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The Binding: A Novel

Bridget Collins · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives.Imagine you could erase grief.Imagine you could remove pain.Imagine you could...
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Knight: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War

Timothy Zahn · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in Timothy Zahn's Sibyl's War seriesNicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philidelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called...
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Inspection: A Novel

Josh Malerman · Del Rey
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other exists - until now. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and horror in this tantalizing thriller. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from...
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In an Absent Dream

SEANAN MCGUIRE · Tor.com
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayThis fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very...
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If, Then: A Novel

Kate Hope Day · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists. In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon,...
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The War Within

Stephen R. Donaldson · Berkley
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Stephen R. Donaldson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, returns to the world of his Great God's War fantasy epic as two kingdoms - united by force - prepare to be challenged by a merciless enemy ... It has been twenty years since Prince Bifalt...
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The Adventures of Barry & Joe: Obama and Biden's Bromantic Battle for the Soul of America

Adam Reid · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Brothers from different mothers, bromancing history to save us from Trump. These are the continuing adventures of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, time traveling superheroes in search of a brighter future for America. Moments after the inauguration of our 45th President, best friends Barack...
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The Reign of the Kingfisher: A Novel

T.J. Martinson · Flatiron Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

30 years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T.J. MartinsonSomewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one,...
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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Victor LaValle · One World
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America - from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many...
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Cast in Oblivion

Michelle Sagara · MIRA
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback

POLITICS ARE HELLKaylin wasn't sent to the West March to start a war. Her mission to bring back nine Barrani might do just that, though. She traveled with a Dragon, and her presence is perceived as an act of aggression in the extremely hostile world of Barrani-Dragon politics. Internal...
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Alliance Rising

C J CHERRYH · DAW
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

SFWA Grand Master Cherryh returns to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga.Years after Sol has lagged behind other great megastations like Pell and Cyteen, Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification....
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Radicalized

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one bookTold through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely novel comprised of four SF novellas connected by social,...
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The Prisoner of Limnos

Lois McMaster Bujold · Subterranean
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this sequel novella to Mira's Last Dance, Temple sorcerer Penric and the widow Nikys have reached safety in the duchy of Orbas when a secret letter from a friend brings frightening news: Nikys's mother has been taken hostage by her brother's enemies at the Cedonian imperial court, and confined...
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Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories

Sarah Pinsker · Small Beer Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of the most anticipated sf&f collections of recent years. Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with stories multiply nominated for awards as well as Sturgeon and Nebula award wins. The baker's dozen stories gathered here...
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The Witch's Kind

Louisa Morgan · Redhook
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the author of A Secret History of Witches comes an absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II. Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community...
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The Wall: A Novel

John Lanchester · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall -- an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task:...
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

MARLON JAMES · Riverhead Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning...
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