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The Rise of Ransom City

Felix Gilman · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of Harry Ransom. If you know his name it’s most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics.Friends...
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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Douglas Adams · Crown; 1 edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy—which includes seven novels and three...
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New Spring (A Wheel of Time Prequel Novel)

Robert Jordan · Tor Fantasy; 1 edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From America's premier fantasy writer---#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight---comes an expanded version of his novella "New Spring," first published in the Legends collection. For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great...
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The Snow Queen

Mercedes Lackey · Luna
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover

Falsely accused of unleashing evil on nearby villages, Aleksia, the Ice fairy and Queen of the Northern Lights, realizing that a heartless imposter is ruining her reputation, sets out to face down a formidable foe, who is also responsible for the disappearance of a young warrior and the kidnapping...
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Gunpowder Empire (Crosstime Traffic, Book 1)

Harry Turtledove · Tor Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire...
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LoveStar: A Novel

Andri Snaer Magnason · Seven Stories Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

"Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason’s oversized imagination is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly,...
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An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel

Thea Lim · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save...
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The Wave

Walter Mosley · Aspect
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Receiving a bizarre prank call from someone claiming to be his dead father, Errol visits the graveyard where his father is buried and makes an astonishing discovery about a supernatural presence that is spreading throughout the planet.
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Dragons of a Lost Star (Dragonlance: The War of Souls, Volume II)

Margaret Weis · Wizards of the Coast; First Edition edition
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Dragonlance's dynamic duo--the inimitable Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman--continues to do no wrong, reviving the once-ailing world of Krynn with yet another solid book, the second in their War of Souls series. Which is not to say, of course, that Krynn itself is doing well. Far from...
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Just Another Judgement Day

Simon R Green · Ace Books
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

Just another success from the New York Times bestselling author God's own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known as the Walking Man, has come to the Nightside. His sole purpose is the elimination of the wicked and the guilty, which means no one will be left in the Nightside...
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Mage Against the Machine

Shaun Barger · Saga Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie.The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical...
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Fatal Revenant

Stephen R. Donaldson · Putnam Adult
Format: Book

The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth returns readers to the Land-and opens with the reunion of Linden Avery and Thomas Covenant! Linden Avery, who loved Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As Fatal Revenant...
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The Witch's Daughter

Paula Brackston · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling tale of modern witch Bess Hawksmith, a fiercely independent woman desperate to escape her cursed history who must confront the evil which has haunted her for centuries My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four...
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