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The Lightning Stones: A Novel

Jack B Du Brul · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

"Sinking thousands of feet below the surface of the earth in the Leister Deep copper mine in Minnesota, Philip Mercer rides a series of heavy-duty elevators to visit his old friend and mentor, Abraham Jacobs. Jacobs has led a research team to the deepest section of the mine for a groundbreaking...
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Magicians Impossible: A Novel

ROBERT BRADLEY ABRAHAM · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection...
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A Man Lies Dreaming

Lavie Tidhar · Melville House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining...
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The Veil: A Devil's Isle Novel

Chloe Neill · New American Library, 2015.
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

A brand new series from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill. Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community...
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Den of Wolves

Juliet Marillier · Roc
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The "powerful and emotionally-charged"* fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels continues, as Blackthorn and Grim face haunting secrets and old adversaries... Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine... Healer Blackthorn knows all too well...
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Castaway Odyssey

Eric Flint · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

#5 in the Boundary series universe, and sequel to Castaway Planet, by New York Times multiple best-selling author Eric Flint and veteran science fiction and fantasy author Ryk E. Spoor.Worst-Case Scenario: Sergeant Samuel Morgan Campbell had been in plenty of tight spots before, but nothing...
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The Bees: A Novel

Laline Paull · Ecco
Pages: 340
Format: Book

The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues...
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Cast in Flame

Michelle Sagara · Harlequin MIRA; 1st edition
Format: Book

Any day that starts with dragon arguments is going to be bad  Kaylin returned from the West March in one piece. Now that piece is fraying. Shes not at home in the Imperial Palaceand she never intends to be. All she wants is normal garden-variety criminals and a place of her own. Of course,...
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Dark Wolf

Christine Feehan · Berkley; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

WHERE DARK LYCAN ENDED, DARK WOLF BEGINS...BOOK NUMBER 25 IN CHRISTINE FEEHAN'S ACCLAIMED CARPATHIAN SERIES#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan now delivers her most eagerly awaited novel of all—ten years in the making—in the “the erotic, gripping...
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Defenders

Will McIntosh · Orbit
Format: Paperback

A new epic of alien invasion and human resistance by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh. Our Darkest Hour.Our Only Hope.The invaders came to claim earth as their own, overwhelming us with superior weapons and the ability to read our minds like open books. Our only chance for survival...
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A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Fantasy romance at its finest! This book has it all: A heroine full of spunk and spark, a hero full of mystery and masculinity, and an epic story full of intrigue and action. You will fall in love with these delicious characters. This book is utterly breathtaking!" -Darynda Jones,...
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The Last Adventure of Constance Verity

A Lee Martinez · Saga Press
Pages: 365
Format: Print book

Constance Verity has been saving the world since she was seven, and she's sick of it. She sets off on one last adventure to reset her destiny and become the one thing she's never been: ordinary.Ever since she was granted a wish at birth by her fairy godmother, Constance Verity has become...
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Assassin's Price

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Assassin's Price is the eleventh book in the bestselling, epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the third book in a story arc which began with Madness in Solidar and Treachery's Tools.Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and the man behind...
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Penric's Mission

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD · Subterranean
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Learned Penric sails on a journey to Cedonia not as a sorcerer in the white robes of the Bastard's Order, but disguised as a young lawyer on business. His real mission is one of clandestine diplomacy on behalf of the Duke of Adria. His usual traveling companion, the slyly clever chaos...
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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M. J. Rose · Atria Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape...
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