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Fantasy: Contemporary Books

	Cape Storm (Weather Warden, Book 8) by: Rachel Caine publisher: Roc, published: 2009-08-04 ASIN: 045146284X sales rank: 256466 price: $7.99 (new)	Check the forecast for the series that's "an addictive force of nature that will suck you in ." (News and Sentinel) Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin and her new husband, the Djinn David, are running from a malevolent hurricane bent on destroying her. Joined by an army of fellow Wardens and Djinn onboard a hijacked luxury liner, Joanne has lured the storm into furious pursuit. But even their combined magic may not be enough to stop it-nor the power-mad ex-Weather Warden controlling it...
	The Dick Gibson Show (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by: Stanley Elkin publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, published: 1998-12 ASIN: 1564781984 sales rank: 520245 price: $8.86 (new), $0.01 (used)	Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
	The Devil's Right Hand (Dante Valentine, Book 3) by: Lilith Saintcrow publisher: Orbit, published: 2007-09-01 ASIN: 0316021423 sales rank: 643659 price: $0.25 (new), $0.01 (used)	Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons. And to fulfill a seemingly simple task: become the Devil's Right Hand, hunt down four demons that have escaped from Hell, and earn His gratitude. It's a shame that nothing is ever easy when it comes to the Devil. Because of course, he doesn't tell Dante the whole truth: there is a rebellion brewing in Hell. And there is a good chance that Lucifer is about to be pushed off the throne. But Dante is getting really tired of being pushed around. And this time, she might be angry enough to take on the Devil himself...
	In a Heartbeat (In a Heartbeat Series #1) by: Sally John publisher: Harvest House Publishers, published: 2004-01-01 ASIN: 0736911693 sales rank: 914930 price: $2.49 (new), $0.01 (used)	Miss Rachel Goldberg had no idea a knight in shining armor was about to enter her classroom. A Chicago firefighter was expected, an everyday city worker come to tell fourth graders all about his job in 30 minutes or less. But when Vic Koski lifts Rachel to demonstrate the firefighter’s carry, she is—literally and figuratively—swept off her feet. Love leads to a happy marriage and home for just the two of them, but after a few years Rachel’s inner clock begins to tick. As months go by, her longing for a child becomes a consuming passion. Though Rachel tries not to question God’s plan for her life, the answer she receives from Him is one she could not have anticipated.
	Killing Rocks (Bloodhound Files) by: DD Barant publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, published: 2010-12-28 ASIN: 0312942605 sales rank: 191140 price: $3.47 (new), $3.48 (used)	FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s ticket home from the twisted parallel universe where she’s been called to duty hinges on the capture of serial killer Aristotle Stoker—and an alliance with a sorcerer known as Asher. The problem: Asher has joined forces with some of the most dangerous creatures Jace has ever encountered. The solution: There is none, without Asher’s help…  Jace’s goal seems simple enough—to get her man, like always. But just hours after she arrives in Vegas, she’s abducted…and she isn’t even sure who the real enemy is. Now Jace has to wonder if she’s the predator or the prey in a very dangerous game that could change not only her fate, but the world’s…Meanwhile, a serial killer is still on the loose. And time has already run out…
	On a Beam of Light by: Dr. Gene Brewer publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, published: 2002-02-18 ASIN: 0312982089 sales rank: 273792 price: $1.00 (new), $0.01 (used)	Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared form the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more sessions with psychiatrist Gene Brewer, prot reveals that he has come back to escort a chosen few to his home planet, K-PAX. K-PAX is an idyllic planet free of the pain and suffering of earth. Prot has incredible insights into how to cure that suffering, and his radical ideas have made him a celebrity. Now, legions of people are longing to follow him home. But Dr. Brewer has heard it before. Five years ago, he discovered another person buried deep in prot's personality: Robert Porter of Montana. The mystery of Robert's illness and of prot's true origins lie deep within Robert's shattered psyche. Now Dr. Brewer must race against the clock to unlock the secrets of Robert's traumatic past and not only save his patient but maybe humanity.
	Dark Aura (A Carla Day Mystery) by: Diana O'Hehir publisher: Berkley Hardcover, published: 2007-12-04 ASIN: B001G8WA3A sales rank: 8015092 price: $2.63 (new), $1.95 (used)	New from the author of the highly acclaimed Murder Never Forgets. With her genre-bending mix of literary and crime fiction, Diana O'Hehir again plots a mystery as intricate as the inner workings of the mind. When an indigo child speaks, people listen. Allegedly radiating an unusual purplish glow, the extraordinary beings are mysterious and otherworldly. And when one of them, fifteen-yearold Tamina Kerry, falls off a ledge to her death, part-time Deputy Sheriff Carla Day investigates. Was her death an accident, suicide-or murder? Carla has experience with those who sometimes fall out of touch with reality, since her father, Professor Day, has early Alzheimer's. Like much of the town of Stanton Mills, California, he had befriended Tamina-but confused her with Ta-Ent, an ancient Egyptian mythical journeywoman among the dead. With her final breath, Tamina spoke of her baby, another indigo child-who had disappeared. Now Carla must rely on the word of a hysterical grandmother and a drug-addled young man claiming to be the baby's father-and search the recesses of her father's fading mind for whatever clues he can provide.
	Journey of the Night by: Ida M. Covi publisher: Synthesis Publications, published: 2003-03 ASIN: 0974000604 sales rank: 10046131 price: $15.95 (new), $10.42 (used)	All Across The Ages... All Around The World... For thousands of years people have asked themselves the deepest questions: Does life have a purpose? How can I make a difference? Where am I going? What ought I do? focusing on the external details of life, it is difficult to find meaning and purpose. The 'ancient wisdom' that leads to this search has been forgotten. How would your life change if a Sage who is the keeper of the 'ancient wisdom' mysteriously appears one day and challenges you to undertake fourteen quests that would lead you to find the 'ancient wisdom' and the way to your life purpose, inner strength, realization of potentials and exciting new possibilities for your life? And The Adventure Begins...
	From Time to Time: The Sequel to Time and Again by: Jack Finney publisher: Simon & Schuster, published: 1995-02-16 ASIN: 0671898841 sales rank: 1297082 price: $2.10 (new), $0.01 (used)	Set 25 years after the events in his "mind-boggling, imagination-stretching" (San Francisco Examiner) Time and Again, the sequel finds Ruben Prien still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to "adjust" events--or, as some might say, to interfere with destiny.