Short Recommendations - Uncle Hugo's

Harper, Steven The Doomsday Vault $7.99 (Clockwork Empire #1: PBO; Alice's unladylike interest in
automatons has made her an undesirable marriage prospect. Then a devastating plague leads
her to a clandestine organization, mad inventors, life-altering secrets - and the arms of an
intrepid airship pilot.)
Harrison, Kim The Hollows Insider $25.99 (Rachel Morgan: Nonfiction; the definitive behind the scenes
guide to the urban fantasy series, including new fiction.)
Heitz, Markus The Revenge of the Dwarves $15.99 (Dwarves #3: Monstrous creatures, half orc and half
alfar, are roaming Girdlegard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. Tungdil will
have to resort to his trusty double ax, and risk everything to save the dwarves from
annihilation.)
Huff, Tanya The Wild Ways $24.95 (Gale Family #2: Charlotte, a Wild Power, has allied herself with a
family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired Auntie
Catherine, another Wild Power, to steal the Selkies' sealskins. To defeat her, Charlotte will have
to learn what being born to be Wild really means in the Gale family.)
Jayne, Hannah Under Attack $7.99 (Underworld Detection Agency #2: PBO; A string of killings and
destruction strike San Francisco. The hunt for the cause reveals dangerous secrets about
Sophie's past - and a malevolent power with plans to turn one irreverent human into the
ultimate supernatural weapon.)
Jemisin, N.K. The Kingdom of Gods $13.99 (Inheritance #3: PBO; The Arameri family has ruled the world
by enslaving the very gods who created mortalkind. Now the gods are free. Shahar, last scion
of the Arameri, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves.
When the Maelstrom is summoned forth, can Shahar and Sieh face it together?)
Jerome, Celia Fire Works in the Hamptons $7.99 (Willow Tate #3: PBO; After she foolishly makes the hero
of her next book a fire wizard, graphic novelist Willow Tate must contend with a rash of fire flies,
a gorgeous firefighter, and an arsonist bent on setting East Hampton ablaze.)
Jones, Frewin The Emerald Flame $8.99 (Branwen #3: YA; Branwen has accepted the role that the Shining
Ones have bestowed upon her, and now faces a seemingly impossible mission to rescue the
spirit of the wind.)
Kakalios, James The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics $17.00 (The fundamental principles of quantum
mechanics - making possible the world of lasers, laptop computers, DVDs, and cell phones we
live in - are explained using illustrations and examples from science fiction, pulp magazines,
and comic books.)
Kemp, Paul S. Riptide $7.99 (Star Wars: PBO; Jedi Knight Jaden Korr pursues a group of clones that are
flawed by genetic disease and violent madness. He's hoping to heal them but prepared to
destroy them. And Sith agents are hot on his heels, hoping to recover the clones and capture
Jaden.)
Kent, Steven L. The Clone Redemption $7.99 (Clone #7: PBO; The Unified Authority has spread human
colonies across the Milky Way, enforcing strict order with a mostly-clone military. But now the
clones have formed their own empire, and they aim to keep it - no matter who they must
defeat.)
Kenyon, Sherrilyn The Guardian $7.99 (Dark-Hunter #21: PBO; Dream-Hunter Lydia must descend into the
Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill
all of them.)
Kessel/Kelly (ed) Kafkaesque $15.95 (Anthology; reprints stories inspired by Franz Kafka)
Killough-Walden, H Avenger's Angel $7.99 (Lost Angels #1: PBO; For millennia, Uriel, the former Archangel of
vengeance, has been searching for his one true archess. When he finds her, can he protect her
from the danger lying in wait for her, and win her heart?)
Kyme, Nick Nocturne $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Tome of Fire #3: After decades of planning, Nihilan has
mustered Dragon Warriors, dark eldar, and Chaos renegades, and launched an assault on the
Salamanders on Nocturne.)
Lackey, Mercedes Beauty and the Werewolf $24.95 (Five Hundred Kingdoms #6: Breaking curses is never
easy. But a determined beauty, a wizard (who's only occasionally a werewolf), and a little
godmotherly interference just might be able to bring about a happy ending.)
Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve Mouse & Dragon $7.99 (Liaden: After enduring much, Aelliana Caylon appears to have won
all: a spaceship, comrades, friends. Her lover is arguably the most powerful person on Liad,
and he's agreed to sit as her co-pilot and her partner in a courier business. But there are a few
snags. Her home clan isn't as agreeable to letting her go as it first seemed. Someone is stealing
pilots in the Low Port. The man she loves isn't entirely the man she thought he was. And she
discovers that the lift from Liad she so fervently desires is part of a larger plan that requires her
to be someone she never thought she was, or could be.)
Leigh/Kantra/Wilks/etc Tied with a Bow $15.00 (PBO; Anthology; 4 paranormal novellas with a holiday theme.)
Maguire, Gregory Out of Oz $26.99 (Wicked Years #4: The Emerald City plans to invade Munchkinland, Glinda
is under house arrest, the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law, and look who's knocking at
the door: Dorothy. Amid the chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter Rain comes of age, and will now
take up her broom in an Oz racked by war; Signed copies expected)
Malory, T/Ackroyd, P The Death of King Arthur $26.95 (In this abridged retelling in modern prose)