Space Battles – Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

About the book Red Alert! Red Alert! This is not a dril… Anna Paradox’s “Between The Rocks”: The Courtly Vizier, a utility truck, renders aid to a colony ship but when they return to their asteroid home from supply runs to mines on Old Lumpy from Jupiter’s atmosphere, the colony ship they once helped attacks them….

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The Cloud Roads – Martha Wells

About the book Moon has spent his life hiding what he is—a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again discovered…

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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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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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Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

About the book Against all odds,Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute PeetaMellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even.After all, she has returned to her family and longtime friend, Gale. Yetnothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance.Peeta…

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Territory – Emma Bull

About the book Wyatt Earp. DocHolliday. Ike Clanton.   You think you know the story. You don’t.   Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one ofthe richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run likeley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knowshow to…

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Legacy of Kings – C.S. Friedman

About the book The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strongand determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery forherself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her onlyhope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped bya curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear….

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The Fallen Queen – Jane Kindred

About the book Heaven can go to hell.  Until her cousin slaughtered the supernal family, Anazakia’s father ruled the Heavens, governing noble Host and Fallen peasants alike. Now Anazakia is the last grand duchess of the House of Arkhangel’sk, and all she wants is to stay alive.  Hunted by Seraph assassins, Anazakia flees Heaven with…

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Sea Witch – Helen Hollick

About the book The time: the golden age of piracy- 1716  The Place: the Pirate Round – fromSouth Africa to the Islands of the Caribbean. Escaping the bullying of his elder brother, from the age of fifteen JesamiahAcorne has been a pirate, with only two loves – his ship and his freedom. Buthis life is…

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Awakenings – Edward Lazellari

About the book Cal MacDonnell is a happily married New York City cop with aloving family. Seth Raincrest is a washed-up photographer who has alienatedeven his closest friends. The two have nothing in common—except that they bothsuffer from retrograde amnesia. It’s as if they just appeared out of thin airthirteen years ago, and nothing has…

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