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Fresh Pick | THE LAST VICTIM by Karen Robards
Fresh Pick / August 20, 2012

August 2012 On Sale: August 7, 2012 384 pages ISBN: 0345535405 EAN: 9780345535405 Hardcover $26.00  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Thriller with a paranormal twist The Last Victim by Karen Robards Electrifying suspense, cutting-edge psychological insight, and an unforgettably sensuous love story—these are the trademarks of Karen Robards’s sizzling novels. Now the New York Times bestselling author launches a red-hot new paranormal romantic thriller series featuring the fascinating Dr. Charlotte Stone, a serial killer expert whose extraordinary powers lead her from ecstasy to terror. THE LAST VICTIM Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life—no doubt because when she was sixteen, she herself survived a serial killer’s bloodbath: A man butchered the family of Charlie’s best friend, Holly, then left the girl’s body on a seaside boardwalk one week later. Because of the information Charlie gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground. She kept to herself her eerie postmortem visions of Holly and her mother. And even years later, knowing her contact with ghosts might undermine her credibility…

Fresh Pick | WHITE HORSE by Alex Adams
Fresh Pick / August 19, 2012

April 2012 On Sale: April 17, 2012 Featuring: Zoe Marshall 306 pages ISBN: 1451642997 EAN: 9781451642995 Kindle: B005JSV1F6 Hardcover $19.99  Add to Wish List Science Fiction Alternate History, Science Fiction, Thriller Paranormal – Supernatural Buy at Amazon.com A Science Fiction thriller White Horse by Alex Adams The world has ended, but her journey has just begun. Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are defined not by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places. An Exciting Post-Apocalyptic Novel Previous Picks

Fresh Pick | WAKE by Amanda Hocking
Fresh Pick / August 17, 2012

August 2012 On Sale: August 7, 2012 Featuring: Lexi; Penn; Gemma 320 pages ISBN: 1250008123 EAN: 9781250008121 Kindle: B00779MO7E Hardcover $17.99  Add to Wish List Fantasy, Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Beginning of a exciting new series, sure to keep you up ALL night reading Wake by Amanda Hocking Fall under the spell of Wake—the first book in an achingly beautiful new series by celebrated author Amanda Hocking—and lose yourself to the Watersong. Gorgeous. Fearless. Dangerous. They\’re the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone\’s attention—but it’s Gemma who’s attracted theirs. She’s the one they’ve chosen to be part of their group. Gemma seems to have it all—she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He’s always been just a friend, but this summer they’ve taken their relationship to the next level, and now there’s no going back. Then one night, Gemma’s ordinary life changes forever. She’s taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next…

Fresh Pick | DYING WISH by Shannon K. Butcher
Fresh Pick / August 15, 2012

Sentinel Wars #6  March 2012 On Sale: March 6, 2012 Featuring: Jackie Patton; Iain 400 pages ISBN: 045123605X EAN: 9780451236050 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal, Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Thrilling paranormal romance Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes — the Synestryn. Now, a beautiful but damaged Sentinel may be a warrior’s last hope… Jackie Preston has been rescued by the Theronai from her captivity and torture at the hands of the Synestryn. All she wants is to be left alone, but that isn’t possible — not when she’s a potential match for the Theronai warriors who need a woman to literally save their lives. Forced to choose, she unexpectedly selects Iain, a cold-hearted warrior who doesn’t want to be saved. Iain is convinced that it’s too late for him — that his soul is already as dead as his former betrothed, killed by the Synestryn. Still, he is the only man Jackie feels a measure of peace around, the only one she wants. But is Iain indeed beyond saving? Rescued…

Fresh Pick | BY A THREAD by Jennifer Estep
Fresh Pick / August 14, 2012

Elemental Assassin #6 March 2012 On Sale: February 28, 2012 Featuring: Gin Blanco; Mab Monroe; Bria 384 pages ISBN: 1451651767 EAN: 9781451651768 Kindle: B005GG0LS4 Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Great Urban Fantasy By A Thread by Jennifer Estep Gin Blanco never thought she’d need a vacation from being an assassin. But a few weeks ago, she killed Mab Monroe, her nemesis and the most powerful Fire elemental in Ashland. Now, all the city’s lowlifes are trying to make a name for themselves by taking out the Spider. So she heads south to a swanky beach town, along with her baby sister, Bria, for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when an old friend of Bria’s is threatened by a powerful vampire with deadly elemental magic, it looks like Gin will have to dig the silverstone knives out of her suitcase after all. But this time, her special powers might not be enough to prevent her from coming home in a pine box Gin’s Back For Round 6! Retired or not, assassins don’t actually get a vacation, do they? Previous Picks

Fresh Pick | HELL ON WHEELS by Julie Ann Walker
Fresh Pick / August 13, 2012

Black Knights Inc. #1 August 2012 On Sale: August 1, 2012 Featuring: Nate Weller; Ali Morgan 384 pages ISBN: 1402267134 EAN: 9781402267130 Kindle: B008B8A8JQ Paperback $6.99  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Start of great new series Hell On Wheels by Julie Ann Walker Trouble never looked so good… Black Knights Inc.—Behind the facade of their tricked–out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team assigned the jobs too hot for anyone else to handle. Hold On Tight… Ex-Marine Nate “Ghost” Weller is an expert at keeping his cool—and his distance—which makes him one hell of a sniper. It’s also how he keeps his feelings for Ali Morgan in check. Sweet, sexy Ali has always revved his engine, but she’s his best friend’s baby sister…and totally off limits. Rough Road Ahead Ali’s never seen anything sexier than Nate Weller straddling his custom Harley—or the flash of danger in his eyes when she tells him she’s in trouble. First something happened to her brother, and now she’s become the target of a nasty international organization. With Nate, her life is in the most capable hands possible—but her heart is another story altogether. Previous Picks

Fresh Pick | FAT IS THE NEW 30 by Jill Conner Browne
Fresh Pick / August 7, 2012

March 2012 On Sale: March 20, 2012 266 pages ISBN: 1612181406 EAN: 9781612181400 Kindle: B006JTTIDQ Paperback $14.95  Add to Wish List Humor, Women’s Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Sometimes you have to laugh instead of crying! Fat Is The New 30 by Jill Conner Browne The Sweet Potato Queens® are back and better than ever in this, the ninth book in Jill Conner Browne’s uproarious series that always looks at the brighter side of life—even during the crappy parts. Browne puts her considerable talents for smiling, waving (equally well with either hand), or doing both simultaneously to use as she doles out the advice and bitingly hysterical observations. Adding the title of Deity of Denial (one she shares with her seester Judy) to her ever-growing list of accomplishments, she takes us all on a tour of her special brand of subterfuge. From the effective use of watermelon as an emotional slight of hand to Life in Pig Time’s reminder to not waste life on the non-essential to the truth behind the Bonfire of the…Mules, the secret to life is woven expertly and subtly through every paragraph on every page: life is how you look at things. Even when it’s crappy, you…

Fresh Pick | HELL IS EMPTY by Craig Johnson
Fresh Pick / August 2, 2012

Walt Longmire #7 May 2012 On Sale: April 24, 2012 Featuring: Walt Longmire; Henry Standing Bear 352 pages ISBN: 0143120980 EAN: 9780143120988 Kindle: B004IYIJ5W Paperback $14.00  Add to Wish List Mystery, WesternBuy at Amazon.com Hell Is Empty by Craig Johnson Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaining order in Wyoming’s Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits. Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian rumored to be one of the country’s most dangerous sociopaths, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. Walt is asked to transport Shade through a blizzard to the site, but what begins as a typical criminal transport turns personal when the veteran lawman learns that he knows the dead boy’s family. Guided only by Indian mysticism and a battered paperback of Dante’s Inferno, Walt braves the icy hell of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, cheating death to ensure that justice—both civil and spiritual— is served. and all the devils are here Previous Picks

Fresh Pick | BUSTED FLUSH by George R.R. Martin
Fresh Pick / June 25, 2012

Wild Cards  December 2008 On Sale: December 9, 2008 400 pages ISBN: 0765317826 EAN: 9780765317827 Hardcover $24.95 Science Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Beyond the Song of Fire and Ice Busted Flush by George R.R. Martin In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin (“The American Tolkien” –Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then—and of the heroes among the one percent.Now a new generation of heroes has taken its place on the world stage, its members crucial players in international events. At the United Nations, veteran ace John Fortune has assembled a team of young aces known as the Committee, to assist at trouble spots around the world–including a genocidal was in the Niger Delta, an invasion of zombies in hurricane ravaged New Orleans, and a freak nuclear explosion in a small Texas town. Previous Picks

Fresh Pick | SPILLED BLOOD by Brian Freeman
Fresh Pick / May 4, 2012

May 2012 On Sale: May 1, 2012 Featuring: Chris Hawk; Hannah Hawk 368 pages ISBN: 1402798121 EAN: 9781402798122 Hardcover $24.95  Add to Wish List Thriller Crime Buy at Amazon.com Gripping suspense Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman A taut thriller about two rural Minnesota towns locked in a deadly feud – and a teenage girl caught in the crossfire. Linked by the Spirit River, the two towns couldn’t be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company’s carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation’s president, is found shot dead – and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk, is accused of the crime. Reluctantly, Olivia’s mother summons her estranged husband Christopher, a Minneapolis lawyer, to come defend his daughter. As Christopher struggles to unravel the mystery of Ashlynn’s murder and save his own daughter, he uncovers some ugly truths that endanger the residents of both towns. And looming over everything are the chilling, apocalyptic threats from a murderous psychopath known only as “Aquarius.” A long-time feud between two towns…