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Uncle Hugo's April 2009 Arrivals


 
 
Klimo, Kate  
Dragon Keepers #1: The Dragon in the Sock Drawer
Ages 8 and up. Ten-year-old cousins Jesse and Daisy have always wanted something magical to happen to them. So it's a wish come true when Jesse's newly found thunder egg hatches and a helpless, tiny, but very loud, baby dragon pops out.  
Novel, 159 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Yearling - 2009 - ISBN: 0375855882 / 9780375855887  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New003134 $5.99
Kyme, Nick  
Warhammer: Honourkeeper
As King Bagrik of the dwarfs and Prince Ithalred of the elves forge a trade pact, a vast horde of Northmen attacks the elf city of Tor Eorfith. When King Bagrik's son is slain, the dwarfs join forces with the elves, eager for vengeance. But can these two noble races put aside their differences long enough to prevail over the foe?  
Novel, 410 pages, Mass Market Paperback  
Black Library - 2009 - ISBN: 1844166848 / 9781844166848  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002134 $7.99
Kyme, Nick (editor) / Priestly, Lindsey (editor)  
Warhammer 40,000: Horus Heresy #10: Tales of Heresy
Anthology of original stories by Dan Abnett, Mike Lee, Anthony Reynolds, James Swallow, Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, and Matthew Farrer.  
Anthology, 412 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Black Library - 2009 - ISBN: 1844166821 / 9781844166824  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002133 $7.99
Lebbon, Tim  
Noreela #3: Fallen
Explorer Ramus Rheel and Voyager Nomi Hyden follow clues hidden in an manuscript that could hold the secret of scaling the Great Divide and finding the Sleeping God  
Novel, 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 Trade PB  
Spectra - 2009 - ISBN: 0553590049 / 9780553590043  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001347 $7.99
Lee, Sharon / Miller, Steve  
Rebecca Beauvelley #2: Longeye
To regain control of her fate, Becca escapes from the queen's retainers with only her horse, a mad forest-living Brethren, and her freed magical servant Nancy at her side. The sea-lord Sian sends the legendary hero Longeye in pursuit.  
Novel, 313 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Baen - 2009 - ISBN: 1416591532 / 9781416591535  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002108 $24.00
Ligotti, Thomas  
My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
When Frank Domino is suddenly sacked, he prepares to get even, and finds an ally in a malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers - but there will be a price to pay.
    Contents
  • My Work Is Not Yet Done (short novel)
  • I Have a Special Plan for This World (story)
  • The Nightmare Network (story)
 
Collection, 183 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2002 HC  
Virgin - 2009 - ISBN: 0753516888 / 9780753516881  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002704 $12.95
Lloyd, Tom  
Twilight Reign #2: The Twilight Herald
Lord Bahl is dead and Isak stands in his place. Fugitives are drawn to the city of Scree. The city begins to tear itself apart - but even chaos can be scripted.  
Novel, 501 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition  
PYR - 2009 - ISBN: 1591027330 / 9781591027331  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New003235 $15.98
McDonald, Ian  
Brasyl
Edson is a self-made impresario in a near-future Sao Paulo, drawn into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing. Marcelina is a Rio producer looking for that big reality TV hit, enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens her life and soul. Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent to 18th-century Brazil to locate a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire. Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality.

Awards:
♦  Winner of the 2007 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel
♦  Nominated for the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel
♦  Nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel
♦  Nominated for the 2008 Locus Award for Best SF Novel
♦  2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist
♦  Nominated for the 2007 Quill Award for Best SF / Fantasy / Horror

 
Novel, 355 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC  
PYR - 2009 - ISBN: 1591027357 / 9781591027355  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New003238 $15.98
McKenna, Juliet E.  
Lescari Revolution #1: Irons in the Fire
Carved out of the collapse of the Old Tormalin Empire, Lescar has long been laid waste by its rival dukes; a mismatched band of exiles and rebels are agreed that the time has come for change.  
Novel, 616 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Solaris - 2009 - ISBN: 1844166015 / 9781844166015  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002126 $7.99
Melko, Paul  
Singularity's Ring
A pod of five teenagers, genetically engineered to work as one entity, trains to become captain of the starship Consensus  
Novel, 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 076535702X / 9780765357021  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001438 $7.99
Micklem, Sarah  
Firethorn
Granted healing powers, Firethorn escapes a life of servitude, traveling with the king's army alongside her highborn lover. But the passion they feel for each other has no place in a world ruled by caste.  
Novel, 563 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2004)  
Spectra - 2009 - ISBN: 055358801X / 9780553588019  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001348 $7.99
Modesitt, L.E. Jr.  
Viewpoints Critical
Stories spanning his entire career, including three that are original to this volume.
    Contents
  • The Great American Economy
  • Second Coming
  • Rule of Law
  • Iron Man, Plastic Ships
  • Power to . . . ?
  • Precision Set
  • Fallen Angel
  • Black Ordermage
  • Understanding
  • News Clips Recovered from the NYC Ruins
  • Beyond the Obvious Wind
  • Always Outside the Lines: Four Battles
  • The Pilots
  • The Dock to Heaven
  • Ghost Mission
  • Spec-Ops
  • Sisters of Sarronnyn, Sisters of Westwind
  • The Difference
  • The Swan Pilot
 
Collection, 350 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 076531858X / 9780765318589  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001772 $15.95
Moorcock, Michael  
The Best of Michael Moorcock
A career-spanning collection of his work, including one previously unpublished and three uncollected stories.
    Contents
  • A Portrait in Ivory
  • The Visible Men
  • A Dead Singer
  • Lunching with the Antichrist
  • The Opium General
  • Behold the Man
  • A Winter Admiral
  • London Bone
  • Colour
  • My Experiences in the Third World War: Going to Canada / Leaving Pasadena / Crossing Into Cambodia
  • Doves in the Circle
  • The Deep Fix
  • The Birds of the Moon
  • The Cairene Purse
  • A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club
 
Collection, 400 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition  
Tachyon - 2009 - ISBN: 1892391864 / 9781892391865  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New003491 $14.95
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert  
Princess Ben
Ages 12 and up. Princess Benevolence is under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Locked in the castle's highest tower, she stumbles on a mysterious enchanted room, and begins a secret education in the magical arts.  
Novel, 344 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Graphia - 2009 - ISBN: 0547223250 / 9780547223254  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001368 $8.99
Murphy, C.E.  
Inheritors' Cycle #2: The Pretender's Crown
An accomplished assassin, Belinda has also found her witchpower, and entered a realm where power and control go to those who can master and manipulate their fiercest desires.  
Novel, 461 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition  
Del Rey - 2009 - ISBN: 0345494652 / 9780345494658  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002586 $14.00
Neff, Henry H.  
Tapestry #1: The Hound of Rowan
Ages 8 and up. After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, 12-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in mystics and combat in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.  
Novel, 414 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC  
Yearling - 2008 - ISBN: 0375838953 / 9780375838958  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New004277 $6.99
Nicholls, Stan  
Orcs: Bad Blood
A human tells of the atrocities being visited upon orcs back in the other world, imploring Stryke and his band to come back and save their kind. But can this human be trusted, or is it a trap?  
Novel, 332 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition  
Orbit - 2009 - ISBN: 0316033693 / 9780316033695  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002181 $14.99
Nye, Jody Lynn  
Tildi Summerbee #2: A Forthcoming Wizard
Halfling Tildi Summerbee has become the guardian of a very special book that can alter everything in existence - the fate of the world rests in her hands.  
Novel, 430 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition  
Tor - 2009 - ISBN: 0765314347 / 9780765314345  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001785 $27.95
Odom, Mel  
Forgotten Realms: The Threat from the Sea: The Rising Tide / Under Fallen Stars / The Sea Devil's Eye
An undersea civilization brings back an ancient evil to wage war against the surface dwellers  
Omnibus, 759 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1999 / 1999 / 2000)  
Wizards of the Coast - 2009 - ISBN: 0786950552 / 9780786950553  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New001631 $14.95
Parzybok, Benjamin  
Couch
Thom is a computer geek. Erik is a smalltime con man. Tree is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off base. After a freak accident floods their apartment, the three are evicted - but they have to take their couch with them. The real problem? The couch - huge and orange - won't let them put it down. Soon the three roommates are on a cross-country trek, heading deep into one very weird corner of the American dream.  
Novel, 280 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition  
Small Beer Press - 2008 - ISBN: 1931520542 / 9781931520546  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New003435 $16.00
Prineas, Sarah  
Magic Thief #1: The Magic Thief
Ages 10 and up. When he survives picking the wizard Nevery's pocket, Conn becomes his apprentice; together they try to discover who - or what - is stealing the city's magic.

Recommended by Elizabeth: Very enjoyable reading, with an engagingly straightforward and resourceful young protagonist.  
Novel, 422 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Harper Trophy - 2009 - ISBN: 006137590X / 9780061375903  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002384 $6.99
Pullman, Philip  
His Dark Materials: Lyra's Oxford
Ages 12 and up. Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and Pantalaimon relaxing on the roof of Jordan College when their peace is shattered by a strange bird - a witch's daemon, on his own - tumbling out of the sky in search of an elixir to cure his witch of a strange new disease. Lyra and Pan decide to help, but the closer their winding walk leads them toward the infamous Oxford alchemist, the stronger Lyra's sense that something is amiss. Plus a foldout map.  
Story, 54 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2003 HC  
Knopf - 2007 - ISBN: 0375843698 / 9780375843693  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New004240 $6.99
Pullman, Philip  
His Dark Materials: Once Upon a Time in the North
Ages 12 and up. A novella set in the far frozen Arctic, in which Texan balloonist Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet for the first time. Plus a Peril of the Pole game, complete with spinner, game board, and pieces.  
Novella, 100 pages, Hardcover, 1st US Edition  
Knopf - 2008 - ISBN: 0375845100 / 9780375845109  
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued.  
Already Received   ID: #New004206 $12.99
Reynolds, Anthony  
Warhammer: Bretonnian Knights #2: Knight of the Realm
In the aftermath of the beastmen invasion and his father's death, Calard must face up to his responsibilities as a knight. But there is little time for respite as a new terror comes to Bretonnia . . .  
Novel, 410 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition  
Black Library - 2009 - ISBN: 1844166945 / 9781844166947  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002137 $7.99
Riordan, Rick  
Percy Jackson & the Olympians #4: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Ages 10 and up. When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth.  
Novel, 361 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC  
Disney Hyperion - 2009 - ISBN: 1423101499 / 9781423101499  
Book Condition: New.  
Already Received   ID: #New002398 $7.99


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