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A Murder in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain · Pegasus Books
Pages: 498
Format: Hardcover

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life -- 200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin · Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell,...
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The Cure

Douglas E. Richards · Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Be sure to also read Richards's newest technothriller, Mind's Eye. "The Cure will keep you turning the pages all night long." --Douglas Preston, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Impact "Richards is a tremendous new talent. The Cure is an extraordinarily...
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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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Ember

Brock Adams · Hub City Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Three years ago, the sun began to die. In a desperate attempt to reignite the failing star, the United States had joined the rest of the planet in unloading its nuclear arsenal at the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils...
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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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Something More Than Night

Ian Tregillis · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret,...
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Lost Souls

Xaviere Daumarie · Subterranean Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrick - author of books on the supernatural - brings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country...
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The Long Cosmos: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harpercollins
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join...
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The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, With Winds and Accompaniment

L. E. Modesitt · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and the Unity...
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The Madonna and the Starship

James Morrow · Tachyon Publications
Format: Book

Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of... THE DIABOLICAL LOBSTERS FROM OUTER SPACE! New York City, . The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the apocalyptic...
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The Crown Tower

Michael J. Sullivan · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

*** 2013 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist in Fantasy ***Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure...
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Hurricane Fever

Tobias S. Buckell · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A storm is comingx. Introducing a pulse-pounding technothriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Arctic RisingPrudence Roo Jones never thought hed have a family to look after--until suddenly he found himself taking care of his orphaned teenage nephew. Roo, a former Caribbean...
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The Jane Austen Project: A Novel

Kathleen Flynn · Harper Perennial
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers...
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