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False Hearts

Laura Lam · Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 365
Format: Print book

Laura Lam's adult sci-fi debut False Hearts: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult.Raised in the closed cult of Mana's Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters...
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel

HANK GREEN · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly...
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The King of Bones and Ashes

J. D. Horn · 47North
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series comes the first book in a fascinating trilogy following the quest of a young witch to uncover her family's terrifying secret history ... Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who've relied on it for countless centuries...
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Dark Wolf

Christine Feehan · Berkley; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

WHERE DARK LYCAN ENDED, DARK WOLF BEGINS...BOOK NUMBER 25 IN CHRISTINE FEEHAN'S ACCLAIMED CARPATHIAN SERIES#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan now delivers her most eagerly awaited novel of all—ten years in the making—in the “the erotic, gripping...
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The Rising

Ian Tregillis · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war.
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The Adjacent

Christopher Priest · Random House Inc
Pages: 377
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated new novel from "one of the master illusionists of our time." (Wired) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed - annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces...
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A Murder in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain · Pegasus Books
Pages: 498
Format: Hardcover

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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Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery

J Aaron Sanders · Plume, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge. The year...
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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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Afterparty

Daryl Gregory · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament...
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Spellbreaker

Blake Charlton · Tor
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Leandra Weal has a bad habit of getting herself in dangerous situations. While hunting neodemons in her role as Warden of Ixos, Leandra obtains a prophetic spell that provides a glimpse one day into her future. She discovers that she is doomed to murder someone she loves, soon, but not who....
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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Chavisa Woods · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should...
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The Spark

David Drake · Baen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

NEW STANDALONE NOVEL BY SF MASTER DAVID DRAKE. In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise.In the time of the Ancients the universe was united - but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that...
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The Oversight

Charlie Fletcher · Orbit
Format: Paperback

"The end always happens faster than you think." Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five.When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters,...
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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 long-awaited...
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