Called to New Mexico by an old friend, vampire hunter Anita Blake gets involved in a strange serial murder investigation, complete with sexually disfigured, flayed bodies. This ninth book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.

Despite rebuffing attempts to get him to join the family business and generally disassociating himself from his relatives, Daryn Alwyn finds the target of what appear to be corporate assassins gunning for his family. And when he becomes the sole beneficiary after his fabulously wealthy (and powerful) sister is murdered, things go from bad to worse.

This is the second volume of the second trilogy, or, more simply, the fifth book in the epic fantasy series the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Thomas Covenant, the past savior of the Land, and Dr. Linden Avery, who seems destined to be the Land's next savior, sail with the Giants through various dangers. Their destination is the location of the One Tree, from which Covenant hopes to craft a new Staff of Law, a magical talisman essential to confronting the evil Lord Foul and healing the Land's corruption. Meanwhile, venom from various attacks by Ravers (Lord Foul's minions) continues to course through Covenant's body, interfering with his ability to control the wild magic of his white gold wedding ring.

A nominee for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award.

Seth Kantner, who himself grew up in a sod igloo in Alaska, writes his first novel about a boy with a similar background. Cutuk's father, a white man from Chicago, fell in love with the region on a visit and remained there with his wife to raise a family, living off the land. Cutuk's mother, disillusioned with the rigors of their life, has been gone for years, and now his siblings are forsaking their heritage as well: his brother moves away, and his sister goes off to college to become a teacher. Cutuk is coming of age, and must decide what he wants from life. Part of his dilemma is that he is a white in a native Alaskan culture, to which he feels both lifelong ties and an inescapable alienation--and he experiences painful instances of discrimination from the Native Americans. In Cutuk's attempts to reconcile his love of the land with his attraction to the city--including some humorous instances of culture shock--Kantner has written not only an absorbing story of a young man growing up in a challenging environment, but a probing look at the effects of modernity on the vanishing natural landscape and its people.

The first entry in the five book "Dark is Rising" series that also includes"The Dark is Rising," "Greenwitch," "The Grey King," and "Silver on the Tree." Barney, Simon, and Jane--the Drew siblings--find an ancient map that sets them off on a quest to discover ancient treasures linked to King Arthur. As danger begin to befall the trio, they become convinced that the local Vicar and his sister are somehow involved. Will their Great-Uncle Merry, a scholar of ancient lore, be able to protect them?