New Releases by Nancy Holder

While searching for a missing friend, Clark, Lana, and Chloe make a horrible discovery - an entire family, gruesomely murdered. At the same time, Lex Luthor''s tycoon father is violently abducted in broad daylight. The reports of a massacre of international workers in far-off Haiti seem a world away from sleepy Smallville. But then a rash of brazen robberies are committed in the town . . . by zombies! A mysterious death near an abandoned missile silo starts Clark searching for a new case of meteor mutation. But even Clark''s powers can''t reveal the lead-lined underground lab where a scientist''s meteor experiments are turning human subjects into murderous monsters. This looks like a job for . . . Clark Kent!

There is no time for Buffy to take a vacation and she could be facing death because there is a lot of evil in the world.

You make your own destiny, with the interactive story lines. Your decisions determine your fate. Do you have what it takes to be a slayer, or will you fail and summon a successor?

From southern California to Sedona, Arizona, from Oden Tal to Pylea, the war between the dimensions is heating up as Buffy and Angel face off against the demon Lir and the huntress Jhiera.

The strongest magick ever distilled, and the deadliest butcher England has ever known... Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly accepts the help of Spike. Anything''s better than his moping around. But Spike -- as usual -- has his own agenda, and it involves something the demon is carrying: a vial of pure magickal power. Spike knows plenty of people and demons who will pay top dollar for this vial: Doc, Rack...and an ancient evil known as The First. Spike has encountered The First before. In the good old days in Victorian London, when Spike, Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla ran through the night in pursuit of dark fun, another evil being was stalking the streets, dispatching young women with brutal efficiency. But when the so-called Jack the Ripper struck too close to their twisted family, the vampires found themselves on the same side as the Slayer of that time. Working to bring down Jack, and running afoul of The First, Spike and the Slayer formed an uneasy alliance, which followed Spike all through the twentieth century to present day Sunnydale, now blanketed in a mysterious fog....

A chaque génération, sa Tueuse. Aujourd''hui, c''est Buffy... Sans elle, les vampires n''auraient pas d''ennemi à leur taille et submergeraient le monde. À Sunnydale, le temps a passé et les enfants ont grandi. Ruper Giles, l''ancien Observateur de Buffy, a le sentiment d''être inutile depuis que sa Tueuse fréquente l''université et se console du départ d''Angel dans les bras de Riley. Une autre vie pour l''Elue... et une petite mort pour son mentor ! Déprimé, Giles décide de se sacrifier pour protéger Buffy d''une affreuse menace. Mais le démon qu''il veut convaincre de signer un pacte de sang, très méfiant, refuse de s''engager à la légère. Sur le seuil de l''enfer, Giles devra égrener ses souvenirs pour prouver au monstre que sa piteuse existence vaut bien le salut de la Tueuse...

Having learned the secret magics of the world Down Under, the Devereaux warlocks know how to plunge their enemies into a nightmare realm of the Dreamtime. To save her loved ones, Holly Cathers, the strongest Cathers witch, must enter the Dreamtime and battle with demons. Original.

The massacre of international workers in Haiti finds a bizarre link to a series of robberies in Smallville when it turns out that the perpetrators are zombies, and Clark Kent must discover the link between a military conspiracy, a ten-year-old jewelry theft, a local suicide, and Lionel Luthor''s secret projects before it is too late. Original. (A WB Network television series) (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

Holly Cather and her twin cousins are powerful witches and in constant danger from a rival clan. When Holly has a vision that Jer is still alive, she resolves to rescue him despite the fact that he is a member of their enemy clan. However, an ancient curse means that a plague is sure to fall on anyone Holly grows close to. Can she escape her destiny? Original.

Collects two novels about witches, Holly Cather and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole, who are caught up in an intergenerational feud between rival clans.

Angel, Cordy, Gunn, Wesley, Fred, and Chaz set off for a tropical island to try to save Faith from the nefarious plans of Chaz''s wife, Marianna, but the real danger may come from the lawyers of Wolfram & Hart.

Giles, attempting to make a deal with a demon to protect vampire slayer Buffy Summers, is taken on trip to the past to relive again the trials and tribulations of eighteenth, nineteenth, and soon-to-be twentieth birthdays.

Nancy Holderis a writer and a mom. She and Jeff Mariotte have written seven book-length projects together, including two(Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher''s Guide, Vol. 2,and the upcoming guide toAngel)with Jeff''s wife, Maryelizabeth Hart. They are all still speaking to each other.

When her parents are killed in an accident, high school senior Holly Cather is sent to Seattle to live with an aunt, uncle and cousins who are descendants, she discovers, from a powerful line of witches locked in battle with a dynasty of warlocks, represented in the modern world by a boy to whom Holly is strangely attracted.

It''s summertime in Sunnydale, and Salma de la Navidad, a friend of Buffy''s from Sunnydale High, needs help. She and her family immigrated to America, and now she fears her brother, in an attempt to gain social acceptance, has stumbled into supernatural gang warfare. To make matters worse, an unknown creature has been doing a little night stalking. Buffy is certain that this new demonic presence has its roots in L.A. -- Angel''s turf. So with the help of the Slayerettes, she heads off to battle demons -- both actual and personal. Meanwhile, in the City of Angels, Cordelia stumbles upon a vampire-worshiping cult of runaways as Angel investigates an invisible presence wreaking havoc in the local prisons. Now Buffy and pals must deal with identity crises of their own. Buffy may be the Chosen One, but she is, ultimately, expendable. Angel is unique, yet his particular status isolates him from humanity and monsters alike. So while all wonder -- do I make a difference? -- the humans and demons who surround them answer that question in astonishing ways...

In the conclusion to the epic crossover trilogy, Buffy and Angel must battle the ultimate evil to rescue a group of kidnapped teens in an alternate reality. Meanwhile, the Slayerettes hold down the fort until Buffy and Angel return, but a sudden act of violence seals the interdimensional portal to Sunnydale. Before Buffy and Angel can rid their own universe of supernatural chaos, they must find a way to return home.

Bekah Martin completes her nurse''s training in San Francisco, and is scheduled to return to the Territory of Hawaii to keep her promise of marriage to a man she doesn''t love. But on her way home, her chance encounter with a handsome naval ensign changes the direction of her life, as she''s faced with making the choice between happiness and responsibility on the morning of December 7, 1941.

THE GUYS, THE GALS, THE LORE, THE LINGO The chillingly complete "WATCHER''S GUIDE VOLUME 2" will slay you.

A chaque génération, sa Tueuse. Sans elle, les vampires n''auraient pas d''ennemi à leur taille et submergeraient le monde. Aujourd''hui, c''est Buffy... Sunnydale est décidément un endroit charmant ! A Halloween, quand il pleut, on raconte qu''un épouvantail gorgé d''eau s''anime et massacre tous ceux qui croisent son chemin. Alex et Willow, les meilleurs amis de Buffy, ont longtemps tenu cette histoire pour un ramassis d''âneries. Après avoir vécu quelques aventures avec Buffy, ils ne sont plus si sûrs de leur fait. D''autant qu''il commence à pleuvoir !

A souvenir from Aunt Vesta''s trip to Egypt sends Sabrina, Salem, and Valerie back in time to serve the Cat Goddess Bast. But when the goddess falls hard for the fast-talking black cat, she puts him under a love spell and locks his traveling companions in the maze of the Great Pyramid. Can they bring Salem to his senses before Bast morphs him into a mummy?

Willow, Xander, Oz, and Cordelia have stolen Buffy''s yearbook and are filling the pages with personal notes, funny drawings, song lyrics, short passages that flash back to key episodes, etc. Packed with all sorts of references to the show--as well as little-known secrets from behind the scenes--this "yearbook" is a must-have for all Buffy fans.

All-new adventures based on the hit TV show. Salem''s got nine lives...without parole!

Angel, along with two unlikely allies, sets out to save himself and the human population of Los Angeles.

Sabrina and her friends find themselves captive in the barn of two crazy French hot-air balloon inventors and now they must find a way back to Westbridge safely.

Wishbone imagines himself as a knight in twelfth-century England.

Eight short stories with a different disaster every day.

The ultimate fan guide to "this season''s most distinctive and sharply written new show" ("Entertainment Weekly"), this official companion book includes exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photos, a day on the set journal, and more. of color photos.

When a team of government scientists descends on Westbridge, on the lookout for signs of black magic, Sabrina tries to throw them off the trail while she struggles to reverse a spell she cast that has gone awry.