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Dexter Clarence Palmer · Vintage Books
Pages: 495
Format: Print book

Although Rebecca Wright has pieced her life back together after a major tragedy, she can't shake a sense that the world around her feels off-kilter. Meanwhile, her husband's dedication to his invention, "the causality violation device" (which he would greatly prefer you not call...
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Hell Divers IV: Wolves

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

They dive so humanity survives. Now they take to the sea. In the fourth installment of the award-winning and USA Today bestselling Hell Divers series, the Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez. After enduring for a decade...
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It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel

JOSEPH FINK · Harper Perennial
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale ... "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I'm packing...
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Feral

James Demonaco · Blumhouse Books/Anchor
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From James DeMonaco, the writer/director of The Purge film franchise, comes the provocative and terrifying last stand of a lone outpost of women in the wake of a deadly pandemic. Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen...
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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

Brandon Sanderson · Macmillan Audio
Format: eBook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story.Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad.A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter...
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The Quanderhorn Xperimentations

Rob Grand · Gollancz
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

ADAPTED BACKWARDS VIA THE FUTURE FROM THE RADIO 4 SERIES BEFORE IT WAS MADE A richer, deeper, more comprehensive exploration of the Quanderhorn phenomenon. With added secrets.England, 1952.A time of peace, regeneration and hope. A Golden Age.Unfortunately, it's been 1952 for the past...
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The Genius Plague

David Walton · Pyr
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

THE CONTAGION IS IN YOUR MINDIn this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors.Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the NSA when his brother,...
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series.It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime...
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In the Region of the Summer Stars

STEPHEN R LAWHEAD · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A new Celtic fantasy from the critically-acclaimed author of the Pendragon Cycle.Ravaged by barbarian Scálda forces, the last hope for Eirlandia lies with the island's warring tribes.Wrongly cast out of his tribe, Conor, the first-born son of the Celtic king, embarks on a dangerous mission...
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Mageborn

Stephen Aryan · Orbit
Pages: 432

Fear of magic is intensifying across the west. Morgan, a former Guardian of the Peace, believes the eradication of magic will lead to stability and lasting world peace. He will do anything to achieve his goal, even if it means murdering every child born with magical ability. The Red Tower...
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Spine of the Dragon: Wake the Dragon #1

Kevin J. Anderson · Tor Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson triumphantly returns to epic fantasy with the Wake the Dragon series. Spine of the Dragon is a politically charged adventure of swords, sorcery, venegeance, and the rise of sleeping giants. Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara,...
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The Wounded Shadow

PATRICK W CARR · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

The kings and queens of the northern continent lay siege to the Darkwater Forest, desperate to contain its evil. But rumors of gold and aurium have lured deserters and the desperate into its shadow, creating a growing army held in its sway. Desperate after the death and dissolution of their...
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The People's Republic of Everything

NICK MAMATAS · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"[Mamatas] is the People's Commissar of Awesome." -- China Miéville, author of EmbassytownWelcome to the People's Republic of Everything -- of course, you've been here for a long time already. Make yourself at home alongside a hitman who always tells the truth, no matter...
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The Refrigerator Monologues

Catherynne M Valente · Saga Press
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comicsFrom the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female...
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Something Like Breathing

Angela Readman · And Other Stories
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

It's the fifties, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: 'The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy elephant at the fayre. It had to be won with a clear...
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