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What Hides in the Darkness

K. L. Cottrell · Adagio
Format: Print book

Marienne is different from how she used to be. After she recovered from the car wreck that nearly killed her, she withdrew from the life she was leading-not just because her family was destroyed and her friendships broken, but also because she started noticing some very disturbing things...
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Closer to the Chest

MERCEDES LACKEY · DAW
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

New York Times-bestselling author Mercedes Lackey's Herald Spy series, set in the beloved fantasy world of ValdemarHerald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald-Spy, has been developing a clandestine network of young informants who operate not only on the streets of the capital city...
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Last First Snow: A Novel of the Craft Sequence

Max Gladstone · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Last First Snow: the fourth novel set in Max Gladstone's compellingly modern fantasy world of the Craft Sequence Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation-especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts....
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Arkad's World

James L. Cambias · Baen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Adventure and Excitement on an Alien World. Packed with exotic world-building and amazing characters, Arkad's World is a rollicking adventure story about growing up and the things we share that make us human, from celebrated author James L. Cambias.Young Arkad is the only human on a distant...
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The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu · Tor
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four...
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The Last President

John Barnes · Ace
Format: Book

For more than a year, Heather O’Grainne and her small band of heroes, operating out of Pueblo, Colorado, have struggled to pull the United States back together after it shattered under the impact of the event known as Daybreak. Now they are poised to bring the three or four biggest...
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The Order War: A Novel in the Saga of Recluse

L. E. Modesitt Jr. · Tor Fantasy
Pages: 608
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"An intriguing fantasy in a fascinating world." -- Robert Jordan, New York Times bestselling author of The Wheel of Time® seriesTwo hundred years before The Magic of Recluce, in a perfect entry-point for new readers of the series, the deadly White Wizards of Fairhaven, wielding...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017A San Francisco...
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A Fire Upon The Deep

Vernor Vinge · Tor Books
Format: Paperback

In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since become a landmark in the field. Now, with the long awaited sequel The Children of the Sky about to be published, we are proud to offer...
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The Drowned World: A Novel

J. G. Ballard · Liveright
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A thrilling adventure with "an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad" (Kingsley Amis) , considered by many to be Ballard's finest. In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient...
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She Would Be King: A Novel

Wayetu Moore · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 637
Format: Library Binding

A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history?a dazzling retelling of Liberia's formationWayétu Moore's powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon...
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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

*2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL**2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -- Joe Hill, author of The FiremanThe first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe...
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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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The Once and Future King

T H White · Putnam
Pages: 677
Format: Print book

T.H. White, whose The Sword in the Stone has been read by hundreds of thousands, now at last has turned his hand to retelling the entire Arthurian Epic. The Once and Future King takes Arthur from the glorious lyrical phase of his youth through the disillusioning early years of his reign...
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Eternity's Mind

Kevin J Anderson · Tor
Pages: 572
Format: Print book

Eternity's Mind is the climactic final book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Shadows Trilogy, which began with the Hugo nominee The Dark Between the. The Saga of Shadows, as well as its predecessor series, the international bestselling Saga of Seven, are among the grandest epic space operas...
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