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Miranda and Caliban

Jacqueline Carey · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey's gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare's masterpiece, while serving up a fresh...
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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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Skitter: A Novel

Ezekiel Boone · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Ezekiel Boone follows up his terrifying "apocalyptic extravaganza of doom and heroism" (Publishers Weekly) The Hatching with Skitter, the horrifying sequel in which the carnivorous spiders are running rampant - but for what's left of humanity, the worst is yet to come.Tens...
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Shadow of Victory

David Weber · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!Unintended Consequences Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically...
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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova · Back Bay Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world...
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The Man in the Tree: A Novel

SAGE WALKER · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Humanity's last hope of survival lies in space ... but will a random death doom the venture?Our planet is dying and the world's remaining nations have pooled their resources to build a seed ship that will carry colonists on a multi-generational journey to a distant planet.Everything...
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Dragonfly in Amber

DIANA GABALDON · Delacorte Press
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully designed collector's edition of the second book in Diana Gabaldon's blockbuster Outlander saga (now a Starz original series) , featuring a new introduction by the author A quarter century ago, Diana Gabaldon followed up her classic novel Outlander with a powerful sequel...
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Mongrels: A Novel

Stephen Graham Jones · William Morrow
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOTA spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile...
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Reliquary

Sarah Fine · 47north
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real - and Ben is hooked....
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Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Book 2)

Naomi Novik · Del Rey
Pages: 432
Format: Book

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon...
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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," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too."In...
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Ashes of Honor

Seanan McGuire · DAW; Original edition
Format: Book

A New York Times bestseller!Its been almost a year since October Toby Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good days sleep.  Shes tried to focus on her responsibilities, but she cant help feeling like her world is crumbling...
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Minion

L A Banks · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 296
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Minion: The Special Huntress EditionIn this exciting new edition of the first book in the Vampire Huntress Legend series, both fans and newcomers alike will experience a Minion that includes: * An Exciting New Beginning* Never-Before-Read scenes* Fast and Furious Action-readers better hold...
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Version Control: A Novel

Dexter Palmer · Pantheon Books
Pages: 495
Format: Print book

The acclaimed author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion returns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self. Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal...
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Spells of Blood and Kin: A Dark Fantasy

Claire Humphrey · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Where we love, we ruin ... Some families hand down wealth through generations; some hand down wisdom. Some families, whether they want to or not, hand down the secret burdens they carry and the dangerous debts they owe.Lissa Nevsky's grandmother leaves her a big, empty house, and a legacy...
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