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The Race

Nina Allan · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A child is kidnapped... A female journalist reaches into the past to find answers to a possible murder... Far away a young girl prepares for her mysterious future... In the tradition of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, The Race captivates the reader, weaving together story threads and realities...
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New Pompeii

Daniel Godfrey · Titan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption.Nick Houghton...
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The Big Sheep

Robert Kroese · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper...
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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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I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small...
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Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel

Paul Krueger · Quirk Books
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

Bailey Chen is fresh out of college with all the usual new-adult demons: no cash, no job offers, and an awkward relationship with Zane, the old friend she kinda-sorta hooked up with during high school. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his monster-fighting bartender friends, her demons...
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The Golden Age

Joan London · Europa Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Award for FictionJoan London, author of Gilgamesh, gives her readers an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love with The Golden Age. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family, Hungarian jews, escape...
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The Last One: A Novel

Alexandra Oliva · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva's fast-paced novel of suspense.She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face...
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Behind the Throne

K B Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

"Excellent SF adventure debut. " -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place...
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The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman · ROC
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization...
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