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Into the Savage Country: A Novel

Shannon Burke · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

This breathtaking adventure set in the American West of the 1820s is at once a tale of complex friendships, a love story, and a panoramic retelling of a crucial moment in American history.   When the young William Wyeth leaves St. Louis for a fur-trapping expedition, he nearly loses his life...
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Paul, Apostle of Christ: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture

ANGELA HUNT · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

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Hiroshima Boy

Naomi Hirahara · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend's ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy's death affects...
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Starfire: A Novel

Dale Brown · Harper; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown—the best military writer in the country Clive Cussler—is back with Starfire,  a masterful military thriller that explores a future all too possible and all too close the weaponization of space.With the death of his heroic father, bomber...
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Mother of Eden

Chris Beckett · Broadway Books
Format: Print book

We speak of a mothers love, but we forget her power. Civilization has come to the alien, sunless planet its inhabitants call Eden.   Just a few generations ago, the planets five hundred inhabitants huddled together in the light and warmth of the Forests lantern trees, afraid to venture...
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Once Bitten, Twice Burned

Cynthia Eden · Brava
Format: Book

"Eden's unsurpassed creativity shines once again!" --Larissa IoneBlood--And LustRyder Duncan keeps his secrets. With a twisted scientist starving him in a 10 x 12 cell, it's not easy to conceal the abilities that set him apart from other vampires, or his plans for escape....
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After the Bugles and Llano River

Elmer Kelton · Forge
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

After the BuglesJoshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war with Mexico has cost him much, but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Anna. Josh...
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Cyborg Vol. 2: Enemy of the State

David F Walker · Dc Comics
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

The long-awaited solo series of one of the DCU's most legendary characters continues here in CYBORG VOL. 2!Following the attack of the Techno-sapiens, the government implements greater regulation on cybernetics. Their first step is determining ownership of the tech implanted in Vic Stone,...
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Dictatorship of the Dress

Jessica Topper · Berkley Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

As the dress-bearer for her mother's wedding, comic book artist Laney Hudson has a lot more baggage than the bulky garment bag she's lugging from New York to Hawaii. Laney is determined to prove she's capable of doing something right, but running chores for her mom's fairytale...
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Done in One: A Novel

Grant Jerkins · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

One bullet equals one kill.For SWAT sniper Jake Denton, the bullet casings he saves as grim reminders of his "kills" are beginning to add up. His wife, his department-ordered psychiatrist, and even Jake himself are all beginning to question just how these sanctioned kills are affecting...
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Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories

Blume Lempel · Mandel Vilar Press ; Takoma Park
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel's stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn't know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn't know we'd...
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The Year of Needy Girls

Patricia A. Smith · Kaylie Jones Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Smith conveys the impact of this prejudicial hostility on two young women who are struggling to make their way in an intolerant world with a tender and delicate understanding in this nuanced tale of identity and misperception, connection and alienation." - Booklist Online"The...
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The Revolution Trade: A Merchant Princes Omnibus

Charles Stross · Tor Books; Reissue edition
Format: Book

The Revolution Trade: an omnibus edition of the fifth and sixth novels--The Revolution Business and Trade of Queens--in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.Miriam Beckstein has said good-bye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative timeline...
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The Mammoth Book of the New Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: 12 Original Stories

Denis O Smith · W W Norton
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

"'Is it really possible, do you suppose,' said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, 'that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?'"The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces twelve new Sherlockian...
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