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The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -- Joe Hill, author of The FiremanOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points...
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Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful

Paula Guran · Prime Books
Format: Book

- Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imagination for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever. No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly...
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Mongrels: A Novel

Stephen Graham Jones · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows...
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Citadel: A Novel

Kate Mosse · Harpercollins
Pages: 686
Format: Hardcover

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives...
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A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three

George R.R. Martin · Bantam
Format: Print book

THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern...
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Sinking: Book One of the Sinking Trilogy

Sarah Armstrong-Garner · Love2readlove2write Publishing, LLC
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

Jocelyn washes up on the shore of eighteenth century Ireland, alone, naked, and missing all of her memories. Taken in by a lonely old woman full of plots and schemes for the lovely yet enigmatic creature, Jocelyn knows only one thing. She longs for the sea with every ounce of her being....
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Inside a Silver Box

Walter Mosley · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes readers on a speculative journey beyond reality.In Inside...
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Joe Steele

Harry Turtledove · Roc
Pages: 448
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 San Diego Union-Tribune)...
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Robots: The Recent A.I.

Cory Doctorow · Prime Books
Format: Paperback

From Kapek''s biotech machines of R.U.R. to Kuttner''s Proud Robot to the fictional assortment of mechanical sex toys, rebels, grandmothers, servants, and masters, these machines have represented our dreams as well as our anxieties. We love these literary creations but fear...
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The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent

Marie Brennan · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must...
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Afterparty

Daryl Gregory · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament...
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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · Saga Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct,...
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Death's Bright Day

David Drake · Baen Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES! Leary and Mundy are back in another military science fiction adventure as they undertake a mission to a distant but critical star system.IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER. Captain Daniel Leary thinks...
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Day Shift

Charlaine Harris · Ace
Format: Hardcover

In Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris "capture[d] the same magic as the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and [took] it to another level" (Houston Press) . Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-traffic-light town you see only...
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Circle of Fire

Keri Arthur · Dell Publishing Company
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback

VISIONS OF TERROR Sixteen teenagers taken from their homes. Eleven bodies recovered, each completely drained of blood. Some believe vampires are responsible. Jon Barnett knows that what's happening is far worse. Sent by a group of paranormal investigators known as the Damask Circle,...
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