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UNUSUAL USES FOR OLIVE OIL
SMITH, ALEXANDER MCCALL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 LTD
copies sold!) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds
that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival (and owner of a one-legged dachsund) Detlev-Amadeus
Unterholzer has been winning undeserved recognition. With help from the matchmaking Ophelia Prinzel, he
stumbles towards a romance with Frau Benz, a charming widow who owns her very own Schloss and a fleet of
handsome cars. While on the annual student study retreat in the Alps, von Igelfeld fearlessly plunges 3,000 feet
into mountaineering history, only to suffer the ignominy of giving inspirational lectures about the experience. And
at a dinner party, he is the only kind soul who can aid the aforementioned unfortunate dachshund, whose sticky
wheels are in need of lubrication.
FICTION
VINTAGE CANADA 128 PAGES
9780676979558 SERIES: PROFESSOR DR. VON IGELFELD
$16.95 TP Original
DECEMBER 2012
VALEN THE OUTCAST VOLUME TWO
NELSON, MICHAEL
The King is dead - long live the DEAD KING! King Valen Brand was a just ruler and a great warrior until he was
killed by the necromancer Korrus Null in battle and resurrected as one of the walking dead. Now he's considered
an abomination in his own realm, an outcast with only one purpose: to restore his lost soul! Collecting issues 5-8
of the visceral series, Valen’s journey brings him to the treacherous kingdom of Wraithendal, home of Korrus Null
and his immense army of undead soldiers.
GRAPHIC NOVELS 1ST PRINTING 10,000
BOOM! STUDIOS 112 PAGES
9781608862849 SERIES: VALEN THE OUTCAST
$18.99 TP Original
DECEMBER 2012
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
DUNN, CAROLA
A cryptic message spurs Eleanor, Megan, and Nick Gresham on a frantic search for a refugee's missing family
While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned
Indian man floating in the water. Delerious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being
trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a
hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. The local police inspector presumes
that they are refugees from East Africa, abandoned by the smugglers who brought them in, so while the
countryside is being scoured for the family, Eleanor herself descends into a dangerous den of smugglers in a
desperate search to find the man responsible while there is still time.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 25,000
MINOTAUR 320 PAGES
9780312600679
$28.99 HC
DECEMBER 2012
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