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Odd Men Out

Matt Betts · Dog Star Books
Format: Paperback

The Civil War has ended but not because the South surrendered, instead its on hold while both sides face a new enemy-the chewers, dead men whove come back to life. Cyrus Joseph Spencer didnt fight in the war and couldnt care less about the United Nations of America that resulted from it. His main...
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City of Lost Dreams: A Novel

Magnus Flyte · Penguin Books

The exhilarating, genre-bending sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller City of Dark Magic“If you’re looking for a time-travel mystery with laughs, danger, and a romantic interest clad in lederhosen (and who isn’t?), look no further.”—People (4 Stars)In...
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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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Iced: Fever Series Book 6

Karen Marie Moning · Delacorte Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning picks up where Shadowfever leaves off with Iced, the sixth book in her blockbuster Fever series. The year is 1 AWC - After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It's a war zone out there, and no two days are alike....
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Midnight Crossroad

Charlaine Harris · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGYFrom Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale - populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it ... Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town...
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The Stone in the Skull

ELIZABETH BEAR · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy.Best SFF Books 2017 -- The GuardianKirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017The Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017Locus 2017 Recommended Reading...
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Ramses the damned returns : the passion of Cleopatra

Anne Rice · Anchor
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be,...
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Beneath the Sugar Sky

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayBeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns...
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My Real Children

Jo Walton · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying...
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Untitled Fox Project

NOT AVAILABLE. · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

The most celebrated movie of the year is now the must-read novel of 2018."[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments...
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Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future

John Scalzi · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent...
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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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Zero Limit

Jeremy K. Brown · 47North
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback

Artemis meets Gravity in this gripping, adrenaline-fueled ride. For war hero Caitlin Taggart, mining work on the Moon is dirty, low pay, and high risk. But no risk seems too extreme if it helps her return to Earth and the daughter she loves more than life itself. Offered a dangerous, long-shot...
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Noir: A Novel

Christopher Moore · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including...
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Arabella of Mars

David D Levine · Tor Books
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.Now, one century later,...
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