Halo is one of the most popular and hugely successful video game franchises in history! With this newly updated and comprehensive Halo Encyclopedia, now with sixteen pages of brand-new content including Halo’s newest game, Halo: Reach, both new and pro gamers can learn everything they ever wanted to know about Master Chief and the Halo universe.

Everything that is Halo is now at your fingertips!  370 Page Hardcover Mk1 Price $69.90

Shipment List:

Halo

• Halo CONTACT HARVEST by Joseph Staten $21.90
• Halo CRYPTUM the Forerunner Saga by Greg Bear $39.90
• Halo Slipcase Trilogy Contact Harvest, Cole Protocolm Ghosts of Onyx $59.90
• Halo The FALL OF REACH the Definitive Edition by Eric Nyland $21.90
• In Halo FIRST STRIKE Definitive Edition By Eric Nyland $29.90

More Tie In Titles!

• Assassin’s Creed RENAISSANCE by Oliver Bowden $23.90
• Mass Effect REVELATION  By Drew Karpyshyn $21.90
• World of Warcraft CHRONICLES OF WAR $49.90
• World of Warcraft STORMRAGE by Richard A Knaak $21.90
• World of Warcraft THE SHATTERING by Christie Golden $21.90

A Time of Legends Novel by Mike Lee Mk1 Price $22.50

In the tunnels of Nagashizzar, a new threat to the realm of the undead is rising. Nagash must call upon all his reserves of power to defeat the skaven assault and continue his unholy reign. But when Nagash realises he can use his enemy for his own nefarious needs, an uneasy alliance is struck and a vast, nightmarish army is formed. The necromancer launches his final attack on the lands of Nehekhara, sweeping all before him. Only one man dare stand in his way – Alcadizzar, a peerless warrior and the leader of a defiant force. Their confrontation will not just decide the fate of Nehekhara, but of all the Old World.

Links: Read an extract here Author’s mini site

Other Black Library Arrivals: 40K Imperial Glory by Richard Williams $22.50 and Audio Drama The Madness Within by Steve Lyons $28.50

Gauntlgrym

When one of his oldest friends, Bruenor Battlehammer, chooses to spend his final days searching for the fabled dwarf kingdom of Gauntlgrym, Drizzt readily agrees. But before Drizzt and Bruenor even get close to finding the lost city, the dwarf assassin Athrogate, black-widow elf Dahlia, and Drizzt’s old nemesis Jarlaxle stumble upon it first. In their search for riches and magic, the three treasure hunters inadvertently set into motion a catastrophe that could spell disaster for the unsuspecting people of the city of Neverwinter—a catastrophe big enough to set even the mercenary Jarlaxle into risking his own coin and skin to stop it. Unfortunately, the more they uncover about the secret of Gauntlgrym, the more it looks like they can’t stop the impending disaster on their own. They’ll need help, and from the last people they ever thought to fight alongside again: Drizzt and Bruenor.

Drizzt joins these new companions with a conflicted heart. The promise of adventure appeals to a primal part of him. But his lust for battle is growing stronger. Is he really is no different from any other dark elf? If he loses the last of his trusted companions, will his drow nature claim him at last? Will his new companions lead him into temptation or deliver him from his darkest desires?

Big Book delivery unpacked this weekend – the following is a list of fresh arrivals – use the contact form below to request a current stock report for a specific grouping.

Warhammer 40K Novels

• Bastion Wars FLESH AND IRON by Henry Zou $22.90
• Horus Heresy AGE OF DARKNESS  $22.90
• Horus Heresy book 2 FALSE GODS by Graham McNeill $22.90
• Horus Heresy book 3 GALAXY IN FLAMES by Ben Counter $22.90
• Horus Heresy Book 09 Mechanicum by Graham McNeill, $22.50
• Imperial Guard DEAD MEN WALKING by Steve Lyons $22.90
• Night Lords novel BLOOD REAVER by Aaron Dembski-Bowden $22.90
• Omnibus Ciaphas Cain DEFENDER OF THE IMPERIUM by Sandy Mitchell $
• Omnibus Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM by Sandy Mitchell $35.90
• Path of the Warrior by Gav Thorpe $22.90
• Space Marine Battles FALL OF DAMNOS by Nick Kyme $25.90
• Space Marines Battles RYNN’S WORLD by Steve Parker $25.90
• Tome of Fire FIREDRAKE by Nick Kyme $22.90
• Tome of Fire SALAMANDER by Nick Kyme $21.90
• Ultramarines KILLING GROUND by Graham McNeill $22.90
• Anthology VICTORIES OF THE SPACE MARINES by Christian Dunn $22.90
• Anthology LEGENDS OF THE SPACE MARINES $22.90
• White Scars Novel SAVAGE SCARS by Any Hoare $22.90
• Omnibus SPACE WOLF by William King $35.90
• Omnibus SPACE WOLF THE SECOND OMNIBUS by William King & Lee Lightner, $35.90

Warhammer Novels

• Omnibus Chronicles of Malus Darkblade Volume 02, $30.90
• Empire the Legend of Sigmar – time of legends novel $22.90
• Omnibus KNIGHTS OF BRETONNIA  by Anthony Reynolds $35.90
• Omnibus The First GOTREK & FELIX OMNIBUS by William King $35.90

• The Lost Chronicles volume 1 DRAGONS OF THE DWARVEN DEPTHS $21.90
• The Lost Chronicles volume 2 DRAGONS OF THE HIGHLORD SKIES $21.90
• The Lost Chronicles volume 3 DRAGONS OF THE HOURGLASS MAGE $21.90

Art Books

• Favole Book 1 Stone Tears by Victoria Frances $39.90
• Favole book 2 Set Me Free by Victoria Frances $39.90
• Favole Book 3 Frozen Light by Victoria Frances $39.90
• MANGA FOR BEGINNER SHOUJO  $49.90

• ELMINSTER MUST DIE by Ed Greenwood $21.90
• Hunter’s Blade Book 3 The TWO SWORDS by RA Salvatore $21.90
• Neverwinter Book 1 GAUNTLGRYM by RA Salvatore $21.90
• Neverwinter Book 1 GAUNTLGRYM HARDCOVER by RA Salvatore $59.90
• Omnibus The EMPYREAN ODYSSEY $35.90
• Omnibus THE SELLSWORDS by RA Salvatore $39.90
• Transitions Book 3 The GHOST KING by RA Salvatore $21.90
• Transitions Book 2 The PIRATE KING by RA Salvatore $21.90

Graphic Novels

• JUDGE DREDD Complete Case Files Volume 03 $45.90
• Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files volume 02 $59.90
• The Crow $45.90
• XIII: The Day of the Black Sun $25.90

• Mass Effect RETRIBUTION by Drew Karpyshyn $21.90
• Halo GHOSTS OF ONYX by Eric Nyland $21.90
• Halo THE COLE PROTOCOL by Tomias Buckell $21.90
• World of Warcraft THE SHATTERING by Christie Golden $21.90

• ELANTRIS by Brandon Sanderson $21.90
• FRAGILE THINGS By Neil Gaiman $21.90
• Game of Thrones A CLASH OF KINGS by George RR Martin $21.90
• Game of Thrones A FEAST FOR CROWS by George RR Martin $21.90
• Game of Thrones by George RR Martin $21.90
• Game of Thrones STORM OF SWORDS $21.90
• Malazan Book of the Fallen DEADHOUSE GATES by Steven Erikson $23.90
• Mistborn MISTBORN by Brandon Sanderson $21.90
• Mistborn THE WELL OF ASCENSION by Brandon Sanderson $21.90
• Riftwar A DARKNESS AT SETHANON by Raymond E Feist $21.90
• Riftwar SILVERTHORN by Raymond E Feist $21.90
• Neil Gaiman AMERICAN GODS $21.90

STAR WARS

• Solo Command (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 7) $21.90
• DARK LORD the RISE OF DARTH VADER $21.90
• Dark Nest Book 3 The Swarm War by Troy Denning $21.90
• Darth Bane DYNASTY OF EVIL by Drew Karpyshyn $21.90
• Darth Bane PATH OF DESTRUCTION by Drew Karpyshyn $21.90
• Darth Bane RULE OF TWO by Drew Karpyshyn $21.90
• DEATH TROOPERS by Joe Schreiber $21.90
• Fate of the Jedi ALLIES  $21.90
• Fate of the Jedi BACKLASH $21.90
• Imperial Comando 501st by Karen Traviss $21.90
• KNIGHT ERRANT Mk1 Price $21.90
• LUKE SKYWALKER and the SHADOWS OF MINDOR by Matthew Stover $21.90
• New Jedi Order JEDI ECLIPSE $21.90
• Old Republic FATAL ALLIANCE by Sean Williams $21.90
• Old Republic DECEIVED hardcover $59.90
• THE FORCE UNLEASHED by Sean Williams $21.90
• New Jedi Order VECTOR PRIME by RA Salvatore $21.90

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/july-book-shipment/feed/ 1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/joe-hill-joins-the-ranks-of-mk1-favourite-writers/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/joe-hill-joins-the-ranks-of-mk1-favourite-writers/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:06:42 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=1057

Joe Hill’s critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Award—and whose emotionally powerful and  macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, “wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty…a Valentine from hell.”

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.  Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It’s time for a little revenge. . . . It’s time the devil had his due. . . . 370 page Hardcover Novel Mk1 Price $49.90

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman’s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can’t help but reach for his wallet.

I will “sell” my stepfather’s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .

For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man’s suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn’t afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts—of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What’s one more?

But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. It’s the real thing.

And suddenly the suit’s previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude’s restored vintage Mustang . . . standing outside his window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting—with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .

A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.  384 Page Softcover Novel Mk1 Price $29.90

“A major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction.” —Washington Post

The Way of Shadows Book 1 of the Night Angel Trilogy

by Brent Weeks.

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly — and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins’ world of dangerous politics and strange magics — and cultivate a flair for death.

677 Page softcover Mk1 Price $19.90

Night Angel Trilogy

• BEYOND THE SHADOWS $19.90

• SHADOWS EDGE $19.90

• WAY OF SHADOWS $19.90

I can trace the path of recent great fantasy finds from chats with customers about their favourite reads.  In this case a recommendation from me of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones novels was swapped for a glowing review of  Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy.  Scott Lynch’s very, very cool Lies of Locke Lamora led to Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.   Where did I go to after that?… I found Brent Weeks’ Night Angel trilogy all by myself… I’ve loosely grouped these author’s under the “MK1 favourite Writers” banner – and have created a tag declaring such.  So where to next?  By my workings it’s your turn – suggestions please..

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Book I of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence

The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a ghost that walks through walls. Half the city believes him to be a legendary champion of the poor. The other half believe him to be a foolish myth. Nobody has it quite right.

Slightly built, unlucky in love, and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. He certainly didn’t invite the rumors that swirl around his exploits, which are actually confidence games of the most intricate sort. And while Locke does indeed steal from the rich (who else, pray tell, would be worth stealing from?), the poor never see a penny of it. All of Locke’s gains are strictly for himself and his tight-knit band of thieves, the Gentlemen Bastards.

Locke and company are con artists in an age where con artistry, as we understand it, is a new and unknown style of crime. The less attention anyone pays to them, the better! But a deadly mystery has begun to haunt the ancient city of Camorr, and a clandestine war is threatening to tear the city’s underworld, the only home the Gentlemen Bastards have ever known, to bloody shreds. Caught up in a murderous game, Locke and his friends will find both their loyalty and their ingenuity tested to the breaking point as they struggle to stay alive… Mk1 Price $19.90 720 page softcover paperback

I can trace the path of recent great fantasy finds from chats with customers about their favourite reads.  In this case a recommendation from me of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones novels was swapped for a glowing review of  Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy.  Scott Lynch’s very, very cool Lies of Locke Lamora led to Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.   Where did I go to after that?… I found Brent Weeks’ Night Angel trilogy all by myself… I’ve loosely grouped these author’s under the “MK1 favourite Writers” banner – and will create a tag declaring such when I have more than one post up on the new site!  So where to next?  By my workings it’s your turn – suggestions please..

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

THE POWERFUL DEBUT NOVEL FROM FANTASY’S NEXT SUPERSTAR.

Told in Kvothe’s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet’s hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.  722 page softcover novel Mk1 Price $19.90

Links:

Author’s official Site: http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/index.asp

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