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The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman · ROC
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization...
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Behind the Throne

K B Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

"Excellent SF adventure debut. " -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place...
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Black Ice

Susan Krinard · Tor Books
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Susan Krinard continues the thrilling urban fantasy series that began with Mist in Black Ice.Centuries ago, all was lost in the Last Battle when the Norse gods and goddesses went to war. The elves, the giants, and the gods and goddesses themselves were...
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The Big Sheep

Robert Kroese · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper...
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The Providence of Fire

Brian Staveley · Tor
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Brian Staveley's The Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series.The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.Having learned the identity of her father's assassin, Adare flees...
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Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel

Gregory Benford · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping...
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Jericho: A Novel

Alex Gordon · Harper Voyager
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

In this follow-up to the masterful debut Gideon, a young witch must risk death and damnation to defeat a powerful ancient evil.In unearthing her father's secret past, Lauren Reardon discovered a shocking truth about herself. She is a Child of Endor, a sect of witches who believe they...
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The Dark Side

Anthony O'Neill · Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon.Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals,...
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short storiesIn the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty...
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Son of No One

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In Son of No One, next in the blockbuster The Dark-Hunters series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, it's not easy being life's own personal joke, but Josette Landry has made an unstable peace with the beast. Completely down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer...
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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Anders · TOR Books
Pages: 316
Format: Print book

From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world -- and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school....
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Archangel

Margaret Fortune · DAW
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Archangel is the second installment of the explosive, pulse-pounding Spectre War science fiction series.An enemy you can't kill. A soldier who can't fight. An interstellar war that can't be won - until now.As a soldier of the Celestial Expanse, Guardian First Class Michael Sorenson...
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Swarm.

Orson Scott Card · Tor Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese...
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A Murder in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain · Pegasus Books
Pages: 498
Format: Print book

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life -- 200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan...
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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught

Eric Flint · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Book #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared...
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