New Book Releases: November 23, 2010

	★★★ Our Pick of the Week ★★★ Hull Zero Three [ Kindle ] By Greg Bear ISBN: 0316072818 Publisher: Orbit Publication date: November 22, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $11.60 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms-he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are questions— Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to Hull 03? All will be answered, if he can survive the ship.
	COFFINS: The Vampire Archives, Volume 3 By Otto Penzler (Editor) ISBN: 0307742237 Publisher: Vintage Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Estimated price: $5.07 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its readers deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor.
	The Eternal Prison (Avery Cates) [ Kindle ] By Jeff Somers ISBN: 1400166764 Publisher: Tantor Media Publication date: November 17, 2010 Binding: Audio CD Estimated price: $17.55 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: This third novel featuring tough guy Avery Cates finds the assassin-for-hire languishing in a prison from which no one leaves alive.
	Hatter M Volume 1: Far From Wonder By Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, Ben Templesmith, Sami Makkonen ISBN: 0981873766 Publisher: Automatic Pictures Publishing Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $19.79 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: New edition of Volume 1 of the Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars series featuring two bonus chapters, a new subtitle ("Far From Wonder"), a new cover and more! Hatter Madigan's relentless search for the lost Princess of Wonderland unfolds in Volume 1 of the Hatter M graphic novel series as he starts his 13-year quest crisscrossing the globe. Illustrated with the realm jumping art of Ben Templesmith.
	Hatter M Volume 3: The Nature of Wonder By Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, Sami Makkonen ISBN: 0981873758 Publisher: Automatic Pictures Publishing Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $9.93 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: In Volume 3, The Nature of Wonder, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan follows the Glow of the setting sun into America's wild west in search of Wonderland's lost princess. Hatter's adventures will include a shamanic vision quest in the Grand Canyon and tracking Black Imagination through San Francisco's Barbary Coast where he discovers an astounding clue to his own haunted past.
	Helfort’s War Book 4: The Battle for Commitment Planet [ Kindle ] By Graham Sharp Paul ISBN: 0345513711 Publisher: Del Rey Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Estimated price: $4.72 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: It was insane, it was suicidal, it was wrong—and by God he was going to do it. The Hammer Worlds have Helfort exactly where they want him. The ultimatum is brutal and precise. Unless the Federated hero surrenders, the Hammer World’s prisoner Anna Cheung—the only woman Helfort has ever loved—will be handed over to a bunch of depraved troopers to be violated, then executed by firing squad. Helfort can obey, or he can do what the crew proposes: sail his three frontline dreadnoughts into the Hammers’ stronghold Commitment Planet, liberate Anna and the rest of the POWs held captive there, and continue the fight in the jaws of the enemy. Helfort’s decision? Bring it on!
	House of Reckoning: A Novel [ Kindle ] By John Saul ISBN: 0345514254 Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Estimated price: $7.99 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated at school, Sarah befriends classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions, and the eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, a mentor eager to nurture Sarah’s talent for painting. But within the walls of Bettina’s ancestral mansion, Sarah finds that monstrous images from the house’s dark history seem to flow unbidden from her paintbrush—images echoed by Nick’s chilling hallucinations. It seems the violence and fury of long-dead generations have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take control, and take revenge.
	The Human Blend (The Tipping Point Trilogy) [ Kindle ] By Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345511972 Publisher: Del Rey Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $13.00 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Alan Dean Foster’s brilliant new novel is a near-future thriller that has all the dark humor and edgy morality of an Elmore Leonard mystery, in addition to the masterly world-building and quirky but believable characters readers expect from Foster. This gripping adventure reveals a place where criminals are punished through genetic engineering and bodily manipulation—which poses profound questions about what it means to be human. Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Ever quick to scent potential profit, Whispr and Jiminy grab the thread as well. Chance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread. Powerful forces are searching for him, and Jiminy has vanished. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread as quickly as he can. When he offers to split the profits with Ingrid in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery. So begins a unique partnership. Unlike Whispr, Ingrid is a natural, with no genetic or bodily alteration. She is also a Harvard-educated physician, while Whispr’s smarts are strictly of the street variety. Yet together they make a formidable team—as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them.
	Knot Gneiss [ Kindle ] By Piers Anthony ISBN: 0765323524 Publisher: Tor Books Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $15.85 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Wenda Woodwife has a knotty problem--her mood swings have sent her beloved husband, Prince Charming, off on Adventure. She seeks the cure from the Good Magician Humphrey, only to discover that he has a knotty problem of his own and that only Wenda Woodwife can help him. She’ll need Companions. Luckily, in Xanth magical companions are never far away, and all roads lead to Adventure. This 34th installment in the saga of the magical land of Xanth proves the enduring appeal of Piers Anthony’s peerless creation.
	Pathfinder [ Kindle ] By Orson Scott Card ISBN: 141699176X Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $10.44 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him--secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain. Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.
	Legion of Super-heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (Deluxe Edition) By Paul Levitz ISBN: 1401229611 Publisher: DC Comics Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $26.39 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: The godlike Darkseid emerges in the 30th century with an ingenious plot to finally conquer the universe in this Deluxe Edition hardcover of Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen's timeless Legion of Super-Heroes epic! Not only is THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA collected here for the first time in hardcover, this edition also includes several LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES issues written by Levitz that have never before been collected in any format! Using his faithful minions to acquire all of the mystic artifacts of the time, Darkseid gains mental control over a race of three billion all-powerful beings. Now, as their universe teeters on the edge of Armageddon, the Legion of Super-Heroes amass their own army of every champion who ever held the status of Legionnaire to stand against the Dark Lord and his invincible soldiers. But as the Legion suffers defeat after defeat, they realize that salvation and victory rest in the hands of a mysterious baby that has aged into adulthood before their very eyes! This is the perfect edition of the classic Levitz storyline that was decades ahead of its time and still stands as one of DC's most enthralling superhero tales! Collects LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #284-296 and ANNUAL #1.
	Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (Young Adult Edition) By Barry Gifford ISBN: 1583229485 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $11.76 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A vivid and unflinching portrait of a fatherless adolescent boy coming of age within the violent humanity of 1960s Chicago.
	The Secret Agent: (RED edition) [ Kindle ] By Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0141194391 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication date: November 24, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $7.91 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Adolph Verloc leads a double life. As well as running his seedy Soho shop, he is also a secret agent, operating for an underground anarchist cell - and his job is about to get far more dangerous. When his leaders instruct him to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, with tragic repercussions for him and his family. Books that save lives come in one colour. Choose (Penguin Classics) Red, Save Lives. Penguin Classics has partnered with (Product) Red to bring you our selection of some of the best books ever written. We will be contributing 50 per cent of the profits from the sale of (Penguin Classics) Red editions to the Global Fund to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Now great books can help save lives.
	Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton Vol. 1 By James Robinson, Sterling Gates ISBN: 1401229328 Publisher: DC Comics Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $16.49 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: For the past year, Superman has been living on New Krypton - a planet populated by thousands of super-powered Kryptonians just like him! But after struggling to keep their society alive in spite of numerous challenges, New Krypton faces their worst nightmare as Brainiac, the alien believed to be partly responsible for the annihilation of the original planet Krypton, attacks the planet, determined to recapture the city of Kandor! But Kryptonian General Zod has been waiting for this moment since Brainiac first attacked Old Krypton - he has a plan to save his people, but at the cost of Earth and the future as we know it! So it's up to Superman, Supergirl, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes to stop the two madmen before they destroy everything! Over a year in the making, this thrilling collection concludes a ground-shaking change to the Superman status quo and sets in motion all the volatile elements that will combine to make the summer 2010 event WAR OF THE SUPERMAN so explosive!
	Surrender to the Will of the Night [ Kindle ] By Glen Cook ISBN: 0765306867 Publisher: Tor Books Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price:  $18.47 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Piper Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his  reputation put him in danger—from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor  Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part  of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants  him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade  against his old coreligionists the Praman. Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The winters are growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are  getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are  going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere,  keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world.  As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling lies in his common  touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women  who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night.
	Tarzan Archives: The Jesse Marsh Years Volume 7 By Gaylord DuBois, Jesse Marsh ISBN: 1595825479 Publisher: Dark Horse Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $31.39 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Join Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and their animal companions as they encounter new friends, old enemies, and undiscovered lands in the wilds of Africa. In addition to stories featuring favorite recurring characters - such as the oddball scientist Dr. MacWhirtle, the lion-taming people of Cathne, cruel Queen La, and the Waziri warriors - Tarzan meets a group of Texan cowboys out to rope lions, a filmmaker documenting African wildlife, and the marsh-dwelling people of Lutor. Always a help to his friends, whether they're man or beast, Tarzan faithfully thwarts the plans of slavers, cannibals, and poachers who would do them harm.
	Threads and Flames [ Kindle ] By Esther Friesner ISBN: 0670012459 Publisher: Viking Juvenile Publication date: November 24, 2010 Binding: Hardcover Estimated price: $12.08 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: It's 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. It's overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sewing bodices on the popular shirtwaists. Raisa makes friends and even--dare she admit it?--falls in love. But then 1911 dawns, and one March day a spark ignites in the factory. One of the city's most harrowing tragedies unfolds, and Raisa's life is forever changed. . . . One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, this moving young adult novel gives life to the tragedy and hope of this transformative event in American history.
	Time Cursor By John David Krygelski ISBN: 0982662297 Publisher: Starsys Publishing Company Publication date: November 22, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $19.95 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Jack Augur comes back from thirty years in the future to stop his own wedding. Although he was warned not to tamper with any other events, within minutes of meeting his younger self, he is responsible for the accidental death of the man who is to go on to invent the time machine. As they struggle together to undo the damage they've done and get the world back on track, mysterious beings thwart their every attempt. John David Krygelski's second novel - Time Cursor is a roller-coaster ride of suspense, action and intrigue with an ending that will not disappoint.
	Thunder and Ashes  [ Kindle ] By Z.A. Recht ISBN: 1439198837 Publisher: Permuted Press Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $10.13 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A LOT CAN CHANGE IN THREE MONTHS: Wars can be decided, nations can be forged . . . or entire species can be brought to the brink of annihilation. The Morningstar virus has swept the face of the planet, infecting billions. Its hosts rampage; its victims don’t die, but are reborn as cannibalistic shamblers. SCATTERED ACROSS THE WORLD, EMBATTLED GROUPS HAVE PERSEVERED. For some, survival is the pinnacle of achievement. Others hoard goods and weapons. And still others leverage power over the remnants of humanity with a mysterious cure. Francis Sherman and Anna Demilio want only a vaccine, but to find it they must cross a ravaged landscape of the infected and the lawless living. THE BULK OF THE STORM HAS PASSED, leaving echoing thunder and softly drifting ashes. But for the survivors, the peril remains, and the search for a cure is just beginning. . . .
	The Turn of the Screw: (RED edition) By Henry James ISBN: 0141194375 Publisher: Penguin Classics Publication date: November 24, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $5.99 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A young governess is left in sole charge of two charming and beautiful orphans. As she begins to see and hear strange things, she grows increasingly uneasy, and is swiftly drawn into a frightening battle against unspeakable evil. Forced to take action, the governess will soon discover terrible consequences...Books that save lives come in one colour Choose (Penguin Classics) Red, Save Lives Penguin Classics has partnered with (Product) Red to bring you our selection of some of the best books ever written. We will be contributing 50 per cent of the profits from the sale of (Penguin Classics) Red editions to the Global Fund to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Now great books can help save lives.
	When the Stars Go Blue: A Novel [ Kindle ] By Caridad Ferrer ISBN: 0312650043 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $9.99 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: A dancer driven to succeed. A musical prodigy attempting to escape his past. The summer they share. And the moment it all goes wrong. Dance is Soledad Reyes’s life. About to graduate from Miami’s Biscayne High School for the Performing Arts, she plans on spending her last summer at home teaching in a dance studio, saving money, and eventually auditioning for dance companies. That is, until fate intervenes in the form of fellow student Jonathan Crandall who has what sounds like an outrageous proposition: Forget teaching. Why not spend the summer performing in the intense environment of the competitive drum and bugle corps? The corps is going to be performing Carmen, and the opportunity to portray the character of the sultry gypsy proves too tempting for Soledad to pass up, as well as the opportunity to spend more time with Jonathan, who intrigues her in a way no boy ever has before. But in an uncanny echo of the story they perform every evening, an unexpected competitor for Soledad's affections appears: Taz, a member of an all-star Spanish soccer team. One explosive encounter later Soledad finds not only her relationship with Jonathan threatened, but her entire future as a professional dancer.
	Wild Cards 1 (Wild Card Series) [ Kindle ] By George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards Trust ISBN: 0765326159 Publisher: Tor Books Publication date: November 23, 2010 Binding: Paperback Estimated price: $10.32 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook
Description: Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martin’s Wild cards shared-world series. There is a secret history of the world—a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Some were called Aces—those with superhuman mental and physical abilities. Others were termed Jokers—cursed with bizarre mental or physical disabilities. Some turned their talents to the service of humanity. Others used their powers for evil. Wild Cards is their story. Originally published in 1987, Wild Cards I includes powerful tales by Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams, Howard Waldrop, Lewis Shiner, and George R. R. Martin himself. And this new, expanded edition contains further original tales set at the beginning of the Wild Cards universe, by eminent new writers like Hugo–winner David Levine, noted screenwriter and novelist Michael Cassutt, and New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.