Recreation

Fiction New Titles October 2012 (arrived in September)

Adventure

Tiger's claw, Dale Brown.
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
The tombs, Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry.
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine.
Sentinel, Matthew Dunn.
The United States and Russia are on the brink of war and only intelligence agent Will Cochrane can find and unmask the diabolical double-agent who has started it all in this follow up to Spycatcher, written by a real life former agent.
The double game, Dan Fesperman.
Spy story about the Cold War legacy of World War II set in Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Budapest.
Robert Ludlum's The Janus reprisal : a Covert-One novel, Jamie Freveletti & Robert Ludlum
Covert-One title about terrorists, agents, and a new stream of biological warfare.
Send me safely back again, Adrian Goldsworthy.
Featuring the battles of Medellin and Talavera, the 106th will have their mettle severely tested on the battlefield. But if Napoleon is to be ejected from Spain, war must also be waged in more covert ways.
The spymasters, W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk: Operation Overlord for the invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project in the race to build the atomic bomb. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief "Wild Bill" Donovan and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team.
Zoo, James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
Around the world brutal attacks by animals are crippling cities and soon there'll be no places for humans to hide.
The devil's army, James Wilde.
1067 the Battle of Hastings has been lost and the iron gauntlet of William the Bastard slowly throttles the life out of England. The length and breadth of the country, villages are burned and men, women and children put to the sword as the brutal new King attempts to impose his cruel will upon the unruly nation. One man stands in the way of the Norman duke's savage campaign: Hereward, warrior, master tactician, and the last hope of the English.

American Fiction

The time keeper, Mitch Albom.
After being punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
Amish white Christmas pie, Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Will, a young man tortured by his past, and Karen, a young woman looking for answers, feature in this romantic tale set in the world of the Amish.
Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon.
An exhilarating tale exploring the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California, families - one black and one white.
The orchardist, Amanda Coplin.
At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
This is how you lose her, Junot Diaz.
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
The revised fundamentals of caregiving, Jonathan Evison.
After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
The dog stars, Peter Heller.
First novel described as "The road" with hope! This is the story of a man on a plane after a global disaster.
Guy Noir and the straight skinny, Garrison Keillor.
The famous radio private eye from "A prairie home companion" returns.
The devil in silver, Victor LaValle.
Set in a psychiatric ward and something of a contemporary variation on "One flew over the cuckoo's nest".
The bridesmaid, Beverly Lewis.
Second in the "Home to Hickory Willow" series in which 27 year old Joanna wonders if she'll ever be a bride.
One last thing before I go, Jonathan Tropper.
Wry and funny novel about family through the story of a man whose ex-wife is about to marry, whose daughter is pregnant and, to cap it all, he needs to have an operation if he doesn't want to drop dead.

Australian fiction

Questions of travel, Michelle de Krester.
Two different lives - a woman who works for a travel guide publisher and a young Sri Lankan driven from his home by devastating events are explored in this intriguing novel.
Nine days, Toni Jordan.
It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business, your own and everyone else's, as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life. As good as her previous two novels and just as funny, warm and wise.
Caravan story, Wayne Macauley.
Artists are given a new place to live and the chance to 'give back to society'. In his strange new community, housed on a footy oval in a faraway country town, one man is given his task. To create and be useful. To be thankful for the opportunity. He decides he will not give in to his misgivings; he will write. Then he finds out about the rejection slips already written for the work he has yet to submit.
Fishing for tigers, Emily Maguire.
Woman leaves both California and husband for a luxury life in Vietnam but an affair with a Vietnamese/Australian teenager changes her life and threatens her reputation.
The lavender keeper, Fiona McIntosh.
Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray. Lisette Forestier is on a mission of her own: to work her way into the heart of a senior German officer and to bring down the Reich in any way she can. What Luc and Lisette hadn't counted on was meeting each other.
The boy under the table, Nicole Trope.
Tina is a scared young woman barely existing on the streets of Kings Cross. Forced into prostitution to survive, one cold night she breaks all her rules by agreeing to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever.

British Fiction

After such kindness, Gaynor Arnold.
Fictional tale based on the story of Lewis Carroll and his young nurse Alice Liddell that evokes the repression and concealment of the Victorian age.
Toby's room, Pat Barker.
Revisits the First World War, the subject of her "Regeneration" trilogy, featuring characters from her 2007 novel "Life class."
Isabel's skin, Peter Benson.
Book valuer is asked to value an aristocrat's collection in Somerset anmd finds a village where terrible events are occurring.
The China factory : stories, Mary Costello.
In these twelve haunting stories, Irish writer Mary Costello carefully examines the passions and perils of everyday life and relationships and, with startling insight, casts a light on the darkest corners of the human heart.
Boneland, Alan Garner.
An adult sequel to his two brilliant children's novels "The weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The moon of Gomrath."
Part of the spell, Rachel Heath.
In a small English town everyone tries to be the person they think they should be but sometimes the pressure of being the perfect wife, husband, mother or daughter is tough.
Zoo time, Howard Jacobson.
A novelist in a thrall to his difficult wife and to her alluring mother wonders if he can write just one more great book. A story of love, sex and writing.
The mystery of Mercy Close, Marian Keyes.
Meet Helen, youngest of the Walsh sisters and a law unto herself. She's easily bored, has an inability to filter her thoughts and was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helen's had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boy-band has-been Wayne Diffney.
The devil I know, Claire Kilroy.
Irish tale of greed and arrogance set against a fomenting international debt crisis.
The September garden, Catherine Law.
Set in London during the Blitz, in occupied France and in Buckinghamshire as two cousins, squabbling rivals, are thrown together by the war.
Sweet tooth, Ian McEwan.
Set in 1970s Britain as Serena Frome is recruited into the intelligence services during her final year at Cambridge and is sent on a "Secret mission."
The heart broke in, James Meek.
Would you betray your lover to give them what they wanted? Bec Shepherd is a malaria researcher struggling to lead a good life. Ritchie, her reprobate brother, is a rock star turned TV producer. When Bec refuses an offer of marriage from a powerful newspaper editor and Ritchie's indiscretions catch up with him, brother and sister are forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal.
Umbrella, Will Self.
Maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner takes up a job in a Victorian asylum in London where a women is the victim of a sleeping sickness that followed World War I. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year.
A village in jeopardy, Rebecca Shaw.
The villagers of Turnham Malpas are in for a shock. With Sir Ralph now dead, his fortune and title go to a newcomer. It swiftly becomes clear that Johnny Templeton could not be more different to his well-loved predecessor. 16th in the Tales From Turnham Malpas village series.
NW, Zadie Smith.
A return to the North London world of "White teeth" and involving the lives of people on a housing estate in contemporary London.
Communion town : a city in ten chapters, Sam Thompson.
The Man Booker-long listed novel explores how each of us conjures up our own city. Every city is made of stories: stories that meet and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters.
The daylight gate, Jeanette Winterson.
A wonderfully atmospheric, intricately woven, magical modern-day tale of the Pendle Witches. The animosity and anger between the accused and the accusers, which tore the community apart in the seventeenth century, is still going strong today. A couple go to Pendle and the woman is caught up in the legend that has haunted the area for centuries.

Chicklit & romantic comedy

This child of mine, Sinead Moriarty.
Story of two daughters, two mothers and the bond of motherly love from Dublin's popular author.

Fiction from the rest of the World

The wandering falcon, Jamil Ahmad.
A small boy journeys between tribes in this touching tale set in the decades before the rise of the Taliban. Impressive debut.
Philida, Andre Brink.
1832, The Cape, and Phillida is the mother of four children by the son of her master. She risks her life by lodging a complaint against him and a freedom movement carries her across the land.
Infrared, Nancy Huston.
Provocative and powerful story about a passionate yet emotionally wounded woman's sexual expectations. Canadian author who now lives in France.
A world elsewhere, Wayne Johnston.
Canadian author. Set in the late 19th century, the tale of a Newfoundland sealing captain who goes to Princeton University where he meets the son of America's richest man.
The illicit happiness of other people, Manu Joseph.
Darkly comic novel set in modern India. Unni, who's done something terrible, has a comic strip he's drawn which might just unravel a secret to shake up his family.
In praise of hatred, Khaled Khalifa
Banned in Syria when first published. The tale of a prominent Aleppo family during the violent confrontation of the 1980s between the Baath regime and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
The housemaid's daughter, Barbara Mutch.
1919 and an Irishwoman travels to South Africa to marry. She makes friends with the daughter of the housemaid and risks the constraints of apartheid to find her when the girl leaves pregnant and disgraced.
Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil.
Shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. The author is an Indian poet and the book is set in Bombay's underworld of opium rooms over three decades.
Hostage, Elie Wiesel
Moving tale about the legacy of the Holocaust and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. Set in 1975 when a writer is taken hostage from his New York home.

Mystery

The absent one, Jussi Adler-Olsen
A girl who lives on the Copenhagen streets is sought by the police for what she knows about a murder from years back.
Trust your eyes, Linwood Barclay.
A schizophrenic, map-obsessed, shut-in who tours the world using a computer program witnesses what he believes to be a murder in downtown New York City and enlists his caretaker brother in an effort to investigate.
Death's door, James R. Benn.
Lt. Billy Boyle's girlfriend Diana Smeaton goes missing whilst working undercover in The Vatican and an American monsignor's corpse is found at Saint Peter's Basilica.
Low pressure, Sandra Brown.
Woman writes - under a pseudonym - a novel about her sister's murder and now her identity is exposed and the killer is after her.
Not my blood, Barbara Cleverly.
Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a boy who just might be the illegitimate son he never knew he had.
The wrath of angels, John Connolly.
The latest Charlie Parker thriller has a plane wreck deep in the Maine woods with a list of powerful people who have stuck a deal with the devil.
The abbey, Chris Culver.
Begins a thriller series about a former homicide detective with the case of his niece's body found on the property of a wealthy man.
The shadow queen : a novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, Rebecca Dean.
Another look - this time fictional at the much documented life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.
Bryant & May and the invisible code, Christopher Fowler.
Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later the woman is indeed found dead inside St Bride's Church, a building that no-one else has entered. The latest zany Bryant & May story.
A fatal debt, John Gapper.
Reluctantly treating a mentally ill finance capitalist in his home, psychiatrist Ben Cowper inadvertently triggers a series of events that culminate in the demise of an ex-Wall Street figure whose murder Ben must solve to save his career.
Unnatural habits, Kerry Greenwood.
1929 and three girls go missing in Melbourne, girls from the harsh Magdalene Laundry. Phryne Fisher investigates.
To catch a vampire : a F.R.E.A.K.S. squad investigation, Jennifer Harlow.
Beatrice Alexander is adjusting to life as a secret special agent, wiping out zombies and partnering a vampire.
Laws in conflict, Cora Harrison.
Latest in The Burren mysteries. It's 1512 and Mara goes to Galway to save a man's life then becomes involved in a murder case.
Blood never dies, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
Bill Slider and team face a mystery when an unidentifiable man appears to have committed suicide but all signs point to it being murder.
An inch of time, Peter Helton.
Private eye Chris Honeysett must unlock the secrets of a Greek island paradise to find a missing woman.
Haven, Kay Hooper.
A young woman comes home to a town seething with secrets and lies and, inevitably, murder.
Nameless, Jessie Keane.
Crime and vengeance in London's East End.
Garment of shadows, Laurie R. King.
A new case for Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes, here racing against time as Mary is trying to escape from a scary mystery in Morocco.
Budapest noir, Vilmos Kondor
Interesting debut opens in 1936 Budapest where a woman lies dead with just a Jewish prayer book in her handbag. A crime reporter investigates.
Trickster's point, William Kent Krueger.
Cork O'Connor has gone bow-hunting with Jubal Little, Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, when an arrow out of nowhere slices through Little's heart. Alas, the arrow belongs to O'Connor, and he must find out who framed him for this murder.
Death of a neighborhood witch : a Jaine Austen mystery, Laura Levine.
Latest in the light, cosy crime series featuring freelance writer/amateur sleuth Jaine Austen and her cat.
And when she was good, Laura Lippman.
A woman with a secret life is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself.
The vanishing point, Val McDermid.
Stephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at O'Hare airport, on her way to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes through the metal detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away and she's stuck on the other side of Security, hysterical with worry. Standalone thriller.
The fourth crow, Pat McIntosh.
The latest Gil Cunningham mystery set in medieval Glasgow, has the case of the woman found dead outside a cathedral.
A private business, Barbara Nadel.
2012 London and private eye Lee Arnold and assistant Mumtaz Hakim are hired by a stand up comedian who's being stalked.
The beautiful mystery, Louise Penny.
A cloistered monastery in Quebec famous for its choir is thrown into chaos when the choir director is murdered.
A fistful of collars, Spencer Quinn.
Chet the dog and Bernie, his private eye companion, investigate a movie star with a shady past.
Scone Island, Frederick Ramsay.
Former CIA agent now small-town sheriff Ike Schwartz on the case of murder at a holiday island.
Valley of ashes, Cornelia Read.
Wife and mother accompanies husband to his job in Colorado and is bored until she gets a newspaper job and investigates a serial arsonist.
Bones are forever, Kathy Reichs.
Featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan in a story of infanticide, murder, and corruption set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining.
Delusion in death, J.D. Robb.
When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that were administered through an airborne method.
Lady of the shades, Darren Shan.
Latest adult novel from the hit YA author. A dark supernatural thriller about an American writer in London who meets a woman who has links to a notorious crime lord.
The uncommon appeal of clouds, Alexander McCall Smith.
Isabel Falhousie is called in by a collector who's been the victim of a significant art theft.
The king's spy, Andrew Swanston.
Debut historical mystery. Introduces Thomas Hill, a bookseller to the court of Charles I in Oxford.
Syndrome E, Franck Thilliez
Bestseller in France. About a little known 1950s film where horrific subliminal images result in five murders.

New Zealand Fiction

Houses of stone, David L. Bateman.
The late well known N.Z. publisher's novel follows two generations of a family from Britain to Zimbabwe and the publishing world.
No white flowers, please, Elaine Blick.
A young girl in the 1920s loses her mother and is sent to live with an unmarried aunt in a small North Island town.
The water race, D. Bradley.
Mysterious water springs up in Waka Bay and quickly becomes legendary for its healing powers. The water springs causes division in the bay amongst its rival claimants including Rachel a power-suit-wearing consultant dispatched to the community to facilitate a luxury tourist resort, Madeleine a young, idealistic Māori woman and self appointed guardian of the water springs and Alan a farmer who needs the Springs to provide water to establish a vineyard.
Gorse is not people : new and uncollected stories, Janet Frame.
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time.
The girl below, Bianca Zander.
A young woman, recently returned to London after ten years away, finds herself slipping back into her childhood and ultimately must solve the mysteries of her dysfunctional family, grief and death, love, and her very ideas of self and place in the world.

Romance

Bella's wishlist, Emily Forbes.
The secrets she carried, Lynne Graham.
Unnoticed and untouched, Lynn Raye Harris.
The count's prize, Christina Hollis.
To love, honour and betray, Jennie Lucas.
Heart of a desert warrior, Lucy Monroe.

Saga & Historical

Westward hearts, Melody Carlson.
Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade. Begins a new series of adventure and romance on the Oregon Trail.
The mirrored world, Debra Dean.
1700s St. Petersburg where fervent Xena is married to Andrei but when tragedy strikes she leaves friends and family to work with the poor.
Wallis, Rebecca Dean.
Two lovers. Two very different lives. One future together that will change history. When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up, she devotes her teenage daydreams to one man, the future King of England, Prince Edward. But it's Pamela Holtby, Wallis's aristocratic best friend, who mixes within the palace circle.
The lost prince, Selden Edwards.
Taking her place in late-nineteenth-century Boston society, Eleanor Burden, who believes she has advance knowledge of every major event that is to occur in her lifetime, struggles to balance the expectations of her family with her resolve to prevent historical disasters. Sequel to "The little book."
The map of lost memories, Kim Fay.
1925 and a young American curator who is turned down for a top job at a Seattle museum determines to prove her worth by researching the forgotten history of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilisation. An engrossing and very original tale.
A sixpenny Christmas, Katie Flynn.
A story that follows two women who give birth on the same day in a Liverpool hospital and become friends. When one is beaten up by her husband she leaves Liverpool to live with her friend on a hill farm in Snowdonia.
The final sacrament, James Forrester.
1566 and William Harley is on the run, hunted by agents, after a document that could destroy the state.
The kingmaker's daughter, Philippa Gregory.
Fourth in "The Cousin's War" series.
I, Jane : in the court of Henry VIII, Diane Haeger.
Tale of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII.
Unending devotion, Jody Hedlund.
Lily Young's search for her lost sister takes her to Harrison, Michigan, where she meets Connell McCormick. Soon Lily has Connell's help, but the danger they face may cost them everything. Set in 1883.
Avenger of Rome, Douglas Jackson.
Gaius Valerius Verrens returns. It's 66 A.D. and Nero's grip on Rome is weakening.
Spartacus : rebellion, Ben Kane.
Second in series has Spartacus and his warrior generals divided about strategy and rebellion is turning to war.
The falcons of fire and ice, Karen Maitland.
Historical thriller set in 1539 when the Portuguese Inquisition ushers in an era of torture and murder.
After the lockout, Darran McCann.
Strong impressive debut about November 1917, a key time in Irish history, where a young idealist returns to his home village after a long exile.
The house of memories, Monica McInerney.
A woman's son dies in a playground accident and she blames her husband and half sister in her grief.
Taming the wind, Tracie Peterson.
As Cassie and Tyler struggle to follow their hearts, will the hardship of life on the Texas plains destroy their hope of a future together? Third in the "Land of the lone star" series.
The rain queen, Katherine Scholes.
Kate Carrington has cut all ties with Africa, the land of her birth. Her past is buried alongside her missionary parents, the last reminders locked safely away in the attic. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door, Kate's carefully constructed world is torn apart.
Wilderness, Lance Weller.
Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has made his home in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog, waiting for the scars of war to heal. Now an old and ailing man, Abel must make one heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains.
The potter's hand, A. N. Wilson.
A complete change of pace for this first rate British novelist. An epic tale of the Wedgwood dynasty and the lives and loves of one of Britain's most famous families.
Renegade, Robyn Young.
Continues the story of Tobert the Bruce which began in "Insurrection".

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

The teleportation accident, Ned Beauman.
Wacky, outrageous and very original tale of an egotistical avant-garde theatrical that starts in 1930s Berlin and moves on as he develops the perfect stage trick.
Death warmed over, Kevin J. Anderson.
Clever fantasy about a zombie private eye who takes on the creepiest of cases. A clever mix of fantasy, comedy and zombies.
Iron winter, Stephen Baxter.
Third in the "Northland" science fiction series.
Wards of faerie, Terry Brooks.
First of a new series, "The dark legacy of Shannara" that revisits his epic fantasy series.
Seven wonders, Adam Christopher.
When Tony Prosdocimi finds himself with super-powers he decides to use them to take down the local supervillain, the Cowl, which gets him in trouble with the local superhero team, the Seven Wonders.
The chemickal marriage, G. W. Dahlquist.
Third in the fantastical adventure series about Miss Temple, young and wealthy and far from home, out to destroy a cabal that wants to take over the world.
The rapture of the nerds, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross.
A hundred years in the future post-humans have abandoned Earth to their less evolved cousins who remain suspicious of technological changes.
Ash, James Herbert.
Ghost hunter and parapsychologist David Ash is sent to a remote Scottish castle to investigate hauntings. Blockbuster horror tale.
Thieftaker, D.B. Jackson.
History and fantasy combined to create a pre-Revolutionary Boston that should have been. A clever debut.
The unincorporated future, Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin.
Sandra O'Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Fourth title in The Unincorporated series.
Fate of worlds : return from the Ringworld, Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner.
A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power.
Breed, Chase Novak.
Dark horror tale about the parents of twins born by an experimental procedure. Novak is the pseudonym for American novelist Scott Spencer.
The map of the sky, Felix J. Palma
The extra-terrestrial invasion featured in "The war of the worlds" by H.G. Wells becomes a bizarre reality.
Halo. Glasslands, Karen Traviss.
After the defeat of the Covenant and the death of billions of people, Dr. Rachel Halsey, thought to be dead, discovers a technology that can save mankind, as the Kilo-Five hunts for her and the Venezia colony makes plans to attack a weakened Earth.
Rage of the dragon, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
Sixth in the "Dragonships of Vindras" fantasy series.
The dirty streets of heaven, Tad Williams.
First in a new series of fantasy thrillers about an angel who argues the fate of the recently deceased.