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#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
251 1986 Beyond Wizardwall
Beyond - Theives' World #3
Janet Morris  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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252 1982 The BFG
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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!
253 2003 The Big Bad Wolf
Alex Cross #9
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WHO'S AFRAID?

Alex Bross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as as the Wolf.

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied.  Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely.  These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes.  They are being bought and sold.  And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves.

YOU'RE AFRAID

Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move.  A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive.

As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too.  His ex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

Full of the unexpected twists and heartrending surprises that James Patterson delivers better than any other suspense writer alive, The Big Bad Wolf is an unforgettable thriller from "one of America's most influential authors" (New York Times).

Peter Jay Fernandez is a New York based actor and narrator.  He has appeared on Broadway in JELLY'S LAST JAM and THE MERCHANT of VENICE, and has performed in numerous off-broadway plays and musicals.  His extensive television credits include FUNNY VALENTINES, THE PROSECUTORS, LAW & ORDER, and COSBY.  He currently lives in Harlem with his wife Denise.

Denis O'Hare won the 2003 Tony award for his performance in TAKE ME OUT, directed by Joe Mantello.  He was also seen in the Broadway productions of MAJOR BARBARA, CABARET, and in the films HAMLET, directed by Campbell Scott, and SWEET AND LOWDOWN, directed by Woody Allen.
254 1975 The Big Black Mark
John Grimes #7
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ADRIFT
BETWEEN
THE STARS


The fabulous career of John Grimes from ensign in the Galactic Federation to admiral of the Rim Worlds has been chronicled over the years in dozens of gripping novels and short stories.  But the pivotal account of Grimes' career - the big black mark on his service record that forced him to change his loyalties had never been recorded.  DAW Books is proud to welcome A. Bertram Chandler to its lists and doubly proud to present that major novel of Grimes, the only character in all space fiction with the scope and depth that Captain Hornblower achieved in the field of sea fiction.

This then, in a full-length novel, is the key story of Commander Grimes and of the voyage of the, Discovery - a spaceship which bore an uncanny kinship to a certain legendary vessel called the Bounty.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK
255 2019 2021 Big Damn Hero
Firefly #1
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James Lovegrove  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon

The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in airpower because the ground war was "too hot". But the soldiers who were there insist that was not true....

While picking up a new cargo on Persephone, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats who suspect him of sabotaging the Independents during the war. As the rest of the crew struggle to locate him, Mal is placed on trial for his life, fighting compelling evidence that someone did indeed betray them to the Alliance all those years ago. As old comrades and old rivals crawl out of the woodwork, Mal must prove his innocence, but his captors are desperate and destitute, and will settle for nothing less than the culprit’s blood.
256 1927 The Big Four
Hercule Poirot Mystery #4
Agatha Christie  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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257 1993 The Big Game
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Novels #4
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Sandy Schofield  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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STAR TREK®
DEEP SPACE NINE™

THE BIG GAME


When Quark holds a poker tournament on Deep Space Nine someone from alomst every sentient race - Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans, Vulcans, Ferengi - shows up for what is sure to be the highest-stakes game of all time.  But when one player is killed, the stakes get higher than even these big-money players had counted on.

With the station rocked by subspace waves that threaten its destruction, Commander Sisko and Security Chief Odo must hunt down the killer in time to save the players, a killer who has information that can save those onboard Deep Space Nine from the invisible enemy they do not even know they face.  A killer who holds all the cards....
258 1976 Birth of Fire
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BIRTH OF FIRE

THE CHOICE WAS SIMPLE:
EARTH AND PRISON - OR MARS AND SLAVERY


For Garrett Pittson, wrongly convicted of murder, the choice was no choice.  The struggling Mars settlement needed miners.  At least there he wouldn't be behind bars.

As it turned out, he might as well have been: the mining corporations were running a veritable penal colony.  Appalling conditions prevailed.  No work meant no food.  As an extreme punishment, even oxygen was withheld.

For Pittson - and a determined group of his fellows - the slavery was intolerable.  The only answer: revolution...

"Earthy and realistic" - Science Fiction Review

"Excellent science fiction adventure... a depth of meaning that goes beyond the story" - Poul Anderson
259 1985 Birth of Flux and Anchor
Soul Rider #4
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For countless years, the strange and hauited place called World has been a land divided.  Beyond the stability of Anchor lies the chaos of the Flux, a land of strange passions and near magic, where flesh is mutable, and reality yields madness.

This is the tale of the making of that World, of a brilliant scientist who discovered a universe where mind rules matter, and of the courageous men and women who battled treachery, rebellion and hellish alien forces to found a colony there....
260 2002 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Hainish Cycle #9
Ursula K Le Guin  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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261 1975 The Birthgrave
Birthgrave Trilogy #1
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The place: the heart of a rumbling volcano.
The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep.
The time: unknown, far from today.
The problem: her identity. Who is she? What are her powers? Where is her lover and who or what is he? What is to be her relation to the world in which she finds herself... slave girl, goddess, nomad, or warrior?
The author: a science fiction talent to be compared only with those of C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, or Andre Norton.

Marion Zimmer Bradley, who wrote a special introduction, says, "It's filled with adventure and beauty, rich alien names, half-sketched barbarian societies, ruined cities, decadence and wonder...  As I read this I thought most often of "The Dying Earth" stories by Jack Vance.  THE BIRTHGRAVE has something of the same color and wonder...  You can get involved, learn to know people, get fully submerged in the colorful anf fascinating world Tanith Lee presents.  And I predict that when you, satisfied but regretful, turn over the last page, you too will wish there were more."

- A DAW BOOK ORIGINAL -
262 1993 Birthright
Doctor Who - New Adventures #17
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Nigel Robinson  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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'I feel like a pawn in a blasted chess game, Ace.' 'I know what you mean. Trouble is, they keep changing the chess-players.'

The TARDIS has died. Stranded in early twentieth-century London, Bernice can only stand and watch as it slowly disintegrates.

In the East End a series of grisly murders has been committed. Is this the work of the ghostly Springheel Jack or, as Bernice suspects something even more sinister?

In a tiny shop in Bloomsbury, the master of a grand order of sorcerers is nearing the end of a seven-hundred year quest for a fabled magic wand.

And on a barren world in the far-distant future the Queen of a dying race pleads for the help of an old hermit named Muldwych, while Ace leads a group of guerrillas in a desperate struggle against their alien oppressors.

These events are related. Perhaps the Doctor knows how. But the Doctor has gone away
263 1984 The Bishop's Heir
Deryni #7
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"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

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
264 2019 The Bitterroots
Highway Series #5
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265 2012 2023 The Black Box
Harry Bosch #16
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Michael Connelly  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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THE BLACK BOX


Harry Bosch first encountered journalist Anneke Jespersen in a dark alleyway.  She'd been shot, execution-style, on the night Los Angeles burned in riots and the police protected no one.  His investigation was reassigned and the murder was never solved.  Now, twenty years later, Bosch comes across shocking evidence - a gun used in recent crimes is the same one that killed Anneke Jespersen.  With this sliver of a lead, Bosch must pry open the case that he has never been able to forget.

The investigation will stretch from the roughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles to distant battlegrounds where Jespersen once covered bloody conflicts.  What really brought her to Los Angeles?  And in a new age, will Bosch find the "black box," the one piece of evidence that pulls the case together - and makes justice possible at last?

"I decided several years ago that this is the finest crime series written by an American, and nothing in the new book changes my mind."
-Washington Post

"Continues [Connelly's] streak of telling stellar crime stories... one of the top detectives in crime fiction."
-Chicago Sun-Times
266 1965 2020 The Black Cauldron
The Chronicles of Prydain #2
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Lloyd Alexander  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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....
267 1992 2022 The Black Echo
Harry Bosch #1
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Michael Connelly  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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THE FIRST HARRY BOSCH NOVEL
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD
FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

THE BLACK ECHO


For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mullholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  This one is personal... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war.  Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.  From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.  Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.

"Recalls no one so much as Raymond Chandler... ambitious, skillful, moving, intricate, and clever."
- Los Angeles Times

"Connelly is one of those masters... who can keep driving the story in runaway locomotive style."
- USA Today
268 1983 1995 Black Fire
Star Trek Novels #8
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SPOCK A TRAITOR?

There is sabbotage aboard the Enterprise, and Spock's investigation leads him into defiance of the Federation and a bizarre alliance with the Romulan and Klingon Empires against the bloodthirsty Tomarii - a savage race for whom war and battle are life itself.

Now Spock has been declared a traitor and condemned to the shame of the Federation's highest security prison.  And now Captain James Kirk must face the toughest decision of his command, while a lifelong friendship and the destiny of the free universe hang in the balance!
269 1994 The Black Gryphon
Valdemar: Mage Wars #1
Mercedes Lackey  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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270 1979 1979 The Black HoleAlan Dean Foster  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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271 2021 Black Ice
Scot Harvath #20
Brad Thor  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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272 1993 2022 The Black Ice
Harry Bosch #2
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Michael Connelly  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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THE BLACK ICE

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing.  Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.  Working the case, L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.  Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border.  Now this battle-scarred veteran will findhimself in the center of a complex and deadly game - one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

"MICHAEL CONNELLY IS ONE OF TODAY'S TOP CRIME NOVELISTS." -Associated Press

"TERRIFIC." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"OUTLANDISHLY REALISTIC AND DARKLY ENTERTAINING." -Houson Chronicle
273 2012 Black List
Scot Harvath #11
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A stunning masterwork of action,
intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.


#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever.

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.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together.  The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor "is arguably the best thriller writer of our time" (Suspense Magazine) and "America's favorite author" (KTTX).

Back flap:

"Anyone who thinks the only thing to fear is fear itself should meet Brad Thor:"
- Newsweek

"The Master of Thrillers."
- Bookreporter.com


BRAD THOR is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2011), The Athena Project, Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2010), The Apostle, The Last Patriot (nominated best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback (recognized as one of the "Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time" by NPR), State of the Union, Path of the Assassin, and The Lions of Lucerne.  Visit his website at www.BradThor.com.
274 2010 2022 The Black Prism
Lightbringer #1
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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
275 1985 Black Star Rising
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"TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER, IF YOU CAN..."


When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk.

Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President - not even a United States.  In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most people, "USA" and "USSR" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries.

Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes... so one Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm - near Biloxi, Mississippi - is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
276 2014 The Black Star
Cycle of Arawn #3
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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.
277 2019 The Blackest Heart
The Five Warrior Angels #2
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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.
278 1996 Blacklight
Doctor Who - Miscellaneous
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279 2010 2019 Blackout
Oxford Time Travel #4
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In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history.

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London's Blitz. And 17-year-old Colin Templer, who has a major crush on Polly, is determined to go to the Crusades so that he can catch up to her in age. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments for no apparent reason and switching around everyones schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.

BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Connie Willis discusses her fascination with WWII and the historic context of Blackout.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Blackout is the first volume of a two-part novel. To find out what happens to the time-traveling historians from Oxford, we invite you to download the concluding volume, All Clear.
280 2020 2020 Blackout
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New York Times best seller

It’s time for a Black exit. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community and why she and many others are turning right.


Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the Black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the Black community’s ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American dream.

Instead, Owens offers up a different ideology by issuing a challenge: It’s time for a major Black exodus. From dependency, from victimhood, from miseducation - and the Democrat Party, which perpetuates all three. Owens explains that government assistance is a double-edged sword, that the left dismisses the faith so important to the Black community, that Democrat permissiveness toward abortion disproportionately affects Black babies, that the #MeToo movement hurts Black men, and much more. Weaving in her personal story, which ushered her from a roach-infested low-income apartment to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she demonstrates how she overcame her setbacks and challenges despite the cultural expectation that she should embrace a victim mentality.

Well-researched and intelligently argued, Blackout lays bare the myth that all Black people should vote Democrat - and shows why turning to the right will leave them happier, more successful, and more self-sufficient.
281 2006 2015 The Blade Itself
The First Law #1
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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 . . .
282 1975 2023 Bladesman of Antares
Dray Prescot #9
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Alan Burt Akers  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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)
283 1853 2017 Bleak House
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From librivox.org:

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved.
284 2012 2022 The Blinding Knife
Lightbringer #2
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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
285 2012 Blood and Bone
Malazan Empire #5
Ian Cameron Esslemont  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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286 2004 2004 Blood and Hope
Doctor Who - Telos Novellas #14
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Iain McLaughlin  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The American Civil War … a time of great unrest, when fathers found themselves in conflict with their sons and when lawlessness and slavery were rife.

The Doctor, together with his companions Peri and Erimem, arrive in the middle of the conflict. The Doctor manages to cope in his own inimitable manner, however Peri – an American – and Erimem – a dark-skinned Egyptian – find themselves faced with all the bigotry and hatred that typified the war for some.

Featuring the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem.
287 1982 Blood Brothers of Gor
Gorean Series #18
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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 -
288 2002 Blood Follows
Malazan Book of the Fallen #4.1
Steven Erikson  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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289 1994 1996 Blood Harvest
Doctor Who - New Adventures #28
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Terrance Dicks  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'Doc's peddling bootleg liquor in an illegal speakeasy. You're carrying a gun for him, Ace - which makes you no better than any other gun-moll.'

Dekker is a private eye; an honest one. But when Al Capone hires him to investigate a new joint called 'Doc's', he knows this is one job he can't refuse. And just why are the Doctor and Ace selling illegal booze in a town full of murderous gangsters?

Meanwhile, Bernice has been abandoned on a vampire-infested planet outside normal space. There she meets a mysterious stranger called Romanadvoratrelundar - and discovers an ancient and malevolent power, linking 1929 Chicago with a lair of immortal evil.

The consequences of this story are inextricably linked to events in the Doctor's past. The full story is revealed in the first of a new series of Missing Adventures - Goth Opera by Paul Cornell.

Full-length, original novels based on the longest running science-fiction television series of all time, the BBC's Doctor Who.  The New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of space and time.

Terrance Dicks is one of the countries most prolific and popular authors.  He has written over sixty novels based on Doctor Who, including the New Adventure, Timewyrm: Exodus.  He was script editor of the television series for five years.
290 1993 1998 Blood Heat
Doctor Who - New Adventures #19
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Jim Mortimore  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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'Not men, Ace. Silurians. The original rulers of the Earth.'

The TARDIS is attacked by an alien force; Bernice is flung into the Vortex; and the Doctor and Ace crash-land on Earth.

An attack by dinosaurs convinces the Doctor that he and Ace have arrived in the Jurassic Era. But when they find a woman being hunted by intelligent reptiles, he begins to suspect that something is very wrong.

Then they meet the embittered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the remnants of UNIT in a hopeless fight against the Silurians who rule his world. and they find out that it all began when the Doctor died...
291 2016 2022 The Blood Mirror
Lightbringer #4
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Brent Weeks  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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
292 1986 1987 Blood of Amber
Amber: The Merlin Cycle #2
Roger Zelazny  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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293 2013 Blood of Dragons
Rain Wild Chronicles #4
Robin Hobb  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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294 1994 2019 Blood of Elves
The Witcher #1
Andrzej Sapkowski  
Danusia Stok (Translator)  
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295 1996 2011 Blood of the Fold
Sword of Truth #3
Terry Goodkind  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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296 2004 2016 Blood Rites
The Dresden Files #6
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Jim Butcher  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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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
297 2008 2023 Blood Trail
Joe Pickett #8
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C J Box  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"An original voice...  Box is exploring new territory.  He is fresh, captivating, and has something to say."
- MICHAEL CONNELLY

It's elk season in the Rockies - but a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey.  Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp - strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing.  A poker chip lies next to his body.  As ripples of horror spread through the community, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early.  Are the murders the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer down before someone declares open season on humans.

"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL

"[Box] continues to be red-hot."
- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
298 1998 2022 Blood Work
Terry McCaleb #1
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Michael Connelly  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY
BOSCH SERIES AND THE LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES

BOOK WORK


When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement.  He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful.  But when Graciella tells him the way her sister, Gloria, was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice.  Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul.  For Gloria's killer shatters every rule McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau - as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life... and just one shot at the truth.

"Compelling... A spine-tingling manhunt guaranteed to boost the blood pressure." - People
299 2009 Bloodhound
Beka Cooper #2
Tamora Pierce  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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300 1993 Bloodletter
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Novels #3
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K W Jeter  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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STAR TREK®
DEEP SPACE NINE™

BLOODLETTER


Starfleet Command has learned that the Cardassians are planning to construct a base on the other side of the wormhole to establish a presence and claim the rish unexplored territory.  Now, it falls to Commander Sisko, Major Kira, and the crew of Deep Space Nine to set up a Federation station there immediately.

But before Major Kira can deliver the new base, a fanatic from her violent past appears.  Now, Kira must engage in a life and death struggle with an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy her - as the fate of Bajor, the wormhole, and possibly the entire Federation hangs in the balance.






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