New Hardcovers: Sep 24-Oct 1, 2012

by Terry Pratchett
"Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl—not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery." HarperCollins, 368 pages, Sep 25.

by Lia Habel
"Can the living coexist with the living dead? That’s the question that has New Victorian society fiercely divided ever since the mysterious plague known as “The Laz” hit the city of New London and turned thousands into walking corpses. But while some of these zombies are mindless monsters, hungry for human flesh, others can still think, speak, reason, and control their ravenous new appetites. Just ask Nora Dearly, the young lady of means who was nearly kidnapped by a band of sinister zombies but valiantly rescued by a dashing young man ... of the dead variety." Del Rey, 496 pages, Sep 25.

by Robert VS Redick
Chathrand Voyage 4. "The struggle to prevent the sorcerer Arunis from destroying the world with the Nilstone reaches its thunderous conclusion. Robert V.S. Redick's stunning and original fantasy series combines the invention of Scott Lynch with the power of Philip Pullman." Gollancz, 560 pages, Sep 27.

by Various, Gary K. Wolfe (Editor)
Library of America. "This second volume of visionary “outsider” novels from the 1950s contains: Robert Heinlein / Double Star; Alfred Bester / The Stars My Destination; James Blish / A Case of Conscience; Algis Budrys / Who?; Fritz Leiber / The Big Time." Library of America, 950 pages, Sep 27.

by Various, Gary K. Wolfe (Editor)
Library of America. "This first volume of visionary “outsider” novels from the 1950s contains: Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth / The Space Merchants; Theodore Sturgeon / More Than Human; Leigh Brackett / The Long Tomorrow; Richard Matheson / The Shrinking Man." Library of America, 800 pages, Sep 27.

by Various, Gary K. Wolfe (Editor)
"Here are genre-defining works by such masters as Robert Heinlein, Richard Matheson, James Blish, and Alfred Bester. The themes range from time travel (Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time) to post-apocalyptic survival (Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow), from the prospect of a future dominated by multinational advertising agencies (Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants) to the very nature of human identity in a technological age (Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human and Algis Budrys’s Who?). The range of styles is equally diverse, by turns satiric, adventurous, incisive, and hauntingly lyrical." Library of America, 1750 pages, Sep 27.

by C N Howard
"There are stories among the Cheyenne of brave warrior spirits, skinwalkers, who protect the world from evil. For two 21st century brothers, it's not just a story. Police detective Ben Eagle Plume is on temporary assignment in Vancouver with local law enforcement. With his younger brother Zeke as his partner, they work together solving crimes while Ben learns to control his newly acquired powers. But when Zeke disappears during a ritual murder case, the shapeshifting detective must use every resource to rescue his brother before he too is sacrificed to a bloodthirsty god." Iconic Publishing, LLC, 210 pages, Sep 27.

by C N Howard
"It's six years after "The War." Not the 'War to End All Wars' or 'the Big One.' Just "The War," a global nuclear apocalypse. Out of the bedlam emerge the human jackals, the Scorpions, anarchist mercenaries of immorality and savagery. The monstrous mutants known as Nomads, deformed and nearly invincible cannibals preying on the unaffected--the stuff of nightmares. Lloyd and Carlos have wandered the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, for almost six years. They've managed to survive thieves, feral prostitutes, gypsy cannibals and even themselves. Lloyd, a dark and troubled personality with unusual psychic gifts, is kept just this side of sanity by his Cuban companion and psychologist, Carlos, who has his own issues to deal with...not the least of which is his involvement in the murder of Lloyd's family." Iconic Publishing, LLC, 520 pages, Sep 27.

by Peter J. Tomasi, Various (Illustrator)
The New 52. "When a new menace, The Keepers, begins to march across the space sectors and devouring not only their natural resources but their entire populations, it is up to The Corps, severely outnumbered, to stop them. The Corps soon find one of their own held by the ruthless Keepers and must figure out a way to save their comrade and defeat the Keepers without the Green Lantern's most powerful weapon, their power rings." DC Comics, 160 pages, Sep 25.

by J.R. Ward
A Novel of the Fallen Angels. "Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they’re in over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too. As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover’s memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried. Especially when you’re trapped in a no holds barred war between angels and demons. With a soul on the line, and Mels’s heart at risk, what in Heaven—or in Hell—will it take to save them both?" NAL Hardcover, 512 pages, Sep 25.