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The Stone Key- Isobelle Carmody – New Book 5 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here There was a great crash and wood splintered… I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests bald and robed peering at me and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to hail me out by the hair. A Hendra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth… ‘You will die in great pain and very slowly mutant ‘ said the Hendra master. When Farseeker Guildmistress Espeth Gordie sets out from Obernewtyn to travel to Sutrium at the end of Wintertime she q more details…..

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The Drawing of the Three – Stephen King – Dark Tower 2 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three is the second volume in Stephen King’s remarkable cycle of the Dark Tower inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem. The first volume The Dark Tower The Gunslinger relates how Roland the last gunslinger in a world that has “moved on ” pursues and eventually catches up with the sorcerer known as the man in black. It is a tale of science-fantasy that is unlike any tale that Stephen King has ever written. The second installment on the long and difficult path to the Dark To more…..

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The Long Road Home – Stephen King – The Dark Tower – New – Graphic Novel – Comic The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In continuation of the events of The Gunslinger Born Roland Deschain and his ka-tet Alain Johns and Cuthbert Allgood are on the run from the Hambry posse hoping to return to Gilead with Farson’s prize the evil seeing sphere known as Maerlyn’s Grapefruit. The young gunslingers argue over Roland’s insistence on carrying Susan Delgado’s body to give it a proper burial and during this Roland shoots the Grapefruit. It transmogrifies into an enormous eyeball with tentacles that attach to Roland drawing out his consciousness and into the sphere more information…..

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The Stand – Stephen King – complete and uncut – New Other Stephen King Books are here From the Blurb: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg the dark man. more information…..

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The Stand – Stephen King – complete and uncut – Used Get The Stand by Stephen King Uncut NEW click here Other Stephen King Books are here From the Blurb: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile more here…..

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The Road – Cormac McCarthy – NEW Book new paperback Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction – click here Get "The Road" in Movie Tie-in formats – click here "The Road" the movie information is here The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and seemingly most life on earth. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. McCarthy said the inspiration for The Road came during a visit find out more…..

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Ashling – Isobelle Carmody – New Book 3 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here The powerful farseeker Elspeth Gordie is sent to Sutrium seat of the totalitarian council that rules the Land to seal an alliance between the secret Misfit community at Obernewtyn and rebel forces. The journey takes her far beyond the borders of the Land across the sea and into the heart of the mysterious desert region of Sador. e will need help to destroy the weaponmachines. But before her dark quest can begin Elspeth must learn the truth of her dreams: she must understand why the Beforetimers destroyed their world … About the Author Isobelle Carmody Isobelle Carmody began more here…..

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One Second After – William R. Forstchen – NEW Book new paperback Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction – click here Black Mountain North Carolina is a small town host to a college with about 600 students no large businesses but gaining favor as summer hideaway for people from the larger cities. Black Mountain is however strategically located on the Interstate highway system and provides the water supply to a larger nearby city. On the afternoon of the first day described in the book’s narration the phones suddenly go dead along with all the electrical appliances. Just a second before everything worked; but now just one second after nothing seems to work. John Matherson is a former U.S. more details…..

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Treachery – Stephen King – The Dark Tower – New – Graphic Novel – Comic The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here A momentous celebration is held in Gilead following the return of Roland Deschain Alain Johns and Cuthbert Allgood from their successful mission in Hambry. Alain and Cuthbert are praised by Roland’s father Steven Deschain the lord of Gilead for accomplishing their mission and are recognized as gunslingers. The two gunslingers however are worried about Roland who is still obsessed with Maerlyn’s Grapefruit the mysterious seeing sphere that Roland acquired during their mission. They are conflicted over their decision to remain loyal to him by keepi more…..

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The Protector’s War – S.M. Stirling – NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback – the second Book in "The Change" Eight years after the change Clan Mackenzie and the Bearkillers led by Juniper Mackenzie and Mike Havel respectively have carved sections out in the Willamette Valley for their groups. They have become bitter rivals with the Portland Protective Association (PPA) led by the Armingers. The Barons of the PPA constantly violate ceasefires between the three warring factions. During one of their raids Eddie Liu Baron and Marchwarden of the PPA is confronted by a small group of Mackenzies led by Eil more here…..

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Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody – New Book 1 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here Many years into the future the world has been ravaged by a great nuclear holocaust that later was known as the Great White. Only small and remote areas were spared. Some city-dwellers lived this holocaust and poured from their citites to farms mostly suffering from radiation poisioning. They were slaughtered by farmers so the farmers could protect their families and livestock. This was known as the age of chaos. Soon the farmers realised that they did not escape the holocaust without any negative repercussions. Mutations in man and beast were high. A totalitarian Council wa more information…..

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The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham – New Book Paperback Triffids are fictional plants capable of animal-like behaviour: they feed on rotting meat are able to uproot themselves and move about on their three "legs" possess a deadly whip-like poisonous sting and appear to communicate with each other. The narrator and protagonist is Bill Masen who has made his living working with Triffids. Being an expert on the subject he speculates that they were deliberately bioengineered in the Soviet Union and that Triffid seeds were spread worldwide when an attempt was made to smuggle them out of Russia; the escaping plane is presumed to have been shot down literally scattering the seeds to t extra info…..

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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – New Oryx and Crake is a novel with dystopian elements by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Like The Handmaid’s Tale the book is often categorized as science fiction novel but Atwood herself prefers to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with ‘things that have not been invented yet’ and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form. Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year. Returning to the dystopic themes of Atwood’s earlier novel The Handmaid’s Tale Oryx and Crake presents a very different extra info…..

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A Meeting at Corvallis – S.M. Stirling – NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback – the third Book in "The Change" series Mike (Lord Bear) and Signe Havel of the Bearkillers and Juniper Mackenzie of Clan Mackenzie travel to Corvallis a nuetral city-state to convince them to join with them in resisting the PPA. Meanwhile the Dunedain Rangers have captured a major knight of the PPA leading a band of raiders into their territory and take him to Corvallis for his trial. Sandra Arminger and her private servant/assassin Tiphaine however also travel to Corvallis to speak in defense of the PPA. Sandra sends Tip more details…..

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Eifelheim – Michael Flynn – NEW Novel In 1349 one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom a contemporary historian and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic the town should have survived but it didn’t and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What’s was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? Father Deitrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald the village that will soon gain the name of Teufelheim in later years corrupted to Eifelheim in the year 1348 when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe but is still not nearby. Deitrich is an e find out more…..

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The Dark Tower – Stephen King – Dark Tower 7 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here The Dark Tower -All good things must come to an end Constant Reader and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain’s relentless quest for the Dark Tower has the author fears sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a little longer if it pleases you for this volume is the last and often the last things are best. Roland’s ka-tet remains intact though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birth more information…..

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks – NEW Novel Description World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (abbreviated WWZ) is a 2006 novel by Max Brooks. Though a follow-up to his humorously deadpan previous book The Zombie Survival Guide World War Z is more serious in tone and strives to be both factually and psychologically convincing. Brooks also states that World War Z follows the “laws” set up in The Zombie Survival Guide and that the guide exists in this world as a precursor to the war. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the novel in this fictional future after the United Nations left out much of his work f extra info…..

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The Gunslinger – Stephen King – Dark Tower 1 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In the first book of this brilliant series Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes Roland of Gilead The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world which frighteningly mirrors our own Roland pursues The Man in Black encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. About The more…..

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A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M Miller Jr- NEW Book new paperback Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction – click here In the Utah desert Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel unfolds it is the search itself–for meaning for truth for love–that offers hope to a humanity teetering on the edge of an a extra info…..

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The Gunslinger – Stephen King – Dark Tower 1 – USED Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here In the first book of this brilliant series Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes Roland of Gilead The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world which frighteningly mirrors our own Roland pursues The Man in Black encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerl extra info…..

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Wizard and Glass- Stephen King – Dark Tower 4 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Wizard and Glass – “YES ” Blaine said at last. “I AGREE IF I SOLVE ALL THE RIDDLES YOU ASK ME I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE PATH ENDS IN THE CLEARING. IF ONE OF YOU TELLS A RIDDLE I CANNOT SOLVE I WILL SPARE YOUR LIVES AND LEAVE YOU IN TOPEKA FROM WHENCE YOU MAY CONTINUE YOUR QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER IF YOU SO CHOOSE. HAVE I UNDERSTOOD THE TERMS AND LIMITS OF YOUR PROPOSAL CORRECTLY ROLAND SON OF STEVEN?” “Yes.” There was a moment of silence broken only by the hard steady throb of the slo-trans turbines bearing them o extra info…..

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The Gunslinger Born – Stephen King – The Dark Tower – New – Graphic Novel – Comic The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here “The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.” With those words millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s Roland – an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower powering his way through a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic. Now in a comic book personally overseen by King himself Roland’s past is revealed! Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove adapted by long-time Stephen King expert Robin Furth (author of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower: A Concord more…..

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Song of Susannah- Stephen King – Dark Tower 6 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Song of Susannah -The next-to-last novel in Stephen King’s seven-volume magnum opus Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap " demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah . . . and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depend more here…..

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The Keeping Place – Isobelle Carmody – New Book 4 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here After a kidnapping Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer Kasanda vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails stalked by a terrifying winged beast with the cat Maruman as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetimer Misfits and their enemy Govamen. Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest is inti click here…..

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1984 – George Orwell – New Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984) by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novel about life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston is degraded and psychologically tortured after he is arrested by the thoughtpolice under the instruction of the totalitarian government of Oceania in the year 1984. The book has major significance for its vision of an all-observing government which uses constant surveillance and propaganda both insidious and blatant to control its citizens. The book had a substantial impact both in literature and on the perception of public surveillanc click here…..

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The Farseekers – Isobelle Carmody – New Book 2 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here Since their takeover of Obernewtyn the secret community of Misfits has flourished protected by their remoteness. Led by Elspeth Gordie whose extraordinary powers set her apart even among her Misfit friends an expedition sets out to rescue a powerful Misfit in a distant part of the Land. Only she knows the enormity of their task. But for her is yet another challenge as she must fulfil her vow to find and dismantle the dormant deathweapons left by the Beforetimers. From the Book Roland shook his head decisively. ‘I can do nothing to hasten the healing Elspeth. If you rest more…..

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The Road – Cormac McCarthy – NEW Book new paperback – movie tie-in edition Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction – click here Get "The Road" in other paperback formats – click here "The Road" the movie information is here The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and seemingly most life on earth. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. McCarthy said the inspiration for Th more…..

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Under the Dome by Stephen King – NEW Book Other Stephen King Books are here Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is here Under the Dome is an upcoming novel by Stephen King scheduled to be released on November 10 2009. It is a rewrite of a novel King attempted writing twice in the 1980s under the titles The Cannibals and Under the Dome. As King stated on his official site these two unfinished works "were two very different attempts to utilize the same idea which concerns itself with how people behave when they are cut off from the society they’ve always belonged to. Also my memory of The Cannibals is that it like Needful Things was a kind of social comedy. The new Under the Dome is play more…..

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Flood – Stephen Baxter – NEW Book new hardback Get other Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction – click here The above effects are catastrophic and exceed current estimates of climate change- related sea level rise. In the opening chapter four main characters (Lily Piers Helen and Gary) are liberated from a "Christian extremist" Catalonian terrorist bunker in Barcelona after five years of captivity in 2016. At this point sea level changes have already submerged Tuvalu a low lying South Pacific island whose inhabitants have been evacuated to New Zealand. However as a tidal surge hits London and Sydney scientists become aware that this cannot be explained solely by the consequences of clim find out more…..

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Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King – Dark Tower 5 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Wolves of the Calla -After escaping the perilous wreckage of Blaine the insane Mono and eluding the evil clutches of the vindictive sorcerer Randall Flagg Roland and his ka-tet find themselves back on the southeasterly path of the Beam. Here in the borderlands that lie between Mid-World and End-World Roland and his friends are approached by a frightened band of representatives from the nearby town of Calla Bryn Sturgis. In less than a month the Calla will be attacked by the Wolves-those masked riders that gallop out of Thunderclap once a generation to steal the click here…..

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Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King – Used Book used paperback in good condition The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Low Men in Yellow Coats Hearts in Atlantis Blind Willie Why We’re in Vietnam Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are subtle conveyances of the Baby Boomer generation specifically King’s view that this generation (to which he self-consciously belongs) failed to live up to their promise and ideals. Significantly the opening epigraph of the extra info…..

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The Sunrise Lands- S.M. Stirling – NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback – the fourth Book in "The Change" series A mercenary from the Republic of Richland named Ingolf Vogeler arrives in Mackenzie lands in the Willamette River region of Oregon. He is being stalked by soldiers from the Church Universal and Triumphant (known as Cutters) which is located in Paradise Valley Montana and controls parts of Montana and Wyoming. Ingolf arrives in a tavern run by Tom Brannigan and during the night is attacked by these soldiers. As he is attacked Rudi Mackenzie Mathilda Arminger Odard Liu and the twins Ritva a more information…..

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The Wastelands – Stephen King – Dark Tower 3 – New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands follows The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three as the third volume in this remarkable series which well may be the most extraordinary and most imaginative cycle of tales in the English language. Inspired in part by Robert Browning’s narrative poem Stephen King has written once again of his twenty-year affair with The Dark Tower and its strange world that is both so familiar and unfamiliar to us. Writing of his masterwork King reveals that he is “. . .still able to find Roland’s world when I set extra info…..

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Dies the Fire – S.M. Stirling – NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback – the first Book in "The Change" Dies the Fire chronicles the struggle of two groups who try to survive "The Change" a sudden worldwide event that alters physical laws so that electricity gunpowder and most forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. As a result modern civilization comes crashing down. Michael Havel a former Marine turned bush pilot is in the air over the Bitterroot mountains in Idaho when The Change occurs on March 17 1998. His passengers are wealthy industrialist Kenneth Larsson Larsson’s wi more here…..

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