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Beautiful You: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · Anchor
Format: Hardcover

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help."...
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Dreams of Distant Shores

Patricia A McKillip · Tachyon Publications LLC
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

A collection of short stories, within whose pages we "find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate"--Amazon.com.
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Undone

Rachel Caine · Roc; Original edition
Format: Paperback

A brand new series from the author of the "Weather Warden" novels, who's as “Swift, sassy, and sexy as Laurell K. Hamilton.” (Mary Jo Putney)View our feature on Rachel Caine’s Undone.Once she was Cassiel, a Djinn of limitless power. Now, she has been reshaped...
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Children of the New World: Stories

Adam Weinstein · Picador Usa
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Children of the New World introduces readers to lost characters in a near-future of social media software implants, manufacturers of memories, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and frighteningly intuitive androids. Some of these characters live in a superficially utopian future...
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Hearts in Darkness

Keri Arthur · Dell
Format: Book

PASSION WITH A BITE   Private Investigator Nikki James has a lot to contend with. Her lover, Michael Kelly, walked out without so much as a goodbye, and what seemed like a simple case of stopping a runaway teen brought her face-to-face with another clutch of deadly vampires. But if that...
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Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson

Patricia Briggs · Ace; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Mercy Thompson's world just got a whole lot bigger ... A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, "one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today" (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews) , and the characters she calls friends...
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Treachery's Tools

L E Jr Modesitt · Tor Books
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Treachery's Tools is L. E. Modesitt's tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar, Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married with a daughter, he would like...
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The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara

Terry Brooks · Random House Inc
Pages: 305
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegend has it that Paxon Leah is descended from the royals and warriors who once ruled the Highlands and waged war with magical weapons. But those kings, queens, and heroes are long gone, and there is nothing enchanted about the antique sword that hangs above Paxon's...
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Ruthless Game

Christine Feehan · Jove; First edition
Format: Paperback

GhostWalker Kane Cannon's mission plunges him into a hot zone more personal than he anticipated: the hiding place of Rose Patterson-hunted fugitive, ex-lover, and a fellow GhostWalker desperate to save the life of her unborn child. Kane's Child.
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Prudence

Gail Carriger · Orbit
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

Prudence (The Custard Protocol)
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Wake a Sleeping Tiger

Lora Leigh · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

When readers of dark romance and unbridled desire want to be satisfied, they turn to #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and her "powerful and highly erotic" (Fresh Fiction) Breed novels. Now a Breed hides in the world of man - until a woman arouses the amused and wildly...
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short storiesIn the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty...
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Amber Smoke: The Escaped - Book One

Kristin Cast · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

"With a unique twist on Greek mythology and heart-stopping action, AMBER SMOKE keeps you riveted to the very last page." -- #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout "With the perfect mix of thrills and chills, along with characters who pop off the page...
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Beauty Is a Wound

Eka Kurniawan · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality,...
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