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Fiction, October 2006
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General Fiction
- Atkinson, Kate
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Filled with wit and surprise, Atkinson's new thriller features the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie.
- Baldacci, David
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People are dropping dead in Washington, D.C., and the Camel Club must unravel a secret that threatens to bring America to its knees.
- Bausch, Richard
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From Pen/Malamud winner Bausch comes a rich and moving novel about two eccentric families in a small Virginia town, set during the Thanksgiving season.
- Bernhard, Thomas
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This debut novel, which came out in German in 1963 and is now being published in English for the first time, is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days.
- Bradbury, Ray
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The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine — a sequel 50 years in the making.
- Dekker, Ted
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Carl Strople is an assassin with unusual telekinetic gifts. He's been kidnapped, taken into hiding and had his memory wiped out over a ten-month period of intense training and torture. With a new set of memories and developing skills, he is being molded into a killer for an extraordinary mission.
- Delbanco, Nicholas
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From novelist and literary critic Delbanco comes a poignant tale about love, rebirth and a second chance at romance.
- Donovan, Gerard
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From the author of Schopenhauer's Telescope comes a beautiful and haunting novel of vengeance, literature, love, isolation and man's tenuous grasp on reason.
- Epstein, Leslie
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From the author of King of the Jews and San Remo Drive comes a new novel that reimagines Fascist Italy.
- Flynn, Vince
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CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in Flynn's eighth explosive thriller.
- Ford, Richard
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With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later — after Independence Day — won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, Frank Bascombe's story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together.
- Frazier, Charles
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At the age of twelve, orphan Will Cooper is given a horse, a key and a map, and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Thirteen Moons takes us from the wilderness of an unspoiled continent, across the South, up and down the Mississippi, and to the urban clamor of a raw Washington City. Throughout, Will is swept along as the wild beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones, automobiles and encroaching railways of the twentieth.
- Freeman, Brian
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In this follow-up to Freeman's debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot — or you can get "stripped."
- Frei, Pierre
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A serial killer stalks the streets of post-WWII Berlin, preying on beautiful, blonde women, in Frei's debut thriller — a bestseller in Germany. Likable German police inspector Klaus Dietrich must work with John Ashburner, a U.S. military police captain, to find the murderer.
- Julavits, Heidi
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Julavits weaves a spell in which the extraordinary power of a young woman's sexuality, and the desire to wield it, have a devastating effect. The riveting cat-and-mouse power games between doctor and patient, and between abductor and abductee, are gradually revealed, along with the truth about what actually happened to the 16-year-old in 1985.
- King, Stephen
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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark, and Lisey Landon must confront both. King's most personal and powerful book to date is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
- Koenings, N. S.
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Against the backdrop of an East African city, an impossible romance between an Indian widower and a married Belgian woman unfolds under the most unlikely circumstances.
- Livaneli, O. Z.
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Already an international bestseller, Bliss is a lyrical and moving story that embodies the sweep and contradictions of modern Turkey and shows that lovely and unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people
- Ludlum, Robert
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In the tradition of such Ludlum classics as The Chancellor Manuscript and The Icarus Agenda comes a new thriller in which two figures find themselves facing a shadowy organization working to twist global politics to their own unsavory ends.
- Naslund, Sena Jeter
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"Like everyone, I am born naked." With this opening line of Naslund's new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it.
- Oates, Joyce Carol
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This painfully intimate depiction of race in America is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War.
- Ojikutu, Bayo
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When Tommie Simms loses his corporate job, he gets caught up in Chicago's treacherous underworld — the last fate anyone ever intended for him.
- Orths, Markus
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Catalina d'Erauso, born in 17th century Spain, cuts her hair, dresses in men's clothing and becomes Francisco. Her new identity is internalized so much that she convinces not only everyone around her but eventually even herself. Her path leads her to the New World and becomes a despairing quest for the other and for one's self.
- Patterson, James
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The bestselling author returns with the pinnacle of all Alex Cross thrillers: the chance at last to capture the psychopath who murdered Alex's wife, Maria. Patterson also goes back in time to answer the questions fans have been asking since the first Alex Cross appearance in Along Came A Spider.
- Powers, Richard
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On a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. When he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman — who looks, acts and sounds just like his sister — is really an identical impostor.
- Shearer, Harry
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Meet the residents of Gammage, New York, a town on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, when inspiration strikes. Why not go native and open a casino? Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Shearer delivers a satire of greed, collusion, distrust and betrayal in the halls of Washington and the casinos of Native America.
- Vida, Nina
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This radiant work of historical fiction spans 12 years in the lives of many engaging characters — Mexican-born Aurelia Ruiz; Joseph Kimmel, a Missouri school teacher and son of a Polish Jew; Henry Castro, a Frenchman with dreams of creating an Alsatian-immigrant–populated town in his own name — in mid-19th century Texas.
- Warren, Susan May
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The second title in the Mission: Russia trilogy pits one young woman and her former love against Russia itself.
- Woods, Stuart
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Ed Eagle — first introduced in Santa Fe Rules — returns in this new novel by bestselling author Stuart Woods.
Mysteries
- Bain, Donald
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Visiting old friends Jack and Meg Duffy in Arizona, Jessica watches their foster son hit the winning run for the Mesa Rattlers in an AA league playoff game. She and the Duffys are thrilled at Ty Ramos's success, but team owner Harrison Bennett is not. His son Junior and Ty are bitter rivals, and the tension at the team dinner later that evening threatens to empty the dugouts. By the next morning Junior Bennett is dead, and Ty is the prime suspect. Jessica finds out that for some people, baseball is more than just a game.
- Brewer, Steve
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Bubba's back. Having coffee with a new client, things seem to be going well until the monkey with the gun shows up. Now Bubba's facing an uncooperative police force, a barrel full of suspects and an intern that drives everyone bananas. He's got to figure out which of the animals at the Albuquerque zoo really belong behind bars.
- Burke, Jan
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In this latest thriller from the author of Bloodlines, Irene Kelly and her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, are back with edge-of-your-seat forensic suspense.
- Coggins, Mark
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Every little girl knows, you can't take candy from strangers. It's the big girls who have a problem with the rule. Big girls with webcams and screen names and Amazon wishlists. August Riordan doesn't know the first thing about camgirls. But he's been a PI long enough to know that lustful longing doesn't always do a body good.
- Connelly, Michael
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Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for 11 years. When Bosch realizes he and his partner missed a clue that could have prevented nine additional murders, his whole being as a cop begins to crack.
- Daniel, John M.
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When the phone rings in the middle of the night, publisher Guy Mallon learns his book warehouse has burned to the ground. Rushing to the scene, he and arson inspector Rosa Macdonald see a total loss — and a burned body.
- Evanovich, Janet
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Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby is a woman with a little bit of edge, a whole lot of smarts and an uncanny knack for danger. Barney is back to mix it up with irresistibly hot racecar driver Sam Hooker and battle a whole new set of bad guys.
- George, Elizabeth
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The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard searching for answers. Who is the twelve-year-old boy who pulled the trigger? That story begins on the other side of London, where the three mixed-race Campbell children are sent to live with their aunt. The oldest, fifteen-year-old Ness, is headed for trouble as fast as her high-heeled boots will take her. That leaves the middle child, Joel, to care for the youngest, Toby. But before long, Joel has his own problems with a local gang. To protect his family, he makes a pact with the devil — a move that leads straight to the front doorstep of Thomas Lynley.
- Greenwood, Kerry
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When the 1920s most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives.
- Hillerman, Tony
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Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has been enticed occasionally by his former colleagues to help solve a puzzling crime. Aided by Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, Leaphorn always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old investigation — Joe's last case, an unsolved mystery involving the disappearance of a priceless Navajo rug. With Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn is on his own, left to pick up the threads of a crime he'd thought impossible to solve.
- Indridason, Arnaldur
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Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his team must once again look into Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness.
- Maitland, Barry
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In a London neighborhood known for its artists and bohemian style, six-year-old Tracey Rudd is abducted from her home without any warning or sign of violence. She is the third child abucted under similar circumstances in recent weeks. But this case is different. She is the daughter of notorious contemporary artist Gabriel Rudd, best known for the grotesque "Dead Puppies," a work centered around his wife's suicide five years earlier. While Rudd exploits Tracey's abduction as an inspiration for a major new work in his upcoming exhibit, D.C.I. David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla hunt for the missing girls' kidnapper, who is suspiciously connected to the eccentric community of artists, dealers and collectors in the neighborhood.
- Mayor, Archer
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When Joe Gunther is called to the home of a young woman apparently dead by her own hand, he is troubled enough by his findings to want to dig deeper. But his normally trustworthy medical examiner stalls the investigation, crippled by problems of her own. Will Joe be able to help her out and get what he needs in time to derail the machinations of the increasingly violent trio lurking behind it all?
- Nadelson, Reggie
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Artie Cohen has just married Maxine and is about to take time out of the city with her when two events pull him back: the apparent murder of a friend, and the appearance of his former girlfriend, Lily, their breakup never fully resolved.
- Parker, Robert B.
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This time, Boston P.I. Spenser is called upon by someone from his past, April Kyle. This time, though, Spenser may not be able to save April from her own past demons, not without deadly consequences.
- Spencer-Fleming, Julia
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Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson have long fought their passion in deference to his marriage, but it's difficult keeping secrets in the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill. When his wife is found brutally murdered in their home, the state police think it's an open-and-shut case of a disaffected husband silencing first his wife, then the investigation he controls. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships and evil waits inside white clapboard farmhouses. Russ and Clare struggle against the reach of the law, the authority of the church and their own guilty hearts.
- Spinosa, Tony
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Joe Serpe doesn't have much. A dead brother, an old cat and the unshakeable stink of heating oil and shame. He's not interested in redemption. He can't undo his past. But when a young mentally challenged boy is murdered on the oil lot, Joe needs to find answers.
- Torres, Steven
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Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1982. In the early morning hours, a neighbor named Tomas Villareal knocks on the door of the home of Luis Gonzalo, the sheriff of Angustias, a small town in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Tomas reports that his son is missing, and the sheriff agrees to help search for the boy. Gonzalo is certain there is a simple explanation — that the child has just wandered off to visit a friend or fallen asleep in a field. But then a second child is reported missing, and there are no clues to her whereabouts either. Soon the sheriff, the parents and the entire town are searching frantically, but the horrors have only just begun. Gonzalo begins to suspect an organized plot to harm the children of Angustias and races against the clock to prevent the town's children from disappearing one by one.
- Zellnik, Miriam
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The hustle and bustle of 1890s Portland, Oregon, makes it the perfect place to lose your past and start a new life, as beautiful, unconventional Libby Seale knows all too well. As a seamstress for the prominent Rose family, Libby is one of the first to learn that her boss, Hiram Rose, has been killed; mangled to death by machinery at his own paper mill — or has he?
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Anthony, Piers
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In his 30th rollicking chronicle of the enchanted land of Xanth, Piers Anthony reveals unexplored new dimensions of his magical realm.
- Bujold, Lois McMaster
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Fawn Bluefield flees her family's farm to look for work in the city of Glassforge. At a roadside inn she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, enigmatic soldier-sorcerers engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices."
- Clarke, Susanna
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Following the success of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Clarke delivers a collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th century England.
- Datlow, Ellen
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Here are original stories that straddle the borderline between fantasy and mainstream fiction, stories both bright and dark in tone, without straying into the realm of horror fiction. Among the authors included are Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, Peter Beagle, Greer Gilman, Paul DiFilippo, Jeffrey Ford and Lucius Shepard.
- Elliot, Kate
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In the land of the Hundred, the Guardians have disappeared, the eagle-riding Reeves have lost authority, and a mysterious new force preys on the people of the Hundred.
- Flynn, Mike (Michael F.)
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In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. The Black Death spared Eifelheim as it swept across Europe but the town vanished overnight. What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?
- Gaiman, Neil
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Gaiman's second collection of short fiction includes a novella featuring the hero of American Gods and charts the terrain between life and death, perception and reality, darkness and light.
- Hamilton, Laurell K.
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Bestselling author Hamilton offers a short story collection that includes an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story.
- Heinlein, Robert A.
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Space Cadet is the story of a young man's education as a member of the Solar Patrol, a paternalistic, non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization.
- Isaak, Elaine
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Wile prince of the realm Wolfram duRhys spends his days carousing and wenching — anything to avoid the legacy of his revered father, Kattanan duRhys, who saved the kingdom and created a legend impossible to match. But when Wolfram's carefree existence is shattered by an assassination attempt, he discovers that he's been living a lie, and a dark destiny awaits.
- Lackey, Mercedes
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Kiron has secretly gathered an army of dragon riders to seek refuge in the abandoned desert city named Sanctuary. There they join other dragon riders to rid their world of both war and magical domination, but now it is time to build a new society in the ancient city of Aerie.
- Marillier, Juliet
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King Bridei is determined to drive the Gaelic invaders from his lands. In hopes of gaining an ally, he sends the beautiful Ana to make a strategic marriage with a chieftain she has never seen. Bridei's personal bodyguard and spy, Faolan, accompanies Ana on the journey, saving her life and struggling to control his growing feelings for her. When she arrives at the chieftain Alpin's stronghold in the mysterious Briar Woods, her discomfort and unease increase tenfold, for this is a place of full of secrets and her betrothed is an enigma himself. The more Ana tries to uncover the truth of her new life, the more she discovers a maze of polite diversions that mask deadly lies. She fears Faolan, but he may prove to be the truest thing in her world. Or her doom.
- McKiernan, Dennis L.
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The gallant knight Roil rides into the Springwood and finds his true heart's desire in Cileste, princess of that domain. But before their love can blossom, Roil must rescue his sister from a dreadful lord who steals the souls of those he bears away. Cileste joins her champion on a desperate odyssey to save Roil's soul-reft sister before the dark of the moon.
- Rawn, Melanie
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There is magic in the big city — literally. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven.
- Resnick, Mike (Michael D.)
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This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction presents hilarious stories accompanied by prefaces written by the authors. Featured contributors include David Brin, Esther Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Connie Willis and many more, with stories such as "Amanda and the Alien", "Franz Kafka, Superhero!", "Space Rats of the CCC", "The Soul Selects Her Own Society", and "Too Hot to Hoot."
- Schroeder, Karl
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It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon 3000 kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.
- Shinn, Sharon
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In this story of hidden magic and forbidden love, the King's Rider Justin befriends Ellynor, a young novice at a convent, only to discover that she is a mystic being manipulated by the fanatical Daughters of the Pale Moon into hunting down and killing other mystics.
- Snyder, Maria V.
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After saving the Commander's life, Yelena is set free to get her magic under control or be destroyed by the other wizards for disrupting the order of things.
- Watts, Peter
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Two months since the stars fell. Two months ago 65,000 alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? Watts puts a terrifying and original spin on the familiar alien contact story.
- Weber, David
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The Union of Arcana has become the most powerful civilization in human history, expanding through the portals linking parallel universes and laying claim to one uninhabited planet after another. But now the Union's scouts have discovered a new portal, on the far side of which lies a shattering revelation.
- Williams, Sean
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In a remote city on the edge of two worlds, where blood has power and water is more precious than freedom, three far-flung friends unite on a quest to save their families. Sequel to The Crooked Letter.
- Wolfe, Gene
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Latro finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything — except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget.