The June magazine started to wend its way into the mail-stream yesterday, and that means it's time for me to announce all of the new books that are contained within it. So, without further ado...

Selections:

• The Last Colony by John Scalzi; the completion of a loose trilogy with Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades, in which our heroes lead a new colony and much more of the background is revealed.
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, a great debut fantasy novel about the life story of a very interesting character with a compelling voice.

Alternates:

• Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold; our "50th Anniversary Collection" continues with this gripping Hugo Award-winning entry in the "Vorkosigan" series.
• Best Short Novels: 2007, edited by Jonathan Strahan; if I could make any book required reading for club members, it would be this series...
• Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, beginning a new alternate-historical WWII series by the authors of Gettysburg.
• Wizard Under Fire by Jim Butcher; our fourth omnibus collecting the great "Dresden Files" contemporary fantasy series (which many of you may recognize from the Sci-Fi Channel TV show) includes Proven Guilty and the brand-new novel White Night.
• A Fate Worse Than Dragons by John Moore is the newest funny fantasy from a modern master, with brave knights boldly searching for dragons to be slain, princesses to be saved, and toast to be buttered.
• The Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon; a new book in a spin-off from her "Dark Hunter" series
• Sword of the Deceiver by Sarah Zettel; a new tale of Isavalta

Other New Books:

• How to Cheat at Everything by Simon Lovell; a very useful book, but don't think you'll be invited to my poker night if I see you've bought it!
• Scourge of the Seas by Angus Konstam; a history of pirates! (And who doesn't love pirates?)