe. His strength and

cunning are unmatched even among the Horde’s most exalted

champions. Now, on the legendary continent of Pandaria, the troll chieftain faces his greatest trial yet, one that may redefine his purpose

in the...WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Warchief Garrosh’s assassins strike at Vol’jin, leaving him at death’s

door. But fate smiles on the wounded Darkspear leader when

renowned brewmaster Chen Stormstout transports him to the safety of

an isolated mountain monastery. There, Vol’jin wrestles with old hatreds smoldering between the Alliance and the Horde as he

struggles to recover alongside a mysterious human soldier.

Yet this is only the beginning of Vol’jin’s worries.

BACK TO BLOODBy TOM WOLFE

9780316247856

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$14.91

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master

chronicler of the way we live now.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with our hero,

officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a different

country with a different language and a different culture have taken

over at the ballot box.

This melting pot is full of hard cases who just won't melt, damn it: a

Cuban mayor; a black police chief; a hot young reporter and a timid

editor of the Miami Herald, both WASPs who went to Yale; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist who keeps his lovely Latina nurse,

Magdalena, in his bed and his star patient, a porn-addicted billionaire,

on a string; a status-addled Haitian professor who thinks he's really

French and wants his pale-skinned daughter to "pass" and his Creole-

spouting son to be quiet.

9780345525949

RANDOM HOUSE

S$25.00

GARFIELD PULLS HIS WEIGHT

By JIM DAVISGarfield, the lovable feline who never met a lunch he didn’t

like, dishes up another book full of his heavy hijinx and weighty

wit. Garfield’s put on a few pounds over the years, but he’s not just getting fatter, he’s getting better! So keep the comedy and

calories coming! Whether he’s painting Odie or chowing down

on Jon’s favorite fern, Garfield proves he’s still a ton of fun!

The GARFIELD CLASSICS series collects the early years of

the GARFIELD comic strip in a larger, full-color format. Garfield may have gone through a few changes, but one thing

has stayed the same: his enormous appetite for food and fun.

So laugh along with the classic cat, because classics are

always in style.


NINE FOLD HEAVENBy MINGMEI YIP

In this mesmerizing new novel, Mingmei Yip draws readers deeper into

the exotic world of 1930s Shanghai first explored in Skeleton Women,

and into the lives of the unforgettable Camilla, Shadow, and Rainbow Chang.

When Shadow, a gifted, ambitious magician, competed with the

beautiful Camilla for the affections of organized crime leader Master

Lung, she almost lost everything. Hiding out in Hong Kong, performing

in a run-down circus, Shadow has no idea that Camilla, too, is on the run with her lover, Jinying—Lung's son.

Yet while Camilla and Shadow were once enemies, now their only

hope of freedom lies in joining forces to eliminate the ruthless Big

Brother Wang. Despite the danger, Shadow, Camilla, and Jinying

return to Shanghai. Camilla also has her own secret agenda—she has heard a rumor that her son is alive. And in a city teeming with spies

and rivals—including the vengeful Rainbow Chang—each battles for a

future in a country on the verge of monumental change.

9780758273543

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$23.00

THE TAMING OF RYDER CAVANAUGH

By STEPHANIE LAURENS

9780062068651

HARPER US

S$14.91

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns

with the next in her Cynster Sisters series . . .

The Honorable Miss Mary Cynster always gets what she wants. As the last unwed Cynster of her generation, she is determined to

remain in charge of her life and of the man she will marry. At the very

bottom of her list of potential husbands is Ryder Cavanaugh, the

daring and devastating Marquess of Raventhorne, an overwhelming

and utterly unmanageable lion of the ton. But destiny has a different plan.

Ryder needs Mary as his wife, not just because she is delightful, fiery,

and tempting, but because he values all she could be. When fate and

circumstance hand him the chance, he claims Mary as his

marchioness . . . only to discover what he truly desires is not just to take her hand in marriage, but to capture her heart.


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