EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three writers collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized.

"It is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue." "But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thi

The author of the diabolically clever\* *A Matter of Blood* returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detectiv

Finnegan May has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her. Finnegan can't seem to help herself from getting embroiled in trouble. It just seems to follow her around. On a simpl

This first novel in the _Seven Brothers_ series draws upon the rich legends, cultures, and traditions of the East to create an epic tale. Llesho was only seven years old when the Harn invaded Thebin, slaying his father and selling the boy into slavery. On Pearl Island, he was trained as a diver-

This first novel in the *Seven Brothers* series draws upon the rich legends, cultures, and traditions of the East to create an epic tale. Llesho was only seven years old when the Harn invaded Thebin, slaying his father and selling the boy into slavery. On Pearl Island, he was trained as a diver-un

EDITORIAL REVIEW: This first novel in the \*Seven Brothers\* series draws upon the rich legends, cultures, and traditions of the East to create an epic tale. Llesho was only seven years old when the Harn invaded Thebin, slaying his father and selling the boy into slavery. On Pearl Island, he was tra

**Treachery! Treason! Trolls?** Fooled into thinking they are returning heroes, the entourage's royal welcome is cut short when they mysteriously collapse; all but Nikki, the one nobody trusted. Lady Nicole Arendale's past is shrouded in mystery, but it's slowly unravelling as secrets long buried

SUMMARY: Bean, Ender Wiggins' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth.

The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external

SUMMARY: Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written. Ender's Game won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel when it was published. The book has gone on to sell well over a million copies. It tells the story of the boy "Ender" Wiggin and

Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggin's right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He serves the Heg

SUMMARY: Bean, Ender Wiggins' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth. No

SUMMARY: The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.But with the

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a templa

The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the externa

SUMMARY: Following up on the success of Ender's Game, this novel of war between humans and aliens introduces another child warrior from the Battle School, a boy called Bean, who became the friend, confidant, strategist, and right hand of Ender Wiggin. Reprint.

SUMMARY: Bean, Ender Wiggins' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth. No

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Card's latest installment in his Shadow subseries (\_Ender's Shadow\_, etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with *Ender's Game* (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The immi