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An Echo in the Bone

Diana Gabaldon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 820
Format: Print book

Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie...
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Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Novel

Judd Trichter · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Set in a near-future LA, a man falls in love with a beautiful android--but when she is kidnapped and sold piecemeal on the black market, he must track down her parts to put her back together.Bad luck for Eliot Lazar, he fell in love with an android, a beautiful C-900 named Iris Matsuo....
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Maestro: Homecoming, Book II

R A Salvatore · Wizards Of The Coast LLC
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

Something terrible, unspeakable, immense, has come to Menzoberranzan and is leaving death and destruction in its wake. The primordial of Gauntlgrym stirs, sending Cattie-brie and Gromph to Luskan, and the ruins of the only power that can keep the beast in check. The damage of the Darkening,...
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The Golem of Hollywood

Jonathan Kellerman · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 549
Format: Print book

"An extraordinary work of detection, suspense, and supernatural mystery. I spent three days totally lost in the world Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have created. This is brilliant, page-turning fiction with mythic underpinnings that give it a special resonance; a rare collaboration...
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Emissary

Thomas Locke · Revell
Format: Print book

In this highly imaginative fantasy, a reluctant hero undertakes a dangerous and heroic quest to discover his destiny and fight against the dark forces seeking to control The Realm.
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Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling

Monica Valentinelli · APEX PUBLICATIONS
Pages: 366

Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry, and essays edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates. Over two dozen authors, ranging from NYT-bestsellers and award winners to debut writers, chose a tired trope or cliche to challenge and surprise...
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The Fire Sermon

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization...
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Without a Summer

Mary Robinette Kowal · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Up-and-coming fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal enchanted fans with her novels Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass, which introduced Regency glamourists Jane and David Vincent. In Without a Summer, Jane and Vincent take a break from their international travels. But in a world where...
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Red Hill

Jamie McGuire · Atria Books
Format: Paperback

When the world ends, can love survive? For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone means fighting for tomorrow is an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can’t remember what it’s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda’s...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always...
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Death's Mistress

Terry Goodkind · Head of Zeus
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness will launch The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind's entirely new series with a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth.

One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang,...

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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories

Lesley Nneka Arimah · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.

In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker,...
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The Free

Brian Ruckley · Orbit
Format: Book

THEY ARE THE MOST FEARED MERCENARY COMPANY THE KINGDOM HAS EVER KNOWN. Led by Yulan, their charismatic captain, the Free have spent years selling their martial and magical skills to the highest bidder -- winning countless victories that have shaken the foundations of the world. Now they...
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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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Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent

Marie Brennan · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennans Voyage of the Basilisk . . . Devoted readers of Lady Trents earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard...
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