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Valour and Vanity

Mary Robinette Kowal · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic--known here as glamour--is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result...
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Visions

Kelley Armstrong · Dutton; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

As #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's new Cainsville series continues, Olivia's power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.Omens, the first installment in Kelley Armstrong's exciting new series,...
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The Peripheral

William Gibson · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History.Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during...
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The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien · Mariner Books; 2nd edition
Pages: 365
Format: Paperback

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT. Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though...
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Lucky Alan: And Other Stories

Jonathan Lethem · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form.Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during...
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things - which includes a never-before published American Gods story, "Black...
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In Retrospect

Ellen Larson · Five Star

In Retrospect is a good old-fashioned whodunit set in a compelling post-apocalyptic future.Former elite operative Merit Rafi suffered during her imprisonment at the end of a devastating war but the ultimate torment is being forced to investigate a murder she would gladly have committed...
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Strands of Sorrow

John Ringo · Baen
Format: Hardcover

BOOK 4 AND CONCLUSION OF THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Islands of Rage and Hope, To Sail a Darkling Sea, and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With...
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Arabella of Mars

David D Levine · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.Now, one century later,...
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The Wolf Road: A Novel

Beth Lewis · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller--narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim.Everything Elka knows of the world she learned from the man she calls father, the solitary...
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