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The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The Strange Bird -- from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer -- expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel"* of a novel, Borne.The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory -- she is part bird, part human, part many other...
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The Ultra Thin Man: A Science Fiction Novel

Patrick Swenson · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one--alive or dead, human or alien--is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home...
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Master Sergeant: The Makaum War: Book One

Mel Odom · Harper Voyager; Reissue edition
Format: Book

The Makaum War: Book OneThey call it The Green Hell. A maze of tangled jungle, the planet Makaum is one of the most dangerous places in the universe. And for Terran Military Master Sergeant Frank Sage, it is now home.The war between the Terrans and the Phrenorians rages, and both sides...
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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught

Eric Flint · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Book #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared...
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss · Saga Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders - and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents'...
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Leopard's Fury

Christine Feehan · Jove/Berkley
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

A ruthless criminal unleashes his most feral desires in the new Leopard novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild Cat.Passion melts the will of an ice-cold criminal when he meets the one woman who can tame the beast inside him.Leopard's FuryWith her own bakery in San Antonio,...
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Brimstone

Cherie Priest · Ace
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A new dark historical fantasy from the "supremely gifted"* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker.In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid fire....
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Infinity Wars

JONATHAN STRAHAN · Solaris
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

CONFLICT IS ETERNAL We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale....
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Time and Time Again: A Novel

Ben Elton · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe.It's the first of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton,...
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A Plague of Giants

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

In the start of an enchanting new series, the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles creates an unforgettable fantasy world . . . one that is forever changed when an army of giants invades. The kingdom's only hope? The discovery of a form of magic that will call...
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Serpentine

LAURELL K HAMILTON · Berkley
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover

Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight...A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend Edward....
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In the Region of the Summer Stars

STEPHEN R LAWHEAD · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A new Celtic fantasy from the critically-acclaimed author of the Pendragon Cycle.Ravaged by barbarian Scálda forces, the last hope for Eirlandia lies with the island's warring tribes.Wrongly cast out of his tribe, Conor, the first-born son of the Celtic king, embarks on a dangerous mission...
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The Soldier: Rise of the Jain, Book One

ASHER NEAL · Night Shade Books
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

"Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain." -- New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi Humanity, artificial intelligences, and monstrous aliens clash over control of deadly technology in this explosive beginning to Neal Asher's newest...
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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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Outcasts of Order

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Modesitt continues his bestselling Saga of Recluce with his 20th book in the long-running series. Beltur began his journey in The Mongrel Mage and continues with Outcasts of Order, the next book of his story arc in the Saga of Recluce.Beltur, an Order mage, discovers he possesses frightening...
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