THE ATLAS OF THE LAND
by Karen Wynn Fonstad

Here's the perfect companion and guide for Stephen R. Donaldson's celebrated Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.  Karen Wynn Fonstad brings out every detail of the geography of the Land in riveting graphics and engrossing text.

• TOUR THE LAND, WHOSE ONLY SALVATION LAY IN THE HANDS OF ONE UNWILLING HERO!
  Detailed two-color maps showing every place visited by Thomas Covenant in his travels across the Land
• EXPLORE REVELSTONE, ONCE LORD'S KEEP, LATER SEAT OF THE SUNBANE!
  Schematics of the fortress and villages where the people of the Land lived and worked
• FOLLOW THE TREK FROM MITHILSTONE TO REVELSTONE!
  Pathway maps detailing the routes taken by Covenant in his travels across the Land.
• LEARN HOW SOARING WOODHELVEN WAS SHAPED FROM A LIVING TREE!
  Fascinating descriptions of the geography and architecture of the Land

AND LOTS MORE COVERING ALL THE BOOKS IN THE EPIC SERIES!

Karen Fonstad is an experienced cartographer and avid SF/fantasy reader.  She combines both by producing marvelous Atlases of favorite fictional lands.  Her latest book was THE ATLAS OF PERN, published in hardcover and trade paperback by Del Rey Books.  She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Praise for
THE Mutant Mushroom TAKEOVER

"Packed to the gills with fun."
- KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A fun debut novel with an action-packed climax that will leave readers eager to scope out the weirder side of nature."
- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Dear Reader,

If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere.  Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school.  Don't.  For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives.

Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system.

It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep.  In that case, you should probably choose some other book.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

SEA WOLVES Of SCORPIO

For a brief but wonderful moment it seemed as if Dray Prescot was on the road to victory - for he was aboard a Vallian ship bound for home with the secret of Vallia's enemies in his possession.  But Dray, the Earthman sent to the planet Kregen of the double-star Antares in Scorpio, had not fulfilled the mission of the unseen Star Lords - and until he did, there could be no escape from peril!

And peril came - in the form of hideous sea raiders, in the sharp edges of the dueling blades of a swordsman enemy, and in the horrid rites of the underground cult of the Silver Leem.  Dray Prescot's saga has been acclaimed as the best planetary adventure series since Burroughs stopped writing about Barsoom - and a legion of devoted readers will find that Avenger of Antares holds high the standard.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

Previous novels in the "Havilfar" cycle of the saga of Dray Prescot:
MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES (UY1124 - $1.25)
ARENA OF ANTARES (UY1145 - $1.25)
FLIERS OF ANTARES (UY1165 - $1.25)
BLADESMAN OF ANTARES (UY1188 - $1.25)

And don't miss the fabulous first novels:
TRANSIT TO SCORPIO (UY1169 - $1.25)
THE SUNS OF SCORPIO (UY1191 - $1.25)
WARRIOR OF SCORPIO (UY1212 - $1.25)

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In this heart-stopping sequel to the classic novel “She,” Allan Quatermain discovers a lost kingdom in the heart of Africa, ruled by the mysterious Ayesha. A haunting story of love and enchantment that spans the centuries to defy death and time. As to be expected from Haggard, this book is full of adventure – a great avalanche, a chase by the death hounds, Ayesha’s reincarnation, and of course the ultimate battle with Kalloon…there’s even Ayesha’s meeting with her “servants” – that is shadows and ghosts from beyond and the past. Not to be missed by Haggard fans.

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Five hundred miles beneath the surface of the Earth lies another world - a world of eternal day and endless horizons, in which dinosaurs still roam and cavemen hunt and terrors forgotten in the outer world still survive. Lieutenant von Horst, member of an exploring expedition, was left behind in this lost land of Pellucidar. Back To The Stone Age is the thrilling story of his perilous adventures, along with the cavegirl he loved, in that primitive unknown world.

Dear Reader,

I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant.  It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children.  Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe.  From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels.  One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three young-sters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all clue respect,

Lemony Snicket

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Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them.  Why?  because the other kids at her school don't like them.  And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her.  In fact, she is so worried that she's about to break out in ...
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DAVID SHANNON
is the award-winning writer and illustrator of numerous books for yound readers, including How  Georgie Radburn Saved Baseball, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; and The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.  Most recently, he created the illustrations for Audrey Wood's The Bunyans, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ABC Children's Booksellers' Choice Award winner.  David Shannon lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Heidi, and their dog, Fergus.

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From amazon.com:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.

Publisher's Summary from audible.com

The New York Times best-selling series that inspired the international hit videogame The Witcher.

The Wizard's Guild has been shattered by a coup, and in the uproar Geralt was seriously injured. The witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times.

But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries.

While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat, and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl - Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished - until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the emperor.

Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands.

The witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Time of Contempt.

The Princess in
the Tower

The power-hungry former Regents of the three Haldane princes were pleased.  They controlled Gwynedd once more, now that Rhys Michael was king - malleable, wine-loving, and soft.  Or so they thought...

Unbeknownst to the Regents, Rhys Michael was coming into his birthright.  With secret Deryni aid, he struggled to grasp the magic bequeathed to all anointed kings.  And when Marek - heir to Gwynedd's last degenerate deposed Deryni despots - marched into Gwynedd at the head of an army, even the Regents had to admit that Rhys Michael must take to the field himself as king to repel the pretender.

Rhys Michael saw his chance at last.  He swore that the power of the throne - from now on and for all time to come - was to be held by Gwynedd's rightful king.  For this, for his sons, and for his country, the king would risk all...

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THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS FOR HARRY DRESDEN, CHICAGO'S ONLY PREFESSIONAL WIZARD, IN THE NEXT ENTRY IN THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES AND NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING DRESDEN FILES.

Harry has faced terrible odds before.  He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class.  But this time it's different.  A being more powerful and dangerous than the world has seen in a millennium is coming.  And she's bringing an army.

Harry's mission is simple but impossible: save the city by killing a Titan.  And the attempt will change Harry's life, Chicago and mortal world for ever.

PRAISE FOR JIM BUTCHER

'Dresden has a vitality that few urban fantasy heroes can match' SFX

'Butcher's storytelling is satidfying on a level that's bone-deep.' io9

'Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.'  Entertainment Weekly

'Wow.  Just wow' Patricia Briggs

www.jim-bitcher.com - @longshotauthor

THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARD

When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past.

The other seemingly all-powerful Incarnations of Immortality - Death, Fate, War, and Nature - made him welcome.  Even Satan greeted him with gifts.  But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps.  While he had been distracted, he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.

In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly.  And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.

LIKE ON A PALE HORSE, THIS SECOND, COMPLETE-IN-ITSELF NOVEL OF THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY IS A RICHLY IMAGINED AND ALWAYS FASCINATING STORY.  AND AGAIN, PIERS ANTHONY ADDS TO HIS GRIPPING PLOT A SERIOUS, THOUGHT-PROVOKING STUDY OF GOOD AND EVIL.

DRAY PRESCOT

The marvelous adventures of Dray Prescot on Kregen, the world of wonders that orbits the twin suns of Antares in Scorpio, have become a science fiction saga to rival and perhaps surpass the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and others of the heroic fantasy band.

This lone Earthman, once a pawn of cosmic powers, now enters a new cycle of his fabulous career as he rallies the warriors of Vallia for a final stand against the foes that have encircled them - and then, in an act of true Prescot bravado, undertakes single-handed to rescue three old friends from slavery in a distant land.

The beasts of Antares are many and terrifying, but Prescot does not belong to the faint-hearted.  He will need every ounce of courage this time!  So gird on your imaginative swords and join him!

- A DAW BOOK ILLUSTRATED ORIGINAL -
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

BEASTS OF GOR

On Gor, the other world in Earth's orbit, the term beast can mean any of three things: First, there are the Kurii, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second, there are the Gorean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is incomparable. Third, there are the slave girls, who are both beasts of burden and objects of desire. All three kinds of beasts come into action in this thrilling novel as the Kurii establish their first beachhead on Gor's polar cap. Here is a John Norman epic that takes Tarl Cabot from the canals of Port Kar to the taverns of Lydius, the tents of the Sardar Fair, and to a grand climax among the red hunters of the Arctic ice pack.
-A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
FROM DAW

By John Norman: HUNTERS OF GOR SLAVE GIRL OF GOR MARAUDERS OF GOR IMAGINATIVE SEX TRIBESMEN OF GOR TIME SLAVE

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Ballantine Books made publishing history with the simultaneous publication of the first ten volumes in the Tarzan series of books by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS.  The remaining twelve volumes are being published in their proper sequence.  All Ballantine editions are complete and unabridged, all are authorized: the following are available NOW:

1 TARZAN OF THE APES
2 THE RETURN OF TARZAN
3 THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
4 THE SON OF TARZAN
5 TARZAN & THE JEWELS OF OPAR
6 JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN
7 TARZAN THE UNTAMED
8 TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
9 TARZAN & THE GOLDEN LION
10 TARZAN & THE ANT MEN
11 TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE
12 TARZAN & THE LOST EMPIRE

TARZAN 3 THE BEASTS OF TARZAN

Tarzan and Mugambi, the giant Negro, with silent, feral Sheeta the panther at their side, together with Tarzan's hideous crew of great apes, made a formidable company.  But they were stalking a vicious human killer who held Tarzan's son and wife as hostage...

WATCH FOR THE RELEASE OF MORE BALLANTINE
BOOKS IN THE TARZAN SERIES

"GIVE THIS TO FANS OF STEPHENIE MEYER'S TWILIGHT OR HBO'S TRUE BLOOD SERIES." - SLJ

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

PRAISE FOR
THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS

"Gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original." - MELISSA MARR, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely

"Skillfully juxtapos[es] the arcane, magical world with Gatlin's normal southern lifestyle....  [Fans will] plead for more." - VOYA (starred review)

"A hauntingly delicious dark fantasy.." - CASSANDRA CLAIRE, New York Times bestselling author of City of Bones

SOME LOVES ARE MEANT TO BE....
OTHERS ARE CURSED.

Ethan Wate used to think of his small Southern town as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along.

Together, Ethan and Lena can face anything, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away.  Haunted by strange visions, Ethan finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back.

PRAISE FOR
THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS

"Gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original." - MELISSA MARR, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely

"Skillfully juxtapos[es] the arcane, magical world with Gatlin's normal southern lifestyle....  [Fans will] plead for more." - VOYA (starred review)

"A hauntingly delicious dark fantasy.." - CASSANDRA CLAIRE, New York Times bestselling author of City of Bones

LAVISH PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS NOVELS BY SHERI S. TEPPER

RAISING THE STONES
"Tepper effectively combines satire... inventive social engineering, strong main characters, and a plot that works in what may be her best novel to date."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Secure in technique, incandescent in conception, and profound in insight."
- Stephen R. Donaldson

GRASS
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AND FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD
"A splendid achievement, one of the most satisfying science fiction novels I have read in years."
- New York Times Book Review
"Tepper is a wide and subtle artist."
- Washington Post Book World

THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY
"It's grand...  One of the most involving, serious and deeply felt studies of the relations between the sexes that I have ever read, and then some."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Lively, thought provoking...  Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative."
- Ursula K. Le Guinn, Los Angeles Time

Left Flap:
BEAUTY

With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer.  Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass - turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable.

Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking, finely crafted, and moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature.  Set against backdrops both enchanted and horrific, the story thoroughly involved the reader in the life of Beauty, one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy.

Almost from birth, Beauty has possessed a certain quality, something special that sets her apart from others.  Even when her wicked aunt's curse is fulfilled on Beauty's sixteenth birthday, she is seemingly able to sidestep the tragedy.  Instead, Beauty finds herself transported to a world of the future, where she is surely alone though amid millions upon millions of humans.  Here her adventures begin as she travels magically though time to visit places both  imaginary and real.  Finally, she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along.

For in Beauty, there is beauty.  And in beauty, magic.  Without our enchanted places, our Faery Lands, humanity is no more than an upstart ape...  And this we realize is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastic world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live.

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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

During the last few years we've all been made increasingly aware of the destruction of habitat that's been going on all over the world - in rainforests, wetlands, deserts, the high tundra.  We see it on television and read about it in the nature magazines.  When I drive from Denver down to Santa Fe, I see the river valley where I grew up now packed with houses cheek by jowl.  There used to be cattail swamps along there, and I remember lying for hours on my belly in the tall grass looking for whatever it was that sounded like a plumber's plunger being squooshed.  The bird was a least bittern, but there aren't any swamp birds there anymore because the swamps have all been drained and the trees cut down to build a golf course.  The sloping wildflower-filled meadows where I used to hunt Indian arrowheads were first rutted and destroyed by off-road vehicles and then turned into a trailer park.  And on TV I see trees falling in Brazil, and wetlands turned into marinas in Florida, and deserts creeping into places grasslands used to be in Africa.

It seems to me sometimes that all beauty is dying.  Which makes me hope that perhaps it isn't dead but only sleeping.  And what makes me think of Sleeping Beauty and wonder if - Beauty, that is - might not be a metaphor for what is happening to the world at large: perfect Beauty born, Beauty cursed with death, Beauty dying - but with the magical hope of being reawakened, maybe by love.

The result of all this Beauty, a novel of human spirit, a book-length faery tale, a meditation on various questions of religion - or maybe just a prayer...

Jacket border © 1991 Joseph Scrofani
Handlettering © 1991 Ron Zinn
Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll

From amazon.com:

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska, defended by Inquisitor Glokta. The city is braced for the inevitable defeat and massacre to come, preparations are made to make the Gurkish pay for every inch of land . . . but a plot is festering to hand the city to its beseigers without a fight, and the previous Inquisitor of Dagoska vanished without trace. Threatened from within and without the city, Glokta needs answers, and he needs them soon. And to the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put a end to war, to the army of Eaters in the South, to the invasion of Shanka from the North - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .

The first volume in an epic two-part fantasy of devotion, destiny, and perilous magic from one of the most honored writers in the field - multiple Hugo Award-winning author
LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD

Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm.  But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier-sorcerers from the northern woodlands.  Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike.

It is Dag - a Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilities - who must come to Fawn's aid when she is taken captive by a malice.  They prevail at a devastating cost - unexpectedly binding their fates as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership... and perhaps even love.

"Bujold is head and shoulders above the ruck of current fantasists."
Booklist

THE GIFT AND THE CURSE

Orb had a rare gift - the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp.  No one could resist her music.  But greater magic than Orb's lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things.  The quest for the Llano occupied Orb's life.

Then she me Natasha.  He was handsome, charming - and an even finer musician than she.  Natasha began teaching Orb the music of the Llano, and she found herself falling in love with him.

Then Orb's mother Niobe came as an aspect of Fate, bearing the news that Orb was chosen for the role of the Incarnation of Nature - the Green Mother.  And Niobe warned Orb of the prophecy made years before - that Orb was to marry Evil.  Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her?

HERE IN THIS BRILLIANT FIFTH VOLUME OF THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY BRINGS HIS SERIES TO A SUSPENSE-FILLED PEAK.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

From amazon.com:

Springtime in Styria. And that means war.

There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, and behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.

War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.

Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started...

Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.

Tempus.  Warrior-servant of the god of storm and war.  A hero cursed with immortality in a world where death haunts every shadow...

Sanctuary™: The meanest, seediest town in all of fantasy.  Plagued by magic and murder, the heart of Thieves' World...

Now, in an exciting departure, Janet Morris, one of Thieves' World's most popular authors, takes her character, Tempus, beyond the city walls, beyond imaginable dangers...

BEYOND
SANCTUARY

THIEVES' WORLD is the bestselling fantasy adventure series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey.  A unique collaborative vision of today's top fantasy talents, Thieves' World is a colorful triumph of the imagination.  With over one million Thieves' World books in print, BEYOND SANCTUARY marks the first full-length novel inspired by this remarkable series.

Captured by a giant!  The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant.  He is far too nice and jumbly.  It's lucky for Sophie that he is.  Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants - rather than the BFG - she would have soon become breakfast.  When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all.  And the BFG is going to help her!

"DEATH TO ALL DERYNI!"

Once again the Kingdom of Gwynedd under young King Kelson found itself facing the horror of war between the Church and the Deryni.  And this time, there was also the threat of revolution.

Caitrin, Pretender Queen of Meara, was plotting to free Meara from its control by Gwynedd and make it an independent kingdom.

And ex-Archbishop Loris was once again free from his prison.  To him and the fanatics of the Church, the strange, magical powers of the Deryni were evil witchcraft.  Now, backed by six of the leading bishops of the land, he was conspiring to exterminate half-Deryni King Kelson and all his Deryni friends.

It looked as if even all the young King's Deryni powers might not be enough to save the peace of Gwynedd.

"AN INCREDIBLE HISTORICAL TAPESTRY OF A WORLD THAT NEVER WAS AND OF IMMENSELY VITAL PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO BE!"
Anne McCaffrey

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More than 3 million copies of
The Chronicles of Prydain in print!

In the land of Prydain, evil is never far away.  Arawn, Lord of the Land of Death, has been building an army of dark warriors to take over Prydain, and the only way to stop him is to destroy the Black Cauldron he uses to create his dreaded soldiers.

Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and his loyal companions must journey deep into Arawn's domain to destroy the Black Cauldron.  For each of them, the quest has special meaning.  For Taran, it is a glorious opportunity to use his first sword in battle.  But war requires a sacrifice greater than he'd ever imagined....

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy comes an action-packed tale of magic and adventure...

Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace.  Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.

When Gavin discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

WITH OVER FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD, BRENT WEEKS IS ONE OF THE FASTEST SELLING FANTASY AUTHORS OF ALL TIME."

PRAISE FOR THE LIGHTBRINGER SERIES:

"Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story.  He doesn't allow you to look away."
- Robin Hobb

"Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks."
- Brian McLellan

"One for the ages."
Fantasy Book Critic

From amazon.com:

Narashtovik has been saved—but Dante and Blays' friendship has been destroyed.

Blaming the Gaskan king for the loss of his love, Lira, Blays infiltrates the enemy nobility. There, he schemes to bankrupt Gask and drive its ruler from the throne. But Dante's been waiting for Blays' return. If he finds and exposes him, Blays will be executed as a spy.

As they squabble, strange lights shine in the east. Harbingers of a long-forgotten threat. If the signs go ignored, Narashtovik will be annihilated by an enemy it never knew it had.

GLADIATOR.
ASSASSIN.
THIEF.
PRINCESS.
AND THE SLAVE.

The Five Warrior Angels have been revealed, and one by one, the mystical weapons they once wielded are being found, and an ancient prophecy is finally being fulfilled.

Or is it?  For when it comes to recorded history, much is intended to manipulate and deceive.  Returning to the kingdom of Gul Kana, Princess Jondralyn has suffered a devastating loss, discovering that not all prophecy is to be assumed, not all scripture to be trusted.  At the same time, her younger sister, Tala, has found faith within herself while facing off against villians who are using her for their devices.

Hawkitvood, the former Bloodwood assasgin, is captured.  And the knight, Gault, betrayed by the Angel Prince, can only wonder about the fate of his daughter, who has fallen into terrible hands.

And all while Nail embarks upon the deadliest quest the Five Isles has ever known.

From amazon.com:

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.

Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.

And Logen Ninefingers, an infamous warrior with a bloody past, is about to wake up in a hole in the snow with plans to settle a blood feud with Bethod, the new King of the Northmen, once and for all - ideally by running away from it. But as he's discovering, old habits die really, really hard indeed . . .

. . . especially when Bayaz gets involved. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Glotka, Jezal and Logen a whole lot more difficult . . .

CHAMPION OF SCORPIO

The problem with being a spy is that you have to make friends with the enemy to learn anything.  And Dray Prescot, Earthman who had become prince of Vallia, was the kind of man who always stood by his friends.  So in his quest to learn the war secrets of Hamel, empire of the aircraft-makers, Dray found himself not only becoming blade-comrade to some of its greatest warriors but of championing the very life of its cruelly beautiful queen.

And though Dray's devotion to his glorious Vallian princess never flagged, his mission - and his life was perilously balanced upon the razor-edged blades of loyalty versus duty. 
One of the myriad readers writes: "During the years that I have been reading science fiction, I do not believe that I have ever come across a more entertaining, fast-moving series than your Dray Prescot of Antares.  I've read the John Carter novels, the Gorean series, the Lensman series... all of these made good reading but I believe Akers has done the finest job to date.  He has created an almost believable culture and all that goes with it."

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

Previous novels in the "Havilfar Cycle" of
the saga of Dray Prescot:
MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES (UY1124 - $1.25)
ARENA OF ANTARES (UY1145 - $1.25)
FLIERS OF ANTARES (UY1165 - $1.25)
And the fabulous first novels are back in print:
TRANSIT TO SCORPIO (UY1169 - $1.25)
THE SUNS OF SCORPIO (UY1191 - $1.25)

Gavin Guile is dying.

He'd thought he'd have five years left - now he has less than one.  With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side.  All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies.  Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable.

The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago.

WITH OVER TWO MILLION COPIES IN PRINT, BRENT WEEKS HAS BECOME ONE OF THE FASTEST SELLING NEW FANTASY AUTHORS OF ALL TIME.

PRAISE FOR THE LIGHTBRINGER SERIES:

"An exuberant epic fantasy that I could read thousands of pages of and still want more."
-fantasybookcritic.com on The Blinding Knife

"Weeks has written an epic fantasy unlike ano of its comtemporaries.  It is truly a visionary and original work, and has set the bar high for others in its subgenre."
- graspingforthewind.com on The Black Prism

JOHN NORMAN

Tarl Cabot, seeking the monsters from the Steel Worlds, found himself among the cruel savages who ruled the vast Barrens.  Though himself enslaved, he stood with his comrades and masters against a coming onslaught.

For the Kur had united the enemies of the tribe that held Cabot, and death and destruction were unleashed.  Out of the plains came riding, hordes of feud-driven braves, from the skies came a host of maddened tarn-riders, and even among the slave girls held by the blood brothers there was devilish treason.

BLOOD BROTHERS OF GOR is one of the great John Norman epics.  It is a long novel of constant action, told in depth and detail, of a struggle fought for the fate of a world where strong men clash and beautiful women await their victors.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

When does an empire fall?

Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, is lost, broken, and trapped.  Now he must escape a prison crafted by his own hands to hold even a great magical genius.  But he has no powers.

Kip Guile will make a last, desperate attempt to stop the White King's growing horde.

Karris White Oak will attempt to knit together a falling empire, helped only by her murderous and possibly treasonous father-in-law, Andross Guile.

Together, they will fight to prevent a tainted empire from becoming something even worse.

WITH OVER FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD, BRENT WEEKS IS ONE OF THE FASTEST-SELLING NEW FANTASY AUTHORS OF ALL TIME.

PRAISE FOR THE LIGHTBRINGER SERIES:

"Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks."
- Brian McLellan

"Brent Weeks is so good it's starting to tick me off."
- New York TImes bestselling author Peter V. Brett

"One for the ages."
Fantasy Book Critic

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the ‘everyday’ world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

Harry's had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of a adult film.  Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance.  Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster.  Still, there's something troubling about this newest case.  The Producer believes he's afflicted by a sinister entropy curse - but its the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways.

And Harry only got involved as a favour to Thomas, his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity.  Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can't work out, until his investigation leads him straight to Thomas's oversexed relatives.  Harry's about to discover the skeleton in Thomas's family closet: a revelation that will change Harry's life forever.

MAGIC - IT CAN GET A GUY KILLED.

'Raw storytelling skills - practically unparalleled in contemporary urban fantasy'
SFReviews.net

'Butcher still rules in my library'
SFFWorld.com