Week Ending August 12th 2016 Releasing September 27th Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (ISBN 9781501141515 $32.50) In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.
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Week Ending August 12th 2016
Releasing September 27th
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (ISBN 9781501141515
$32.50) In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us
why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.
Releasing December 16th, 2016 - Art of Rogue One (ISBN 9781419722257 $40.00) Releasing January 3rd, 2017 - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by
Alexander Freed (ISBN 9780399178450 $28.99) The official novelization of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, coming to theaters nationwide December 16, 2016.
The Wild Cards Are Coming... to Television – Go HERE George R.R. Martin’s ‘Wild Cards’ in Development at Universal Cable Productions – Go
HERE
'Wild Cards': Here's What You Need To Know About The Superhero Series From
George R.R. Martin – go HERE
George RR Martin's Wild Cards: what is it, when will we see it on TV and will it be like
Game of Thrones? – Go HERE
Also don’t forget to check this week’s SHOWCASE for title info
Brad Pitt Courting David Fincher for ‘World War Z’ (ISBN 9780307346612 $16.00) Sequel. Go HERE for the full article
‘The Girl With All the Gifts’ (ISBN 9780316334754 $15.00) Review:
A Thrilling Zombie Movie With Brains. Go HERE for the review
October 18th
- A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice & Fire: Book One (ISBN 9780553808049 $50.00) 20 years on, George RR Martin remembers the Game of Thrones book signing where no-one turned up...
Releasing in November Dan & Phil Go Outside by Dan Howell and
Phil Lester (ISBN 9781524701451 $19.99) Follow-up to last fall’s hit The Amazing Book is Not on Fire Dan and Phil (traditional avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight) take readers on their epic journey around the world on tour, as they chronicle the searing highs (room service pancakes) and spiraling lows (no Wi-Fi) of life outside, with exclusive and personal photos of their travels – from tour bus shenanigans, to meeting their audience, to performing their The Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire stage show – annotated with their classic, witty commentary.
In Stock! Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of Secrets: An Official Mojang Book (ISBN 9780399593208 $9.99) Minecraft’s official guide to survival mode—and the first new official guidebook in 2 years—with insider game knowledge for Minecraft’s over 100 million players. This guide also contains all-new practical, original illustrations to help you to not only survive, but thrive.
Now Taking Orders For September Release Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (ISBN 9781302900533 $16.99)
A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group that calls itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. If Wakanda is to survive, it must adapt--but can its monarch, one in a long line of Black Panthers, survive the necessary change? Heavy lies the head that wears the cowl!
Go HERE for the American Gods Trailer
Neil Gaiman on ‘American Gods’ Adaptation, ‘Good
Omens’ TV Series & Comic-Con Conflicts. – Go HERE
Trade paper – ISBN 9780062080233 $19.99 MM Paper – ISBN 9780380789030 $7.99
Robert E McGinnis and the Secret of The New Cover – Go HERE
Releasing over the next few months… Pokémon GO! The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide (ISBN 9781250135568 $12.99) October Pojo's Unofficial Ultimate Guide to Pokémon GO: How to Catch 'Em All! (ISBN 9781629374048 $12.95) October Pojo's Unofficial Ultimate Pokémon (ISBN 9781629373423 $14.95) The Unofficial Pokémon Go Field Guide (ISBN 9781942556565 $12.99) September
Just announced - Official Pokémon Book of Joy (ISBN
9780399181481 $14.99) – October release
New Pokémon Game Takes Bookstores By Storm. Go HERE for the full article
Batman: The Killing Joke (ISBN 9781401216672 $17.99) Official
Trailer (2016) – Go HERE
From USAToday - 'Killing Joke' rehashes controversy with new movie. Go HERE
Batman: The Killing Joke movie review – Go HERE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he¿s going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and The Joker's insanity snap once and for all? Legendary writer Alan Moore redefined the super-hero with WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA. In BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker —and changes Batman's world forever. Stunningly illustrated, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, THE DELUXE EDITION has been lushly re-colored by artist Brian Bolland, presenting his original vision of this modern classic for the first time.
‘Suicide Squad’ Currently The Most Buzzed-About Movie On Social
Media, Outpacing ‘Rogue One’. You can check out the full article HERE.
Also check out this week’s SHOWCASE for Suicide Squad titles
The Joker (ISBN 9781401215811 $19.99) by Azzarello and Bermejo
Influenced Look of Suicide Squad. For more go HERE
Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the rights to author Jeff Lemire and
illustrator Emi Lenox’s comic series Plutona (ISBN 9781632156013
$9.99), a coming of age story which centers on a group of kids who find the body of a famous dead superhero in the woods. Go HERE for the full article
AMC’s Preacher will be back. The network has renewed the supernatural drama for Season 2 and it will run 13 episodes, three more than Season 1. Sophomore run is slated for 2017.. For more go HERE
You will find ‘Preacher’ titles in this weeks SHOWCASE
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Reference Guide to the Future by Michael Okuda, Denise
Okuda (ISBN 9780062371324 $150.00) In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the classic show, a fully authorized revision of the popular reference companion: a two-volume encyclopedia featuring a completely new design, stunning new full-color photographs and illustrations, and 300 pages of new entries, packaged in a specially designed and shrink-wrapped deluxe slipcase When it debuted in 1966, the Star Trek series quickly became a pop culture phenomenon, inspiring six spin-off series and thirteen films—including Star Trek
Beyond, opening July 22, 2016—as well as books, comics, games, toys, and more. One of the largest franchises of all time, Star Trek’s overall box office revenue totals more than $1.93 billion to date. Since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, The Star Trek Encyclopedia has been the go-to source for everything related to the franchise’s canon. Packed with highly detailed information, including brief episode and film synopses, no other book has come close to offering the same wealth of insight into the Star Trek universe. Now, The Star Trek Encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised and redesigned for a new generation of fans. This updated and expanded edition includes 300 more pages, information, photographs and illustrations, and offers exhaustively researched and detailed entries on the characters, ships, and events from the last fifteen years of Star Trek television shows and films, including Star Trek: Voyager seasons 4-7, Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4, and Star Trek Nemesis. It also features material detailing the recent big-screen films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Packaged in a stunning deluxe slipcase, this two-volume set is a must-have for every Star Trek fan’s library.
IN STOCK The first in a fantastic new space opera series from acclaimed author and scriptwriter of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The High Ground: Imperials BK01 by Melinda Snodgrass (ISBN 9781783295821 $14.99)
Emperor’s daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League’s Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of
taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals—to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible.
IN STOCK The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone (ISBN 9781501125041 $26.00) An astonishingly inventive and terrifying debut novel about the emergence of an ancient species, dormant for over a thousand years, and now on the march. Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out. The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.
IN STOCK Set in Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraising’
world
Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane
(ISBN 9781781084557 $9.99) Sherlock Holmes faces his greatest challenge yet when he meets the Cenobites, the infamous servants of hell. Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room – and something to occupy him other than testing the limits of his mind and body. But this is just the start of an investigation that will draw the pair into contact with a shadowy organisation talked about in whispers and known only as ‘The Order of the Gash’. As
more and more people go missing in a similar fashion, the clues point to a sinister asylum in France and to the underworld of London. However, it is an altogether different underworld that Holmes will soon discover – as he finds himself face to face not only with those followers who do the Order’s bidding on Earth, but those who serve it in Hell: the Cenobites...
New trailer for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (ISBN 9781594746031 $10.99). You can check it out HERE
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years (ISBN 9781250065841
$29.99) Volume one of a fifty-year oral history of Star Trek by the people who were there, in their own words, sharing never-before-told stories. This is the unauthorized, uncensored, and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned five TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films, with an upcoming one from Paramount arriving in 2016. The Fifty-Year Mission is a no-holds-barred oral history of five decades of Star Trek, told by the people who were there. Hear from the hundreds of television and film executives, programmers, writers, creators, and cast as they unveil the oftentimes shocking story of Star Trek's ongoing fifty-year mission - a mission that has spanned from the classic series to the animated show, to the many attempts at a relaunch to the beloved feature films. Make no mistake; this isn't just a book for Star Trek fans. Like Saturday Night Live's bestselling Live from New York, here is a volume for all fans of pop culture and anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of a television touchstone.
Releasing in August The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek (ISBN 9781250089465 $29.99)
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Star Wars Little
Golden Book (ISBN 9780736436564 $9.99) Feel like the weight of the galaxy is on your shoulders? Thinking about joining the dark side? To restore your inner peace with the Force, look no further than the timeless Star Wars Little Golden Books! This inspirational collection features illustrations of epic scenes from the entire Star Wars saga. It’s the perfect gift for Star Wars and Little Golden Book fans of all ages.
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