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The Third Bear

Jeff VanderMeer · Tachyon Publications; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Compared by critics to Borges, Nabokov, and Kafka, contemporary fantasist Jeff VanderMeer continues to amaze with this surreal, innovative, and absurdist gathering of award-winning short fiction. Exotic beasts and improbable travelers roam restlessly through these darkly diverting and finely...
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Micro: A Novel

Michael Crichton · Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high conceptthriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for amysterious biotech company - only to find themselves cast out into the rainforest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. Aninstant classic,...
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Range of Ghosts

Elizabeth Bear · Tor Books; 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left for dead. All around lie the fallen armies of his cousin and his brother, who made war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is now the legitimate heir by blood to his grandfather's throne, but he is not the strongest....
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Faithful: A Novel

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary...
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Deadeye

William C. Dietz · Ace Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The national bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned novels, "a must-read for any fan of Mil Fic," (Archaeologist's Guide to the Galaxy) begins a brand new science fiction police procedural series...In the year 2038, an act of bioengineered terrorism decimated humanity....
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Early Riser: A Novel

Jasper Fforde · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The new standalone novel from bestselling author Jasper Fforde


Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your...
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The Book of Jonas: A Novel

Stephen Dau · Blue Rider Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim...
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Gideon: A Novel

Alex Gordon · HarperCollins
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Preston & Child meets Kim Harrison in this edge-of-your-seat debut thriller - a superb blend of mystery, urban fantasy, horror, romance, and the supernatural.When Lauren's father dies, she makes a shocking discovery. The man she knew as John Reardon was once a completely different...
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Brilliance

Marcus Sakey · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They're called "brilliants,"...
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The Memory Painter: A Novel

Gwendolyn Womack · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What if there was a drug that could help you remember past lives?
What if the lives you remembered could lead you to your one true love?
What if you learned that, for thousands of years, a deadly enemy had conspired to keep the two of you apart?

Bryan Pierce is an internationally...

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The Companions: The Sundering, Book I

R. A. Salvatore · D & D/Wizards of the Coast
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover

"The Companions is the best novel [R.A.] Salvatore has ever written. It's insanely courageous, profoundly powerful, masterfully constructed, and easily Salvatore's most ambitious work to date." - Paul Goat Allen, BarnesandNoble.com "After a quarter of a century, R.A....
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White Horse: A Novel

Alex Adams · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

White Horse is the first book in an absolutely unique debut trilogy - a post-apocalyptic thriller chronicling one woman's quest to nurture those she holds dear against the backdrop of a shocking, new world.

The world has ended, but her journey has just begun.

Thirty-year-old...
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Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many

Michael A. Martin · Pocket Books; Original edition
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Prior to the terror-filled times of the Long War—the seemingly endless struggle against the Undine, a paranoid, shape-shifting race once known only as Species 8472—enemy sleeper agents quietly penetrated every echelon of Federation society, as well as other starfaring civilizations...
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To Sail a Darkling Sea

John Ringo · Baen
Pages: 522
Format: Mass Market Paperback

BOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.

A World Cloaked in Darkness
With human civilization...
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