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Crimson Death: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K Hamilton · Berkley Books
Pages: 720
Format: Print book

In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder... Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn't usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he's being...
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The Bedlam Stacks

NATASHA PULLEY · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET--a treacherous quest in the magical landscape of nineteenth-century Peru.In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost...
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Brother's Ruin

EMMA NEWMAN · TOR COM
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages...
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Acacia: The War with the Mein

David Anthony Durham · Doubleday
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

Leodan Akaran ruler of the Known World has inherited generations of apparent peace and prosperity won ages ago by his ancestors A widower of high intelligence he presides over an empire called Acacia after the idyllic island from which he rules He dotes on his four children and hides from...
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Deadmen Walking

SHERRILYN KENYON · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon debuts a sweeping new epic saga sure to appeal to her millions of fans!Deadmen tell their tales . . . To catch evil, it takes evil. Enter Devyl Bane -- an ancient dark warlord returned to the human realm as one of the most notorious...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai · Dutton
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

"A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging. A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart. And a novel this smart has no right to be this funny. Or insightful. Or immersive. Basically, this novel has no right to exist." - Jonathan Tropper, New York Times...
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Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Welcome to Mexico City ... An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires ... Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eeking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -- Joe Hill, author of The FiremanOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points...
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Waking Gods: Book 2 of The Themis Files

Sylvain Neuvel · Del Rey
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as "a luminous conspiracy yarn . . . reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z," Sylvain Neuvel's innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward. As a child, Rose Franklin...
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A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Fantasy romance at its finest! This book has it all: A heroine full of spunk and spark, a hero full of mystery and masculinity, and an epic story full of intrigue and action. You will fall in love with these delicious characters. This book is utterly breathtaking!" -Darynda Jones,...
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Borne: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 336
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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Sonora

Hannah Lillith Assadi · Soho Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic...
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The Refrigerator Monologues

Catherynne M Valente · Saga Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comicsFrom the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female...
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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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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian...
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