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The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will they go for their...
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Revolution: The Secret World Chronicle III

Mercedes Lackey · Baen Books
Pages: 543
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #3 in a new pulse-pounding saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with supervillain Verdegris, who seeks to destroy them from within, before turning their...
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · Redhook
Format: Hardcover

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIMEHarry August is on his deathbed AgainNo matter what he does or the decisions he makes when death comes Harry always returns to where he began a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before Nothing ever changes...
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The Midnight Witch

Paula Brackston · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Midnight is the most bewitching hour of them all…From Paula Brackston, the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter and The Winter Witch, comes a magical tale that is as dark as it is enchanting. Set in high society Edwardian England, The Midnight Witch is the story...
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Apes and Angels

Ben Bova · Tor
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found...
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A Kiss Before Doomsday

Laurence MacNaughton · Pyr
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback

It seems as if Dru, proprietor of the Crystal Connection and newly minted sorceress, has only just averted one apocalypse when another comes along. Undead creatures have appeared on the streets of Denver, attacking sorcerers, who are acting even more strangely than usual. Signs point to forbidden...
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Belle Chasse: A Novel of The Sentinels of New Orleans

Suzanne Johnson · Tor
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Suzanne Johnson's "strong and intriguing" (Publishers Weekly) urban fantasy series continues with Belle Chasse. The Sentinels of New Orleans series has earned starred reviews from Library Journal ("a resourceful heroine who relies on her magical ingenuity") and PW ("vivid...a...
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Red Sister

Mark Lawrence · Ace
Pages: 467
Format: Hardcover

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show,...
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NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting...
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Drowning in Fire

Hanna Martine · Berkley Sensation
Pages: 342
Format: Paperback

Hidden in the Hawaiian islands, there is magic pure enough to heal a broken heart ... In his last audience with the Senatus, Griffin hoped to establish a connection between his water-wielding race and the other elementals. Instead, he found himself drawn into a forbidden affair with the Chimeran...
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The Goblin Emperor

Katherine Addison · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place...
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Jade City

FONDA LEE · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin · Orbit
Pages: 433
Format: Paperback

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season
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An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls...
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Treachery's Tools

L E Jr Modesitt · Tor Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Treachery's Tools is L. E. Modesitt's tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar, Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married with a daughter, he would like...
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