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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · Vintage
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams.Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange...
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Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea."History is just one damned thing after another." - Arnold ToynbeeBehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical...
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The Shock of Night

Patrick W. Carr · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Patrick Carr Launches a New Suspense-filled Fantasy EpicWhen one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the streets of Bunard, Willet Dura is called to investigate. Yet the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers. As Willet...
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Doctor Who: City of Death

Douglas Adams · Ace Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Based on the beloved Doctor Who episode of the same name by Douglas Adams, the hilarious and brilliant author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes City of Death ... "A nasty, savage race, the universe was glad to see the back of them ... " 4 billion BCE: The Jagaroth,...
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Wake of Vultures

Lila Bowen · Orbit
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like...
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King's Folly

Jill Williamson · Bethany House, 2016.
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

An Epic New Fantasy Series from Fan Favorite Jill WilliamsonThe gods are angry.Volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, ground shakers--everything points to their unhappiness. At least that is what the king of Armania believes. His son, Prince Wilek, thinks his father's superstitions are nonsense,...
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The Raft: A Novel

Fred Strydom · Talos Press
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

" The day every person on earth lost his and her memory was not a day at all. In people's minds there was no actual event. . . and thus it could be followed by no period of shock or mourning. There could be no catharsis. Everyone was simply reset to zero. " On Day Zero, the collapse...
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A Criminal Magic

Lee Kelly · Saga Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets THE PEAKY BLINDERS in Lee Kelly's new magical realism, crossover novel.Magic is powerful, dangerous and addictive - and after passage of the 18th Amendment, it is finally illegal.It's 1926 in Washington, DC, and while Anti-Sorcery activists have achieved...
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