The Avengers are trapped in the Savage Land, battling friend and foe. And Spider-Man heads to the one person in the entire place he knows he can trust: Ka-Zar! But is it really him? This important chapter rewinds the events of the very first New Avengers story and shows how it connects to the Invasion. Plus: the break up of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage; a major development in the life of Echo; and the story of how the Skrull empire was able to infiltrate the Marvel Universe, and who instigated... [Read more]
SPIDER-MAN VERSUS CAPTAIN AMERICA IN THE JUNGLES OF THE SAVAGE LAND! But who is who and what is what At least one of these people isn't who they say they are. Plus a huge chapter in the Secret Invasion story as more information as to how the Skrulls set their major plans in motion is revealed. Plus, The dark secret of the Illuminati. Could it have brought about the Secret Invasion? And what happened to the Skrulls during the legendary HOUSE OF M event? Also, the Hood must discover the true se... [Read more]
The Avengers are trapped in the Savage Land, battling friend and foe, and Spider-Man heads to the one person in the entire place he knows he can trust: Ka-Zar! But is it really him? This important chapter rewinds the events of the very first New Avengers story and shows how it connects to the Invasion. Plus: the break up of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage; a major development in the life of Echo; and the story of how the Skrull empire was able to infiltrate the Marvel Universe, and who instigated... [Read more]
Sixteen million mutants dead - and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced b... [Read more]
Everything You Need To Make That Once-In-A-Lifetime Decision A baby is coming, and choosing the name your child will carry throughout his or her life is one of the most delightful - and most important - early decisions a new parent must make. Now newly revised and updated, the best baby name book on the market has gotten even better - with more names and nicknames, origins and meanings. Here are names that have only recently become popular, names of the most current superstar celebrities, as ... [Read more]
The eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon "The DaVinciCode, The Lost Symbol" once again features Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon. [Read more]
Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark. But it had been a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. [Read more]
When the Strigoi attack St. Vladimir's Academy, they take some of their victims with them, including Dimitri. He'd rather die than become one of them. Now Rose must abandon her best friend in order to keep her promise to Dimitri. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most? [Read more]
Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence. Unlike any story Patterson has ever told before, "Alex Cross's Trial" still offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel to date. [Read more]
While investigating the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, Harry Bosch gets word his daughter, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, has been kidnapped. Bosch drops everything and journeys across the Pacific to a new city where nothing is as it seems. [Read more]
A Memory of Light," the final book of the Wheel of Time series, was partially completed by Jordan before his untimely death. "New York Times"-bestselling author Sanderson pens "The Gathering Storm," the first of three novels to conclude Jordan's bestselling series. [Read more]
The world of Deverry: an intricate tapestry of fate, past lives, and unfathomable magic. With "A Time Of Exile, Katharine Kerr opens new territory in "The Deverry Saga, exploring the history of the Elcyion Lacar, the elves who inhabit the country west of Deverry. It is years since the half-elven Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn. When Rhodry's lost lover, Jill-now a powerful wizard-comes to Aberyn and tells him it's time he accepted his elven heritage, Rhodry faces the most dif... [Read more]
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."-Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing-I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." -Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a w... [Read more]
Beau and Brady join forces once again in "New York Times"-bestselling author Jance's most stunning and suspenseful work to date. Jance delivers a devilish page-turner-"People. [Read more]
Aisling Grey from "You Slay Me" is back, and the novice Keeper of the Gates to Hell travels to Budapest in this paranormal romance. And who does Aisling run into? Drake, the wyrven of the green dragons who distracts her as she tries to find a mentor to help her control her powers. Original. [Read more]
Thousands of years ago, Herodotus and Plutarch immortalized Spartan society in their histories; but today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this momentous culture. One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has survived lies scores of miles away from Sparta, at a narrow Greek mountain pass called Thermopylae. It was there that three hundred of Sparta's finest warriors held back the invading millions of the Persian empire and valiantly gave their liv... [Read more]
A vampire slayer with an attitude reluctantly teams up with another vampire to track down and destroy an even more menacing evil, in this sexy paranormal romance. Original. [Read more]
eath Gate universe. Haplo, targeted for death by two assassins, and Alfred enter the terrifying Labyrinth, a prison maze guarded by fearsome creatures. Meanwhile, the Lord of the Nexus raises an army from the dead to attack the Tytans. [Read more]
After earning a reputation for bravery and loyalty in the army, Horatio Cave, the new Viscount Darien, returns home to charm London society and restore the family name. He means to start with Lady Thea Debenham, the lovely sister of Dare, the most dashing member of the Company of Rogues. Original. [Read more]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Laurell K. Hamilton in the first novel of an erotic, action-packed supernatural romance trilogy starring a Vegas beauty who specializes in dispatching Sin City's resident bloodsuckers. Original. [Read more]
It's been 15 years since Ariane Kedros piloted a ship on a mission that obliterated an entire solar system. Branded a war criminal, she was given a new identity. But now, 12 of Ariane's wartime colleagues are dead-assassinated by someone who has uncovered their true identities. Original. [Read more]
After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call Hellboy.... [Read more]
Sent by a witch on a foolhardy journey, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser return to the icy reaches of the north in search of dubious treasure. There, they are seduced by the glittering attractions of an ice woman, who brings them with her to her shadowy lair. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser-brothers in arms-are overwhelmed by intimations of power and rise to usurp power in Quarmall, a dangerous region of lies, magic, and swords. * Any reader who loved the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia s... [Read more]
Years ago, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser turned their backs on the city of Lankhmar and the painful memories it held. But now, a deadly plague, spawned from a sorcerer's curse, sweeps through the streets of Lankhmar, eating its victims from the inside and laying waste to the once-vibrant city. The two reluctant heroes are called forth once again to face Lankhmar's winding alleys - and the old ghosts who lurk in them. * After writing nearly forty stories chronicling the adventures of Fafhrd and t... [Read more]
A great new item, sure to please comics fans and collectors alike is the Mignola-inspired, Hellboy figure packaged with a new hardcover digest-size edition of Seed of Destruction that features an all-new cover by Mike Mignola! [Read more]
Niven offers a clear and concise introductory biography of President-elect Barack Obama. This book chronicles his personal biography as well as his political rise. Includes as bibliography of further reading and a transcript of his speech, "A More Perfect Union. [Read more]
When he called himself "a skinny kid with a funny name" at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, his star was already rising. By the time he triumphed in the 2004 Illinois Senate race, he was the golden child of a Democratic party in desperate need of a charismatic leader. "Bio" narrates the definitive story of Barack Obama, from his childhood in Honolulu to the dramatic 2007-2008 U.S. primaries. Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student ... [Read more]
The hit series returns, collecting the epochal 'Good Prince' storyline. Flycatcher is drawn into the spotlight as he discovers the startling truth about his own past as the Frog Prince. At the same time, he learns that the Adversary plans to destroy his foes once and for all. How can the meek Flycatcher stop this deadly foe? [Read more]
Ever since they were driven from their homelands by the Adversary, the non-human Fables have been living on the Farm - a vast property in upstate New York that keeps them hidden from the prying eyes of the mundane world. But now, after hundreds of years of isolation, the Farm is seething with revolution, fanned by the inflammatory rhetoric of Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs. And when Snow White and her sister Rose Red stumble upon their plan to liberate the homelands, the commissars of t... [Read more]
In the Fables' world, there isn't a lot of happily-ever-after to go around. As refugees from the lands of make-believe, the Fables have been driven from their storybook realms and forced to blend in with our gritty mundane reality. But that doesn't mean they don't have any room for romance-or the pain, betrayal and jealous rage that go along with it. In fact, love may be blooming between two of the most hard-bitten, no-nonsense Fables around. But are they destined for happiness-or a quick and... [Read more]
The runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth trade paperback, collecting issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and featuring the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. Also included is the Prestige Format Special FABLES: THE LAST CASTLE. When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between this world and the lost Fable Homelands, she's welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone - everyone except her old nemesis, Bigb... [Read more]
FABLES: ARABIAN NIGHTS (AND DAYS) opens a new front in the struggle between the Fables and the Adversary as the worlds of the Arabian Fables are invaded - leading to an unprecedented diplomatic mission to Fabletown and a bad case of culture shock! This seventh volume of the popular Vertigo series also includes 'The Ballad of Rodney and June' the 2-part story of forbidden love among the Adversary's wooden soldiers and features stellar art by Mark Buckingham Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Jimmy Palm... [Read more]
Collecting issues #48-51 of writer and creator Bill Willingham's award-winning Vertigo series, WOLVES also includes newly-created maps of Fabletown and the Homelands illustrated by Willingham and, as a special bonus, Willingham's complete script to the double-sized issue #50. [Read more]
Pinocchio suffers seriously divided loyalties between his father, the evil Adversary, and his fellow Fable refugees in New York. Plus, Bigby Wolf reluctantly decides it's finally time to square accounts with his long-estranged father, the North Wind, and makes a journey with Snow White and their kids to find him. [Read more]
In his sixth fable, bestselling author Lencioni reveals the three elements that make work miserable-immeasurability, anonymity, and irrelevance-and gives managers and employees the keys to make any job fulfilling and rewarding. [Read more]
It's nothing special on the surface, merely a rambling old Victorian summerhouse on a secluded island, where the sky is blue and the water is clear. Yet after a month at the Rainshadow Lodge, people begin to change-and fall in love. How else can you account for what happens to the most mismatched, unlikely couples? There's Beth, who's stuck sharing the lodge with a complete stranger-and a difficult one at that. And Mitch, a workaholic on a deadline who has to depend on free-spirited Rosie, wh... [Read more]
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. [Read more]
Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger. Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his ... [Read more]
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [Read more]
In this compelling narrative, "Newsweek" editor Thomas shares the inside stories from one of the most exciting elections in recent history, illuminating the personalities and events that have influenced the outcome, and taking stock of the key players and key issues for the new administration. [Read more]
Now in paperback, the award-winning and New York Times best-selling graphic nonfiction masterpiece depicts the lives of seven New Orleanians before, during, and just after Hurricane Katrina. Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; 'The Doctor,' a proud fixture of the French Quarter; Abbas and Darnell, two friends who face the storm from Abbas' family-run market; Kwame, a pastor's son; and the couple Leo and Michelle, who both grew up in the city. Each is f... [Read more]
KettleDrummer Books, in association with Diabolo Ediciones, proudly presents, Young Lovecraft, the web comic that took Spain by storm - back in an all-new printing! In this hilarious graphic novel, Oliver and Torres explore the childhood of H.P. Lovecraft, the great genius of literary terror who gave us the cycle of the Myths of Cthulu, and forever changed the landscape modern horror. Join the young Lovecraft on his macabre and comical adventures! [Read more]
In the years before his death, Robert Jordan worked closely with Chuck Dixon on the graphic adaptation of New Spring. The eight issues tell the story of the search for the infant Dragon Reborn and of the adventures of Moiraine Damodred, a young Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, the uncrowned king of a long-dead nation. Adapted by Chuck Dixon and illustrated by artists Mike Miller and Harvey Tolibao, New Spring with its developmental art, script pages, and correspondence between Jordan and Dixon... [Read more]
(W/A) Winsor McCay The third printing of the most highly acclaimed book of its kind. This limited new edition is completely revised with enhanced restoration and nine additional Little Nemo comics for greater continuity. This full 128-page limited-edition hardbound volume features Little Nemo's best stories from 1905-1910. It was the greatest comic strip of its day, perhaps the greatest of all time, acclaimed the world over for its unbounded imagination and ground-breaking techniques that hel... [Read more]
Sixteen million mutants dead - and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced b... [Read more]
The Avengers are trapped in the Savage Land, battling friend and foe, and Spider-Man heads to the one person in the entire place he knows he can trust: Ka-Zar! But is it really him? This important chapter rewinds the events of the very first New Avengers story and shows how it connects to the Invasion. Plus: the break up of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage; a major development in the life of Echo; and the story of how the Skrull empire was able to infiltrate the Marvel Universe, and who instigated... [Read more]
Written by GRANT MORRISON Penciled by FRANK QUITELY, ETHAN VAN SCIVER & IGOR KORDEY Cover by FRANK QUITELY As protesters lay siege to the Xavier Institute, mutant mentor Professor X lies in a coma - dying, trapped within the shattered form of his evil twin! Cassandra Nova inhabited Xavier's body and escaped to the stars in the wake of her initial encounter with the X-Men; now, the psionically empowered psychopath is returning to Earth - possessed of the most powerful mutant mind on the pl... [Read more]
Written by GRANT MORRISON Penciled by KERON GRANT & FRANK QUITELY Cover by FRANK QUITELY They've taken the fight to new worlds, but can they survive the war at home? The X-Men are a worldwide team of mutant volunteer workers gifted with new evolutionary talents. They are a rescue and emergency force on the front lines of the genetic battlefield of the 21st century. Founded and financed by the brilliant telepath Professor Charles Xavier, the X-Men are forever sworn to protect a world that ... [Read more]
Enter the U-Men! When envious humans begin dissecting mutants and grafting their body parts, it's up to the X-Men to stop them! But things at home aren't much better as Cyclops and Jean Grey can't stop fighting, Jean's powers flare out of control, and Professor X's mind is trapped in the body of his comatose evil twin! Introducing the new Angel - and the X-Men have never seen anything like her! [Read more]
Sixteen million mutants dead - and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced b... [Read more]
Legendary artist Marc Silvestri returns to the X-Men as Grant Morrison brings his mind-bending run to a close! In a tale inspired by the classic 'Days of Future Past' storyline, meet the X-Men from 150 years in our future. While some faces may seem familiar, readers will discover all-new heroes and villains for the first time. What incredible force threatens to destroy the mutants of the future, and how will it affect the X-Men of today? Collecting NEW X-MEN (2001) #151-154. 112 PGS./Rated T+ [Read more]
Sixteen million mutants deadÖand that's just the first step in Cassandra Nova's genocidal plans. With an army of evolved Sentinels primed for annihilation, Nova will stop at nothing to see every mutant exterminated from the planet. Led by Professor Xavier, the X-Men have always sought an end to the ongoing strife between mutants and humans - hoping to one day unite the two species in peaceful coexistence. But the time for dreams is past. Now, their entire existence is under direct at... [Read more]
Written by GRANT MORRISON Penciled by PHIL JIMENEZ Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ The X-Men have long been at odds with one man who has caused them so much torment throughout the years: the genetic terrorist known as Magneto, Master of Magnetism. They have battled him on countless occasions as he fought against Charles Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans, preferring instead that mutants inherit the Earth. At last, the X-Men's greatest adversary was thought dead, finally r... [Read more]
The Avengers are trapped in the Savage Land, battling friend and foe. And Spider-Man heads to the one person in the entire place he knows he can trust: Ka-Zar! But is it really him? This important chapter rewinds the events of the very first New Avengers story and shows how it connects to the Invasion. Plus: the break up of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage; a major development in the life of Echo; and the story of how the Skrull empire was able to infiltrate the Marvel Universe, and who instigated... [Read more]
SPIDER-MAN VERSUS CAPTAIN AMERICA IN THE JUNGLES OF THE SAVAGE LAND! But who is who and what is what At least one of these people isn't who they say they are. Plus a huge chapter in the Secret Invasion story as more information as to how the Skrulls set their major plans in motion is revealed. Plus, The dark secret of the Illuminati. Could it have brought about the Secret Invasion? And what happened to the Skrulls during the legendary HOUSE OF M event? Also, the Hood must discover the true se... [Read more]
Written by GRANT MORRISON Penciled by PHIL JIMENEZ & CHRIS BACHALO Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ More secrets of the world's deadliest mutant are exposed! Wolverine knows little of his past, save that it was fraught with pain and loss. Long ago, he became Weapon X - an experiment of a secret organization whose purpose was to transform mutants into obedient super-soldiers. There, his bones were grafted with the indestructible Adamantium, even as memory implants shaped a new and convoluted past. In... [Read more]
His name is Charles Xavier - and he is a mutant. For years, Professor X was widely regarded as an authority on genetic mutation, as well as an advocate of peaceful relations between man and mutant. The general public was unaware he possessed superhuman abilities until the psionically empowered psychopath Cassandra Nova - his twin sister - addressed the global media while in possession of her brother's body and broke his decades-long silence. But in attempting to expose Xavier to his enemies, ... [Read more]
Sixteen million mutants dead - and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced b... [Read more]
