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Sheldon Costa

Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn't exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle's nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out together to track the monster down so they can use its blood in an alchemical formula that will bring Liam back to life.It's a hard and haunted journey. The salamander produ...

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Sheldon Costa

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Jonathan Sleep

An alchemist and his teenage nephew hunt down a legend in this profound and unsettling speculative Western, for fans of Karen Russell and Victor LaValle.Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out to...

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Samantha Browning Shea

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Saskia Maarleveld

A searing take on femininity and power, Marrow transports readers to a small island off the coast of Maine, where a coven has done the seemingly impossible.The day Oona was kicked out of her mother’s coven, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she could only become a mother, then—according t...

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Tochi Onyebuchi

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Dion Graham

**"Narrator Dion Graham's lilting West African accent for Boubacar...is nothing short of mesmerizing. A master voice talent paired with a master storyteller--what could be better?" — Kirkus (Earphones Award Winner)"It's impossible not to be impressed by [Dion] Graham's narration. His knack for voices, pitch, and cadence enables him to create believable, quick banter between characters" — Library Journal**Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchi’s new standalon...

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Johnny Compton

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Selena Mikes

From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die.When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she’s more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith’s assistant driving an iron rod straight through the back of his s...

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E. B. Hudspeth

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Justin Price

This macabre tale—part dark fantasy, part Gray’s Anatomy—tells the chilling story of a man driven mad by his search for the truth, with hypnotic and horrifying images.Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: that the mytholog...

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Jordan Ritter Conn

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Daniel Henning

A deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines—in profound and comprehensive ways—what it means to be a man in America.They wield outsized power across all major institutions. They are falling behind across all measures of well-being and success. They include loving husbands and absent fathers, corporate strivers and displaced workers, the objects and instruments of incredible violence. They are half the population. And yet when mentioned as a bl...

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Dan Chaon

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Dan Chaon, John Pirhalla, Stephanie Németh-Parker

A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from master of literary horror Dan Chaon. This program features multicast narration."The gravitas of narrators Dan Chaon, John Pirhalla, and Stephanie Németh-Parker works well with this novel's well-balanced use of description and early-20th-century dialogue...Al...

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Michelle Tang

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Amielynn Abellera

Parents should pass down stories, not spirits…Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural.But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, darkness clings to every corner. The mirrors are shrouded. The housekeeper won't stay in the house alone. And no one will speak of the tragedies the family has seen....

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Nick Medina

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Shaun Taylor-Corbett

A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground and Sisters of the Lost Nation.As featured in People ∙ Men’s Health ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ and more!For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never, ever whistle at night.Henry Hotard wa...

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Casey Scieszka

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Megan Tusing

A Belletrist Book Club Pick • A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick • A Most Anticipated Book from the Boston Globe, Barnes & Noble, Literary Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, and Town & Country“Casey Scieszka’s debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise is so good—an immortal woman’s search for the fountain of youth—that the writing, crisp and f...

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Ned Beauman

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John Hastings

The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it's all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we're never gett...