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Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

Charlaine Harris · Ace
Format: Hardcover

There's more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew ... The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world - including other authors. Now this group of writers, specifically chosen by Charlaine,...
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Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future

John Scalzi · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent...
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Hellhole Inferno

Brian Herbert · Tor
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover

The planet HELLHOLE, devastated by an ancient asteroid impact, is inhabited by only the hardiest and most desperate colonists. It is one of 54 remote frontier worlds forced to pay tribute to the corrupt Constellation, which is ruled by decadent nobles. An exiled rebel general, Tiber Adolphus,...
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Fire Dance: A Novel

Ilana C. Myer · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Palace intrigue, dark magic, and terrifying secrets drive the beautifully written standalone novel Fire Dance, set in the world of Last Song Before Night.Espionage, diplomacy, conspiracy, passion, and power are the sensuously choreographed steps of the soaring new high fantasy novel by Ilana...
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Born of Legend

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 726
Format: Print book

"It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?"Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even...
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City of Stairs

Robert Jackson Bennett · Random House Inc
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback

An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young SF writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions - until its divine...
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Edgedancer

BRANDON SANDERSON · Tor Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, a special gift edition of Edgedancer, a short novel of the Stormlight Archive (previously published in Arcanum Unbounded) .Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted....
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Citadel: A Novel

Kate Mosse · Harpercollins
Pages: 686
Format: Hardcover

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives...
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Fire Bound: A Sea Heaven Novel

Christine Feehan · Jove Pubns
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sea Haven novels returns to the circle of the six sisters of the heart, bound by the elements - and to one who possesses the power to inflame the most dangerous passions of all. Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate...
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

Gardner R Dozois · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 679
Format: Paperback

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories.In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole...
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The Girl in the Tower: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home - but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege....
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More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity

Neil Clarke · Night Shade Books
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback

Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke collects a reprint anthology of artificial human-themed short fiction. The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's...
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Spinning Silver

NAOMI NOVIK · Del Rey
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father...
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War Dogs

Greg Bear · Orbit Us
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

AN EPIC INTERSTELLAR TALE OF WAR FROM A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION.
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Leopard's Blood

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Pages: 404
Format: Mass Market Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan cuts straight to the heart of a man who stalks the shadows in an intoxicating Leopard novel. Though he was born into a leopard's lair in the bayou, Joshua Tregre's fighting skills were honed in the rain forests of Borneo. Sleek and deadly,...
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