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1920: America's Great War

Robert Conroy · Baen
Format: Hardcover

 By the author of breakout WW II era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun, a compelling alternate history thriller.  After winning WW I, Germany invades America in 1920, marching through California and Texas as a desperate nation resists.Consider another 1920:...
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere...
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Poison Fruit: Agent of Hel

Jacqueline Carey · Roc
Format: Hardcover

The hot-as-Hel series with the Sookie Stackhouse type of vibe Paranormal Haven is back—but this time the paranormal Midwestern town of Pemkowet is feeling a frost in the air and the residents are frozen in fear....The Pemkowet Visitors Bureau has always promoted paranormal tourism—even...
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Star Destroyers

Christopher Ruocchio · Baen
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

BIG SHIPS BLOWING THINGS UPIN SPACE, SIZE MATTERS! Boomers. Ships of the Line. Star Destroyers. The bigger the ship, the better the bang. From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains...
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Sorcerer to the Crown: A Sorcerer Royal Novel

Zen Cho · Ace Books
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite...The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately, the once proper institute...
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Armistice: The Hot War

HARRY TURTLEDOVE · DEL REY
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Chaos reigns in a world already devastated by full-scale nuclear war in the third and final installment of the Hot War series, from "the standard-bearer for alternate history" (USA Today) .
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Medusa Uploaded: A Novel

Emily Devenport · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport offers readers a fast-paced science fiction thriller on the limits of power and control, and the knife-edge between killing for revenge or a greater good.My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm.They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that's...
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Saint Odd

Dean R Koontz; David Aaron Baker; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World LLC. · Playaway
Format: Audiobook

Odd Thomas is back where it all started . . . because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals...
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Swarm.

Orson Scott Card · Tor Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese...
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Child of a Mad God

R. A. Salvatore · Tor Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

As the Blood Moon rises high upon the mountain of the Usgar a demon hunts. But this is not the demon's story. This is the story of a young woman, the daughter of a witch, born under the Blood Moon, how she finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians, and how she came to know the world.From...
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Elementary

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Format: Book

In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book would be the beginning of a fantasy career that would span decades and more than a hundred novels, with no signs of slowing yet.And...
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Sea Change

S.M. Wheeler · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius’s many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family....
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Mississippi Roll: A Wild Cards novel

GEORGE R R MARTIN · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Mississippi Roll is an all-new, adventurous jaunt along one of America's greatest rivers, featuring many beloved characters from the Wild Cards universeEdited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Mississippi Roll features...
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The Fearful Gates

Ross Lawhead · Thomas Nelson Publishers
Format: Paperback

Plans that have been shaped for over a thousand years will finally be executed when dragons awake and the gates between worlds are thrown open. Daniel and Freya, along with Alex, Vivienne, and the knight Ecgbryt, join together with the inhabitants of Nidergeard to confront the forces allied...
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Cobra Outlaw

Timothy Zahn · Baen ,
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. SEQUEL TO COBRA SLAVE. New York Times #1 best-selling author Timothy Zahn continues his Cobra SF adventure series with book #2 of a new Cobra saga, Cobra Rebellion. Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry fight...
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