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The Silent Corner: A Novel

Dean R Koontz · Bantam
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A dazzling new series, a pure adrenaline rush, debuts with Jane Hawk, a remarkable heroine certain to become an icon of suspense "I very much need to be dead."These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took...
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The Skill of Our Hands

Steven Brust · Tor
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." -- John Scalzi on The Incrementalists The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people -- an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat...
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The Refrigerator Monologues

Catherynne M Valente · Saga Press
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comicsFrom the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female...
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After the Crown

K. B. Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The adrenaline-fueled, "Star Wars-"style sequel to "Behind the Throne, " a new space adventure series from author K. B. Wagers. Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters...
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

George R. R. Martin · Random House
Format: Audio - Unabridged

Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen...
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An Ancient Peace: Peacekeeper #1

Tanya Huff · Daw Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. But when she learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting, she left the military for good. But Torin couldn't walk away from preserving and protecting everything the Confederation represented....
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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 Edition

Rich Horton · Prime Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne...
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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter · Grove Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

"The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count." -- Tracy Chevalier Pre-empted...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD · Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War,...
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Weighing Shadows

Lisa Goldstein · Night Shade Books,
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein.Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by - until one day she's contacted with a job offer...
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Supernova

C A Higgins · Del Rey
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

C. A. Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity...
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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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The Sky Is Yours: A Novel

CHANDLER KLANG SMITH · Hogarth
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about what it's like to be young in a very old world is pure storytelling pleasure In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly...
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Pacific Fire

Greg van Eekhout · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Pacific Fire: Another thrilling ride through Greg van Eekhout's wildly imaginative world of California Bones, featuring entertaining new characters and a dangerous magical plot unfolding in Los Angeles.I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance...
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Perfect Shadow

BRENT WEEKS · Orbit
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel.Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father;...
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