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The Departure

Neal Asher · Night Shade Books
Pages: 380
Format: Paperback

TWO WORLDS, ONE ENEMYEarth An overpopulated world is under the brutal, high-tech thumb of the Committee. Towering robot shepherds, pain-inducers, and reader guns maintain control over masses of zero-asset citizens, but for the elite this not enough. Twelve billion must human beings must...
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Frost Burned

Patricia Briggs · Ace Books
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, author Patricia Briggs "has reached perfection" (The Nocturnal Library) , as Mercy Thompson faces a shapeshifter's biggest fear... After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and her stepdaughter, Jesse, can't reach Alpha werewolf...
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Afterparty

Daryl Gregory · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament...
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A Stranger in Olondria: a novel

Sofia Samatar · Small Beer Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Jevick the pepper merchants son has been raised on stories of Olondria a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria Jevicks life is as close to perfect as he can imagine But just...
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The Race

Nina Allan · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A child is kidnapped... A female journalist reaches into the past to find answers to a possible murder... Far away a young girl prepares for her mysterious future... In the tradition of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, The Race captivates the reader, weaving together story threads and realities...
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Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel

Adam Sternbergh · Crown
Format: Hardcover

The Taut, Unflinching New Thriller from Adam Sternbergh, Author of the Critically-Acclaimed Shovel Ready New York is toxic - decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The limnosphere is a virtual safe haven - if you're rich enough to buy in. Spademan is a hit man - box-cutter at the ready....
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Saucer: Savage Planet

Stephen Coonts · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Aliens are coming! A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer...
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Sustenance: A Saint-Germain novel

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution—and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe in Chelsea Quinn Yarbros SUSTENANCE The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad. ...
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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie · Pyr; Reprint edition
Pages: 531
Format: Paperback

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness,...
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The Oversight

Charlie Fletcher · Orbit
Format: Paperback

"The end always happens faster than you think." Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five.When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters,...
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Everlasting Enchantment

Kathryne Kennedy · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Paperback

From the enchanting world of Kathryne Kennedy comes the long-awaited new installment in her bestselling Relics of Merlin series—where the magic never dies. Power Magic is Afoot Millicent Pantere has lived her entire life in the notorious London Underground. She cares nothing for the problems...
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Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

Stephen L. Antczak · Roc Trade
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.… Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The...
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Long Black Curl: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Long Black Curl: a brand-new tale in Alex Bledsoe's acclaimed urban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-old rivalries simmer just beneath the surfaceIn all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson...
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