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The Dark Blood

A J Smith · Head of Zeus
Pages: 486
Format: Print book

In the court of every city in the lands of Ro, a sorceress sits. And in the minds of that city's people, each sorceress weaves a song. She and her sisters sing of the liberation of the land, the taming of the highland tribes, and the birth of a precious new race: the children of a dead...
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Year One

Nora Roberts · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author -- an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives ... It began on New Year's Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly....
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Carnivalesque

Neil Jordan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

Magical storyteller Neil Jordan steps into the realm of fantasy--for fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't. The boy saw it from the car window, the tops of the large trailer rides over...
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere...
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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, American War,...
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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

George Saunders · Random House
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead,...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire....
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Heart Sight

Robin D Owens · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Journey back to the planet Celta with award-winning author Robin D. Owens in this novel about shadowed enemies and unimaginable psi power.Muin "Vinni" T'Vine has been the prophet of Celta since he was six years old. A unique and lonely child, his strong psi power made most...
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO · Graywolf Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

A highly anticipated debut by "one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today" (Michelle Huneven) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror,...
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The Last Wolf

Maria Vale · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

For three days out of thirty, when the moon is full and her law is iron, the Great North Pack must be wild. If she returns to her Pack, the stranger will die. But if she stays...Silver Nilsdottir is at the bottom of her Pack's social order, with little chance for a decent mate and a better...
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We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories

Clare Beams · Lookout Books
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable ... a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century."The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school...
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

Kelly Regan Barnhill · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A stunning new collection of short fictions from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny...
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The End of the Day

CLAIRE NORTH · Redhook
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does.
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Ember

Brock Adams · Hub City Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Three years ago, the sun began to die. In a desperate attempt to reignite the failing star, the United States had joined the rest of the planet in unloading its nuclear arsenal at the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils...
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Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire

Michael J Sullivan · Del Rey
Pages: 409
Format: Print book

Michael J. Sullivan s trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted readership and comparisons to fantasy masters Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, and J. R. R. Tolkien...
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