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Andrew's Staff Picks

Bone Dry by Ben Rehder

"Life can get a little wild from time to time for John Marlin, the game warden in Blanco County, Texas. For instance, Marlin didn't even bat an eyelash when a local resident's amorous encounter with a white-tailed deer came to light last year-on videotape. Aside from that, however, few incidents compare to the stories flying around town at the start of this new deer season. Hunters all over the county are reporting an incredible sight: a six-foot-tall, drop-dead gorgeous blonde is roaming the woods, searching out camouflage-clad men with guns and disarming them with powers of seduction the likes of which none of them have ever come across before. Of course, the last time any of these guys was seduced was by the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog, so Marlin wonders if the reports are a bit exaggerated.

Everyone has some hearty laughs at the expense of a few embarrassed hunters, until one of their own turns up dead in the woods. Now Marlin has a real mystery to deal with. Meanwhile, rumors are spreading about a new Blanco resident, an ex-New Yorker named Sal Mameli who's ruffling feathers with his loud mouth and his penchant for getting his own way, no matter what the cost. Before long, John Marlin realizes he may be the only sane man in town, and he's starting to wonder if he can last much longer himself. It's just the start of another unforgettable hunting season in "Bone Dry, the hilarious second novel from Edgar finalist Ben Rehder."

$23.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount

Atmosphere by Michael Laimo

"When New York City detective Frank Balloro follows a trail of blood from the curb outside his apartment to an alley, a naked man runs and is hit by a cab. Before he dies, the man whispers, "Atmosphere." Frank finds another injured man, clutching a bizarre object. As this case leads Frank from Park Avenue to Harlem, he soon discovers the hideous meaning of "atmosphere"--and the terror that comes with it."

$5.99

Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gas Mask by Jim Munroe

"Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish ability to change into a fly.) When he finally gets up the nerve to ask Cassandra for a date, he learns that the two have more in common than they first thought. (Turns out that Cassandra can make things disappear.)

Sharing their secrets for the first time, Ryan and Cassandra realize they were made for each other...and to battle forces of evil! Inspired by Sailor Moon, they team up to fight the villians in their own backyard, taking on cigarette barons, right wing newspapers, and the overzealous local police. But can the Superheroes for Social Justice transform the world in time?"

$12.50

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

"It is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.

It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox ... and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.

A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life -- a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV -- "Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.

And it's just the beginning ..."

$27.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount

Island by Richard Laymon

"Rupert Conway's getaway cruise with seven others abruptly ends when their yacht explodes and all are stranded on a deserted island. Rupert and the other castaways soon discover that in the dense jungle a murderous maniac--with a clever mind and a taste for blood--is on the loose. He doesn't like his new neighbors and plans to slaughter them--one by one."

$6.99

Annie's Staff Picks

Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce

"Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne."

$17.95 prior to 25% new hardcover discount

Dragon DelaSangre by Alan F. Troop

"For centuries, a secret race has lived among humans, inspiring legends, fairy tales, and nightmares. Here at last are the private confessions of the dragon Peter DelaSangre, who speaks of his life on an island off the coast of Miami, his lonely balancing act between worlds of humans and dragons, and the overwhelming need to give his life purpose: to find a female of his kind."

$5.99

The House of Gaian by Anne Bishop

"In the conclusion of the Tir Alainn Trilogy, the uneasy alliance between Fae and humans may not be enough to defeat the Inquisitors--leaving them no choice but to seek out the witches of the House of Gaian, But can they be trusted?"

$6.99

Magic Time: Angelfire by Marc Scott Zicree & Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

"Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, as ordinary people become the embodiments of their darkest desires, deepest fears -- and purest selves. Searching for the source of this terrifying phenomenon -- and to save his sister Tina, transformed by it into one of the ethereal creatures known as flares -- former lawyer Cal Griffin and his band of unlikely heroes follow the visions of the charming lunatic Goldie and the fragile song of a cursed bluesman to a secret haven hidden from its malevolent power. The domain of the bluesman and his protector Magritte -- a callgirl turned flare -- is a wondrous sanctuary from the madness. But how long can it survive if the evil beyond it is allowed to flourish? For the world is unraveling little by little. And the salvation of everything left worth saving requires that Cal and his companions journey deep into the very heart and soul of darkness to confront the beast ruling the Ruby City once called Chicago. But first they must conquer the darkness within themselves."

$7.99

The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

"In a world where there is no boundary between the lands of men and those of creatures from legend, a child awakens -- disfigured, disoriented, and utterly unaware of who she is or how she came to be wandering the dangerous landscape. Fortunately, an old female servant takes her in and protects her from the rough treatment of others who have no pity for those who are different. As she grows, the foundling girl finds friends in this strange land, and together, they set out to find the three things she longs to know most: her name, her past, and her future."

$6.99

Lelia's Staff Picks

Blackflies Are Murder by Lou Allin

"In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it's now high summer in the Canadian Far North, and everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase realtor Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbor puts her on guard against two-footed killers. Does the answer lie in the woods? In the alleys of the Nickel Capital of the North? Or in the black rock moonscape of an ecological disaster area?

Belle's investigations gradually uncover the sordid details of a sexual abuse scandal in a residential school years before that has left scars on its victim that can never heal. The horrifying truth and its deadly fallout may destroy many more lives before this tragedy reaches its last act."

$10.95

Deadly Associations by Laura Belgrave

"When a hostage situation in a gated community turns deadly, Detective Claudia Hershey is spun into an investigation where the only certainties are deceit and betrayal. Whether she can restore tranquility to the quiet Florida town and salvage her career depends on the community's newest residents."

$13.95

Room For Murder by Tim Myers

"The Agatha Award-nominated series continues-featuring Alex Winston and his inland lighthouse getaway. When two of Alex's friends announce that they're finally tying the knot, Alex will have to tie up a few loose ends after the bride-to-be's ex shows up dead on the inn's property."

$5.99

Deep Fathom by James Rollins

"ON THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER...
The millennium's first eclipse of the sun cast a shroud over the Earth. And then catastrophe struck...
ON THE DAY THE END BEGAN...
Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. The death toll rises at an unimaginable rate. And in the midst of chaos, Air Force One and America's president have vanished from the skies.
THE SEA REVEALED A MYSTERY
Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning -- and the U.S. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse. Now, aboard his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, Kirkland is on a desperate mission that is leading him to an earth-shattering discovery miles below the ocean's surface. For devastating secrets and a power an ancient civilization could not contain have been cast out into a modern day -- and they will forever alter a world racing toward its own destruction."

$7.50

Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1: The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

"In the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, readers will meet Soren, a barn owl who discovers a great evil in the owl kingdom which he must work to vanquish. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued by representatives from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, a clever female elf owl named Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually a training camp where the school's leader is grooming young owls to help achieve her goal, which threatens the lives of owls everywhere. First Soren and Gylfie must escape. Then they embark on a long and perilous journey to find a way to save all owls from the danger that lurks at St. Aggie's."

$4.99