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Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown.

An entertaining thriller, Little Brother is also a practical handbook of digital self-defense. Marcus’s guided tour through RFID cloners, cryptography and Bayesian math is one of the book’s principal delights.

All power in the Vin Lands was once held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spell wines and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. Fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.

Graduate school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt had nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself – or so he things.

The Year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics. Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily only makes things worse. But before she can undo the damage, an enchanted artifact falls into her possession – and suddenly Emily must flee for her life, pursued by evil warlocks who want the object for themselves.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother’s death and her family’s bloody history.

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri’s ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.

Magic is an everyday occurrence which comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. After Napoleon escapes his exile in Elba, Jane and Vincent are trapped in Belgium. With no easy way back to England, their concern turns from enjoying their honeymoon…to escaping it.

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he had ever known.

When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly omega clouds that continue to haunt her.

Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle’s onetime lover. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for, but the journey to find out leads directly into the path of a very determined assassin who doesn’t want those secrets revealed.

To investigate the murder of a woman outside the city of Beszel, Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of UI Qoma. But soon it turns into a border crossing like no other and as the detective uncovers the dead woman’s secrets, he begin to suspect a truth that could cost him more than his life.

In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset.

Moist Von Lipwig, the savior of the Ankh-Morpork post office, has gotten settled into a routine. But with routine comes boredom. He’s so bored, in fact, that he’s taken to climbing the walls of the post office and breaking into his own office. When he is offered the job of running the royal mint he tries to refuse, pretending that he’s satisfied with the stable life, but he can’t deny the urge for adventure and intrigue for long.

In an alternative 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War-era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue’s son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father’s name, Zeke’s mother, Briar, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies. When Briar learns that Seattle still has a mad inventor, Dr. Minnericht, who eerily resembles her dead husband, a simple rescue quickly turns into a thrilling race to save Zeke from the man who may be his father.

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.

After five college friends wake up after a night of partying to discover they have superpowers, they band together as the All Stars, supernatural crime fighters straight out of Madison, Wisconsin.

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. War is everywhere, but while the Circus is performing, the world is magic. That magic is no accident: Boss builds her circus from the bones out, molding a mechanical company that will survive the unforgiving landscape. But even a careful ringmaster can make mistakes…..

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. When Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas – to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control.

After three historians from 2060 slipped back into the war-torn world of 1940 England to observe the behavior of the period, small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory – but suddenly it seemed that the theory is horrible, tragically wrong.