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Game of Shadows: A Novel

Erika Lewis · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A young man plagued by the ability to see ghosts races to save the mythological land of Tara from a terrible fate in Erika Lewis's stunning debut, Game of Shadows.Thousands of years ago in Ireland, an ancient race fought a world-changing battle -- and lost. Their land overrun, the Celtic...
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The Just City

Jo Walton · Tor
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult...
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I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small...
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Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire

Michael J Sullivan · Del Rey
Pages: 409
Format: Print book

Michael J. Sullivan s trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted readership and comparisons to fantasy masters Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, and J. R. R. Tolkien...
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The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

PATRICK ROTHFUSS · DAW
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle, a masterful epic fantasy saga that has inspired readers worldwide.This anniversary hardcover includes more than 50 pages of extra content!* Beautiful, iconic cover by artist Sam Weber...
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Semiosis: A Novel

Sue Burke · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Seimosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and...
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
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Wake a Sleeping Tiger

Lora Leigh · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

When readers of dark romance and unbridled desire want to be satisfied, they turn to #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and her "powerful and highly erotic" (Fresh Fiction) Breed novels. Now a Breed hides in the world of man - until a woman arouses the amused and wildly...
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu · Tor
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards (including Hao Jingfang's Hugo-winning novella, Folding Beijing) ; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been well...
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The Dying Game: A Novel

Asa Avdic · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state - for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Do you live to play? Or play to live?The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe...
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Canto Bight

BALLANTINE. · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Journey to Canto Bight: a lavish city rich with opportunity - but where the stakes couldn't be higher. Featuring four interconnected novella-length adventures of the exotic aliens and creatures who frequent the captivating casino. With stories by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John...
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Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel

GABE HUDSON · Knopf
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

A TODAY Show Summer Pick An Amazon Summer Beach Reads Pick A Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction of the Month Pick "Hilarious. . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with fire-breathing characters and a John Hughes-esque plot." - Rolling...
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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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The Dark Between the Stars

Kevin J. Anderson · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin...
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Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Welcome to Mexico City ... An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires ... Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eeking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
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