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Alexander and Alestria
By Shan Sa
A tale inspired by the mythological affair between Alexander the Great and the Amazon warrior woman Alestria finds them falling in love after meeting on the battlefield and struggling with political and cultural factors that challenge their relationship.

Alive in Necropolis
By Doug Dorst
Navigating adult responsibilities in a California city where the dead outnumber the living, by-the-book rookie cop Michael Mercer struggles through new relationships and becomes increasingly obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, an officer who believed he policed the dead.

Ancient Highway
By Bret Lott
The stories of three generations of a single family – a teenage boy who leaves Texas for 1920s Hollywood in search of fame and fortune; a young girl who dreams of a real family far from 1940s Los Angeles; and a young man returning from the Navy to seek out his eccentric grandparents in 1980 L.A. – weave together in a saga of home, family, and the pursuit of dreams.

Art in America
By Ron McLarty
Taking a three-month stint as a playwright-in-residence at Colorado’s Creedemore Historical Society, bumbling writer Steven Kearney is commissioned to write a play based on the town’s history, but his efforts are complicated by a local land dispute, an extreme activist group, and a media frenzy.

Chasing Darkness:  An Elvis Cole Novel
By Robert Crais
Having cleared a man of a murder charge three years earlier, Elvis Cole and his sidekick, Joe Pike, find themselves on trial when the former defendant is found dead holding photographs of the victim he had been accused of killing.

Close
By Martina Cole
Rising through the ranks to become a formidable member of the criminal underworld,  risk-taker Patrick Brodie eschews relationships and family ties before inadvertently falling for a woman who becomes his wife and the mother of his children, a situation that is threatened when his past catches up with him.

Collision
By Jeff Abbott
Thrown together as the fall guys for an elaborate set-up, a corporate consultant and a fringe espionage agent become unlikely partners whose survival is threatened by untrustworthy associates and shocking secrets from the agent’s past.

The Creator’s Map
By Emilio Calderon
Unable to set aside painful memories of the Spanish Civil War when they learn of the murder of an old acquaintance, Jose Maria and his wife remember the early days of their romance during their incarceration at the Spanish Academy in Rome, and their unwitting involvement in an underground Nazi effort to acquire a mystical artifact for the Fuhrer.

Dirty Girls on Top
By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
A follow-up to The Dirty Girls Social Club takes place five years after the first tale and finds Lauren still struggling to find love in spite of her career successes, Usnavys seeking fun away from her husband and baby daughter, and Rebecca facing the prospect of a life without children.

The Dirty Secrets Club
By Meg Gardiner
In the wake of an ongoing string of high-profile murder-suicides in San Francisco, forensic psychologist Jo Beckett is hired by the SFPD to perform investigative autopsies and discovers a harrowing commonality among the suicide victims.

Don’t Tell a Soul
By David Rosenfelt
When a drunken stranger confides in him that he had killed a young woman in Kinnelon, New Jersey, some three months earlier, Tim Wallace, already suspected of having murdered his wife, suddenly finds his life put under a microscope by the cops and launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth.

Don’t You Forget About Me
By Jancee Dunn
After twenty years away from home, Lillian Curtis, a thirty-something New York City TV producer, is confronted by her past when she moves back in with her parents and is forced to come to terms with her 1980s nostalgia and the people she supposedly had left behind, including her high-school boyfriend.

Empire of Lies
By Andrew Klavan
A man of deep religious faith and principle, Jason Harrow’s stable family life is threatened when his past comes back to haunt him in the person of a former lover who wants him to find her missing daughter, sending him on a quest back to New York City and into the heart of a murderous conspiracy that makes him the target of terrorists and authorities alike.

Fractured
By Karin Slaughter
Accustomed to betrayal and violence after years of brutal marriage, Gailyn Campano reaches her breaking point when she returns home to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage and somehow finds the strength to eliminate the threat -- permanently -- leaving Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent to unravel the case.

The Garden of Evil
By David Hewson
The discovery of two corpses next to an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece in an art studio in the heart of Rome sends Detective Nia Costa on a bizarre quest to uncover the truth about not only a modern-day crime, but also a four-hundred-year-old secret concealed in the painting that powerful forces will do anything to suppress.

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
By Kim Harrison
Sexy, supernatural bounty hunter Rachel Morgan prowls the dark streets of downtown Cincinnati as she confronts her ultimate challenge, an ancient, invincible enemy – the vampire master – who is out to steal her very soul.

The Grin of the Dark
By Ramsey Campbell
Jumping at an offer to write the biography of a silent-film star, struggling film critic Simon investigates the actor’s mysterious disappearance, only to witness bizarre occurrences, from the unusual appearances of a menacing clown to unnatural outbreaks of laughter wherever he goes.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

Hit and Run
By Lawrence Block
Framed for a high-profile murder that he did not commit, contract hit man John Keller flees for his life and becomes increasingly suspicious about his handler’s ominous unresponsiveness.

How Far Is the Ocean from Here
By Amy Shearn
Giving into panic as her delivery date approaches, Susannah Prue, a young, unmarried surrogate mother, flees Chicago to seek refuge in a dilapidated Southwest motel, where she encounters a colorful array of misfit characters, from the motel proprietors and their mentally disabled son to a woman transporting her niece to the father she has never met.

Illegal Action
By Stella Rimington
Transferred to counter-espionage operations, ambitious MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot against Nikita Brunovsky, a wealthy Russian oligarch living in Britain and a vocal opponent of Putin, and is given the task of stopping the assassination by going undercover as a member of the target’s retinue to stop the killer.

Just Too Good to Be True
By E. Lynn Harris
A senior in college, Brady Bledsoe, a talented football player with his eye on a professional career and a contender for the Heisman Trophy, becomes the target of sports agents and a beautiful cheerleader out to gain a piece of his lucrative future, while his close relationship with his devoted mother begins to unravel in the face of secrets from the past.

Killer View
By Ridley Pearson
Tackling treacherous elements to rescue a missing skier on Sun Valley’s Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming and his crack team are shocked by a sniper attack that leaves one of their number dead and results in the disappearance of Walt’s best friend, a deadly situation that is further complicated by a mysterious illness at a local water-bottling plant.

Last Kiss
By Luanne Rice
Devastated by the senseless murder of her only son, eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare has been unable to cope with her grief, until Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, enlists the assistance of Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson, to uncover the truth.

The Last Oracle: A Sigma Force Novel
By James Rollins
Having discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic savants as part of a plan to bio-engineer the world’s next great prophet, a rogue group of Cold War scientists triggers an unexpectedly dangerous side effect on its young patients.

The Last Patriot
By Brad Thor
The latest political thriller by the best-selling author of  The First Commandment and  State of the Union finds Navy SEAL-turned-covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath called into action once again for a War on Terror mission in which the stakes prove higher than ever before.

The Last Queen
By C. W. Gortner
A fictional portrait of the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit the throne chronicles the troubled and turbulent life of Juana of Castile, daughter of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand, sister of Catherine of Aragon, and mother of Hapsburg Emperor Charles V, as she becomes caught up in the fierce struggle for control of the throne of Spain.

The Legal Limit
By Martin Clark
Growing up with an abusive father and his older brother, Gates, now an imprisoned felon, Mason Hunt has made a success of his life as an attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia, until his life is wracked by tragedy combined with his brother’s attempt to have him use his legal influence to get him out of jail by threatening to reveal a dark and dangerous secret from the past.

The Likeness
By Tana French
A follow-up to In the Woods finds a traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggling in her career and relationship with Sam O’Neill, while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie once had used as an undercover officer.

The Map Thief
By Heather Terrell
Manhattan attorney Mara Coyne journeys into the dark and dangerous world of stolen artifacts as she becomes caught up in the search for a legendary, fifteenth-century map that supposedly documents a Chinese expedition to the far reaches of the globe and that has been a closely guarded secret for centuries.

The Mercy Rule
By Perri Klass
After overcoming a difficult childhood in foster care, pediatrician Dr. Lucy Weiss, a suburban wife and mother, finds herself back in the world of families living on the edge as she begins working with at-risk young patients and their families, worries about her own children, and struggles to do the right thing for her patients.

Moscow Rules
By Daniel Silva
Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in technologically sophisticated modern Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to reclaim the Russian empire and challenge the global dominance of the United States.

My Sister, My Love:  The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
by Joyce Carol Oates
A satirical tale inspired by an unsolved true mystery follows the experiences of the nineteen-year-old daughter of an upper-middle-class suburban family that is torn apart by a murder and intense media scrutiny.

One of Those Malibu Nights
By Elizabeth Adler
Intervening on behalf of a distraught woman who is holding a gun in the doorway of a luxurious Malibu beach house, private investigator Mac Reilly finds himself in possession of the gun and searching for the woman when she subsequently goes missing.

Oxygen
By Carol Wiley Cassella
A tangled malpractice suit in the wake of a devastating operating room disaster shatters the career and carefully constructed identity of anesthesiologist Marie Heaton, who also struggles with her recently blind father’s increasing dependence.

Palace Council
By Stephen L. Carter
Young writer Eddie Wesley and his lover, Aurelia Treene, investigate the murder of Philmont Castle, a wealthy, highly respected man whose body turns up on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, embarking on a twenty-year quest for the truth that takes them from wealthy New York drawing rooms, through the dark corners of radical politics, to Nixon’s Oval Office.

Pharmakon
By Dirk Wittenborn
Inventing a drug that appears to have happiness-inducing qualities, a mid-twentieth century Yale professor is launched into fame before his experiments go awry and a research subject commits murder.

Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
By Meg Cabot
A third installment in a series that includes Queen of Babble in the Big City finds lovable blabbermouth Lizzie juggling a whirlwind of bridal preparations in the course of her engagement to Jean-Luc, which is frowned upon by her best friends.

Real World
By Natsuo Kirino
In a crowded suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls – Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan, and Kirarin – become suspicious of a neighbor’s teenage son when his father is found brutally murdered and the young man disappears, taking Toshi’s bicycle and cell phone, unaware that all four of them will be caught up in the peril surrounding the crime.

Requiem, Mass
By John Dufresne
Struggling with his mother’s latest delusions, his father’s fantasy-born absence, and his sister’s social withdrawal, young Johnny becomes increasingly obsessed with saving his family.

Rules of Deception
By Christopher Reich
Following the death of his wife in a mountaineering accident, Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, receives a mysterious message that makes him the subject of an international manhunt and the target of an assassin as he struggles to unravel the truth behind his wife’s secrets and a terrifying global conspiracy.

The Sand Castle
By Rita Mae Brown
In August 1952, seven-year-old Nickel, her mother, aunt, and cousin Leroy, head off to enjoy a day at the seashore, but Nickel’s cruel teasing of her frightened, recently motherless cousin and growing tensions between her mother and aunt provide a life-changing lesson in the joys and sorrows of family relationships.

Say Goodbye
By Lisa Gardner
Pregnant eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose enlists the assistance of FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy, who is also five months pregnant, to investigate the mysterious disappearances of a number of young women whom no one else will notice are gone, including runaways, high-risk teens, and prostitutes.

Shining City
By Seth Greenland
Unaware that his black sheep brother’s dry cleaning business is a front for a lucrative Hollywood escort service, Marcus Ripps inadvertently takes over the operation and revitalizes his marriage and personal finances before his conscience and the law threaten his new lifestyle.

Silent Thunder
By Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
Assigned the task of creating a schematic of a recently purchased Russian nuclear submarine that is slated for museum exhibition, architect Hannah Bryson enlists the help of her brother, Connor, who discovers a mysterious message behind a panel before he is brutally murdered.

Sister’s Choice
By Emilie Richards
Hoping to prove to her sister, Kendra, that she deserves absolution for her past mistakes, Jamie Dunkirk agrees to be a surrogate for Kendra and her husband. When she moves to their country home, a new relationship with Cash Rosslyn and his grandmother has a profound impact as she struggles with her pregnancy and a health crisis.

So Long at the Fair
By Christina Schwarz
Thirty years after a vengeful plot destroys a career, a friendship, and a family, the implications of that act continues to reverberate with the next generation. Over the course of a single day, Jon must decide whether to end his affair or his marriage, his wife becomes involved with an older man linked to their families’ past, and his mistress is courted by an enigmatic suitor.

Somebody Else’s Daughter
By Elizabeth Brundage
Having grown up in a privileged environment, private school student Willa witnesses the tragic collision between the private difficulties of her biological and adoptive families, a situation that is further challenged by the indiscretions of her headmaster and a feminist sculptor’s reckless affair.

Stalking Susan
By Julie Kramer
Investigative journalist Riley Spartz discovers that a serial killer may be targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day of each year.  As she launches a bold campaign to find the murderer, Riley takes on an obstinate news director and a politician in fear of negative publicity for the city of Minneapolis.

Stand the Storm
By Breena Clarke
Struggling for survival in a Washington frontier community after buying their freedom, Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, operate a tailor shop and laundry while battling with their former owner, assisting escaped slaves, and preparing for imminent war.

Swan Peak:  A Dave Robicheaux Novel
By James Lee Burke
The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana’s New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana.

Tan Lines
By J. J. Salem
Lisa struggles to reach the top of the feminist media world in spite of herself, while Kellyanne becomes increasingly dismayed by her dwindling prospects for stardom, and Billie questions her fast-paced lifestyle in the indie-rock profession.

Telex from Cuba
By Rachel Kushner
Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba, where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the political underground and the revolt led by Fidel and Raul Castro.

Trading Dreams at Midnight
By Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Having searched relentlessly for the mother who had abandoned her twenty years earlier, Neena blackmails married men to support herself, only to become embroiled in a situation that forces her to consider how her choices may be affecting the next generation of her family.

Try Darkness
By James Scott Bell
Counseling underprivileged clients while recovering from a wrongful murder charge, former trial lawyer Ty Buchanan takes the case of a troubled single mom who is subsequently murdered while fighting her illegal eviction from a transient hotel whose interests are being represented by Ty’s former best friend.

Up at the College
By Michele Andrea Bowen
Devastated by the unexpected end of her marriage, Yvonne returns to her North Carolina hometown, where her attraction to a successful university coach prompts questions about her faith and innermost desires.

Volk’s Shadow
By Brent Ghelfi
A sequel to Volk’s Game finds Russian undercover military agent Alexei Volkovoy doubting himself in the wake of political intrigue, economic instabilities, and the absence of the ethereal Valya, a situation that escalates until he retaliates against the wrong person and makes a dangerous enemy.

Where the River Ends
By Charles Martin
Ten years into their marriage, unlikely soul mates Doss Michaels and Abbie Coleman are confronted by her life-threatening illness, and, after she comes up with a list of ten things she hopes to do before she dies, they steal away from the hospital to embark on a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary’s River, a voyage he had promised her during the early days of their courtship.

The Widows of Eden
By George Shaffner
With the inhabitants of Ebb, Nebraska, looking for a miracle to end the devastating heat wave and drought threatening their town, Wilma Porter, owner of a local B&B, and her friends from the Quilting Circle enlist the aid of Vernon L. Moore, an enigmatic traveling salesman, and three mysterious widows from the town of Eden to turn things around.

Mystery & Suspense
(some titles may also be found in General Fiction)

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
By John McFetridge
Sharon MacDonald finds her life complicated by house arrest, an Iranian who falls to his death from her apartment building, police surveillance that keeps her from visiting her marijuana crop, and a suave stranger named Ray, while Detective Gord Bergeron confronts his own problems – a new partner, a missing child, police corruption, and a mysterious murder.

Findings:  A Faye Longchamp Mystery
By Mary Anna Evans
The discovery of a mysterious, fabulous emerald leads to murder when intruders break into the home of a dear friend of archaeologist Faye Longchamp, leaving him dead among the remains of other artifacts, but when Faye launches her own investigation, she discovers that her field notes are also missing, and that they may hold the key to solving the crime.

Handbags and Homicide:  A Haley Randolph Mystery
By Dorothy Howell
When Haley Randolph is suspected of murdering her boss at her current job at Holt’s department store and is also accused of embezzling one hundred thousand dollars from her previous job, she must find a killer with impeccable fashion taste.

Heavenly Pleasures:  A Corinna Chapman Mystery
By Kerry Greenwood
Baker Corinna Chapman is content in her life with Jason, an ex-addict turned apprentice, and her Israeli lover, Daniel, until she is pulled into a probe into food tampering that could threaten Juliet and Vivienne Lefebvre’s chocolate shop, Heavenly Pleasure, and discovers that the crime could be tied to an assault on Daniel, a so-called messiah, and a mysterious new neighbor.

Losing Ground
By Catherine Aird
Detective Chief Inspector Sloan and his assistant, Detective Constable Crosby, are called in to investigate the theft of a valuable painting from the old manor house of Tolmie Park just before the estate goes up in flames, but their search for a thief is complicated by the discovery of a grisly pile of bones in the collapsed rubble.

Mr. Monk Goes to Germany
By Lee Goldberg
Reverting to his OCD habits when his therapist, Dr. Kroker, heads off for a conference in Germany, an anxious Adrian Monk follows his shrink to Europe and comes face to face with a man with six fingers, who just might be the man responsible for his wife’s death.

A Poisoned Mind:  A Trish Macguire Mystery
By Natasha Cooper
Barrister Trish Macguire is faced with a possible career-altering choice when her boss’s terrible accident leaves her in charge of defending the corrupt World Waste Management company, a decision that is further complicated when her younger brother inadvertently becomes involved in the stabbing of a much-loved family friend.

Prodigal Son
By Thomas B. Cavanagh
With his cancer in remission after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor, retired detective Mike Garrity takes on a case on behalf of a member of his cancer support group, who asks him to help track down the son she had put up for adoption twenty years earlier, but Mike soon finds his search complicated by his client’s disappearance and murder.

Queen of the Flowers:  A Phryne Fisher Mystery
By Kerry Greenwood
Chosen Queen of the Flowers for St. Kilda’s first Flower Parade festival, Phryne Fisher finds the glamour of her crown wearing off when one of her attendants vanishes and launches her own investigation, aided by Bert and Cec, that is complicated by the disappearance of her adopted daughter Ruth and a not-so-pleasant reunion with an old lover.

A Royal Pain:  A Royal Spyness Mystery
By Rhys Bowen
Assigned by the Queen of England to entertain a Bavarian princess, penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie must help Princess Hanni unlearn the English she has learned from American gangster films, break her of her shoplifting habit, deal with her unwitting involvement with Communists, and investigate a murder.

The Sour Cherry Surprise:  A Berger and Mitry Mystery
By David Handler
Dorset, Connecticut, trooper Desiree Mitry’s investigation into a possible drug cartel operating under her nose is complicated by the disappearance of a prominent history professor, his wife’s crystal meth addiction, a joint federal and state drug task force, a student’s wild sex parties, and her difficult relationships with both her ex-husband and New York film critic Mitch Berger.

Still Waters
By Nigel McCrery
When the decomposed body of an elderly woman is unearthed, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie – returning after a year of leave trying to deal with the symptoms of his medical condition – and Sergeant Emma Bradbury are confronted by a complex case involving a potential serial killer who used some kind of shears to clip off the finger tips of the victim’s right hand.

Uneasy Relations
By Aaron Elkins
Joining a team researching a prehistoric ceremonial burial of a human woman and a part-human, part-Neanderthal child on Gibraltar, forensics specialist Professor Gideon Oliver is confronted by all-too-modern murder when two suspicious deaths rock Gibraltar.

The Water’s Edge
By Daniel Judson
When two men are found hanging from the Shinnecock Bridge near his Hamptons home, found with their hands cut off, Jake Bechet is once again caught in the middle of internal strife with the Castello crime family, forced by crime boss Jorge Castello to uncover the truth about the case with the help of retired private detective Tommy Miller.

Where Memories Lie
By Deborah Crombie
When her friend Erika reveals her past as a refugee from Nazi Germany and explains that a piece of jewelry that had been stolen from her years earlier may be tied to her husband’s suspicious death, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Gemma James investigates the piece’s surprising appearance at a prestigious London auction house.

Wishbones:  A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery
By Carolyn Haines
Heading for Hollywood to take a shot at film stardom, Southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney gets a starring role in the racy remake of the movie Body Heat opposite leading man Graf Mileau, but while filming on location in an exotic Costa Rica villa, the production is plagued by vicious long-time rivalries and mysterious “accidents.”

Romance

Into the Fire
By Suzanne Brockmann
Battling depression, unemployment, and booze in the wake of the fatal shooting of his wife Angelina, Vinh Murphy finds solace in his friendship with Hannah Whitfield, only to discover that the FBI is hunting for a man named Murphy in connection with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader whose group may be linked to Angelina’s death.

Tribute
By Nora Roberts
Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother’s fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death.

Undead and Unworthy
By MaryJanice Davidson
Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor discovers that it is not all marital bliss in the suburbs as her husband Sinclair takes up reading “The Book of the Dead,” she is hounded by a ghost as insufferable in death as in life, and a pack of once-feral vampires decides to pay an unwelcome visit.

Science Fiction & Fantasy
(some titles may also be found in General Fiction)

The Ashes of Worlds
By Kevin J. Anderson
A conclusion to the Saga of Seven Suns series by the author of  Metal Swarm features a final stand in an epic clash against galactic civilizations that pits the factions of humanity against each other.

By Schism Rent Asunder
By David Weber
A sequel to Off Armageddon Reef finds the victorious mercantile kingdom of Charis evaluating the agenda of a mysterious being who calls himself Merlin, a person who is playing a pivotal role in humanity’s struggle against the oppressive forces of the Church of God Awaiting.

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Possessing supernatural abilities that enable him to change animals, objects, and himself into any shape of his choosing, Daniel protects the Earth from alien predators while seeking the entities responsible for the murders of his parents.

A Darkness Forged in Fire: Book One of the Iron Elves
By Chris Evans
Forcibly summoned out of exile to resurrect the Iron Elves regiment he once had led, disgraced elf officer Konowa Swift Dragon is ordered to fight an elf with immense dark power, a mission that is compromised by doubts about the elves’ loyalty to their empire.

Fall With Honor:  A Novel of The Vampire Earth
By E. E. Knight
Leading a company of former Quisling soldiers in the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth, David Valentine is ready to join forces with a guerilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains, but he never expects what they will face at the end of their journey.

Jhegaala
By Steven Brust
Hiding from the criminal Jhereg organization in a distant paper-making town, a recently divorced Vlad endeavors to find family members who allegedly live in the increasingly bizarre and hostile community.

King’s Shield: Book Three of Inda
By Sherwood Smith
Exiled from his kingdom, Inda returns home when he discovers that his homeland is about to be invaded and is pressed into service as the king’s “royal shield arm” to defend his country against its most powerful and ancient enemy, in the sequel to The Fox.

Mage-Guard of Hamor (The Saga of Recluce)
By L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Having continued his magical education in exile, young mage Rahl struggles to adapt to the culture of his new home, where an increase in his powers attracts more trouble.

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
By Galen Beckett
Raised in a genteel but impoverished household, Ivy Lockwell, eldest of three daughters, is desperate to save her father, a former magician, from the madness that has overwhelmed him and finds the key to saving both him and the entire land from darkness lies in the secrets she uncovers while serving as governess to the wards of the enigmatic Mr. Quent.

The Man with the Iron Heart
By Harry Turtledove
Surviving a failed assassination attempt, the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich, the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the holocaust, conceives an insidious conspiracy designed to keep the German war machine alive, long after the supposed end to hostilities, to once again bring the Nazi elite into power, in an alternate history novel.

Saturn’s Children: A Space Opera
By Charles Stross
Following the extinction of humankind in the twenty-third century, leaving behind only androids, femmebot Freya Nakamichi 47 accepts a job to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars, unaware that some extremely powerful and ruthless humanoids will stop at nothing to possess the package and its contents.

Slanted Jack: A Jon & Lobo Novel
By Mark L. Van Name
Jon Moore, a nanotech-enhanced soldier of fortune, gets more than he had bargained for as he takes on a ruthless gang boss, a heavily armed group of religious fanatics, and a powerful interstellar government working to stabilize a dangerous frontier world when he agrees to assist an old friend and con man protect a very special young boy, in the sequel to One Jump Ahead.

The Valley-Westside War
By Harry Turtledove
In an alternate-reality tale in which the merchants of our world secretly visit parallel universes to trade for much-needed resources, the discovery of a universe beset by a 1967 atomic war prompts an investigation into what went wrong.

Victory of Eagles:  A Novel of Temeraire
By Naomi Novik
As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence languishes in prison, accused of treason, while his fighting dragon, Temeraire, is consigned to breeding grounds in Wales, until Laurence escapes his sinking prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his partner, who heads up a dragon resistance force from Wales.

Weaver:  Time’s Tapestry, Book Four
By Stephen Baxter
As Germany launches a successful invasion of England during World War II, American historian Mary Wooler, her warrior son Gary, and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee, become caught in the middle of the conflict as a dark conspiracy threatens to destroy the very fabric of time itself.