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Perfect Shadow

BRENT WEEKS · Orbit
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel.Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father;...
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The blood mirror

Brent Weeks · Orbit

"The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four-and those are falling before the White King's armies. Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold...
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Miss Subways: A Novel

DAVID DUCHOVNY · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City.Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly...
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Egg Drop Dead

Laura Childs · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni - co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café - are back to track down another bad egg ... Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club Café's...
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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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The Baggage Handler

David Rawlings · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In a similar vein to The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews or Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory, The Baggage Handler is a contemporary story that explores one question: What baggage are you carrying? "The Baggage Handler by David Rawlings is an extraordinary novel that...
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The Long Sunset

Jack McDevitt · Saga Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good.Hutch...
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Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic...
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Prudence (The Custard Protocol)

Gail Carriger · Orbit
Format: Kindle Edition

Introducing the Custard Protocol series, in which Alexia Maccon's daughter Prudence travels to India on behalf of Queen, country...and the perfect pot of tea. When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what...
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The Lesson

Cadwell Turnbull · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath....
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series.It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime...
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A Time of Dread

John Gwynne · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne with the first book of a new trilogy. The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy may not be as crushed as they thought.In...
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Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated science fiction Wayfarers series, brimming...
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A Red-Rose Chain: An October Daye Novel

Seanan McGuire · DAW
Format: eBook

A Red Rose Chain is the ninth installment in Seanan McGuires urban fantasy October Toby Daye series.,
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