Stefan Petrucha, Author Walker $16.99 (257p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9372-0
Petrucha (The Rule of Won
) offers a reality-bending take on the idea of split personalities. After the death of Wade’s mother in the prologue, the story jumps ahead three years and unfolds in alternating chapters, both narrated by Wade but in
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Stefan Petrucha, Grand Central, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-55599-9
YA thriller author Petrucha (Split) combines the paranormal with the historical for this unique, page-turning adventure. While plowing his meager plot in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritan colonist Nathan Fall digs up an undead creature that...
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Stefan Petrucha, Author Razorbill $5.99 (230p) ISBN 978-1-59514-076-0
This unevenly paced first installment of the Timetripper series opens in a high school for gifted students, among them Harry, who confides to Siara that the trauma of his father's recent death in a freak accident has damaged the filters in his brain
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Stefan Petrucha. Roc, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-46421-7
Petrucha gets Hessius Mann, zombie PI, off to a promising start in this tale of murder and the undead. Mann was a police detective in the U.S. city of Fort Hammer until someone killed his wife and set him up to take the fall. After being executed...
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Stefan Petrucha. Philomel, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-25524-3
Petrucha (Split) breathes new life into the oft-visited Jack the Ripper genre, transporting the killer to New York City and using some well-chosen historical figures to flesh out the tale. In 1895, seven years after the Ripper’s killing spree in...
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Stefan Petrucha. Roc, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-46474-3
Petrucha builds on his first highly creative zombie detective novel, 2011’s Dead Mann Walking, in this top-notch sequel, which has enough action, deduction, and humor to be a must-read for urban fantasy fans. In the near future, a huge chemical...
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Stefan Petrucha, César Ferioli Pelaez, et al, Boom! (www.boom-studios.com), $9.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60886-627-4
Although known mostly as a mascot here in the U.S., abroad Mickey Mouse has been a popular comic, especially in Italy. This volume reprints one of his more intriguing adventures. Mickey, unable to go on a date with Minnie and hang out with Goofy at...
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Stefan Petrucha and Rick Parker, NBM/Papercutz, $6.99 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-59707-217-5
After the death of overly caffeinated Headmaster Dumb-As-A-Door by the traitorous barista frappe, Harry Potty, Don Measley, and Whiny Stranger must find a way to defeat the noseless dark lord, Value-Mart (He Whose Prices Can't Be Beat) and his...
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Stefan Petrucha, performed by a full cast. GraphicAudio, adapted, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-62851-447-6
This full-cast adaptation of Petrucha’s 2012 YA novel, set in 1895 New York City, focuses on Carver Young, a 14-year-old orphan with a penchant for criminology and a desire to find the father who abandoned him. He’s adopted by his mentor, Albert...
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Stefan Petrucha, Author, Thomas Pendleton, Author Harper Teen $7.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-06-113849-2
""That was awful!"" cries one of the storytellers in the wrapper to this utterly unpleasant start to the Wicked Dead series. ""There was no point! No moral! No spiritual substance."" And the girl is right: this is sub-Tales from the Crypt material...
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