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Middlegame

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame.Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively...
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The Stiehl Assassin

Terry Brooks · Del Rey
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

After The Black Elfstone and The Skaar Invasion comes the next chapter in the Fall of Shannara, a saga more than four decades in the making. The Skaar have arrived in the Four Lands, determined to stop at nothing less than all-out conquest. They badly need a new home, but peaceful coexistence...
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The Obsoletes: A Novel

Simeon Mills · Skybound Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Obsoletes is a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown.Fraternal twin...
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The Last: A Novel

Hanna Jameson · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts, this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war - along with twenty other survivors - who becomes obsessed...
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The East End: A Novel

Jason Allen · Park Row
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A tragic accident threatens to unravel two families in this gripping novel of suspense and culture clash set in the Hamptons.Corey Halpern, a local high schooler with a troubled home life, is desperate to leave the Hamptons and start anew somewhere else. His last summer before college,...
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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida...
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Exhalation: Stories

Ted Chiang · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival) , the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short storiesThis much-anticipated...
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A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do: A Novel

Pete Fromm · Counterpoint
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Pete Fromm is a powerful, lucid writer, a perfect guide to the unpredictable rivers and people of the interior West, to their deep channels and breathtaking turns." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruin "Pete Fromm is one of America's best-kept literary secrets."...
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Upon a Burning Throne

Ashok K. Banker · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

Two princes, Shvate and Adri, are born in Hastinaga, capital of the vast Krushan empire - one blind, the other albino. Though one cannot see, and the other cannot face sunlight, the Dowager Empress Jilana and Prince Regent Vrath assure their people and allies that all will be well. Any rumblings...
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The Abolitionist's Daughter

Diane C. McPhail · A John Scognamiglio Book
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history - Southern Abolitionists - and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews...
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