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Black Moon: A Novel

Kenneth Calhoun · Hogarth; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls ldquoGripping and expertly constructedrdquoInsomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows Even his beloved wife Carolyn has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes slurred...
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Winter of the Gods

Jordanna Max Brodsky · Orbit
Pages: 461
Format: Print book

"The Immortals is a lively re-imagining of classical mythology with an engaging premise, a page-turning plot, and an eye for the arresting and uncanny in contemporary urban life. "--Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches Manhattan has many...
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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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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Jodi Taylor · Accent Press Ltd
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Max is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail - to go wrong! Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should...
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Dorothy Parker Drank Here

Ellen Meister · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom.Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone,...
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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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Dark Sky

Mike Brooks · Saga Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

In the sequel to the thrilling Dark Run, which Publishers Weekly called "a terrific debut," Ichabod Drift and his crew sign on for a new smuggling job that soon goes south when they are separated and caught up in a dangerous civil war.When Ichabod Drift and the Keiko crew sign...
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Midnight Crossroad

Charlaine Harris · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGYFrom Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale - populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it ... Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town...
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The Way Into Chaos: Book One of The Great Way

Harry Connolly · Radar Avenue Press
Format: Print book

BOOK ONE OF THE GREAT WAY The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears,and a monopoly on magic until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of incredible power and ferocity. Neither soldier nor spell caster can stand against...
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
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Rituals: The Cainsville Series

KELLEY ARMSTRONG · Random House Canada
Pages: 471
Format: Hardcover

The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.When Olivia Taylor-Jones found...
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Assassin's Price

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Assassin's Price is the eleventh book in the bestselling, epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the third book in a story arc which began with Madness in Solidar and Treachery's Tools.Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and the man behind...
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Shadow of Victory

David Weber · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!Unintended Consequences Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically...
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White Heart of Justice

Jill Archer · Ace
Format: Paperback

Since Lucifer claimed victory at Armageddon, demons, angels, and humans have coexisted in uneasy harmony. Those with waning magic are trained to maintain peace and order. But hostilities are never far from erupting… After years of denying her abilities, Noon Onyx, the first woman in history...
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Navigators of dune.

Brian Herbert · Tor
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats,...
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