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Winds of Fate (The Mage Winds, Book 1)

Mercedes Lackey · DAW Hardcover
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Lackey, who has enchanted readers since the publication of her first novel, Arrows of the Queen in 1987, scores another hit with the paperback release of the first book in an exciting new series. High magic had been lost to Valdemar when he gave his life to save his kingdom from destruction...
 
 
Dr. Potter's Medicine Show

Eric Scott Fischl · Angry Robot
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The year is 1878. Dr Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now snake-oil salesman, travels the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, fortune-tellers, and musical whores. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw...
 
 
Magic in the Shadows

Devon Monk · Roc
Pages: 357
Format: Paperback

Allison Beckstrom?s magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories?including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren?t the only things preying on Allie?s thoughts. Her late father, the prominent businessman?and sorcerer?Daniel Beckstrom,...
 
 
Blackbirds

Chuck Wendig · Saga Press
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

The first book in the Miriam Black series: "A sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slant" (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future.Miriam Black knows how you're going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially...
 
 
The Wolves of Midwinter: The Wolf Gift Chronicles

Anne Rice · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

It is winter at Nideck Point. Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. But for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. He's preparing to honor an ancient...
 
 
Bristol House: A Novel

Beverly Swerling · Viking
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor EnglandIn modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces of ancient...
 
 
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · Harper Voyager; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradburys incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliopes...
 
 
Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse" (Washington Post Book World), Unseen Academicals focuses...
 
 
The Magician King: A Novel

Lev Grossman · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The MagiciansQuentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional...
 
 
Bronze Summer: The Northland Trilogy

Stephen Baxter · Roc Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Stephen Baxter’s “imaginative [and] bold”* novel Stone Spring drew readers into an alternate prehistoric scenario that now continues with Bronze Summer. Thousands of years have passed. And a wall that was built to hold back the sea, must now hold back the advancing armies...
 
 
The Prey of Gods

NICKY DRAYDEN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor....
 
 
Box Office Poison

Phillipa Bornikova · Tor Books; a edition
Format: Hardcover

What happens when exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all the roles in Hollywood? Human actors sue, that’s what. In a desperate attempt to keep the squabbling inside the Screen Actors Guild from going public, the president of SAG forces the two sides into...
 
 
The Testament of Jessie Lamb: A Novel

Jane Rogers · Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In a chilling future, one -year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught...
 
 
The Forever Ship

FRANCESCA HAIG · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Book Three in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy - The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig."Haig's prose is gorgeous and engaging, particularly when she describes the desolate...