Wolfman$26.95 add to cart

Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. But not the kind of werewolf that has been popularized in recent urban fantasy and pop horror novels. Marlowe can't control his transformation, nor can he control the beast that lives within him. He knows that once a month, whether he wants to or not, someone will die.

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Valley Of Day Glo$23.95 add to cart

In the grand tradition of Vonnegut's absurdist fiction, Nick DiChario's second novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post apocalyptic satire, tells the story of young Indian brave named Broadway Danny Rose and his search for the mythic titular valley where "death becomes life".

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Sheila writes:

Help! I have about 100 pages left in the Dave Duncan series The Seventh Sword and I have no idea which author to read next. I prefer fantasy series; I want to become part of what I am reading. I have read all of David Eddings, George R. R. Martin, Stephen R. Lawhead, Robert Jordan, Sara Douglass, Raymond E. Fiest, Jack Whyte, Bernard Cornwell's Arthur series, Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy, and Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry. I always go back to Eddings and Kay when I have nothing else. I have read a few Terry Brooks and Piers Anthony but would not pick them up again.

Chad Ginther, who is better versed in such matters than anyone we know, makes the following recommendations...

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The Red Wolf Conspiracy$27.95 add to cart

Robert V.S. Redick's debut novel The Red Wolf Conspiracy has already been compared to both Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. High praise indeed, but can it possibly live up to the hype?

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The Lizard Cage$21.00 add to cart

In The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly, two brothers fight for a woman named Aung San Suu Kyi, one using words and the other using weapons.

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Lucinda Gosling has put together one of the most fascinating books about the Great War that you are likely to find,Brushes & Bayonets.

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The Host$20.29 add to cart

Hooked on Stephenie Meyer, but can't wait until August for Breaking Dawn, the next and final installment in the Twilight series? Look no further than Meyer's May release, The Host.

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Fault Lines$29.95 add to cart

Nancy Huston's Fault Lines tells the story of a quintessential American-Jewish-German family--one whose horrifying history gradually reveals true courage.

The layered narratives of the characters echo through the novel and tie the characters to their parents and their pasts. Children who tell their stories at the beginning of the novel re-appear a generation or two later as adults with their own children or grandchildren observing them.

Huston's writing is especially satisfying because the voices of the children convincingly display all the misunderstandings, chaotic emotions, and hunger to be the centre of the universe that characterize childhood.

If you're interested in the Holocaust, or even just in children, you'll love this book.

People of the Book is a riveting mystery that swings back and forth between the present career of book conservator Hanna Heath and the precarious lives of the creators and protectors of an ancient Jewish holy book.

Brooks' brilliant characters throw their essential goodness in the path of evil, but cannot help but be smothered by the anger, prejudice and persecution they face. As the story flows through Spanish kidnapping and slavery, the Inquistion, late 19th century anti-Semetism, World War II, and the recent war in Bosnia, Brooks' vivid writing exposes the appalling rigidity of religious laws. At the centre of it all is the beauty of the book itself.

If you love books as objects and you love history you will be carried away by this wonderful, delicately constructed novel.