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opens in a new windowA Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva

opens in a new windowTo solve Rhode Island’s budget crisis, the state’s colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose—or gain—if gambling is made legal flood the state with money to buy the votes of state legislators.

opens in a new windowFalse Hearts by Laura Lam

opens in a new windowRaised in the closed cult of Mana’s Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters Taema and Tila dream of a life beyond the walls of the compound. When the heart they share begins to fail, the twins escape to San Francisco, where they are surgically separated and given new artificial hearts. From then on they pursue lives beyond anything they could have previously imagined.

opens in a new windowMormama by Kit Reed

opens in a new windowDell Duval has been living on the street since his accident. He can’t remember who he was or where he came from. All he has is a tattered note in his pocket with an address for the Ellis house, a sprawling, ancient residence in Jacksonville. He doesn’t know why he’s been sent here. In the house, Lane and her son Theo have returned to the ancient family home—their last resort. The old house is ruled by an equally ancient trio of tyrannical aunts, who want to preserve everything. Nothing should ever leave the house, including Lane.

Something about the house isn’t right. Things happen to the men and boys living there. There are forces at work one of which visits Theo each night—Mormama, one mama too many.

opens in a new windowNight Magic by Jenna Black

opens in a new windowPhiladelphia is locked in the grip of an evil magic that transforms its streets into a nightmare landscape the minute the sun sets each night. While most of the city hunkers down and hopes to survive the long winter nights, Becket Walker is roaming the darkened streets having the time of her life.

Once, the guilt of having inadvertently let the night magic into the city—and of having killed her onetime best friend—had threatened to destroy her. But now she’s been Nightstruck, and all her grief and guilt and terror have been swept away—along with her conscience.

opens in a new windowThe Wheel of Time Companion by Robert Jordan and Harriet McDougal

opens in a new windowOver the course of fifteen books and millions of words, the world that Jordan created grew in depth and complexity. However, only a fraction of what Jordan imagined ended up on the page, the rest going into his personal files.

Now The Wheel of Time Companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including biographies and motivations of many characters that never made it into the books, but helped bring Jordan’s world to life.

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opens in a new windowLightning in the Blood by Marie Brennan

opens in a new windowOnce, there was a call—a binding—and so, a woman appeared, present in body but absent in knowledge of her past self.

Making the ultimate journey of rediscovery was not without its own pitfalls—or rewards—and now Ree, a roaming Archeron, spirit of legend and time and physically now bound to her current form, has yet to fully uncover her true identity.

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opens in a new windowBlood of Tyrants by Ken Shufeldt

opens in a new windowThe Dinosaur Knights by Victor Milan

opens in a new windowPanacea by F. Paul Wilson

NEW IN MANGA:

opens in a new windowThe Disappearance of Hatsune Miku Story by Muya Agami and cosMo@BousouP; Art by Yunagi

opens in a new windowThe High School Life of a Fudanshi Vol. 1 Story and art by Michinoku Atami