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Chapel of Ease: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's critically-acclaimed Tufa series that Kirkus Reviews calls "powerful, character-driven drama...a sheer delight." (starred review) When Matt Johanssen, a young New York actor, auditions for "Chapel of Ease," an off-Broadway musical,...
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A Green and Ancient Light

Frederic S Durbin · Saga Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Pan's Labyrinth and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer...
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Strange Bodies: A Novel

Marcel Theroux · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far NorthWhatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen,...
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Full Fathom Five: A Novel of the Craft Sequence

Max Gladstone · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations arent conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods--perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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Gilded Cage

Vic James · Del Rey
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve - for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals - aristocrats with...
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Into the Fire

ELIZABETH MOON · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the Nebula Award-winning author of Cold Welcome, Admiral Kylara Vatta is back - with a vengeance. Ky beats sabotage, betrayal, and the unforgiving elements to lead a ragtag group of crash survivors to safety on a remote arctic island. And she cheats...
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Blood Vow: Black Dagger Legacy

J R Ward · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward returns with an all-new tale of paranormal passion in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The Black Dagger Brotherhood continues to train the best of the best to join them in the deadly battle against the Lessening Society. Among...
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Symbiont

Mira Grant · Orbit Us
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES.
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere...
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Winter of Ice and Iron

Rachel Neumeier · Saga Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

In this gorgeous, dark fantasy in the spirit of Jacqueline Carey, a princess and a duke must protect the people of their nations when a terrible threat leaves everyone in danger.With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King of Pohorir in the east, Kehara Raehema knows her country...
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Hawk

Steven Brust · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Years ago, Vlad Taltos came to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices: gambling, rackets, organized crime....
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A Murder in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue...
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The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel

Daniel H Wilson · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient...
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Rule Breaker: A Novel of the Breeds

Lora Leigh · Berkley Books
Pages: 434
Format: Hardcover

There's a fine line between animal instinct and human desire - and in her "highly erotic saga" (Fresh Fiction), #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh crosses it. Now, in her new novel of the Breeds, the mating heat continues ... Lion Breed and enforcer Rule Breaker...
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