<div>A musician is transported into a land of magic&mdash;from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world&mdash;and his old one. Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard; a thieving, backstabbing otter; and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster&rsquo;s eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.</div>

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Spellsinger

<div>Demonic spirit-beings are stealing into our world in this fantasy adventure from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Damned Trilogy. Earth is being invaded by the shetani&mdash;-spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it. </div>

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Into the Out Of

<div>A notorious criminal pursues peace&mdash;and power&mdash;with alien enemies in this sci-fi novel from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Damned Trilogy. No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He&rsquo;s a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith&rsquo;s cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies&mdash;-the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won&rsquo;t have to wait long to find out. </div>

The Man Who Used the Universe

<div>Aliens in the mirror are closer than they appear. The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Relic takes readers on an out-of-this-world road trip. The Sonderberg family does not know it yet, but this is not going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend, in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.</div>

To the Vanishing Point

<div>An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet&rsquo;s most ferocious and fascinating predators.Over the last forty years, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature&rsquo;s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.</div>

Predators I Have Known

<div>Marooned in another universe, a musician leads a motley army to save two worlds, in an entertaining tale by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power&mdash;even if he can&rsquo;t control it&mdash;which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands. The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no one has ever passed before. Survival will be a miracle&mdash;but Jon-Tom is no ordinary musician.</div>

The Hour of the Gate

<div>To save his wizard mentor, a spellsinger&mdash;and his otter sidekick&mdash;must cross time and space, in this novel by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Jon-Tom and his friends have seen better days. After his motley crew moved heaven and Earth to save civilization at the battle of Jo-Troom Gate, his merry band went its separate ways. Mudge, the foul-mouthed otter, eagerly returned to thieving, drinking, and whoring, while Talea, the girl of Jon-Tom&rsquo;s dreams, embarked on her own adventures, leaving him to study magic with Clothahump, the irascible wizard whose inept spell trapped him in this weird otherworld in the first place. But now Clothahump is dying, and not even Jon-Tom&rsquo;s spellsinging can make him well. In search of medicine for the centuries-old turtle, he and Mudge venture across the seas on a dubious quest that will require the assistance of an Amazonian white tiger, a ferret, and a gender-challenged unicorn. They&rsquo;re going to need all the help they can get.</div>

The Day of the Dissonance

<div>The spellsinger Jon-Tom faces off against a malignant magic&mdash;from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Relic. Far to the south of the peaceful Bellwoods, where Jon-Tom the spellsinger continues trying to master the art of turning music into magic, a sinister force has awakened: a magician with great ambition and unheard-of power. He summons lightning to do his bidding, commands an army of faceless flying demons, and claims to come from another world&mdash;one Jon-Tom suspects might be his own. If he can somehow reason with the unknown magician, perhaps they can combine their talents and find a way to go home together. Wary of this new wickedness, Jon-Tom&rsquo;s suspicious mentor sends the spellsinger and his companions on a journey to the southlands, assuring him that the land they are to visit is &ldquo;tropical, friendly, and largely uninhabited.&rdquo; As Jon-Tom learns all too often, in this mysterious world much will be proven catastrophically wrong.</div>

The Moment of the Magician

<div>A trapped cosmic creature may drive the whole world mad&mdash;unless the spellsinger can set it free: &ldquo;Foster knows how to spin a yarn&rdquo; (Starlog). It&rsquo;s an ordinary day in the Bellwoods, save for the fact that Jon-Tom the spellsinger has awoken as a six-foot blue crab. He soon reverts to normal&mdash;as normal as a college student trapped in a world of magic and talking animals can be, anyway&mdash;but the bizarre changes keep happening, affecting not just him but the whole of this strange world. His wizardly mentor suspects these are the effects of the perambulator, a cosmic being whose presence distorts reality. One has been imprisoned in the mountains, and unless they free it, it will rip the world to shreds one insane illusion at a time.So Jon-Tom sets out, backed by the wizard, a boozehound owl, a gutter-minded otter, and a warrior koala with a taste for leather. Saving the world will be a cinch, as long as they don&rsquo;t lose their minds along the way.</div>

The Paths of the Perambulator

<div>Another tale of talking animals and misdirected magic in the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s whimsical series: &ldquo;Foster knows how to spin a yarn&rdquo; (Starlog). Jon-Tom has been trapped in a strange land of talking owls and wizarding turtles for a year now, his sole consolation that in this universe his musical abilities have inadvertently made him something of a sorcerer. But when an encounter with some burglars leads to him snapping the magical duar that channels his power, he finds himself an ordinary human again&mdash;on a quest to repair his instrument with nothing but his staff and his semi-faithful, ever-complaining otter sidekick to defend him. The journey takes them to the ends of the earth&mdash;and beyond. On the run from some half-wit pirates, they dart into a cave and find themselves in San Antonio, the shortcut to home that Jon-Tom has long dreamed about. But Texas wants nothing to do with this long-haired wizard, or the unpleasant creatures who are tracking him.</div>

The Time of the Transference

<div>Hoping to duplicate the adventurous yarns of their parents, the children of spellsinger Jon-Tom and his otter sidekick Mudge set out on a perilous quest of their ownDecades have passed since college student Jon-Tom Meriweather was first marooned in a strange land of magic, and over the years he has married, raised a son, and honed his voice so that the effects of his spellsinging&mdash;whereby he calls up magic with song&mdash;are almost predictable. His son&rsquo;s voice is another matter. Buncan wants to follow in his father&rsquo;s adventurous footsteps, but his every chord brings more discord, and there seem to be no good quests to be had. When one falls in his lap&mdash;investigating something called the Grand Veritable, whose very name is enough to send wizened wizards hiding under their covers&mdash;he seeks the help of two of his friends, children of Jon-Tom&rsquo;s old otter sidekick Mudge, whose voices are as pure as Buncan&rsquo;s is muddy. The determined trio runs away from home, ready to pit their teenage talents against a very adult danger. </div>

Son of Spellsinger

<div>A middle-aged, out-of-shape spellsinger yearns for one last great adventure, in this rollicking fantasy by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Jon-Tom and Mudge are bored.Their adventuring days long behind them, the spellsinger and his once-thieving otter sidekick have settled into a life of tepid domesticity, and they are sick of it. They hunger for an old-fashioned adventure, but there are no more great evils to combat. And so they decide to follow the music. Literally. A drifting cloud of lost chords has taken to floating around Jon-Tom, and following it puts them on the trail of an evil that terrifies the spellsinger. Something is stealing music. Finding out who, and why, is responsible for the silencing of the instruments will put Jon-Tom and Mudge into great peril, at the hands of a selfish elephant, a greedy black bear, and a whirlpool with a filthy sense of humor. Seeking adventure, they&rsquo;ve stumbled into one turn that may turn out to be their last.</div>

Chorus Skating

<div>Three novels from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: an exhilarating adventure that follows a group of human castaways stranded on an icy alien planet. Icy, desolate, and sharply carved by hurricane-force winds, Tran-ky-ky is a terrible place to crash-land. But a botched kidnapping aboard the interstellar transport Antares sends Ethan Frome Fortune and a handful of his fellow travelers tumbling toward the stormy planet. Stranded and cut off from civilization, the castaways struggle to survive. In this page-turning trilogy, Fortune confronts vicious predators (even the plants want to make a meal of him) and forges an alliance with a native Tran. As he searches for a way off Tran-ky-ky, he helps the Tran gain admission to the Humanx Commonwealth and learns about their troubled history. Just as Fortune accepts that he&rsquo;ll never escape the harsh planet and acclimates to its relentless winter, he learns that scientists have detected rising temperatures in the atmosphere. This sinister change leads Fortune to a thrilling and unexpected final adventure.</div>

The Icerigger Trilogy

<div>A jungle planet must defend against exploitative aliens in this novel by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. From the rich imagination of science fiction great Alan Dean Foster comes the story of Midworld, a Humanx Commonwealth planet that&rsquo;s equally fragile and hostile. Covered by a lush rainforest, Midworld is home to a primitive society that lives in harmony with the natural world. But the arrival of an exploitative human company, whose workers know nothing of Midworld&rsquo;s delicate ecosystem, sparks a conflict. Should Midworld&rsquo;s villagers aid the humans or stand against them? The hero of Foster&rsquo;s addictive page-turner, Born, decides to lead two humans across the perilous jungle. His choice propels Midworld toward annihilation&mdash;and leads him headlong into a battle for survival.</div>

Midworld

<div>Rabbitlike aliens from outer space colonize Earth during humankind&rsquo;s Second World War in a delightfully funny and thought-provoking science fiction adventure The Quozl just need somewhere to call home. A gentle race of extraterrestrial rabbits, they have a propensity for reproduction that has left their home planet, Quozlene, dangerously overpopulated, and in their search for greener and less-crowded pastures, they have discovered the perfect place to start over: the third planet away from a healthy, warming sun. What they don&rsquo;t realize is that this world they call Shiraz is already inhabited by a species of violent sentient creatures known as humans. But there&rsquo;s no going back now. In the midst of the brutal and helpfully distracting global conflict the Shirazians call World War II, the colony ship lands undetected, and the space rabbits immediately go into hiding. But a secret like the Quozl can be concealed for only so long, especially when their numbers start to increase and certain rebellious members of the long-eared society decide the time is ripe to claim their place in a world they believe is rightfully theirs. One of the most admired and prolific authors in the science fiction arena, Alan Dean Foster will delight readers who hunger for something different with this funny, thoughtful, and wildly inventive novel of first contact and coexistence. Once you meet the Quozl, you will never forget them. </div>

Quozl

<div>A sweeping historical novel set in nineteenth-century New Zealand from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, leaving his young bride and infant child behind in England. In the sordid and dangerous South Pacific port of Kororareka, on the sprawling island the native Maori call &ldquo;the Land of the Long White Cloud,&rdquo; Coffin builds a successful new life as a merchant. He gains an unwavering respect for the aboriginal people and their culture, and finds comfort in the arms of his fiery Irish mistress, Mary. But the unexpected arrival of a China-bound clipper bearing his wife, Holly, and son, Christopher, throws Coffin&rsquo;s world into turmoil&mdash;compounded by the ever-increasing tension between the Maori tribes and the mistrusted &ldquo;pakehas&rdquo; who are plundering their land. As the years of a volatile nineteenth century progress, the indomitable family of the stalwart adventurer the Maori have named &ldquo;Iron Hair&rdquo; will struggle, sacrifice, and endure through war, chaos, catastrophe, and change.</div>

Maori

<div>A decidedly non-Ordinary family (and their talking cat) must embark on a magical mission in this tale from New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Alan Dean Foster. For any normal teenage boy, having two and a half younger sisters would be enough to deal with. But Simwan Deavy&rsquo;s life isn&rsquo;t normal. His family is non-Ord&mdash;short for &ldquo;non-Ordinary&rdquo;&mdash;which means that at school, he and his sisters learn hexing and enchanting along with history and math. It also means they have a ghost for an uncle and a cat who talks. Still, everything is going well for Simwan&mdash;until a bottle of Truth is stolen from the local pharmacy. Now the Deavys&rsquo; favorite woods are under threat from development; their mother, whose life depends on the Truth, is growing weaker; and the world as they know it might never be the same. With the help of their cat, Pithfwid, the Deavys track the loathsome, horrible Crub to his lair in New York City. But the Crub has laid traps, turning a dangerous city into a deadly one. To succeed at their mission, the Deavys will have to stick together&mdash;or the Truth may be lost forever.</div>

The Deavys

<div>Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great &ldquo;Purpose.&rdquo; The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. Then they come to Earth . . . A Call to Arms When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity&rsquo;s almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea&mdash;and mankind is caught in the middle. The False Mirror When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse. The Spoils of War With mankind&rsquo;s help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized&mdash;and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Dean Foster including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection. </div>

The Damned Trilogy

<div>Three fantasy novels of music and magic in the beloved series by a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. A college slacker&rsquo;s world is turned upside down when he&rsquo;s transported to a new land where music can create magic. There, he teams up with other magical brethren and creates bonds of friendship he will honor for life. Spellsinger: Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and pot. But when an interdimensional portal lands him in another world, he learns that his musical ability can create magic, which he&rsquo;ll need in order to stop a dark force. The Hour of the Gate: Jon-Tom, whose posse now includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight the Plated Folk and end their queen&rsquo;s plans to eat all the mammals in the land. The Day of the Dissonance: Jon-Tom&rsquo;s merry band went its separate ways after the battle of Jo-Troom Gate. But now the wizarding turtle, Clothahump, is dying, and Jon-Tom must embark on a new quest with his friends to search for a cure.</div>

The Spellsinger Adventures Volume One

<div>A first-contact novel written from an alien perspective by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. From his larval years to now, his life has been normal, though his love of learning and insatiable curiosity set him apart. He has settled into his work as an agriculture specialist and is premated to a lovely female. Yet Ryo still feels something is missing from his life, and when he heroically defends his colony from the Thranx&rsquo;s reptilian nemesis, Ryo gets a taste of excitement that&rsquo;s hard to forget. Then his premate shares a garbled message from her starship-captain cousin&mdash;one that hints at the discovery of a completely new, completely alien space-going intelligence. Even when the captain backtracks and denounces the experience as a deep-space nightmare, Ryo can&rsquo;t let it go. He becomes obsessed, leaving his colony and family behind to chase rumors of a murderous alien race, horrible beyond imagining. And when he finally makes it to an isolated military outpost rumored to harbor the captured aliens, he comes face-to-face with . . . humanity. Praise for Alan Dean Foster &ldquo;One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.&rdquo; &mdash;SFRevu.com &ldquo;Foster knows how to spin a yarn.&rdquo; &mdash;Starlog &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookbrowser</div>

Nor Crystal Tears

<div>A mind-blowing cosmic adventure from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Adventures of Pip &amp; Flinx. It&rsquo;s just another boring late night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Seeth, a disillusioned punk rocker with too much time on his hands and too little money. That is, until he heads to a bowling alley and runs into Kerwin, a geeky graduate student who&rsquo;s there doing research for a sociology assignment. While trying to distract Kerwin from his scholarly pursuits, Seeth notices two burly cops trying to unlawfully arrest a lone bowler, and for laughs, he jumps in to save him. When it turns out the bowler, the cops, and even the bowling ball are all different races of aliens involved in an interstellar chase, Seeth and Kerwin find themselves on a ship careening through space&mdash;protecting a mysterious, all-powerful lifeform that might possibly be the most valuable thing in the universe. Seeth&rsquo;s found the excitement he wanted. And he didn&rsquo;t even have to leave Albuquerque&mdash;just Earth. Praise for Alan Dean Foster &ldquo;One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.&rdquo; &mdash;SFRevu.com &ldquo;Foster knows how to spin a yarn.&rdquo; &mdash;Starlog &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookbrowser</div>

Glory Lane

<div>One man struggles to survive on a hostile alien world in this thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Madrenga. Some people are convinced they can do anything; Evan Orgell is one of them. So when his company president sends him off-world to investigate a breakdown in communications from a small research station on a newly discovered planet, he&rsquo;s all in. The planet&rsquo;s resources could mean massive profits for the company&mdash;and a successful mission could mean massive advancement for Evan. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Clad in a Mobile Hostile World suit, Evan has no doubts about his safety&mdash;until he lands on the world of Prism. Though he&rsquo;s already dealt with thousands of theoretical extraterrestrial problems, nothing prepares him for what he finds there. Hungry, invading lifeforms are everywhere. Over two dozen highly trained people have been overwhelmed and killed, some with their bones eaten from the inside out. It&rsquo;s utter devastation. Then, while Evan searches for survivors, his indestructible suit meets its match&mdash;and he must face the bloodthirsty predators of Prism alone, unprotected, with only his wits to rely on . . . Praise for Alan Dean Foster &ldquo;One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.&rdquo; &mdash;SFRevu.com &ldquo;Foster knows how to spin a yarn.&rdquo; &mdash;Starlog &ldquo;Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookbrowser</div>

Sentenced to Prism

<div>Every four years Americans go to the polls to elect a leader, someone serious, distinguished, respectable, with perfect sobriety and moral standing who will serve as a paragon for the rest of us. But presidents and their families are people too—with quirks and character flaws like everyone else . . . and they have plenty of skeletons rattling around in their closets. Oval Office Oddities is a grand compendium of fascinating, sometimes embarrassing presidential facts, gaffes, and oddball behaviors—available in plenty of time for Election Day!Mary Todd Lincoln had an endearing little clothing fetish . . . and once purchased 300 pairs of gloves in a single month!No Commander in Chief bothered to visit neglected California until Rutherford B. Hayes did in 1880.Crazy Jack: Many prominent leaders were absolutely convinced that John Adams was stark raving bonkers!Oval Office Oddities is jam-packed with amusing anecdotes and offbeat information presented in a way that makes our nation’s history accessible, relevant, and entertaining.</div>

Oshenerth

<div>“Every child deserves one miracle,” is the motto of the Fairy Godmothers Union. Raymond Crandall is skeptical whether he wants to be a part of something that sounds so hokey, but his Grandma Eustatia insisted he join. To his shock, Ray discovers that the fairy godmothers use real magic to grant those wishes, but the proper use of magic and the responsibility that goes with it are not easily learned. While he studies with Mrs. Rose Feinstein, a rival force, the Demons, Djinni and Efreets Guild, is also recruiting apprentices -- from the local street gangs. Ray discovers that granting wishes to children touches something in himself that he never knew was there. The DDEG want that power for themselves and are prepared to go to terrifying lengths to get it. The Fairy Godparents are in danger. Can Ray pull off a miracle for all of them, without jeopardizing the people that he loves?</div>

Madrenga

<div>Colony after colony, a strange epidemic is spreading. Dr. Shona Taylor is determined to find the cure before it’s too late. And she is not alone. By her side is a menagerie of very special assistants: An Abyssinian cat, a family of mine-canary mice, a pair of dwarf rabbits, an alien ottle, and a Bernese Mountain dog named Saffie, whose genetically altered immune system can synthesize vaccines. They’re a doctor’s best friends, and they’re all aboard Taylor’s Ark.</div>

The Taste of Different Dimensions

<div>Four complete, previously unpublished novels by Frank Herbert, world-renowned author of Dune. These novels, written before he became one of the most popular science fiction writers in the world, include a science fiction dystopia, a jungle survival adventure, a Cold War thriller, and a gripping mainstream story set in Mexico.</div>

Alan Dean Foster

Books By Alan Dean Foster (26 Books)