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License to Quill

Jacopo Della Quercia · St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

License to Quill is a page-turning James Bond-esque spy thriller starring William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe during history's real life Gunpowder Plot. The story follows the fascinating golden age of English espionage, the tumultuous cold war gripping post-Reformation Europe,...
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Silverwolf: Rowandkind: Book Two

Jacey Bedford · Daw Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Britain, 1801. King George's episodic sanity is almost as damaging as his madness. First Consul Napoleon is gathering his forces in France. The disease of democracy is spreading. The world is poised on the brink of the modern era, but the rowankind, long a source of free labor, have shaken...
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The Dinosaur Lords: A Novel

Victor Milán · Tor Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"It's like a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones." --George R. R. MartinA world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise as do dogs, cats,...
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The Return: A Novel

Joseph Helmreich · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see. Six years later, he turns up, wandering in a South American desert, denying ever having been abducted...
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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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Skinner Luce

Patricia Ward · Talos Press
Pages: 343
Format: Print book

"Skinner was what servs called each other. It was because they were fake, their skins a disguise ... "Every year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret,...
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A Night Without Stars: A Novel of the Commonwealth

Peter F Hamilton · Del Rey
Pages: 702
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton returns to his acclaimed Commonwealth series in this thrilling follow-up to The Abyss Beyond Dreams. Featuring Hamilton's trademark blend of intricate plotting, riveting suspense, high-concept science, and vivid characters, A Night Without Stars brings...
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Recluce Tales: Stories from the World of Recluce

L E Jr Modesitt · Tor
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

For over a thousand years, Order and Chaos have molded the island of Recluce. The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world through eighteen books, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s longest and bestselling fantasy series.Recluce Tales: Stories from the World of Recluce collects seventeen...
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Heartstone

Elle Katharine White · Harper Voyager
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.They say a Rider...
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Echopraxia

Peter Watts · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs...
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American Craftsmen: A Novel

Tom Doyle · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil--if they dont kill each other first.US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier--a craftsman. After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian...
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House Immortal

Devon Monk · Roc
Format: Book

One hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world's resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn't placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized....Matilda Case isn't like most...
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Kris Longknife: Bold

Mike Shepherd · Ace Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Kris Longknife "can kick, shoot, and punch her way out of any dangerous situation,"* and her latest adventure in the New York Times bestelling series is as perilous as they come... Despite her role as a fleet Admiral and protector of a planetary system, Kris is still beholden...
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Sins of Empire

Brian McClellan · Orbit
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A new epic fantasy series from highly acclaimed fantasy author, Brian McClellan, set in the same world as The Powder Mage trilogy. A world on the cusp of a new age... The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers,...
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The Turning Season

Sharon Shinn · Ace Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

As the national bestselling Shifting Circle series continues, a woman must choose between hiding her nature - and risking her heart... For Karadel, being a shape-shifter has always been a reality she couldn't escape. Even though she's built a safe life as a rural veterinarian, with...
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