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The Stone in the Skull

ELIZABETH BEAR · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy.Best SFF Books 2017 -- The GuardianKirkus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017The Verge Recommended Fantasy for 2017Locus 2017 Recommended Reading...
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The Genius Plague

David Walton · Pyr
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

THE CONTAGION IS IN YOUR MINDIn this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors.Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the NSA when his brother,...
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Closer to the Heart: Book Two of Herald Spy

Mercedes Lackey · Daw Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave. When he was Chosen by his Companion Dallen, his young life was saved, and he slowly adjusted to being well fed, educated, and treasured as a trainee in the Herald's Collegium at Haven. Singled out by the King's...
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Heartbreaker: A Novel

Claudia Dey · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A woman's disappearance shakes up a strange northern town that is stuck in the 1980s, in a wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid's Tale, Stranger Things and Twin Peaks.Why can't a woman be more than one person in a lifetime?It's been months since...
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The Flicker Men: A Novel

Ted Kosmatka · Henry Holt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A high-speed thriller. . . . The pages turn rapidly with well-orchestrated suspense." -The New York Times"If Stephen Hawking and Stephen King wrote a novel together, you'd get The Flicker Men. Brilliant, disturbing, and beautifully told." -Hugh Howey, New York Times...
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The Dreamers: A Novel

Karen Thompson Walker · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles comes a mesmerizing novel about a town transformed by a mysterious sickness that locks victims in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams. One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern...
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Obscura

Joe Hart · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

She's felt it before ... the fear of losing control. And it's happening again.In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research...
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The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Dermot Power · Harper Design
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award®-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts from the eagerly anticipated new adventure in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World.The...
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Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

Terry Pratchett · Harper; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

It's murder in Discworld!—which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite...
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Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami · Vintage Digital
Pages: 704
Format: Book

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange...
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Half a war

Joe Abercrombie · Del Rey
Pages: 366
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND THE INDEPENDENT * New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie delivers the stunning conclusion to the epic fantasy trilogy that began with Half a King, praised by George R. R. Martin as "a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge...
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Power Surge

Ben Bova · Tor, 2015.
Pages: 363
Format: Print book

Dr. Jake Ross, the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, must figure out how Washington really works when his comprehensive energy plan runs afoul of special interests, cynical bureaucrats, and a powerful U.S. senator.
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Agents of the Internet Apocalypse: A Novel

Wayne Gladstone · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

Gladstone, the so-called "Internet Messiah," has not only failed to bring back the Web, but his search has landed him in a New York City psychiatric ward. The rest of the world isn't doing so well either, filled with disconnected Internet users still jonesing for a fix, and an increasingly...
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Smoke: A Novel

Dan Vyleta · Doubleday
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders - and dangerous secrets. "Dan...
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Corsair: A Science Fiction Novel

James L. Cambias · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes...
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