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C A HIGGINS · DEL REY
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the follow-up to Lightless and Supernova, C. A. Higgins again fuses science fiction, suspense, and drama to tell the story of a most unlikely heroine: Ananke, once a military spacecraft, now a sentient artificial intelligence. Ananke may have the powers of a god, but she is consumed...
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Magic Shifts: A Kate Daniels Novel

Ilona Andrews · Ace Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the latest Kate Daniels novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews, magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta - and each crest leaves danger in its wake ... After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate - former Beast Lord...
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Heart of Stone

Debra Mullins · Tor Books
Format: Book

Debra Mullins introduced readers to the world of the Truthseers in Prodigal Son. Now the story of the lost Atlanteans continues in Heart of Stone.Darius Montana is a Seer. With his gift of empathy, he can see into the hearts of others, both human and Atlantean. When his family comes into...
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Cyador's Heirs

L. E. Modesitt · Tor Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Cyador's Heirs -- the new novel in L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s New York Times bestselling Saga of Recluce.Decades after the fall of Cyador, its survivors have reestablished themselves in Cigoerne, a fertile country coveted by hostile neighbors in less hospitable lands. Young Lerial, the second...
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Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle: A Girl Genius Novel

Phil Foglio · Night Shade Books
Format: Hardcover

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family’s...
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Dark Lightning

John Varley · Ace
Format: Hardcover

Known for “superior science fiction” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory…On...
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The Illegal: A Novel

Lawrence Hill · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 392
Format: Print book

Internationally best-selling author Lawrence Hill returns with an extraordinary, resonant novel about a man on the run.Lawrence Hill spellbound readers with Someone Knows My Name (made into the television mini-series, The Book of Negroes) , hailed as "transporting" (Entertainment...
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Walkaway

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death."Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." -- William GibsonHubert...
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Bannerless

Carrie Vaughn · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't...
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Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card · Tor, 2014.
Pages: 395
Format: Print book

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations;...
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The dirt on ninth grave

Darynda Jones · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people...
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A Scandal in Battersea

MERCEDES LACKEY · DAW
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The twelfth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England
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Sword of the North: The Grim Company

Luke Scull · Roc
Format: Hardcover

In The Grim Company, Luke Scull introduced a formidable and forbidding band of anti-heroes battling against ruthless Magelords and monstrous terrors. The adventure continues as the company - now broken - face new dangers on personal quests ... As Davarus Cole and his former companions...
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Raising Steam

Terry Pratchett · Doubleday
Pages: 365
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSteam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements - earth, air, fire, and water - and it's soon drawing astonished...
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A Darkling Sea

James L. Cambias · St Martins Pr
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don't disturb...
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