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Revolution: The Secret World Chronicle III

Mercedes Lackey · Baen Books
Pages: 543
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #3 in a new pulse-pounding saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with supervillain Verdegris, who seeks to destroy them from within, before turning their...
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The Philosopher's Flight

Tom Miller · Center Point
Pages: 500
Format: Library Binding

Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy -- an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry...
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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 San Diego Union-Tribune) envisions...
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Cold Welcome

Elizabeth Moon · Del Rey
Pages: 431
Format: Hardcover

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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At the Sign of Triumph

David Weber · Tor
Pages: 764
Format: Print book

At the Sign of Triumph: David Weber's New York Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress and How Firm a Foundation.The Church of God Awaiting's triumph over Charis was inevitable. Despite its prosperity,...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017A San Francisco...
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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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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

Lois McMaster Bujold · Baen
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

A NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD WINNING SERIES FROM MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD! Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny.FUTURE TENSE Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine...
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The Immortal Who Loved Me: An Argeneau Novel

Lynsay Sands · Avon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A few hours ago, Sherry Carne would have sworn that vampires didn't exist. That's before rogue immortals rampage through her store, leaving bloody chaos (literally) in their wake. The kicker comes when Sherry learns that one of the vamps on the bad guys' trail may be her life...
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The Gender Game 2: The Gender Secret

Bella Forrest · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback

The pulse-pounding second book in The Gender Game series.Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after question.Why...
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Mongrels: A Novel

Stephen Graham Jones · William Morrow
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOTA 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...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual...
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Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Pan Books
Pages: 599
Format: Print book

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden....
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Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea."History is just one damned thing after another." - Arnold ToynbeeBehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute...
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