January 2019 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
by Gordon Doherty
Kassandra was raised by her parents to be fierce and uncaring, the ideal Spartan child, destined for greatness. But when a terrible tragedy leaves her stranded, she decides to find work as a mercenary. Now Kassandra is plagued by debt and living under the shadow of a tyrant when a mysterious stranger offers her a deal: assassinate the Wolf, a renowned Spartan general, and he will wipe her debt clean. The offer is simple, but the task is not.
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Alita: Battle Angel
by Pat Cadigan
In the twenty-sixth century, a female cyborg is rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist... A novelization of the science fiction film based on Yukito Kishiro's magna series.
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Bright Light
by Ian Douglas
Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight. Star Carrier series.
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Death of the Planet of the Apes
by Andrew E. C. Gaska
The dangerous adventures of Taylor, the astronaut from Planet of the Apes, are finally revealed in this exciting novel that brings to life the violent unrest among the apes and unearths the secrets of the mutant city hidden beneath the Forbidden Zone.
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Fury
by Rachel Vincent
1986: Rebecca Essig leaves a slumber party early and comes home to a massacre. The Reaping has begun. Present day: Pregnant and on the run with a band of compatriots, Delilah Marlow isn’t used to sitting back while others suffer. But she's about to discover that her role in the human versus cryptid war is destined to be much larger—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined. Menagerie Trilogy.
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Iron Garland
by Jeff Wheeler
For three years, Sera Fitzempress has been a pawn in a gilded prison. Disgraced and exiled from society, she has been isolated from the downtrodden she’s determined to liberate. But although Sera may seem subservient on the outside, the stubborn princess has only become emboldened. Harbinger series.
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The Librarians and the Pot of Gold
by Greg Cox
For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora's Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil. Librarians series.
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The Rising Tide
by J. Scott Coatsworth
Earth is dead. The remnants of humanity travel through the stars inside Forever, a living, ever-evolving, self-contained generation ship. When Eddy Tremaine and Andy Hammond find a hidden world-within-a-world, the discovery triggers a chain of events that could extinguish life as they know it and end free will for humankind. Liminal Sky series.
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Space Pioneers
by multiple authors
Since the dawn of time, humankind has felt the urge to explore the four corners of our globe. To push at the boundaries of our world and discover what lies over the horizon. And since the dawn of science fiction, writers have wondered about the next frontier: the one that lies Out There.
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In the Heart of Chaos
by Christian Humberg and Bernd Perplies
Desperate to break the cycle of violence that is spreading through the Alpha Quadrant, Adams and Kromm, searching for a secret weapons facility, encounter an enemy from their pasts who seems utterly unstoppable. Star Trek Prometheus series.
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Terran Tomorrow
by Nancy Kress
The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth scientists discovered that the Worlders were not the scientifically advanced culture they believed. But once home, after the twenty-eight-year gap caused by the space ship transit, they find an Earth changed almost beyond recognition. Yesterday's Kin trilogy.
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Thin Air
by Richard K. Morgan
To return to Earth, Hakan Veil, an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with a military-grade body tech that makes him a human killing machine, becomes the bodyguard for an EO investigator, which makes him a target of powerful enemies determined to destroy him.
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Unholy Land
by Lavie Tidhar
Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Now Tirosh has become a murder suspect and a rogue agent is stalking him through transdimensional rifts―his possible futures to prevented only by avoiding the mistakes of the past.
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The Valley of Shadows
by John Ringo and Mike Massa
From his corner office in the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park—and a ravening zombie horde. Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires, and other clients. And with an implacable virus that turned the infected into ravenous zombies tearing through the city, the country, and the world, his job just got a lot harder. Black Tide Rising series.
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