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The New World: A Novel

Chris Adrian · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary mindsThe New World is the story of a marriage. Dr. Jane Cotton is a pediatric surgeon; her husband, Jim, is a humanist chaplain. They are about to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary...
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The Bedlam Stacks

NATASHA PULLEY · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET--a treacherous quest in the magical landscape of nineteenth-century Peru.In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost...
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1636: The Vatican Sanctions

Eric Flint · Baen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Book #24 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, 1636 It's spring in Burgundy. The flowers are out and so are the cardinals - of Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church's...
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Dorothy Parker Drank Here

Ellen Meister · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom.Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone,...
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Binti: Home

Nnedi Okorafor · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

The thrilling sequel to the Hugo and Nebula-winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places.And now she must...
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Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Welcome to Mexico City ... An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires ... Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eeking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
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Dragonsinger

Anne McCaffrey · Saga Press; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

Menolly needs more than musics power in the second book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffreys beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper and quickly learns...
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The Annihilation Score: A Laundry Files Novel

Charles Stross · Ace Books, 2015.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror" (Kirkus Reviews) . Dominique O'Brien - her friends call her Mo - lives a curious double life...
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Witchy Winter

D J Butler · Baen
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

SEQUEL TO WITCHY EYE. Next in series, which debuted with the stunningly reviewed Witchy Eye. Butler delivers another brilliant Americana flintlock fantasy novel.TOIL AND TROUBLE Sarah Calhoun paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empire's politics, but she survived....
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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

Combining the emotional depth of "The Art of Racing in the Rain" with the magical spirit of "The Life of Pi, " "Lily and the Octopus "is an epic adventure of the heart. When you sit down with "Lily and the Octopus, " you will be taken on an unforgettable...
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Piranha

Clive Cussler · Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Pages: 593
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In 1902, Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later during a covert operation, Juan Cabrillo and his crew...
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A Shiver of Light

Laurell K. Hamilton · Berkley; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because Princess looks so pretentious on a drivers license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldnt be the only one for much longer...Merry Gentry, exprivate detective, now full-time princess, knew...
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Mississippi Roll: A Wild Cards novel

GEORGE R R MARTIN · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Mississippi Roll is an all-new, adventurous jaunt along one of America's greatest rivers, featuring many beloved characters from the Wild Cards universeEdited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Mississippi Roll features...
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Shovel Ready

Adam Sternbergh · Random House Inc
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls "sharp as a paper-cut" about a garbage man turned kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell...
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The Wolves of Winter: A Novel

TYRELL JOHNSON · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger...
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