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The Stolen Child: A Novel

Lisa Carey · HarperPerennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants' lives and tangled relationships - perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey,...
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The Fire Sermon

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization...
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The Pilgrims: A Novel

Will Elliott · Tor Books
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

Eric Albright is a twenty-six-year-old journalist living in London. That is to say he would be a journalist if he got off his backside. But this luckless slacker isn't all bad--he has a soft spot for his sometimes friend Stuart Casey, the homeless old drunk who mostly lives under the railway...
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The Infernal: A Novel

Mark Doten · Graywolf Press
Format: Book

A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror--an utterly original and blackly comic debutIn the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates Who is he? Where...
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Feversong: A Fever Novel

Karen Marie Moning · Delacorte Press
Pages: 541
Format: Print book

MacKayla Lane and Jericho Barrons return in the epic conclusion to the pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn.As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist,...
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Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel

GABE HUDSON · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Harry Potter and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this teenage dragon's spellbinding love story filled with bighearted humor and imagination."No good human won't love this dragon named Gork." - Dave Eggers Gork isn't like the other dragons at WarWings Military...
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Swarm.

Orson Scott Card · Tor Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese...
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Natasha Pulley · Bloomsbury
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind,...
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The Berlin Project

Gregory Benford · Saga Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944.Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team,...
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Empire Games

Charles Stross · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games. " Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...
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Beautiful You: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · Anchor
Format: Hardcover

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help."...
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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Chavisa Woods · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should...
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The Sparrow Sisters: A Novel

Ellen Herrick · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

With echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of the Witches of Eastwick, Ellen Herrick's debut novel spins an enchanting love story about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost anything...
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Bob Proehl · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand SaintsValerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar...
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Killing Is My Business

ADAM CHRISTOPHER · TOR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" -- John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling authorAnother golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape and assignment for intrepid PI-turned-hitman -- and last robot left in working order -- Raymond Electromatic....
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