Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Monday, April 22, 2013

INCOMING

  • Jerry Ahern, The Defender #11:  The Challenge.  Near future thriller, sort of a Red Dawn without teenagers, I guess.
  • Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues.  Literary fantasy.  Bluesman Robert Johnson on a Spokane Indian reservation.
  • Piers Anthony, Chaining the Lady, Cluster, Dragon on a Pedestal, Golem in the Gears, Harpy Time, Kirlian Quest, and Viscous Circle.   Four books in the SF Cluster series and three in the fantasy Xanth series.
  • Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragones' The Groo Chronicles, Book 2.  Comic collection.
  • Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum.   Novel.  the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year.
  • Brian N. Ball, Singularity Station.  SF.
  • James Barwick, Shadow of the Wolf.  "What if?" thriller concerning Rudolph Hess' secret trip to Scotland.
  • Christopher Bennett, X-Men:  Watchers on the Walls.  Comic book tie-in novel.
  • Donna Boyd, The Promise.  Werewolf novel.
  • Matthew Braun, El Paso.  Western.  A poor copy from 1973, held together with tape but still readable.
  • Abigail Browning, Murder Most Merry.  Thirty-two Christmas crime stories from EQMM and AHMM.
  • Austin S. Camacho, Collateral Damage.  A Hannibal Jones mystery; signed copy.
  • Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love and White Apples.  Fantasies.
  • Lin Carter, Down to a Sunless Sea and Dragonrouge.  An SF novel about the "legendary Mars" and an adult fantasy.
  • Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander.  YA fantasy.  Book One in the Underland Chronicles.
  • Ralph Cotton, Blood Money, Border Dogs, Dead Man's Canyon, Gunfight at Cold Devil, Guns of Wolf ValleyHell's Riders, Jackpot Ridge, Jurisdiction, The Law in Somos Santos, Sabre's Edge, Showdown at Rio Sagrado, Trouble Creek, Vengeance Is a Bullet, and Webb's Posse.  Westerns.
  • Thomas B. Dewey, The Taurus Trip (a Mac novel)/Thomas B. Reagan, Blood Money/Richard Martin Stern, Manuscript for Murder.  A Detective Book Club volume.
  • Hallie Ephron, Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel.
  • P. N. Elrod, editor, Dracula in London.  Vampire anthology with sixteen stories.
  • Raymond E. Feist, Magician:  Master.  Fantasy, Volume II in the Riftwar Saga.
  • R.V. Fodor & G. J. Taylor, Impact!  SF disaster novel.
  • Alan Dean Foster, The Man Who Used the Universe and The Time of the Transference.  SF.
  • Ariana Franklin, Mistress of  the Art of Death.  The first mystery in the Adelia series, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.  Kitty just read this one and loved, loved, loved it.
  • Stephen Goldin, Caravan.  SF.
  • Heather Graham, The Unholy.  Romantic fantasy, first in the Krewe of Hunters trilogy.
  • "Rod Gray" (Gardner F. Fox), The Lady from L.U.S.T.  The first in the sex/spy series.
  • Simon R. Green, Blood and Honor and Down Among the Dead Men.  Fantasies.
  • Stephen Gresham, Demon's Eye.  Horror.
  • Julia Grice, Cry for the Demon.  Horror.
  • W. A. Harbinson, Otherworld. Fantasy.
  • Erin Hart, Haunted Ground.  Mystery.
  • Rick Hautala, Moondeath.  Horror.
  • Lian Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon.  Fantasy, Book Three of the Tales of the Otari.
  • William Hefferan, Red Angel.  A Paul Devlin mystery. 
  • Will Henry, San Juan Hill (historical novel) and Yellowstone Kelly (western).  Does anyone remember the Clint Walker movie with Edd Bynes and John Russell?
  • Reginald Hill, Arms and the Woman.  A Dalziel and Pascoe mystery.
  • Alfred Hitchcock, credited editor, Noose Report.  Mystery anthology with fourteen stories.
  • Tom Holt, Valhalla.  Comic fantasy.
  • Alex Irvine, The Ultimates:  Against All Enemies.  Comic book tie-in novel.
  • P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley.  Murder with the characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
  • Ken Johnson, Hounds of Dracula.  Horror,
  • J. A. Johnstone, The Loner:  Infernal and The Loner:  Killer Poker.  Westerns.
  • William W. Johnstone, The First Mountain Man:  Preacher's Journey, The First Mountain Man:  Preacher's Peace, Quest of the Mountain Man, and Trek of the Mountain Man.  Westerns.
  • William W. Johnstone with Fred Austin, The Return of the Dog Team.  Thriller.
  • William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone, The Brothers O'Brien, Bloodshed of Eagles, Crusade of Eagles, The First Mountain Man:  Preacher's Pursuit, and Rage of the Mountain Man/Betrayal of the Mountain Man (omnibus of two books, the first by William W. Johnstone alone).  Westerns.
  • Daniel Kalla, Pandemic. Disaster novel.
  • "M. E. Kerr" (Marijane Meaker), Gentlehands.  YA.
  • Damon Knight, The Sun Saboteurs, bound with The Light of Lilith by G. McDonald Wallis (an Ace SF Double), and as editor, Orbit 12 (SF anthology with fourteen stories).
  • Nick Kyme, Salamander.  Gaming (Warhammer 40,000) tie-in novel; Book I in the Tome of Fire trilogy.
  • Richard La Plante, Mantis.  Thriller.
  • Mercedes Lackey, editor, Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar.  Fantasy anthology with fourteen stories.
  • R. Karl Largent, The Jakarta Plot.  Technothriller.
  • Keith Laumer, Reward for Retief.  SF.
  • Stephen Leigh, A Quiet of Stone.  SF novel in the Neweden series.
  • Bentley Little, The Academy.  Horror.
  • Alistair MacLean, The Guns of Navarone.  A 1966 abridged paperback movie tie-in edition of the classic adventure novel.
  • Peter McCurtin, Drumfire/Buffalo War.  A double western, both books in the Sundance series.
  • Val McDermid, The Last Temptation. A Tony Hill mystery/thriller.
  • Richard S. McEnroe, editor, Proteus:  Voices of the 80's.  SF anthology with fourteen stories.  "A Destinies Special."
  • Ian McEwan, Black Dogs.  Novel.
  • Denise Mina, Field of Blood.  Mystery.
  • Joseph Nassise, Heretic.  Horror/military thriller mash-up.  Book One of the Templar Chronicles.
  • Michael Nava, The Death of Friends, How Town, and The Little Death.  Henry Rios mysteries.
  • Douglas Niles, Darkwalker on Moonshae (a Forgotten Realms novel) and Fistandantilus Reborn (Volume II of the Lost Legends in the Dragonlance Saga).  Gaming tie-in novels.
  • Andre Norton, Here Abide Monsters, Lavender-Green Magic, Warlock of the Witch World, and The Zero Stone.  The first two are fantasies, the remaining two SF.
  • Andrew Offut, The Undying Wizard.  Sword & Sorcery featuring Robert E, Howard's Cormac Mac Art.
  • Sharon Kay Penman, The Queen's Man.  A Justin de Quincy medieval mystery.
  • Anne Perry, editor, Thou Shalt Not Kill.  Mystery anthology with fifteen stories inspired by the Bible.
  • Ludek Pesak, The Earth Is Near.  SF, translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
  • Felice Picano, Ambidextous.  Autobiographical novel.
  • Nancy Picard, editor, Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder.  Mystery anthology with fifteen stories and a bunch (bushel?) of apple recipes.
  • H. Beam Piper, Empire.  SF collection of five stories, although the back cover says that it is four stories.
  • Barry Porter, Junkyard.  Horror.
  • "Dray Prescott" as told to "Alan Burt Akers" (Kenneth Bulmer), Talons of Scorpio.  SF, #30 in the series.
  • Robert J. Randisi, In the Shadow of the Arch.  A Joe Keough mystery.
  • Ian Rankin, Black and Blue, The Black Book, Hide and Seek, Knots and Crosses, Set in Darkness, and Strip Jack.  John Rebus mysteries.
  • Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Dream-Land.  Horror.
  • Rick Riordan, The Last King of Texas.  A Tres Navarre mystery.
  • David Robbins, Blood Duel and Bucked Out in Dodge.  Westerns, both "Ralph Compton" novels; also, The Wraith, a horror novel.
  • Fred Saberhagen, The Berserker Throne.  SF.
  • R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn.  Gaming (Forgotten Realms) tie-in novel, Book III of The Legend of Drizzt.
  • John Sanford, Dark of the Moon.  A Virgil Flowers thriller.
  • Al Sarrantonio, editor, 999.  Horror anthology with twenty-nine stories.
  • Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids.  SF.
  • "Dell Shannon" (Elizabeth Linington), Root of All Evil.  A Luis Mendoza mystery.
  • Cotton Smith, Pray for Texas.  Western.
  • Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka, War Day.  Apocalyptic novel.
  • Newton Thornburg, To Die in California.  Mystery.
  • Robert Vaughan, The Bozeman Trail.  Western. a "Ralph Compton" novel.
  • Richard Winer, Ghost Ships:  True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings, and Disasters.  I'm a sucker for these so-called true stories.

2 comments:

  1. I am speechless. Do you keep all these or pass them on?

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  2. Patti, I keep most books until I have read them. Then they are given away or traded.

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