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Gauntlet

Holly Jennings · ACE
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Plug back into the dangerous world of virtual gaming, in the next thrilling novel from the author of Arena. Kali Ling has faced down death hundreds of times for the entertainment of millions. She knows fear - and she knows what's truly terrifying...There's a new game in town. A brutal,...
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The Wolves of Winter: A Novel

TYRELL JOHNSON · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger...
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The Consuming Fire

JOHN SCALZI · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Consuming Fire -- the second epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from the Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author John ScalziThe Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional...
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California: A Novel

Edan Lepucki · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 393
Format: Hardcover

"In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities." ---Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon SquadThe world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've...
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I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small...
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Ember

Brock Adams · Hub City Press
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Three years ago, the sun began to die. In a desperate attempt to reignite the failing star, the United States had joined the rest of the planet in unloading its nuclear arsenal at the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils...
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Waypoint Kangaroo

Curtis C Chen · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel...
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Chosen

Benedict Jacka · Ace
Format: Paperback

THE NEW ALEX VERUS NOVEL I don’t publicly advertise that I’m a mage, but I don’t exactly hide it either, and one of the odd things I’ve learnt over the years is just how much you can get away with if you’re blatant enough. Hide something behind smoke and mirrors...
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Valour and Vanity

Mary Robinette Kowal · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic--known here as glamour--is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result...
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The Lucky Ones: A Novel

Julianne Pachico · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

A literary jigsaw puzzle of a debut novel set in Colombia during the peak of its decades-long conflict, and in New York City While her parents are away, a teenager finds herself home alone, with the household staff mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the radio...
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The Morcai Battalion

Diana Palmer · Harlequin Luna
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Drama and excitement explode in New York Times bestselling author DIANA PALMER's legendary first book in The Morcai Battalion series, now available in paperback, as a new expanded version.THE MORCAI BATTALIONIn the very dream of peace lurked a monstrous treachery.The galaxy is on the brink...
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Magic For Nothing

Seanan Mcguire · Daw Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The sixth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us."The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid...
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From Unseen Fire

Cass Morris · DAW
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Unseen Fire is the first novel in the Aven Cycle, a historical fantasy set in an alternate Rome, by debut author Cass Morris. The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic. But whose Republic will it be? Senators, generals, and elemental mages vie for the power to shape the future of the city...
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The Dragon's Legacy: The Dragon's Legacy Book 1

Deborah A Wolf · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey. "A world of large-scale epic fantasy... This is a rare find and not to be missed." New York Times bestselling author Barb Hendee.In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers...
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Bengal's Quest

Lora Leigh · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

"No one spins a story quite like Lora Leigh" (Night Owl Reviews) - and when it comes to her "highly charged and carnal" (Fresh Fiction) Breed novels, nobody does it better. Now, the #1 New York Times bestselling author tells a story of two Breeds who are united by animal...
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