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Black Tide Rising

Gary Poole · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

TOP NAME WRITERS ENTER THE REALM OF JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SERIES! A collection of all-original stories set in the Black Tide Rising series of novels created by multiple New York Times best-selling author John Ringo Stories by John Ringo, Eric Flint, John...
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The Mechanical

Ian Tregillis · Orbit Us
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

My name is Jax.That is the name granted to me by my human masters.I am a slave.But I shall be free.Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, the new novel from Ian Tregillis confirms his place as one of the most original new voices in speculative fiction.PRAISE...
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Ema the Captive

Ce?sar Aira · New Directions Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Ema The Captive, César Aira's second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare

In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with...
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How to Hack a Heartbreak

Kristin Rockaway · Graydon House
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Swipe right for love. Swipe left for disaster. By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed helpdesk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers--"Hatchlings"--who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave...
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Jade City

FONDA LEE · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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The Hawley Book of the Dead: A Novel

Chrysler Szarlan · Ballantine Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRFor fans of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and A Discovery of Witches comes a brilliantly imagined debut novel brimming with rich history, suspense, and magic.   Revelation Reve Dyer grew up with her grandmothers family stories, stretching...
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City of Blades

Robert Jackson Bennett · Broadway Books
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

A triumphant return to the world of City of Stairs.

A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions.

Now, the city's god is dead. The city...
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Noumenon

MARINA J LOSTETTER · Harper Voyager
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback

With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes.

In...

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Shadow all of light.

Fred Chappell · Tor
Pages: 384
Format:  Print book : English

Fred Chappell's A Shadow All of Light, a stylish, episodic fantasy novel, follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. Maestro Astolfo, whose mysterious...

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Dark Side of the Road, The: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist

Simon Green · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Ishmael Jones is someone who can't afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He's employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic...
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Come the Revolution

Frank Chadwick · Baen
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

SEQUEL TO HOW DARK THE WORLD BECOMES. Tough-as-nails former gangster Sasha Naradnyo is back in this noir thrill ride from legendary game creator Frank Chadwick.Sasha Naradnyo had come a long way from the slums of Crack City on the planet Peezgtaan - from Human gangster to head of security...
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Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.

A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's...

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Devilishly Wicked

Kathy Love · Brava
Format: Print book

A demon's work is never done. . .

Tristan McIntryre is finally moving up the ladder of demon success. The Prince of Darkness himself has put Tristan in charge of total demonic takeover--by way of HOT! magazine, where Tristan has to bite the proverbial forked tongue working alongside...
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The Wicked: A Novel

Douglas Nicholas · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Print book

A thrilling and intoxicating journey to a land of legend, where nothing is quite as it seems. . . . Something evil has come to reside in a castle by the chill waters of the North Sea: men disappear and are found as horribly wizened corpses, knights ride out and return under an enchantment...
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An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: A Novel

CURTIS CRADDOCK · Tor Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.

In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries...

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