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The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)$19.99 add to cart

If you're a Percy Jackson fan, you've probably heard that the first book in Rick Riordan's new series The Kane Chronicles, The Red Pyramid, is coming out today, Tuesday, May 4 - and if you're anything like us at the bookstore, you can't wait to read it either! Instead of featuring Greek mythology, this series is about Egyptian gods and goddesses. It all starts when Carter and Sadie Kane's father blows up the British museum...

To celebrate the release, I interviewed my co-worker Josef to see what he thinks about this exciting new series.

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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella$16.99 add to cart

International best selling author Stephenie Meyer has a new novella coming out at midnight June 5, 2010. Titled The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, the story follows the newborn vampire army's journey as it prepares to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullen family. And as millions of readers who devoured all the Twilight novels are aware, things do not end well for Bree!

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Capt Underpants 01$6.99 add to cart

First - Captain Underpants is coming back! The long-awaited tenth book in the series, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future, will be coming out sometime later this year. Author Dav Pilkey is contracted for three more Captain Underpants books after this one. Woohoo!

Secondly, and kind of oddly, singer/actress Hilary Duff of Lizzie McGuire fame is... writing a novel? She recently signed a multiple-book contract with Simon and Schuster for a Young Adult Series. The first book, Elixir, will be published in the fall of this year. According to this website, the new series "will focus on a photojournalist named Clea Raymond, the celebrity offspring of a politician and a doctor. In Da Vinci Code fashion, she chases a dashing boy in a race against time to unravel a centuries-old mystery that could unlock the key to her soulmate's true identity." Huh.

And to round out this list, a recommendation for a book that you might not have heard of: Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders, by Canadian author Kevin Sylvester. According to the CM review:

The top chefs of Vancouver's classier restaurants are dying, killed by some unidentifiable poison that leaves them with their faces blue but their lips smiling. The chief of police calls in his expert: The Nose, aka 14-year-old Neil Flambé, chef, restauranteur, sniffer extraordinary, and, incidentally, school boy.

--- Alexandra Kroeger

First of all, we have a new steampunk feature on the sidebar, with twice as much steam and thrice as much punk as before! Click on the banner to find stories of adventure and daring, with a side of alternate history and cool technology.

Second of all, I am very happy to announce that Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black are coming out with a new anthology, Zombies vs. Unicorns. Born out of an online argument over which is better, this anthology leaves you to decide which is cooler. And deadlier. Look for it in a bookstore near you this September.

Finally, I have stumbled upon a wonderful discovery that I wanted to share. Gunnerkrigg Court is a webcomic dealing with the adventures of Antimony Carver after her mother's death and father's disappearance. The boarding school setting reminded me of Harry Potter, but Tom Siddell is no JK Rowling copycat. You can read it online - there are twenty-six chapters so far and it's updated three times a week - but if you really like it, you can order the first volume through us.