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Aftertime

Sophie Littlefield · Luna; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished.And with her, nearly all of civilization.Where once-lush hills carried...
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Time Siege

Wesley Chu · Tor
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

Time Siege, a fast-paced time-travel adventure from award-winning author Wesley ChuHaving been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future.Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wasteland--the perfect hiding place for a fugitive ex-chronman...
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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor Lavalle · Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 2016.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility...
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After the Crown

K. B. Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The adrenaline-fueled, "Star Wars-"style sequel to "Behind the Throne, " a new space adventure series from author K. B. Wagers. Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters...
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A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many...
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Sins of Empire

Brian McClellan · Orbit
Pages: 604
Format: Hardcover

A new epic fantasy series from highly acclaimed fantasy author, Brian McClellan, set in the same world as The Powder Mage trilogy.
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Humans, Bow Down

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In a world run by machines, humans are an endangered species.The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai · Dutton
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have ... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where...
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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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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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Faith of the Fallen

Terry Goodkind · Tor
Pages: 785
Format: Paperback

Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor...
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The Shock of Night

Patrick W. Carr · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 459
Format: Paperback

Patrick Carr Launches a New Suspense-filled Fantasy EpicWhen one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the streets of Bunard, Willet Dura is called to investigate. Yet the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers. As Willet...
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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever. "A transcendent, cross-cultural,...
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The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey · Orbit
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

From the author of USA Today bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts, a terrifying new novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent...
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