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Ghost Talkers

Mary Robinette Kowal · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ghost Talkers: a new novel from beloved fantasy author Mary Robinette Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in World War I.Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer....
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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Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak.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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A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 441
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An Amazon Best Book of 2016! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016!An NPR Best Book of 2016! An Amazon Best Book of the Month!"I can say, without a doubt, that A Promise of Fire is going on my keeper shelf...I cannot remember the last time I wanted to both savor and devour a book."...
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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval...
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Life Debt: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig · Del Rey
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the never-before-told story that began with Star Wars: Aftermath continues in this thrilling novel, the second book of Chuck Wendig's bestselling trilogy.It is a dark time for the Empire. . . . The Emperor...
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Paradox Bound: A Novel

Peter Clines · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for god's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing...
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The Will to Battle

ADA PALMER · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Will to Battle -- the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series -- a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity"A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite,...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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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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Happiness for Humans

P Z Reizin · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid. "You, Tom and Jen, don't know one another-not yet-but I think you should." Jen, an ex-journalist...
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An Almond for a Parrot

Wray Delaney · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying ... In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets...
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Winter Halo

Keri Arthur · Penguin Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Souls of Fire novels comes the second in the futuristic fantasy series that will make you want to keep the lights on... When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between worlds, they allowed entry to the Others....
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel

Becky Chambers · Harper Voyager
Pages: 443
Format: Print book

The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader's Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's...
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Dark State

CHARLES STROSS · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verseDark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek...
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