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Heritage of Cyador

L. E. Modesitt · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author L.E. Modesitt comes Heritage of Cyador, the new novel in the Saga of Recluce.Scarcely a year after the events of Cyador's Heirs, Lerial uses his mastery of Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces that shape his world and define the magic...
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Death Masks: Book Five of The Dresden Files

Jim Butcher · Roc; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The Punch Escrow

· Geek & Sundry
Pages: 300

Dubbed the "next Ready, Player One, " by former Warner Brothers President Greg Silverman, and now in film development at Lionsgate. "I read a lot of books but haven't enjoyed one as much as The Punch Escrow in a long time. Klein creates a plausibly real future that sucks...
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Like a Mighty Army

David Weber · Tor Science Fiction
Format: Mass Market Paperback

For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new—no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud—a...
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Willing Sacrifice: The Sentinel Wars

Shannon K. Butcher · Signet Book
Pages: 371
Format: Paperback

They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now a warrior weighs the price he will pay for love....Theronai warrior Torr has never forgotten...
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We Were Witches

Ariel Gore · Amethyst Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily...
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Winter Tide

Ruthanna Emrys · Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future....
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The V'Dan: First Salik War

Jean Johnson · Ace
Format: Print book

A thrilling new perspective of the world created in the explosive, national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series. It's two hundred years earlier - the age of the First Salik War. And the battle against humanity has been engaged. The V'Dan always believed they were the chosen...
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Blood of the Cosmos

Kevin J Anderson · Tor
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Blood of the Cosmos: the second book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Shadows trilogyAn epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar...
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The Weaver

Emmi Itäranta · Voyager
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous...
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Power Surge: A Novel

Ben Bova · Tor, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting...
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Silence

Mercedes Lackey · Baen
Pages: 448
Format: Mass Market Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. ENTRY #9 IN MERCEDES LACKEY'S CELEBRATED SERRATED EDGE URBAN FANTASY SERIES! Teenager Staci's father has just remarried, and now she finds herself being shunted aside by her new stepmother. Shunted all the way to the run-down and dying Maine...
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Rosewater

Tade Thompson · Apex Publications
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback

"One of the most imaginative alien invasion scenarios I have come across..." Aliette de Bodard, Nebula and BSFA award-winning author of THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS "This thrilling, ambitious novel offers a deftly woven and incisive blend of science fiction, psychology,...
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

SEANAN MCGUIRE · Tor.com
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones -- a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist,...
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Fall and Rising

Sunny Moraine · Riptide Publishing
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

Adam Yuga is on the run. Three months ago, a miracle saved him from the deadly genetic illness that threatens the entire population of his former home, the Protectorate. Now he and his lover Lochlan are searching for a way to heal his people. When they receive a mysterious coded message...
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