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The Water Cure: A Novel

Sophie Mackintosh · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary otherworldly debut... [Mackintosh] is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: everything is luminous, precise, slow to the point of dread."--The GuardianThe Handmaid's Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge...
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The Queen of Sorrow: Book Three of The Queens of Renthia

Sarah Durst · Harper Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The battle between vicious spirits and strong-willed queens that started in the award-winning The Queen of Blood and continued in the powerful The Reluctant Queen comes to a stunning conclusion in The Queen of Sorrow, the final volume of Sarah Beth Durst's Queens of Renthia trilogy.Queen...
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Blackfish City: A Novel

Sam J Miller · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. Plus, it has lots of action and a great cast of characters. Not to mention...
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Phasma

DELILAH S DAWSON · Del Rey
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel.
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A Taste of Honey

Kai Ashante Wilson · Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods. Aqib bgm Sadiqi,...
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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

China Miéville · Del Rey Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate...
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Explore a plethora of fantastic new rules options for both players and Dungeon Masters in this supplement for the world's greatest roleplaying gameThe Xanathar ... Waterdeep's most infamous crime lord, and a beholder to boot ... You'd be shocked to discover just how much he knows...
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Siren's Call

Jayne Castle · Jove Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In the mysterious world of Harmony, there are places filled with unexplored marvels. But Rainshadow Island isn't about to give up its secrets ... In the alien catacombs of Rainshadow, there are creatures whose compelling songs lure the unwary to their death. That's why Rafe Coppersmith,...
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Covert Game

Christine Feehan · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Treason, torture and temptation haunt the GhostWalkers in their most dangerous adventure yet, as Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series hits an explosive new high.Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide mission for the GhostWalkers....
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland,...
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Beneath the Sugar Sky

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayBeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns...
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Solo: A Star Wars Story

Mur Lafferty · Del Rey
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy in this thrilling novelization of the blockbuster movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, a young...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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Ultima

Stephen Baxter · Roc
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Hailed as "one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site) , Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas....On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered - hatches that allowed...
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The Mortal Word

Genevieve Cogman · Ace
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

In the latest novel in Genevieve Cogman's historical fantasy series, the fate of worlds lies in the balance. When a dragon is murdered at a peace conference, time-travelling Librarian spy Irene must solve the case to keep the balance between order, chaos...and the Library.When Irene returns...
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