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Two Serpents Rise

Max Gladstone · Tor Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb...
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The Guns Above

ROBYN BENNIS · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Honor Harrington and the high-flying Temeraire series, Bennis's THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation's first female airship captain.They say it's not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain,...
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Navigators of dune.

Brian Herbert · Tor
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats,...
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Hunter

Jacquelyn Frank · Zebra
Format: Paperback

Tatyana is a modern gal who can handle any crisis, but before she knows what's hit her, she's sensing a hideous threat, not to her but to this man who draws her like a moth to flame. Hunter. "I know things...I saw it." When the attack comes, she is his protection from...
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Provenance

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Pages: 439
Format: Hardcover

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain...
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Chimpanzee: A Novel

Darin Bradley · Underland Press
Format: Hardcover

Unemployment has ravaged the U.S. economy. People struggle everywhere, exhausted by the collapse that destroyed their lives. Benjamin Cade is an expert in cognition, and before the flatlined economy caught up to him, he earned his living as a university instructor. Now, without income,...
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The thirteenth sacrifice : a witch hunt novel

Debbie Viguie? · Signet
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Tormented by her horrific childhood, Boston cop Samantha Ryan, the last in a long line of ruthless witches, discovers that evil has returned to Salem when she goes undercover to find out who is killing young women and carving an archaic symbol into their flesh.
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Raising Fire

JAMES BENNET · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Ben Garston has broken the Lore. Now it's time to face the music. Life isn't treating Red Ben well. He's lost everything he held dear, including the love of his life. Still, at least he escaped the clutches of a malevolent spirit bent on total destruction. So there is that....
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The Guard

Peter Terrin · MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the European Union Literature Prize, Peter Terrin's The Guard is a haunting novel of perceived oppression by the an omnipresent, but unknown, authority. In the near future, Harry and Michel live in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the inhabitants. No one goes...
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The Book of Swords

Gardner Dozois · Bantam
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition - including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric...
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The Cusanus Game

Wolfgang Jeschke · Tor Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right. An atomic disaster near the French-German border has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant...
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His Clockwork Canary: The Glorious Victorious Darcys

Beth Ciotta · Signet
Format: Book

History is repeating itself.   For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride—and redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family...
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Shaman Rises

C.E. Murphy · Harlequin MIRA
Format: Book

Joanne Walker has two choices: Defeat the enemy ... or lose her soul trying For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master - the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away ... and now the Master is bringing...
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Sword of the Bright Lady

M.C. Planck · Pyr
Format: Book

Christopher Sinclair goes out for a walk on a mild Arizona evening and never comes back. He stumbles into a freezing winter under an impossible night sky, where magic is real -- but bought at a terrible price. A misplaced act of decency lands him in a brawl with an arrogant nobleman...
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