Waiting on Wednesday (27): Trio of Sorcery

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is Trio of Sorcery by Mercedes Lackey.  It's due out on October 26, 2010 from MacMillan / Tor Books.

Book Description

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mercedes Lackey presents three exciting short urban fantasy novels featuring three resourceful heroines and three different takes on the modern world and on magics both modern and ancient.

Arcanum 101: Diana Tregarde, practicing witch, romance novelist, Guardian of the Earth. Studying at Harvard, Diana is approached by Joe O’Brian, a young cop who has already seen more than one unusual thing during his budding career. The distraught mother of a kidnap victim is taking advice from a “psychic” and interfering in the police investigation. Will Diana prove that the psychic is a fake? Unfortunately, the psychic is not a fake, but a very wicked witch—and the child’s kidnapper.

Drums: Jennifer Talldeer, shaman, private investigator, member of the Osage tribe. Most of Jennie’s work is regular PI stuff, but Nathan Begay brings her a problem she’s never seen before. His girlfriend, Caroline, is Chickasaw to his Navaho, but that’s not the problem. Somehow, Caroline has attracted the attention of an angry Osage ghost. Thwarted in love while alive, the ghost has chosen Caroline to be his bride in death.

Ghost in the Machine: Ellen McBridge: computer programmer extraordinaire, techno-shaman. The programmers and players of a new MMORPG find that the game’s “boss,” a wendigo, is “killing” everyone—even the programmers’ characters with their god-like powers. A brilliant debugger, Ellen discoveres that the massive computing power of the game’s servers have created a breach between the supernatural world and our own. This wendigo isn’t a bit of code, it’s the real thing . . . and it’s on the brink of breaking out of the computers and into the real world.

What's your "waiting on" pick this week?

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Teaser Tuesdays (26): Museum of Thieves

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme that was started by MizB from Should Be Reading.

If you would like to participate in Teaser Tuesday, all you have to do is take the book that you are currently reading and open it to any page. Then you choose any two (2) sentences from that page to share with the rest of us!

This weeks teaser comes from page 83 of Museum of Thieves (The Keepers) by Lian Tanner, which is out today, September 18, 2010. 

The last thing she heard before she sank into unconsciousness was the sound of the street-rig rumbling past above her.  The last thing she felt was the hot breath of the brizzlehound on her face...

Leave us a link to your teaser, we'd love to see it!

In My Mailbox (20)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

For Review

Museum of Thieves (The Keepers) by Lian Tanner

Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) - Library Edition by Suzanne Collins

Library Loan

Death's Excellent Vacation

Won

Halo by Alexandra Adornetto

Bought

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World (v. 2) by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness (v. 3) by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Togetherby Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universeby Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hourby Bryan Lee O'Malley

Waiting on Wednesday (26): Autumn

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is Autumn by David Moody.  It's due out October 26, 2010 from MacMillan St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books.

Book Description

A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1... 

Without ever using the 'Z' word, Autumn offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.

What's your "waiting on" pick this week?

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