by Christopher Buehlman (2012)
In 1348, as the Black Death sweeps through France, a disgraced brigand knight takes custody of an orphaned peasant girl who sees angels, discovering that hell has risen to wage warfare against mankind on earth.
Tamsyn Muir
Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space. Gideon wants nothing more than to pack her sword and escape the Ninth House, but her bitter rival Harrowhark requires her as cavalier in a deadly contest of ascendancy.
George R.R. Martin
A civil war erupts as five rival factions claim kingship over Westeros, culminating in the titanic clash of Blackwater Bay and mystical portents across the realm.
Patrick Süskind
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
Tricia Stirling
After her father dies, leaving sixteen-year-old Lacy with her much-loved stepmother, Lacy's birth mother suddenly shows up wanting Lacy back--and she will stop at nothing, not even dark magic, to control her daughter and draw her into her own twisted life.