Staff Picks for December 2000

Jason's December Picks

Child of Flame by Kate Elliott

With Child of Flame, Kate Elliott takes us far beyond the borders of the wartorn kingdoms of Wendar and Varre as Alain, Liath, Sanglant, and King Henry are cast onto different pathways -- perilous, twisting roads which will nevertheless lead them all to one fated moment in time...

Lost and alone in an unknown country, Alain is caught in a desperate struggle for survival even as he finds himself unwittingly drawn into the heart of an ancient conflict between humankind and their dread enemy, the cursed ones...

Torn away from Sanglant and their child by creatures not born of earth, Liath faces her most difficult trial in a land of exile. For only there can she hope to discover the truth of her parentage and learn the actual nature and extent of her unique powers...

Still staggered by the shock of unexpectedly losing his wife, the bastard prince Sanglant is nevertheless determined to seek out his father, King Henry., For only Sanglant can bring warning of the conspiracy of sorcerers who have sworn to put an end to the Aoi, the Lost Ones, once and for all - no matter how much destruction may be unleashed by their workings of magic....

And as the tides of war and magic wreak havoc across the lands, the great Cataclysm, long foretold in the stars, draws inexorably closer...

$24.95

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Agustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-totting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

$4.99

Into the Green by Charles de Lint

A tale rich in Celtic myth and magic.

Charles de Lint takes us once again into lands infused and transformed by magic. Magic that grows in the roots of old oaks and dances by moonlight among standing stones. Magic that sleeps in an old soldier's eyes and glows in the gaze of a phantom stag. Magic that pumps throught the heart and the veins of those born to the Summerblood-to be stolen at knife point, burned, destroyed, in danger of fading back into the green and disappearing forever from the world.

$4.99