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Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson

Patricia Briggs · Ace; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Mercy Thompson's world just got a whole lot bigger ... A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, "one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today" (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews) , and the characters she calls friends...
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Beauty Is a Wound

Eka Kurniawan · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality,...
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The Rising

Ian Tregillis · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war.
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The Song Rising

Samantha Shannon · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 363
Format: Hardcover

The magnificent new book in the New York Times-bestselling series: a fantastic tale of rebellion and courage against enormous odds.Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population....
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Undead and Unwary: Queen Betsy

MaryJanice Davidson · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

How do you out-devil the devil? For Vampire queen Betsy Taylor, the answer is relative - literally - as MaryJanice Davidson's "sexy, steamy, and laugh-out-loud funny" (BOOKLIST ) New York Times bestselling series continues ...
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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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Blood of Elves

Andrzej Sapkowski · Orbit
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only...
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William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth

IAN DOESCHER · Quirk Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Experience the latest chapter in the George Lucas series in an all-new way, with The Last Jedi reimagined as if it spilled direct from the quill of William Shakespeare.The Star Wars saga continues, with Bard of Avon providing some of the biggest shocks yet! Alack, the valiant Resistance...
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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · Vintage Books
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

Includes "Story of Your Life" the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve."Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves...
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The Forever Ship

FRANCESCA HAIG · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Book Three 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."Haig's prose is gorgeous and engaging, particularly when she describes the desolate...
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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk · Riverhead Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the Man Booker International PrizeA visionary work of fiction with "echoes of Sebald [and] Kundera . . . [There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times" (The Guardian) .A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon...
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1635: A Parcel of Rogues

Eric Flint · Baen
Format: Hardcover

Book #20 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War, most of its members returned to the continent. But some remained behind in Britain, including...
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The Last Days of New Paris

China Mieville · Del Rey
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A thriller of war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new....
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The Salt Line

Holly Goddard Jones · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will they go for their...
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The Killing of Worlds: Book Two of Succession

Scott Westerfeld · Tor Science Fiction
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, follows The Risen Empire with the next thrilling space opera in Succession, the Killing of Worlds.Cut off by an Imperial blockade of the planet, a Rix compound mind has guided a lone Rix commando,...
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