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I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders - and the ungodly motives behind themLaos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small...
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Battle Hill Bolero

Daniel Jos Older · Ace Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In the third in the "richly detailed and diverse" (io9) urban fantasy series, the time has come for the dead to rise up against the shady powers-that-be... The time has come for the dead to rise up... Trouble is brewing between the Council of the Dead and the ghostly, half-dead,...
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Zen City

Eliot Fintushel · Zero Books
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

The world of ZEN CITY is a world of passionate desires: the desire for power, the desire for order, and the desire for self-transcendence. ZEN CITY is a story about the struggle and violence of people who see themselves as striving for the ultimate. Along the way, ZEN CITY presents a sly critique...
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Deep River

Karl Marlantes · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 820
Format: Hardcover

Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling -- the family epic -- to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention.

In...
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Joe Steele

Harry Turtledove · Ace
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing "what-if" novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now "the maven of alternate history" (The...
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Defiant: Volume Three of the Lightship Chronicles

Dave Bara · Daw Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

With his critically acclaimed military science fiction debut series, Dave Bara launched readers on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger. Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, have been married less than a year. And although things have been quiet in relation to the old Empire...
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The Galaxy Game

Karen Lord · Del Rey
Format: Paperback

Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le Guin and China Miéville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With The Galaxy Game, Lord presents a gripping adventure...
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The Affinities

Robert Charles Wilson · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic...

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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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Asteroid Made of Dragons

G. Derek Adams · Sword & Laser
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Official Sword & Laser Selection!When a lone goblin researcher stumbles across an artifact containing a terrifying message--that the world is in grave and immediate peril--she scrambles to find help. A very unusual asteroid (one constructed as a cage for dragons) is headed straight...
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A Vision of Fire: A Novel

Gillian Anderson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: a science fiction thriller of epic proportions.Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world...
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

PHILIP K DICK · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Inspiration for the Upcoming TV Show

Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, over the course of his career Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects...
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Amberlough: A Novel

Lara Elena Donnelly · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From author Lara Elena Donnelly, a debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coupTrust no one with anything - especially in Amberlough City.Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he's good at keeping secrets, especially...
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Spells of Blood and Kin: A Dark Fantasy

Claire Humphrey · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Where we love, we ruin ...

Some families hand down wealth through generations; some hand down wisdom. Some families, whether they want to or not, hand down the secret burdens they carry and the dangerous debts they owe.

Lissa Nevsky's grandmother leaves her a big,...

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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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