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A Game of Thrones: The 20th Anniversary Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

George R R Martin · Bantam
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

Published in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George R. R. Martin's landmark series, this lavishly illustrated special edition of A Game of Thrones revitalizes the fantasy masterpiece that started a cultural phenomenon. With gorgeous full-page illustrations in every chapter,...
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Trinity Rising

Elspeth Cooper · Tor
Pages: 501
Format: Paperback

Trinity Rising is the sequel to Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper, and continues the story of a young man who has been sentenced to death, and then exiled, for his magical abilities. As Gair struggles with grief over the loss of the only home he had known, and his beloved, he is walking...
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Walkaway

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Pages: 379
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death."Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." -- William GibsonHubert...
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Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Pages: 349
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An all-new original short fiction anthology featuring Mercedes Lackey's heroic Heralds and their horselike companions-as penned by such masters of fantasy as Judith Tarr, Michelle West, Fiona Patton, and others.
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Dirty Magic

Jaye Wells · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

MAGIC IS A DRUG. CAREFUL HOW YOU USE IT.
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Conquest: Book 1, The Chronicles of the Invaders

John Connolly · Atria/Emily Bestler Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Earth is no longer ours. . . . It is ruled by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien species. But humankind has not given up the fight, and Paul Kerr is one of a new generation of young Resistance leaders waging war on the invaders. Syl Hellais is the first of the Illyri...
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Jupiter War

Neal Asher · Night Shade Books
Format: Paperback

War threatens to destroy Earth's last hope in the final installment of the Owner trilogy!Alan Saul is now part human and part machine. He craves the stars, yet his human side still controls him; he can't leave his to sister die. He must leave Argus Station and stage a dangerous...
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Vampires of Manhattan: The New Blue Bloods Coven

Melissa de la Cruz · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Blue Bloods and Witches of East End comes a new novel that explores the battle between good and evil in the city that never sleepsVAMPIRES OF MANHATTAN The New Blue Bloods CovenYoull devour Melissa de la Cruzs hot new adult novel in which her Blue Bloods immortals...
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Faith of the Fallen

Terry Goodkind · Tor
Pages: 785
Format: Paperback

Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.Emperor...
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The Chrysalids

John Wyndham · NYRB Classics; 1st Printing edition
Format: Paperback

The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly...
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The Winds of Dune

Brian Herbert · TOR Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune...
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A Green and Ancient Light

Frederic S Durbin · Saga Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Pan's Labyrinth and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer...
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Crown of Slaves

David Weber · Baen
Format: Paperback

The Star Kingdom of Manticore has Alienated an Ally It can't Afford to Lose. Space adventure in the New York Times Best-Selling Universe of Honor Harrington-First Time in Paperback!Beginning a new blockbuster series set in the "Honorverse"-the universe of Honor Harrington....
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The Man in the Tree: A Novel

SAGE WALKER · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Humanity's last hope of survival lies in space ... but will a random death doom the venture?Our planet is dying and the world's remaining nations have pooled their resources to build a seed ship that will carry colonists on a multi-generational journey to a distant planet.Everything...
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The Chaos Balance (Saga of Recluce)

L. E. Modesitt Jr. · Tor Fantasy
Pages: 608
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., has become one of the standard works of fantasy in the 1990s. VOYA says, "Modesitt's logical structure of the interrelationship of order and chaos, magic and technology, is one of the most through in modern fantasy. The personal growth...
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