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Knight of the Silver Circle

Duncan M. Hamilton - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved Society of Sword and Wolf of the North trilogies, Duncan M. Hamilton's Knight of the Silver Circle -- the sequel adventure-packed fantasy to Dragonslayer in The Last Dragonslayer trilogy -- is perfect for fans of magical beasts and unexpected...
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Ninth City Burning

J Patrick Black - Ace Books
Format: Print book

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender's Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut...We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs,...
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Darynda Jones - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,...
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The Sin in the Steel

Ryan Van Loan - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Ryan Van Loan's The Sin in the Steel is a sparkling debut fantasy set in a diverse world, featuring dead gods, a pirate queen, shapeshifting mages, and a Sherlockian teenager determined to upend her society.Heroes for hire. If you can pay. Buc: Brilliant street-ratHer mind leaps from...
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The Immortal City

Amy Kuivalainen
Format: Hardcover

In the heart of Venice, a woman is sacrificed to a forgotten god, sparking a mystery lost for thousands of years.Dr. Penelope Bryne is ridiculed by the academic community for her quest to find the remnants of Atlantis, but when an ancient and mysterious script is found at a murder site,...
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The Future of Another Timeline

Annalee Newitz - Tor Books
Format: Book

The Future of Another Timeline is a dark thriller from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9, about the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love. In a modern-day United States that's just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But a secret...

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The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away. Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes...
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel

Ann Beattie - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we loveAs a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury - Harper Voyager; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradburys incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliopes...
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Ghost Fire

Wilbur Smith - Zaffre
Format: Hardcover

The brand new Courtney Series novel.A brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith. 1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solitary...
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Slan: A Novel

A. E. van Vogt - Orb Books
Format: Paperback

In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel Slan was one of the works of the era. Slan is the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan mutant...
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Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

Lawrence M. Schoen - Tor Books
Format: Print book

The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' GraveyardAn historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels...
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Dragonslayer

Duncan M. Hamilton - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

With the dragons believed dead, the kingdom had no more need for dragonslayers. Drunk, disgraced, and all but forgotten, Guillot has long since left his days of heroism behind him.As forgotten places are disturbed in the quest for power, and things long dormant awaken, the kingdom finds...
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Old Man's War

John Scalzi - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common....
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Census

JESSE BALL - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of townsWhen a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will...
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The Hive

Orson Scott Card - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic...
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Tell Me Lies: A Novel

Carola Lovering - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling, sexy coming-of-age story exploring toxic love, ruthless ambition, and shocking betrayal, Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you - the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget.Lucy Albright is far from...
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the skies but confident that we know how to defeat the alien...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom,...
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Big Bad Wolf

Christine Warren - St. Martin's Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Missy Roper’s fantasies have revolved around Graham Winters since the moment they met. But the imposing leader of the Silverback werewolf clan always seemed oblivious to Missy’s existence. At least he was, until Missy collides with him at a party and then abruptly runs away—arousing...
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Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold - Baen Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Believing her warship days are over after she defeats the Barrayaran militarists and marries their leader, former commander Cordelia Naismith is astounded by the role her unborn son will play in a world on the brink of civil war. Reprint. Winner of the Hugo Award.
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The Starless Sea: A Novel

Erin Morgenstern - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers...
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The Rage of Dragons

Evan Winter - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been...
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut - Dial Press Trade Paperback
Format: Paperback

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
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A Measure of Darkness: A Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) comes the second installment in crime fiction's most intriguing new series.It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime...
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The Iron Dragons Mother

Michael Swanwick - ‎Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable...

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Sophia, Princess Among Beasts

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A princess who has lost her mother and father finds herself in a terrifying world that urgently needs a queen. Sophia is smart, beautiful, and accomplished, a beloved princess devoted to the people and to reading books. The kingdom is hers, until she is plunged into a nightmarish realm...
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The Ember Blade

Chris Wooding - Gollancz
Format: Hardcover

A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man's journey to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his life. He's never questioned it; that's just the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison...
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The Monster of Elendhaven

Jennifer Giesbrecht - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover

"A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it." -- Joe HillDebut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.The city of Elendhaven...
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The Lost Gate

Orson Scott Card - Tor Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North...
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Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel

Jenny Colgan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Debbie Macomber and Jojo Moyes will love this warm, funny, moving holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Christmas at the Cupcake Caf and Little Beach Street Bakery.A nip in the air, chiming bells and carolers, and the genial glow of love and family. But for this...
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Of Blood and Bone: Chronicles of the One, Book 2

NORA ROBERTS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magick in a brand new world.
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Dark Legacy

CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In a thrilling Carpathian novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a woman fights to free herself from the grip of the vampire trying to possess her... In a beautiful compound hidden away from the world, Emeline Sanchez tries to blunt the pain that...
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Boundless: A Drizzt Novel

R. A. Salvatore - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

This second book in New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore's all-new trilogy - full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills - features one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring characters, Drizzt Do'Urden.Split between time and two worlds, Zaknafein had always been conflicted....
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The Unwilling: A Novel

Kelly Braffet - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Fantasy at its most sublime." - Erin Morgenstern, NYT bestselling author of The Night CircusA penetrating tale of magic, faith and pride ... The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir...
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Last Ones Left Alive: A Novel

Sarah Davis-Goff - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later." -- Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters"A riveting novel." -- Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow ChildRemember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your...
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Foundation (Foundation Novels)

Isaac Asimov - Spectra; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve...
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The Dutch House: A Novel

Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. "'Do...
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Wanderers: A Novel

Chuck Wendig - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls "a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking...
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Retrograde

Peter Cawdron - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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The Book of the Unwinding

J. D. Horn - 47North
Format: Hardcover

The struggle for power continues in the sequel to The King of Bones and Ashes from Wall Street Journal bestselling author J.D. Horn.With their magic diminishing, warring factions of New Orleans witches desperately search for the Book of the Unwinding - a legendary grimoire,...
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We

Yevgeny Zamyatin - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction...
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Faithful: A Novel

Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary...
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Lover Enshrined

J.R. Ward - Signet
Format: Paperback

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must choose between two lives...Fiercely...
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A Cosmology of Monsters: A Novel

Shaun Hamill - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." - Stephen KingNoah Turner sees monsters.His father saw them - and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.His practical...
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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Book

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite

Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex...

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Pariah

W. Michael Gear - DAW
Format: Hardcover

The third book in the thrilling Donovan series, a sci-fi action adventure set on a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. With a load of scientists...
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The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2

N K Jemisin - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon.Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown...
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Warrior of the Altaii

Robert Jordan - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Epic fantasy legend, and author of #1 New York Times bestselling series The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan's never-before published novel, Warrior of the Altaii:Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end.The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome...
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The Final Days of Magic

J. D. Horn - 47North
Format: Hardcover

The war between witches reaches its terrifying climax in the final book in Wall Street Journal bestselling author J.D. Horn's spellbinding trilogy.Once caged in an illusory realm by blood relatives, Alice Marin has been freed into a world where the last remnants of magic are quickly...
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Waypoint Kangaroo

Curtis C Chen - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel...
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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Print book

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations...
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The Trouble with Twelfth Grave: A Novel (Charley Davidson Series, 12)

Darynda Jones - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the twelfth installment of Darynda Jones New York Times bestselling paranormal series, The Trouble with Twelfth Grave.. Ever since Reyes Farrow escaped from a hell dimension in which Charley Davidson accidentally trapped him, the son of Satan has been...
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HALO: Oblivion: A Master Chief Story

Troy Denning - Simon & Schuster Audio / Halo Books
Format: Hardcover

A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe - based on the New York Times best-selling video game series! 2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, and several...
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The Demon You Know: A Novel of the Others

Christine Warren - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Book

As a research grunt at a local television station, Abby Baker tends to blend into the background, which is where she's most comfortable. But when she ends up being the last resort to cover a hot story, Abby discovers a whole new side to her personality when she is possessed by a fiend...
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American Magic: A Thriller

Zach Fehst - Atria/Emily Bestler Books/Alloy Entertainment
Format: Hardcover

In this fast-paced, international thriller, chaos erupts after a shadowy figure with ties to an elite and ancient society posts incantations on the dark web that allow people to perform real magic.When an enigmatic message uploaded to the dark web turns out to contain an ancient secret...
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The Passengers

John Marrs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

You're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die." Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this terrifying...
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Alta

Mercedes Lackey - DAW Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

In the second novel in national best-selling legend Mercedes Lackey's richly-conceived new Joust series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth.  There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate...
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Infomocracy: A Novel

Malka Older - Tor
Format: Print book

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority...
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Uprooted

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.HUGO AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition

George Orwell - Plume; Centennial edition
Format: Paperback

"Thought Police." "Big Brother." "Orwellian." These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring...
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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Half-Fae,...
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Weave a Circle Round: A Novel

KARI MAAREN - Tor Books
Format: Paperback

Discover your inner child once again in Weave a Circle Round, a debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg. Now nominated as a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel!When the unexpected moves in next...
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Black Leviathan

Bernd Perplies - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Melville's Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies.Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from...
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Street Freaks

Terry Brooks - Grim Oak Press
Format: Hardcover

It begins with a dire call-right before his father disappears and his skyscraper home's doors explode inward. Street Freaks is the kind of thrilling futuristic story only New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks can tell."Go into the Red Zone. Go to Street Freaks." his father...
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Celestial Mechanics: a tale for a mid-winter night

WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON - Three Rooms Press
Format: Print book

"In this novel of haunted love, Silas Fortunato, an amateur astronomer, finds his marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not exist. Enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three...
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This Tender Land: A Novel

William Kent Krueger - Atria
Format: Hardcover

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER! "If you likedWhere the Crawdads Sing,youll loveThis Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come." - Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.....
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The Last One: A Novel

Alexandra Oliva - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Olivas fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face...
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Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke - Del Rey; 1st Impact ed edition
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a Syfy miniseries event Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded...
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An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel

Thea Lim - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever...
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Feversong: A Fever Novel

Karen Marie Moning - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MacKayla Lane and Jericho Barrons return in the epic conclusion to the pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn.As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right...
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Highfire: A Novel

Eoin Colfer - Harper Perennial
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana - and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old...
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Bradbury Classic Stories 1: From the Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket

Ray Bradbury - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from...
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The Lesson

Cadwell Turnbull - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath....
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Christmas Shopaholic: A Novel

Sophie Kinsella - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella is back with a new laugh-out-loud adventure featuring Becky Brandon (ne Bloomwood) .
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel

Becky Chambers - Harper Voyager
Format: Print book

The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader's Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's...
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Faller: A novel

Will Mcintosh - Tor
Format: Print book

Faller is a new gripping standalone, science fiction thriller by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.Day One: No one can remember anything -- who they are, family and friends, or even how to read. Reality has fragmented and Earth consists of an islands of rock floating in an endless...
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The Vor Game

Lois McMaster Bujold - Baen
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. NEW EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT WON LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD HER FIRST HUGO AWARD. Sequel to The Warrior's Apprentice.THE PRINCE AND THE MERCENARY Miles Vorkosigan has shaken the High Command of his home planet Barrayar to the core and has been sent to the other...
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The Unspoken Name

A. K. Larkwood - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A. K. Larkwood's The Unspoken Name is a stunning debut fantasy about an orc priestess turned wizard's assassin.What if you knew how and when you will die?Csorwe does -- she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold...
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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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The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King

T H White - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback

This magical account of King Arthur's last night on earth spent weeks on the New York Times best-seller list following its publication in 1977.Even in addressing the profound issues of war and peace, The Book of Merlyn retains the life and sparkle for which White is known. The tale...
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The Cinder Spires: the Aeronaut's Windlass

Jim Butcher - Roc
Format: Hardcover

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors... Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered...
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Burning Wild

Christine Feehan - Jove; Original edition
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dark Carpathian novels now returns to the exotic, sensual and dangerous world of her bestseller Wild Rain. This time, what goes on between male and female is wilder than animal instinct-and twice as hot.
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Outpost

W MICHAEL GEAR - DAW
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling co-author of the People novels comes a riveting science fiction adventure on a planet with danger around every cornerDonovan: A world of remarkable wealth, habitable, with a breathable atmosphere, water, and a salubrious climate. Call it a dream come true. A dream?...
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Number one New York Times best sellerOprahs Book Club PickFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about Americas most disgraceful...
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Egg Drop Dead

Laura Childs - Berkley Pub Group
Format: Print book

In Laura Childs's New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni - co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Caf - are back to track down another bad egg ... Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club...
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Shards of Honor

Lois Mcmaster Bujold - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

FIRST BOOK FEATURING CORDELIA NAISMITH. Journey back to where it all started, from multiple New York Times best selling author, Hugo Award winner, Lois McMaster Bujold.When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral...
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