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Faithful: A Novel

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night...
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Weave a Circle Round: A Novel

KARI MAAREN · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Discover your inner child once again in this debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg. When the unexpected moves in next door, anything can happen in Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren's debut in this YA-friendly fantasy adventure. Freddy...
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The Big Book of Science Fiction

Anne VanderMeer · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 1216
Format: Print book

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present, and future! What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases...
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The Rich and the Dead: A Novel

Liv Spector · William Morrow
Pages: 310
Format: Book

To solve the crime of the century, she'll have to go back in time....Welcome to Star Island, where Miami's wealthiest residents lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling mansions. It's a blissful escape from the hot and dirty city - or it was, until New Year's Day 2015,...
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Blood Fury: Black Dagger Legacy

J.R. Ward · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this sexy paranormal romance novel set in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward tells the story of two couples - both fighting to find love in the midst of the war with the Lessening Society. A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware...
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Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card · Tor, 2014.
Pages: 395
Format: Print book

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations;...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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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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Starhawk

Jack McDevitt · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 407
Format: Book

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure ... Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from...
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Dark Blood

Christine Feehan · Berkley; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The fates of a warrior reborn and a seductive Dragonseeker are irrevocably entwined in the new Carpathian novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, "the queen of paranormal romance" (J. R. Ward) . At long last you are truly back with us...Zev Hunter was an elite...
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Closer to Home: Book One of Herald Spy

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Format: Hardcover

Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion...
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The Disestablishment of Paradise

Phillip Mann · Gollancz; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

An ecological SF thriller with elements of Avatar and Silent RunningSomething has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers—farmers and scientists—are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous...
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Child of a Mad God

R. A. Salvatore · Tor Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

As the Blood Moon rises high upon the mountain of the Usgar a demon hunts. But this is not the demon's story. This is the story of a young woman, the daughter of a witch, born under the Blood Moon, how she finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians, and how she came to know the world.From...
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss · Saga Press
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders - and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents'...
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Covert Game

Christine Feehan · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Treason, torture and temptation haunt the GhostWalkers in their most dangerous adventure yet, as Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series hits an explosive new high.Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide mission for the GhostWalkers....
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