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Volume Three is also on sale at Kobo US and Partners22 discount code wooks with it. So between my VIP and Partners22 picked it up for $1.07. Already had volumes 1 and 2.

bernie

Originally Posted by bookmarked

Thieves' World Volume Three: The Dead of Winter, Soul of the City, and Blood Ties by Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey is on sale for $1.99.

This is the third omnibus of the Thieves' World novels. The fourth omnibus is also available now, but not on sale.

Thieves' World Volume Two: Storm Season, The Face of Chaos, and Wings of Omen is also on sale again for $2.99.

[GlennD]

Originally Posted by bookmarked

Thieves' World Volume Three: The Dead of Winter, Soul of the City, and Blood Ties by Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey is on sale for $1.99.

This is the third omnibus of the Thieves' World novels. The fourth omnibus is also available now, but not on sale.

Thieves' World Volume Two: Storm Season, The Face of Chaos, and Wings of Omen is also on sale again for $2.99.

Thank you for these! I nearly passed them by until I realized they are omnibuses; I have the first 6 books as individual files.

[ZodWallop]

Richter 10 by Arthur C. Clarke and Mike McQuay is $1.99 at Amazon US.

When he was seven years old, Lewis Crane survived the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994—but his parents did not. Haunted by the tragedy, Crane has dedicated his life to protecting humanity from similar disasters. Now he is a Nobel Prize–winning earthquake scientist who perfected equipment sensitive enough to predict an earthquake strike down to the minute. And he wants to go further.

Crane has formed an organization to explore the idea of stopping earthquakes entirely by fusing the Earth’s tectonic plates together. But what effect will this have on the earth? And as political unrest causes tremors of another kind, can Crane’s audacious plan stop another major earthquake due to hit the United States?

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Cross-posted to Horror thread.

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is $3 on Amazon.com

A gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

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Elantris by Brandon Sanderson is $3 on Amazon.com
Sanderson's first published novel.

Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.

Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping—based on their correspondence—to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.

But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire is $3 on Amazon.com
This is the sequel to Middlegame.

Willful Child by Steven Erikson is $3 on Amazon.com
A parody of Star Trek.

These are the voyages of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life-forms, to boldly blow the...

And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through ‘the infinite vastness of interstellar space.'

[Tarana]

from Salty-Horse: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson is $3 on Amazon.com
Sanderson's first published novel.

Excellent fantasy and I'm not really a fan of the genre. Standalone novel even though he later wrote a follow up.

A Catalogue of Catastrophe (Chronicles of St Mary's 13) by Jodi Taylor $.99 Amazon, Kobo
Scifi time travel, history, thriller series

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Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus is $3 on Amazon.com
First in a trilogy. New release. Was on my wishlist.

Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire – a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original earth) to Titan – as it faces an escalating series of threats.

"The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." - West African Proverb

The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan.

With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. But the old powers could not allow them to thrive and have now set in motion new plots to destroy all that they've built.

In the fire to come they will face down their greatest struggle yet.

Amachi Adisa and other young leaders will contend with each other for the power to galvanize their people and chart the next course for the empire.

Fela Buhari and her elite unit will take the fight to regions not seen by human eyes, but no training will be enough to bring them all home.

Stacia Chikeke, captain of the starship Cypher, will face down enemies across the stars, and within her own vessel, as she searches for the answers that could save them all.

The only way is forward.

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Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds is $2 on Amazon.com
A collection of stories set in the Revelation Space universe.

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Aurora Rising (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies #1) by Alastair Reynolds is $2 on Amazon.com

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.
His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter -- a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.

How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege #2) by K. J. Parker is $2 on Amazon.com
The follow up to Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, but familiarity with it is not required.

The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor, and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he's not working. Thankfully, it turns out that people enjoy the theater just as much when there are big rocks falling out of the sky.
But Notker is a man of many talents, and all the world is, apparently, a stage. It seems that the empire needs him -- or someone who looks a lot like him -- for a role that will call for the performance of a lifetime. At least it will guarantee fame, fortune, and immortality. If it doesn't kill him first.

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Not a deal, but a library-related event for a book I was waiting to read.
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger is part of the Big Library Read event this month (November 2–16)
This means that the book has unlimited checkouts through the Libby and Sora library apps.
If you don't yet have a library card, contact your local library to get access to the website/apps.

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.

[Tarana]

Stardust By Neil Gaiman $2.99 Amazon, Kobo, B&N
Fantasy

[ZodWallop]

Anyone read James Blaylock? I got interested in him when I read he is as inspired by The Wind in the Willows as he is The Lord of the Rings. So his fantasy novels are whimsical and light-hearted.

He has a couple of books on sale, both first in a trilogy. I don't like the new ebook covers as much as the old paperbacks. But that is easy to fix.

The Elfin Ship is $1.99

Trading with the elves used to be so simple. Every year Master Cheeser Jonathan Bing would send his very best cheeses downriver to traders who would eventually return with Elfin wonders for the people of Twombly Town.

But no more . . .

First, the trading post at Willowood Station was mysteriously destroyed. Then, a magical elfin airship began making forays overhead. Something was definitely amiss.

So Jonathan set off downriver to deliver the cheeses himself, accompanied by the amazing Professor Wurzle, the irrepressible Dooly, and his faithful dog Ahab. It would have been such a pleasant trip, if not for the weeping skeleton, mad goblins, magic coins, an evil dwarf, a cloak of invisibility—and a watch that stopped time.

If only the return trip were so simple.

The third book, The Stone Giant is also $1.99 right now.

The Last Coin is $1.99

The price of immortality...

Two thousand years ago, there lived a man who sold some valuable information for a fee of thirty silver coins. His name was Judas Iscariot, and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still exist—and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them . . .

Like Andrew Vanbergen, whose attempts at innkeeping bring in stranger business than he ever expected.

And Aunt Naomi, whose most prized family heirloom is a silver spoon—with a curiously ancient-looking engraving.

And especially old Mr. Pennyman, who is only five silver coins short of immortality...

The description sounds serious, but this is also a comedic story.

[Dr. Drib]

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Those new covers are horrible!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

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Those new covers are horrible!

Yeah, the originals are better:

[ZodWallop]

Stardust by Neil Gaiman is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.