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Hidden in a forest, Victor Lawson and the quirky robots he calls family live safely—until repairing an android named Hap exposes Gio’s dangerous past.
In the Lives of Puppets
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy
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Hidden in a forest, Victor Lawson and the quirky robots he calls family live safely—until repairing an android named Hap exposes Gio’s dangerous past. When Gio is captured by machines from the City of Electric Dreams, Vic and his mismatched household embark on a perilous rescue. TJ Klune delivers a tender, adventurous tale of love, loyalty, and chosen family.
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A NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!
New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
Most Anticipated from BookPage • Goodreads • The Nerd Daily • Paste Magazine • LitReactor • OverDrive • LGBTQ Reads • Tor.com • LibraryReads • more
“An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” —P. Djèlí Clark
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
“An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness.” —Library Journal, starred review
Praise for TJ Klune’s previous work: "Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket." —V.E. SCHWAB • “Very close to perfect.” —SEANAN McGUIRE • “Utterly absorbing.” —GAIL CARRIGER • "It will renew your faith in humanity.” —TERRY BROOKS • “It healed me.” —CASSANDRA KHAW • “Compassionate.” —RYKA AOKI
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Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Epic Fantasy
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Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world.
This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
With stories as perennial and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The Rings—but also unlike anything but themselves—Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature. They have received accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike.
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Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of…
The Lightning-Struck Heart
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy
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Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident.
Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the king's wizard, Morgan of Shadows.
When Sam's 14, he enters the Dark Woods and returns with Gary, the hornless gay unicorn, and a half-giant named Tiggy, earning the moniker Sam of Wilds.
At 15, Sam learns what love truly is when a new knight arrives at the castle - Knight Ryan Foxheart, the dreamiest dream to have ever been dreamed.
Naturally, it all goes to hell when Ryan dates the reprehensible Prince Justin, Sam can't control his magic, a sexually aggressive dragon kidnaps the prince, and the king sends them on an epic quest to save Ryan's boyfriend, all while Sam falls more in love with someone he can never have.
Or, so he thinks.
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Eleven years after his brother Ken vanished, accused of a brutal murder, Will Klein discovers proof that Ken is alive.
Gone for Good
Mystery · Thriller
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Eleven years after his brother Ken vanished, accused of a brutal murder, Will Klein discovers proof that Ken is alive. As Will digs deeper into his brother’s disappearance, long-buried secrets resurface, forcing him to question everything he thought he knew. With danger closing in and the truth unraveling, Will must face a mystery that threatens to shatter his world forever.
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.
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In 2050, journalist Marcus Tully is haunted by a heatwave that claimed his wife—and 400 million lives.
Artificial Wisdom
Mystery · Sci-Fi · Thriller
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In 2050, journalist Marcus Tully is haunted by a heatwave that claimed his wife—and 400 million lives. When a whistleblower reveals secrets linking the disaster to a global conspiracy, Tully is thrust into a deadly investigation. Amid a power struggle between a former president and the first AI politician, Tully races to expose the truth: is the climate humanity’s enemy, or is humanity its own destruction?
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It's 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, including journalist Marcus Tully's wife. Now he must uncover the truth: was the disaster natural? Or is the weather now a weapon of genocide?
A whistleblower pulls Tully into a murder investigation at the centre of an election battle for a global dictator, with a mandate to prevent a climate apocalypse. A former US President campaigns against the first AI politician of the position, but someone is trying to sway the outcome.
As the murder of a crucial witness derails the investigation, Tully must find the truth, convince the world to face it and make hard choices about the future of the species. But will humanity ultimately choose salvation over freedom, whatever the cost?
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Multiverse travel is a reality—but only for those whose counterparts are dead.
The Space Between Worlds
Mystery · Sci-Fi
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Multiverse travel is a reality—but only for those whose counterparts are dead. Cara’s knack for dying across 372 worlds makes her the perfect traveler, plucked from the wastelands to serve the elite of Wiley City. But when a doppelgänger dies mysteriously, Cara unravels a secret threatening every universe. Her survival could mean the difference between saving worlds—or destroying them all.
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Multiverse travel has one rule: you can’t visit a world where your counterpart is alive. For Cara, that’s rarely a problem—on 372 worlds, her parallel selves are dead, victims of disease, violence, or vengeance.
On this Earth, Cara has defied the odds. Plucked from the wastelands, she’s become a rare asset for Wiley City’s elite, traveling the multiverse to collect data. It’s a life of uneasy balance—secure yet fragile, tethered to both the city’s privileges and the harsh world she left behind.
When one of her few remaining doppelgängers dies under suspicious circumstances, Cara uncovers a secret that shatters her tenuous stability. Her discovery ties her to a dangerous conspiracy, where survival means more than saving herself—it could determine the fate of every universe.
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Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.
Mickey 7
Sci-Fi
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Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.
Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.
On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped back by native life, his fate has been sealed. There’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties, and there can only be one Expendable. If Mickey7 reports his survival to Command, one of them is going into the recycler. If he doesn’t and they’re caught, they both are.
Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The atmosphere is unsuitable for humans, food is in short supply, and terraforming is going poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7.
That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.
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Empire of Silence begins with a man remembered as both savior and destroyer, then strips the legend back to the choices that made him infamous.
Empire of Silence
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Empire of Silence begins with a man remembered as both savior and destroyer, then strips the legend back to the choices that made him infamous. Hadrian Marlowe flees a brutal inheritance only to be stranded among gladiator pits, alien war, and imperial politics. This is sweeping space opera with epic fantasy bones, built around exile, power, memory, and the cost of becoming history.
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"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic." —James S.A. Corey, New York Times-bestselling author of The Expanse novels
"This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss." —Library Journal (starred)
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
It was not his war.
The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.
But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
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Ten astronauts set out on a decades-long mission to colonize a new world, including six teenagers raised for the journey.
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi
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Ten astronauts set out on a decades-long mission to colonize a new world, including six teenagers raised for the journey. As isolation and pressure mount, the dream of Terra-Two begins to fracture. This award-winning science fiction novel blends psychological tension with realism, earning 4.2 stars on Amazon and widespread critical acclaim.
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An NPR favorite book of 2019
Winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award
When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization—but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.
Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind?
Have you ever dreamt of a better world?
Can a dream sustain a lifetime?
A century ago, an astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. She predicted that one day humans would travel there to build a utopia. Today, ten astronauts are leaving everything behind to find it. Four are veterans of the twentieth century’s space-race.
And six are teenagers who’ve trained for this mission most of their lives.
It will take the team twenty-three years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years locked in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong.
And something always goes wrong.
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One murder.
The City & The City
Sci-Fi
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One murder. Two cities that occupy the same space—but must never acknowledge each other. The City & The City by China Miéville (4.2 stars on Amazon!) is an award-winning speculative noir that bends reality, borders, and the detective genre itself. Winner of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards, it’s one of the most original mysteries you’ll ever read.
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Two cities. One body. And a murder that defies borders—real or imagined.
In Besźel, a decaying Eastern European city, Inspector Tyador Borlú investigates the death of a murdered woman. But when evidence suggests she was killed in Ul Qoma—a vibrant city that exists in the same physical space as Besźel—Borlú must cross not just political lines, but mental ones.
To see Ul Qoma, you must unsee Besźel—and vice versa. Breaking this rule isn’t just taboo, it’s a crime.
As Borlú partners with Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, the mystery deepens into a surreal exploration of identity, nationalism, and the blurred lines of reality.
Winner of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards, The City & The City is a genre-defying masterpiece of noir, speculative fiction, and philosophical intrigue.
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Six clones awaken aboard a deep-space ship to find their previous bodies murdered and their memories wiped.
Six Wakes
Sci-Fi · Thriller
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Six clones awaken aboard a deep-space ship to find their previous bodies murdered and their memories wiped. Maria Arena and her fellow crew members must reconstruct their past lives to uncover which one of them committed the crime. This locked-room science fiction thriller blends identity, memory, and moral ambiguity within the claustrophobic isolation of interstellar travel.
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In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.
Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.
Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently. . .
Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow calls Mur's "breakout book".
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A strong match for readers who like epic fantasy with magic schools, gifted protagonists, coming-of-age stories, and legends told from the hero's own perspective.
The Name of the Wind
Epic Fantasy
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Kvothe tells his own story, from his childhood among traveling players and years as an orphan to his unlikely entrance into a legendary school of magic and the events that turn him into one of the most notorious figures in his world, with a 4.5-star average from more than 1.1 million Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like epic fantasy with magic schools, gifted protagonists, coming-of-age stories, and legends told from the hero's own perspective.
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Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle.
“I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda
OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
DAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND
My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature—the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man’s search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
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