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	<title>Night Shade Books &#187; Recent Releases</title>
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		<title>The Croning by Laird Barron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us&#8230; Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A gritty new fantasy saga begins . . . Many tales are told of the Syldoon Empire and its fearsome soldiers, who are known throughout the world for their treachery and atrocities. Some say that the Syldoon eat virgins and babies&#8211;or perhaps their own mothers. Arkamondos, a bookish young scribe, suspects that the Syldoon&#8217;s dire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/05/01/scourge-of-the-betrayer-by-jeff-salyards/</link>
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		<title>The Black Opera by Mary Gentle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Naples, the 19th Century. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, holy music has power. Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick or raising the dead. But some believe that the musicodramma of grand opera can also work magic by channeling powerful emotions into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/05/01/the-black-opera-by-mary-gentle/</link>
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		<title>The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4 edited by Ellen Datlow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fear is the oldest human emotion. The most primal. We like to think we&#8217;re civilized. We tell ourselves we&#8217;re not afraid. And every year, we skim our fingers across nightmares, desperately pitting our courage against shivering dread. A paraplegic millionaire hires a priest to exorcise his pain; a failing marriage is put to the ultimate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/05/01/the-best-horror-of-the-year-volume-4-edited-by-ellen-datlow/</link>
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		<title>Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess by Phil and Kaja Foglio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, mad science rules the world&#8230; with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp fall in with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/04/03/agatha-h-and-the-clockwork-princess-by-phil-and-kaja-foglio/</link>
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		<title>Faustus Resurrectus by Thomas Morrissey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unholy murder is just the beginning of the ritual&#8230; When Donovan Graham, newly-graduated occult scholar, helps the NYPD investigate a man killed by scorpions in a midtown hotel, he learns the world is far stranger and deadlier than his studies ever suggested. Evidence forces his academic skepticism to give way to astonished belief that ancient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/04/03/faustus-resurrectus-by-thomas-morrissey/</link>
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		<title>The Straits of Galahesh by Bradley P. Beaulieu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West of the Grand Duchy of Anuskaya lies the Empire of Yrstanla, the Motherland. The Empire has lived at peace with Anuskaya for generations, but with political turmoil brewing and the wasting disease still rampant, opportunists from the mainland have begun to set their sights on the Grand Duchy, seeking to expand their empire. Five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/04/03/the-straits-of-galahesh-by-bradley-p-beaulieu/</link>
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		<title>Summoning by Carol Wolf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Snake is coming, devourer of Thrace and Atlantis&#8230; and the only one standing in its way is Amber, a sixteen-year-old runaway, recently arrived in Los Angeles. Amber is more than just a girl with a stolen ID and an attitude; she is a daughter of the wolf-kind, a shapeshifter able to change forms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/04/03/summoning-by-carol-wolf/</link>
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		<title>And Blue Skies From Pain by Stina Leicht</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: a former wheelman for the IRA, a one-time political prisoner, the half-breed son of a mystic Fey warrior and a mortal woman, and a troubled young man literally haunted by the ghosts of his past. Liam has turned his back on his land&#8217;s bloody sectarian Troubles, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/03/06/and-blue-skies-from-pain-by-stina-leicht/</link>
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		<title>Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Carver is nobody&#8217;s idea of a space princess. A hard-ridin&#8217;, hard-lovin&#8217; biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she&#8217;s ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/03/06/jane-carver-of-waar-by-nathan-long/</link>
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