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Bombs Away: The Hot War

Harry Turtledove · Del Rey Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World...
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NK3: A Novel

Michael Tolkin · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting...
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Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited...
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Long Black Curl: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Long Black Curl: a brand-new tale in Alex Bledsoe's acclaimed urban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-old rivalries simmer just beneath the surfaceIn all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson...
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Paradox Bound: A Novel

Peter Clines · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for god's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing...
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Amberlough: A Novel

Lara Elena Donnelly · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From author Lara Elena Donnelly, a debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coupTrust no one with anything - especially in Amberlough City.Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he's good at keeping secrets, especially...
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories

Lesley Nneka Arimah · Riverhead Books
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Time Magazine, Elle, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Millions, Nylon, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Electric LiteratureA dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children,...
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The Vine That Ate the South

J D WILKES · TWO DOLLAR RADIO
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening," where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice - the one and only, Carver Canute - set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary...
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Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation...
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Strange Practice

Vivian Shaw · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead.Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.
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People of the Songtrail: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past

W Michael Gear; Kathleen O'Neal Gear · Tor
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear comes an epic story of the first contact between Native Americans and Vikings. On the shores of what is now northeastern Canada, a small group of intrepid settlers have landed, seeking freedom...
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Ninth City Burning

J Patrick Black · Ace Books
Pages: 482
Format: Print book

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender's Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them...
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Admiral

Sean Danker · Roc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

FIRST IN A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES"I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian...
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The Iron Assassin

Ed Greenwood · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Ed Greenwood's The Iron Assassin, Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless...
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The Wrong Dead Guy

Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this fast paced sequel to The Everything Box - the second entry in New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's comedic supernatural series - chaos ensues when Coop and the team at DOPS steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick ancient Egyptian mummy wielding some terrifying magic.Coop,...
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