Staff Picks for July 2000

Lelia's picks

Death on a Silver Tray, by Rosemary Stevens
"In the days of Regency England, Beau Brummell stood as the uncrowned king of genteel Society. Whatever he wore was the height of fashion. Wherever he went was the place to be seen. And the last place one would expect to find him was in the middle of a murder mystery. But then, Beau Brummell was never one to do what was expected..."

$21.95 Signed copy available

Footprints in the Butter, by Denise Dietz
"Wylie Jamestone is dead, his bald pate crushed during a Denver Bronco football game. Ingrid Beaumont and her canine companion, Hitchcock, must figure out whodunit. But first they have to survive elephant jokes, poison, Houston traffic, and Charlie Bronson's booby-trapped pantyhose."

$21.95 Signed copy available

West of Eden, by Harry Harrison
"Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three-quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had evolved into intelligent life?"

$16.00

Annie's picks

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Evil That Men Do, by Nancy Holder
"After a vicious shooting spree, the town of Sunnydale is shell-shocked. What could have sparked the random rampage? Buffy Summers can guess. Considering the prophetic dreams she's been having, the Slayer suspects possession by an especially malevolent force. As the police follow their typical false leads, the Slayerettes start up their own research into possible paranormal causes."

$6.99

He Shall Thunder in the Sky, by Elizabeth Peters
"Egypt and her hoary secrets are no match for New York Times-bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters and her indomitable archaeologist sleuth Amelia Peabody. The sand-and-windblown ambience of this strange and colorful world, the ancient enchantments and delicious menace are vibrantly realized than ever in this thrilling new adventure that places the intrepid Amelia and her equally remarkable family in the dangerous path of an onrushing World War."

$25.00 New release 25% off

Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales For Strong Girls, by Jane Yolen
"Everyone knowns the tale of Hercules, but do you know the stories of the amazing fierce-and-feisty females whose might and muscle span the globe? There is Atalanta, from Greece, inspired by Artemis, goddess of the hunt, patron of young women warriors. In Niger, in a village where only men are thought of as warriors, the greatest warrior of all is Nana Miriam, a young woman. And in the German tale "Fitcher's Bird," in the face of real evil, Erna proves that the power of brains is mightier than brawn."

$17.00

Jason's picks

I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?"

$12.95

The Dark Elf Trilogy, by R.A. Salvatore
"Here for the first time in one volume is R.A. Salvatore's The Dark Elf Trilogy, the stirring epic that recounts the tortured beginnings and early struggles of Drizzt Do'Urden, one of the most beloved characters of the Forgotten Realms setting."

$17.95

Dragons of a Fallen Sun, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
"The people of Krynn have known war in past ages. Some are still alive who remember the triumph of good at the conclusion of the War of the Lance. Still more remember the devastation of the Chaos War, which ended the Fourth Age of the world. But now a new war is about to begin, more terrible than any have known. This war is one for the very heart and soul of the world itself."

$27.95 New release: 25% off

Megan's picks

Journey Into Darkness, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
"FBI Special Agent John Douglas - the model for such characters as Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs - riveted millions with Mindhunter, the chilling, #1 bestselling account of his pursuit of some of the most notorious serial killers of our time. Now Douglas takes us even further, to the place where evil makes its home: the killer's mind."

$6.99

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
"The Creeds. An ideal family. Physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son. Even a friendly cat. Close, loving, wonderfully alive. When they found the old house and enchanting grounds in rural Maine, it seemed too good to be true. It was. For the truth was bloodchilling - something more terrifying than death itself - and hideously more powerful."

$7.99

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, by Edgar Allen Poe
"Edgar Allen Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness. In this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'William Wilson,' 'The Black Cat,' 'The Cask of Amontillado,' and 'Eleanora.'"

$5.95

Andrew's picks

The Big Nowhere, by James Ellroy
"Red crosscurrents: the Commie scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit."

$12.99

Slow River, by Nicola Griffith
"She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore van de Oest was the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody."

$11.00

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
"With the extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrpyting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century."

$16.00