Title: A Blight of Mages
ISBN: 9780316198349
Author :
Date: May
Publisher: Hachette
Cover: Soft
Pages: 800
Synopsis:
Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe...
Barl is young and impulsive, but she has a power within that calls to her. In her city, however, only those of noble blood and with the right connections learn the ways of the arcane. Barl is desperate to learn-but her eagerness to use her power leads her astray and she is banned from ever learning the mystic arts.
Morgan holds the key to her education. A member of the Council of Mages, he lives to maintain the status quo, preserve the mage bloodlines, and pursue his scholarly experiments. But Barl's power intrigues him-in spite of her low status.
Together, he realizes they can create extraordinary new incantations. Morgan's ambition and Barl's power make a potent combination. What she does not see is the darkness in him that won't be denied.
A Blight of Mages is the new novel set in the world of Karen Miller's bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.
Price: $17.12 (Inclusive of GST)
Title: Robopocalypse
ISBN: 9780307740809
Publisher: Random House
Cover: Soft
Pages: 416
Synopsis:
In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years.
Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.
Price: $ 19.80 (Inclusive of GST)
Title: The Family Corleone
ISBN: 9781455516162
Ed Falco
Date:
Publisher: Hachette
Cover:
Pages:
Synopsis:
the saga of the Corleone family in this thrilling, all-new prequel to The Godfather.
New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny--seventeen years-old, impatient and reckless--wants something else. He wants to be like his father, and become a part of the real family business.An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.
Price: $24.95 (Inclusive of GST)
Title: The Emerald Storm
ISBN: 9780061989209
Publisher: Harper Collins
Cover: Hard
Pages: 320
Synopsis:
The year is 1803. Swashbuckling, ribald, and irreverent hero Ethan Gage has outsmarted wily enemies and survived dangerous challenges across the globe, from the wilds of the American frontier to the pyramids of Egypt. Now the rakish hero finds himself in the Caribbean with his wife, Astiza, on a desperate hunt to secure the lost treasure of Montezuma--a legendary hoard rumored to have been hidden from CortEs's plundering Spanish conquistadors. Hot on his heels are British agents who want the gold to finance a black slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, robbing hostile France of its richest colony. The French, too, seek the treasure for the secrets it contains, the key to an incredible new means of invasion that can ensure Britain's defeat--on its own land. Caught between the French and the rebel slave forces, Ethan and Astiza are in a race for gold and glory that will thrust them into the center of a bloody struggle for freedom as they try to rescue their son. And this time, Gage's luck may be running out. Brilliantly combining science, history, mythology, and wit, William Dietrich has woven a larger-than-life tale that sees Ethan embroiled in the Napoleonic era's ideals, opportunism, and inventions, which gave rise to the modern world. Filled with intrigue, voodoo, a hurricane, violent political unrest, and unexpected passion, "The Emerald Storm" is Dietrich's most captivating work to date.
Price: $29.96 (Inclusive of GST)
Title: The New Republic
ISBN: 9780007459803
Publisher: Harper Collins
Cover: Hard
Pages: 400
Synopsis:
A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Bored rigid by his pedestrian life as a solicitor, Edgar decides to risk everything on trying to make it as a journalist. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in Barba -- a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement -- Edgar leaps at the chance to replace some pretentious blowhard called 'Barrington Saddler' who's disappeared. But as Edgar learns more about his posting, and his larger-than-life predecessor, the more he realizes that it's not Barban terrorism he's covering; it's Barrington Saddler. Edgar recognizes Saddler as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly, all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about the beloved 'Bear,' who is no longer lighting up their work lives. Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados de Barba ('The Daring Soldiers of Barba') have been blowing up the rest of the world for years. So why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents claimed by the "SOB" suddenly dry up? As Edgar begins to investigate, he doesn't uncover a conspiracy. To the contrary, the more he digs, the less there is to find!
Price: $34.24 (Inclusive of GST)
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