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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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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 Talented Ribkins

LADEE HUBBARD · Melville House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's AwardAt seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: He's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains for Johnny. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes...
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Blood Fury: Black Dagger Legacy

J.R. Ward · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this sexy paranormal romance novel set in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward tells the story of two couples - both fighting to find love in the midst of the war with the Lessening Society. A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware...
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Besieged: Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover

The ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O'Sullivan, the two-thousand-year-old Irishman from Kevin Hearne's New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles. * In ancient Egypt, Atticus...
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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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Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology

Ellen Datlow · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre. Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul. There's definitely a dark side...
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Ramses the damned returns : the passion of Cleopatra

Anne Rice · Anchor
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be,...
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Super Extra Grande

Yoss. · Restless Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

With playfulness and ingenuity in the tradition of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.Set in a distant future, after the invention...
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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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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book Six

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

The sixth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just...
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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -- Joe Hill, author of The FiremanOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points...
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Invasive: A Novel

Chuck Wendig · Harper Voyager
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Think Thomas Harris' Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife's edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
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Phoresis

GREG EGAN · Subterranean
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Tvíbura and Tvíburi, the richly imagined twin planets that stand at the center of Greg Egan's extraordinary new novella, Phoresis.These two planets ... one inhabited, one not ... exist in extreme proximity to one another. As the narrative begins, Tvíbura, the inhabited...
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Welcome to Deadland

Zachary Tyler Linville · Nerdist
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

""Engaging, heartbreaking, and thrilling, with an expert pace that never touches the brakes." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) In a thrilling debut from Nerdist, a ragtag group of survivors struggles to hold onto hope.A widespread disease has ravaged humanity -- symptoms...
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