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Lelia's Staff Picks
Three Dirty Women and the Shady Acres by Julie Wray Herman
"This is the third book in the popular Agatha Award nominated series featuring Korine, Amilou, and Janey, owners of Three Dirty Women Landscaping. This time it's Korine's life that is turned upside down as she comes to the defense of her paranoid mother-in-law, who may have accidentally killed an old friend at Shady Acres Nursing Home."
$13.95
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
"Monumental devastation will sweep across the globe if the newly-discovered Hamner-Brown comet collides with the one major obstacle in its path: Earth. For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet is a ticket to immortality. For filmmaker Harvey Randall, it's a shot to redeem a flagging career. And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance for glory in outer space. But for a world gripped by comet fever, fascination quickly turns to fear. And only those who survive the impact will know the even greater terror, when rich and poor, politicians and killers, turn to each other or against each other--and the remnants of humanity grow savage to battle for what little remains ..."
$6.99
Bubbles A Broad by Sarah Strohmeyer
"After a cat fight at a stuffy historical society meeting nearly kills her career, Bubbles is given just one week to prove her worth to her editors at the News-Times and earn a real job there by cracking her biggest story ever--finding out who really murdered Carol Weaver's steel-executive husband with cyanide-tipped fingernails. More than Carol's own jail sentence for the homicide is riding on Bubbles's investigation. Also at stake--uncovering possible corruption in the steel industry at the highest level. Nothing will deter Bubbles this time! Not trying to drive with a cell phone in one hand and a mascara wand in the other. Not the shenanigans of mother LuLu, the pressure of getting daughter Jane into a good college (maybe Princeton, maybe Two Guys Community), or the roadblocks posed by Jane's ever-clueless boyfriend G. Not even hunky, gonzo photojournalist Steve Stiletto, who takes Bubbles to bed in a scene to steamy it finally puts pay to her Mel Gibson crush. It's all in a day's work for a broad like Bubbles."
$23.95 prior to 25%
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Dragonkin Book Two: Talisman by Robin Wayne Bailey
"The peace of Wyvernwood has been shattered. The war between Angmar and Degarm has begun, and their conflict has already spread deep into the southern and northern parts of the Great Refuge. But the war isn't confined just to the race of Men. The Griffinkin, long jealous of the powerful Dragons, have allied themselves with Angmar and established themselves in the fortress called Redclaw. The first victim of all this mounting conflict was the great Dragon-leader, Stormfire. Yet, a series of books he left behind, collectively known as The Book of Stormfire, suggests that he foresaw many of these events, that he knew a time would come when the Dragons and all their mythological kindred and friends would have to abandon Wyvernwood and move on to a possible new Refuge. The books indicate that Stormfire created and hid three objects in various corners of the world: the Diamond Dragon, the Glass Dragon, and the Heart of All Dragons. Once found and united, they will show the way to a new homeland for the Dragonkin. The quest falls to Stormfire's triplet children. Only two can go, however. While two seek the treasures, one must stay behind to protect Wyvernwood, to rebuild Stronghold, and to stand against the forces martialling against them. Gathering a team that includes the last unicorn in the world, a wacky hummingbird, a group of human children, an outcast Griffin, and a cat-like Fomorian female, Chan and Luna set out to retrace the route by which Stormfire gathered and led the Dragonkin to Wyvernwood, while still searching for the legendary objects. Along the way, they will find adventure and danger and discover, to their surprise and alarm, that not all of the surviving Creatures of Myth followed Stormfire to the Great Refuge..."
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The Dresden Files Book One: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
"Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P. D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the 'everyday' world is actually full of strange and magical things---and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a---well, whatever.
There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get...interesting."
$6.99
Andrew's Staff Picks
The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
"The college winter break is over, and Cal Prentiss faces yet another semester of boring classes. But Cal's boredom is shattered when he discovers evidence of an unspeakable murder that occurred in his dorm room over the break. Obsessed with finding the truth about this gruesome crime, Cal travels further and further down the twisting halls of a university suddenly gone mad. As he gets closer to the heart of the mystery, Cal is surrounded by the supernatural and the grotesque--like the blood that appears on his hands when someone close to him dies."
$5.99
Interface by Stephen Bury (pseudonym of Neal Stephenson)
"He's a presidential candidate who is the perfect talking head--thanks to a surgically-implanted biochip, courtesy of a covert international network of investors. William Cozzano knows what people want to hear and when. Forget issues. Forget policy. He's more than a perfect candidate-he's a special effect."
$6.99
Resume with Monsters by William Browning Spencer
"Philip Kenan is battling a series of bad jobs - and the monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction go with him. Philip's first confrontation with the monsters set in motion a bizarre chain of events that finally sent his girlfriend Amelia packing. Now the battle rages from the dank, cramped sweatshop of Philip's former place of employment, Ralph's One-Day Resumes, to the gleaming, deadly corridors of corporate giant Pelidyne. Can he save Amelia this time, or will the monsters triumph and consign all humanity to an existence of grim servitude?"
$5.99
Murder in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey
"Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell's, has returned to town with her two young children, but minus one husband (Mike) and one nanny (Sophie). You do the math. Her husband is accounted for - she left him back in Annapolis. The nanny, however, is truly missing, and Libby is just a little suspicious about her husband's involvement. Libby has an understandably bad feeling about all this, and that feeling goes from bad to worse, for no sooner does Hitch propose that he and his detective friend Pet Munger nose about for the giri than Sophie in fact surfaces -- literally -- in the Severn River. She's quite dead and a little pregant, and the police suspect suicide, a jump from the Naval Academy Bridge.
The dead girl's mother, however, is adamant that her daughter has been murdered. Hitch's sense? He sides with the mother. Racing between Baltimore, Washington and Annapolis, Hitch finds more questions than answers. Who was the father of the child? Was it in fact Libby's husband? Was it a former catering colleague of Sophie's? For that matter, what is Libby herself holding back? Fortunately for Hitch, there is a willowy blond chef, the ever effervescent Julia, rumpled Pete Munger, Aunt Billie, a wise guy tabloid reporter, and a host of other endearing oddballs to keep Hitch'sspirits light even as the case darkens."
$6.99
Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King
"The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, "Song of Susannah" is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense.
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- "with" each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called "'Salem's Lot," a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him.
These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes,one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya)."
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