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Immortal Muse

Stephen Leigh · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 535
Format: Hardcover

An immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her lovers ... Another immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment... A chase through time, with two people bound together in enmity and fury ... Magic and science melded together into one,...
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

Heather O'Neill · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington Post

A spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose...
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Empire's End: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig · Del Rey
Pages: 423
Format: Print book

Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.

As...
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Consumed

David Cronenberg · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media...
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Fifth Grave Past the Light

Darynda Jones · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Never underestimate the power of a woman on a double espresso with a mocha latte chaser high. --T-shirt Charley Davidson isnt your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper. Shes more of a paranormal private eyegrim reaper extraordinaire. However,...
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The Body in the Clouds: A Novel

Ashley Hay · Washington Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the acclaimed author of the "exquisitely written and deeply felt" (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman's Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred...
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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,...
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Highfell Grimoires

Langley Hyde · Blind Eye Books
Format: Book

Born to privilege and gifted in languages and spells, Neil Franklin has planned his brilliant future well. From academic accolades to finding a proper marriage he is intent upon upholding his family name and honor. The sudden death of his parents shatters all of that, leaving Neil and his younger...
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Borne: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly.

"Am I a person?" Borne asked me.
"Yes, you are a person,"...

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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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A Green and Ancient Light

Frederic S Durbin · Saga Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Pan's Labyrinth and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer...
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Fish Tails: A Novel

Sheri S. Tepper · Harpercollins
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

In her 35th novel, science fiction master Sheri S. Tepper boldly weaves together the storylines of eleven of her previous works - from King's Blood Four (1983) to The Waters Rising (2010).In Fish Tails, two of Sheri S. Tepper's beloved characters - Abasio and Xulai (A Plague of Angels...
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Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to kare no junrei no toshi.

Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki...

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Elysium Fire

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic...
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The Pilgrims: A Novel

Will Elliott · Tor Books
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

Eric Albright is a twenty-six-year-old journalist living in London. That is to say he would be a journalist if he got off his backside. But this luckless slacker isn't all bad--he has a soft spot for his sometimes friend Stuart Casey, the homeless old drunk who mostly lives under the railway...
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