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The Age of Miracles

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

Hardcover, 320 pages, Random House Inc, $26, published June 26 2012 | purchase
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Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

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Shadow of Night

Shadow of Night

by Deborah Harkness

Hardcover, 592 pages, Penguin Group USA, $28.95, published July 10 2012 | purchase
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  • Deborah Harkness

A follow-up to the best-selling A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Dina and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Dina seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

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A Dance With Dragons

A Dance With Dragons

by George R.R. Martin

Hardcover, 1016 pages, Random House Inc, $35, published July 12 2011 | purchase
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  • George R.R. Martin

New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, and Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.NPR Bestseller

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The Night Circus

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

Hardcover, 387 pages, Random House Inc, $26.95, published September 13 2011 | purchase
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  • Erin Morgenstern

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.NPR Bestseller

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Railsea

Railsea

by China Mieville

Hardcover, 424 pages, Random House Inc, $18, published May 15 2012 | purchase
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  • China Mieville

Sham Yes ap Soorap travels the endless rails of the railsea, hunting giant moles with a captain who can think only of the ivory-coloured mole she's been chasing since it took her arm many years ago. When they come across a derelict train, Sham finds some mysterious pictures that soon have him hunted on all sides by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers.

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Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

Paperback, 32 pages, Harpercollins Childrens Books, $8.95, published September 1 1988 | purchase
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  • Maurice Sendak

When Max dons his wolf suit, his imagination carries him to a land filled with lovable monsters.

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Ecotopia

Ecotopia

by Ernest Callenbach

Paperback, 181 pages, Random House Inc, $15, published March 1 1990 | purchase
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  • Ernest Callenbach

Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980.

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2030

2030

The Real Story of What Happens to America

by Albert Brooks

Paperback, 375 pages, St Martins Pr, $14.99, published April 10 2012 | purchase
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A near-future world struggles with the challenges of a dramatically aging population revitalized by the cure for cancer, a scenario that is challenged by an unprecedented natural disaster that drives the government into bankruptcy.

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Immobility

Immobility

by Brian Evenson

Hardcover, 253 pages, Tor Books, $24.99, published April 10 2012 | purchase
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A post-apocalyptic thriller follows the experiences of a man who wakes up paralyzed with no memory of his life and who is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out.

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Pursuit of Darkness

by Jeff Gillenkirk

Hardcover, , Nine Mile Press, , published January 24 2012 | purchase
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Power. Ambition. Vampires. Welcome to Washington, D.C. Washington Post reporter Nate Hallberg is assigned to profile high-powered political consultant Jonathan Drees and uncovers the startling reality that American politics has been controlled by vampires for more than 200 years.

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Little, Big

Little, Big

by John Crowley

Paperback, 538 pages, HarperCollins, $16.99, published October 11 2006 | purchase
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The City & the City

The City & the City

by China Mieville

Paperback, 336 pages, Random House Inc, $15, published April 27 2010 | purchase
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Inspector Tyador Borlâu must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besâzel.Literary Award Winner

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Hide Me Among the Graves

Hide Me Among The Graves

by Tim Powers

Hardcover, 511 pages, HarperCollins, $25.99, published March 13 2012 | purchase
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In 1862 London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the one-time physician of Lord Byron, is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, and a group of wildly mismatched allies, in order to stop him, must enter into a supernatural underworld they never knew existed.

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Pure

Pure

by Julianna Baggott

Hardcover, 434 pages, Grand Central Pub, $25.99, published February 8 2012 | purchase
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In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Paperback, 374 pages, Scholastic, $12.99, published February 7 2012 | purchase
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  • Suzanne Collins

The original New York Times best-selling novel is now presented with new movie artwork from the major motion picture on the cover. 300,000 first printing.

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle In Time

50th Anniversary Edition

by Madeleine L'Engle

School And Library, 262 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $24.99, published January 31 2012 | purchase
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.Literary Award Winner

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The True Meaning of Smekday

The True Meaning of Smekday

by Adam Rex

Paperback, 423 pages, Disney Pr, $6.99, published May 5 2009 | purchase
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Twelve-year-old Gratuity Tucci has a hard time writing an essay on "The True Meaning of Smekday" due to her complex life after Earth was overtaken by aliens and her mother was kidnapped and taken to Happy Mouse Kingdom in Florida. Reprint.

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Robot Novels/the Caves of Steel/the Naked Sun/the Robots of Dawn

Robot Novels/the Caves of Steel/the Naked Sun/the Robots of Dawn

by Isaac Asimov

Paperback, 671 pages, Random House Inc, $27, published August 1 1988 | purchase
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Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot, investigate the murders of a famous robotocist, an isolated inhabitant of Solaria, and Jander Panell, an advanced robot

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Halting State

Halting State

by Charles Stross

Paperback, 324 pages, Berkley Pub Group, $7.99, published June 24 2008 | purchase
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  • Charles Stross

Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery at a dot-com startup company, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, but she soon discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one, especially when an unknown enemy launches attacks on both. Reprint.

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Rainbows End

Rainbows End

by Vernor Vinge

Hardcover, 364 pages, St Martins Pr, $25.95, published May 16 2006 | purchase
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In a near-future western civilization that is threatened by corruptive practices within its technologically advanced information networks, a recovered Alzheimer's victim, his military son and daughter-in-law, and his middle school-age granddaughter are caught up in a dangerous maelstrom beyond their worst imaginings. By the Hugo Award-winning author of A Deepness in the Sky.

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Wolf Brother

Wolf Brother

by Michelle Paver

Hardcover, 295 pages, Harpercollins Childrens Books, $16.99, published February 1 2005 | purchase
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When evil strikes the land six thousand years ago, twelve-year-old Tourak and his faithful wolf-cub are forced into a perilous journey to take on the destructive force and, with the help and guidance of strange characters along the way, find a way to change the horrific outcome the world seemed destined to endure.

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The Great Book of Amber

The Great Book of Amber

by Roger Zelazny

Paperback, 1258 pages, Harpercollins, $23.99, published December 1 1999 | purchase
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  • Roger Zelazny

The complete Amber series in one volume for the first time follows Corwin, Merlin, and a cast of wizards, magicians and warriors on a series of adventures that carry them from Amber, to Earth, to the Courts of Chaos.

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Snow Crash

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

Paperback, 470 pages, Random House Inc, $15, published June 1 2000 | purchase
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Weaving contemporary imagery with Sumerian myths, Stephenson's third novel revolves around a mysterious "pseudo-narcotic" Snow Crash that is capable of affecting people both within — and without — the alternate-reality Internet called the "Metaverse."

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A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness

Paperback, 579 pages, Penguin Group USA, $16, published December 27 2011 | purchase
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  • Deborah Harkness

Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, scholar Diana Bishop — a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage — inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of demons, witches and vampires whose activities center on an enchanted treasure.NPR Bestseller

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