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Series: The Immortal Conquistador Paperback Carrie Vaughn 9781616963217 $20.95 FICTION Mar 13, 2020

Discover the thrilling, deadly chronicles of the noble immortal who becomes Rick, ally to bestselling author Carrie Vaughn’s fan-favorite, Kitty Norville.Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new identity—as the Vampire Conquistador.For over five hundred years, Ricardo keeps unwillingly upsetting the established order. He has protected his found family from marauding demons, teamed up with a legendary gunslinger, appointed himself the Master of Denver, an... + Read More
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Series: Sea Change Paperback Nancy Kress 9781616963316 $20.95 FICTION May 22, 2020

New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. “Sea Change is like liquid nitrogen ice cream—a chilling treat.”—Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky “Kress wisely keeps her global catastrophe on a human scale, eschewing superheroic action for tense realism. This urgent, deeply satisfying story is as tenacious and inspiring as its heroine.” —Publishers Weekly Operative Renata Black... + Read More
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Series: The Four Profound Weaves A Birdverse Book Paperback R.B. Lemberg 9781616963347 $18.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe“The Four Profound Weaves is the anti-authoritarian, queer-mystical fairy tale we need right now.” —Annalee Newitz, author of The Future of Another Timeline“A beautiful, heartfelt story of change, family, identity, and courage.” —Library Journal, starred review The Surun’ nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assas... + Read More
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Series: Driftwood Paperback Marie Brennan 9781616963460 $20.95 FICTION Aug 14, 2020

In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennan’s incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide—the one man who seemed immortal, but may have been a fraud. [STARRED REVIEW] “Exploring found family, adaptation, and hope in the face of apocalypse, Brennan imbues this high-concept fantasy with a strong emotional core. Fantasy fa... + Read More
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Series: Of Mice and Minestrone Hap and Leonard: The Early Years Paperback Joe R. Lansdale 9781616963231 $20.95 FICTION May 28, 2020

A brand-new Hap and Leonard series collection chock full of Joe R. Lansdale’s inimitable blend of humor, mayhem, and insight, Of Mice and Minestrone delivers never-before-seen stories, a selection of the boys’ favorite recipes, by Kasey Lansdale, and an introduction from New York Times bestselling crime author Kathleen Kent. “An absolute treasure trove for Hap and Leonard fans.” —Ace Atkins, author of The Shameless “Of Mice and Minestrone is classic Lansdale at his legendary best . . . Compelling. Hilarious. Poignant.” —NY Journal of Books Tod... + Read More
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Series: My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog Hardcover Legna Rodriguez Iglesias 9781944211776 $28.95 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, emotional and physical violence, and the American Dream d... + Read More
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Series: The Fire in His Wake Hardcover Spencer Wolff 9781944211899 $35.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

The Fire in His Wake, Spencer Wolff’s exuberant debut novel, tells the story of two men swept up in refugee crises of the twenty-first century: Simon, a young employee at the UNHCR in Morocco, and Arès, a Congolese locksmith left for dead in the wake of ethnic violence. In search of a better future, Arès embarks on an epic journey across northern Africa with Europe as his goal. He reaches Rabat, Morocco, where he joins a desperate community of exiles fighting for survival in a hostile land. While Arès risks everything to make it to Spain, Simon... + Read More
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Series: Illustoria Magazine Illustoria: For Creative Kids and Their Grownups Issue #12: Upcycle: Stories, Comics, DIY Paperback Elizabeth Haidle 9781944211813 $20.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 12 Jul 16, 2020

Explore the wide world of creative re-use!Meet artists who transform found objects into visual delights, and visit the Museum of Trash—curated rubbish collected by a sanitation worker. Learn about fungi, nature's original 'upcyclers', and raid your kitchen for materials that can be used to mix your own watercolors. Interactive pages, scattered throughout, invite readers to 'upcycle' this magazine by getting involved. Join in the joke-telling, book reviewing and playlist-making. Activities, games and DIY projects also revolve around this eco-fri... + Read More
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Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 60 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Photography Issue Paperback Claire Boyle 9781944211905 $33.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jul 09, 2020

For the first time ever, McSweeney's Quarterly is illustrating each short story with full-spread, elaborately-staged photographs. Featuring eight original stories, and accompanying photos by the award-winning photographer Holly Andres, Issue 60 contains tales of healing powers discovered in a neighborhood market and retiring baseball stars, of ill-fated father-daughter float-plane trips and a romance with the ghost of an old Hollywood heartthrob. A not-to-be-missed, oversized issue, this is one you'll want to keep preserved in a temperature-con... + Read More
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Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern McSweeney’s Quarterly Issue 62 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) Queer Fiction Issue Hardcover Patti Yumi Cottrell 9781944211912 $35.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 24, 2020

McSweeney's Quarterly returns with our first-ever queer lit issue, promising you a brilliant boundry expanding volume of original work. Guest edited by Whiting Award-winning Patty Yumi Cottrell (Sorry to Disrupt the Peace).“A key barometer of the literary climate.” —The New York Times“McSweeney’s is so much more than a magazine; it’s a vital part of our culture. ” —Geoff Dyer, McSweeney’s contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasiand Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
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Series: Fall Out Paperback Mark Grenside 9781912666751 $18.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

The Da Vinci Code meets Get Shorty in this thrilling debut from M.N.Grenside. An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT - a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a very specific group of people and will change their lives forever. All are connected to a movie that had abruptly stopped shooting in the jungles of the Philippines years before. FALL OUT exposes the truth about a conspiracy and murder that led to ... + Read More
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Series: Second Circle The science and art of social impact assessment Paperback Emery Brusset 9781912666775 $28.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 10, 2020

Second Circle brings a unique and innovative subject matter to life with passion and excitement, communicating the way in which we can better understand the social consequences of aid interventions, of peace initiatives, and of industrial investment. The book will give readers not just another manual on evaluations, but offer a bold, original and compelling overview of how to carry out evaluations and impact assessments - and what it means in terms of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’. Packed with international case studies and invaluable personal experience... + Read More
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Series: The Anointed Hardcover Michael Arditti 9781911350729 $31.95 FICTION Jun 11, 2020

Michal is a princess, Abigail a wealthy widow, and Bathsheba a soldier's bride, but as women in Ancient Israel their destiny is the same: to obey their fathers, serve their husbands and raise their children. Marriage to King David seems to offer them an escape, but behind the trappings of power they discover a deeply conflicted man. The legendary hero who slew Goliath, founded Jerusalem and saved Israel is also a vicious despot who murders his rivals, massacres his captives and menaces his harem. Michael Arditti's masterly new novel centres on ... + Read More
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Series: Outpedaling the Big C My Healing Cycle Across America 1st edition Hardcover Elizabeth McGowan 9781610885140 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2020

“Proceed as the way opens” is how William Least Heat-Moon put it in his book, River Horse. The line becomes a sort of mantra for Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth McGowan, a melanoma survivor. Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, McGowan decides to bicycle all 4,000 or so miles from America's west to east coast. For her, there are multiple reasons for the exhausting trip. She wants to help other melanoma victims, and sets out to use her many miles to raise funds for cancer research in southeastern Wisconsin, where she was treate... + Read More
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Series: Warrior Saints Warrior Saints Four Centuries of Sikh Military History (Volume 2) Hardcover Amandeep Singh Madra 9780956016874 $64.95 HISTORY Oct 17, 2022

When the Mughal Empire began persecuting the Sikhs in the 1600s, this community of North Indian devotees was forced to take up arms or face extinction. Warrior Saints (Vol. 1) told the remarkable story of how they fought back to establish a powerful modern-day empire, stretching from the borders of Tibet to Afghanistan. Warrior Saints (Vol. 2) continues that compelling story. The British were so impressed by the military prowess of the Sikh’s, who fought in a curious blend of ancient Indian warfare combined with modern Napoleonic methods, they... + Read More
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Series: Designing a Coffeehouse Paperback Sendpoints Publishing Co Ltd 9789887928454 $38.95 DESIGN Jun 01, 2020

The origin of coffee dates back thousands of years, The unique charm of coffee makes it an irreplaceable part of life, with more and more coffee houses popping up in different parts of the world.
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Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics Through Astronaut Eyes Photographing Early Human Spaceflight Hardcover Jennifer K. Levasseur 9781557539311 $38.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jun 15, 2020

Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as muc... + Read More
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Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics British Imperial Air Power The Royal Air Forces and the Defense of Australia and New Zealand Between the World Wars Paperback Alex M Spencer 9781557539403 $51.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2020

British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions and Britain. Following World War I, both Dominions sought greater independence in defense and foreign policy. Public aversion to military matters and the economic dislocation resulting from the war and later the Depression left... + Read More
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Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Don Quixote and Catholicism Rereading Cervantine Spirituality Paperback Michael J. McGrath 9781557538994 $58.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Aug 15, 2020

Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero to Cervantes’s text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpret... + Read More
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Series: Interactional Research Into Problem-Based Learning Paperback Susan M. Bridges 9781557538048 $71.95 EDUCATION Aug 15, 2020

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been deployed as a student-centered instructional approach and curriculum design in a wide range of academic fields across the world. The majority of educational research to date has focused on knowledge-based outcomes addressing why PBL is useful. Researchers of PBL are developing a growing interest in qualitative research with a process-driven orientation to examining learning interactions. It is essential to broaden this research base so as to support PBL designs and approaches to leading students into higher... + Read More
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Series: Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences Library Technical Services Adapting to a Changing Environment Paperback Stacey Marien 9781557538420 $64.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Aug 15, 2020

Libraries are experiencing major changes concerning the role of technical services. Technical services librarians also are being challenged about their relevance and role, sometimes revealed by a lack of understanding of the contribution technical services librarians make to building and curating library and archival collections. The threats are real: relocation from central facilities, the dramatic shift to electronic resources, budgetary constraints, and outsourced processing. As a result, technical services departments are reinventing themse... + Read More
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Series: Comparative Cultural Studies The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde Postmodernism as Post-nationalism Paperback Therese Kaspersen Hadchity 9781557539342 $64.95 ART Aug 15, 2020

Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation’s commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging factors, which have pushed this avant-garde to the forefront of the region’s contemporary scene, and place... + Read More
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Series: Central European Studies Teaching the Empire Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria Paperback Scott O. Moore 9781557538956 $71.95 HISTORY May 15, 2020

Teaching the Empire explores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and the United... + Read More
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Series: Ohio History and Culture Coach of a Different Color One Man’s Story of Breaking Barriers in Football Paperback Ray Greene 9781629221229 $31.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2020

As a freshman at South High School in Akron, Ohio, Ray Greene overslept one August 1952 morning and was a few minutes late to football practice. Coach Gordon Larson saw this and cut him from the team. This did not diminish his desire to play football. He returned to play his sophomore year and went on to have a distinguished career in high school, college, and professional football. Greene entered coaching in the 1960s, determined to make the most of every opportunity. He became expert in coaching and football philosophy at a young age. As off... + Read More
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Series: Ohio History and Culture The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company A Photographic History, 1898-1951 Hardcover S. Victor Fleischer 9781629220468 $64.95 HISTORY Jul 14, 2020

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 in Akron, Ohio. Within thirty years it became the world's largest tire company and the largest rubber manufacturer in the world. The success of the company was essentially a result of three things: its people, places, and products. These subjects are captured in the company's extensive corporate photo archives that is one of the flagship collections of The University of Akron Archival Services. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: A Photographic History, 1898-1951 visually chronicles the ri... + Read More
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Series: Contraband Shore Blood Will Out Paperback David Donachie 9780749021269 $16.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

1787. Captain Edward Brazier is wounded and in desperate need of medical attention, but those from whom he could seek help have no idea where he is - although neither do his enemies. With his beloved Betsey currently imprisoned by her brother Henry, who is considering committing her to an asylum to take her off his hands, time is running out for Brazier to rescue her and end the tyranny of the local smuggling ring of Deal once and for all.
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Series: Porter & Styles All That is Buried Paperback Robert Scragg 9780749024741 $16.95 FICTION Jun 18, 2020

A parent's worst fear is realised when seven-year-old Libby Hallforth goes missing at a funfair; no witnesses, no leads, and no trace. Months later, after the trail for Libby has gone cold, DI Jake Porter and DS Nick Styles find human remains but that's just the tip of a gruesome iceberg. Everyone is a suspect, nobody can be trusted, including the Hallforth family. The chances of getting justice for Libby are fading fast, along with Porter's chances of stopping a killer before they strike again.
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Series: Bradecote & Catchpoll Faithful Unto Death A Bradecote and Catchpoll Mystery Paperback Sarah Hawkswood 9780749024147 $16.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

June 1144. When the naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered and the Prince of Powys's messenger fails to reach Earl Robert of Gloucester, Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin head to Wales to confirm his identity, and piece together evidence that the dead man deserved a noose rather than a dagger. Retracing his steps leads them to a manor with a sarcastic lord, a neglected wife, a bitter mother and a fevered brother, all amidst folk who do not want the truth uncovered. The lord sheriff's men have to unravel a knot where the law and justice se... + Read More
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Series: Cotswold Mysteries Secrets in the Cotswolds Paperback Rebecca Tope 9780749024437 $16.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

Thea Slocombe is struggling to entertain her stepchildren through the long summer holiday while her husband Drew works, so she keenly accepts a new job house-sitting in Barnsley, near Bibury. However, her commission proves to be far from relaxing when she stumbles across a woman hiding among some bushes. The woman’s story is thin and incoherent, but Thea agrees to offer her sanctuary for the night. When her guest is found dead the next morning Thea turns to the police for help, but their preoccupation with a major animal trafficking investiga... + Read More
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Series: The Honourable Life of Thomas Chayne Paperback Cynthia Jefferies 9780749023492 $16.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

Thomas Chayne has never managed to impress his overbearing father, and when a small act of rebellion has lasting consequences, Thomas finds himself exiled in disgrace. But with England on the brink of civil war, a larger revolution is in the air and Thomas has an opportunity to prove his worth by rallying a troop of royalists to defend Oxford from the escalating violence. But he soon faces an impossible choice between honouring his family and his loyalty to the crown …
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Series: A Life of Secrets Paperback Margaret Kaine 9780749025007 $16.95 FICTION Jun 18, 2020

Deploring social injustice, Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency, concealing the fact that she's a member of the aristocracy. But Deborah has become accustomed to keeping secrets. It began eight years ago in 1918 when her dashing French lieutenant was tragically killed. Amid an undercurrent of social unrest and with the General Strike looming ahead, Deborah meets two very different men, handsome Theodore Field, MP and the charismatic union firebrand Evan Morgan. Deborah is torn between her feelings for Theo and the magnetism between hers... + Read More
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Series: Railway Detective Fear on the Phantom Special Paperback Edward Marston 9780749024239 $16.95 FICTION Jun 18, 2020

Halloween, 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Without warning the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the train reaches the end of the line, the passengers pour out on to the station platform. There are almost sixty of them in all, laughing and jostling, but the prevailing excitement is sh... + Read More
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Series: Bow Street Rivals Rage of the Assassin Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749022952 $32.95 FICTION Jun 18, 2020

London, 1817. An impatient crowd is gathered outside the stage door of the Covent Garden Theatre, desperate for a glimpse of actress Hannah Granville after her latest performance as Lady Macbeth, amongst them the Prince Regent himself. But before she can appear a gunshot sounds, and a man lies dead on the ground amidst the ensuing chaos. Sir Roger Mellanby MP had been a spearhead for social reform, although his political leanings had made him many enemies within the Westminster elite and even in his own family. But was he really the intended t... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Stoker's Wilde West Paperback Steven Hopstaken 9781787581944 $19.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

The sequel to Stoker's Wilde, praised by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. A train robbery by a band of vampire gunslingers sets off a series of events that puts Bram on the run, Oscar leading a rescue party and our heroes... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Stoker's Wilde West Hardcover Steven Hopstaken 9781787581968 $32.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

The sequel to Stoker's Wilde, praised by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Thinking they have put their monster-hunting days behind them, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker return to their normal lives. But when their old ally Robert Roosevelt and his nephew Teddy find a new nest of vampires, they are once again pulled into the world of the supernatural, this time in the American West. A train robbery by a band of vampire gunslingers sets off a series of events that puts Bram on the run, Oscar leading a rescue party and our heroes... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Tomb of Gods Paperback Brian Moreland 9781787584129 $18.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

“Brian Moreland writes with one eye on characterization and the other on scaring the life out of you.” — Maynard Sims, author of Stronghold and The Eighth Witch Deep inside the tomb exists a hidden world of wonder and terror. In 1935, British archaeologists vanished inside an Egyptian cave. A year later, one man returned covered in mysterious scars. Egyptologist Imogen Riley desperately wants to know what happened to the ill-fated expedition led by her grandfather. On a quest for answers, she joins a team of archeologists and soldiers in Egypt... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Tomb of Gods Hardcover Brian Moreland 9781787584143 $31.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

“Brian Moreland writes with one eye on characterization and the other on scaring the life out of you.” — Maynard Sims, author of Stronghold and The Eighth Witch Deep inside the tomb exists a hidden world of wonder and terror. In 1935, British archaeologists vanished inside an Egyptian cave. A year later, one man returned covered in mysterious scars. Egyptologist Imogen Riley desperately wants to know what happened to the ill-fated expedition led by her grandfather. On a quest for answers, she joins a team of archeologists and soldiers in Egypt... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Second Chances Paperback P.D. Cacek 9781787583320 $19.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The sequel to Second Lives, praised by Publishers Weekly as "a rewarding exploration of the emotions felt both by those confronting their own deaths and those left behind to mourn." It has been four years since the first Travelers came back, and in that time their numbers have grown. There is still no explanation for their existence, but for the most part they have been accepted into society and given special protection under the law. There are those, however, who see these Imposters as a threat to both their lives and their faith. The True Bor... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Second Chances Hardcover P.D. Cacek 9781787583344 $32.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The sequel to Second Lives, praised by Publishers Weekly as "a rewarding exploration of the emotions felt both by those confronting their own deaths and those left behind to mourn." It has been four years since the first Travelers came back, and in that time their numbers have grown. There is still no explanation for their existence, but for the most part they have been accepted into society and given special protection under the law. There are those, however, who see these Imposters as a threat to both their lives and their faith. The True Bor... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Until Summer Comes Around Paperback Glenn Rolfe 9781787583924 $18.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

"Rolfe is the real deal, folks, and anything he writes is well worth checking out." - Gord Rollo, author of The Jigsaw Man and The Crucifixion ExperimentsWhen fifteen year old Rocky Zukas meets a mysterious dark-haired girl named November, his world is forever changed. The young couple falls under the spell of summer love, but not everyone approves. November’s brother, Gabriel, is the keeper of the family’s secret, and big brother is always watching, growing more sinister as his bloodlust gets the best of him. Directing his attention to Rocky’s... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Until Summer Comes Around Hardcover Glenn Rolfe 9781787583948 $31.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

"Rolfe is the real deal, folks, and anything he writes is well worth checking out." - Gord Rollo, author of The Jigsaw Man and The Crucifixion ExperimentsWhen fifteen year old Rocky Zukas meets a mysterious dark-haired girl named November, his world is forever changed. The young couple falls under the spell of summer love, but not everyone approves. November’s brother, Gabriel, is the keeper of the family’s secret, and big brother is always watching, growing more sinister as his bloodlust gets the best of him. Directing his attention to Rocky’s... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The Sentient Paperback Nadia Afifi 9781787584327 $19.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

Amira Valdez is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to put her past on a religious compound behind her. But when she’s assigned to a controversial cloning project, her dreams of working in space are placed in jeopardy. Using her talents as a reader of memories, Amira uncovers a conspiracy to stop the creation of the first human clone – at all costs.As she unravels the mystery, Amira navigates a dangerous world populated by anti-cloning militants, scientists with hidden agendas, and a mysterious New Age movement. In the process, Amira uncovers an ... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The Apocalypse Strain Paperback Jason Parent 9781787583535 $19.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, the organic substance reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction.The researchers soon learn that even in the right hands, Molli is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Fl... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The Apocalypse Strain Hardcover Jason Parent 9781787583559 $32.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, the organic substance reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction.The researchers soon learn that even in the right hands, Molli is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Fl... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The City Among the Stars Paperback Francis Carsac 9781787584228 $18.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

First English translation of the celebrated Golden Age Science Fiction Classic. "This stunning classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein." – New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear Tankar Holroy, Lieutenant in the Stellar Guard of earth’s Empire, floats in space after his spaceship is sabotaged. Rescued by an enormous, unknown ship, he awakes to discover himself saved by the People of the Stars who are born and live in space with minimal contact with plan... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The City Among the Stars Hardcover Francis Carsac 9781787584242 $31.95 FICTION May 21, 2020

First English translation of the celebrated Golden Age Science Fiction Classic. "This stunning classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein." – New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear Tankar Holroy, Lieutenant in the Stellar Guard of earth’s Empire, floats in space after his spaceship is sabotaged. Rescued by an enormous, unknown ship, he awakes to discover himself saved by the People of the Stars who are born and live in space with minimal contact with plan... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Fearless Paperback Allen Stroud 9781787585409 $19.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa. Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as a result. She is a talented tactician who has a tendency to take too much on her own shoulders. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through the solar system, Khidr picks up a distress call from the freighter Hercules…FLAME TREE PRE... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Fearless Hardcover Allen Stroud 9781787585423 $32.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa. Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as a result. She is a talented tactician who has a tendency to take too much on her own shoulders. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through the solar system, Khidr picks up a distress call from the freighter Hercules…FLAME TREE PRE... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Sins of the Father Paperback JG Faherty 9781787584075 $19.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

“Fast-paced, relentlessly horrific, and loaded with twists and surprises, Faherty’s dark tour of Innsmouth delivers a gut-wrenching tale of madness, monsters, and heartbreak. Action-packed cosmic horror at its gruesome best!” —James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Engines of Sacrifice and On the Night Border Henry Gilman has spent years trying to separate himself from his father’s legacy of murder and insanity. Now he has the chance – all he has to do is figure out who’s been killing people in Innsmouth. Then he’ll be a hero a... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Sins of the Father Hardcover JG Faherty 9781787584099 $32.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

“Fast-paced, relentlessly horrific, and loaded with twists and surprises, Faherty’s dark tour of Innsmouth delivers a gut-wrenching tale of madness, monsters, and heartbreak. Action-packed cosmic horror at its gruesome best!” —James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Engines of Sacrifice and On the Night Border Henry Gilman has spent years trying to separate himself from his father’s legacy of murder and insanity. Now he has the chance – all he has to do is figure out who’s been killing people in Innsmouth. Then he’ll be a hero a... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Human Resources Paperback Robin Triggs 9781787584914 $19.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The sequel to Night Shift, praised by Crime Review and Cemetery Dance.Antarctica. A city on the edge of nowhere.Anders Nordvelt is chief of security in this frozen land, so, when a prominent member of a dissident group is murdered, it is his job to find the killer. Unsatisfied with the obvious explanation, Anders keeps pushing until the body of a colleague turns up in his apartment. Could Anders really be the killer? Why does he half-remember wielding the knife? And why are the whispers of a fabled Human Resources black-ops team getting ever lo... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Human Resources Hardcover Robin Triggs 9781787584938 $32.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The sequel to Night Shift, praised by Crime Review and Cemetery Dance.Antarctica. A city on the edge of nowhere.Anders Nordvelt is chief of security in this frozen land, so, when a prominent member of a dissident group is murdered, it is his job to find the killer. Unsatisfied with the obvious explanation, Anders keeps pushing until the body of a colleague turns up in his apartment. Could Anders really be the killer? Why does he half-remember wielding the knife? And why are the whispers of a fabled Human Resources black-ops team getting ever lo... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The Raven Paperback Jonathan Janz 9781787585287 $19.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

"One of the best writers in modern horror to come along in the last decade. Janz is one of my new favorites." - Brian Keene Fearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to save the world. They’ve discovered that mythological creatures such as werewolves, vampires, witches, and satyrs were once real, and that these monstrous genetic strands are still present in human DNA. These radical scientists unleash the bestial side of human beings that had been dormant for eons, and within months, most pe... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers The Raven Hardcover Jonathan Janz 9781787585300 $32.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

"One of the best writers in modern horror to come along in the last decade. Janz is one of my new favorites." - Brian Keene Fearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to save the world. They’ve discovered that mythological creatures such as werewolves, vampires, witches, and satyrs were once real, and that these monstrous genetic strands are still present in human DNA. These radical scientists unleash the bestial side of human beings that had been dormant for eons, and within months, most pe... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Vintage Crime from the Crime Writers' Association Paperback Martin Edwards 9781787585461 $19.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers. The first CWA anthology, Butcher’s Dozen, appeared in 1956, and was co-edited by Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert, and Josephine Bell. The anthology has been edited by Martin Edwards since 1996, and has yielded many award-winning and nominated stories in ... + Read More
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Series: Fiction Without Frontiers Vintage Crime from the Crime Writers' Association Hardcover Martin Edwards 9781787585485 $32.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Vintage Crimes will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers. The first CWA anthology, Butcher’s Dozen, appeared in 1956, and was co-edited by Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert, and Josephine Bell. The anthology has been edited by Martin Edwards since 1996, and has yielded many award-winning and nominated stories in ... + Read More
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Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Hardcover Judith John 9781839641794 $16.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Mischievous and smart, Tom Sawyer, is one of American literature’s most beloved literary characters. Originally published in 1876, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer chronicles the exploits of Tom and his friends – including Twain’s other lovable rogue, Huckleberry Finn – as they witness a murder, play at being pirates alo... + Read More
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Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hardcover Mark Twain 9781839641787 $16.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. One of the most beloved and influential books in American literature, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a comic yet incisive portrait of 19th century America. Told from the perspective of Huck Finn, a good-hearted if wayward thirteen-year-old, it vividly recounts his adventures as he escapes his abusive home and e... + Read More
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Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Far from the Madding Crowd Hardcover Thomas Hardy 9781839641824 $16.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.Thomas Hardy’s perennially popular and oft-adapted fourth novel, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), was also hugely successful in his day. Following the intertwining lives of its characters, we watch as independent and free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene makes various false starts with her infatuated neighbour William Boldwood and the... + Read More
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Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Aesop's Fables Hardcover Aesop 9781839641800 $16.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The fables of Aesop have endured the test of almost two millennia, being passed down first by oral traditions and then eventually written down in various forms until they were first published in English in 1484. The fables continue to delight modern readers with their moral messages and charming characters – the story of the torto... + Read More