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Treachery's Tools

L E Jr Modesitt · Tor Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Treachery's Tools is L. E. Modesitt's tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar, Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married with a daughter, he would like...
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Doctor Who: The Drosten's Curse

A. L. Kennedy · Broadway Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker."I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe." Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged...
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The Core: Book Five of The Demon Cycle

PETER V BRETT · Del Rey
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett brings one of the most imaginative fantasy sagas of the twenty-first century to an epic close. For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire....
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs

Ursula K Le Guin · Library Of America
Pages: 700
Format: Print book

The inaugural volume of Library of America's Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty...
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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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The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel

Tracy Hickman · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The thrilling prequel to Shroud of the Avatar from Portalarium!The world died during the Fall. Abandoned by the mighty Avatars and their Virtues, the people who remained were left defenseless in an untamed land. That is, until the Obsidians came. Through dark sorcery and overwhelming force...
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The Apostle Killer

Richard Beard · Melville House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A wildly inventive, darkly suspenseful novel that pits Christ's "Passion as police procedural" (The Guardian) . Set in a hazy Middle East that seems at once ancient and modern, The Apostle Killer features Gallio, an aging, hardboiled investigator who has one last chance to save...
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The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor · DAW
Format: Hardcover

A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell ... . The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features...
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City of Savages

Lee Kelly · Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this action-packed thriller with a dual narrative.It's been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war...
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

Heather O'Neill · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington PostA spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents...
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Waking Gods: Book 2 of The Themis Files

Sylvain Neuvel · Del Rey
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as "a luminous conspiracy yarn . . . reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z," Sylvain Neuvel's innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward. As a child, Rose Franklin...
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Armistice: The Hot War

HARRY TURTLEDOVE · DEL REY
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Chaos reigns in a world already devastated by full-scale nuclear war in the third and final installment of the Hot War series, from "the standard-bearer for alternate history" (USA Today) .
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A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 441
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An Amazon Best Book of 2016! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016!An NPR Best Book of 2016! An Amazon Best Book of the Month!"I can say, without a doubt, that A Promise of Fire is going on my keeper shelf...I cannot remember the last time I wanted to both savor and devour a book."...
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Good Morning, Midnight: A Novel

Lily Brooks-Dalton · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For readers of Station Eleven and The Martian, Lily Brooks-Dalton's haunting debut is the unforgettable story of two outsiders - a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth - as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. Augustine,...
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