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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time

Steven Sherrill - John F. Blair
Format: Print book

Sixteen years have passed since Steven Sherrill first introduced us to "M," the selfsame Minotaur from Greek mythology, transplanted to the modern American South, in the critically acclaimed The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. In The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time, M has moved...
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Rescue Mode

Les Johnson - Baen
Format: Hardcover

Gritty and scientifically accurate sciencenbspfiction adventure from New York Timesnbspbest-selling authornbspBen Bova and NASA space scientist Les JohnsonThe first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft almost destroying it The ship is too far from...
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Brian and Wendy Froud's The Pressed Fairy Journal of Madeline Cottington

Wendy Froud - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book

Renowned artist/author duo Brian and Wendy Froud present, for the first time, the backstory of Cottington Hall and its intriguing inhabitants: the Cottington family and the faeries living among them. The rise and fall of this eccentric British family gives us humorous, and sometimes tragic,...
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The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook

Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, dives once again into our uncertain future with his first thriller for adults since his multi-award-winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl. In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California...
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Ferryman institute

Colin Gigl - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman for the dead finds his existence unraveling after making either the best decision or the biggest mistake of his immortal life.Ferryman Charlie...
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The Weight of the World: Volume Two of the Amaranthine Spectrum

Thomas Toner - Night Shade Books
Format: Print book

It is the 147th century; the turning of the Amaranthine new year.In the provinces of the Old World, the giant Elatine's war of liberation has come to an impasse, leaving the wicked monarchy of the First in possession of the throne.In the Vaulted Lands of the Firmament, acolytes have...
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Silence Fallen

Patricia Briggs - Ace
Format: Hardcover

In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy's bond with the pack - and her mate - is broken, she'll learn what it truly means to be alone... Attacked and abducted in her home territory,...
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Cloudbound.

Fran Wilde - Tor
Format: Print book

After the dust settles, the City of living bones begins to die, and more trouble brews beneath the clouds in this stirring companion to Fran Wilde's Updraft.When Kirit Densira left her home tower for the skies, she gave up many things: her beloved family, her known way of life, her dreams...
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Sirius: A Novel About the Little Dog Who Almost Changed History

Jonathan Crown - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A highly original, tragicomic novel as seen through Sirius, an extraordinary dog who helps his Jewish family escape from Germany to California, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contributes to Hitler's downfall.Levi, a fox terrier, lives with his family in a grand townhouse in Berlin....
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Fireborn

David Dalglish - Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Format: Print book

The next novel in the Seraphim series following Skyborn from USA Today bestselling author, David Dalglish. Bree and Kael Skyborn have seen their island invaded, their Seraphim disbanded, and their royal family imprisoned. A rebellion grows from the ashes, demanding Bree to be their...
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Everfair: A Novel

Nisi Shawl - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join...
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Dead Ice: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K. Hamilton - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. Shes a US Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claudes fiancée.Its...
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Killfile: A Novel

Christopher Farnsworth - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The author of The Eternal World seamlessly combines history, biotechnology, action, and adventure in this high-concept thriller in the spirit of James Rollins, Brad Thor, and Douglas Preston.John Smith possesses a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people's thoughts....
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Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty - Orbit
Format: eBook

Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2018 In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.Maria Arena...
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The Liberation

Ian Tregillis - Orbit
Format: Print book

I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening. Our time has come. A new age is dawning. Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical...
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Welcome to Deadland

Zachary Tyler Linville - Nerdist
Format: Print book

""Engaging, heartbreaking, and thrilling, with an expert pace that never touches the brakes." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) In a thrilling debut from Nerdist, a ragtag group of survivors struggles to hold onto hope.A widespread disease has ravaged humanity...
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A Spell for Chameleon

Piers Anthony - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled--where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. That is, except for Bink of North Village. He was sure he possessed no magic, and knew that if he didn't find some soon, he would be exiled. According to the Good Magician Humpfrey,...
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Gilded Cage

Vic James - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve - for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals - aristocrats with...
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The Man In The High Castle

Philip K. Dick - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

In this Hugo Award-winning alternative history classic - the basis for the Amazon Original series - the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. Its America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews...
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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley - Everyman's Library; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless societyand of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members,...
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K Le Guin - Ace Books
Format: Paperback

Thursday, June 1, 2017 ~ 7:00pm Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate...
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The Beast: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J.R. Ward - New American Library
Format: Print book

Rhage and Mary return in a new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a series "so popular, I don't think there's a reader today who hasn't at least heard of [it]" (USA Today) . Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. After avoiding war with the Shadows,...
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D'Arc

ROBERT REPINO - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

The startling saga of Mort(e) continues . . .In the aftermath of the War With No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs...
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The Wall of Storms

Ken Liu - Saga Press
Format: Print book

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago...
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Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs - Ace Books
Format: Paperback

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly...
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Free Space

SEAN DANKER - ACE Books
Format: Print book

In the follow-up to Admiral, the intergalactic war has ended and hostilities between the Evagardian Empire and the Commonwealth are officially over, but the admiral is far from safe. . . .I'd impersonated a prince, temporarily stopped a war, escaped a deadly planet, and survived more...
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A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Mass Market Paperback

An Amazon Best Book of 2016! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016!An NPR Best Book of 2016! An Amazon Best Book of the Month!"I can say, without a doubt, that A Promise of Fire is going on my keeper shelf...I cannot remember the last time I wanted to both savor and devour a book."...
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The Catalain Book of Secrets

Jess Lourey - Toadhouse Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

Faith Falls is a snug little Minnesota town constructed over a mystery, a place where the most impressive building is a gorgeous Queen Anne with turrets, cantilevered gables, and a wraparound porch. In a concealed room beneath the twisting stairs of the Queen Anne lies the Catalain Book...
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A Night Without Stars: A Novel of the Commonwealth

Peter F Hamilton - Del Rey
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton returns to his acclaimed Commonwealth series in this thrilling follow-up to The Abyss Beyond Dreams. Featuring Hamilton's trademark blend of intricate plotting, riveting suspense, high-concept science, and vivid characters, A Night Without...
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The Tourist

Robert Dickinson - Redhook
Format: Hardcover

"A rare treat: a time travel tale that brings something new to the subgenre....A wry social commentary and an uneasy tale of escalating paranoia." GuardianTHE FUTURE IS ALREADY WRITTEN."As fresh and compelling as it is high concept....Immensely enjoyable." SFX****THE...
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The Infernal: A Novel

Mark Doten - Graywolf Press
Format: Book

A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror--an utterly original and blackly comic debutIn the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates Who is he? Where...
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Amberlough: A Novel

Lara Elena Donnelly - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

From author Lara Elena Donnelly comes a debut spy thriller, Amberlough, where a gay double agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup. Trust no one with anything - especially in Amberlough City.Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks hes good at keeping...
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy Book 1)

Katherine Arden - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Katherine Ardens bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up." - Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted....
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Catalyst

Ballantine. - Del Rey Books
Format: Print book

The must-have prequel novel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - the upcoming film, set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, that reveals the untold story of the rebel effort to steal the plans to the Death Star!
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In Calabria

Peter S Beagle - Tachyon Pubns
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorn comes a new, exquisitely-told unicorn fable for the modern age. Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change,...
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Only the Dead Know Burbank: A Novel

Bradford Tatum - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin's first experiments with expressionist...
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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K Le Guin - Saga Pr
Format: Print book

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume.Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters...
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The City of Mirrors: A Novel

Justin Cronin - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction." - Stephen King You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final...
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Conspiracy of Ravens

Lila Bowen - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to Wake of Vultures and second novel in Lila Bowen's widely acclaimed Shadow series.
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Rosewater

Tade Thompson - Apex Publications
Format: Paperback

"One of the most imaginative alien invasion scenarios I have come across..." Aliette de Bodard, Nebula and BSFA award-winning author of THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS "This thrilling, ambitious novel offers a deftly woven and incisive blend of science fiction, psychology,...
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Brimstone

Cherie Priest - Ace
Format: Paperback

A new dark historical fantasy from the "supremely gifted"* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker.In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Toms Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid...
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Invasive: A Novel

Chuck Wendig - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton meets Elon Musk in this gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes and From the author of Wanderers and the Miriam Black series.Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI - a futurist who helps the Agency with cases...
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Uprooted

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

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 BOOKS...
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The Red: First Light

Linda Nagata - Saga Press
Format: Paperback

Reality TV and advanced technology make for high drama in this political thriller that combines the military action of Zero Dark Thirty with the classic science fiction of The Forever War.Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced...
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Altered Carbon

Richard K Morgan - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's...
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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J R Ward - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward's newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King,...
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A City Dreaming: A Novel

Daniel Polansky - Regan Arts.
Format: Hardcover

A powerful magician returns to New York City and reluctantly finds himself in the middle of a war between the citys two most powerful witches.. "It would help if you did not think of it as magic. M certainly had long ceased to do so." M is an ageless drifter with a sharp tongue,...
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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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Fortune's Blight

Evie Manieri - Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Fortune's Blight by Evie Manieri continues the conflict begun in Blood's Pride. Victory for the Shadari rebels has come at a terrible price. Hardship, superstition, and petty feuds poison King Daryan's young reign, and entire families are vanishing without a trace. Help is nowhere...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Print book

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always...
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Of This New World

Allegra Hyde - University of Iowa Press
Format: Print book

Of This New World offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink. Stories jump between genres - from historical...
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Kings of the Wyld

Nicholas Eames - Orbit
Format: Paperback

GLORY NEVER GETS OLD. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate...
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City of Miracles

Robert Jackson Bennett - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do - and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering...
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The girl with all the gifts

Mike Carey - Orbit
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First US trade editionView all editions and formats

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her our little genius. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair....
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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Chavisa Woods - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover

"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should...
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Ecko Burning

Danie Ware - Titan Books
Format: Paperback

Ruthless and ambitious, Lord Phylos has control of Fhaveon city, and is using her forces to bring the grasslands under his command. His last opponent is an elderly scribe whos lost his best freind and wants only to do the right thing.Seeking weapons, Ecko and his companions follow a trail...
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Armada: A Novel

Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline can. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames...
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Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change

S. M. Stirling - Ace
Format: Mass Market Paperback

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless.The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding...
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Crewel Lye

Piers Anthony - Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ballantine/Del Rey #31309, 1985. Stated First Edition in near fine condition. Small bump at the upper right corner of the front wrapper.
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Not So Much, Said the Cat

Michael Swanwick - ‎Tachyon Publications
Format: Paperback

The master of short science-fiction follows up his acclaimed collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow with feline grace, precision, and total impertinence. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across...
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Bombs Away: The Hot War

Harry Turtledove - Del Rey
Format: eBook

In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World...
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Gods of Nabban

K V Johansen - Pyr
Format: Print book

The fugitive slave Ghu has ended the assassin Ahjvar's century-long possession by a murderous and hungry ghost, but at great cost. Heir of the dying gods of Nabban, he is drawn back to the empire he fled as a boy, journeying east on the caravan road with Ahjvar at his side. Haunted by memory...
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Carnivalesque

Neil Jordan - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardcover

It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't...It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands ...And at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors. There were looping strings of carnival lights leading towards it, and a large...
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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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Good Girls

Glen Hirshberg - Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2016.
Format: Print book

Three-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to this standalone sequel to Motherless Child.
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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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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

Heather O'Neill - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington PostA spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood...
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A Feast for Crows

George R.R. Martin - Bantam; Mti edition
Format: Paperback

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FOUR After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. Few legitimate claims to the Iron Throne still exist, and the war that...
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White As Snow

Tanith Lee - Tom Doherty
Format: Paperback

Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called "the Angela Carter of the fantasy field" -- a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth...
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We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories

Clare Beams - Lookout Books
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable ... a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century."The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school...
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Patrick Rothfuss - Daw Books
Format: Hardcover

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.Her name is Auri, and she is full...
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The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman - Ace
Format: Paperback

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization...
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Infinity Engine: Transformation Book Three

Neal L Asher - Night Shade Books
Format: Hardcover

In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play. Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who has escaped the Polity's confinements and is upgrading...
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The Mermaids Child

Jo Baker - Dreamscape Media, LLC
Format: Audiobook

Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay and remain an outsider forever or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a grueling...
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Den of Wolves

Juliet Marillier - Roc
Format: Print book

The "powerful and emotionally-charged"* fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels continues, as Blackthorn and Grim face haunting secrets and old adversaries... Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine... Healer Blackthorn knows...
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's...
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Summerlong

Peter S Beagle - Tachyon Pubns
Format: Print book

Beloved author Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate.It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. An enigmatic young waitress...
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Radiant Terminus

Antoine Volodine - Open Letter
Format: Print book

"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary." - Music & LiteratureThe most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's to be translated into English,...
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Infinite Rooms

David John Griffin - Urbane Publications
Format: Print book

While narrating to a remembered psychiatrist, Donald Clement's inner reality becomes infused with surreal fantasy: Neptune rising from the sea; a giant showing the wonders of the universe; an incredible stranger who promises to reveal the secrets of infinity. As Donald falls deeper...
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The Wrath of Con

Daniel Younger - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Brie Cassiday is cursed - and a bungled safecracking job with a race against the clock to pay off her father's debt are only the beginning. Enter confidence man Josh Harlan, whose pranks and overblown ego send Brie's world spinning. Now, her only option is to join forces, and what unfolds...
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The Tiger and the Wolf

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Pan MacMillan
Format: Print book

Maniye's father is the Wolf clan's chieftain, but she's an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan's animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses...
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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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Death's End

Cixin Liu - Tor
Format: Print book

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York...
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The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb: A Gothic Tale

David John Griffin - Urbane Publications
Format: Print book

The turn of the last century and Theodore Stubb's manor house resides in the quirky village of Muchmarsh. A renowned entomologist, he is often within the attic adding another exotic specimen to his extensive collection of insects. But Theodore is also a master hypnotist, holding the household...
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Feed

Mira Grant - Orbit
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.Now, twenty years after the Rising,...
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The Invisibility Cloak

Fei Ge - NYRB Classics
Format: Print book

An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing - where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing burden of consumer goods - and he's a loser. Well into his forties, he's divorced...
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Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches

Cherie Priest - Roc

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-oneThe people of Fall River Massachusetts fear me Perhaps rightfully so I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence...
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City of Wolves

Willow Palecek - Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
Format: Print book

Alexander Drake, Investigator for Hire, doesn't like working for the Nobility, and doesn't prefer to take jobs from strange men who accost him in alleyways. A combination of hired muscle and ready silver have a way of changing a man's mind. A lord has been killed, his body found...
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Underground Airlines

Ben H Winters - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best...
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The Weaver

Emmi Itäranta - Voyager
Format: Print book

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous...
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Revenger

Alastair Reynolds - Orbit
Format: Paperback

A superb science fiction adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artifacts and revenge. The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations,...
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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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The Argus Deceit

Chuck Grossart - Amazon Publishing
Format: Paperback

From bestselling author Chuck Grossart comes a genre-bending psychological thriller that explores the limits of reality and the dizzying destruction of consciousness.Brody Quail is a man without dreams ... but he's beginning to live a nightmare. He exists in four different lives, in four...
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Dune

Frank Herbert - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul...
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Spaceman of Bohemia

Jaroslav Kalfar - Little
Format: Print book

An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discoveryOrphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Prochzka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both...
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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang - Tor
Format: Book

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John...
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Beatlebone

Kevin Barry - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality - and Beatles fandom - from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane. It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west...
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Koko Takes a Holiday

Kieran Shea - Titan Books
Format: Book

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic...
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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins e-books
Format: Hardcover

Since it was first published, American Gods became an instant classic. Now discover the mystery and majesty of American Gods in this beautiful reissue of the Authors Preferred Text edition. Featuring a new preface by Neil Gaiman in honor of the novels 20th anniversary, this commemorative...
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Willful Child

Steven Erikson - Tor Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times Bestselling author Steven Erikson comes a new science fiction novel of devil-may-care, near calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through the infinite vastness of interstellar space.These are the voyages of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission:...
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The Skill of Our Hands

Steven Brust - Tor
Format: Print book

"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." -- John Scalzi on The Incrementalists The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people -- an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They...
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Winter of the Gods

Jordanna Max Brodsky - Orbit
Format: Print book

"The Immortals is a lively re-imagining of classical mythology with an engaging premise, a page-turning plot, and an eye for the arresting and uncanny in contemporary urban life. "--Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches Manhattan has many...
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The Year's Best Science Fiction 2016: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois - Griffin
Format: Book

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's...
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The Towers Still Stand

Daniel Rosenberg - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

What if the Sept. 11 attacks had failed, and Americans remained ignorant of the hijackers' ultimate goals? In this alternate history, several hijackers and their leaders survive and escape a botched Sept. 11 plot and plan a second attempt on the towers. Only one man in the government...
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Three Years with the Rat: A Novel

Jay Hosking - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." -- Blake Crouch, author of Dark MatterAfter several years of drifting...
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Babylon's Ashes

James S.A. Corey - Orbit
Format: Print book

The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel,...
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The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings

JUAN RULFO - DEEP VELLUM PUB
Format: Paperback

"Among contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals." - The New York Times Book ReviewThe legendary title novella from one of Mexico's most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th...
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The End of the Day

CLAIRE NORTH - Redhook
Format: Hardcover

At the end of the day, Death visits everyone. Right before that, Charlie does.You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of a traffic accident.Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Charlie.Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift...
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Dead Man Walking: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist

Simon R Green - Severn House Publishers L
Format: Print book

"Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones. I am the man in the shadows, that even the shadows are afraid of. The secret agent whose life is the greatest secret of all. And some of the cases I work are trickier than others." A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants...
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Dear Cyborgs: A Novel

EUGENE LIM - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback

A fractal fable about the possibility and power of protest as told by three superheroes on their lunch breakIn a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team...
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A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire

George R.R. Martin - Bantam
Format: Print book

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESFew books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martins monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers...
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The Cold Eye

Laura Anne Gilman - Saga Press
Format: Print book

In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life,...
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Death's Mistress

Terry Goodkind - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness begins The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind's series with a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth.One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang,...
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Ema the Captive

César Aira - New Directions Publishing
Format: Print book

Ema The Captive, Csar Aira's second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn...
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Eggshells

Caitriona Lally - Melville House
Format: Print book

- Irish Book of the Year Finalist!A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hope... Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors...
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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"Aldous...
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Lost Gods: A Novel

Brom. - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom.Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town...
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Thrawn

Timothy Zahn - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
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Culdesac

Robert Repino - Soho
Format: Print book

The war with no name rages on, setting the world on fire. Humanity faces extinction at the hands of the Colony, a race of intelligent ants seeking to overthrow the humans and establish a new order.The bobcat Culdesac is among the fiercest warriors fighting for the Colony. Driven by revenge...
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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever. "A transcendent, cross-cultural,...
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu - Tor
Format: Print book

Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards (including Hao Jingfang's Hugo-winning novella, Folding Beijing) ; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been...
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