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Head On

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty -- most of them in someone else's body." -- USA TodayJohn Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone...
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Chain of Command

Frank Chadwick · Baen
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

New Military SF from legendary game creator Frank Chadwick. Lieutenant Sam Bitka finds himself commanding a starship against an alien enemy who always seems one step ahead of him.Lieutenant Sam Bitka, U.S. Naval Reserve, is getting used to civilian life when he is called back to active...
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Every Anxious Wave: A Novel

Mo Daviau · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and his best friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to listen to their...
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The Labyrinth Index

CHARLES STROSS · Tor.com
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The ninth case in Stross' Hugo-winning Laundry Files, described by Kirkus as "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror."The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended on the world, beginning an exciting new story arc in the Laundry...
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The Skull Throne: Book Four of The Demon Cycle

Peter V. Brett · Del Rey Books
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe first three novels in Peter V. Brett's groundbreaking Demon Cycle series - The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, and The Daylight War - set a new standard for heroic fantasy. The powerful saga of humans winnowed to the brink of extinction by night-stalking demons,...
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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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Age of Iron

Angus Watson · Orbit
Format: Book

LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE MADE.Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary traveling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people.First Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors,...
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The map of bones

Francesca Haig · Gallery Books
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy "The Hunger Games" meets Cormac McCarthy s "The Road" in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following...
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The Broken Eye

Brent Weeks · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 795
Format: Hardcover

The Broken Eye continues the spectacular Lightbringer series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife. As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known...
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A Voice in the Night

JACK MCDEVITT · Subterranean
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Jack McDevitt has been a Sherlock Holmes fan since he was a teenager, although he reports that Holmes-style mysteries, whodunits, are not his favorite style. Jack encountered Gilbert Chesterton's Father Brown tales a few years later and they ultimately became the prime influence in his science...
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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

Combining the emotional depth of "The Art of Racing in the Rain" with the magical spirit of "The Life of Pi, " "Lily and the Octopus "is an epic adventure of the heart. When you sit down with "Lily and the Octopus, " you will be taken on an unforgettable...
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The Epiphany Machine

David Burr Gerrard · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular...
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Silence Fallen

Patricia Briggs · Ace
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover

In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy's bond with the pack - and her mate - is broken, she'll learn what it truly means to be alone... Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy...
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Reincarnation Blues: A Novel

MICHAEL POORE · Del Rey
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself."Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) First...
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Bellewether

Susanna Kearsley · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters -- sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!" -- DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander"The house,...
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