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The Golem of Hollywood

Jonathan Kellerman · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 549
Format: Print book

"An extraordinary work of detection, suspense, and supernatural mystery. I spent three days totally lost in the world Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have created. This is brilliant, page-turning fiction with mythic underpinnings that give it a special resonance; a rare collaboration...
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The Last One: A Novel

Alexandra Oliva · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva's fast-paced novel of suspense.She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face...
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The map of bones

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy "The Hunger Games" meets Cormac McCarthy s "The Road" in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following...
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Seventh Decimate

Stephen R Donaldson · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles launches a powerful new trilogy about a prince's desperate quest for a sorcerous library to save his people.Fire. Wind. Pestilence. Earthquake. Drought. Lightning. These are the six Decimates, wielded by sorcerers for both good and evil....
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The Rat Catchers' Olympics

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow is already rife with controversy, but when a Lao athlete is accused of murder, it escalates into a full blown international incident. In the twelfth entry to the series, Dr. Siri Paiboun and his quirky team of misfits are on the case in a city and country...
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Alias Hook

Lisa Jensen · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"Every child knows how the story ends. The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It's my fate to be trapped here forever, in a nightmare of childhood fancy,...
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The Silver Witch

Paula Brackston · Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat's death. Instead, the lake...
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Collision: Book Four in the Secret World Chronicle

Mercedes Lackey · Baen
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book 4 in the pulse-pounding SECRET WORLD saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with the consequences of their superpowers, but the evil Thulian threat lies in wait....
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Raven Stratagem

YOON HA LEE · Solaris
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion.When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her put down...
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The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien's complete artwork for his magisterial novel, published on the sixtieth anniversary of The Lord of the Rings As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's mental pictures often found expression in drawing, from rough sketches made within the manuscript to more...
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The Darkling Child: The Defenders of Shannara

Terry Brooks · Ballantine Group
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks comes a thrilling stand-alone novel in his legendary Shannara series - the perfect place for new readers to begin.After taking up his enchanted sword against the dark sorcerer Arcannen, Paxon Leah has become the sworn protector of the Druid...
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Count to Infinity: A Novel of the Eschaton Sequence

John C Wright · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Count to Infinity is John C. Wright's spectacular conclusion to the thought-provoking hard science fiction Eschaton Sequence, exploring future history and human evolution.An epic space opera finale worthy of the scope and wonder of The Eschaton Sequence: Menelaus Montrose is locked...
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO · Graywolf Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

A highly anticipated debut by "one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today" (Michelle Huneven) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror,...
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Bone Music

Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State. · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

There's more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge ... Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew - a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare...
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Mystic: A Novel

Jason Denzel · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"For hundreds of years, high-born nobles have competed for the chance to learn of the Mystic. Powerful, revered, and often reclusive, Mystics have the unique ability to summon and manipulate the Myst: the underlying energy that lives at the heart of the universe. Once in a very great...
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