October Featured Author

Jeffery Deaver

Staff Picks for October 2001

Lelia's October Picks

Evans Above by Rhys Bowen

The perfect cozy -- a tiny Welsh village, eccentric characters, the local constable who has the ambition and talent to be an investigator but can't handle the women who are attracted to him, and dastardly murders. What more could one want? This is the first in a series with several other titles available.

$5.99

The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer

Connor Fitzgerald is a professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honor. Devoted family man. Servant of his country. CIA assassin. Days before his retirement from the Company, Fitzgerald comes face-to-face with an enemy who, for the first time, even he cannot handle---his own boss, Helen Dexter, Director of the CIA.

But Dexter's stranglehold on the Agency is threatened by a power greater than her own, and her only hope is to destroy Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, on the othe rside of the world, a new threat to national security is emerging: a ruthless hardline Russian president who is determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. It's up to the intrepid Fitzgerald to pull off his most daring mission yet -- save the world...and his own life.

$7.99

The Divided Child by Ekaterine Nikas

All Christine Stewart wants is a relaxing vacation on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. Then she meets nine-year-old Michael Redfield and saves him from being crushed by a falling piece of Byzantine stone.

Invited to spend the rest of her holiday at the luxurious villa where Michael is staying with his family, Christine soon realizes something is wrong with the Redfield clan...Christine has no desire to become even more deeply embroiled in the family's problems, but how can she abandon Michael when she learns he is the pawn in a nasty custody battle...and the target of a killer?

$6.99

The Alpine Legacy by Mary Daheim

Emma Lord, editor and publisher of 'The Alpine Advocate', has never faced such cruel competition -- especially not the fierce personal attacks mounted by Alpine's radical new publication, 'Crystal Clear'. So when Crystal Bird, the editor, commits suicide, Emma sheds no tears. But Sheriff Milo Dodge determines that Crystal was murdered, and the little town is out for blood -- namely, Emma's. Pursued by hate mail and flying bricks, Emma vows to draw some blood herself - from the enemy who set her up to take the fall...

$5.99

The Rock by Robert Doherty

Five people from around the world have been "invited" to Australia's remote Ayers Rock. Their mission -- to interpret the mysterious and chilling message from an unknown source -- a message that implies Earth has only a few days left...

$6.50

Andrew's October Picks

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

The basis for the film by Sam Peckinpah, The Getaway is a Dantesque tour of the American underworld, a place where no motive is pure, no stranger is innocent, and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second.

$10.00

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:

"Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.

It was just a phase I was going through."

$12.00

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen

An eco-terrorist with a trust fund, Twilly Spree is tailing a litterbug in a purple Range Rover with plates that read "cojones". Before he knows it, Spree is up to his cojones in corrupt Florida politicos and some very sick puppies, including a Toyota salesman turned governor, a republicans-only hooker, and a millionaire developer with a fetish for Barbies. But when Spree learns that the fate of an unspoiled island is at stake, he's determined not to be outdone. While defending the toads of Toad Island-not to mention one cheerfully oblivious Labrador-he'll steal a man's wife, gouge out the eyes of big game trophies, and even risk his life two or three times in this, Hiaasen's most gleeful muckraking story yet.

$7.99

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Tender Branson -- last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult -- is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid and collagen packed media messiah. He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography-among other matters bizarre and trenchant.

Unpredictable and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak, and it cements his place as one of the most original new writers in fiction today.

$13.00

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Twenty years ago a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.

When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "the Fisherman", and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams -- if that is what they are -- of robins' eggs and red feathers?

It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

$28.95
prior to 25% new hardcover release discount

Annie's October Picks

Grandpa's Teeth, by Rod Clement

Grandpa's teeth, handmade by the finest Swiss craftsmen, are gone - stolen from his beside table. Grandpa suspects anyone who doesn't smile widely enough to prove that their teeth are their own. Soon everyone in town is smiling -- all the time -- and their ghastly grins are frightening the tourists away. Can the culprit be caught before the whole town cracks up?

$5.95

Bureau 13: Doomsday Exam, by Nick Pollotta

Hell is literally set loose on Earth during a massive jailbreak from the Bureau 13 Holding Facility. Among the horde of unkillable creatures is a madman with a plan to siphon off all of the magic in the world and become a god!

Fighting every inch of the way to track the lethal escaped lunatic, Ed and his team of Green Berets and wizards grab some students from the Bureau Training Academy to replenish their weakened ranks. But the last to graduate is often the first to die...

$15.95

Hoodwinked, by Arthur Howard

What sort of a pet would you want if you were a witch -- a bat? A toad? A piranha? Definitely something creepy. At least that's what Mitzi thinks, until one rainy night when an unexpected visitor scratches at her door...

$16.00
new release, 25% off

Enchanter: Book Two of the Wayfarer Redemption, by Sara Douglass

With Enchanter, Sara Douglass returns us to a world in the grip of prophecy and war. Axis is the StarMan; a mortal who finds the truth of his parentage and thus is cast into a legend not of his own making. He has been told that somehow he is the key to uniting three very different peoples and, if he fulfills the prophecy, will bring a lasting peace to an entire world.

$27.95
new release, 25% off