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The Sorcerer's Appendix: A Brothers Grimm Mystery

P. J. Brackston · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Gretel -- yes, that Gretel, now all grown up and working as a private investigator -- takes on the case of a missing sorcerer, she doesn't realize that it will take her into the heart of the deep, dark woods, and face to face with an old enemy... Gretel has never had any time...
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Competence

Gail Carriger · Orbit
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence. Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish...
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Doughnut

Tom Holt · Orbit
Format: Paperback

The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work...
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The Writers Afterlife

Richard Vetere · Three Rooms Press
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

The Writers Afterlife is the story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after they die. After mingling with "The Eternals" - including Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats,...
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Valor

John Gwynne · Orbit
Format: Book

War has erupted in the Banished Lands as the race for power intensifies. Corban flees his homeland searching for peace, but he soon discovers that there is no haven in the west as the agents of Rhin and roaming bands of giants hound his every step. Veradis leaves the battleground and rushes...
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Cold Reign

FAITH HUNTER · ACE Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The adventures of Jane Yellowrock continue with a thrilling new installment in the New York Times bestselling series that captures "the essence of urban fantasy" (SF Site) . Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker ... and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks...
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A Small Charred Face

Kazuki Sakuraba · Haikasoru
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Even monsters need families.What are the "bamboo"? They are from China. They look just like us. They live by night. They drink human lifeblood, but otherwise keep their distance. And every century, they grow white blooming flowers. A boy name Kyo is saved from the precipice...
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Trade Secret

Sharon Lee · Baen
Format: Hardcover

The Liaden Universe ® Saga Continues!  Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn adventures are the focus in book 17 by master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn’s story continues in the seventeenth entry in the Liaden...
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The Boleyn Reckoning: A Novel

Laura Andersen · Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning heralds the triumphant conclusion of Laura Andersens enthralling trilogy about the Tudor king who never was the son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Henry IX—who, along with his sisters and those he holds most dear,...
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Judenstaat

Simone Zelitch · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying...
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Coming Home

Jack McDevitt · Ace
Format: Hardcover

Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tantalizing questions. Had he succeeded after...
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Rage Is Back: A Novel

Adam Mansbach · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the Great American Graffiti NovelNumber one New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach returns with a blockbuster tale of revenge, redemption, and the worlds most beautiful crime. Dondi Vance is the son of two famous graffiti artists from New York Citys golden era of subway...
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Nod

Adrian Barnes · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they've all shared the same golden dream. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four...
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A Man Lies Dreaming

Lavie Tidhar · Melville House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining...
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff · LucasBooks; 1st Printing edition
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKNIGHT OF RECKONING The Emperor's ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who's been steadily striking blows against the Empire...
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