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Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography

Arthur C. Clarke · Bantam Books; 1st Thus. edition

This "science-fictional autobiography" by the author of "Childhood's End" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" is an account of the circumstances and stories that set Arthur C.Clarke on the path to becoming one of the world's most successful science fiction...
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Crown of Renewal

Elizabeth Moon · Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSAcclaimed author Elizabeth Moon spins gripping, richly imagined epic fantasy novels that have earned comparisons to the work of such authors as Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold. In this volume, Moon's brilliant masterwork reaches...
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Sustenance: A Saint-Germain novel

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution—and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe in Chelsea Quinn Yarbros SUSTENANCE The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad. ...
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The Turning Season

Sharon Shinn · Ace
Format: Hardcover

In national bestselling author Sharon Shinns latest Shifting Circle novel, a woman must choose between hiding her nature—and risking her heart...For Karadel, being a shape-shifter has always been a reality she couldnt escape. Even though shes built a safe life as a rural veterinarian,...
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Raising Steam

Terry Pratchett · Doubleday
Pages: 365
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSteam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements - earth, air, fire, and water - and it's soon drawing astonished...
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The Murdstone Trilogy

Mal Peet · Candlewick Press
Pages: 313
Format: Print book

How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? From Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet comes an outrageously funny black comedy about an impoverished literary writer who makes a pact with the devil.Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving...
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Visions

Kelley Armstrong · Dutton; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

As #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.Omens, the first installment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new series,...
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The Wicked: A Novel

Douglas Nicholas · Atria/Emily Bestler Books

A thrilling and intoxicating journey to a land of legend, where nothing is quite as it seems. . . . Something evil has come to reside in a castle by the chill waters of the North Sea: men disappear and are found as horribly wizened corpses, knights ride out and return under an enchantment...
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The Flight of the Silvers

Daniel Price · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 608

"I could list the wonders of this new world for a while, but I'd rather let you discover them for yourself when you read the book. You should read this book! I loved The Flight of the Silvers. I found it very difficult to put it aside to deal with my own life ... It really is an amazing...
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