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Gideon the Ninth throws swordplay, necromancy, and gallows humor into a gothic sci-fi blender.
Gideon the Ninth
LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi · Travis' Picks · Space Opera
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Gideon the Ninth throws swordplay, necromancy, and gallows humor into a gothic sci-fi blender. Trapped serving her bone-witch nemesis, Gideon joins a lethal trial where immortal power is the prize and betrayal is guaranteed. Sharp, chaotic, and wildly original, this is lesbian necromancers in space doing absolutely nothing the easy way.
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Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!
WINNER of the 2020 Locus Award and Crawford Award
Finalist for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Series!
Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Dragon, and World Fantasy Awards
“Unlike anything I’ve ever read. ” —V.E. Schwab
“Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” —Charles Stross
“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to psychological horror, government experiments, psychic surveillance, family danger, and science-fiction concepts with disturbing consequences.
Intercepts
Horror
Our take
Joe works at a secret facility where sensory-deprived human subjects are used to intercept the perceptions of people around the world. When his teenage daughter begins seeing a terrifying woman connected to the experiments, he must confront what his work has unleashed, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 18,200 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to psychological horror, government experiments, psychic surveillance, family danger, and science-fiction concepts with disturbing consequences.
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Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home.
“Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply thought-provoking . . . T. J. Payne is the real deal.”—Jose Molina, writer/producer on The Vampire Diaries, Sleepy Hollow, and Firefly
Joe works for an organization known only as “The Company.” He cannot speak about what he does in public. He and his employees live in a constant state of paranoia that The Company is listening to their phones and watching their search histories. Why? Because on the bottom floor of the facility, rows of padded cells keep a group of humans in a constant state of extreme sensory deprivation. With their minds awake but their senses unable to ground themselves, they have gone insane, oscillating between vegetative states and fits of violent rage.
These experiments have a purpose, though—when the minds of these inmates transcend their physical selves, they’re able to “intercept” the sights and senses of anyone in the world. The process, however, is painful. Torturous.
Joe likes to think that his work, helping the government track down bad guys, makes the world a better place. He has no regrets. Until the day when his ex-wife dies by suicide. He learns that a woman who looks very much like one of Joe’s inmates had been haunting her. After his ex-wife’s death, Joe’s daughter Riley comes to live with him. And then she begins to have visions of the woman too...
Has Joe somehow played a role in turning the government’s most sinister weapon against his own daughter? And, most important of all: how far will he go to save her?
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Violence follows men who cannot escape what they are, even as war closes in around them.
The Blade Itself
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Violence follows men who cannot escape what they are, even as war closes in around them. Logen Ninefingers fights to survive a past that refuses to stay buried, Jezal dan Luthar chases hollow glory, and Glokta hunts treason through pain and suspicion. This epic fantasy builds through intersecting lives, moral ambiguity, and rising conflict, where power, survival, and consequence collide.
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The first novel in the First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian—leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle.
But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.
Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.
Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.
Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.
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Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted is a raw, unforgettable memoir of her battle with anorexia and bulimia—now reissued with a new afterword confronting the realities of recovery.
Wasted
Biographies & Memoirs
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Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted is a raw, unforgettable memoir of her battle with anorexia and bulimia—now reissued with a new afterword confronting the realities of recovery. A New York Times bestseller and modern classic in eating disorder literature, Wasted remains brutally honest, timely, and essential. Read it for the truth. Stay for the fight to live.
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In her searing, unflinching memoir, Marya Hornbacher lays bare her years-long battle with anorexia and bulimia—a war she once romanticized, until it nearly killed her. Wasted chronicles how a brilliant young woman spiraled into self-destruction, chasing hunger, chaos, and control with relentless precision.
This updated edition features a new afterword where Hornbacher—now a respected voice in the field of eating disorders—confronts the complexities of recovery with the same honesty that made the original a classic. She offers no easy answers, only the urgent truth: recovery is possible, but never simple.
Brutally honest and deeply human, Wasted remains a powerful touchstone for anyone grappling with the realities of eating disorders, or seeking to understand them. It's not just a memoir—it’s a reckoning.
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On an island where objects vanish from memory—and existence—the Memory Police ensure the forgotten stay forgotten.
The Memory Police
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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On an island where objects vanish from memory—and existence—the Memory Police ensure the forgotten stay forgotten. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a haunting, award-winning dystopian novel about resistance, repression, and the power of memory. Finalist for the International Booker Prize, with 4.0 stars on Amazon and 112,000+ Goodreads ratings. One of the year’s most celebrated novels—read it now.
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Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB
American Book Award winner
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Best for readers who like morally gray characters, superpowers, former friends turned enemies, and dark revenge-driven fantasy.
Vicious
Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Travis' Picks
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Called “Fresh, merciless, and, yes, vicious. Wow.” by Mira Grant, Vicious follows former college roommates Victor and Eli, whose experiments with extraordinary abilities leave them enemies pursuing competing ideas of revenge and justice. Best for readers who like morally gray characters, superpowers, former friends turned enemies, and dark revenge-driven fantasy.
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V. E. Schwab's New York Times bestseller Vicious is a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.
"A dynamic and original twist on what it means to be a hero and a villain. A killer from page one…highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Marvel Universe vs The Avengers and Patient Zero
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A child of poverty.
My Notorious Life
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A child of poverty. A woman of power. A name that shook Victorian New York. Inspired by a real-life midwife called “the Wickedest Woman in New York,” My Notorious Life is a riveting tale of ambition, scandal, and the fight for women’s rights. Fans of bold heroines and gripping historical fiction won’t be able to put this one down.
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From the gritty streets of 1860s New York to the gilded halls of Fifth Avenue, Axie Muldoon rises from an impoverished Irish immigrant to one of the most powerful—and controversial—women of her time.
Forcibly separated from her family and apprenticed to a doctor, Axie turns her hard-won knowledge into a thriving midwifery business, offering services few dare speak of. But as she gains wealth and influence, she also attracts enemies—none more relentless than Anthony Comstock, a crusading official determined to see her destroyed.
Inspired by a true story, My Notorious Life is a sweeping, provocative novel of ambition, love, and a fearless fight for women’s rights. A gripping tale of power, scandal, and survival, this is historical fiction at its most unforgettable.
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A dead general.
Robert Ludlum’s (TM) The Bourne Enigma
Mystery · Thriller
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A dead general. A cryptic message. Four days to stop a global war. The Bourne Enigma by Eric Van Lustbader is a high-octane spy thriller packed with international intrigue, ruthless villains, and pulse-pounding suspense. With 4.1 stars from over 3,300 Amazon reviews, this is classic Jason Bourne—racing against the clock. Ready to dive in? Read now.
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A cryptic message. A global threat. Four days to stop it.
Jason Bourne thought he’d left the chaos behind—until an urgent message from an old ally pulls him back into the shadows. Russian general Boris Karpov has sent him a riddle, one that hints at an imminent global catastrophe. But before Bourne can act, Karpov is murdered at his own wedding.
Now the only one who can decipher the warning, Bourne races from Moscow to Cairo, through Syria and Cyprus, on the trail of Ivan Borz—an elusive arms dealer with a history of personal bloodshed. The deeper Bourne digs, the clearer the stakes become: war is coming, and he’s the only one who can stop it.
An adrenaline-fueled espionage thriller that delivers classic Bourne action with a modern edge.
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Hunted by the Empire, Elias and Laia race to save her imprisoned brother—if they survive long enough to reach him.
A Torch Against the Night
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance · Urban Fantasy
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Hunted by the Empire, Elias and Laia race to save her imprisoned brother—if they survive long enough to reach him. But with the ruthless Blood Shrike on their trail and dark forces rising, no one is safe. A Torch Against the Night is Sabaa Tahir’s gripping follow-up to An Ember in the Ashes—intense, emotional, and utterly unputdownable.
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After surviving the brutal Trials, Elias and Laia are fugitives on the run, hunted by Martial soldiers and haunted by what they left behind. Laia is determined to break into the Empire’s most feared prison, Kauf, to rescue her brother—the key to saving the Scholar people. Elias has one goal: help her succeed, even if it costs him his freedom—or his life.
But the Empire never lets go easily. From sadistic wardens to supernatural threats, enemies close in on every side. Worst of all, Elias’s former friend Helene, now the Empire’s Blood Shrike, is under orders to hunt them down—and kill them.
In A Torch Against the Night, Sabaa Tahir raises the stakes and deepens the heartbreak in this searing second installment of her bestselling fantasy series.
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A psychiatric nurse.
From Air
Romance
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A psychiatric nurse. A brooding firefighter. A slow-burn romance that might just explode. From Air (4.6 stars on Amazon) is a gritty, emotional, small-town romance from WSJ and USA Today bestselling author Jewel E. Ann. Secrets, passion, and a love worth fighting for—grab your copy now before this one goes up in flames.
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A house full of firefighters. A grumpy smoke jumper. A slow burn that’s about to ignite.
Jamie Andrews wasn’t looking for romance when she moved into a house full of rugged Montana firefighters. But one man—Calvin, the brooding, enigmatic smoke jumper—captures her attention like no other. Ten years her senior and impossible to crack, he becomes her latest challenge. Getting him to open up is her game, and Calvin plays just as hard.
But when sparks turn into something deeper, Calvin’s secrets threaten to tear them apart. As life pulls them in different directions, Jamie follows a trail of truth that could lead her back to Calvin—or leave her heart in ashes.
A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling novel, From Air (4.6 stars on Amazon) is a gritty, emotional romance set in the heart of Big Sky country.
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The virus destroyed the world.
Dark Days
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The virus destroyed the world. Now the survivors are fighting to escape what’s left of it. Dark Days by Manel Loureiro is the gripping sequel to Apocalypse Z, blending zombie horror, high-stakes survival, and shocking twists. With 4.2 stars from over 2,700 Amazon reviews, this apocalyptic ride doesn’t slow down. Ready to run? Read now.
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The virus was only the beginning. Now, survival is the only rule.
Civilization has collapsed under the weight of a Russian-born virus that kills its victims—then brings them back as ravenous, relentless cannibals. Governments have fallen. Safe zones have failed. And trust is more dangerous than the undead.
A young lawyer, once sheltered from the chaos, now finds himself fleeing Spain’s political collapse in a stolen helicopter, bound for the Canary Islands. His crew? A sharp-tongued Ukrainian pilot, a mysterious nun, a teenage girl with more grit than sense—and his cat.
But even paradise may not be immune. With the dead everywhere and human cruelty rising to meet it, the journey becomes a desperate fight for a future that’s slipping away.
Dark Days is a relentless, high-stakes zombie thriller packed with action, betrayal, and unexpected heart.
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Dropped from a plane onto a magical island full of swoony fae men?
Lust & Lollipops
Romantasy
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Dropped from a plane onto a magical island full of swoony fae men? Yep, it’s that kind of chaos. Lust & Lollipops by Lola Glass is a hilarious, steamy, fae-filled fantasy romance where only one man can win her heart—and her hand. With 4.4 stars from over 1,900 Amazon reviews, this one’s pure fun. Dive in now.
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Tossed from a plane. Trapped on a magical island. Surrounded by hot fae men fighting for my hand in marriage.
This was not how I pictured my week going.
Apparently, I’m the prize in a supernatural reality show where the contestants are magical, shirtless, and ridiculously competitive. Their goals? Defeat each other. Win my heart. Claim me as their mate.
I’m supposed to play along, but I’ve got a secret ally—one of the guys I sorta, kinda trust. We’ve made a pact to survive this fae-flavored mess without catching feelings or getting stuck in a magical marriage.
Too bad the island has other plans.
If you love steamy fantasy romance with sizzling tension, forced proximity, and magical matchmaking, this one’s for you. Survivor meets spice.
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