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Ferryman institute

Colin Gigl · Gallery Books
Pages: 426
Format: Print book

In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman for the dead finds his existence unraveling after making either the best decision or the biggest mistake of his immortal life.Ferryman Charlie...
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The Wall of Storms

Ken Liu · Saga Press
Pages: 858
Format: Print book

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago...
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
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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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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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An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls...
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Robots vs. Fairies

Dominik Parisien · Saga Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome - robots or fairies?Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death...
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Amberlough: A Novel

Lara Elena Donnelly · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From author Lara Elena Donnelly, a debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coupTrust no one with anything - especially in Amberlough City.Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he's good at keeping secrets, especially...
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Red Sister

Mark Lawrence · Ace
Pages: 467
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show,...
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

SEANAN MCGUIRE · Tor.com
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones -- a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist,...
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Hero

R A SALVATORE · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Something akin to peace has come to the Underdark. The demon hordes have receded, and now the matron mothers argue over the fate of Drizzt Do'Urden. Even so, it becomes clear to one matriarch after another that while the renegade drow may come and go, Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders,...
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Persepolis Rising

James S. A. Corey · Orbit
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series.AN OLD ENEMY RETURNSIn the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse...
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Children of Earth and Sky

Guy Gavriel Kay · New American Library
Pages: 571
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands...
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The Prey of Gods

NICKY DRAYDEN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor....
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Betrayals: The Cainsville Series

Kelley Armstrong · Random House Canada
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The exciting fourth novel in bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series.When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she...
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