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The Hunger Games

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

The Time Traveler's Wife

By: Audrey Niffenegger

Mariner Books

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.

The Year of the Flood: A Novel

By: Margaret Atwood

Nan A. Talese

Book Description
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatmen...

To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom

By: Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser

Thomas Dunne Books

The Mysterious Benedict Society

By: Trenton Lee Stewart

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"

When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.

As our heroes face physical and mental trials beyond their wildest imaginations, they have no choice but to turn to each other for support. But with their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to p...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

By: Max Brooks

Three Rivers Press

The end was near. Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped huma...

Sent (Missing)

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

"I think it's probably safe to say, given when you should have landed, that you're...um..."

"Tell me!"

"I think, right now, you're the king of England."

Thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they're both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period. Before they can fully absorb this revelation, a time purist named JB zaps Chip and another boy, Alex, back to the fifteenth century, where they supposedly belong. Determined not to lose their friends, Jonah and his sister, Katherine, grab Chip's arms just as he's being sent away. The result? Jonah and Katherine also end up in the fifteenth century, where they decidedly do not belong.

Chip's true identity is Edward V, king of England, and Alex is his younger brother, Richard,...

Leviathan

By: Scott Westerfeld

Simon Pulse

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.

With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unex...

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner Trilogy (Hardback))

By: James Dashner

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But hes not alone. When the lifts doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Gladea large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.

Just like Thomas, the Gladers dont know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night theyve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent upthe first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark ...

Blue Moon: The Immortals

By: Alyson Noel

St. Martin's Griffin

Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years

By: Charles Schulz

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Sixty years of Peanuts, generations of fans, a gang of beloved characters, but only one creator: the legend, Charles M. Schulz.

Andrews McMeel is proud to showcase the exclusive Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years. It is packed with commentary from throughout Schulz's career, making this book not only a heartwarming tribute but also a true collector's item.

This special 60th anniversary tribute is arranged decade, to spotlight the highlights and development of this world favorite classic.

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.

Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that peo...

Marvel Encyclopedia

By: Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort, Michael Teitelbaum, Daniel Wallace, Andrew Darling, M...

DK Publishing

Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with The Marvel Encyclopedia! Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel's greatest-from well-known characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine to lesser known heroes and villains.

An essential book both for new fans and for those who grew up loving the comics, The Marvel Encyclopedia is full of artwork, stats, and history for every character in the Marvel Universe. Updates on characters include information from the story arcs of Civil War and Annihilation, and brings fans up to date with the aftermath of Secret Invasion.

TM & 2009 Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Licensed by Marvel Characters B.V. All rights reserved.

Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)

James Patterson's bestselling Maximum Ride series is back, with Max and the gang as The Protectors. Someone--or something--is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells... and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss? Now in paperback, this soaring new adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into terrifying new territory--fans, hold your breath!

Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

By: Bill Watterson

Andrews McMeel Publishing

In just over five years of syndication, Calvin and Hobbes has become an American comic strip sensation - touching the hearts (and funny bones) of the millions who read the award-winning strip. One look at the new Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is immediately evident that Bill Watterson's imagination, wit, and sense of adventure continue to be unmatched. In this collection, comprised of cartoons never before published in book form, Calvin and his tiger-striped sidekick Hobbes are hilarious whether the two are simply lounging around philosophizing about the future of mankind or plotting their latest money-making scheme. Chock-full of the familiar adventures of Spaceman Spiff, the latest findings of Dad's popularity poll, and time travel to the Jurrassic Age, Scientific Progress Go...

The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

By: James Patterson

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "School" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "Erasers" in New York City. Whether in the tre...

Wolverine: Old Man Logan

By: Mark Millar

Marvel Comics

Mark Millar and Steve McNiven - who last teamed for the monumental Civil War - bring us the most important Wolverine story of the 21st Century. Nobody knows what happened on the night the heroes fell. All we know is that they disappeared and evil triumphed and the bad guys have been calling the shots ever since. What happened to Wolverine is the biggest mystery of all. For 50 years, no one has heard hide nor hair from him... and in his place stands an old man called Logan. A man concerned only about his family. A man pushed to the brink by the Hulk Gang. A man forced to help an old friend - the blind archer, Hawkeye - to drive three thousand miles to secure his family's safety. Get ready for the ride of your life, Logan! Collects Wolverine #66-72, and Wolverine Giant-Size Old Man Logan.

One Second After

By: William R. Forstchen

Forge Books

Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary C...

By: Nevin Martell

Continuum Pub Group

For ten years, between 1985 and 1995, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. There is no merchandising associated with Calvin and Hobbes: no movie franchise; no plush toys; no coffee mugs; no t-shirts (except a handful of illegal ones). There is only the strip itself, and the books in which it has been compiled - including The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: the heaviest book ever to hit the New York Times bestseller list.

In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, writer Nevin Martell tra...

Green Lantern: Agent Orange

By: Geoff Johns

DC Comics

It's the prelude to "The Blackest Night" as the "War of Light" continues to intensify! Mongul attempts to establish his hold on the Sinestro Corps by enslaving the planet Daxam and making it the home world of his Corps. What does Sinestro's right hand man, Arkillo, think of all this? And will Sodam Yat, the Green Lantern known as Ion, fight to save his homeworld, which he's vowed to never return to?

Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #1: Shattered Peace

By: Erin Hunter

HarperCollins

Ravenpaw has settled into life on the farm, away from the forest and Tigerstar's evil eye. He knows that leaving the warrior clans was the right choice, and he appreciates his quiet days and peaceful nights with his best friend, Barley. But when five rogue cats from Twolegplace come to the barn seeking shelter, Ravenpaw's new life is threatened. He and Barley must try to find a way to overpower the roguesbefore they lose their home for good.

Heroes: A Pop-up Storybook (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

The adventure really springs to life in this amazing pop-up book that follows the story of all your favorite heroes throughout their adventures in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series. Includes 6 pop-up spreads and 3 smaller gatefold pop-ups, each featuring a different hero and adventure.

Anthem

Liberating Atlantis

"The maven of alternate history"( San Diego Union- Tribune) continues his epic tale of Atlantis.

Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation's independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country.

Frederick feels the color of his skin shouldn't keep him from having the same freedoms his ancestors fought and died for. So he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis...

The Complete Chronicles of Conan

Consider Phlebas

By: Iain M. Banks

Orbit

"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail
"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLS

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Robot Zot!

From the minds of Scieszka and Shannon comes a tale of a quixotic robot determined to conquer the earth. The only problem is that the earth he lands on is a suburban kitchen and he is three inches tall. Robot Zot, the fearless and unstoppable warrior, leaves a trail of destruction as he encounters blenders, toasters, and televisions. But when he discovers the princess...a pink cell phone...his mission takes a new course. Robot Zot must learn how to be a hero - in the name of true love.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

Eos

Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funn...

The Left Hand of Darkness

Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, how...

The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (Left Behind No. 7)

Outline The Antichrist is dead... or is he? The city of Chicago lies in ruins, the safe house is blown, and the Global Community police are hot on the heels of the Tribulation Force. And who assassi

Preacher Vol. 2: Until the End of the World

By: Garth Ennis

Vertigo

In and of itself, the story of a man with one foot in Heaven and one foot in Hell is hardly original. But in the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the story of Jesse Custer becomes a blasphemous masterpiece seething with originality. Custer is a former Texas minister who was joined with a spiritual being called "Genesis." Now Custer is on a journey to find God, but not in the traditional enlightenment sense. I mean track Him down and give Him a piece of his mind. Along for the journey are his gun-friendly girlfriend and his Irish punk vampire buddy. Until the End of the World starts with a flashback to Jesse's childhood, when he watched his father get shot in the head. That kicks off "All in the Family," the first of two stories in this collection. The second story...

The Halo Graphic Novel

Marvel and Bungie team up to create The Halo Graphic Novel HC based on the best-selling video game. The graphic novel brings the Halo universe to life for the first time in the sequential art medium in a 128-page, full color, high quality, jacketed, hardcover graphic novel. Stories include: "Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor" by Simon Bisley and Lee Hammock. When communications from a Covenant agricultural support ship are mysteriously terminated, an Elite Commander and his squad of Special Forces are sent to investigate. In "Armor Testing" by Ed Lee and Jay Faerber, the only way to test Spartan armor, is to send a Spartan. The question is what's really being tested? In Tsutomo Nihei's "Breaking Quarantine," the untold tale of Sergeant Johnson's escape from the clutches of the Flood me...

What Is A Wookiee?

What is a Wookiee? is packed with facts about the strange and wonderful creatures of Star Wars.

Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)

By: Jack Campbell

Ace

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndic for a century-and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is Captain John "Black Jack" Geary-a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Now, he must live up to his own legend.

Transformers Animated: Robot Roll Call (I Can Read Book 2)

Meet the new generation of robots in disguise! Optimus Prime and the Autobots have made some great new friends, but the Decepticons are up to their usual trouble. Join them all as they begin their adventures in a strange landEarth!

Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns

Superstar writer Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS WAR, THE FLASH, ACTION COMICS, JSA)unleashes a spectrum of adventure in this tale, which sees an all-new, all-evil Red Lantern Corps let loose on the galaxy!

As a prelude to the highly anticipated 2009 GREEN LANTERN storyline "The Blackest Night," this collection sets up the events that Geoff Johns has been leading to since he relaunched the Green Lantern franchise in 2006!

Plagued by an age-old prophecy from a prison planet on the far side of the galaxy, Green Lantern Hal Jordan searches for answers about the fate of his Green Lantern Corps. But when a primal being named Atrocitus emerges from that hell planet, he leads a Red Lantern Corps against Jordan and his brethren in a campaign to spread rage across the co...

The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

Vintage

It's America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names; all because twenty years earlier America lost a war and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

Diving into the Wreck

Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past--to experience it firsthand. Once she's dived the ship, she'll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It's a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.

Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It's impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn't be here. It can't be here. And yet, it is. Boss's curiosity is up...

Warcraft: World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde (No. 4)

Though the young Warchief Thrall ended the demon curse that had plagued his people for generations, the orcs still wrestle with the sins of their bloody past. As the rampaging Horde, they waged a number of devastating wars against their perennial enemy -- the Alliance. Yet the rage and bloodlust that drove the orcs to destroy everything in their path nearly consumed them as well.

Long ago, on the idyllic world of Draenor, the noble orc clans lived in relative peace with their enigmatic neighbors, the draenei. But the nefarious agents of the Burning Legion had other plans for both of the unsuspecting races. The demon-lord Kil'jaeden set in motion a dark chain of events that would succeed not only in eradicating the draenei, but forging the orc clans into an single, unstoppable j...

Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino

Harvest Books

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps ...

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation

Book Description
"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn em to ashes, then burn the ashes." For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of governm...

7th Son: Descent

Flight 714 (The Adventures of Tintin)

By: Herge

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Adventures of TinTin - Comic book formatA Qantas Boeing 707 touches down at Kemajoran ariport, Djakarta. Fight 714 from London arrives in Java, last stop before Sydney, Australia...

Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 4)

In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war.

With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more admired, more powerful, and more certain of achieving galactic peace. But that peace may come with a price. Despite strained relationships caused by opposing sympathies in the war, Han and Leia Solo and Luke and Mara Skywalker remain united by one frightening suspicion: Someone insidious is manipulating this war, and if he or she isnt stopped, all efforts at reconciliation may be for naught. And as sinister visions lead Luke to believe that the source of the evil is none other than Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith, the greatest peril...

Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 2)

When Grand Admiral Thrawn takes command of what is left of the Imperial fleet and launches a massive campaign against the New Republic, Han and Lando Calrissian race to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council. Reprint.

Invincible (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 9)

By: Troy Denning

LucasBooks

No war can last forever. Now, in the long and punishing battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance, the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lostand nothing less than the course of the future still at stakethere can be no turning back. No matter the consequences.

The rebel cause is losing ground under the twin blows of Admiral Gilad Pellaeons assassination and the death of Mara Jade Skywalker. At the same time, having gained the support of the Imperial Remnant and its ruthlessly efficient forces, the Galactic Alliance, with the extraordinary power and dark brilliance of newly ascendant Sith Lord Darth Caedus at its helm, may be unstoppable. Tormented and torn between the call of duty and the thirst for vengeance...

Victory Conditions (Vatta's War)

By: Elizabeth Moon

Del Rey

Elizabeth Moons thrilling Vattas War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is backlocked and loaded and ready to win the fight against the marauding forces of ruthless space pirate Gammis Turek.

For Ky, its not just about liberating the star systems subjugated by Turek and defending the rest of the galaxys freedom. Theres also a score to be settled and payback to be meted out for the obliteration of the Vatta Transport dynasty . . . and the slaughter of Kys family. But the enemy have their own escalation efforts under wayincluding the placement of covert agents among the allies with whom Ky and the surviving Vattas are collaborating in the war effo...

No Prisoners (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

By: Karen Traviss

LucasBooks

The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes.

Torrent Companys Captain Rex agrees to temporarily relieve Anakin Skywalker of Ahsoka, his ubiquitousand insatiably curiousPadawan, by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeons newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an activeand dangerousrescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.

Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution, Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Re...

Magic Pickle And The Garden Of Evil

By: Scott Morse

GRAPHIX

Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Summit Entertainment

Genre: Suspense
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 21-MAR-2009
Media Type: DVD

True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)

HBO Home Video

Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, speaks volumes about America’s willingness to accept fantasy. Of course, television has always produced good fantasy shows (I Dream of Jeannie), but True Blood’s Southern Goth brand of fun horror is more macabre and more perverse, not to mention gorier, than most shows of its kind to date. Adapted from Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, True Blood thrills because of its equal blend in...

True Blood: The Complete Second Season (HBO Series)

HBO Home Video

Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality and dark secrets. For Sookie Stackhouse, life is more dangerous than ever after she and Bill become more deeply involved. Meanwhile, Tara finds herself under a lover’s spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; Eric becomes interested in Sookie after he recruits her to investigate the disappearance of his 2,000-year-old maker; and Maryann is revealed to possess a power that can control almost everyone in town. Then, after making a shocking discovery, Sookie, Bill and Sam must form the last line of defense against a diabolical plan that raises this award-winning series to bloody new heights.

True Blood: The Complete Second Season includes all 12...

Supernatural - The Complete Third Season

Warner Home Video

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/02/2008

Supernatural - The Complete First Season

Warner Home Video

Brothers seek out and fight supernatural forces in an attempt to find their mysteriously missing father and the person or force responsible for their mother's death.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 09/05/06
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

Moonlight - The Complete Series

Warner Home Video

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/20/2009 Rating: Nr

Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season

Warner

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/01/2009 Run time: 1152 minutes Rating: Nr

Interview with the Vampire [Blu-ray]

Warner

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/07/2008 Rating: R

The Complete Thin Man Collection (The Thin Man / After the Thin Man / Another Thin Man / Shadow o...

Warner Home Video

The sparkling series featured the irresistible William Powell and Myrna Loy chemistry as husband and wife sleuths who solved murders with the aid of their wire-haired terrier Asta. Set in the glamorous world of 1930s upper-class Manhattan The Thin Man and its sequels established the standard for witty comedy clever dialogue and urbane one upmanship. The 7-Disc set includes THE THIN MAN AFTER THE THIN MAN ANOTHER THIN MAN SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN SONG OF THE THIN MAN THE THIN MAN GOES HOME and the ALIAS NICK & NORA bonus documentary disc.Running Time: 592 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569673991 Manufacturer No: 67399

True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series) [Blu-ray]

Hbo Home Video

Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/19/2009 Run time: 720 minutes

Drag Me to Hell

Universal Studios

No description available for this title.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 10/13/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
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Packaging: Sleeve

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Screen Gems

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-MAY-2009
Media Type: DVD

Drag Me to Hell (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

Universal Studios

Universal Pictures Drag Me to Hell (Blu-ray)After nearly two decades of successful detours into mature thrillers (THE GIFT, A SIMPLE PLAN) and superhero blockbusters(the Spider-Man series), director Sam Raimi returns--full tilt--to his scrappy horror roots with DRAG ME TO HELL. Alison Lohman stars as Christine Brown, a soft-spoken Southern girl with a good heart, a PhD-toting boyfriend (Justin Long), and a job as a loan officer at a bank just outside of Los Angeles. When evicting a vile and negligent old woman named Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) seems to be the only way to secure an important promotion, Christine pushes her moral flexibility about as far as itcan go (not very far at all) only to dearly pay the price as the recipient of a rather nasty curse.The next three days of Christine?s...

The Matrix (10th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

WARNER HOME VIDEO

A computer programmer is mankind's last chance for survival against the machines that generated a computer based reality in which we all live. Neo (Keanu Reeves) tries to live up to his calling as the chosen one and lead mankind to freedom from their comatose slave.

The Thing [Blu-ray]

Universal Studios

IN 1970S AMERICA, A DETECTIVE WORKS TO BRING DOWN THE DRUGEMPIRE OF FRANK LUCAS, A HEROIN KINGPIN FROM MANHATTAN, WHO ISSMUGGLING THE DRUG INTO THE COUNTRY FROM THE FAR EAST.

True Blood: The Complete Second Season (HBO Series) [Blu-ray]

HBO Home Video

Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality and dark secrets. For Sookie Stackhouse, life is more dangerous than ever after she and Bill become more deeply involved. Meanwhile, Tara finds herself under a lover’s spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; Eric becomes interested in Sookie after he recruits her to investigate the disappearance of his 2,000-year-old maker; and Maryann is revealed to possess a power that can control almost everyone in town. Then, after making a shocking discovery, Sookie, Bill and Sam must form the last line of defense against a diabolical plan that raises this award-winning series to bloody new heights.

True Blood: The Complete Second Season includes all ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Blu-ray]

Dreamworks Video

Genre: Musicals
Rating: R
Release Date: 21-OCT-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Jennifer's Body (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

20th Century Fox

Stills from Jennifer's Body (Click for larger image)

Jennifer's Body

20th Century Fox

Stills from Jennifer's Body (Click for larger image)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Remastered) [Blu-ray]

No description available for this title.
Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG
Street Date: 09/22/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

Dante's Cove: The Complete First Season

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 08/08/2006

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Manos, the Hands of Fate

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/20/2001

Drive Thru

Lions Gate

High schooler Mackenzie Carpenter thinks her biggest problem is dying of boredom in the bucolic wasteland of Orange County... until her classmates start dying of massive blood loss and Horny The Clown the mascot for local burger favorite HELLA-BURGER begins madly stalking her with cryptic messages hidden in 70's kitsch toys. It isn't until Mac discovers her unbelievable connection to Horny and his victims that she realizes if she's going to live to see 18 she must come face-to-face with the killer clown in the bloodiest week Blanca Carne California has ever known.System Requirements:Running Time: 91 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398196518 Manufacturer No: 19651

The Mummy Returns (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)

Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-JUL-2008
Media Type: DVD

Open Water (Full Screen Edition)

Shot on digital video with a pair of unknown actors (Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis) who tread water for most of the film's brisk 79-minute running time, Open Water is a fact-based exercise in primal fear that will scare the socks off anyone who dreads death from the deep, but it's familiar stuff if you've ever watched "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel (which is mentioned in writer-director Chris Kentis's economical screenplay). If you can't accept that a trendy young couple could be accidentally abandoned during an open-sea diving excursion (but hey, it really happened!), then you'll surely be hooked by the intense what's-gonna-happen anxiety that escalates when the horrified vacationers realize they've got unwanted company. It's too easy to call Open Water a poor m...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 08/27/2002 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Nr

Bloody Moon

Re-Mastered In High-Definition And Featuring An All-New Interview With Jess Franco!As the body-count genre stabbed its way into audiences hearts in the early 80s EuroTrash auteur Jess Franco (SADOMANIA MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) was asked to create his own saga of slaughtered schoolgirls complete with gratuitous nudity graphic violence and gory set pieces. But just when you thought you d seen it all Franco shocked the world by delivering surprising style genuine suspense and a cavalcade of depravity that includes incest voyeurism and roller disco. The luscious Olivia Pascal of VANESSA fame stars in this twisted thriller that was banned in England yet is now presented uncut and uncensored including the complete stone mill power saw sequence for the first time ever in America!F...

Tomb of Terrors 50 Movie Pack

TOMB OF TERRORS 50 MOVIEPACK (DVD MOVIE)

Profile of a Serial Killer

No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 19-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD

B.T.K.

INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS, THIS SHOCKING NEW THRILLER IS A GRISLY JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHTMARISH WORLD OF THE B.T.K. KILLER.

Caged Fury / Drug Traffikers / Savage Dawn (Triple Feature)

Three hardcore tales of down-and-dirty revenge!

Erik Estrada (TV's CHiPs) blasts into non-stop action when two innocent women are jailed and forced to become sex slaves - and only one detective (Estrada) can release the women's Caged Fury! Bo Svenson (Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Delta Force) is a Native American who raises hellfire after he's beaten and run out of town for trying to save an ancient burial ground in the gritty spaghetti Western Drug Traffickers: The Return of Thunder Warrior. And Vietnam combat hero Stryker (Lance Henriksen, Aliens, TV's Millennium) is a town's only hope for ending a violent motorcycle gang's reign of terror in Savage Dawn, which also stars William Forsythe, George Kennedy and Karen Black.

Masters of Horror: Season One Box Set, Vol. 2

Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/28/2007 Rating: Nr

Children of the Living Dead

The Val Lewton Horror Collection with Martin Scorsese Presents Val Lewton Documentary (Cat People...

No description available for this title.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 01/29/08
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve

The Headless Ghost

Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 06/24/2008

Decrepit Crypt of Nightmares 50 Movie Pack

Pendulum Pictures has pioneered the delivery of outstanding value in Indy horror compilations with its ongoing line of 6 movie packs but now we're bringing you 50 mind-blowing horrific features on 12 chill-packed DVDs in Decrepit Crypt of Nightmares. So check your sanity at the door and get ready for a blood-soaked marathon of gore madness and depravity. With so many hours of terror the nightmares will never end.Included:1. Before I Die2. Bewitching The3. Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank4. Burning Dead5. Candle in the Dark A6. Catholic Ghoulgirls7. Crate The8. Crawlspace The9. Dead 710. Dead Body Man11. Dead is Dead12. Dead Live The13. Demon Slaughter14. Dominion15. Edgar Allan Poe's Madhouse16. Goblin17. Goth18. Hellbound: Book of the Dead19. Hell's Highway20. High Desert21. Hip Hop Lo...

He Knows You're Alone

A RELUCTANT BRIDE TO BE IS STALKED BY A SERIAL KILLER WHO ONLYKILLS BRIDES & THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM. WHILE HER FRIENDS GETWHACKED ONE BY ONE, A HARD BOILED RENEGADE COP WHOSE BRIDE HADBEEN KILLED YEARS BEFORE TRIES TO HUNT HIM DOWN BEFORE IT IS TOOLATE.

12 Days of Terror

12 DAYS OF TERROR is based on a real incident that occurred in New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. A spate of shark attacks bloodied the usually placid New Jersey shore terrifying residents and creating a panic that inspired author Peter Benchley to write JAWS. This dramatization stars John Rhys-Davis and Colin Eggsfield in lead roles.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 084296407958 Manufacturer No: 40795

Beware! The Blob!

No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: WALKER/STAHL/CAMBRIDGE
Title: BEWARE THE BLOB
Street Release Date: 09/19/2000
Domestic
Genre: HORROR

Hideaway

Sony Pictures

No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD

A Haunting: Twilight of Evil [Blu-ray]

Genre: Television: Discovery Channel
Rating: UN
Release Date: 4-AUG-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Last House on the Beach

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 09/30/2008

Lust for a Vampire

Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008

The Hills Have Eyes (2-Disc Edition)

No Description Available.
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD

The Rage (2007) (Unrated)

No Description Available.
Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 26-FEB-2008
Media Type: DVD

Ed Gein

Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 06/21/2005 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R

Gorilla at Large/Mystery on Monster Island

No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 11-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD

Emanuelle Collection Triple Pack

EMANUELLE COLLECTION - TRIPLE PACK (DVD MOVIE)

Shocker

Bonus features: theatrical trailer film highlights talent bios production notes and web links. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: Michael Murphy Richard Brooks Run time: 109 minutes Rating: R Director: Wes Craven

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

A milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. Stylistically, the look of the film's painted sets--distorted perspectives, sharp angles, twisted architecture--was designed to reflect (or express) the splintered psychology of its title character, a sinister figure who uses a lanky somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) as a circus attraction. But when Caligari and his sleepwalker are suspected of murder, their novelty act is surrounded by more supernatural implications. With its mad-doctor scenario, striking visuals, and a haunting, zombie-like character at its center, Caligari was one of the first horror films t...