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The Devastation of Baal

Guy Haley · Games Workshop
Pages: 510
Format: Paperback

The Blood Angels Chapter and their successors mount a desperate defence of their home world of Baal from the predations of the tyranid hive fleet Leviathan.After a brutal campaign in the Cryptus System fighting the alien tyranids, Lord Dante returns to Baal to marshal the entire Blood Angels...
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Sea of Rust: A Novel

C ROBERT CARGILL · Harper Voyager
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since...
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What Blooms from Dust: A Novel

James Markert · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, a tornado tears down the prison walls, and he is given a second chance at life. With the flip of a coin, he decides to return to his home town of Nowhere, Oklahoma, to settle the score with his twin brother Josiah....
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

Ursula K. Le Guin · Saga Press
Pages: 1008
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea - " ... reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago," (David Mitchell) - comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations...
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The Brotherhood of the Wheel: A Novel

R S Belcher · Tor
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series about the mysterious society of truckers known only as, The Brotherhood of The Wheel.In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers...
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Everyone Knows You Go Home

Natalia Sylvester · Little A
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American family will go for forgiveness and redemption.The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead - an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding...
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Star Trek Prometheus - The Root of All Rage

CHRISTIAN HUMBERG · Titan Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The Federation races to discover the culprits of several terrorist attacks, sending their flagship, the USS Prometheus, to stop war breaking out in the galaxy.A dangerous evil is flourishing in the Alpha Quadrant. In the Lembatta Cluster, a curious region of space, fanatics who call themselves...
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The Melody: A Novel

Jim Crace · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest, Quarantine, and Being Dead, a tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love--all set by the Mediterranean SeaAside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town...
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Barbary Station

R E Stearns · Saga Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates - only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew - and survive long enough to enjoy it.Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren't...
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Penric's Mission

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD · Subterranean
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Learned Penric sails on a journey to Cedonia not as a sorcerer in the white robes of the Bastard's Order, but disguised as a young lawyer on business. His real mission is one of clandestine diplomacy on behalf of the Duke of Adria. His usual traveling companion, the slyly clever chaos demon...
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Vanguard

JACK CAMPBELL · ACE Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance . . . and the men and women who fought to create it. Earth is no longer the center of the universe....
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For the Winner: A Novel of Jason and the Argonauts

EMILY HAUSER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Some three thousand years ago, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the quest for the Golden Fleece. One woman fought alongside them. When the king of Pagasae left his infant daughter on the slopes of a mountain to die, he believed he would never see her again. But Atalanta,...
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Arcana: A Novel of the Sylvani

JESSICA LEAKE · Talos
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately for Katherine, she cannot imagine anything more loathsome -- or dangerous. To help ease her entrance into society, Katherine's family...
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Originators

Andy Lane · Titan Books
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback

Contact with the alien race, the Gliese, was made forty years ago, but communication with them remains impossible. There is trade, but on seemingly inexplicable terms; anti-gravity technology traded for a bicycle tyre. Human science has become fixated on understanding the alien technology,...
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Deadhouse Landing

IAN C ESSLEMONT · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Esslemont's new prequel trilogy takes readers deeper into the politics and intrigue of the New York Times bestselling Malazan Empire. Dancer's Lament focuses on the genesis of the empire, and features Dancer, the skilled assassin, who, alongside the mage Kellanved, would found the Malazan...
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