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Acceptance: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer - FSG Originals
Format: Print book

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion....
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World of Trouble: The Last Policeman Book III

Ben Winters - Quirk Books

"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series." - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper TownsCritically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award...
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North - Redhook
Format: Hardcover

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIMEHarry August is on his deathbed AgainNo matter what he does or the decisions he makes when death comes Harry always returns to where he began a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before Nothing ever changes...
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Dark Sky

Mike Brooks - Saga Press
Format: Paperback

In the sequel to the thrilling Dark Run, which Publishers Weekly called "a terrific debut," Ichabod Drift and his crew sign on for a new smuggling job that soon goes south when they are separated and caught up in a dangerous civil war.When Ichabod Drift and the Keiko crew sign...
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Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel

Christopher Moore - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore - an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard's most performed play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice,...
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Dreams of Distant Shores

Patricia A McKillip - Tachyon Publications LLC
Format: Print book

A collection of short stories, within whose pages we "find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate"--Amazon.com.
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The Wolves of Midwinter: The Wolf Gift Chronicles

Anne Rice - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

It is winter at Nideck Point. Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. But for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. He's preparing to honor an ancient...
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Arcanum

Simon Morden - Little Brown & Company
Format: Paperback

Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes,...
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