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Head On

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty -- most of them in someone else's body." -- USA TodayJohn Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone...
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Magic of Wind and Mist: The Wizard's Promise; The Nobleman's Revenge

Cassandra Rose Clarke · Saga Press
Pages: 538
Format: Paperback

Taking place in the world of Cassandra Rose Clarke's Magic of Blood and Sea, this is the story of a would-be witch who embarks on an adventure filled with intrigue, mystery, mermaids, and magic.Hanna has spent her life hearing about the adventures of her namesake Ananna, the lady pirate,...
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The Moon and the Other

John Kessel · Saga Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people...
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The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino · Mariner Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest...
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The Dead Seekers

Barb Hendee · Ace
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the New York Times bestselling Noble Dead saga, Barb and J.C. Hendee created an engrossing mix of "intrigue, epic fantasy, and horror."* Now, they present a bold new series set in the same world, where the destinies of two hunters shaped by the shadows of their pasts are about...
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Hearts and Minds

DAYTON WARD · Pocket Books/Star Trek
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it's learned that the ship is one of several dispatched...
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The More Known World

Tiffany Tsao · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback

The Quest of the quirky Oddfits continues - and this time, beyond the Known World lies something unspeakable ... Two years after Murgatroyd Floyd joined the Quest to understand and catalogue the wonders of the More Known World, the rash-prone, blue-eyed Oddfit starts having doubts about...
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Outer Earth

Rob Boffard · Orbit
Pages: 1006
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Outer Earth: a vivid, dangerous world where every day is a desperate struggle for survival. Who said in space no one can hear you scream?Outer Earth is a huge space station orbiting the ruins of our planet. Dirty, overcrowded and inescapable, it's humanity's last refuge...
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Empire Games

Charles Stross · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games. " Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British...
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The Emerald Circus

JANE YOLEN · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course.A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells...
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Tomorrow: A Novel

Damian Dibben · Hanover Square
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A wise old dog travels through the courts and battlefields of Europe and through the centuries in search of the master who granted him immortality "Ornate, vivid, deeply colored, and so precise I could smell and taste the world€¦ The story of a dog crossing continents and centuries...
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Beneath the Sugar Sky

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayBeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns...
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Gather Her Round: A Novel of the Tufa

Alex Bledsoe · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Cloud County, where music and Tufa, the otherworldly fae community, intermix, a monster roams the forest, while another kind of evil lurks in the hearts of men."Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times...
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All Our Wrong Todays: A Novel

Elan Mastai · Dutton
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have ... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where...
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Eterna and Omega

LEANNA RENEE HIEBER · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Leanna Renee Hieber's gaslamp fantasy series continues and the action ramps up in Eterna and Omega. In New York City, fearing the dangers of the Eterna Compound--supposedly the key to immortality--Clara Templeton buries information vital to its creation. The ghost of her clandestine...
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