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New on Kindle: February 1st, Part 2

The Vampire’s Revenge by Raven Hart

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Another vampire paranormal romance series, featuring Jack McShane, a vampire with a family1 falling in love with Connie Jones, vampire slayer, in a sort of Anita Blake way rather than a Buffy the Vampire Slayer way.2 Also, he must save humans from otherwordly threats to the city of Savannah while tourists swarm for St. Patrick’s day.

All the books in the Savannah Vampire series are now available on the Kindle:

  1. The Vampire’s Seduction
  2. The Vampire’s Secret
  3. The Vampire’s Kiss
  4. The Vampire’s Betrayal
  5. The Vampire’s Revenge

Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

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The beginning of another paranormal series from the author who brought you Women of the Otherworld—now featuring men who step into the wild, other world. Here we have Clayton, a six-year-old orphan werewolf who finds a mentor and the American werewolf pack and manages to make a dire enemy as well. It’s the American werewolf coming-of-age story, only rougher and meaner.

Most of the books in the Women of the Otherworld series are all available on the Kindle:

  1. Bitten (Elena, werewolf)
  2. Stolen (Elena)
  3. Dime Store Magic (Paige, witch)
  4. Industrial Magic (Paige)
  5. Haunted (Eve, witch)
  6. Broken (Elena, now pregnant)
  7. No Humans Involved (Jaime, necromancer)
  8. Personal Demon (Hope, a half-demon)
  9. Living with the Dead (Hope)

There’s also free online fiction to peruse.

Flight into Darkness by Sarah Ash

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The second volume of the Alchymist’s Legacy duology, a fantasy epic featuring two young mages—the impulsive Rieuk who accidentally frees a demon, and vengeful Celestine, who unknowingly becomes the demon’s protege. And now seven demons are about the wreck havoc on the world, and only Rieuk and Celestine can stop them.

The first half of the duology, Tracing the Shadow, is also available for the Kindle.

John Joseph Adams’ In 60 Seconds, akin to John Scalzi’s The Big Idea, features this duology and the ideas behind it.

The duology itself is part of the larger Tears of Artamon series, set in an alternate 18th century. The other books are also available on the Kindle:

  1. Lord of Snow and Shadows
  2. Prisoner of the Iron Tower
  3. Children of the Serpent Gate

The Mousehunter by Alex Milway

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Very illustrated novel, although the illustrations are in black and white, so this may translate to the Kindle well.

Emiline is a mousehunter in a world populated by extremely varied species of mice (who have, in this alternate world, taken over more than a few vital ecological niches), and sets off to hunt the legendary pirate Mousebeard.

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi, Peter Cannon

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Also very illustrated, although the annotations should carry over well to the Kindle3: yet another Lovecraft collection, but this time annotated all to heck by avid Lovecraft researchers S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon, who show the devotion usually only privy to that of cultists of the King in Yellow.

There’s also An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia available for the Kindle, put together by Joshi.

This actually looks to correspond to the first volume of annotated Lovecraft tales (the second is More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft).

If you can’t get enough Lovecraft, buy this book.

Highlander: White Silence by Ginjer Buchanan

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Ginjer Buchanan is more famous as an editor for Ace books, but she also wrote a Highlander novel, wherein “Duncan MacLeod, Hugh Fitzcairn, and Danny O’Donal get trapped in the frozen Yucan,”4 and apparently also an endless time loop.

  1. Vampiric? Human? Does he have time for all this plus the kids’ soccer practice? []
  2. Or if you prefer, Spike rather than Angel. []
  3. I actually prefer annotations on the Kindle, since they’re far less obtrusive than in the hardcover/trade paperback/whatever. []
  4. From Wikipedia. []

New on Kindle: October 21st

Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart

Buy: 9.99

Bailey Ruth Raeburn solves mysteries. Thing is, she’s dead. Like that’s ever stopped her. Cross a cozy with The Lovely Bones and a protagonist that can do something despite being Dearly Departed.

First in a planned series.

Living with the Dead by Kelley Armstrong

Buy: 9.99

A turf war between Otherworld cabals catches a woman and her friends in the crossfire.

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

Buy: 9.99

The sequel to the The Witches of Eastwick, which is not yet Kindle-ized.

Star Trek: SCE: Wounds by Keith R. A. DeCandido, Ilsa J. Bick, and Terri Osborne

Buy: 9.59

Another adventure for Commander Gomez and her Corps of Engineers team as they tackle the legacies of the Dominion War. “Demons of the past” used in original blurb.

Interesting Books I Missed the First Time

Pretty Monsters: Stories by Kelly Link

Buy: 9.99

Surreal fantasy tales.

The stories from her first collection, Magic for Beginners, are available under a Creative Commons license in multiple formats, including Mobipocket/Kindle (I made that one).

The Ghost in Love: A Novel by Jonathan Carroll

Buy: 14.85

Ben Gould slips and dies—or should have died. Due to a technical problem, Heaven has placed him and others on indefinite hold, as it were. Which leaves them free to explore the space between life and the afterlife.

New on Kindle: August 26th thru September 2nd

Note:
This is going to be a little long, as I’ve neglected to do these little columns for a while. Also, I’ve discovered how to filter by publisher on Amazon.com, and have been picking through the non-imprint publishers (like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster) for SF/F books. This results in finds like Kelley Armstrong’s The Summoning and a lot of SF/F Young Adult books (which are not being filed in SF/F).

And also: my gods, HarperCollins, you pump books through whatever eBook machine you have going like mad, mad people.

Inferno by Larry Niven

Buy: 9.99

Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez

Buy: $9.99

The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip

Buy: $9.99

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

Buy: $7.99

Break of Dawn by Chris Marie Green

Buy: $9.99

The Ferryman by Christopher Golden

Buy: $9.99

The Scourge of God by S.M. Stirling

Buy: $14.87

The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling

Buy: $6.39

Imaginary Friends by John Marco

Buy: 6.39

Legacy by Jeanne C. Stein

Buy: 6.39

Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

Buy: 6.39

Hell and Earth by Elizabeth Bear

Buy: 9.99

Bound by Light: A Novel of the Dark Crescent Sisterhood by Anna Windsor

Buy: 5.59

Helfort’s War Book 2: The Battle of the Hammer Worlds by Graham Sharp Paul

Buy: 5.59

Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory

Buy: 8.00

Genesis of Shannara: The Gypsy Moth by Terry Brooks

Buy: 9.99

Araminta Spookie series by Angie Sage

1: My Haunted House, 2: The Sword in the Grotto
3: Frognapped, 4: Vampire Brat
5: Ghost Sitters

Buy: 3.19 to 5.59 each

Nightmare Academy #2: Monster Madness by Dean Lorey

Buy: 7.19

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Buy: 9.99

The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls by Alex Irvine

Buy: 9.56

Supernatural: Bone Key by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Buy: 6.39

Supernatural: Nevermore by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Buy: 6.39

Supernatural: Witch’s Canyon by Jeff Mariotte

Buy: 6.39

If There Be Dragons by Kay Hooper

Buy: 5.59

When All Seems Lost: A Novel of the Legion of the Damned by William C. Dietz

Buy: 6.39

The Soldier King: A Novel of Dhulyn and Parno by Violette Malan

Buy: 9.99

Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels

Buy: 6.39

Rogue Angel: The Golden Elephant by Alex Archer

Buy: 5.04