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Sun of Blood and Ruin: A Novel By Mariely Lares Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063254312
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Published: Harper Voyager - February 20th, 2024

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there’s a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro—featuring a heroic warrior sorceress—weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.


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The Book of Doors: A Novel By Gareth Brown Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063323988
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Published: William Morrow - February 13th, 2024

A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight LibraryThe Invisible Life of Addie LarueThe Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness.


A Sign of Her Own By Sarah Marsh Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780778310785
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Published: Park Row - February 6th, 2024

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice.


Cahokia Jazz: A Novel By Francis Spufford Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668025451
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Published: Scribner - February 6th, 2024

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Financial Times

From “one of the most original minds in contemporary literature” (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimate


Kinning (Everfair #2) By Nisi Shawl Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250212696
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Published: Tor Books - January 23rd, 2024

Kinning, the sequel to Nisi Shawl’s acclaimed debut novel Everfair, continues the stunning alternate history where barkcloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.


A Brutal Design By Zachary C. Solomon Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781941360811
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Published: Lanternfish Press - January 30th, 2024

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass By Shannon Chakraborty Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062963512
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Published: Harper Voyager - March 26th, 2024

New York Times Bestseller!

"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War


Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable By Ronald L. Fair, W. Ralph Eubanks (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Ronald L. Fair, W. Ralph Eubanks (Introduction by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781598537635
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Published: Library of America - November 7th, 2023

Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended

From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks


The Intuitionist: Introduction by Colin Grant (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) By Colson Whitehead, Colin Grant (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Colson Whitehead, Colin Grant (Introduction by)
$28.00
ISBN: 9781101908372
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Published: Everyman's Library - November 28th, 2023

A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of an important American writer. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.


The Lost Cause By Cory Doctorow Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250865939
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Published: Tor Books - November 14th, 2023

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?


Ss-GB By Len Deighton Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802161079
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Published: Grove Press - November 28th, 2023

"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation."--The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down.


The Shamshine Blind: A Novel By Paz Pardo Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982185336
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Published: Atria Books - November 14th, 2023

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St.