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The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent

Marie Brennan · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must...
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Shovel Ready

Adam Sternbergh · Random House Inc
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls "sharp as a paper-cut" about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon.Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis,...
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Arcanum

Simon Morden · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 765
Format: Paperback

Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes,...
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Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

David Barnett · Tor Books
Pages: 351
Format: Paperback

Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world -- including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend,...
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An Almond for a Parrot

Wray Delaney · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying ... In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets...
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Strange Bodies: A Novel

Marcel Theroux · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far NorthWhatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen,...
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The Boleyn Deceit: A Novel

Laura Andersen · Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Showtime’s The Tudors, The Boleyn Deceit is the captivating new novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terrain rife with palace intrigue, impending war, and unbridled...
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The Disestablishment of Paradise

Phillip Mann · Gollancz; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

An ecological SF thriller with elements of Avatar and Silent RunningSomething has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers—farmers and scientists—are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous...
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian...
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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

Combining the emotional depth of "The Art of Racing in the Rain" with the magical spirit of "The Life of Pi, " "Lily and the Octopus "is an epic adventure of the heart. When you sit down with "Lily and the Octopus, " you will be taken on an unforgettable...
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Etched in Bone

Anne Bishop · Roc
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders - a primitive and lethal form of the Others...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD · Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War,...
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland,...
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Storm Warrior

Dani Harper · Montlake Romance
Format: Paperback

Enslaved for millennia by the masters of the Welsh faery realm, the fierce Celtic warrior Rhys is doomed to wander the earth forever. But when a brave beauty unwittingly breaks the enchantment, he is drawn into a strange new world…and an all-consuming desire. Sensible Morgan doesn’t...
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