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The Alliance: A Registry Novel

Shannon Stoker · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Paperback

To overthrow a brutal dictator and free her country, a brave young woman will risk her life and liberty to spark a revolution in this explosive final installment in Shannon Stoker’s electrifying Registry trilogy.Mia Morrissey fled to Mexico to escape the government marrying her to someone...
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The Liar's Key: The Red Queen's War

Mark Lawrence · Ace Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Prince of Fools, The Red Queen's War: Book One had all "the hallmarks of [Mark Lawrence's] storytelling and writing style which made The Broken Empire trilogy such an incredibly addictive read" (Bibliosanctum.com) . Now, The Liar's Key continues the story of the unusual...
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The Madonna and the Starship

James Morrow · Tachyon Publications
Format: Book

Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of... THE DIABOLICAL LOBSTERS FROM OUTER SPACE! New York City, . The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the apocalyptic...
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The Raven

Sylvain Reynard · Berkley
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel series comes a dark, sensual tale of romance in a city shrouded in mystery . . . Raven Wood spends her days at Florence's Uffizi gallery restoring Renaissance art. But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes...
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By Tooth and Claw

Bill Fawcett · Baen
Format: Print book

ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. New York Times best-selling authors S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Jody Lynn Nye return with four novellas. The cat-like Mrem, our heroes, battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a Bronze Age world. SEQUEL TO EXILED: CLAN...
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The Seventh Sigil

Robert Krammes · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Margaret Weis and co-author Robert Krammes bring the enthralling Dragon Brigade trilogy to a thrilling conclusion in The Seven Sigil, a sweeping novel of worldwide war and personal redemption.Five hundred years ago, a clan of rebels was banished to the bottom of the enchanted world of Aeronne;...
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Operation Shield: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel

Joel Shepherd · Pyr, an imprint of Pometheus Books, 2014.
Pages: 463
Format: Print book

Part military SF, part cyberpunk, part grand-scale space opera, and part techno-psychological thriller, the Cassandra Kresnov novels transcend the recently narrow segmentation of the science fiction genre.In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been...
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Star Road: A Novel

Matthew J Costello · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

A rebel and an outlaw lead an unsuspecting group of adventurers on a secret mission across the vastness of space, in Matthew Costello's Star RoadIvan Delgato, a former leader of a rebel group called the Runners, is released from jail on the condition that he carry out a secret mission...
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Authority: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · FSG Originals
Format: Paperback

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten:...
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Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold · Baen Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

THIRD ENTRY IN A BELOVED SERIES. The Vorkosigan Saga spans over a dozen novels and has won multiple awards and sold 1.8 million copies.Sick of combat and betrayal, Cordelia Vorkosigan is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, her husband Aral becomes guardian of the infant...
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Star Trek: Seekers: Second Nature

David Mack · Pocket Books/Star Trek
Format: Book

An all-new Star Trek series begins!A new mission: The late twenty-third century—Starfleet’s golden age of exploration. Desperate to stay one step ahead of its rivals, the Federation sends two starships, the scout Sagittarius and the cruiser Endeavour, to plumb the secrets of the vast...
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Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: Book 2 in the Tale of Shikanoko

Lian Hearn · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People...
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Secrets of Worry Dolls

Amy Impellizzeri · Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Pages: 312

According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . . On the eve of the end of the world--according to the Mayan calendar--Mari Guarez...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Skyrim Library, Vol. III: The Arcane

Bethesda Softworks · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

For the first time, the collected texts from the critically and commercially acclaimed fantasy video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are bound together in three exciting volumes. Lavishly illustrated and produced, these titles are straight out of the world of Skyrim - and a must for any wandering...
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Arcanum

Simon Morden · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 765
Format: Paperback

Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes,...
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