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Stealing Light
Gary Gibson

In the 25th century, only the Shoal possess the secret of faster-than-light travel (FTL), giving them absolute control over all trade and exploration throughout the galaxy. Mankind has operated within their influence for two centuries, establishing a dozen human colony worlds scattered along Shoal trade routes. Dakota Merrick, while serving as a military pilot, has witnessed atrocities for which this alien race is responsible. Now piloting a civilian cargo ship, she is currently ferrying an exploration team to a star system containing a derelict starship. From its wreckage, her passengers hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of mysteriously non-Shoal origin. But the Shoal are not yet ready to relinquish their monopoly over a technology they acquired through ancient genocide.

Multireal
Jump 225 Trilogy #2
David Louis Edelman

Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from within. As black code continues to eat away at Natch's sanity, he faces a mutiny from his own apprentices, a legal onslaught from the government, and the return of enemies old and new.In desperation, the entrepreneur turns to some unlikely allies: a radical politician with an agenda of his own, and a childhood enemy to whom he has done a terrible wrong.

Principles of Angels
Jaine Fenn
Khesh City floats above the surface of the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. Topside, it's extravagant, opulent, luxurious; the Undertow is dark, twisted and dangerous. Khesh City is a place where nothing is forbidden - but it's also a democracy, of sorts, a democracy by assassination, policed by the Angels, the elite, state-sponsored killers who answer only to the Minister, their enigmatic master. Taro lived with Malia, his Angel aunt, one of the privileged few, until a strange man bought his body for the night, then followed him home and murdered Malia in cold blood. Taro wants to find the killer who ruined his future, but he's struggling just to survive in the brutal world of the Undertow. Then an encounter with the Minister sets him on a new course, spying for the City; his target is a reclusive Angel called Nual.

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Breaking Dawn
Twilight #4
Stephenie Meyer

Highly anticipated, Breaking Dawn is literally a matter of life or death. Meyer fans love the intense, almost obsessive nature of Bella's love for Edward. Life or Death, which will Bella chose?


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Ranger's Apprentice 8:
The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan

Due to be published on November 3 2008.
Hibernia is in turmoil. A religious cult calling themselves the Outsiders are sowing confusion and sedition, and five of the six Hibernian kingdoms have been undermined. Now the sixth, Clonmel, is in danger. Halt, Will and Horace set out to restore order. Can the secrets of Halt's past help them in their mission?

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Fave Rave (Reviewed by Mark)
Storm Dragon
Mark Wyatt
The Prophecies were old when humans first began to forge their civilisation. Said to give meaning to the past, guidance to the present and to predict the future- a future of the world's remaking- a future in which Gaven d'Lyrander has unwillingly become the most important player.
Scion to one of the great Dragonmark Houses, whose heirs have the chance to manifest a dragon-like birthmark of great power at puberty, Gaven spent most of his time exploring dark caves looking for valuable dragonshards in the depths of the earth. But in one dragonshard he found more then he or his House were looking for and it invaded his mind, filling him with the most intimate knowledge of the Prophecies a human had ever held. His resulting delirium escalated to all-out madness, and his ravings lead to exile from his House and a life sentence in the island prison of Dreadhold, where he manifested the highest and rarest potential of all Dragonmark Houses, a Siberys Mark.
While Gaven is all but lost in his own mind, a daring rescue springs both himself and his cell neighbour out to a higher calling. Now on the run, the verses of the Prophecies begin to find fulfilment and sanity begins to reclaim its hold on Gaven's mind. Now he must try to make sense of the visions that plague him waking and sleeping, and figure out the true intentions of his so called 'rescuers'. For Haldren, a general from the Last War and Gaven's former inmate, has joined forces with a Dragon who wishes to use the draconic prophecy to attain godhood.
The world of Eberron has been overlooked by most as just another generic medieval fantasy world made for players of Dungeons & Dragons. More...

Fave Rave (Reviewed by Steph)
The Witching Hour
Mayfair Witches #1

Neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair unknowingly comes from an ancient family of witches (going back generations) whom have been both protected and haunted by an almost god-like figure named Lasher. Each generation, one witch takes Lasher's powers and they either thrive or are driven insane, depending on whether they are in control of Lasher, or he is in control of them. Rowan's mother was one of these witches and she is catatonic because of her madness. For her own protection, as a small child Rowan was taken from the tight knit family group in New Orleans, adopted out and made a life of her own in San Francisco. Rowan feels she has a special gift to heal patients at an almost cellular level, but after some of those patients died she worries that she also brings death. Then, when she is out sailing she rescues a drowning man, Michael Curry. They return to their own lives, but Michael is a changed man- he has a psychic power now that he didn't have before. He withdraws from everything, hiding in his home until one day he is given a file that is essentially the history of the Mayfair family by the current head of a secret organisation called the Talamasca who observe and record them. He is told that Rowan is the current heir of the family, but that she is completely unaware of this. Haunted by dreams and half memories he heads to his hometown of New Orleans, eventually finds Rowan, and their romance begins. Rowan is the strongest Mayfair witch to have been born (due basically to selective breeding and incest) and with the death of her mother she is supposed to be the next link with Lasher- who wants physical form and has special plans for her. Their meeting was no coincidence and Michael is required for Lasher's plans to come to fruitition. More...