Dealer's Choice is the ultimate guide to the world of low stakes poker, where fun and bragging rights count as least as much as the final tally. We all know that money won is twice as sweet as money earned, and there are plenty of books that will help you if you want to mortgage the house to play on the high-stake tables, but most of us are looking for a friendlier species of the game, a chance to test our luck in the enjoyable company of friends, and, if we are favoured with good fortune and they are not, to really, really rub their noses in it. Starting with the elementary principles of the game every beginner will need to know before swimming with the sharks - betting, bluffing, and the hierarchy of hand values - Dealer's Choice also includes invaluable tips on how to host the perfect poker evening (the relative merits of chips versus coins, what food to serve) as well as fascinating sidebars (great poker hands in cinema, trivia, unspoken laws of the game) and hilarious profiles of archetypal poker characters - the kinds of oddball one is bound to encounter sooner or later across the green felt. Every conceivable variety of poker is discussed in each of its variants, from established favourites like Baseball and Follow the Queen to truly esoteric mutations of the authors' own invention such as Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Hamlet (i.e., Jacks are low, Queens are wild, Kings dead). Renowned illustrator Phil Foglio has enlivened the text with spectacular line drawings. With worldwide interest in poker at unprecedented peak, Dealer's Choice gives casual players the chance to re-create, right in their living rooms, the excitement of the World Series of Poker...except without the five million dollar jackpot - but pizza and beer aren't bad either!

Dealer's Choice

Humor & Entertainment

Phil Foglio

Mike Selinker

James Ernest

Puzzles & Games

Gerald Duckworth

A magician's apprentice teams up with the demon Aahz and experiences a variety of adventures with many strange, other-worldly characters.

Myth Adventures Two

Literature & Fiction

robert-asprin

Humor & Satire

Walsworth Pub. Co

Prof. Rajavur and his 'First Contact Team' had been patiently waiting years for aliens to land on Earth. Leader Idow and the crew of the starship, All That Glitters, were just looking for an unknown planet where they could land and have a little fun teasing the primitive natives. So it was pure bad luck that the first humans the alien tricksters encounter is a ruthless New York City street gang, the Bloody Deckers. With more starships landing and the world in chaos, Rajavur and his First Contact Team have to move fast in a desperate plan to rescue the innocent aliens from the evil street gang! Then again, maybe they should join forces with the street gang to protect the Earth from the furious aliens? Best-Selling author Nick Pollotta and Hugo award winning illustrator Phil Foglio have packed this one-of-a-kind science fiction comedy full of thrilling combat, nuclear agents, planetary blockades, Omega Gas, the galactic police, Russian-doll-style Dyson spheres, a giant flying refrigerator, big juju, a high-stakes game of poker, space battles, warobots, the trail of the millennium, bar fights, naughty lingerie, lost civilizations, the United Nations Space Marines, lost civilizations, group sex, and delicious fried chicken.

Illegal Aliens

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pollotta, Nick

Science Fiction

Wildside Press

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family’s castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears. The Empire is convinced that Agatha is the person responsible for the Long War (and to be fair, they are not entirely incorrect). And, worst of all, the Castle itself is insane. From the Hugo Awardwinning Girl Genius online comics comes this third book in the Agatha H. trilogy; and just like the first two, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle will grab you from the first page and not let go! Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle: Girl Genius, Book Three

Kaja Foglio

Literary

Night Shade

Girl Genius - Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle

Fantasy

Titan Books, Ltd.

A lighthearted, but informative treatise upon some of the more esoteric and abstruse aspects of human sexuality, and how they can be improved for all concerned with the simple addition of Penguins, Marshmallows and the occasional Sock Puppet. No, really. Here we have the first five issues of the Fun, happy, and VERY X-rated adult comic 'XXXenophile'. collected in one attractive volume. Sprung forth from the mind of the Hugo award winning artist Phil Foglio then served with a smile (and nothing else). What is the story? Well, XXXenophile is an anthology title, it consists of lots of short, unrelated stories spanning many genres. From Fantasy to Sci-Fi-fi the one things that they share in common are their humor, and of course, lots of sex. ADULTS ONLY!

The XXXenophile Big Book 'O Fun

XXXenophile Books/Palliard Press

<ul><li>The original four short stories introducing the controlled anarchy of planet New Hong Kong and hero Buck Godot, the futuristic gun-for-hire who is "always available, but never free..."</li></ul>

Buck Godot - Zap Gun For Hire, volume 1: Four Short Stories (Buck Godot)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Studio Foglio

Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha and her friends try to save her town from the vast armies of the Wulfenbach Empire.

Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire

The Secret Blueprints for Volume One (Girl Genius)

Girl Genius, No. 11

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