Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold

About the book In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan – he who was called “The…

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The Winds of Khalakovo – Bradley P. Beaulieu

About the book Amonginhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelagoof seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky.Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo’s eyrie standsat the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflicthas erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and…

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Shadow’s Son – Jon Sprunk

About the book In the holy city ofOthir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the placefor a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples.  Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade,but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidiousplot….

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11/22/63 – Stephen King

About the book On November 22,1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the worldchanged forever.  If you had the chance to change the course ofhistory, would you?  Would the consequences be worth it?  Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old highschool English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teachingadults in…

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Wintertide – Michael Sullivan

About the book A FORCED WEDDING. A DOUBLE EXECUTION. TWOTHIEVES HAVE OTHER PLANS.  The New Empire intends to celebrate its victoryover the Nationalists with a day that will never be forgotten. On the highholiday of Wintertide the empress will be married and Degan Gaunt and the Witchof Melengar will be publically executed. Then the empress…

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The Highest Frontier – Joan Slonczewski

About the book One of the most respected writers of hard SF, ithas been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski’s last novel. Now shereturns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, inorbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influentialfamily (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy…

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The Rift Walker – Clay & Susan Griffith

About the book Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriageand obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic alliesstand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, thealliance’s horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her dutyand embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation…

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Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons

Aboutthe book THEPAST… Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is oneof the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil farolder, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves… THEPRESENT… Compelled by the encounter to…

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Avempartha – Michael J. Sullivan

About the Book When a destitute young woman hires two thieves to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer….

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Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson

About the Book For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that…

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