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 | DON OF THE DEAD: A ZOMBIE NOVEL by Nick Cato (From Google Books) Two mob families go to war after one family's main hitman switches sides--and to show his newfound loyalty, he has to whack his former boss, who also happens to be the current Don. The Don is buried alive on a mob-controlled construction site that was once the location of a church that had banned the same Don's ancestors, causing them to invent their own religion. The Barrlucio and Piranzza families battle for control of the underworld before their main henchmen find out a Don has been offed without permission. Major problems arise when a group of mysterious Sicilians arrive from Italy and manage to retrieve the Don's corpse. Well, his living corpse. Before long, the Don's undead state leads to the outbreak of reanimated dead, including a showdown at the Staten Island Mall and NYC's Central Park. Add to the mix a corrupt military general that is bent on using the outbreak to bring down the mob and the entire city and an even more corrupt Catholic priest who is responsible for the whole mess in the first place. Ah, nothing like a few bowls of scungilli, classy suits, bullets and zombies. Book is in excellent condition, only the slightest of shelfwear. Read once. Item code: B1DONDEAD Price: $5.00
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 | THE ALIENIST by Caleb Carr (From Library Journal) A serial killer is butchering boy prostitutes in New York City. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt enlists a reporter and groundbreaking psychologist (known as an "alienist" in 1896) to track the killer by compiling his psychological profile. The real mystery here, however, lies in finding out what happens in the sections of the novel that were abridged. Who are all these characters? How did they jump to their apparently absurd conclusions? Where is the social history of the city and the celebrity cameos that the printed book's reviewers found so enticing? To judge by the level of suspense reader Edward Hermann can generate during selected passages, this may be a very good novel. Libraries would do best to wait for an unabridged release or stick with the print version. Condition: Hardcover; Tear on bottom front cover, some dings and shelfwear to edges of dustcover. Residue from bookplate on interior page, other than that book is in PERFECT shape. Book club edition. Item Code: B3ALIENIST Price: $1.50 
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 | BALTIMORE, OR THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER AND THE VAMPIRE by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (From Publisher's Weekly) Mignola (HellBoy) and Golden (The Myth Hunters) create a haunting allegory on the nature of war, fusing the poignancy of Hans Christian Anderson's The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the supernatural chills of Dracula and the horrors of WWI and the subsequent influenza epidemic. Years after Capt. (and Lord) Henry Baltimore is infected by a demonic vampire bat while wounded near the Ardennes forest, he summons three friends to a mysterious meeting. Demetrius Aischros is the merchant sea captain who had taken Baltimore home to Trevelyan Isle, where they found Baltimore's family dead and his wife resurrected as a vampire. Thomas Childress Jr. is a nobleman and deserter who learns about the vampire infestation from Baltimore, his childhood friend. Dr. Lemuel Rose is the surgeon who treated Baltimore's war injuries. Together they help Baltimore face a final showdown with the terrible Red King. Stark monochrome illustrations from Mignola enhance this dramatic tale of war and fear. (Sept.) Condition: Hardcover; Dust jacket a bit loose (more a flaw than a reduced condition), but no dings or tears. Book is in PERFECT condition. Item Code: B4Baltimore Price: $3.00
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 | BLACK COMPANY BOOKS by Glen Cook (Google Books) Water Sleeps - Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price. (Google Books) Soldiers Live - When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. Condition: Both HC books are library discards; this means they are wrapped in the plastic dust jacket protectors, but have stickers on the front of these, or on the cover itself. Also, internally, stamped as library discards. However, they are in otherwise perfect shape. If you can look past the stampings and such, these are fantastic condition. Item Code: B21BLACKCO Price: $8.00
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 | THE DARK TOWER, VOL 5: WOLVES OF THE CALLA by Stephen King (Google Books) "Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. Readers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world; and Oy, the Billy-Bumbler. In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul. One of the town's residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie, and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland's world. As Father Callahan tells the ka-tet the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla-folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough. " Condition: Library discard HC; no cover stickers, only stamp interior back. Very minimal edgewear, wrapped in plastic dust jacket protector. Great conditon! Item Code: B22DTOWER5 Price: $4.00
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 | DREAMCATCHER by Stephen King (Google Books) Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of IT and INSOMNIA), four young boys did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their past and in the boy they once rescued as a child. Condition: HC; pretty much as good as you're gonna get off the bookshelf. Didn't see any flaws during inspection. Item Code: B24DCATCHER Price: $4.00
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 | ERAGON (MOVIE TIE-IN COVER) by Christopher Paolini (From Google Books) Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy?until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save?or destroy?the Empire. Condition: Trade paperback; slight crease on front cover, sticker residue on front and back covers. Other than that, great. Never read. Item Code: B9ERAGON Price: $1.00
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 | TWO BOOK LOT OF GRAILS ANTHOLOGIES edited by Martin H Greenberg, others (From Google Books) Grails: Quests of the Dawn - This vast array of stories dealing with the legendary Grail, from its mythical past to its unexpected future, includes works by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alan Dean Foster, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman, Andre Norton, Gene Wolfe, Janny Wurts, and Diana Paxson. First of a two-volume set. (From Google Books) A sequel to Grails: Quests of the Dawn includes the works of twenty-five noted fantasy writers, including Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and Robert Weinberg, and focuses on the spellbinding quests for the elusive chalice. Original. Condition: both are Trade paperbacks; Dawn has edgewear and a ding on the upper front cover just above the title. Night has edgewear. Neither book were ever read. Item Code: B10GRAILS Price: $5.00
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 | LOT OF 3 JOHN GRISHAM HARDCOVERS The Testament, The Partner and The Runaway Jury. Condition: Hardcovers; edgewear to the dust jackets - structurally, books in fantastic shape. The Partner is a 1st printing, 1st edition. The other two are book club editions. The Testament has an inscription from a previous owner on an inside page. Item Code: B11GRISHAM Price: $5.00
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 | THE TALISMAN/BLACK HOUSE by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Google Books) The Talisman - On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America?and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother?s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . . (Google Books) Black House - Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it. Condition: HC; minimal edgewear to dust jackets. Item Code: B25KINGSTRAUB Price: $9.00
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 | NOBODY GETS THE GIRL by James Maxey (Google Books) Presented by legendary comic book author Jim Shooter, this book is a fast-paced science fiction novel with all the flair and fun of a comic book. (Me) Wow, that's a horrid summary. Um, the story is about a guy who inadvertantly becomes a superhero when a scientist's effort to stop evil removes him from our world. So, he becomes Nobody, the man most people can't see. There's a big amount of tongue-in-cheek here, but it's a serious action/superhero story. Condition: trade paperback; some edgewear to the bottom corners, some minimal edgewear here and there. Item Code: B26NOBODY Price: $4.00
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 | THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW by J.R.R./Christopher Tolkien (From Google Books) In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts. Condition: Hardcover; this 22 year old first printing is in great condition. There are some age spotting on the edges of the pages, but that is the only flaw. Item Code: B15SHADOW Price: $10.00
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 | I SHUDDER AT YOUR TOUCH edited by Michelle Slung (Google Books) A collection of twenty-two tales of sex and horror features work by Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, Clive Barker, Stephen R. Donaldson, Patrick McGrath, Thomas M. Disch, and others. Original. Condition: Some edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise in fantastic shape. Item Code: B27SHUDDER Price: $2.50
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 | SUSANNA CLARKE SET OF 2 HC BOOKS (Google Books) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England'until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear. Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year « Book Sense Book of the Year « People Top Ten Books of the Year « Winner of the Hugo Award « A New York Times Notable Book of the Year « Salon.com Top Ten of 2004 «Winner of the World Fantasy Award « Nancy Pearl's Top 12 Books of 2004 « Washington Post Book World 's Best of 2004 « Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction 2004 « San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2004 « Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel « Chicago Tribune Best of 2004 « Seattle Times 25 Best Books of 2004 « Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top 12 Books of 2004 « Village Voice Top Shelf « Raleigh News & Observer Best of 2004 « Rocky Mountain News critics' favorites of 2004 « Kansas City Star 100 Newsworthy Books of 2004 « Fort Worth Star-Telegram 10 Best Books of 2004 « Hartford Courant Best Books of 2004 (Google Books) The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, " Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly distorted version of our own world, where people are bedeviled by mischievous interventions from the fairies. With appearances from beloved characters from her novel, including Jonathan Strange and Childermass, and an entirely new spin on certain historical figures, including Mary, Queen of Scots, this is a must-have for fans of Susanna Clarke's and an enticing introduction to her work for new readers. Some of these stories have never before been published; others have appeared in the "New York Times" or in highly regarded anthologies."" In this collection, they come together to expand the reach of Clarke's land of enchantment--and anticipate her next novel (Fall 2008). Condition: Both are HC; JS&MN has some edgewear, primarily to upper front dust jacket, as well as sticker residue/bits on the front cover. TLoGA has no dust jacket (didn't come with one) and has minimal shelfwear. Item Code: B28SCLARKE Price: 10.00
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 | SUMMER/BEACH READING LOT OF 5 PAPERBACKS 5 Mass Market paperbacks - Debbie Macomber's Country Brides, Nicole Jordan's The Seduction, Nora Roberts' Night Tales (Night Shift/Night Shadow compilation), Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Teresa Medeiros' Breath of Magic. Condition: Country Brides has spinewear from lots of reading and a big crease on the front cover (slight tear) and a sticker; Seduction has some wear, a crease on the front cover; Night Tales has spinewear from lots of reading and some dings on front and back covers; A Thousand Acres has lots of edge-and-spine wear; Breath of Magic has some spinewear, minimal edgewear and one small ding on interior art cover. Item Code: B18SUMMER Price: $3.00
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 | UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King (From Google Books) On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out. Condition: Hardcover; fair amount of edgewear to the dust jacket, but the book is in great structural condition. It's a big, heavy book - you could kill an elephant with it - and is very sturdy. Item Code: B19DOME Price: $6.00
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 | WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks (Google Books) An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. By the author of The Zombie Survival Guide. Condition: Perfect Item Code: B29WWZ Price: $6.50
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