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Bargain book (US Store) - discounted to <$2.00 (Mostly fantasy)

Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart ($1.35) - Family drama

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Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in the road.

Eighteen years later, Bandy's son -- a stranger bearing his name -- returns to the town, where the memory of his father's crime still hangs thick. When an accident brings the family -- paroled father, widowed mother, injured son -- back together, the three must confront their past, and struggle against their fate.

Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the mud, ice, and rock of the raw Idaho landscape, Then Came the Evening is tautly plotted and emotionally complex -- a stunning debut.

A. D. 62: Pompeii, a novel by Rebecca East ($1.79) - Time travel / Romance

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A stranded time traveler, Miranda, becomes a household slave in Pompeii. Her experiences provide an "Upstairs/ Downstairs" look at family life in the ancient world. She seeks freedom and love through storytelling; her stories enable her to comment on injustice and also to predict and influence events. She becomes intimately involved with the master and his daughter, but household rivalries lead to conflict and danger.

This is a tender love story that brings together intelligent and sensitive people from different worlds; it brings the vanished city of Pompeii back to life through vivid and accurate historical details. See the web site at http://www.rebecca-east.com for images from ancient art that inspired descriptions of characters, settings, and artifacts.

Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott ($1.99) Fantasy

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An intricate web of stories weave together to tell a tale of revenge, justice, ambition, and power. Zhan has been sent to find her grandfather, a man accused of killing not only Zhan's family, but every man, woman, and child in their village. What she finds is a shell of a man, and a web of deceit that will test the very foundations of a world she thought she understood.

A tale of revenge that grows into something more, Last Dragon is a literary fantasy novel in the tradition of Gene Wolf and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. J.M. McDermott brings the fantasy genre to new literary heights with a remarkable first novel that will leave critics and readers alike in stunned awe.

Landmoor by Jeff Wheeler ($1.99) Fantasy

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The warding has failed, and a powerful ancient magic is disturbed -- the Everoot.

Thealos Quickfellow, a Shae from the kingdom of Avisahn, has left his homeland to learn first hand of the threat of the Bandit Rebellion. His life is forever changed when he meets the mysterious Sleepwalker known as Jaerod. For Thealos himself is one of the keys that can open a door to a Silvan artifact which can tame the forbidden side of the Everoot.

As the valley of the kingdoms of Dos-Aralon and Avisahn grows weaker and weaker, the cruel Bandit Rebellion prepares to claim a stronghold in the south. There they will launch a new war by using the Everoot and its power to heal or destroy. Thealos and Jaerod must defy the powers of men, Shae, and other foes to reach the place where the conflict will begin - and where the dangerous Everoot is being harvested. A fortress called Landmoor.

The White Shadow Saga: The Stolen Moon of Londor by A. P. Stephens ($1.99) Fantasy

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The era of peace among the elves, men, and dwarves comes to an end when one of Londor's twin moons disappears from the heavens...Without the moon's balancing effect, evil forces grow bold, and warfare, sickness, and chaos threaten life itself.

Hearing the prayers of desperation that ride on the violent winds, the ancient wizard Randor Miithra, servant to the elf-gods, takes it upon himself to mend the world he has sworn to protect. The task will not be an easy one, though, for the wizard, too, has begun to feel the effects of the world's imbalance. As Randor struggles to maintain some semblance of his powers, he meets a secretive band of colorful characters from all walks of life, drawn together by a common goal: to find the stolen moon, whatever the cost. It does not take Randor and his motley company long to see that someone or something does not want the moon returned to the heavens.

The road is perilous...the stakes have never been greater...will they find victory…or will they only find their deaths?

Wysard (The Ryel Saga duology, Part One) by Carolyn Kephart ($1.99) Fantasy

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Lord Adept Ryel Mirai leaves the great Art-citadel Markul to rediscover the long-lost spell that will release his mentor from the wraithworld of the Void, but a malignant sorcerer likewise imprisoned has enlisted the aid of Ryel's strongest rival to find the spell first.

Amid dangers, joys and temptations, Ryel discovers unlikely allies to help him in his quest, and learns that he may well gain all that he wishes...although perhaps not as he wished it.

Lord Brother (The Ryel Saga duology, Part Two) by Carolyn Kephart ($1.99) Fantasy

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Ryel Mirai, Steppes warrior, Lord Adept of the great wysard-citadel Markul and blood-kin to the ruling house of great Destimar, continues his search for the lost spell capable of re-joining body to soul. But he has a rival in his quest: Michael Essern, high-blooded, proud, and greatest of Markul's rival city Elecambron. Ryel is inexorably compelled Northward, and becomes dangerously involved with Michael's brother the Count Palatine Yvain, likewise a Red Essern in whose blood runs daimon-bane, and Commander of the Sword Brotherhood, a cult sworn to the Goddess of War.

The wysard finds answers to many mysteries; but war ravages Almancar, now embroiled in a reign of terror. Far off in Markul's tower of the dead, Edris' body awaits its rai - its imperishable life essence - that will be re-instilled by the joining-spell; but can that spell be found? And if found, put in the right hands? And once there, be made to succeed? Or will the victory go to Michael - Ryel's cruel rival, and Lord Brother?