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New Books This Week #1: New Releases for the Week of February 23, 2009
Check out what's new in bookstores this week!* The following is just a sampling, in no particular order, of new and notable titles from across the genre. What new books are going to make it to your reading list? Share with us in the forums.

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente. In the first follow-up to her World Fantasy Award winning duology The Orphan’s Tale, Valente brings us to Palimpsest, a sexually transmitted city. Bantam Spectra. ISBN-13: 978-0553385762.

The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling. Four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius are ensconced on an orbiting space station above a dystopian future earth. Del Rey. ISBN-13: 978-0345460622.

White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison. The next adventure with bounty-hunting witch Rachel Morgan. EOS Books. ISBN-13: 978-0061138010.

Jailbait Zombie by Mario Acevedo. It was inevitable: vampires versus zombies, round one. EOS Books.

Road Trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry. A follow up to last year’s Happy Hour of the Damned. Pyr. ISBN-13: 978-1591026990.

The Magician’s Apprentice by Trudi Canavan. A prequel to her well-received debut series, The Black Magician Trilogy. Orbit. ISBN-13: 978-0316037884

City Without End by Kay Kenyon. The conclusion of Kenyon’s SF trilogy the Entire and the Rose. Pyr ISBN-13: 978-1591026983.

Spell Games by T.A. Pratt. Maria, Felport’s Chief Sorcerer, goes up against “a reclusive sorcerer whose devotion to the mushroom god and command of vegetal magic could bring a fungal apocalypse.” Sounds like fun! Bantam Spectra ISBN-13: 978-0553591361

Death’s Daughter by Amber Benson. Benson, who played Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ventures into publishing with this first book in a series about Calliope Reaper-Jones. Ace. ISBN-13: 978-0441016945.

Black Blook by John Meaney. Meaney’s been called one of the most important SF writers of the new century, and this book is described as a futuristic noir and gothic fantasy thriller – a little something for everyone? Bantam Spectra. ISBN-13: 978-0553806717.

*Dates based on information from Amazon.com.

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New Books This Week #1
New Releases for the Week of February 23, 2009
2009-02-23

by Stace Dumoski

Hot titles this week include new books from Kim Harrison, Bruce Sterling and Kay Kenyon

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