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Lovecraft Country: A Novel

Matt Ruff · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose...
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Dark Skye

Kresley Cole · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In this highly anticipated fifteenth novel in the Immortals After Dark series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole spins a sultry tale of a mighty warrior scarred inside and out and the beguiling sorceress with the power to heal him - or vanquish him forever.Eternal ObsessionAs...
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Ashes of Victory

David Weber · Baen
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Proclaimed a dead woman by the People's Republic of Haven, Honor Harrington has escaped her prison with half a million others and will tip the balance in favor of the Allies, in a new addition to the Honor Harrington series.
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The Crystal City

Orson Scott Card · Tor
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives...
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The Waking Land

Callie Bates · Del Rey
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik's award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates - whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir. Lady Elanna is fiercely...
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Closer to the Heart: Book Two of Herald Spy

Mercedes Lackey · Daw Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave. When he was Chosen by his Companion Dallen, his young life was saved, and he slowly adjusted to being well fed, educated, and treasured as a trainee in the Herald's Collegium at Haven. Singled out by the King's...
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Oathbreakers (Vows and Honor, Book 2)

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Evil had cast its shadow over the kingdom of Rethwellan. When Idra, leader of the Sunhawks mercenaries, failed to return from a journey to her home, Tarma and Kethry, warrior and mage, set out in search of their vanished leader.
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Time and Time Again: A Novel

Ben Elton · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe.It's the first of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton,...
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The Strange Library

Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Format: Print book

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami - a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's...
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The gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · Duke Classics
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

The Gods of Mars is the second novel in Burroughs' Barsoom series. The setting is an inhabited, dying Mars, where the different races fight over dwindling resources. It is a frontier world full of honor, glory and desperation; lost cities and ancient secrets provide the landscape for heroic...
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Empire: The Chronicles of the Invaders

John Connolly · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Empire continues the journey of Syl and Paul as they fight to regain planet Earth from a ruthless alien species, in this next installment of a stunning new science fiction trilogy that "should not to be missed" (The Guardian) .She is the trophy of a civilization at war with itself.He...
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Possession: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

J.R. Ward · NAL Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels, as the salvation of a doomed soul depends once again on a crossroads...When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw...
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Blind Lake

Robert Charles Wilson · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human...
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