Barker, Emily Croy : The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic
(Penguin 978-0143125679, $16, 576pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Viking, August 2013)

Fantasy novel, the journalist author’s first novel, about a woman who escapes into a fantasy world.
• Penguin’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Barron, Laird : Occultation
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1597805148, $15.99, 246pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Night Shade Books, June 2010)

Collection of nine horror/dark fantasy stories, three of them original to this book, with an introduction by Michael Shea.
• The book was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and it won a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection.

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Choo, Yangsze : The Ghost Bride
(William Morrow 978-0062227331, $14.99, 384pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Aug 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780062227386

(First edition: William Morrow, 2013)

Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel, about a young Chinese woman in colonial Malaysia who becomes a “ghost bride” for a recently deceased young man.
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• The book was a finalist for this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards, and is currently a finalist for this year’s Mythopoeic Awards.

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Goyer, David S., & Michael Cassutt : Heaven’s Fall
(Ace 978-0425256206, $9.99, 560pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014
• Heaven’s Shadow #3

(First edition: Ace, August 2013)

SF novel, third in a trilogy following Heaven’s Shadow (2011) and Heaven’s War (2012), about an enormous asteroid approaching the sun that is guided by aliens seeking humanity’s help.
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Harrison, Kim : The Undead Pool
(Harper Voyager 978-0061957949, $7.99, 528pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014
• Hollows #12

(First edition: Harper Voyager, March 2014)

Urban fantasy novel, twelfth and penultimate volume in the “Hollows” or “Rachel Morgan” series about bounty hunter-witch Rachel Morgan, following Dead Witch Walking, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, Every Which Way but Dead, A Fistful of Charms, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, White Witch, Black Curse, Black Magic Sanction, Pale Demon, A Perfect Blood, and Ever After (2012).
• Harper’s site has this description with a preview function.
• The final volume, The Witch With No Name, is due on September 9th.

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Hines, Jim C. : Codex Born
(DAW 978-0756408398, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Aug 2014
• Magic Ex Libris #2

(First edition: DAW, August 2013)

Humorous fantasy novel, second of a series following Libromancer (2012), about a magician with the ability to draw forth objects from books.
• Penguin’s site has this description, with a link to an excerpt.
• Carolyn Cushman reviewed the book last year in Locus Magazine, commenting, “It’s all packed together with lots of over-the-top action fought with weapons pulled out of books ranging from H.G. Wells’s SF and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, to the Vorkosigan series from Lois McMaster Bujold.”

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Johnson, Alaya Dawn : The Summer Prince
(Scholastic/Levine 978-0545417808, $9.99, 304pp, trade paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, March 2013)

Young adult fantasy novel set in futuristic Brazilian city Palmares Três, where artist June Costa and her best friend both fall in love with Enki, the new Summer King.
• The publisher’s site has this description, with several reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The book was a finalist for this year’s Andre Norton Award, and was on this year’s James Tiptree, Jr. Award honor list.

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Lambshead, John : Wolf in Shadow
(Baen 978-1476736617, $7.99, 576pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Baen, July 2013)

Urban fantasy novel about a Welsh girl who settles in London’s East End, where demons lurk in human form.
• This is the first mass market paperback edition.
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Lynch, Scott : The Republic of Thieves
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0553588965, $7.99, 704pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014
• Gentleman Bastards #3

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, October 2013)

Fantasy novel, third in the “Gentleman Bastard” sequence following The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) and Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007).
• Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The author’s site has this page with excerpts from all three books and maps of the world.
• Adrienne Martini and Faren Miller both reviewed it in the October 2013 issue of Locus Magazine; Martini commented, “This world is rich in the tropes you’d expect from sword, magic-and-sea-based fantasy but Lynch makes the cunning witches, witty thieves, and saucy barwenches feel fresh. Lynch’s voice, which feels immediate and smart, is what draws you into his world; what keeps you there are his characters. Each is dimensional. Even the bit players who are shoved into the action simply to keep it moving along are distinct.”

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Modesitt, L. E., Jr. : The One-Eyed Man
(Tor 978-0765370419, $8.99, 432pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Tor, September 2013)

SF novel, subtitled “A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment”, about a consultant investigating the fragile ecology of a colony world that produces life-extending drugs.
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Novik, Naomi : Blood of Tyrants
(Ballantine Del Rey 978-0345522900, $7.99, 512pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014
• Temeraire #8

(First edition: Ballantine Del Rey, August 2013)

Fantasy novel, eighth and penultimate book in the Temeraire series about dragons used as weapons during the Napoleonic Wars, following the initial trilogy His Majesty’s Dragon, Black Powder War, and Throne of Jade, which collectively won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, fourth book Empire of Ivory (2007), fifth book Victory of Eagles (2008), sixth book Tongues of Serpents (2010), and seventh book Crucible of Gold (2012).
• Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Faren Miller reviewed it last year in Locus Magazine, concluding, “All of this makes for a narrative almost as fragmented as the Captain’s mind, often intriguing yet not entirely satisfying in itself. But since there’s one volume left to go, there could still be a real conclusion – or at least a memorable turning point in the course of alternate history.”
• The final book, League of Dragons, is not yet scheduled.

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Sniegoski, Thomas E. : Walking in the Midst of Fire
(Roc 978-0451465467, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Aug 2014
• Remy Chandler #6

(First edition: Roc, August 2013)

Urban fantasy novel, sixth in a series about Remy Chandler, a private investigator who’s an angel on Earth in human form, following A Kiss Before the Apocalypse (2008), Dancing on the Head of a Pin (2009), Where Angels Fear to Tread (2010), A Hundred Words for Hate (2011), and In the House of the Wicked (2012).
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Spencer, Wen : Eight Million Gods
(Baen 978-1476736693, $7.99, 496pp, mass market paperback, August 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Jul 2014

(First edition: Baen, June 2013)

Fantasy novel about a horror novelist whose compulsion toward violence leads her to battle with Japanese gods.
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