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Lighthouse Island: A Novel

Paulette Jiles · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope.In...
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Get in Trouble: Stories

Kelly Link · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BookPage * BuzzFeed * Chicago Tribune * Kirkus Reviews * NPR * San Francisco Chronicle * Slate * Toronto Star * The Washington PostShe has been hailed by Michael Chabon as "the...
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Perfect Gravity

Vivien Jackson · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Raw. Smart. Quick-witted. Mouthwatering. Just a few adjectives that describe this exquisite tale. Do not let this unforgettable story, or its incredible cast of characters, slip by you." -- DARYNDA JONES, New York Times bestselling authorKellen Hockley usually keeps quiet about...
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From a Certain Point of View

BALLANTINE. · Del Rey
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth...
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Questionable Practices: Stories

Eileen Gunn · Small Beer Press
Format: Paperback

Good intentions arent everything. Sometimes things dont quite go the way you planned. And sometimes you dont plan. . . . This collection of sixteen stories and one lonely poem chart the many ways trouble can ensue. No actual human beings were harmed in the creation of this book. Stories...
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Walking In the Midst of Fire: A Remy Chandler Novel

Thomas E. Sniegoski · Roc Trade
Format: Paperback

Remy Chandler, angel private investigator, is trying his damnedest to lead a normal life in a world on the verge of supernatural change. He's found a new love - a woman his dog, Marlowe, approves of - and his best human friend is reluctantly coming to grips with how...unusual...Remy's...
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An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: A Novel

CURTIS CRADDOCK · Tor Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading...
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In Retrospect

Ellen Larson · Five Star
Format: Print book

In Retrospect is a good old-fashioned whodunit set in a compelling post-apocalyptic future.Former elite operative Merit Rafi suffered during her imprisonment at the end of a devastating war but the ultimate torment is being forced to investigate a murder she would gladly have committed...
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Penric and the Shaman

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD · Subterranean
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover

Young Lord Penric now wears the white robes of the Bastard's Order, complete with shoulder braids marking him as a divine and sorcerer, while he pursues scholarly studies in the court of the Princess-Archdivine. His demon of disorder, Desdemona, is, of course, present, accounted for, and offering...
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Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · Ace; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From a new master storyteller comes the beginning of an epic fantasy saga of blood, honor, and destiny The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth...
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Empire Games

Charles Stross · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games. " Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...
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Wood Sprites

Wen Spencer · Baen
Format: Hardcover

Book 4 in the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning Elfhome series. Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth...
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A Small Charred Face

Kazuki Sakuraba · Haikasoru
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Even monsters need families.What are the "bamboo"? They are from China. They look just like us. They live by night. They drink human lifeblood, but otherwise keep their distance. And every century, they grow white blooming flowers. A boy name Kyo is saved from the precipice...
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The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma

Brian Herbert · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. Its a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting...
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Heaven's Queen

Rachel Bach · Orbit
Format: Paperback

From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswells doomed ship, Devi Morris life has been one disaster after another government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus thats eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government...
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