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Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to kare no junrei no toshi.

Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times #1 BestsellerA New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the yearColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel...
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The Lady

K. V. Johansen · Pyr
Format: Book

Possessed by a ghost who feeds on death, the undying assassin Ahjvar the Leopard has been captured by the Lady of Marakand, enslaved by necromancy to be captain of her Red Masks. His shield-bearer Ghu, a former slave with an uncanny ability to free the captive dead, follows Ahjvar into...
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Jupiter War

Neal Asher · Night Shade Books
Format: Paperback

War threatens to destroy Earth's last hope in the final installment of the Owner trilogy!Alan Saul is now part human and part machine. He craves the stars, yet his human side still controls him; he can't leave his to sister die. He must leave Argus Station and stage a dangerous...
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Midnight Blue-Light Special

Seanan McGuire · DAW
Format: Paperback

"The monstrous fun continues." —Locus The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity—and to protect humanity from them. Verity Price is just trying to do her job, keeping the native cryptid population...
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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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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present...
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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

TOM MILLER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew...
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Damn Him to Hell

Jamie Quaid · Pocket Books
Pages: 368
Format: Mass Market Paperback

YOU DON’T NEED A LAW DEGREE TO DISPENSE STREET JUSTICE. Tina Clancy hardly has a chance to celebrate passing the bar exam when an explosion at Acme Chemical sends a noxious pink and green cloud billowing over Baltimore’s radioactive Zone. It is not as if the place was normal...
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Welcome to Deadland

Zachary Tyler Linville · Nerdist
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

""Engaging, heartbreaking, and thrilling, with an expert pace that never touches the brakes." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) In a thrilling debut from Nerdist, a ragtag group of survivors struggles to hold onto hope.A widespread disease has ravaged humanity -- symptoms...
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Jade City

FONDA LEE · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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Battlefront II: Inferno Squad

BALLANTINE. · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Set in the aftermath of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this action-packed prequel to Battlefront II introduces the Empire's elite force: Inferno Squad. The Rebellion may have heroes like Jyn Erso and Luke Skywalker. But the Empire has Inferno Squad. After the humiliating theft of the Death...
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The Boleyn Reckoning: A Novel

Laura Andersen · Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning heralds the triumphant conclusion of Laura Andersens enthralling trilogy about the Tudor king who never was the son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Henry IX—who, along with his sisters and those he holds most dear,...
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The Electric State

Simon Sta?lenhag · Skybound Books
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins...
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Every Boy Should Have a Man

Preston L. Allen · Akashic Books
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

"Allen’s concise book’s power lies within its understated irony, never more heavy-handed than a preacher’s admonition that 'a world without mans is a world without us all.' The plain narrative and relationship between boy and female man, rounded out with humor...
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Murder on Olympus (Plato Jones)

Robert B. Warren · Dragonfairy Press
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback

Library Journal Science Fiction/Fantasy Debut of the Month (April 2013) Reimagining the Greek Gods of Olympus and placing them on modern Earth, this urban fantasy novel focuses on Plato Jones, who, after a stint with the Olympic Bureau of Investigation, is through with the Gods and their...
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