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Etched in Bone

Anne Bishop · Roc
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders - a primitive and lethal form of the Others...
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Half the World

Joe Abercrombie · Del Rey
Pages: 366
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED * ALEX AWARD WINNER * New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie's thrilling series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin hailed as "a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from...
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Black Wave

Michelle Tea · Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"I was unable put down Black Wave, suddenly afraid and unsure of what was out there beyond my reading. This bad fairytale-come-true is destabilizing and palpable, and it's Michelle Tea's most fearless book. It's a radically honest, scary, and wonderful place that she's...
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Booke of the Hidden

JERI WESTERSON · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback

"Westerson creates an utterly believable history of witches, demons, and magic for her claustrophobic New England village including a heroine with enough spark, smarts, and stubbornness to keep both the bad guys and the deliciously dangerous love-interest on their toes." -- Kat Richardson,...
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Luna: Wolf Moon

Ian Mcdonald · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed . The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful...
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Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris

Serena Burdick · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Born into a wealthy Parisian family at the center of Belle Epoque society, 18-year-old Aimée Savaray dreams of becoming a respected painter in the male-dominated art world; and secretly, she also dreams of being loved by Henri, the boy her parents took in as a child and raised alongside...
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Infomocracy: A Novel

Malka Older · Tor
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority...
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The Tethered Mage

Melissa Caruso · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled -- taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army. Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous...
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Dead Man Walking: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist

Simon R Green · Severn House Publishers L
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

"Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones. I am the man in the shadows, that even the shadows are afraid of. The secret agent whose life is the greatest secret of all. And some of the cases I work are trickier than others." A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets....
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Skullsworn

Brian Staveley · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Brian Staveley's new standalone returns to the critically acclaimed Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne universe, following a priestess-assassin for the God of Death."Brilliant." -- V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author From the award-winning epic fantasy world of The Emperor's...
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world...
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The Summer Dragon: First Book of the Evertide

Todd Lockwood · DAW Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

The debut novel from the acclaimed illustrator--a high fantasy adventure featuring dragons and deadly politics.Maia and her family raise dragons for the political war machine. As she comes of age, she hopes for a dragon of her own to add to the stable of breeding parents. But the war goes...
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Spellbreaker

Blake Charlton · Tor
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Leandra Weal has a bad habit of getting herself in dangerous situations. While hunting neodemons in her role as Warden of Ixos, Leandra obtains a prophetic spell that provides a glimpse one day into her future. She discovers that she is doomed to murder someone she loves, soon, but not who....
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Beyond the Empire

K B Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The adrenaline-fueled, explosive conclusion to the Indranan War trilogy by K. B. Wagers.Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from...
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