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Norilana Books is proud to present Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian, a hilarious "comedy of monsters and manners."

This stylish and clever parody of the Austen classic Mansfield Park, comes complete with "scholarly" Footnotes that harangue the reader, amazing Appendices, back cover fake blurbs by Regency ladies and gentlemen, illustrations (by the author), a genuine romantic sub-plot that involves an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who takes on the form of a sexy Regency gentleman... and of course the mummies!

Oh, and there's a vampire, a werewolf or two, and an unspeakable monstrosity known only as the Brighton Duck!

Mansfield Park and Mummies:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian


Spinsterhood or Mummification!

Ancient Egypt infiltrates Regency England in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic monster parody of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Our gentle yet indomitable heroine Fanny Price must hold steadfast not only against the seductive charms of Henry Crawford but also an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh!

Meanwhile, the indubitably handsome and kind hero Edmund attempts Exorcisms... Miss Crawford vamps out... Aunt Norris channels her inner werewolf... The Mummy-mesmerized Lady Bertram collects Egyptian artifacts...

There can be no doubt that Mansfield Park has become a battleground for the forces of Ancient Evil and Regency True Love!

Gentle Reader—this Delightful Edition includes Scholarly Footnotes and Appendices.


Mansfield Park and Mummies:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian
Norilana Books Fantasy
November 16, 2009
Trade Paperback
Retail Price: $16.95 USD - £12.50 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-047-1
ISBN-10: 1-60762-047-2
568 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Women of Chivalry and Prophecy!

Norilana Books is proud to present Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIV edited by Elisabeth Waters, the twenty-fourth volume of the classic fantasy anthology series featuring stories of powerful and remarkable women, who bravely fight to change their worlds with magic or sword or sheer power of personality.


Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIV edited by Elisabeth Waters




For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, best-selling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a grand generation of authors. The roster of contributors over the years includes Laurell K. Hamilton, Charles de Lint, Diana L. Paxston, Emma Bull, Jennifer Roberson, and countless others.

The seventeen original stories featured here include such stellar authors as Deborah J. Ross, Dave Smeds, Josepha Sherman, and exciting newcomers whose voices are sure to be heard again.


Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIV edited by Elisabeth Waters
Norilana Books Fantasy
November 15, 2009
Trade Paperback
Retail Price: $12.95 USD - 9.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-048-8
ISBN-10: 1-60762-048-0
318 pages

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Norilana Books presents The Captain's Witch, a stunning, erotic, dark epic fantasy by the acclaimed historical novelist Rosemary Hawley Jarman, newly revised and expanded, and detailing the complex story of true love and impossible evil.

"One of the greatest dark fantasies ever written -- in any genre." — Tanith Lee

The Captain's Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman




Her kiss can maim you
Her eyes can blind you
Her bed is shadows . . .

She is the dark of the moon
She is all that is dear
And she is death

Can you trust her?
Where will her lantern lead you?
To the bliss of death
Or the death of bliss

Know the most dangerous of all . . .

Rosemary Hawley Jarman was born in Worcester, England and came to fame in 1971 with her novel We Speak No Treason. Reprinted many times, the book's hero is the much maligned King Richard III. It sold 30,000 copies in its first week of publication, and gained her the prestigious Author's Club Silver Quill for best first novel, while in the U.S.A. she was nominated as a Daughter of Mark Twain. Further equally successful novels followed, also an illustrated account of the Battle of Agincourt. She lives in an antique stone cottage between sea and mountain in West Wales. The Captain's Witch is her first fantasy novel, and she is now working on a sequel.

Her website is: www.rosemaryhawleyjarman.com


The Captain's Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Norilana Books Fantasy
420 pages

Trade Hardcover (Revised and Excpanded Edition)
November 1, 2009
Retail Price: $27.95 USD - £20.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-045-7
ISBN-10: 1-60762-045-6

Trade Paperback (Revised and Excpanded Edition)
November 5, 2009
Retail Price: $14.95 USD - £10.50 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-046-4
ISBN-10: 1-60762-046-4

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Norilana Books presents Under the Rose, a new cutting-edge anthology of contemporary stories of the fantastic, edited by Dave Hutchinson, featuring work from some of today's brightest literary talents.

"...a handful of real gems." — Publishers Weekly

Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson



From fantasy to dark fantasy and horror to science fiction and the hard-to-categorize works of the imagination that fall somewhere in-between, there is something here to appeal to the most curious reader.

This volume includes stories by:

Pauline E Dungate, Tim Lieder, William John Watkins, Mel Sterling, Jean Graham, Ken Rand, Teri Smith, Liza Granville, Ralan Conley, Stuart Jaffe, CL Russo, James Targett, Ren Holton, Donna Scott, Justin Stanchfield, Lou Anders and Chris Roberson, Ian Whates, Gaie Sebold, Jean Tschohl Quinn, Angel Arango, Ekaterina Sedia, Edwina Harvey, Sarah Totton, William R Eakin, Uncle River, and John Grant.

Dave Hutchinson was born in Sheffield in 1960. He's the author of the novel The Villages and the short-story collections Thumbprints, Fools Gold, Torn Air, The Paradise Equation and As The Crow Flies. He's the co-editor (with John Grant) of Strange Pleasures 2 and the editor of Strange Pleasures 3. His short stories have appeared in Interzone, SciFiction, Revolution SF, Infinity Plus, Live Without A Net (Lou Anders, ed.) Celebration (Ian Whates, ed.) and Subterfuge (Ian Whates, ed.)
He lives in London.


Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson
Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback (First Edition)
October 1, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-042-6
ISBN-10: 1-60762-042-1
452 pages

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Norilana Books is proud to present the definitive hardcover and trade paperback reissue of a Tanith Lee classic!

Night's Master by Tanith Lee is the first book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales.

Long before Vera Nazarian's Dreams of the Compass Rose or Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales, beloved British author Tanith Lee created the first truly complete, modern and sophisticated fantasy version of the Arabian Nights, and spun wondrous stories within stories, unparalleled profound tales of arcane mystery, dark love, and bright desire.

At last, these are the definitive editions, revised and formatted as the author originally intended, containing a new original introduction by Tanith Lee, and a unique previously unpublished interior reproduction of an original handwritten manuscript page. The cover image is a design by Tanith Lee's husband and artist John Kaiine, incorporating her own artwork in the center frame, which makes it a fan and collector's delight.


Night's Master by Tanith Lee



Long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the exotic Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Azhrarn, Lord of the Demons and the Darkness, was the one who ruled the Night, and many mortal lives were changed because of his cruel whimsy. And yet, Azhrarn held inside his demon heart a profound mystery which would change the very fabric of the Flat Earth forever...

Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love.

Discover the exotic wonder that is the Flat Earth.

Tanith Lee is the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories, plus 4 radio plays (broadcast by the BBC) and 2 scripts for the TV cult UK SF series Blake's 7. Her work, which has been translated into over 17 languages, ranges through fantasy, SF, gothic, YA and children's books, contemporary, historical and detective novels, and horror. This year she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror 2009. Major awards include the August Derleth Award for Death's Master, the second book in the Flat Earth series.

Night's Master by Tanith Lee
TaLeKa
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September 1, 2009
Retail Price: $24.95 USD - £16.80 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-043-3
ISBN-10: 1-60762-043-X
246 pages

Trade Paperback
September 15, 2009
Retail Price: $12.95 USD - £8.50 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-044-0
ISBN-10: 1-60762-044-8
246 pages

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TaLeKa is a new dedicated imprint of Norilana Books, showcasing the works of Tanith Lee and the art of John Kaiine.

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 240 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Norilana Books presents the affordable trade paperback edition of Returning My Sister's Face: and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice by Eugie Foster eugie, a striking debut collection of short fantasy fiction with a Far Eastern flavor, with an introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre.

"Whimsy and malice­—yes­—also mystery, a very female sensuality, and wit. An elegant and entertaining book."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

"The tales are beautifully written, elegant, passionate, funny, and moving. The entire collection is a delightful, magical bridge across cultures. I hope many readers find their way to it."

—Patricia A. McKillip

Returning My Sister's Face:
And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
by Eugie Foster
Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre



Enchantment, peril and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village. In these dozen stories of adventure and magic from the Orient, a maiden encounters an oni demon in the forest, a bride discovers her mother-in-law is a fox woman, a samurai must appease his sister's angry ghost, strange luck is found in a jade locket, and dark and light are two sides of harmony.

"Noted short story author Foster offers a dozen enchanting and sometimes chilling tales alive with elegantly sketched characters and sensibilities drawn from Asian folklore . . . Readers who long for a break from European medieval fantasy will be charmed and entertained by Foster's tales."

—Publishers Weekly

Eugie Foster calls home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew, and her pet skunk, Hobkin. After receiving her master's degree in Psychology, she retired from academia and became a corporate computer drone. When her company asked her to leave the phantoms and fairies in the South and return to the dead-cold lands of the Midwest, she said "no" and retreated to her library to pen flights of fancy.

Eugie's fiction has been translated into Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and French; received the Phobos Award; and been nominated for the British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Pushcart awards. Her publication credits number over 100 and include stories in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Cricket, Cicada, Fantasy Magazine, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen's Universe, and anthologies Best New Fantasy (Prime Books), Heroes in Training (DAW Books), Magic in the Mirrorstone (Mirrorstone Books), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno Books).

Visit her online at http://www.EugieFoster.com/

Cover artwork: "Kitsune" © 2009 by Ahyicodae.

Returning My Sister's Face: and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
by Eugie Foster
Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre
Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback
July 5, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-011-2
ISBN-10: 1-60762-011-1
212 pages

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Norilana Books proudly presents Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen (time_shark).

Story marries style. The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.

The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function.

Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen



"Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales... Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner."
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness edited by Mike Allen
Imprint: Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback
July 1, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-027-3
ISBN-10: 1-60762-027-8
296 pages

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Norilana Books is proud to present Warrior Wisewoman 2 edited by Roby James, the second volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.

"James has done a good job of assembling a lineup that satisfies more than it disappoints and is a properly varied representation of feminist science fiction."
—Publishers Weekly

"The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare."
—Susan Shwartz
Warrior Wisewoman 2 edited by Roby James



Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...

Warrior Wisewoman 2 edited by Roby James
Norilana Books Science Fiction
June 1, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-028-0
ISBN-10: 1-60762-028-6
272 pages

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Roby James is the author of Commencement and Commitment (Del Rey, republished by Hawk Books), The Soldier's Daughter (Wildside), and Beyond the Hedge (Juno). She taught short story writing in Los Angeles, and has extensive nonfiction writing credits as well. Her next novel, A Song of Awakening, is forthcoming in March, 2010.

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 240 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles.
For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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And now, David Dvorkin's hilarious and wacky satire on the economy, politics, and alien wisdom, Business Secrets From the Stars, is available in affordable trade paperback!

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Norilana Books is proud to present Business Secrets From The Stars by David Dvorkin, a hilarious wild ride through politics, economics, satire, and alleged business advice from another galaxy.

"A broad and bitter political satire. I was laughing out loud."
—The Denver Post

Business Secrets From The Stars by David Dvorkin



Malcolm Erskine is a moderately successful writer who hits the big time with a book of nonsensical business advice that he claims was telepathically beamed into his mind by a top business executive living in a faraway galaxy.

It's Business Secrets From The Stars!

Malcolm succeeds in making a bundle. But he also attracts the attention of loopy politicians, dangerous televangelists, senile assassins, and even stranger and creepier types. The only way Malcolm can escape disaster is to change the world.

Business Secrets From The Stars by David Dvorkin
Norilana Books Science Fiction
Trade Hardcover
April 1, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-029-7
ISBN-10: 1-60762-029-4
384 pages

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Norilana Books is proud to present Returning My Sister's Face: and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice by Eugie Foster eugie, a striking debut collection of short fantasy fiction with a Far Eastern flavor, with an introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre.

"Whimsy and malice­—yes­—also mystery, a very female sensuality, and wit. An elegant and entertaining book."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

"The tales are beautifully written, elegant, passionate, funny, and moving. The entire collection is a delightful, magical bridge across cultures. I hope many readers find their way to it."

—Patricia A. McKillip

Returning My Sister's Face:
And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
by Eugie Foster
Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre



Enchantment, peril and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village. In these dozen stories of adventure and magic from the Orient, a maiden encounters an oni demon in the forest, a bride discovers her mother-in-law is a fox woman, a samurai must appease his sister's angry ghost, strange luck is found in a jade locket, and dark and light are two sides of harmony.

"Noted short story author Foster offers a dozen enchanting and sometimes chilling tales alive with elegantly sketched characters and sensibilities drawn from Asian folklore . . . Readers who long for a break from European medieval fantasy will be charmed and entertained by Foster's tales."

—Publishers Weekly

Eugie Foster calls home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew, and her pet skunk, Hobkin. After receiving her master's degree in Psychology, she retired from academia and became a corporate computer drone. When her company asked her to leave the phantoms and fairies in the South and return to the dead-cold lands of the Midwest, she said "no" and retreated to her library to pen flights of fancy.

Eugie's fiction has been translated into Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and French; received the Phobos Award; and been nominated for the British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Pushcart awards. Her publication credits number over 100 and include stories in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Cricket, Cicada, Fantasy Magazine, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen's Universe, and anthologies Best New Fantasy (Prime Books), Heroes in Training (DAW Books), Magic in the Mirrorstone (Mirrorstone Books), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno Books).

Visit her online at http://www.EugieFoster.com/

Cover artwork: "Kitsune" © 2009 by Ahyicodae.

Returning My Sister's Face: and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice
by Eugie Foster
Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre
Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Hardcover
March 1, 2009
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$23.95 USD - £16.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-010-5
ISBN-10: 1-60762-010-3
212 pages

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And Now Available in Trade Paperback!

A Cold Day In Hell by Ken Rand (kenrand)

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Norilana Books is proud to present Lace and Blade 2, edited by Deborah J. Ross deborahjross, the delightful second volume in our annual series of swashbuckling romantic fantasy anthologies from the Leda imprint.

"Just in time for Valentine's Day... a charming second anthology brimming with romantic fantasy tales of swashbuckling ladies and daring gentlemen.... Readers will be left starry-eyed and hoping for the series to continue."
—Publishers Weekly

Lace and Blade 2, edited by Deborah J. Ross




In the spirit of classic period swashbucklers, Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and D'Artagnan, brimming with romantic courtly intrigue and dangerous liaisons, with cloak and dagger and perfumed handkerchiefs, the language of the fan and stolen glances, with the manners of Jane Austen and the sparkling rapier wit of Oscar Wilde, here are fantastic stories of adventure, derring-do, love, and glamorous yet subtle magic.

Don't hesitate another moment... step into a sophisticated other world where passion is a courtly mistress, mystery is moonlight on steel, and magic is the god of love.

En garde, mon amour!

Contributors in this volume:

Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Mary Rosenblum, Diana L. Paxson, Francesca Forrest, Robin Wayne Bailey, Daniel Fox, Sherwood Smith, Traci N. Castleberry, Pauline Zed, Elisabeth Waters, Tanith Lee, and Madeleine E. Robins.

Lace and Blade 2, edited by Deborah J. Ross
Leda
February 14, 2009
Trade Paperback
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ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-99-5
ISBN-10: 1-934648-99-X
288 pages

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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana translated by Richard Burton et al

Available next week from the Norilana Books Classics imprint.

This edition contains fifty-eight classic, explicit interior illustrations. So, ADULTS ONLY. :-)

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Structured around the Renaissance mnemonic device of a building with rooms populated by thoughts and objects, The Memory Palace is a lucid dream, a remarkably powerful memoir, and a fantasy.

Norilana Books is proud to present The Memory Palace, a significant poetry collection by JoSelle Vanderhooft, dealing with the raw themes of youth, pain, the Catholic faith, and the challenges of growing up gay.


The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft




"Inside The Memory Palace, JoSelle Vanderhooft constructs a painfully honest memoir in free verse, detailing one talented young woman's odyssey past the monsters of mental illness, through the brutal clash between faith and sexuality, always haunted by the terrible enigma of a father's suicide—yet these traumas are counterbalanced by earnest hope and the small, sweet moments life grants to fighters and survivors. Her eloquent and eminently readable story will resonate with any one who's ever found themselves an alien in their own world, peering in at society from the outside."

—Mike Allen, three-time Rhysling Award winner and editor of Mythic Delirium


The Memory Palace by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Curiosities (an imprint of Norilana Books)
January 15, 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-87-2
ISBN-10: 1-934648-87-6
164 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 210 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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It's Peter Pan for girls!

Norilana Books is proud to present Mearsies Heili Bounces Back: CJ's Second Notebook by Sherwood Smith, the second volume of the notebooks kept by CJ of her magical adventures with the fun-loving girl gang led by Queen Clair. Includes interior illustrations by the author, plus a map on the back cover.


Mearsies Heili Bounces Back: CJ's Second Notebook by Sherwood Smith




I am Princess Cherene Jennet Sherwood of Mearsies Heili, hater of evil, foe to all villains, and wielder of the prune pie of justice!"

That's how CJ Sherwood introduces herself when she lands into her craziest adventure yet. In this, the second volume of CJ's records, she and her gang of friends gathered around the thirteen year old queen, Clair Sherwood, find themselves beset by magical spells and various villains. They still manage to have fun in the underground hideout in the middle of Mearsies Heili's woodland.

CJ loves life with "the M girls"—so she is completely unprepared to be taken away and put in a silken prison in order to forget being a princess. As CJ uses her brains and imagination to get out of trouble, she has to think about what being a princess really means.

She also discovers that there are things even tougher to deal with than terrible enchantments, sinister shadows, and lurking villains: teenage boys.

Mearsies Heili Bounces Back: CJ's Second Notebook by Sherwood Smith
YA Angst
December 31, 2008
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-016-7
ISBN-10: 1-60762-016-2
324 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 210 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Norilana Books is proud to present Leaving Fortusa by John Grant.

A dystopian masterpiece by the Hugo, Locus, Chesley, and World Fantasy Award-winning author...

An indispensable achievement of stunning prognostication in these politically charged times...


Leaving Fortusa by John Grant




"An ambitious and daring book!"
—Charles A. Tan, Bibliophile Stalker

"5/5 stars for sheerly amazing writing!"
—Someone's Read It Already

A disabled US veteran from Iraq finds in Scotland a bizarrely distorted form of Fairyland and realizes he has lost his own country. A New Yorker learns how to discard the sad times from his life as around him society crumbles. A dream-research laboratory uncovers the true origin of our reality, a secret too dangerous to reveal . . .

The powerhouse dystopian novel by a master of fantastic literature.

Two children are taught to suppress their imagination. Armies travel back in time to conquer the worlds of the past, there to hold gladiatorial circuses. A man suffers the death penalty over and over for everyone else’s murders, so the victims’ families may have "closure" . . .

Ten episodes from a horrifying future, with the Decline and Fall of the American Empire as their backdrop.

Two karmic tempters dance through myriad different universes in search of ways to engineer the downfall of their enemies here. A rusted ferris wheel standing tall above the desert is a locus for barbarous religious executions. An old woman recalls her childhood loss of innocence about the world in which she lives . . .

In the great If This Goes On tradition, an impassioned assault on the seeds of destruction sown within our society. Searing prose conjures a nightmare vision you will never be able to forget.

A loner foraging in the graveyard of our civilization comes across what may be all that's left of human literature . . .

One of the most astonishing novels of the new century’s first decade, Leaving Fortusa is also one of its most urgent.


Leaving Fortusa by John Grant
Norilana Books
October 1, 2008
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ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-72-8
ISBN-10: 1-934648-72-8
332 pages

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John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels such as The World, Albion, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window, and The Dragons Of Manhattan. His "book-length fiction" Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004.

He is editor of New Writings In The Fantastic and co-editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy, and wrote in their entirety all three editions of The Encyclopedia Of Walt Disney's Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Among his latest nonfictions have been Discarded Science and Corrupted Science; he is currently working on their companion volume, Bogus Science, on a book about film noir, and on "a cute rhyming book for kids about a velociraptor."

As John Grant he has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. Under his real name, Paul Barnett, he has written the space operas Strider's Galaxy and Strider's Universe, and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award. He is currently Consultant Editor to the publisher AAPPL (Artists' & Photographers' Press Ltd.).

Official website: http://www.johngrantpaulbarnett.com

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 190 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Norilana Books is proud to present the definitive short fiction collection from one of speculative fiction's most original and controversial authors.

East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by William Sanders




"William Sanders is wickedly funny, a great storyteller, and a writer with peculiar ideas."
—Claude Lalumière in Locus

"Sanders is witty, caustic, clever, cynical, and not very PC at all."
—Tom Easton in Analog

Combining in one sizeable handsome volume all of the award-winning author's previously collected short work in addition to several uncollected originals, filled with biting wit, wisdom and quirky humor, this is the edition to own. Includes an introduction by Rick Bowes and additional author notes and commentary.


East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by William Sanders
Norilana Books Science Fiction
September 1, 2008
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ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-65-0
ISBN-10: 1-934648-65-5
588 pages

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William Sanders is the critically acclaimed author of over 20 books, and numerous works of short fiction and articles, including The Ballad Of Billy Badass And The Rose Of Turkestan, A Death On 66, The Next Victim, The Wild Blue And The Gray, Are We Having Fun Yet?, the apocalyptic stunner J., and award-winning stories "The Undiscovered" and "Empire".

He is as two-time winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and a multiple finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, the Nebula, the Hugo, the Theodore Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Award. Sanders was born in Arkansas in 1942 and served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He currently lives in Oklahoma with his motorcycle and his dog.

Official website: http://www.sff.net/people/sanders/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 180 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

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Norilana Books presents The Duke in His Castle by Nebula Award-Nominated author and award winning artist Vera Nazarian (norilana), a dark, lush, erotic fantasy novella in the vein of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, with interior illustrations by the author.

Rossian, the young Duke of Violet, wastes away in mad solitude, unable to leave the confines of his decadent castle grounds because of a mysterious invisible barrier...until a strange female intruder arrives at the castle bearing a box of bones.

The Duke in His Castle by Vera Nazarian



"Vera Nazarian's superb novella The Duke in His Castle uses the form of a classic fairy tale or fable to explore the psychology of good, evil, ennui, and despair in terms that are anything but black and white.... a sequence of moving, disturbing, sensual dialogs and encounters that change the very concept of power, from the acts of gods or great mages to something more subtle that may lie within human grasp."
—Locus

"The Duke in His Castle is philosophy couched in a fairy tale couched in a murder mystery tinged with children's games. It's a kaleidoscope of thought and emotion, the howling winds of despair, and the sometimes soft, sometimes fierce flow of life. Not only is it quickly absorbing and a quick read, but it sits up and begs for repeat visits..."
—The Green Man Review


The Duke in His Castle by Vera Nazarian
Imprint: Norilana Books Fantasy
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June 1, 2008
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ISBN-13: 978-1-934648-42-1
ISBN-10: 1-934648-42-6
124 pages

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 160 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles.
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The Non-Sale June Sale!

Norilana Books is having its first annual Non-Sale June Sale. What does that mean, folks?

Well... Since we don't sell direct to the customer (but via distributor to wholesalers), we cannot offer you a discounted sale price.... At least not directly.

However, our third party vendors sure can, and do! :-)

Many places such as Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, and Amazon UK, etc., are actively discounting individual titles all the time, and you just need to click around and browse to see what's on sale where.

So, having said that, here is our complete catalog:

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm

It includes some great new releases, originals as fresh as this lovely month of June, including Catherynne M. Valente's marvelous fairytale and poetry collection A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, the debut of Warrior Wisewoman edited by Roby James, the new annual anthology of science fiction with remarkable women, Mike Allen's striking speculative poetry cornucopia The Journey to Kailash, and my own baroque fantasy novella The Duke in His Castle.

And here's our classics catalog:

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-classics.htm

If you're in the mood for Jane Austen, we've got the wildly popular Elizabeth Gaskell titles hot off the press, including Cranford (recently shown on Masterpiece Theatre), Sylvia's Lovers, Ruth, North and South (has been likened to Pride and Prejudice!), The Moorland Cottage, Curious if True: Strange Tales, Wives and Daughters, and Mary Barton.

Plus, there's a whole lot more of wonderful works of world literature that you've been wanting to try, and in many cases are way more engrossing than you imagine.

So go ahead, browse! And buy a book or two. For yourself and a loved one. And spread the word! It's summer reading time!

From all of Norilana Books to all of you, our friends... fantastic reading!