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Visit our bookshop.org page<\/a> to purchase this week\u2019s new books and support your local bookstore. And us!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Alderson, Ben: The Haunting of William Thorn<\/a> (Angry Robot UK 978-1915998835, $18.99, 400pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Haunted-house romance. William Thorn, after a car accident that kills his boyfriend Archie, learns he\u2019s inherited a manor from him. But the place is run-down, haunted, and William uncovers the story of two lovers from the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Amor, Gemma, ed.: Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror<\/a> (Titan Books UK 978-1803369365, $18.99, 320pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Anthology of 13 original stories. Exploring the themes of heritage, bloodlines, and traditions, the tales feature family lore and generational hauntings. Authors include Ai Jiang, Nuzo Onoh, Premee Mohamed, Gabina Iglasias, and Elena Sichrovsky.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Anonymous, ed.: Origins & Endings Myths & Tales<\/a> (Flame Tree Collections UK 978-1835622919, $30.00, 432pp, formats: hardcover, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Anthology of stories, many incorporating elements of world mythology. These collected works deal with grand themes of creation and destruction, spanning the creation of humanity to its end. Part of Flame Tree\u2019s Gothic Fantasy series. US\/UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Anonymous, ed.: Robots Past & Future Short Stories<\/a> (Flame Tree Collections UK 978-1835622926, $30.00, 432pp, formats: hardcover, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Original SF anthology of new and classic stories. These works showcase the evolution of robots as a concept, from automatons to generative AI. New authors are featured alongside classic writers like Ray Bradbury and C.L. Moore. Part of Flame Tree\u2019s Gothic Fantasy series.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Bancroft, Josiah: The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time<\/a> (Orbit US 978-0316443500, $19.99, 416pp, formats: paperback, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy novel. Isolde and Warren Wilby, a married couple and paranormal investigators, find themselves trying to figure out why the crime scene of a murdered artist seems to be shifting under their feet.<\/p>\n

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Biggin, Rose: Polestars 11: Make-Believe and Artifice<\/a> (Newcon Press UK 978-1917735049, $16.99, 232pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Collection of 16 fantasy stories, reprints and new, featuring themes of fantasy, mystery, and art. The author\u2019s debut collection.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Brown, Dan: The Secret of Secrets<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Doubleday 978-0385546898, $38.00, 688pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Thriller with science and mystical elements, sixth in the Robert Langdon series. Symbology professor Robert Langdon is in a relationship with Katherine Solomon, whose research will upend how humankind understands consciousness. But she and her manuscript disappear. Simultaneous with the Bantam Press UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Campbell, Ramsey: An Echo of Children<\/a> (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1787589780, $26.95, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel, part of the Ramsey Campbell Special Editions series. Too many children have died unnaturally over the centuries in the seaside town of Barnwell, where newcomers Coral and Allan have their house exorcized to protect their son Dean.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Chan, T.A.: One Last Game<\/a> (Fairwood Press 978-1958880340, $16.99, 184pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

SF novella. In the 22nd century, Niko Vandes wants to quit his job playing the games that have replaced war and affect deaths in the field; battlefield cleaner Imani Tenzing is determined to find him and turn him in.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Chapman, Clay McLeod: Acquired Taste<\/a> (Titan Books UK 978-1835410783, $28.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Collection of 25 horror stories. Themes include family and humor, and run the gamut from a Vietnam-vet father with a strange addiction to nuns who worship salamanders.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cornell, Paul: The Gnomes of Lychford<\/a> (Tordotcom 978-1250388278, $21.99, 156pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy novella, sixth in the Witches of Lychford series. Gnomes descend on Lychford after an unfortunate design choice, and the locals must join forces to solve the issue and contend with the gnomes\u2019 King Greg.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Corr, Katharine & Corr, Elizabeth: Daughter of the Underworld<\/a> (Candlewick Press 978-1536244533, $19.99, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult fantasy novel, first in a duology. Deina trapped in her life as a Soul Severer who transitions mortals to the land of the dead, so she jumps at the chance to help Orpheus rescue his dead wife Eurydice from the underworld.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Cox, Tom: Everything Will Swallow You<\/a> (Swift Press 978-1800755918, $25.00, 354pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Comtemporary novel with fantasy elements. Eric and Carl live in a cottage in Dorset, and their friendship has spanned twenty-one years. Carl cooks, cleans, and crochets \u2014 and most people would mistake him for a dog.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Craig, Erin A.: A Land So Wide<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Pantheon 978-0593686805, $28.00, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/02\/2025)<\/p>\n

Dark fantasy novel. Greer lives in the town of Mistaken, founded in a dangerous woodland haunted by Bright-Eyeds and protected by magical stones that bind the inhabitants within. Craig\u2019s first adult novel.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dawson, Delilah S.: House of Idyll<\/a> (Titan Books UK 978-1835414217, $23.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Down-on-her-luck songwriter Angelina is offered a spot at a luxury retreat hosted by famed band Black Idyll, but finds it disrupted by screaming horses, strange apparitions, and murder.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DeLuca, Jen: Ghost Business<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Berkley Romance 978-0593641231, $19.00, 368pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Contemporary romance novel with paranormal elements. Local resident Sophie leads ghost tours in Boneyard Key, Florida, but when interloping rich guy Tristan, who\u2019s built a ghost-tour conglomerate, comes to town, competition heats up.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dunmore, Scarlett: How to Survive a Horror Movie<\/a> (Sterling\/Union Square & Co. 978-1454963332, $19.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult horror novel. Charley, new student at Harrogate School for Girls and a big fan of horror movies, becomes prime suspect in a series of strange events and deaths, but she\u2019s determined to clear herself with the help of the ghosts. (First US edition.)<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dunmore, Scarlett: How to Survive a Horror Sequel<\/a> (Penguin Random House UK\/Little Tiger N\/A, $13.48, 352pp, formats: ebook, 09\/04\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult horror novel, second in the How to Survive series. Charley finds herself in a small town with a troubled past, which might be helped by her ability to commune with the dead.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ellis, Kat: The Devouring Light<\/a> (HarperCollins 978-0063355248, $15.99, 368pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/10\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult horror novel. Two rival teen bands are stranded in a swamp on their way to a rock festival, and take shelter in a decaying house that starts to kill them one by one.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Fiteni, Anna: The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire<\/a> (Little, Brown 978-1523529940, $19.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy romance novel. Welsh teen Sabrina has to travel to Eu Gwald \u2014 fairyland \u2014 to save her sickly missing sister, making a dangerous deal with a suspicious fae prince.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Goodman, Makenna: Helen of Nowhere<\/a> (Coffee House Press 978-1566897358, $18.00, 160pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Novel with fantasy elements. A disgraced professor buying an idyllic house tries to seek out the story of its enigmatic former owner, Helen, and how the house can help him connect to the land \u2014 for a price.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Grimm, Sarah: Beneath False Stars<\/a> (Enclave Escape 979-8886052183, $24.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult SF novel, first in the Project Integration series. Genetically engineered people from the Dome are set to integrate with normal society, and hacker Ryleigh must stop a plot to grant normal humans unfettered access to their superhuman powers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Harrison, Rachel: Play Nice<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Berkley 978-0593642573, $30.00, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Glamorous influencer Clio inherits her childhood home from her late mother, who lost custody of Clio and her sisters after claiming the house was possessed by a demon. Simultaneous with the Titan UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hartley, Taylor: Song of the Hell Witch<\/a> (The Quick Brown Fox\/Alcove 979-8892422819, $29.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Dark fantasy romance novel. Prudence Merriweather, a former urchin who clawed her way up to become Duchess of Talonsbury, loses everything when her forbidden magic is exposed and turns to the ex-thief lord Puck. A first novel.<\/p>\n

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Hofstatter, Erik: Bankrupting Sky Banks<\/a> (Aqueduct Press 978-1619762787 , $12.00, 146pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/15\/2025)<\/p>\n

Poetic work with horror, cosmic, and historical elements. A dark work of religious horror that takes inspiration from the infamous Borgia family, dealing with religion and incest. Part of Aqueduct\u2019s Conversation Pieces series.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Hutchings, Ren: An Unbreakable World<\/a> (Rebellion\/Solaris UK 978-1837865796, $17.99, 480pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

SF space opera novel. Page Found is a petty thief in a backwater space outpost, but is kidnapped by two treasure hunters intent on finding a long-lost ship bearing unimaginable riches. US\/UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Isaac-Henry, Olivia: Hallows Hill<\/a> (HarperCollins UK 978-0008656416, $21.91, 400pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Mia was part of a Halloween ritual as a teen, after which one of her friends died. Twenty years later, the group gathers again, and the cycle of death starts repeating.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jackson, Kosoko: The Macabre<\/a> (Harper Voyager US 978-0063394469, $31.26, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Unacclaimed painter Lewis attracts the sudden, inexplicable attention of the British Museum \u2014 not for his own work, but for the eldritch properties of his great-grandfather\u2019s works. Simultaneous with the Harper Voyager UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Karlie, Logan: Dream by the Shadows<\/a> (Little, Brown\/Ottaviano 978-0316587747, $22.99, 344pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 08\/26\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult fantasy novel. Esmer sets out to end the oppressive order of her kingdom, Noctis, where people take an elixir every night to prevent a plague that spreads through dreaming. Simultaneous with the UK (Headline) edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kress, Nancy: Not What I Intended<\/a> (PM Press 979-8887441207, $16.00, 136pp, formats: paperback, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Collection of work by Kress, showcasing her treatment of human evolution, first contact, AI, and more. Contains three stories, an essay on growing up to be a writer, and an interview by Nick Mamatas, as well as a nine-page bibliography. This is the 32nd volume in PM Press\u2019 Outspoken Authors series.<\/p>\n

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\"\"LaRocca, Eric: We Are Always Tender with Our Dead<\/a> (Titan Books UK 978-1803368672, $27.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel, first in the Burnt Sparrow trilogy. Three strange entities arrive in the town of Burnt Sparrow commit an act of catastrophic violence, and more carnage and revelations unfold.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lawless, Shauna: Daughter of the Otherworld<\/a> (Bloomsbury UK\/Head of Zeus\/Ad Astra 978-1035911295, $9.99, 490pp, formats: ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy novel. Isolde, born without magical gifts to an otherwise gifted royal family, disappears and reappears a century later, as the nefarious Fomorians seek to regain control over Ireland. Hardcover to be released Nov. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lewis, Britney S.: Blood Moon<\/a> (Page Street 979-8890032294, $18.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult dark fantasy romance novel. Skeptical Mira learns there\u2019s more than she thought to her hometown\u2019s myths about werewolves that protect humans from vampires, and is drawn to mysterious Julian as \u201canimal attacks\u201d plague her campus.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Liu, Cixin: The Collected Stories<\/a> (Bloomsbury UK\/Head of Zeus\/Ad Astra 978-1035903931, \u00a325.00, 960pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Collection of 32 stories. The acclaimed author\u2019s short fiction explores themes of cosmic horror, the vast scale of space, alien civilizations, and first contact.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Martinez, Maddie: The Maiden and Her Monster<\/a> (Tor 978-1250367754, $28.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy romance novel. In a woodland village controlled by the fanatic Ozmini Church, healer\u2019s daughter Malka agrees to bring forward one of the forest\u2019s monsters in order to exonorate her mother from murder charges. A first novel. Simultaneous with the Tor UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Martinez, Ruby: An Embroidery of Souls<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Knopf 978-0593901038, $19.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy romance novel. Jade, a woman with \u201cthread speaker\u201d magic, joins forces with Lukas, a boy tangled with a gang, when her mother goes missing in the midst of unusual deaths.<\/p>\n

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\"\"McCarty, John: Masquerade<\/a> (Crossroad Press\/Gordian Knot Books 978-1637892916, $16.99, 351pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. A vengeful criminal seeks vengeance in 1920s Hollywood, wreaking havoc on the production of Lon Chaney\u2019s Phantom of the Opera.<\/p>\n

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\"\"McNeil, Gretchen: They Fear Not Men in the Woods<\/a> (Astra House\/DAW 978-0756420086, $29, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Jen left her hometown when her forest-ranger father vanished, but returns when \u201chis\u201d remains are found, seeking to disprove his death but discovering mysteries far darker.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Morrissey, Bridget: Everything She Does Is Magic<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Delacorte 978-0593898437, $12.99, 288pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult fantasy romance novel. During the town of Fableview\u2019s fall festivities, sunny popular girl Darcy joins up with Anya, a brooding new-girl witch who needs a mortal protector.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Penner, J.: A Fellowship of Games & Fables<\/a> (Sourcebooks\/Poisoned Pen Press 978-1464248610, $26.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Cozy fantasy novel, third in the Adenashire series. After a drunk boast, the grumpy and heartbroken fennex Jez ends up fake-dating her happy-go-lucky friend Taenya, an elf. First US edition (self-published in 2024).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Priore, Kent: The Monsters Among Us<\/a> (Rowan Prose 978-1961967625, $18.99, 360pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Seth has grown up in Truman-Show-like circumstances, his life controlled by demonic forces. After a loss and demonic transformation, he has to open himself to friends and confront the evil entities who did this to him.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rosen, L.C.: You\u2019ve Goth My Heart<\/a> (Little, Brown 978-0316575553, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult horror romance. Goth teen Gray texts a mysterious stranger who likes the same movies and music. They plan to meet at a spooky house-decorating contest \u2014 but there\u2019s a potential killer hunting gay teens.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Rosson, Keith: Coffin Moon<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Random House 978-0593733400, $30.00, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. In 1975 Portland, recovering-alcoholic Duane hunts down the vampire that murdered his wife, with his teenage niece, with whom he has a strained relationship, at his side.<\/p>\n

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Rundell, Katherine: The Poisoned King<\/a>\u00a0(Penguin Random House\/Knopf 978-0593809907, $19.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Middle-grade fantasy novel, second in the Impossible Creatures series. Christopher returns to the Archipelago where mythical creatures live, where a poison is spreading. Illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie. Simultaneous with the Bloomsbury UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Shea, Samantha Browning:\u00a0Marrow<\/a>\u00a0(Penguin Random House\/Putnam 978-0593851951, $29.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Dark fantasy novel. Oona, kicked out of mother\u2019s coven, is dealing with infertility, and returns to the windswept island where she was raised in hopes her mother\u2019s power can help. A first novel.<\/p>\n

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Shinn, Sharon: Shifter and Shadow<\/a> (Fairwood Press 978-1958880364, $16.99, 210pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy novel, set in the world of the Twelve Houses series. After a disastrous affair, shapeshifter Kirra shelters in a village beset with plague. She can cure the dying children by turning them into animals and giving them a medicine, but they distrust magic.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Smith, Nicholas Sansbury: Into the Storms<\/a> (Blackstone Publishing 979-8228356665, $19.99, 540pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Post-apocalyptic SF novel, a prequel to the Hell Divers series. CEO Tyron Red tries to help humanity in the wake of the devastating Machine War, but old machines are reactivating.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tidhar, Lavie: Golgotha<\/a> (Bloomsbury UK\/Head of Zeus\/Apollo 978-1804543566, \u00a320.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Literary speculative novel, third in the Maror Trilogy. In Palestine and across history, a gunslinger from 1882 and a detective from 1942 are drawn into a hunt for treasures of the Second Temple.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Todd, J. Scott: Scar the Sky<\/a> (The Quick Brown Fox\/Crooked Lane 979-8892423090, $29.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Horror novel. Young mother Andi, survivor of a lightning strike, has a strange effect on electronics; she becomes the target of a serial killer hunting down lightning-strike victims.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ward, J.R.: Lover Forbidden<\/a> (Simon & Schuster\/Gallery 978-1982179960, $30.00, 432pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy romance novel, 23rd in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Lyric goes out at night and has a near-death experience in which she\u2019s saved by the mysterious male Devlin.<\/p>\n

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\"\"White, Andrew Joseph: You Weren\u2019t Meant to Be Human<\/a> (Simon & Schuster\/Saga Press 978-1668038079, $29.00, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/09\/2025)<\/p>\n

SF horror novel. Hidden \u201chives\u201d of alien worms offer desperate humans a chance at acceptance and community; when they demand that Crane, a trans man who serves them, give birth when he falls pregnant, he must decide whether his loyalty is worth it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"White, Kiersten: The House of Quiet<\/a> (Penguin Random House\/Delacorte 978-0593806579, $19.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Young-adult dark fantasy novel. Birdie, looking for her missing sister, infiltrates an isolated house where her sister was sent, and where children with powers undergo a \u201cProcedure\u201d to treat them. Simultaneous with the Del Rey UK edition.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Wragg, David: The Iron Road<\/a> (Harper Voyager UK 978-0008533847, $12.99, 480pp, formats: ebook, audiobook, 09\/11\/2025)<\/p>\n

Fantasy novel, third in the Tales of the Plains trilogy. Ree leads a rebel campaign to free townships from the corrupt Guild\u2019s rule, but her daughter Javani, chafing under her leadership, has her own plans. Hardcover to come January 26.<\/p>\n

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