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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M. J. Rose · Atria Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape...
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Blood Red

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

The ninth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines the fairy tale Red Riding Hood in a richly-detailed alternate Victorian worldRosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient Black Forest of Germany. Since the age of ten, she has lived with her teacher,...
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

John Joseph Adams (Editor) · Mariner Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance." - Washington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts....
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Starhawk

Jack McDevitt · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 407
Format: Book

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure ... Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from...
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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 624
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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Power Game

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The latest sexy and suspenseful GhostWalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spider Game. When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a super soldier...
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Stepping Stone / Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion

Walter Mosley · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take...
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The Witch with No Name

Kim Harrison · Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

It's Rachel Morgan's ultimate adventure . . . and anything can happen in this final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series.Rachel Morgan has come a long way from her early days as an inexperienced bounty hunter. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches,...
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Sister Mine

Nalo Hopkinson · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2013 ANDRE NORTON NEBULA AWARDNalo Hopkinson--winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our "most inventive and brilliant writers" (New York Post)--returns with a new work. With her singular...
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Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice

Stephen Baxter · Ace
Format: Hardcover

From Stephen Baxter, master of science fiction and national bestselling author of Bronze Summer, comes an all-new Doctor Who adventure Resilience. Remembrance. Restoration. Whatever the cost. Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box thats not a police box. The TARDIS...
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Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia

Chris ; Powell Mark Offutt · Bottom Dog Press
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

Appalachia verite...This fine collection edited and introduced by Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith includes this short fiction: "On the Road with C.T. Savage" by Meredith Sue Willis, "Burning Off into Forever" by David Joy, "The Wife You Wanted" by Marie...
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A Shiver of Light

Laurell K. Hamilton · Berkley; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because Princess looks so pretentious on a drivers license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldnt be the only one for much longer...Merry Gentry, exprivate detective, now full-time princess, knew...
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Not So Much, Said the Cat

Michael Swanwick · Tachyon
Pages: 285
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 time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities...
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Bird Box: A Novel

Josh Malerman · Ecco
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world - a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there...
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The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin · Orbit
Pages: 433
Format: Paperback

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season
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