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<\/a><\/p>\nDearly, Departed<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n 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 mores of an antique era. Sixteen-year-old Nora Dearly is far more interested in her country\u2019s political unrest than in silly debutante balls. But the death of her beloved parents leaves Nora at the mercy of a social-climbing aunt who plans to marry off her niece for money. To Nora, no fate could be more horrible\u2014until she\u2019s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. Now she\u2019s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting a fatal virus that raises the dead. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble … and thoroughly deceased. But like the rest of his special undead unit, Bram has been enabled by luck and modern science 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 \n Blades of Winter<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n In one of the most exciting debuts in years, G. T. Almasi has fused the intricate cat-and-mouse games of a John le Carr\u00e9 novel with the brash style of comic book superheroes to create a kick-ass alternate history that reimagines the Cold War as a clash of spies with biological, chemical, and technological enhancements.<\/p>\n Nineteen-year-old Alix Nico, a self-described \u201cmillion-dollar murder machine,\u201d is a rising star in ExOps, a covert-action agency that aggressively shields the United States from its three great enemies: the Soviet Union, Greater Germany, and the Nationalist Republic of China. Rather than risk another all-out war, the four superpowers have poured their resources into creating superspies known as Levels.<\/p>\n Alix is one of the hottest young American Levels. That\u2019s no surprise: Her dad was America\u2019s top Level before he was captured and killed eight years ago. But when an impulsive decision explodes\u2014literally\u2014in her face, Alix uncovers a conspiracy that pushes her to her limits and could upset the global balance of power forever.<\/p>\n \n Coup d\u2019Etat (The War That Came Early, Book Four)<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels\u2014and so does a different World War II.<\/p>\n In Harry Turtledove\u2019s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin\u2019s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.<\/p>\n England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan\u2014and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country\u2019s imagination?<\/p>\n Coup d\u2019Etat<\/span> captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany\u2019s Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler\u2019s fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world\u2014and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.<\/p>\n With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies\u2014and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.<\/p>\n \nPart II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Books received 8\/21\/2012 Del Rey edition Part I<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/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 Cover by David Stevenson Promo copy: CAN A PROPER YOUNG VICTORIAN LADY FIND TRUE LOVE IN THE ARMS OF A DASHING ZOMBIE? … Continue reading
\nby Lia Habel
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\nby G. T. Almasi
\nCover by Tony Mauro<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51BrcsjoheL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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\nby Harry Turtledove
\nCover by Mike Bryan<\/span><\/p>\n