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The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter: The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, Book 1

Rod Duncan · Angry Robot
Format: Book

Finalist for the 2014 Phillip K. Dick AwardElizabeth Barnabus lives a double life as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed...
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We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories

Clare Beams · Lookout Books
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable ... a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century."The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school...
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Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches

Cherie Priest · Roc

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-oneThe people of Fall River Massachusetts fear me Perhaps rightfully so I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence...
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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J R Ward · Ballantine Books
Pages: 521
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward's newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King, is facing a brutal...
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Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart

Harry Turtledove · Roc Hardcover; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere forever altering the climate of the entire continent Nothing grows from the tainted soil Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuaryPeople have been...
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Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card · Tor, 2014.
Pages: 395
Format: Print book

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations;...
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Call of Fire

BETH CATO · Harper Voyager
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A resourceful young heroine must protect the world from her enemies - and her own power - in this thrilling sequel to the acclaimed Breath of Earth, an imaginative blend of alternative history, fantasy, science, magic, and adventure.When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate...
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Toxic Game

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers into the hot zone in this pulse-pounding GhostWalker novel.On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible - or risk...
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Serpentine

LAURELL K HAMILTON · Berkley
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover

Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight...A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend Edward....
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The Light Brigade

Kameron Hurley · Saga Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the Hugo Award­­-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted...
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Afterparty

Daryl Gregory · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament...
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Artemis Awakening

Jane Lindskold · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Artemis Awakening is the start of a new series by New York Times bestseller Jane Lindskold. The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed...
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A Turn of Light

Julie Czerneda · Daw Books
Pages: 854
Format: Print book

The village of Marrowdell is an isolated pioneer community, but it is also the place where two worlds overlap, and at the turn of light--sunset--the world of magic known as the Verge can briefly be seen.Jenn Nalynn belongs to both Verge and Marrowdell, but even she doesn't know how special...
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Forged by Desire

Bec McMaster · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Print book

Edgy, dark, and shot through with a grim, gritty intensity, McMasters latest title adds to her mesmerizing steampunk series with another gripping, inventive stunner.-Booklist, starred review for Heart of Iron A FEAR SHE CANT ESCAPETen years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sanctuary...
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Only Human

SYLVAIN NEUVEL · Del Rey
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus Reviews) .In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally...
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