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The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death

Kim Harrison · Pocket Books
Pages: 441
Format: Mass Market Paperback

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Call of Fire

BETH CATO · Harper Voyager
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A resourceful young heroine must protect the world from her enemies - and her own power - in this thrilling sequel to the acclaimed Breath of Earth, an imaginative blend of alternative history, fantasy, science, magic, and adventure.When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate...
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The Melody: A Novel

Jim Crace · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest, Quarantine, and Being Dead, a tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love--all set by the Mediterranean SeaAside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town...
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Luna: Wolf Moon

Ian Mcdonald · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed . The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful...
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A Spoonful of Magic

IRENE RADFORD · DAW
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A delightful new urban fantasy about a kitchen witch and her magical familyDaphne "Daffy" Rose Wallace Deschants has an ideal suburban life - three wonderful and talented children; a coffee shop and bakery, owned and run with her best friend; a nearly perfect husband, Gabriel,...
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Pride and Prometheus

John Kessel · Saga Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful." - Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves Pride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic...
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Trail of Lightning

Rebecca Roanhorse · Saga Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally...
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Dancing in Dreamtime

Scott R Sanders · Indiana University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

Fans today may be surprised to learn Scott Russell Sanders was previously one of the brightest science-fiction newcomers of the 1980s. In Dancing in Dreamtime, he returns to his roots, exploring both inner and outer space in a speculative collection of short stories. At a time when humankind...
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Side Life

Steve Toutonghi · Soho Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Dazzling, paranoid literary sci-fi for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. DickVin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret...
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland,...
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Census

JESSE BALL · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of townsWhen a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will...
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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

TOM MILLER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew...
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Gilded Cage

Vic James · Del Rey
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve - for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals - aristocrats with...
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Chapel of Ease: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's critically-acclaimed Tufa series that Kirkus Reviews calls "powerful, character-driven drama...a sheer delight." (starred review) When Matt Johanssen, a young New York actor, auditions for "Chapel of Ease," an off-Broadway musical,...
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The Infinite Future

Tim Wirkus · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book--and find it. The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning...
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