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After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust?

From amazon.com:

After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she revels in her bloodlust?

From amazon.com:

After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she revels in her bloodlust?

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This FINAL VOLUME includes the rare, acclaimed story ASHEN VICTOR, plus two extensive interviews with creator Yukito Kishiro and all of the canon and non-canon endings of the original cyberpunk classic, Battle Angel Alita!

In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she revels in her bloodlust?

AMERICA RISING FROM THE ASHES
OF ITS FINAL DESTRUCTION...

Here is Piers Anthony's epic trilogy... the brilliant, riveting tale of the savage struggle for empire and diminance in primitive postcataclysmic America.

SOS THE ROPE

The kill spirits of the blast were retreating and Sos was pledged to begin an empire, to build a dream - the same dream which had been built so many times, eons ago.

VAR THE STICK

Var was the chosen one - half man, half animal, a mutant victim of the blast - called upon to rescue the Empire in a battle he was secretly afraid of winning.

NEQ THE SWORD

An age of darkness was upon the Empire and Neq, the greatest of warriors, was emarked on a quest that would decide the future of the world!

"SUPURB...  In prose as sharp as a nomad's sword, Anthony writes of the price of heroism, the power of love, the futility of vengeance."  Science Fiction Review

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

A VAST AND ANCIENT STARSHIP PROBES
THE UNIVERSE FOR THE LEGENDARY
LOST PLANET "EARTH"

Battlestar GALACTICA

THE NEW DEEPSPACE SPECTACULAR WITH THE
MOST EXCITING SPECIAL EFFECTS EVER PRODUCED

Zac and Apollo are brother - and rivals - in the ultimate adventure, as humankind's heroic star-fighter crews battle the alien Cylon for control of the known galaxy!  BATTLE STAR GALACTICA is an epic multi-media event: the triumphant ABC-TV spectacular with the most expensive special effects ever produced, designed by Oscar-winning genius John Dykstra... and a powerful science fiction novel, a gripping space-war saga of interstellar adventure!

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Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.

For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: “Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it."

There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. In “Afterlife,” a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Others address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.

“I made these stories especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”

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.

Back Flap:

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

Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it's the greatest day of her life. So why is she sitting on the bench while the rest of the students play the game gray duck? Laughs and minor upsets abound in an enormously popular story starring the one and only Ramona Quimby!

STAR WARS

In the blockbuster bestselling tradition of Heir to the Empire comes this thrilling addition to the Star Wars® saga, as peace gives way to a dire new threat...

BEFORE THE STORM

It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic.  The Remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi knights has brought power and prestige to the flesgling governement on Coruscant.  Yesterday's Rebels have become today's administrators and diplomats, and the factions that fought against Imperial tyranny seem united in savoring the fruits of peace.

But the peace is short-lived.  A restless Luke must journey to his mother's homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quesst to find her people.  An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive powers and an unknown mission.  And Leia, a living symbol of the New Republic's triumph, must face down the ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war that could shatter the fragile unity of the New Republic... and threaten its very survival.

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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

BEHIND
THE WALLS OF TERRA

Paul Janus Finnegan was called Kickaha on the artificial universes created by that always feuding super-race known as the Lords.  Though he was a mortal Earthman, he had managed to survive every intrigue, war, test and opponent they could devise.

But it was when he found his way back to his own world that Kickaha faced the greatest dangers of his adventure-filled career.  For he knew the secrets of the powers that moved the cosmos,and this made him a threat - a target of the terrible hidden forces contending for this very universe.

'Professor Summerfield, your very presence here has raised this hotel's insurance premiums by seven point two percent.'

It is the year 2595. Mars, once the distant target of humanity's ambitions in space, has been colonised for five hundred years. To mark the anniversary, the planet's university is holding an academic conference. Naturally, esteemed expert on Martian archaeology Bernice Summerfield is invited to present a paper based on her long career in this field.

But other matters distract Bernice from academia. Decades ago, hostile aliens invaded Mars. At their moment of greatest need, Mars' human population was betrayed by its leader. And although the occupation was swiftly ended, the anger of those who fought to save Mars still runs deep.

So when a veteran of the war is found dead, old wounds are reopened. Bernice finds herself investigating a murder with the least reliable of allies - and soon discovers that the consequences of the Siege of Mars are far from being ancient history.

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

Connie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author.  Now, with her trademark wit and inventiveness, she explores the intimate relationship between science, pop culture, and the arcane secrets of the heart.

BELLWETHER

Sandra Foster studies fads from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean.  Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theorist studying monkey group behavior.  They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package brings them together.  It's a moment of synchronicity - if not serendipity - which leads them into a chaotic system of their own, complete with a million-dollar research grant, caffè latte, tattoos, and a series of unlucky coincidences that leaves Bennett monkeyless, fundless, and nearly jobless.  Sandra intercedes with a flock of sheep and an idea for a joint project.  (After all, what better animal to study both chaos theory and the herd mentality that so often characterizes human behavior?)  But scientific discovery is rarely straightforward and never simple, and Sandra and Bennett have to endure a series of setbacks, heartbreaks, dead ends, and disasters before they find their ultimate answer....

"CONNIE WILLIS DEPLOYS THE APPARATUS OF SCIENCE FICTION TO ILLUMINATE CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS, AND HER WRITING IS FRESH, SUBTLE, AND DEEPLY MOVING."
- The New York Times Book Review

"KEEN SOCIAL SATIRE TOUCHED WITH GENUINE HUMANITY... CONNIE WILLIS'S FICTION IS ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT DELIGHTS OF OUR GENRE."
- Locus

"A SHEER PLEASURE TO READ... SPRIGHTLY, INTELLIGENT FUN."
- Publishers Weekly

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New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box's Below Zero is the 9th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe's daughter Sherry. Wasn't April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details only April could know, Sherry becomes confused while Joe grows suspicious. Is the caller April-or are Joe and his family victims of a cruel hoax?

The people of Belannia II see their sun, Bel, shrouded in night for a month following an impossible triple eclipse.  When Bel is returned to them a younger, brighter, hotter star, it is the beginning of the end for the entire solar system...

100,000 years later, the Doctor and Sam arrive on Belannia IV, where the population is under threat as disaster looms - immense gravitational and dimensional disturbances are surging through this area of space.

While the time travellers attempt to help the survivors and ease the devastation, a religious suicide-cult leader is determined to spread a new religion through Bel's system - and his word may prove even more dangerous that the terrible forces brought into being by the catastrophic changes in the sun...

A SWEEPING HISTORICAL
ADVENTURE BY THE WORLD'S BESTSELLING
FRONTIER STORYTELLER.

They came West inspired by the boldest American dream.  Pioneers whose hands and hearts shaped the proud destiny of a nation.  Seven men and thirteen women and children - strangers who shed their blood to build a community out of the Wyoming wilderness.  And towering above them all was Bendigo Shafter, a giant of a man whose love and courage were the equal of the mighty land.

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 165 million of his books in print around the world.

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BOOK TWO IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES.

Some twenty years have passed since the passengers and crew of the starship Geographic established a colony on the hostile alien world of Avalon. In that time, a new generation has grown up in the peace and serenity of the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought between their parents and grandparents and the monstrous inhabitants of Avalon.

Now, under the influence of a charismatic leader, a group of young rebels makes for the mainland, intent on establishing their own colony, sure that they can vanquish any foe that should stand in their way.

But they will soon discover that Avalon holds darker secrets still.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

About Beowulf's Children:

"Few writers have a finer pedigree than those here....  As one might suspect Beowulf's Children is seamless... absorbing, substantial... masterful novel." - Los Angeles Times

"Panoramic SF adventure at its best." - Library Journal

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. With Jerry Pournelle, he is the author of the all-time SF classic The Mote in God's Eye, and subsequent books in the series, as well as the novels in the Heorot series. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

Jerry Pournelle was a master of military science fiction, author of the series of novels about John Christian Falkenberg and his legion of interstellar mercenaries, and many other works, such as Janissaries, Exiles to Glory, High Justice, King David's Spaceship, Starswarm, and others. With Larry Niven he collaborated on a string of bestselling novels, including Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and many more. He held advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science, and has was actively involved professionally in all these fields.

Steven Barnes is a New York Times best-selling, Hugo Award–nominated author of Twelve Days among other novels, a screenwriter, and creator of the Lifewriting™ writing course, which he has taught nationwide. He recently won an NAACP Image Award as coauthor of the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series with his spouse, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood.

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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.

"[Betrayal] blasts off a new string of adventures starring beloved Star Wars familiars... this new istallment should please Star Wars fans."
- Publisher Weekly

SPECIAL BONUS INSIDE!
Two thrilling short stories featuring Darth Vader - by bestselling Star Wars author Karen Traviss

Honor and duty collide with friendship and blood ties as the Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposite sides of an explosive conflict.

When a mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush - from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protégé and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape with their lives - it's the most alarming evidence yet that political unrest is threatening to ignite into total rebellion.  The specter of full-scale war looms between a growing cadre of defiant planets and the Gallactic Alliance that some fear is becomming a new Empire.

Determined to root out those behind the mayhem, Jacen follows a trail of cryptic clues to a rendezvous with the most shocking of revelations.  Meanwhile Luke grapples with something even more troubling: dream visions of a shadowy figure whose Force power anf ruthlessness remind him of Darth Vader.  If Luke's visions come to pass, they will bring untold pain to the Jedi Master... and to the galaxy.

THE BETTER MAN

When the planet Empyrea, a colony of genetically perfected human beings, demands that the Federation remove a science station which has been in place for nearly twenty years, the Starship Enterprise™ is assigned to transport to the planet the Federation ambassador who negotiated with the Empyreans long ago - an ambassador who was once Dr. McCoy's closest friend, but is now a bitter rival.

On Empyrea, McCoy discovers Anna, a daughter he never knew he had.  McCoy soon realizes that the isolationist Empyreans must not learn her father is an off-worlder, and that her genes are less than "perfect."  As relations with the Empereans collapse around him, McCoy must find a way to save his newfound daughter from the harshest penalty her planet can impose.

Two Childs are
even better than one."
- JAMES PATTERSON

Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed
#1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants.  That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun - until he comes upon a curious scene.  A
Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around.  A woman is slumped over the wheel.

The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people.  The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark.

Reacher is good at finding people who don't want to be found.  And a life hangs in the balance.  Maybe more than one.  But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life.  Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.

"Superb... Smart writing, vivid action scenes, and dramatic twists mark this seamless effort.  Even those for whom this is their first Reacher novel will be clamoring for more."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.  I read every one as soon as it appears."
- KEN FOLLETT

"The mixture of brute-force and intellectual problem-solving is just right"
- Booklist

Zane Grey's First Novel
Battle and survival on the frontier
during the American Revolution

Inspired by the life and adventures of own great-great-grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.

Betty
Zane

is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when two hundred Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with four hundred Shawnee Indians attacked the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier.  The heroine of the battle - a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl - was Betty Zane.

DON HARVEY,
COME HOME!

The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don could have imagined.  He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown - save only that his life depended on it.

But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out to be a lot more complicated than Don ever would have guessed possible.

It was trouble enough being inexplicably hounded by Earth's secret police.  But when he was hijacked by Venusian rebels, Don suddenly realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!

"FINE DIALOGUE, WELL PRESENTED TECHNICAL MATERIAL, AND A GOOD STORY MAKE EXCELLENT READING."
- School Library Journal

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.

GATEWAY TO
THE HEECHEE

Robinette Broadhead, made rish by the Gateway mission that had cost him the woman he loved, joined in bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory a Heechee spaceship foud beyond the orbit of Pluto and designed to graze the cometary cloud and transform the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food.

Broadhead thought his motives were simple enough: a gamble on a breakthrough that could end famine forever and would make him the wealthiest man in history.  But his understanding, tough-minded wife knew something else drove her husband: a vision of his lost love, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole... where Robin had abandonded her.

'You're on your own, Bernice.'

Bernice Summerfield has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.

Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an archaeologist long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?

Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon - a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.