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October Book Releases, Part 4

October 23, 2008 at 6:00 am
Kelly Cipera
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Here we are folks, the fourth and final installment of what you should be looking forward to seeing on the bookshelves in October.

1) Bourbon Island 1730 by Lewis Trondheim and Olivier Appollodorus

Bourbon Island is going to be released October 28th. It is 1730 when Raphael Pommeroy arrives in the West Indies with his ornithology professor. They’re supposed to be in search of the almost-extinct dodo . . . but Raphael is quickly entranced with the piratical inhabitants of the island, becoming obsessed with their vision of a world where all people are free and equal, regardless of their skin color. Drama unfolds on Bourbon Island as all the inhabitants race to find the treasure secretly cached on their island – and reveal their inner selves in doing so.

2) Tempting The Gods: The Selected Stories Of Tanith Lee Volume One by Tanith Lee

Tempting the Gods will be out on shelves October 29th. A short story collection by the award-winning author of The Birthgrave and The Silver Metal Lover, the first installment of a two-volume series.

3) The Tarot of Perfection: A Book of Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack

The Tarot of Perfection will be coming out October 30th. A collection of wildly vivid tales of tarot, divination, imagination and desire from an award-winning author of fantasy. These stories are by turns profound, touching and outrageously funny. For tarot practitioners, they will also open out new ways of seeing and meditating on the cards, and provide a provocative new fantasy on the origins of the familiar

October 28th Releases:

4) The Folklore of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson

5) Cain’s Last Stand
by Sandy Mitchell

6) Wet Work (The 4400)
by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore

7) Spider-Man: Requiem
by Jeff Mariotte

8) Star Trek (BFI TV Classics)
by Ina Rae Hark

9) Dark Lord: Book One of the Falconfar Saga
by Ed Greenwood

10) BioHell (Combat-K Novels)
by Andy Remic

October 29th Releases:

11) Robert E. Howard’s A Thunder Of Trumpets
by Robert E. Howard

12) A Gathering of Doorways
by Michael Jasper

October 31st Releases:

13) The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith
by Clark Ashton Smith

14) Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction
by William H. Katerberg

15) Brimstone Kiss: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator
by Carole Nelson Douglas

16) Backup
by Jim Butcher and Mike Mignola

17) Stonefather
by Orson Scott Card

18) The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
by Barry Hughart

19) The Best of Michael Swanwick
by Michael Swanwick

Andy Remic, Barry Hughart, books-, Carole Nelson Douglas, Clark Ashton Smith, Dayton Ward, Ed Greenwood, Ina Rae Hark, Jacqueline Simpson, Jeff Mariotte, Jim Butcher, Kevin Dilmore, Louis Trondheim, Michael Jasper, Michael Swanwick, Mike Mignola, new releases, Olivier Appollodorus, Orson Scott Card, Rachel Pollack, Robert E. Howard, Sandy Mitchell, Tanith Lee, Terry Pratchett, William H. Katerberg

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About the Author
Kelly Cipera has been a bookworm from a very early age, discovering the fantasy genre in the 7th grade by reading The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey during an English class. After that it was too late; science fiction and fantasy became insatiable habits helped along by her father. Married to a rocket scientist, she now lives in Virginia and continues to read voraciously.
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