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Staff Picks for February

Lelia's Picks

Riding Shotgun by Rita Mae Brown

In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, family betrayal, and the thrill of the hunt (in many varieties) are hilariously and poignantly played out in this captivating novel of time travel and self-discovery.

$6.50

Santa's Twin by Dean Koontz

In a delightful twist to the traditional Christmas tale, Charlotte and Emily must save Santa from his devilish twin, who has absconded with Santa's sleigh and has filled his toy bag with all sorts of disgusting items, in this wickedly funny story for children of all ages. Reissue.

$20.00

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Hitchhiking in 110 degrees of brutal Texas heat can affect a man's thinking. So when a beautiful lady in an air-conditioned Cadillac offers him a ride, Jack Reacher can't help wondering if she's a mirage. Carmen Greer is very real, though---and so are the problems she's about to cause. Nail-biting suspense from the first page to the very last.

$24.95

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion -- called Rose Red -- an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead.

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the time -- events that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history.

Read this and tell us who you think is the real author!

$22.95
prior to 25% hardcover
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Desecration by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Nicolae Carpathia, now the total embodiment of evil desecrates the temple in Jerusalem by entering and declaring himself god. The explosive ninth book in the Left Behind series will carry the world to the brink of Armageddon.

24.99
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Andrew's Picks

Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen

JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big: $28 million to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: there's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a Hooters' waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy…

$7.50

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both-his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back. In the company of a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned to face the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons that drove his father to murder his family-and worse, to spare one of his sons… But as Trevor begins to draw his own cartoon strip, as he loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. Trevor and his lover plunge into a cyber-maze of cartoons, ghosts, and terror that will lead either to understanding-true understanding-or to a blood-raining repetition of the past…

$6.99

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Stephen King's second novel, Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart-and the insular evils of small town America.

$7.99

Right As Rain by George P. Pelecanos

Derek Strange is an ex-cop who's making a good living with his own business, a detective agency called Strange Investigations. A new case hits him close to home: a police officer has been slain by another policeman in a confusing late-night clash, and the dead officer's mother asks Strange to help her make sense of his killing. That mother's request sends Strange into the darkest chasms of the DC underworld, where police officers and criminals operate by their own secret laws, and where human life is sometimes of less consequence than cash, drugs, and other forms of currency. Strange is joined in his quest by Terry Quinn, the officer who was exonerated in the police inquiry into the shooting but who is still haunted by that terrifying night. Together Strange and Quinn confront the ravages of an unquenchable drug trade, the realities of race in the capital police force, and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to haunt the pages of a novel.

$24.95
in paperback soon!

Edgeworks Volume 2: Spider Kiss and Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison

In Edgeworks 2, White Wolf presents another double dose of Harlan Ellison's best, for aficionados and latecomers alike. Opening with a brand-new, extra-long, written-specially-for-this-omnibus introduction by the master essayist, this enormous volume presents in carefully corrected, preferred texts:

Spider Kiss: The gritty, rockabilly novel that drops the word on Stag Preston in the legendary, formative years of rock and roll, Spider Kiss will knock your socks off. This electrifying novel of the early days of rock and roll takes no prisoners as it runs an eye over this nice kid from Louisville with a voice straight outta heaven… and the demon success on his back… and follows him down, down, down, into a velvet-lined hell where nobody's grass is greener. According to premier rock critic Greil Marcus, this is the best rock novel ever written!

Stalking the Nightmare: Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here you'll find twenty of his very best stories and essays, an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, he created for NBC; Tales from the Mountains of Madness; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life: sex, violence, and labor relations. With a knockout, absolutely killer foreword by Stephen King.

$16.99

Annie's Picks

The Hearse You Came In On by Tim Cockey

When a beautiful woman shows up at a funeral home wearing a tennis dress, that's cause for suspicion. When that same woman wants to talk about her own funeral arrangements, well...what self-respecting mortician could resist?

Certainly not Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's most eligible undertaker. Bemused and bewitched by this alluring mystery woman and her funeral fixation, Hitch's growing obsession soon draws him into a string of increasingly life-threatening circumstances involving blackmail, dirty videos, police corruption, and political cover-ups. Not to mention murder. Before Hitch knows it, he's in deep. And if he's not careful, he could find himself six feet under.

$6.99

CSI: Double Dealer by Max Allan Collins

Wednesday, 5:30 AM: in an off-the-strip, somewhat-out-of-the-way casino, a room-service waiter rounds a corner and stumbles across a killer -- and a corpse. Homicide detective Jim Brass summons Grissom and company to the scene. As Brass follows his instincts, Warrick and Sara follow evidence the killer left behind, and Nick and Catherine investigate a murder that's fifteen years new. Although focused at first on the perpetrator's deadly double-tap signature, Grissom will soon make the most troubling discovery of all: the inexplicable interest of FBI agent Rick Culpepper.

$6.99

The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide by Brian Sibley

Designed as a celebration of the films, The LOTR Official Movie Guide is a lavishly illustrated behind-the-scenes guide which includes full-color photos of the cast, locations, sets, monsters and costumes, together with exclusive interviews with Peter Jackson and all the principal cast. It also features an entertaining overview of the conception, design and filming of the trilogy over the last five years, which will give the reader a privileged insight into the making of the most important movie trilogy of the decade.

$14.95

The Winter Child by Wendy Froud and Terri Windling

Carefully combing his ears and tail and wearing his finest red felt boots, a furry young faery named Sneezle prepares for the Midwinter festival in Old Oak Wood -- the oldest faery court in the British Isles. All the denizens of the wood have gathered for this grand winter holiday...but this year something is strangely wrong. By now the forest should be blanketed with snow, but the air remains warm, the leaves have not fallen, and branches remain laden with autumn's fruit. Somehow, the cycle of nature has been halted, and even the faery king, Oberon, cannot fathom why winter has not arrived. From this mystery will come a great adventure, one in which young Sneezle and his best friend, Twig, will confront menacing goblins and an evil sorcerer.

$20.00
New release
25% off

Magic Time by Marc Scott Zicree and Barbara Hambly

For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it's just another day in the Big City, full of stress, screw-ups, deadlines, and anxiety. That is, until New York is rocked by a series of bizarre tremors -- and the lights go off...for good. Trapped in a giant metropolis and cut off from the rest of the world, Cal tries desperately to make sense of the surreal chaos that engulfs his crippled city. Worst of all, the people areound him are...changing. Once-ordinary humans are becoming embodiments of their darkest desires, manifestations of their deepest fears. Packs of pale, crouched figures stalk the subways, glowing child-faces peer out of the shadows...and monsters prowl Times Square.

$26.00
New release
25% off