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Dearly, Departed<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Love can never die.<\/p>\n Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid\u2019s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead\u2014or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? <\/p>\n The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria\u2014a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country\u2019s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible\u2014until she\u2019s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. <\/p>\n But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she\u2019s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting \u201cThe Laz,\u201d a fatal virus that raises the dead\u2014and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there\u2019s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.<\/p>\n In Dearly, Departed<\/span>, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.<\/p>\n \n Resistance: A Hole in the Sky<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n \nThe official prequel to the blockbuster videogame Resistance 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n America. July 1953.<\/p>\n In this official prequel to Resistance 3<\/span>, prospects are not looking up for planet Earth or Lieutenant Joseph Capelli. With the Chimera invasion in full swing, America has crumbled under the fierce alien juggernaut, its defenses overrun, millions dead, the rest left to fend for themselves. Many try to avoid the alien virus that turns humans into Chimeran killing machines.<\/p>\n Capelli may be a pariah to the army for killing hero Nathan Hale, but he is still a patriot fighting to save the country and its citizens. However, some soldiers are ready to shoot him on sight\u2014not to mention that Hale\u2019s beautiful sister has every reason in the world to want him stone dead. But Capelli\u2019s used to being in dangerous situations and taking crazy risks. And the next move he intends to make is pure suicide.<\/p>\n \n Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n How long can the Jedi remain in power? As Luke and Ben Skywalker pursue the formidable dark-side being Abeloth, the Lost Tribe of the Sith is about to be sundered by an even greater power\u2014which will thrust one Dark Lord into mortal conflict with his own flesh-and-blood.<\/p>\n On Coruscant, a political vacuum has left tensions at the boiling point, with factions racing to claim control of the Galactic Alliance. Suddenly surrounded by hidden agendas, treacherous conspiracies, and covert Sith agents, the Jedi Order must struggle to keep the GA government from collapsing into anarchy.<\/p>\n The Jedi are committed to maintaining peace and ensuring just rule, but even they are not prepared to take on the combined threats of Sith power, a deposed dictator bent on galaxywide vengeance, and an entity of pure cunning and profound evil hungry to become a god.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel Promo copy: Love can never die. Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid\u2019s arrow pierce the hearts of the living … Continue reading
\nby Lia Habel<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/519REgphg4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby William C. Dietz<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/519RnNkaTkL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Christie Golden
\nCover by Ian Keltie<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nHow far will the Sith go to rule supreme?
\nWhat chance do both stand against Abeloth?<\/p>\n