A sixth story based on the popular card-collecting and role-playing game brings fans into the imaginative world of Dominica, where the most unlikely fantasies become true. By the author of Whispering Woods. Original.

The Prodigal Sorcerer (Magic The Gathering, No. 6)

Literature & Fiction

Sumner, Mark

Genre Fiction

HarperEntertainment

The turning point of the Civil War had come when the bodies got up at Shiloh. Dangerous magic had risen on a flood of blood and violence, and it swept across the land, washing away all but the strong and the lucky. Unnatural powers had been loosed, and nothing would ever be the same again. Towns out west were dying faster than mayflies in June. To survive the perils of the frontierbandits, hexes, marauders, and conjurations, folks needed a strong sheriff. And any lawman who expected to survive had better have a fast gun and a talent for magic.Jake Bird wasn't aiming to pin any star to his chest. He had a talent, maybe a strong one. But before he could search out his future, he'd have to face his past--and stand up against the man who'd killed his father. That would mean a showdown against the most dangerous wielder of magic in all the West: General George Armstrong Custer!

Devil's Tower

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Del Rey

AMERICA'S GREAT HOPE--AND GREATER TERROR The end of the Civil War and the rise of magical talents had brought unheard-of dangers to the West. Signers and scribblers and chatterers called up nightmare conjurations more dreadful than those that already roamed the unsettled land. Even a bullet-stopping sheriff with as much talent as Jake Bird was hard-pressed to keep Medicine Rock going when towns from Canada to Mexico were being abandoned. Unknown to the settlers, a greater calamity yet was stalking them. Using Buffalo Bill Cody as his agent, robber baron Jay Gould was laying tracks for America's first transcontinental railroad. Medicine Rock was chosen as the rail point where East would meet West. But the honor concealed catastrophe, for with his strange blue-green steel rails, Gould intended to rob the entire territory of its magic. Bullets would fly, blood would flow, and Buffalo Bill, Sheriff Jake, and the mysterious Rainmaker would need all their skills to defeat America's most powerful evil . . .

Devil's Engine

Investigative reporter Savannah "Savvy" McKinnon journeys to northern Minnesota to probe the deaths of four people supposedly killed by a mysterious lake monster called Big Jelly

The Monster of Minnesota (News from the Edge)

Science Fiction

Ace Books

Savvy McKinnon, a reporter for the Global Query tabloid newspaper, travels to a small town in Illinois to track down the reason for a series of bizarre incidents among the local townsfolk. Original.

News from the edge: insanity, illinois (X-Files)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

An ace reporter for the Global Query, Savvy McKinnon is sent to Vermont to interview an alleged vampire, Count Yorga, but when the supposed immortal drops dead, after biting her on the arm, Savvy must uncover the truth before she herself becomes one of the undead. Original.

News from the Edge: Vampires of Vermont

Over a century ago, the Social Darwinists appropriated Darwin's name but left most of his theory behind. The Evolution of Everything describes the struggles behind Darwin's theory of evolution and the schemes of those who misapplied it. It also shows why a more nuanced reading of that work—especially the concept of selective pressures—helps us understand many natural, social, and economic processes.

The Evolution of Everything: How Selection Shapes Culture, Commerce, and Nature

Business & Money

Economics

Polipoint Pr

Generations ago, the cithians of planet Rask rescued Denny's ancestors from a disaster that rendered Earth uninhabitable. Since that time, the cithians have cared for their human guests, feeding them and housing them and expecting nothing in return except obedience to a few simple rules.  The generosity of the cithians is all Denny has ever  known. He never doubted their good intentions until the day he danced into a secret—a secret that could mean death for Denny and his small adopted human family...and the end of humanity forever.

On Whetsday

Word Posse

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