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opens in a new windowThe Librarians and The Lost Lamp by Greg Cox

opens in a new windowTen years ago, only Flynn Carsen, the last of the Librarians, stood against an ancient criminal organization known as The Forty. They stole the oldest known copy of The Arabian Nights by Scheherazade, and Flynn fears they intend to steal Aladdin’s fabled lamp. He races to find it first before they can unleash the trapped, malevolent djinn upon the world.

Today, Flynn is no longer alone. A new team of inexperienced Librarians, led by Eve Baird, their tough-as-nails Guardian, investigates an uncanny mystery in Las Vegas. A mystery tied closely to Flynn’s original quest to find the lost lamp. . . and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

opens in a new windowTreachery’s Tools by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

opens in a new windowTreachery’s Tools is L. E. Modesitt’s tenth novel in the New York Timesbestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar, Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married with a daughter, he would like nothing better than to focus his efforts on improving Imager Isle and making it more self-sufficient.

However, the rise in fortune of the merchant classes in Solidar over the years does not sit well with the High Holders, who see the erosion of their long-enjoyed privileges. Bad harvests and worse weather spark acts of violence and murder. In the midst of the crisis, some High Holders call for repeals of the Codis Legis, taking authority away from the Rex.

opens in a new windowUnhonored by Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman

opens in a new windowEllis Harkington is trapped in limbo between life and death, struggling to escape the domination of an evil force masquerading as her friend, Merrick. Only Ellis has ever escaped him, and now that she has discovered the truth, he wants to make sure she can never escape again.

Merrick’s dark power has turned the seaside town of Gamin, Maine, into a place of nightmares. The town is transformed into a decaying succession of infinite rooms, bottomless stairwells, and boundless corridors filled with never-ending masquerades, balls, and banquets. Each pageant is about the life Ellis lived before her return—each revelation more terrifying than the last.

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opens in a new windowHammer on Bone by Cassandra Khaw

opens in a new windowJohn Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable.

He’s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he’s hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth.

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opens in a new windowMade to Kill by Adam Christopher

opens in a new windowIn an alternate version of 1960s Los Angeles, the world’s only robot detective has been turned into a hit man by his corrupted master computer.

Ray is good at the job, too—not only does nobody suspect the world’s last robot is a hit man, his fame allows the Electromatic Detective Agency to continue as the perfect front, and with a twenty-four-hour memory limit, he sure can keep a secret.

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opens in a new windowHow to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King Vol. 1 Story by Yakan Warau; Art by Toshimasa Komiya

opens in a new windowLand of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse Written by Various; Art by Sakazaki Freddie

opens in a new windowMagika Swordsman and Summoner Vol. 4 Story by Mitsuki Mihara; Art by MonRin

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opens in a new windowThe Damned of Petersburg by Ralph Peters

opens in a new windowAs Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederacy’s stubborn Army of Northern Virginia struggled against a relentless Union behemoth, with breathtaking valor and sacrifice on both sides. That confrontation in the bloody summer and autumn of 1864 shaped the nation that we know today.

From the butchery of The Crater, where stunning success collapsed into a massacre, through near-constant battles fought by heat-stricken soldiers, to the crucial election of 1864, The Damned of Petersburg resurrects our Civil War’s hard reality, as plumes and sabers gave way to miles of trenches.

opens in a new windowThe Seascape Tattoo by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

opens in a new windowAros of Azteca and Neoloth-Pteor are the deadliest of enemies: Swordsman and Sorcerer, locked in mortal combat, who have tried to kill each other more times than either can count. But when the princess Neoloth loves is kidnapped, there is only one plan that offers any hope of rescue . . . and that requires passing off the barbarian Aros as a lost princeling and infiltrating the deadliest cabal of necromancers the world has ever seen. They cannot trust each other. They will betray or kill each other the first chance they get. But they’re all each other has.

opens in a new windowShooting the Sphinx by Avram Noble Ludwig

opens in a new windowIn Hollywood, Ari Basher is the stuff of legends, the man who always gets the impossible-to-film shots. In Cairo, however, he faces the most difficult and dangerous challenge of his career: he must photograph, from mere feet away, the face of the imperishable Sphinx. The film depends on it, but if Ari damages the ancient Sphinx, he could end up in an Egyptian prison for life or even dead.

opens in a new windowWolf’s Empire: Gladiator by Claudia Christian and Morgan Grant

opens in a new windowA young gladiator fights for justice in a Galactic Roman Empire in Claudia Christian’s and Morgan Grant Buchanan’s Wolf’s Empire: Gladiator

When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for vengeance. But the empire is being torn apart by a galactic civil war, and her demands fall on deaf ears. Undeterred, Accala sacrifices privilege and status to train as a common gladiator. Mastering the one weapon available to her—a razor-sharp discus that always returns when thrown–she enters the deadly imperial games, the only arena where she can face her enemies.

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opens in a new windowElsewhens by Melanie Rawn

opens in a new windowThe First Confessor by Terry Goodkind

opens in a new windowForbidden by Cathy Clamp

opens in a new windowGhostbusters by Nancy Holder

opens in a new windowHaze and The Hammer of Darkness by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

opens in a new windowAnd Not to Yield and Bowie by Randy Lee Eickhoff and Leonard C. Lewis

opens in a new windowOne Year After by William R. Forstchen

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opens in a new windowA Certain Scientific Railgun Vol. 11 Story by Kazuma Kamachi; Art by Motoi Fuyukawa

opens in a new windowMagika Swordsman and Summoner Vol. 4 Story by Mitsuki Mihara; Art by MonRin

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