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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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Three Princes

Ramona Wheeler · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Lord Scott Oken, a prince of Albion, and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke live in a world where the sun never set on the Egyptian Empire. In the year 1877 of Our Lord Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Djoser-George governs a sprawling realm that spans Europe, Africa, and much of Asia. When...
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Bloodline

Claudia Gray · Del Rey
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Star Wars: Lost Stars comes a thrilling novel set in the years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens."Unmissable . . . Bloodline's tense politics, vivid new characters, and perfectly characterized Leia make it feel as central...
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Fury of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Six

Diana Rowland · Daw Books
Pages: 484
Format: Paperback

Demon summoner Kara Gillian bears the scars of Rhyzkahl's treachery, but she refuses to let them slow her down. She and the demonic lord Mzatal have not rested in their efforts to recover Idris - Mzatal's summoner protégé who was kidnapped by enemy lords - but now their search...
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Talon of God

WESLEY SNIPES · Harper Voyager
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no faith to help stop a powerful demon and his minions from succeeding in creating hell on earth - a thrilling adventure of science and faith, good and evil,...
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A Darkling Sea

James L. Cambias · St Martins Pr
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don't disturb...
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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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The Waking Engine

David Edison · Tor Books
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again,...
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1920: America's Great War

Robert Conroy · Baen
Format: Hardcover

 By the author of breakout WW II era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun, a compelling alternate history thriller.  After winning WW I, Germany invades America in 1920, marching through California and Texas as a desperate nation resists.Consider another 1920:...
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Dancing With The Dead

Charles Freedom Long · Createspace
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback

"For me, to live is to die," Fahd al-Sharfa said. "I want to destroy Luna City and the space stations and become a martyr for truth." Bit Fahd, a brilliant astrophysicist, never counted on falling in love with Doctor Quenby, his Antal coworker, whom he was now about...
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Dark Promises

Christine Feehan · Jove Pubns
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in the new Carpathian novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling "queen of paranormal romance."* Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the Carpathian warrior she loves nearly lose his life when it isn't even...
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present...
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The Pilgrims: A Novel

Will Elliott · Tor Books
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

Eric Albright is a twenty-six-year-old journalist living in London. That is to say he would be a journalist if he got off his backside. But this luckless slacker isn't all bad--he has a soft spot for his sometimes friend Stuart Casey, the homeless old drunk who mostly lives under the railway...
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Yann Martel
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh....
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Subhuman

MICHAEL MCBRIDE · Pinnacle
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world's top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human . . . THEY ARE NOT NATURAL. Deep beneath the ice, the submerged...
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