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Dexter Clarence Palmer · Vintage Books
Pages: 495
Format: Print book

Although Rebecca Wright has pieced her life back together after a major tragedy, she can't shake a sense that the world around her feels off-kilter. Meanwhile, her husband's dedication to his invention, "the causality violation device" (which he would greatly prefer you not call...
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Alien Education

Gini Koch · DAW
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Sci-fi action meets steamy paranormal romance in the Alien novels, as Katherine "Kitty" Katt faces off against aliens, conspiracies, and deadly secrets. - "Futuristic high-jinks and gripping adventure. " --RT Reviews It's a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President...
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Dark Mind: Star Carrier: Book Seven

Ian Douglas · Voyager
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas continues his Star Carrier saga as humanity unites against an ancient artificial consciousness powerful enough to exterminate every species it encounters2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation...
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Poison Promise

Jennifer Estep · Pocket Books

In book eleven of her New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin series, author Jennifer Estep continues one of the best urban fantasy series going on the market Fresh Fiction. Gin Blanco is hard-nosed, sexy, and lethal. Nicknamed The Spider, shes a stone elemental assassin who brings...
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The Wrong Dead Guy

Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this fast paced sequel to The Everything Box - the second entry in New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's comedic supernatural series - chaos ensues when Coop and the team at DOPS steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick ancient Egyptian mummy wielding some terrifying magic.Coop,...
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Circle of Blood: A Witch Hunt Novel

Debbie Viguie · Signet
Format: Book

Samantha Ryan—cop by choice, witch hunter by necessity—is about to confront the witch who has been secretly manipulating her life. But her search for the truth about her past may end in her death.… All her life, Samantha Ryan has been haunted by a circle of blood, which...
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Stolen Crown: A Novel of Mithgar

Dennis L. McKiernan · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 512
Format: Book

"For classic fantasy, there is no better author" (Jennifer Roberson) than Dennis L. McKiernan, who created the legendary realm of Mithgar. Now the national bestselling author of Dragondoom returns to his most beloved fictional world to reveal the untold history of the rightful...
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The Burning Isle

Will Panzo · Ace
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A powerful and gripping debut grimdark fantasy novel, set in a world of criminals, pirates, assassins, and magic... "A man has only three reasons for being anywhere: to right a wrong, to earn a coin, or because he is lost." Cassius is not lost... The mage Cassius has just...
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Arkwright

Allen M Steele · A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Written by a highly regarded expert on space travel and exploration, Allen Steele's Arkwright features the precision of hard science fiction with a compelling cast of characters. In the vein of classic authors such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke, Nathan Arkwright...
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1636: The Vatican Sanctions

Eric Flint · Baen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Book #24 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636 It's spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals - of Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church's...
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The Stars Are Legion

Kameron Hurley · Saga Press
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars.Here in the darkness, a war for control of the Legion has been waged for generations, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate...
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Thorn Jack: A Night and Nothing Novel

Katherine Harbour · Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

Combining the sorcery of The Night Circus with the malefic suspense of A Secret History, Thorn Jack is a spectacular, modern retelling of the ancient Scottish ballad, Tam Lin—a beguiling fusion of love, fantasy, and myth that echoes the imaginative artistry of the works of Neil Gaiman,...
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The Godless: Children: Book One

Ben Peek · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the worlds ocean. For thousands of years, men and women have awoken with strange powers that are derived...
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The Sound of Seas: Book 3 of The EarthEnd Saga

Gillian Anderson · Simon451
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin - the final book in their "addictive" (Marie Claire) EarthEnd Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers ... the perfect combination for X-Files fans.After...
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Legion: Skin Deep

Brandon Sanderson · Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. His ambitious, multi-volume epics (''Mistborn,'' ''The Stormlight Archive'') and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan's ''Wheel of Time''...
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