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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

C. A. Fletcher · Orbit
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.My name's Griz. My childhood...
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Contact Harvest (Halo)

Joseph Staten · Tor Books; 1st edition
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

<DIV><DIV>This is how it began...<DIV> <DIV>It is the year 2524.  Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space.  But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien...
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Galactic Empires

Neil Clarke · Night Shade Books
Pages: 636
Format: Print book

Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction.From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Star Wars, the politics and process of Empire have...
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Seeker

Jack McDevitt · Ace Hardcover
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Thousands of years after the unsolved disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict stumbles upon a cup that appears to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's original ships, and, while attempting to estable the artifact's provenance, follows a trail that...
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The Dragon's Son (Dragonvarld Trilogy, Book 2)

Margaret Weis · Tor Books; 1ST edition
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In Mistress of Dragons we were introduced to a world where political deception, greed, and avarice have lead to a violation of the "hands off" policy of the Parliament of Dragons concerning the affairs of men. Indeed that violation threatens more than policy and order it threatens...
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Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text" - and including the special "Neverwhere" tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly...
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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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Stranger Things: Novel #1

BALLANTINE. · Del Rey
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Set before the events of Stranger Things, this prequel novel follows Eleven's mother and her time as a test subject in the MKUltra program.
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The Dream Peddler: A Novel

Martine Fournier Watson · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A page-turning debut novel about a traveling salesman who arrives to sell dreams to a town rocked by a child's disappearance - both a thoughtful mediation on grief and a magical exploration of our innermost desiresThe dream peddler came to town at the white end of winter, before the thaw...
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Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor)

Mike Carey · Little, Brown Book Group
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback

In the fourth gripping book in the highly acclaimed series Publishers Weekly calls "every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher," old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Felix Names and faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface...
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Andrew Sean Greer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Today Show Book Club PickAn extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwardsWe are each the love of someone's life.So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max's father declares...
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Stardust

Neil Gaiman
Format: Book

In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall--a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the in
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Seekers: Long Shot

David Mack · Pocket Books/Star Trek; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

The all-new novel in the acclaimed Original Series-era saga Seekers, by New York Times bestselling author David Mack!SCIENCE GONE MAD ... Bizarre sensor readings lead the Starfleet scout ship Sagittarius to an alien world where efforts to harness a dangerous and unstable technology have...
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The Song of All

Tina LeCount Myers · Night Shade Books
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback

A former warrior caught between gods and priests must fight for the survival of his family in this dark epic fantasy debut, set in a harsh arctic world inspired by Scandinavian indigenous cultures. On the forbidding fringes of the tundra, where years are marked by seasons of snow, humans...
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