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Otherworld Nights: An Anthology

Kelley Armstrong · Plume
Format: Print book

Rare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling seriesIts been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons....
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The Top of the Volcano: the Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison · Subterranean
Format: Hardcover

''Only connect,'' E.M. Forster famously said, and Harlan Ellison was canny enough to make that the lifeblood of his achievement from the get-go.New, fresh and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story...
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The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Isabel Allende · Atria Paperback, 2015.
Pages: 481
Format: Print book

The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers.The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose...
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Assail: A Novel of the Malazan Empire

Ian C. Esslemont · Tor Books
Format: Book

This followup to Ian C. Esslemont's Blood and Bone is sure to delight Malazan fans. Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and inaccessibility, is at last yielding its secrets. Tales of gold discovered in the region's...
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois · Griffin
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's...
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Four Roads Cross: A Novel of the Craft Sequence

Max Gladstone · Tor
Pages: 414
Format: Print book

From Max Gladstone, the new novel in the series praised by NPR as "sharp, original, and passionate."In Four Roads Cross, the great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city,...
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Belle Chasse: A Novel of The Sentinels of New Orleans

Suzanne Johnson · Tor
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Suzanne Johnson's "strong and intriguing" (Publishers Weekly) urban fantasy series continues with Belle Chasse. The Sentinels of New Orleans series has earned starred reviews from Library Journal ("a resourceful heroine who relies on her magical ingenuity") and PW ("vivid...a...
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The Devourers

Indra Das · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night,...
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Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel

Gregory Benford · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping...
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The Song of the Orphans: The Silvers Book Two

Daniel Price · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the genre-bending Silvers series - an io9 "can't miss" sci-fi pick - about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from our own. The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from apocalypse...
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King of Assassins: The Elven Ways: Book Three

Jenna Rhodes · DAW Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Thrown into exile on Kerith by a sorcerous act of war, the Vaelinars have used their own unique talents to gain power over the races native to this world, and to create magical Ways that remold Kerith forever.  But now their war has followed them, ripping holes in the fabrics of both...
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Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

Charlaine Harris · Ace
Format: Hardcover

There's more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew ... The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world - including other authors. Now this group of writers, specifically chosen by Charlaine,...
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Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, I

R A Salvatore · Wizards of the Coast
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

R.A. Salvatore's New York Times best-selling saga continues as dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden returns to Gauntlgrym with old friends by his side once again, as they seek to rescue Bruenor's loyal shield dwarf-turned-vampire. But not only do Drizzt and his allies face a perilous journey...
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Prototype

M. D. Waters · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The stunning debut that began with Archetype - and has readers buzzing - concludes in Prototype, when a woman's dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future.Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past - both of them. After more than...
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Last Year

Robert Charles Wilson · Tor
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Robert Charles Wilson was born in California and lives in Toronto. His novel Spin won science fiction's Hugo Award in 2006. Earlier, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel A Hidden Place; Canada's Aurora Award for Darwinia; and the John W. Campbell Award for The Chronoliths.
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