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APR 2013

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FANTASY

9780007481347 THE SEA SISTERS(Soft Cover) LUCY CLARKE HARPER UK S$18.50 GF

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9780062131812 THE NEW RULES FOR BLONDES (Soft Cover) SELENA COPPOCK HARPER US S$23.00 GF

9780007464166 THE CAMPBELL ROAD GIRLS(Soft Cover) KAY BRELLEND HARPER UK S$16.50 GF

Writer, comedienne, and full-time

Blonde, Selena Coppock offers up

adventures, misadventures, and

golden-hued nuggets of wisdom in a laugh-out-loud anthem for those of us

who really do have more fun. . . .

The modern blonde is savvy, wise, confident, capable, and not afraid to

laugh at herself when the occasion

calls for it. She knows who she is and

is prepared to subvert all stereotypes

(although she's not above wielding her golden tresses to her advantage),

and knows how to be both classy and

a little brassy.

Gritty and gripping saga set on one of

London’s most notorious streets, from

the author of The Street and Coronation Day.

She’s a good girl – in a bad world…

Lucy Keiver has come back from

service in the country to London’s notorious Campbell Road. She’s there

to care for her mum, the forthright and

feisty Matilda, recovering after a

savage attack almost left her for dead.

9781439197639 CITY OF THE DEAD (Soft Cover) DANIEL BLAKE SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF

When Henry Lyte brings his young

bride Frances home to his Somerset

estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of

fruit trees and flower beds, with a

knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a

scholar, and his life’s work is his

‘herbal’ – a book of plants and their medicinal properties, intended for

those who cannot afford physicians’

expensive cures.

New Orleans homicide detective

Selma Fawcett doesn’t hide her

dislike of the FBI intruding on her turf . . . or her distrust of anyone not born

in the Big Easy. But a second similar

murder forces them to work together .

. . or fail. Their suspects range from

unscrupulous politicians in high places to a ruthless woman who

claims to be the reincarnation of the

long-dead voodooienne Marie

Laveau. Both Selma and Franco are

the outsiders now, journeying into the dangerous heart of darkness, a

poisonous miasma of secrecy and

corruption.

Two sisters, one life-changing

journey…

There are some currents in the

relationship between sisters that run

so dark and so deep, it’s better for

the people swimming on the surface

never to know what’s beneath . . .

Katie’s carefully structured world is

shattered by the news that her

headstrong younger sister, Mia, has

been found dead in Bali – and the police claim it was suicide.

9780007313334 THE KNOT (Soft Cover) JANE BORODALE HARPER UK S$21.00 GF

9781848271180 HEADSTONE (Soft Cover) KEN BRUEN TRANSWORLD S$19.00 GF

Some people help the less

fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has

many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but

nothing before has ever truly

terrified him until a group called

Headstone rears its ugly head. An

elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs

boy is brutally attacked. A series of

seemingly random, insane, violent

events even has the Guards

shaken. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the

dead…

9781451688993 DEADLY STING (Soft Cover) JENNIFER ESTEP SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 FAN

Against her better judgment, Gin is

coerced into attending a high society

gala with the rest of Ashland's elite

underworld. On display: the priceless art collection of her deceased

nemesis, Mab Monroe, and an

excess of crime boss swagger. While

not comfortable in her fancy attire, Gin gets vastly more interested in the

evening’s events when a group of

thieves bursts in and tries to seize the

valuable, dangerous gems. Facing a

Die Hard-esque scenario in which she must free hostage partygoers

while herself trapped in the museum,

things get a little bit messy when the

bloodshed begins. Let's just say that

Gin should have chosen the red gown…

9780007500208 THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER (Soft Cover) MEGAN SHEPHERD HARPER UK S$18.50 FAN

A dark, breathless, beautifully-

written gothic thriller of murder,

madness and a mysterious island…

London, 1894. Juliet Moreau has

built a life for herself—working as a

maid, attending church on

Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her

life. After all, no one ever proved

the rumours about her father’s

gruesome experiments. But when

she learns her father is alive and continuing his work on a remote

tropical island, she is determined to

find out if the accusations were

true.

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GENERAL FICTION

9780552161954 LIFETIME (Soft Cover) LIZA MARKLUND TRANSWORLD S$16.00 GF

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9780345806697 LORE (MOVIE TIE-IN) (Soft Cover) RACHEL SEIFFERT RANDOM HOUSE S$25.00 GF

9780552162401 THE BLEEDING LAND (Soft Cover) GILES KRISTIAN TRANSWORLD S$17.00 GF

Now a Major Motion Picture: in

"Lore," Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II

on ordinary Germans--both survivors

of the war and the generations that

succeeded them. It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of

Germany. A teenage German girl

named Lore has been left to fend for

herself. Her parents have been

arrested by the Allies, and she has four younger siblings to care for.

Together, they set off on a harrowing

journey to find their grandmother.

England 1642: a nation divided.

England is at war with itself. King

Charles and Parliament each gather

soldiers to their banners. Across the

land men prepare to fight for their religious and political ideals. Civil war

has begun. A family ripped asunder.

The Rivers are landed gentry, and

tradition dictates that their allegiance is

to the King. Sir Francis' loyalty to the crown and his desire to protect his

family will test them all. As the men

march to war, so the women are left to

defend their home against a ruthless

enemy.

9780062076106 TWICE TEMPTED (Soft Cover) JEANIENE FROST HARPER US S$16.00 GF

"Evokes the master of Barcelona-set

narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon".

("Independent"). When the death of a young witness in a case of human

trafficking and voodoo provokes the

normally calm Inspector Salgado to

beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he

is sent to investigate a teenager's fall

to his death in one of Barcelona's

uptown areas. As Salgado begins to

uncover the inconvenient truths behind the city's most powerful

families, two seemingly unsolvable

cases are set to implode under the

hot Barcelona sun.

Dating the Prince of Darkness has its

challenges . . .

Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure

what the future holds. If that weren't

enough, her lover Vlad has been

acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman

who refuses to accept the cold

shoulder treatment forever—

especially from the darkly handsome

vampire who still won't admit that he loves her . . .

The most famous police officer in Sweden, David Lindholm, is found

murdered in his bed. His four-year-old

son has vanished without a trace. His

wife, Julia, is suspected of killing both

of them, and is in clear need of psychiatric help. No one believes her

when she says she is innocent. No one

except for news reporter Annika

Bengtzon. Her personal life in turmoil,

she turns all her energies to her work, investigating the life of the murdered

man. She soon discovers faults in

David's apparently flawless personality.

9780552778268 THE SUMMER OF DEAD TOYS(Soft Cover) ANTONIO HILL TRANSWORLD S$19.00 GF

9781451629309 ICE FIRE (Soft Cover) DAVID LYONS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF

Cajun-born Jock Boucher has overcome

modest beginnings to assume the

prestigious position of U.S. District Judge

for the Eastern District of Louisiana. One of his first cases on the bench involves a

scientist who has been hiding in mortal

fear for more than twenty years. The

fugitive claims that another judge

accepted bribes and helped a relentless global energy company steal his

intellectual property: a way to recover

energy from below the deep sea bed that

could end America’s dependence on

foreign oil.

9780007310326 HERETIC (Soft Cover) BERNARD CORNWELL HARPER UK S$18.50 GF

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to

the number one bestseller

Vagabond, this is the thirdinstalment in Bernard Cornwell's

Grail Quest series.

In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is

suspended by a truce.

But for Thomas of Hookton, the

hero of Harlequin and Vagabond,

there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred

of Christendom's relics, and is sent

to his ancestral homeland,

Gascony, to engineer a

confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille.

9780007491261 THE ACCURSED KINGS (1): THE IRON KING (Soft Cover) MAURICE DRUON HARPER UK S$18.50 GF

“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be

accursed to the thirteenth

generation!”

The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as

cold and silent, as handsome and

unblinking as a statue. He governs

his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons

are weak and their wives adulterous;

while his red-blooded daughter

Isabella is unhappily married to an

English king who prefers the company of men.

GENERAL FICTION

9781451684322 RELENTLESS (Soft Cover) CHERRY ADAIR SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

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9780062019264 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (Soft Cover) VICTORIA ALEXANDER HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

9781451679236 THE TITANIC SECRET (Soft Cover) JACK STEEL SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 GF

When con artist and actress OpheliaKendrake and her sister visit the town

of Dead End, she is mistaken for the

Countess of Bridgewater, and sees

an opportunity to fleece the

community. But she’s stopped in her tracks when she meets Tyler, Dead

End’s handsome mayor.

Tyler’s ambition is to buy a ranch and

find a wife, until he spies Ophelia. As

he becomes acquainted with the charming actress he falls in love—but

there’s the question of trust.

A covert operation with catastrophic

consequences collides with fate in this

inventive novel of conspiracy, subterfuge,

and murder unfurling against a factual, tragic, and heart-stopping moment in

history.April 1912: Shortly after midnight

in Berlin, mere yards from the British

Embassy, an English spy is shot after a

clandestine meeting with a German government official. He utters three

cryptic words, then dies. It's an ambush

as calculated and cold-blooded as the

scheme it helps set in motion.

9780062248138 THE TIDES OF MEMORIES (Soft Cover) SIDNEY SHELDON HARPER US S$27.00 GF

An urban fairy tale from the

acclaimed author of 99 Reasons

Why.

Urban magic, a sacred pagan pool, a

dysfunctional bullied boy, a beautiful

water nymph, sexual awakening and

a very dark secret are just some of the ingredients of this adult fairy tale

in which Arthur Braxton finds a

mystical world below a derelict

swimming baths.

An addictive, edge-of-your-seat

thriller filled with the hallmark

elements that made New York

Times bestselling author Sidney

Sheldon—"the master of the story-

telling game" (People)—an

international legend: shocking

twists, money, power, and betrayal involving an influential family and

the beautiful and formidable woman

at its center whose dark secrets

can destroy them all.

The find of the century will be lost unless Isis McGee and Connor Thorne

unravel the truth behind an ancient

Egyptian secret. Isis McGee believes

her father, once a world-renowned archeologist, when he claims to have

found the Egyptian tomb that’s been his

life’s work. However, between August

McGee’s crumbled reputation and

painful descent into Alzheimer’s, Isis needs help re-finding the tomb before

the valley where it’s located is flooded

for a much-needed dam.

9780007479092 THE DROWNING OF ARTHUR BRAXTON (Soft Cover) CAROLINE SMAILES HARPER UK S$18.50 GF

9780857500939 THE LAST CAESAR(Soft Cover) HENRY VENMORE-ROWLAND TRANSWORLD S$17.00 GF

AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no

son and no heir. Suddenly there's the

very real possibility that Rome might become a republic once more. But the

ambitions of a few are about to bring

corruption, chaos and untold bloodshed

to the many. Among them is a hero of

the campaign against Boudicca, Aulus Caecina Severus. Caught up in a

conspiracy to overthrow Caesar's

dynasty, he commits treason, raises a

rebellion, faces torture and intrigue - all

supposedly for the good of Rome.

9781847562715 LEFTOVERS (Soft Cover) STELLA NEWMAN HARPER UK S$16.50 GF

A novel about friendship, hope and the

power of pasta.

Susie Rosen’s life is a mess. According

to her best friend Rebecca, she needs

to get over her ex, Jake. Move forward, start online dating – or at least stop

being rude to every guy who tries to

chat her up.

According to a magazine, she’s a ‘Leftover’ – a post Bridget-Jones 30

something who has neither her dream

job, nor a family of her own. She

doesn’t even own 6 matching dinner

plates.

9780007512096 TOUCH (Soft Cover) MARK SENNEN HARPER UK S$16.50 GF

Harry likes pretty things. He likes to

look at them. Sometimes that isn't

enough. He wants to get closer.

Naughty Harry.

DI Savage and her team in Plymouth

are struggling with their investigation

into a string of horrific attacks on

young women. The victims are being drugged, abducted, assaulted and

then abandoned with only a dull

memory of what has happened. But

when the mutilated body of one of

these women is found on a beach, the case becomes a chilling murder

inquiry. Stopping at just one victim

will never be enough … not for this

killer.

ROMANCE

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ROMANCE

9780007482160 DRACULA UNBOUND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF

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9780007482184 FRAKENSTEIN UNBOUND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF

9781476709246 FAR HARBOR (Soft Cover) JOaNN ROSS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

When Joe Bodenland is suddenly

transported back in time to the year

1816, his first reaction is of eager curiosity rather than distress. Certainly

the Switzerland in which he finds

himself, with its charming country inns,

breathtaking landscapes and gentle,

unmechanised pace of life, is infinitely preferable to the America of 2020

where the games of politicians threaten

total annihilation. But after meeting the

brooding young Victor Frankenstein,

Joe realises that this world is more complex than the one he left behind.

After her seemingly idyllic marriage

turns out to be a pretty illusion, Savannah Townsend returns to her

hometown of Coldwater Cove,

Washington. Determined to live life on

her own terms, she takes on the task of

restoring the local Far Harbor lighthouse and making it the cozy inn

she had always dreamed of. But she

hasn’t anticipated opposition from the

lighthouse’s owner, her grandmother’s

disturbing memory losses, or the problems of an emotionally wounded

teenage girl.

9780446540100 BY STARLIGHT (Soft Cover) DOROTHY GARLOCK HACHETTE BOOK GROUP S$16.00 ROM

Ivak Sigurdsson is dead . . . well, sort

of. Guilty of the sin of lust, he's been

given an unusual penance: spend eternity as a Viking vampire angel, or

vangel, fighting Lucipires, Satan's

vampire demons on earth. Now

sequestered in Angola Prison as a

"spiritual advisor," Ivak is finding all these centuries of celibacy

depressing, to say the least. But then,

along comes southern belle Gabrielle

Sonnier. Is she a reward for his good

deeds, or a temptation sent to rattle his lustsome brain?

Colton, Montana, 1931. Struggling

through the Great Depression,

Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save

her family's mercantile store.

Keeping her dangerous new

business partner at arm's length is

no easy task, but her bravery faces its biggest test when Jack Rucker

unexpectedly comes home. He left

town seven years ago, breaking his

promise-and her heart-when he

didn't return so they could get married and start a family. Now

Jack is willing to do anything to

earn her forgiveness . . . anything

except

When Bram Stoker was writing his

famous novel, Dracula, at the end of

the 19th century he received a visitor named Joe Bodenland. While the real

Count Dracula came from the distant

past, Joe arrived from Stoker’s future

– on a desperate mission to save

humanity from the undead.

9780062064639 KISS OF TEMPTATION (Soft Cover) SANDRA HILL HARPER US S$13.00 ROM

9780007478903 THE ZODIAC PLANET GALAXY:A STORY COLLECTION (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF

Finally, all the Zodiac Planets stories

and novellas in one volume.

A collection all the short stories and

novellas that make up the Zodiac

Planets series. Spanning over 40

years these include The Supertoys

Trilogy, the first of which was filmed by Steven Spielberg as the movie A.I.

Also features a brand new novella,

Mission to the Planets of the Zodiac

which has never been seen befor

9780061905889 STOLEN CHARMS (Soft Cover) ADELE ASHWORTH HARPER US S$16.00 ROM

Bored with stuffy balls and

pompous suitors, Miss Natalie

Haislett longs for romance and adventure—and dreams

of wedding England's most

notorious thief, the Black

Knight. To this end, she

approaches the renowned rakehell Jonathan Drake,

reputed to be a friend of

Natalie's would-be lover, and

begs him for an introduction .

. . unaware that the outlaw she so desires is as close to

her as a kiss.

9781451655926 REBEL (Soft Cover) KRISTINA DOUGLAS SIMON AND SCHUSTER S$16.00 ROM

A rebel angel who lives outside the

world of the Fallen, Cain makes his

own rules. Now he’s returned to make trouble, and he sets his sights

on the unreliably psychic Martha. She

has no interest in getting romantically

involved with Cain, especially when

she can tell he has ulterior motives. But when a mysterious figure tries to

kill Martha, she and Cain must work

together to uncover the villain. The

heat between Martha and Cain grows

undeniable, even as chaos and disaster threaten the very existence

of the Fallen.

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9780785160496 MVL: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOLUME 10: LONG WAY DOWN (Soft Cover) MATT FRACTION MARVEL S$25.00 GRPHe quit being sober. He quit being an

Avenger. Will he really quit being Iron

Man? Tony Stark's life is spiraling out

of control - or so it seems. As his deadly chess match against the

Mandarin reaches its fateful crescendo,

will Tony's inscrutable strategy result in

a hard-fought victory or utter defeat? And if Iron Man is truly no more, what

of Pepper, Rhodey and the Stark

Resilient team? With revamped rogues

from Iron Man's past on the loose - and

the murderous Spymaster finally making his move - all their lives are at

stake, and one will be a horrible

casualty in Stark's war against Hammer

Industries.

9780785160762 MVL: CAPTAIN AMERICA BY ED BRUBAKER - VOL 3 (Soft Cover) MARK ED BRUBAKER MARVEL S$30.00 GRP

It's the beginning of a new era for

Iron Man! Renowned scribe Warren

Ellis joins forces with acclaimed illustrator Adi Granov to redefine the

armored Avenger's world for the 21st

century - a landscape of terrifying

new technologies that threaten to

overwhelm a fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and

what does its emergence portend for

the world?

A new Scourge on the hunt! They

entered the Witness Protection

Program in the hopes of leading new lives. Now, their pasts are

catching up with them. As the

body count rises, Captain

America must contend with a vicious new killer wearing the

demonic visage of his old enemy.

For Cap, the only thing tougher

than taking down the new

Scourge will be learning his identity! Plus: a classic Cap tale

featuring the villainy of the Power

Broker!

9780785183785 MVL: IRON MAN: EXTREMIS (Soft Cover) WARREN ELLIS MARVEL S$22.00 GRP

9780785149347 MVL: DARK TOWER:THE GUNSLINGER:THE BATTLE OF TULL (Soft Cover) ROBIN FURTH MARVEL S$30.00 GRPIn a saloon in the town of Tull, the last

gunslinger is approached by a bizarre

figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What's worse, it

is delivered by a dead man named Nort

whose corpse was animated to serve

this very purpose. And that's only the

beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep

within Mid-World as Roland Deschain

continues his quest for the Man in

Black that has become his obsession.

9780007482191 MOREAU'S OTHER ISLAND (Soft Cover) BRIAN ALDISS HARPER UK S$23.00 SF

He stands very tall, long

prosthetic limbs glistening in the

harsh sun, withered body swaying, carbine and whip

clasped in artificial hands. Man-

beasts cower on the sand as he

brandishes his gun in the air.

He is Dr Moreau, ruler of the

fabulous, grotesque island, where

humans are as brutes and brutes

as humans, where the future of the entire human race is being

reprogrammed. The place of

untold horrors. The place of the

New Man.

9780785164678 MVL: WOLVERINE: COVENANT (Soft Cover) CULLEN BUNN MARVEL S$30.00 GRP

Martial arts, super science, and

sorcery! How is Wolverine connected to

the secret society known as the Covenant? As Wolverine battles the

Murderous Lion in a no-holds barred

Kung-Fu throwdown, Melita uncovers

the Covenant's secrets. Who is the Dreaming Maiden - and why does the

mysterious Covenant want her dead?

Wolverine teams with monster-hunter

Elsa Bloodstone, and discovers the

Floating Castle...but with the Covenant hot on their trail, can Wolverine keep

the Deaming Maiden alive? Meanwhile,

Melita makes a discovery that will

change Wolverine - and her - forever!

9780785164616 MVL:X-MEN BY BRIAN WOOD VOL 2:RECKLESS ABANDONMENT (Soft Cover) BRIAN WOOD MARVEL S$30.00 GRP

Brian Wood's X-Men saga continues!

When Storm's field agents are

kidnapped and a weapon of the X-Men's making goes missing, the X-Men

must make a choice...the destruction of

a life, or the survival of a weapon.

Then, Storm's leadership is called into question in the aftermath of the "Mutant

Scare." Will there be a new team

member? And what side are they really

on? The Storm-Cyclops divide widens

as the team starts to unravel, and Colossus has his own agenda. Will he

leave the team to pursue it? Plus:

Domino has always been lucky...or

maybe the people around her are just

unlucky. It's Domino vs. the X-Men!

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An original novel set in the universe

of Star Trek: The Original Series!

Kirk, Spock, and Sulu must protect the

remote Federation colony of Ephrata

from the dreaded Coven—beings from

another galaxy who are seeking starships much like the Enterprise to

spread from world to world, opening

gateways between dimensions to

eventually conquer the entire

Federation.

9781476702834 STAR TREK: THE WEIGHT OF WORLDS (Soft Cover) GREG COXSIMON AND SCHUSTERS$16.00 SF

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