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Live Free or Die

John Ringo · Baen
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover

Beginning a New Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author. Will the People of Earth Bow Down to Alien Overlords - or Will They Live Free or Die?First Contact Was FriendlyWhen aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first...
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Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change (Emberverse Book 9)

S. M. Stirling · Roc; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

A gifted author, S.M. Stirling created a fascinating neo-medieval world in his Novels of the Change where the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in a post-technological environment. Now, the New York Times bestselling epic continues as a king faces a challenge beyond the battlefield...
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Rollback (Sci Fi Essential Books)

Robert J. Sawyer · Tor Books; 1st edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now 87, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too . . . if she lives long enough.      A wealthy industrialist...
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Right Hand Magic: A Novel of Golgotham

Nancy A. Collins · Roc
Format: Paperback

Like most Manhattanites, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal-even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham, where for centuries werewolves, centaurs, and countless other creatures have roamed the streets. Her new landlord is a sorcerer name Hexe,...
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Lost Lake

Sarah Addison Allen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times Bestseller From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever... The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo...
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Dark Prince: Author's Cut Special Edition

Christine Feehan · William Morrow; Author's Cut Special Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Mikhail Dubrinsky is the prince of his people, the Carpathians. But they are dying out, there are few women, and the men are either falling prey to vampires, or are choosing the soulless life. Losing all hope, Mikhail is no longer sure he can bear the bleak future laid before him. The only...
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Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader

James Luceno · Del Rey; English Language edition
Format: Hardcover

Throughout the galaxy, it was believed that Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalkerthe Chosen Onehad died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, that was true. Anakin was dead.From the site of Anakin Skywalkers last standon the molten surface of the planet Mustafar,...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always...
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Free Chocolate

Amber Royer · Angry Robot
Pages: 443
Format: Paperback

In the far future, chocolate is Earth's only unique commodity one that everyone else in the galaxy is willing to kill to get their hands, paws and tentacles on Latina culinary arts student, Bo Benitez, becomes a fugitive when she's caught stealing a cacao pod from one of the heavily-defended...
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Arrival

Ted Chiang · Vintage
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve."Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . Ted Chiang...
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The Last Iota

ROBERT KROESE · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 302
Format: Hardcover

The year is 2039, and Los Angeles is poised between order and chaos. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, now known as the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities and became a de facto third world country within the borders of the city.Navigating the boundaries...
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Menagerie

Rachel Vincent · MIRA
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent comes a richly imagined, provocative new series set in the dark mythology of the Menagerie ... When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world. But under...
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Gilded Cage

Vic James · Del Rey
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve - for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals - aristocrats with...
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Retribution

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the next thrilling installment in her blockbuster Dark-Hunter® series Harm no human ... A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when...
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Hadriana in All My Dreams

REN DEPESTRE · Akashic Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

"One-of-a-kind...[A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover...An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib-ticking, warmhearted mélange of ghost story, cultural inquiry, folk art, and véritable...
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