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Tracker: A Foreigner Novel

C. J. Cherryh · DAW
Format: Hardcover

Tracker is the sixteenth installment of CJ Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series.It's been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission...
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Clade

JAMES BRADLEY · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have...
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The Ghost Notebooks: A Novel

Ben Dolnick · Pantheon
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum.When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, New York, they aren't running away, exactly, but they need a change. Their...
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The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel

Norman Lock · Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback

“Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone.” —SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition“Brilliant. . . . The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity...
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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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Towers of Midnight

Robert Jordan · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks,...
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Annihilation: A Novel: Movie Tie-In Edition

JEFF VANDERMEER · FSG Originals
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

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The queen of blood

Sarah Beth Durst · Harper Voyager
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure.Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with...
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The Lost Time Accidents: A Novel

John Wray · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling...
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K Le Guin · Penguin Classics
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings - part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil GaimanWinner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books...
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The Prey of Gods

NICKY DRAYDEN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor....
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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J R Ward · Ballantine Books
Pages: 521
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward's newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King, is facing a brutal...
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Poseidon's Wake

Alastair Reynolds · Ace Books
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

"Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds" (Toronto Star) , the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze. In the conclusion of his Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from...
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The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel

Tracy Hickman · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The thrilling prequel to Shroud of the Avatar from Portalarium!The world died during the Fall. Abandoned by the mighty Avatars and their Virtues, the people who remained were left defenseless in an untamed land. That is, until the Obsidians came. Through dark sorcery and overwhelming force...
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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval...
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