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Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel

Paul Krueger · Quirk Books
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

Bailey Chen is fresh out of college with all the usual new-adult demons: no cash, no job offers, and an awkward relationship with Zane, the old friend she kinda-sorta hooked up with during high school. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his monster-fighting bartender friends, her demons...
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Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 47North
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope...
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Power Game

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The latest sexy and suspenseful GhostWalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spider Game. When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a super soldier...
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Ninth City Burning

J Patrick Black · Ace Books
Pages: 482
Format: Print book

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender's Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them...
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER · Crown
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian...
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Green Fields: Resurgence

Adrienne Lecter · Barbara Klein
Pages: 435
Format: Print book

Not so lucky anymore ... Civilization is on the brink of crumbling - and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest - or maybe even a brewing civil war - are getting loud....
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The Mongrel Mage

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 559
Format: Hardcover

The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world with world-building detail and an ingenious and disciplined magic system. L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling fantasy series with volume nineteen, The Mongrel Mage, which marks the beginning of a new story arc.In...
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Passing Strange

ELLEN KLAGES · TOR COM
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer...
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Bookburners

Max Gladstone · Saga Press
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic - previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time!Magic is real, and hungry. It's trapped in ancient texts and artifacts,...
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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter · Grove Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

"The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count." -- Tracy Chevalier Pre-empted...
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Ocean of Storms

Christopher Mari · 47north
Pages: 410
Format: Print book

In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth's electrical infrastructure. To plumb...
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Crossways: A Psi-Tech Novel

Jacey Bedford · Daw Books
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

Ben Benjamin, psi-tech Navigator, and Cara Carlinni, Telepath, can never go home again. To the Trust and Alphacorp alike, they are wanted criminals. Murder, terrorism, armed insurrection, hijacking, grand theft, and kidnapping are just the top of a long list of charges they'll face...
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We Were Witches

Ariel Gore · Amethyst Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily...
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Redder Than Blood

Tanith Lee · DAW
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A vampiric Snow White whose pious stepmother is her only salvation.... A supernatural Cinderella who strikes at midnight, leaving behind a prince mad with desire....A sleeping beauty never meant to be woken...In her World Fantasy Award-nominated short story collection, Red as Blood, Tanith...
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The Murdstone Trilogy

Mal Peet · Candlewick Press
Pages: 313
Format: Print book

How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? From Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet comes an outrageously funny black comedy about an impoverished literary writer who makes a pact with the devil.Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving...
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