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FICTION

JUN 2013

Highlights

FANTASY

9780061007224 EXORCIST,THE (Soft Cover) WILLIAM PETER BLATTY HARPER US S$16.00 GF

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9780552162463 SKY DRAGONS (Soft Cover) ANNE McCAFFREY TRANSWORLD S$17.00 FAN

After a vicious plague swept

through the world of Pern, there are

no longer enough dragons to fight off the current onslaught of Thread,

the deadly spore that falls like rain

from the skies and devours

everything organic in its path.

Pern's last best chance to rebuild the decimated dragon population

lies with a group of young dragon

riders and their dragons left

stranded on an unexplored island.

9780007445981 SANDMAN SLIM (Soft Cover) RICHARD KADREY HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN

Book six in the Downside Ghosts

series.

The sixth book in the Downside Ghosts series.

Supernatural fantasy has a new

antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this

gripping, gritty new series by RichardKadrey

Life sucks and then you die. Or, if

you’re James Stark, you spend

eleven years in Hell as a hitman

before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los

Angeles.

The chilling movie we could not

forget . . .

The Exorcist changed popular culture forever. Forty years ago,

the movie that was based on

William Peter Blatty's runaway #1

bestseller—a groundbreaking

story of faith and supernatural suspense—held audiences

captive. Now this special edition

commemorates the 40th

anniversary of the iconic film that

paved the way for the entire genre that followed it: the

unforgettable The Exorcist.

9780007437788 DOWNSIDE GHOSTS 6 (Soft Cover) STACIA KANE HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN

9780316128100 TEMPEST REBORN (Soft Cover) NICOLE PELLER HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 FAN

Anyan may be trapped in an evil

dragon and Blondie may be gone, but

Jane knows one thing: she's not about to give up. She's ready to tear

down heaven and earth to save her

lover, despite those who believe he's

lost.

Luckily for Jane, those who've given up on Anyan do not include those

closest to her. Defying The Powers

That Be, Jane and Company form

their own crack squad of misfits, in

whose hands the fate of the world may well rest.

9780007463251 BONELAND (Soft Cover) ALAN GARNER HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN

The crowning achievement of an

astonishing career, 'Boneland'

concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone

of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper

wakes, the dream dies...Professor

Colin Whisterfield spends his days

at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister

in the Pleiades.

9780007446001 KILL THE DEAD (Soft Cover) RICHARD KADREY HARPER UK S$18.00 FAN

Supernatural fantasy's best antihero

returns, in the high-octane follow-up to

Richard Kadrey's acclaimed Sandman Slim

James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim,

crawled out of Hell, took bloody

revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and

saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore?

You take a lousy job tracking down

monsters for money. It's a depressing

gig, but it pays for your beer and

cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.

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9780345500922 SKY DRAGONS (Soft Cover) ANNE McCAFFREYRANDOM HOUSE S$17.00 FAN

Scores of dragons are dead after

plague swept across the world of Pern,

and now the Weyrs are struggling to rebuild before Threadfall destroys

everything—and everyone—left alive.

Their best hope lies with a group of

new dragonriders who have

volunteered to brave the dangers of an unexplored island populated by vicious

wild felines and voracious tunnel-

snakes to create a safe home for their

young dragons, whose offspring will

hopefully replenish Pern’s decimated population. But their leader, Xhinna, the

first female rider of a blue dragon,

faces an uphill battle to win the respect

of her peers, especially after tragedy leaves the new colony reeling.

GENERAL FICTION

9780007476336 THE SKULL AND THE NIGHTINGALE (Soft Cover) MICHAEL IRWIN HARPER UK S$26.00 GF

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9780857500953 BRYANT & MAY AND THE INVISIBLE CODE (Soft Cover) CHRISTOPHER FOWLER TRANSWORLD S$18.00 GF

Two small children are playing a game

called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch

in a church courtyard and wait for her

to die. An hour later the woman is

indeed found dead inside St Bride's

Church - a building that no-one else has entered. Unfortunately Bryant &

May are refused the case. Instead,

there are hired by their greatest enemy

to find out why his wife has suddenly

started behaving strangely. She's become an embarrassment to him at

government dinners, and he is

convinced that someone is trying to

drive her insane.

9780552777346 IN HER SHADOW (Soft Cover) LOUISE DOUGLAS TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from

weary, recession-scarred America, a

struggling businessman named Alan

Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his

daughter's college tuition, and finally

do something great. In A Hologram

for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one

man fights to hold himself and his

splintering family together.

Before Ellen, things were easier and

less complicated. They were either

good or bad, right or wrong, black or

white and I understood the difference. Since Ellen, everything has been

coloured in shades of grey. From the

author of "The Secrets Between Us",

part of the 2012 Richard and Judy Summer Reads, comes this dark,

thrilling novel that is perfect for your

book group. It's set twenty years ago

against a backdrop of dreamy Cornish

summers, a place where childhood friendship becomes young love, where

love becomes obsession, and where

obsession ultimately ends in betrayal

and a tragic death.

Set in England in the early 1760s, this

is a chilling and deliciously dark tale

of manipulation, sex, and seduction. Set in England in the early 1760s,

The Skull & The Nightingale is a

chilling and deliciously dark tale of

manipulation, sex, and seduction.

When Richard Fenwick, a young man without family or means, returns to

London from the Grand Tour, his

wealthy godfather, James Gilbert,

has an unexpected proposition.

9780307947512 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (Soft Cover) DAVE EGGERS RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF

9780593064955 I AM PILGRIM (Soft Cover) TERRY HAYES TRANSWORLD S$31.00 GF

Can you commit the perfect crime?

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a

wealthy American family, he once

headed up a secret espionage unit for

US intelligence. Before he disappeared

into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal

investigation. But that book will come

back to haunt him. It will help NYPD

detective Ben Bradley track him down.

And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a

woman is found facedown in a bath of

acid, her features erased, her teeth

missing, her fingerprints gone.

9780007483525 OVERBITE (Soft Cover) MEG CABOT HARPER UK S$18.00 GF

The sequel to Meg Cabot's

bestselling paranormal romance with

bite - Insatiable Meena Harper has

bitten off more than she can chew ...Meena has a special gift, but only

now does anyone appreciate it. Her

ability to predict how everyone she

meets will die has impressed the Palatine Guard-a powerful secret

demon-hunting unit of the Vatican-

and they've hired her to work at their

new branch in Lower Manhattan.

Sure, Meena's ex-boyfriend was Lucien Antonescu, son of Dracula.

9780552777537 THE WAR OF THE WIVES (Soft Cover) TAMAR COHEN TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GFImagine being happily married for 28

years. You have three children, a lovely

house and a husband who travels a lot

- but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being

happily married for 17 years. You have

one daughter, a lovely home and

though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then

one day you get a call that turns your

world upside down: your husband is

dead. You are devastated.

9780062266071 A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS : A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL (Soft Cover) JAMES L. BURKE HARPER US S$17.00 GF

Clutching the shards of his shattered

life, Cajun detective Dave

Robicheaux has rejoined the Newlberia police force.

His partner is dead—slain during a

condemned prisoner's bloody flight to

freedom that left Robicheaux critically

wounded . . . and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.

Now he's trailing a killer into the

sordid heat of the Big Easy, caught

up in the lethal undercurrents of a

mob double-cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemy—himself . . .

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9780007481200 TREACHERY (Soft Cover) S.J. PARRIS HARPER UK S$24.00 GF

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9780007298563 CROWBONE (Soft Cover) ROBERT LOW HARPER UK S$18.00 GF

The long awaited return to Robert

Low’s Oathsworn series

Island of Mann, 979AD. A monk lies dying with a sworn secret he must pass

onto Crowbone, the true heir to

Norway’s throne, before he breathes

his last. The monk’s words will decide

the fate of a kingdom. But once the secret is revealed,

Crowbone’s long-time enemy,

Gunnhild, the Witch Mother of Kings,

threatens his path to the crown and will

stop at nothing to prevent him from attaining his royal destiny. Crowbone

and his men must survive an

unforgiving journey and face their

sworn rival.

9780007328239 THE KILLING GAME (Soft Cover) J.A. KERLEY HARPER UK S$18.00 GF

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or

lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where

he comically navigates Manhattan's

art and literary scenes, to Taipei,

Taiwan, where he confronts his

family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born

on the internet and blooms into an

unexpected wedding in Las Vegas.

Detective Carson Ryder’s reputation

is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal

vendetta, constructing his crimes to

hit Carson’s weak spot.

He’s coming to get you…

After a humiliating encounter with a cop, Romanian immigrant Gregory

Nieves launches a vendetta against

the Mobile Police Department,

Alabama. Nieves can’t fight a

department, so he selects one man who symbolize

Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and

The Name of the Rose, the fourth

historical thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy.

Summer, 1585: As English ships are

held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an

Invincible Armada, built by King Philip

II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to

embark on an expedition by royal

commission to cross the Atlantic and

seize major Spanish ports, diverting

Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno,

radical philosopher and spy,

accompanies his friend Sir Philip

Sidney to Plymouth to oversee Drake's departure.

9780307950178 TAIPEI (Soft Cover) TAO LIN RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF

9781848271432 YOU AND I (Soft Cover) EMILY GILLMOR MURPHY TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GFEach September, thousands of

students walk through the doors of

University College and Trinity College, Dublin. This year, Olive

and Tom will be among them.

Eighteen-year-old Olive is fresh

from the country, and her eyes are

opened wide by the big-city goings on of her new friends. When she

starts to be pursued by Tom, the

scruffy maverick who's seduced

half the girls she's met, she's

adamant he's not for her. But when a tragedy befalls her family, it's

Tom who proves her best friend -

until that is, she discovers his real

motivations.

9781847562036 ALWAYS YOU (Soft Cover) ERIN KAYE HARPER UK S$16.00 GF

A warm and highly emotive Irish

writer who deals with issues that affect real women.

It’s 1992 and Sarah is in love with

Cahal, a boy from the wrong side of

the tracks. As they plan to graduate

from university, all seems set for their happily ever after…

Fast forward to 2012 and something’s

gone wrong. Cahal is out of the

picture and Sarah is divorced from

Ian by whom she’s had two children. What happened? As Cahal walks

back into Sarah’s life, can they

overcome past decisions and

surrounding prejudice and make it work a second time around?

9780007467754 THE FIRE WITNESS (Soft Cover) LARS KEPLER HARPER UK S$22.00 GF

The No 1 Swedish bestseller by the

author of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare. Flora has seen it all, but

nobody believes her. The girl is dead,

someone killed her. She was only

fourteen years old, named Miranda,

and was found in her room at the institution for young women in distress,

north of Stockholm. The walls were

splashed with blood, the sheets were

soaked with it. None of the other girls

know what happened, but one of them has fled into the night. What Flora does

not know is that it is the redoubtable

Joona Linna who will be investigating

the worst and most puzzling crime of his career.

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9780062219657 SCORPION DECEPTION (Soft Cover) ANDREW KAPLAN HARPER US S$17.00 GF

In Switzerland, a brutally efficient hit

squad storms the U.S. embassy,

stealing classified files and leaving no witnesses alive. Under intense

political pressure to find those behind

the attack—with Congressional

leaders demanding military action—

the CIA turns to the deadliest agent they know: Scorpion. But Scorpion is

unwilling to get involved . . . until he

learns his name is at the top of one of

the stolen lists.

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9781455500147 DARKNESS BRED (Soft Cover) STELLA CAMERON HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM

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9780553825176 HEREWARD: THE DEVIL'S ARMY (Soft Cover) JAMES WILDE TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF1067. The battle of Hastings has been

lost; Harold Godwinsson is dead. The

iron fist of William the Bastard has

begun to squeeze the life out of England. Villages are torched and men,

women and children put to the sword

as the Norman king attempts to impose

his cruel will upon this unruly nation.

But there is one who stands in the way of the invader's savagery.

9780345806079 HEARTBROKEN (Soft Cover) LISA UNGER RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 GF

Kate has written a novel based on a

tragic love story from her family’s

past. Emily is a struggling waitress whose toxic relationship with the

wrong man has led her to make a

horrible, life-altering decision. Without

knowing each other, and with lives

that couldn’t be more different, they head to the same point on the map:

Heart Island. It’s an idyllic place in

the middle of an Adirondack lake, and

home to harsh and unyielding

matriarch Birdie Burke. These three women find themselves on a heart-

wrenching collision course—with dark

memories, restless ghosts and each

other.

Ever since shapeshifter Elin escaped

to Whidbey Island, danger has

stalked her every move. Her human

traits, combined with her unique supernatural gifts, make her a prized

being to be possessed . . . or

destroyed. It is only the passionate

attraction she shares with werehound

Sean Black that gives her hope for her future-if she can elude the lethal

predators who are hot on her scent.

9780062076076 SURRENDER TO THE EARL (Soft Cover) GAYLE CALLEN HARPER US S$16.00 ROMAudrey Blake's impromptu plan—

asking a visitor to help her take

ownership of her rightful property—

is unraveling in spectacular fashion. Robbed of her sight by a childhood

fever, Audrey has been kept in

virtual seclusion by her family. And

now the enigmatic Robert Henslow,

Earl of Knightsbridge, has complicated her scheme to gain

independence, insisting they

pretend to be engaged.

9780857520128 LONG WAR: LONG EARTH BK 2 (Hard Cover) TERRY PRATCHETT; STEPHEN BAXTER TRANSWORLD S$32.00 GF

A generation after the events of

The Long Earth, mankind has

spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where

Joshua and Lobsang once

pioneered, now fleets of airships

link the stepwise Americas with

trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn

the Long Earth is shaping

mankind... A new 'America', called

Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth,

with core American values restated

in the plentiful environment of the

Long Earth - and Valhalla is

growing restless under the control of the Datum government...

9781439193020 BLACK LIST (Soft Cover) BRAD THOR SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$17.00 GF

An explosive thriller from #1 New

York Times bestselling author

Brad Thor: Scot Harvath must survive a stunning masterwork

of action, intrigue, and ingenious

plot twists.

Somewhere deep inside the United

States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress

never get to see it—only the

President and a secret team of

advisers. Once your name is on the

list, it doesn’t come off…until you’re dead.

Someone has just added

counterterrorism operative Scot

Harvath’s name.

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9780062067777 THE LONG WAR (Hard Cover) TERRY PRATCHETT HARPER US S$32.00 GF

A new America called Valhalla grows

restless under the controlling long

arm of the Datum government, while

all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to

react to humanity's thoughtless

exploitation, bringing humankind to

the brink of war. 75,000 first printing.

When America’s controversial

Phoenix Program was buried

during the Vietnam War, a new program rose from its ashes: a

top-secret Special Operations

unit, with a core mission to

combat terror wherever they find

it. With bin Laden dead, the leaders within al-Qaeda struggle

to assume his role at the top, but

the president of the United States

doesn’t want any of them left to

dominate…and that means he has only one choice.

9781451675696 OUTCASTS: A SEAL TEAM SIX NOVEL (Soft Cover) HOWARD E. WASDIN; STEPHEN TEMPLIN SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF

ROMANCE

9781451641851 A WITCH'S HANDBOOK OF KISSES AND CURSES (Soft Cover) MOLLY HARPER SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

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9780345534903 FOREVER (Soft Cover) JACQUELYN FRANK RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM

After being brought back from

death, police officer Jackson

Waverly receives the shock of his

life: he has become host to aBodywalker, a spirit that is reborn in

flesh and blood, and part of a

proud, ancient race that uses its

extraordinary gifts to battle dark,

evil forces. Jackson’s spirit is a powerful one—none other than the

Egyptian pharaoh Menes, who

longs to reunite with his eternal

love, the Egyptian queen

Hatshepsut.

9781455522873 WHAT A WICKED EARL WANTS (Soft Cover) VICKY DREILING HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM

Only she can satisfy . . .

When Rafe Bancroft wins Forton Hall in a card game, this rogue finds

himself saddled with responsibility he

cannot wait to foist off. The sooner he

can sell the blasted estate, the sooner he can be off on his next

adventure. Yet he doesn't count on

running into the very alluring Felicity

Harrington, who ignites an all-

consuming desire in him quite like no other woman.

Andrew Carrington, Earl of

Bellingham, believes in being a

gentleman, whether it's fishing a soggy stranger out of the Thames or

assisting a fetching lady into his bed.

If the stranger becomes a friend and

the lady a mistress, all the better. He

certainly welcomes the opportunity to help Laura Davenport, a dazzling

young widow with a rebellious

stepson. Her gratitude, he hopes, will

take an amorous form. But from the

moment he sets foot in her drawing room, he gets far more than he

bargained for ...

Nola Leary would have been content to

stay in Kilcairy, Ireland, healing

villagers at her family’s clinic with a mix of magic and modern medicine. But a

series of ill-timed omens and a

deathbed promise to her grandmother

have sent her on a quest to Half-Moon

Hollow, Kentucky, to secure her family’s magical potency for the next

generation. Her supernatural task? To

unearth four artifacts hidden by her

grandfather before a rival magical

family beats her to it.

9780380798865 TAMING RAFE (Soft Cover) SUZANNE ENOCH HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

9781451689334 EXPOSED (Soft Cover) LAURA GRIFFIN SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

With the click of her camera,

Maddie Callahan inadvertently

added herself to the hit list of a

criminal mastermind the FBI’s been investigating for months. Agent

Brian Beckmann is determined to

protect the sexy photographer, but

she may be his only lead.

As a forensic photographer, Maddieis used to seeing violence up close,

but she’s never before been a

target. When a freelance photo

shoot goes awry, she realizes she

may have seen, and perhaps photographed, the kidnapping of a

key witness in a federal probe.

9780062240125 ANY DUCHESS WILL DO (Soft Cover) TESSA DARE HARPER US S$13.00 ROM

What's a duke to do, when the girl

who's perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can't live without?

Griffin York, the Duke of Halford,

has no desire to wed this

season—or any season—but his diabolical mother abducts him to

"Spinster Cove" and insists he

select a bride from the ladies in

residence. Griff decides to teach

her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. He

chooses the serving girl.

9781455521951 THE SWEET SPOT (Soft Cover) LAURA DRAKE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$13.00 ROM

A Love as Big as Texas . . .

Charla Rae Denny was the perfect wife with a perfect life, content to

keep the home fires burning while

her husband, JB, competed as a

champion bull rider. Then their son died in a tragic accident-and

everything fell apart. Divorced and

saddled with a hill of bills and a

failing ranch, Charla must now

cowboy up to put her life back together.

9780062202451 SECRET LIFE OF LADY JULIA, THE (Soft Cover) LECIA CORNWALL HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

One kiss, then another, and before

she knows it, Lady Julia Leighton

succumbs to the breathtaking charms

of a stranger . . . at the ball

celebrating her betrothal to a man who considers her a sister. The

steamy encounter changes her life in

more ways than one. When she

meets her seducer again, Julia is no

longer a lady, but an outcast, a paid companion to a lady who used to be

her equal— and her desire for him

burns as strong as ever.

ROMANCE

9780007482085 THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES: VOLUME ONE -THE 1950s (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$22.00 SF

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9781455521128 IT HAD TO BE YOU (Soft Cover) JILL SHALVIS HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM

Ali Winters is not having a good

day. Her boyfriend left her,

everyone in town thinks she's a

thief, and now she's about to be kicked out of her home. Her only

shot at keeping a roof over her

head and clearing her name is to

beg for help from a police detective

who's as sexy as he is stern....

9780345525291 LOVER BE MINE (Soft Cover) NICOLE JORDAN RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM

Savannah Moore arrives in Eternity

Springs alone, determined to put her troubled past behind her. Her

handcrafted-soap shop fits right in

with the magic of this warm and

welcoming community—but the sexy,

suspicious local sheriff promises to upset her hard-won happiness.

The last thing Sophie Fortin expects

at a masquerade ball is a dazzling kiss from a pirate. Her desire quickly

falters when she learns that her

masked gentleman is devilishly

scandalous Lord Jack, a member of

the captivating Wilde clan—and a man she’s forbidden to acknowledge.

But when Jack begins a breathtaking

seduction, Sophie can barely resist.

The first in a series collecting every

Brian Aldiss story ever published.

In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are

being collected together for the first

time.

Volume one takes us from his very

first story – A Book in Time, published in The Bookseller in 1954

and never seen again until now –

right up to his establishment as a

major new voice in science fiction

by the end of that decade.

9780345542267 REFLECTION POINT (Soft Cover) EMILY MARCH RANDOM HOUSE S$16.00 ROM

9780062218933 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: A CUPID, TEXAS NOVEL (Soft Cover) LORI WILDE HARPER US S$16.00 ROMIn the first in a dazzling new series,

Lori Wilde welcomes us to Cupid,

Texas, where every wish for love

comes true . . ."When it hits, you just know . . ."

Natalie McCleary couldn't believe

her eyes—a lean-muscled, darkly

tanned, nearly naked man stood in

her path . . . and then it hit her: love. Everyone always told her it

would hit like a thunderbolt, and

she never believed them. But now

she knew: practical, sensible

Natalie was head over heels in love—with a stranger.

9781420118483 SOMETHING WICKED (Soft Cover) LISA JACKSON; NANCY BUSH HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM

Some refer to it as the Colony.

To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal

hamlet of Deception Bay have

ever been invited to the inner

sanctum of Siren Song. Even

the sisters, who live there, far from strangers who might recoil

at their unnerving psychic

abilities, don't know all the

terrors buried within its walls.

9780062223876 ONCE UPON A TOWER (Soft Cover) ELOISA JAMES HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

As an extremely wealthy laird,

Gowan Stoughton, Duke of Kinross,

can have any of the maidens at the ball he attends. The only problem is

they are all English and Gowan is

not so certain they are suitable. He

is accustomed to the hard-working

lasses from his Highlands, not these dainty noblewomen who

spend their days drinking tea or

some other such nonsense. But

then he makes the acquaintance of

Lady Edith Gilchrist. Utterly bewitched by the emerald-eyed

beauty with lush golden locks, he

knows he must have her.

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9781451685206 HOW TO PURSUE A PRINCESS (Soft Cover) KAREN HAWKINS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

The sensible solution to her family’s

dire financial woes is for Lily Balfour

to marry the Earl of Huntley, a

wealthy widower handpicked by her

matchmaking godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe. Huntley is

pleasant and attractive, the perfect

candidate in every way. But Lily

knows she’s in big trouble as soon as

passionate, unprincipled PrinceWulfinski sweeps a hot, possessive

glance over her.

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9780316098113 2312 (Soft Cover) KIM STANLEY ROBINSON HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$18.00 SF

Novelist Daniel Abraham and

illustrator Tommy Patterson are not

merely turning George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Game of Thrones into

a graphic novel: They are

meticulously translating one art form

into another, and capturing the

intricate nuances of Martin’s novels just as HBO is doing with the

blockbuster series. The

Abraham/Patterson collaboration is

more than just a faithful adaptation. It

is a labor of love—and a thrilling masterwork in its own right.

The year is 2312. Scientific and

technological advances have opened

gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only

home; new habitats have been created

throughout the solar system on moons,

planets, and in between. But in this

year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its

present, and its future.

The first event takes place on Mercury,

on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an

unprecedented scale. It is an

unexpected death, but one that might

have been foreseen. For Swan ErHong, it is an event that will change her

life. Swan was once a woman who

designed worlds. Now she will be led

into a plot to destroy them.

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9781476722405 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES: (Soft Cover) WILLIAM LEISNER SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 SF

Located far beyond the boundaries of

explored space, the Goeg Domain is

a political union of dozens of planets and races. When the U.S.S.

Enterprise arrives in its territory to

investigate an interstellar

phenomenon, Commander Laspas of

the Domain Defense Corps is at first guarded, then fascinated to discover

the existence of an alliance of worlds

much like his own, and finds a

kindred spirit in Captain James T.

Kirk. And when the Enterprise is attacked by the Domain’s enemies,

crippling the starship’s warp capability

and leaving its crew facing the

prospect of a slow, months-long journey home, the Goeg leader

volunteers the help of his own ship,

offering to combine the resources of

both vessels to bring the Enterprise

to a nearby Domain facility to make the necessary repairs.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

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Wraith Squadron: The elite X-wing

unit of rogues and misfits who

became legends of the Rebellion,

specializing in carrying out the most

dangerous and daring operations before breaking up and going their

separate ways. Now, three decades

later, their singular skills are back in

demand for a tailor-made Wraith

Squadron mission.

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