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Parable of the Sower: A Novel

Octavia E Butler · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people...
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Waypoint Kangaroo

Curtis C Chen · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel...
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The Severed Streets

Paul Cornell · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Desperate to find a case to justify the team's existence, with budget cuts and a police strike on the horizon, Quill thinks he's struck gold when a cabinet minister is murdered by an assailant who wasn't seen getting in or out of his limo. A second murder, that of the Commissioner...
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The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Mark Frost · Flatiron Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the co-creator of the landmark television series Twin Peaks comes a novel that deepens the mysteries of that iconic town in ways that not only enrich the original series but readies fans for the upcoming Showtime episodes.
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Black Dog: Hellhound Chronicles

Caitlin Kittredge · Harper Voyager/Harper Collins Publishers
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback

The first installment in a fabulous dark urban fantasy series - think Kill Bill with demons and gangsters instead of martial arts - from the award-winning author of the Iron Codex trilogy and Vertigo comic Coffin Hill.Ava has spent the last hundred years as a hellhound, the indentured servant...
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The Everything Box: A Novel

Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels - a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined...
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The Lady

K. V. Johansen · Pyr
Format: Book

Possessed by a ghost who feeds on death, the undying assassin Ahjvar the Leopard has been captured by the Lady of Marakand, enslaved by necromancy to be captain of her Red Masks. His shield-bearer Ghu, a former slave with an uncanny ability to free the captive dead, follows Ahjvar into...
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Revenger

Alastair Reynolds · Orbit
Pages: 427
Format: Paperback

A superb science fiction adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artifacts and revenge. The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations,...
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The Traveler: An Event Group Thriller

David L Golemon · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

267,000 BCE. The continent was its own world, untouched by the planet-wide catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs over sixty-five million years before. A traveler arrives in the jungles of this ancient world who will fight to survive carnivorous creatures in a land never meant...
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Return of the Witch

Paula Brackston · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Paula Brackston's debut novel, The Witch's Daughter, was the little book that could--with a captivating story, remarkable heroine, and eye-catching package, it has now netted over 200,000 copies in all formats. Now Paula returns with its sequel The Return of the Witch, another bewitching...
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The undead pool

Kim Harrison · Harper Voyager
Pages: 423
Format: Print book

"Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander...
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Green-Eyed Demon (Sabina Kane, Book 3)

Jaye Wells · Orbit; 1 edition
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Things to do:1. Rescue sister.2. Murder grandmother.3. Don't upset the voodoo priestess. The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scenes.Working...
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Burned: A Fever Novel

Karen Marie Moning · Random House Inc
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Mac is back and badder than ever!" - J. R. WardMacKayla Lane and Jericho Barrons return in the blockbuster Fever series from Karen Marie Moning. It's easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing. MacKayla Lane would do anything to save...
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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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The Rending and the Nest

Kaethe Schwehn · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A chilling yet redemptive post-apocalyptic debut that examines community, motherhood, faith, and the importance of telling one's own story.When 95 percent of the earth's population disappears for no apparent reason, Mira does what she can to create some semblance of a life: She cobbles...
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