“Dahlan seamlessly marries sci-fi and romance while building a heady atmosphere through ethereal, dreamlike prose.” —Publishers Weekly on Reset
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- Freeset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/21/24
Formats: Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
Sequel to the #1 bestseller Reset, Freeset is an intricate sci-fi story about found family, building hope, and learning to trust your inner voice.
Can true love break you free?
When calamity destroyed most of humanity, the Four Cities survived by carefully predicting and meticulously controlling everything in the survivors’ lives—even love. As part of this new normal, every four years the citizens face down Tabula Rasa, a process that wipes away their memories of each other.
But nothing can be controlled completely, and love will always strive to be free.
A brave handful of Dreamers, aided by Eleanor the Crone, have repeatedly managed to find each other again after Tabula Rasa, proving that the desire to connect is eternal. Scientist Aris and musician Metis, star-crossed lovers, have found each other again … along with a clue to a hidden library that could contain the memories erased by Tabula Rasa.
At long last, there is a chance for a brave, free, new world—if they can escape before the next reset.
- Freeset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/21/24
Formats: Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Dangerous Visions
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Edited by Harlan Ellison
Stories by Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, and various authors
Foreword by Isaac Asimov
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/26/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALT
Dubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.
A landmark short story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. Contributing authors include: Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, and Ellison himself.
As relevant now as it was when first published, Dangerous Visions is a phenomenal collection that deserves a place on every bookshelf.
- Dangerous Visions
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Edited by Harlan Ellison
Stories by Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, and various authors
Foreword by Isaac Asimov
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/26/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- The Royal Game
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By Linda Keir
Read by Barrie Kreinik and Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 1/30/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
American pop singer Jennie Jensen is ready to marry the love of her life, England’s Prince Hugh, but someone is determined to keep her from becoming a princess—any way they can. To give her fairy tale a happy ending, she’ll have to play the royal game.
Jennie Jensen is touring Europe, already living her dream, when Prince Hugh of Wales—the future King of England—appears at a gig and requests his favorite song. He’s already smitten, and soon so is she. After a secretive, whirlwind romance, Hugh proposes, and when Jennie accepts, her world changes overnight. She’s still learning to navigate the minefield of constant scrutiny, barbed social interactions, and royal protocol (there are rules about pantyhose), as she learns that not everyone in England is excited about the prospect of an American princess.
When Jennie receives a threatening note, she can’t help but see the parallels between herself and another young woman who struggled to adjust to royal life: Hugh’s mother, Princess Penelope, who was killed in a mysterious plane crash. And as the threats to Jennie grow more serious, she digs into Penelope’s past, discovering a woman who also suspected someone in the palace was out to get her. Was Penelope murdered? And is Jennie next? With the eyes of a nation on her as the royal wedding approaches, she’s in a race against time to save her marriage … and her own life.
Both a charming love story and a thrilling mystery, The Royal Game reveals one woman’s determination to find happily ever after—on her own terms.
- The Royal Game
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By Linda Keir
Read by Barrie Kreinik and Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 1/30/24
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Preset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/23/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
Inception meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this captivating prequel to the acclaimed, bestselling science fiction romance Reset by Sarina Dahlan
Can you give up a love you can’t forget?
After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors formed a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. To halt extinction, everything in the Four Cities is carefully predicted and carefully controlled … even love.
But how can you control love and freedom? In the engrossing prequel to Reset, Preset weaves the tales of Eleanor, the Crone, and Eli, the Planner, before and after the creation of the Four Cities. Much has changed in the world and their relationship, but there are some truths that have yet to come to light.
Fighting for change yet still loving her husband Eli, the scientist Eleanor travels to Elara, the lone city resisting fully bending to Eli’s control. There she must separate reality from lies, memories from desires, as she tries to piece together the truth about what is happening in the Four Cities.
But the gulf between love and freedom, between the past and the now, between what we remember and what we strive to become can be as vast as the break between two hearts bound together. It is here, in the dark fissure left by loss, where Eleanor discovers the true cost that has been paid to save humanity.
- Preset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/23/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
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Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz
Stories and poems by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Alethea Kontis, Jane Yolen, Seanan McGuire, Lissa Price, Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G. P. Charles, Henry Herz, Christine Taylor-Butler, Mylo Carbia, Jo Whittemore, Susanne L. Lambdin, Sarah Beth Durst, Steve Pantazis, Stacia Deutsch, Dee Leone, and Emily McCosh
Read by Tim Campbell, Natalie Naudus, Nancy Peterson, Zura Johnson, Emily Ellet, Cindy Kay, Lisa Flanagan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Emily Lawrence, Stina Nielsen, Shiromi Arserio, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Alex Picard, Kelli Tager, Anna Caputo, Natalie Duke, Amy Landon, and Natasha Soudek
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Release Date: 4/11/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?
At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie includes twenty short stories and poems by award-winning writers including New York Times bestselling authors Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler, Jane Yolen, Alethea Kontis, Stacia Deutsch, and Jonathan Maberry, among others.
- The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
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Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz
Stories and poems by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Alethea Kontis, Jane Yolen, Seanan McGuire, Lissa Price, Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G. P. Charles, Henry Herz, Christine Taylor-Butler, Mylo Carbia, Jo Whittemore, Susanne L. Lambdin, Sarah Beth Durst, Steve Pantazis, Stacia Deutsch, Dee Leone, and Emily McCosh
Read by Tim Campbell, Natalie Naudus, Nancy Peterson, Zura Johnson, Emily Ellet, Cindy Kay, Lisa Flanagan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Emily Lawrence, Stina Nielsen, Shiromi Arserio, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Alex Picard, Kelli Tager, Anna Caputo, Natalie Duke, Amy Landon, and Natasha Soudek
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Release Date: 4/11/23
Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback
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- Reset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/25/21
Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC
Can you love someone you don’t remember?
After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather—and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. With each new cycle, they begin again with new names, jobs, homes, and lives. No memories. No attachments. No wars.
Aris, a scientist who shuns love, embraces tabula rasa and the excitement of unknown futures. Walling herself off from emotional attachments, she sees relationships as pointless and avoids deep connections. But she is haunted by a recurring dream that becomes more frequent and vivid as time passes. After meeting Benja, a handsome free-spirited writer who believes his dreams of a past lover are memories, her world is turned upside down. Obsessed with finding the Dreamers, a secret organization thought to have a way to recover memories, Benja draws her down a dangerous path toward the past. When Metis, the leader of the Dreamers, appears in Aris’s life, everything she believes falls to pieces. With little time left before the next tabula rasa, they begin a bittersweet romance, navigating love in a world where names, lives, and moments are systematically destroyed.
Thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, Reset will make you consider the haunting reality of love and loss, and the indelible marks they leave behind.
- Reset
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Read by Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/25/21
Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Print ARC
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- Blackberry and Wild Rose
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By Sonia Velton
Read by Esther Wane and Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/07/19
Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Trade Print ARC
Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal.
When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God’s will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies and soon tires of the drudgery of life as Esther’s new lady’s maid. As the two women’s relationship becomes increasingly fractious, Sara resolves to find out what it is that so preoccupies her mistress …
Esther has long yearned to be a silk designer. When her early watercolors are dismissed by her husband, Elias, as the daubs of a foolish girl, she continues her attempts in secret. It may have been that none of them would ever have become actual silks, were it not for the presence of the extraordinarily talented Bisby Lambert in the Thorel household. Brought in by Elias to weave his master piece on the Thorel’s loom in the attic of their house in Spitalfields, the strange cadence of the loom as Bisby works is like a siren call to Esther. The minute she first sets foot in the garret and sees Bisby Lambert at his loom marks the beginning of Blackberry and Wild Rose, the most exquisite silk design Spitalfields has ever seen, and the end of the Thorel household’s veneer of perfection.
As unrest among the journeyman silk weavers boils over into riot and rebellion, it leads to a devastating day of reckoning between Esther and Sara.
- Blackberry and Wild Rose
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By Sonia Velton
Read by Esther Wane and Shiromi Arserio
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Release Date: 5/07/19
Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Trade Print ARC