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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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Undead and Done

Maryjanice Davidson · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor continues her rule in Hell in the scorchingly funny finale to the Undead series from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson.It had been a well-kept secret for centuries, but now the existence of vampires is all over the news, thanks to Betsy Taylor's...
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Dark Deeds

Mike Brooks · Saga Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the third book of the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet's criminal mastermind.After the riotous civil war in Dark...
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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 rise and fall of D.O.D.O. : a novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 752
Format: Paperback

When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government...
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Markswoman

Rati Mehrotra · Harper Voyager
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

An order of magical-knife wielding female assassins brings both peace and chaos to their post-apocalyptic world in this bewitching blend of science fiction and epic fantasy - the first entry in a debut duology that displays the inventiveness of the works of Sarah Beth Durst, Marie Lu, and S. J. Kincaid.Kyra...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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King of Ashes

Raymond E. Feist · Harper Voyager
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga - an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world's destiny.For centuries, the five greatest kingdoms of North and South...
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The One

John Marrs · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

How far would you go to find THE ONE? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate...
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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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Scarlet Tides

David Hair · Jo Flectch
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

In Scarlet Tides David Hair continues his stunning fantasy epic set in the masterfully crafted world of Urte.
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The Summon Stone

Ian Irvine · Orbit
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A new epic fantasy series begins in the world of his MILLION-COPY-SELLING Three Worlds Cycle.
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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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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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The Wall of Storms

Ken Liu · Saga Press
Pages: 858
Format: Print book

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago...
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