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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer ... a profound experience." - The Washington Post Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is...
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A Green and Ancient Light

Frederic S Durbin - Saga Press
Format: Print book

A gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Pan's Labyrinth and John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to stay with his grandmother for the summer...
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The Raven's Shadow

Elspeth Cooper - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The Raven's Shadow, the third book of Elspeth Cooper’s The Wild Hunt series finds war brewing on both sides of the Veil between the worlds.The desert of Gimrael is aflame with violence, and in the far north an ancient hatred is about to spill over into the renewal of a war that,...
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Raising Steam

Terry Pratchett - Doubleday
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSteam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements - earth, air, fire, and water - and it's soon drawing...
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Something More Than Night

Ian Tregillis - Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret,...
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Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II

Ben Winters - Quirk Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The weird beautiful unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery seriesmdashJohn Green author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper TownsWinner of the Philip K Dick AwardThe Last Policemanreceived the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with...
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)

Rebecca Yarros - Entangled: Red Tower Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general?also known as her tough-as-talons mother?has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon...

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Prince of Fools

Mark Lawrence - Ace
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Mark Lawrence continues the bold new world of dark fantasy he created in the Broken Empire trilogy with the first book of the Red Queen's War...For all her reign the Red Queen has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind...
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Beneath the Sugar Sky

Seanan McGuire - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a DoorwayBeneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children...
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The Weirdness: A Novel

Jeremy P. Bushnell - Melville House Pub
Format: Paperback

"This book is wild. And smart. And hilarious. And weird ... in all kinds of good ways . Prepare to be weirded out. And to enjoy it."--Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseWhat do you do when you wake up hung over and late for work only to find...
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