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• Karen Memory

  Bear, Elizabeth,

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  A tale set in late nineteenth century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine.

• The Six-gun Tarot

  Belcher, R. S.

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  The main attraction in Golgotha, Nevada is an abandoned silver mine -- or at least, that's what its inhabitants would like outsiders to believe. In fact, they go to great lengths to ensure that their secrets stay buried in the desert…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nine of Stars

  Bickle, Laura,

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  With rumors swirling about the return of a 19th-century wraith that kills in fulfillment of an ancient bargain, Petra Dee, the daughter of an alchemist, and her coyote sidekick, Sig, must get ahead of the new sheriff in town and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wake of Vultures

  Bowen, Lila,

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  After an encounter with a deadly stranger leads her to discover the source of the mysterious sand in the desert, Nettie Lonesome sets out on a quest to find her true kin—if the monsters along the way don't kill her first.

• Territory

  Bull, Emma, 1954-

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  A historical fantasy finds late-nineteenth-century college student Jesse Fox summoned by a magician friend to the western city of Tombstone, where he witnesses the supernatural powers of such figures as Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

• Seventh Son

  Card, Orson Scott

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  Come fall in love with a magical America that might have been ... From the 18th century into the early years of the 19th, Americans traveling to find new homes and new lands crossed the Appalachian Mountains and moved across the Northwest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea of Rust

  Cargill, C. Robert, 1975-

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  Decades after an apocalyptic event wipes out the human race, a robot member of a growing underground of outcast AIs who do not want to cede their individuality to a ruling mainframe brain struggles with the crimes that robots committed on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl From Shadow Springs

  Cypher, Ellie,

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  Scavenging the dead to survive while her desperate neighbors risk their lives to search for a legendary treasure, a teen is forced to traverse a dangerous frozen wasteland with an inexperienced partner to save her sister from a ruthless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Valley of the Sun

  a Novel

  Davidson, Andy, 1978-

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  In this suspenseful, complex debut, author Andy Davidson skillfully works the traditional vampire legend into a cowboy yarn set in West Texas in 1980. Serial murderer Travis Stillwell wakes up pale, weak, and sensitive to sunlight after a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• River of Teeth

  Gailey, Sarah,

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  In an alternate 1890s America, feral hippos have overrun the Mississippi bayou and it is up to Winslow Houndstooth and his motley crew to hunt them down and bring them under control

• The Half-made World

  Gilman, Felix

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  A steampunk reimagining of the American West follows the efforts of a spiritually protected doctor to analyze two rival factions that are oppressing the world's people, a study that leads to her discovery of a broken general from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver on the Road

  Gilman, Laura Anne,

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  Taking a job in the untamed American West serving a being of immense power who makes deals with people and gives them exactly what they deserve, Izzy receives training in the manipulations of human desire and travels throughout the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Easy Death

  Harris, Charlaine,

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  Guiding two wizards through the magic-wary country of Texoma, a gunslinger navigating the Great Depression in the wake of FDR's assassination searches for a low-level magician who may be able to save the tsar.

• The Hunger

  a Novel

  Katsu, Alma,

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  A supernatural reimagining of the Donner Party story follows a group of wagon-train pioneers who navigate sanity-testing misfortunes, including the mysterious death of a little boy and a series of disappearances that cause a beautiful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gunslinger

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic man in black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest.

• Bleeding Shadows

  Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-

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  A collection of stories, poems and novellas, supplemented by the author's introduction and by an invaluable set of story notes, moves effortlessly from horror, adventure and suspense to literary pastiche.

• Unbury Carol

  a Novel

  Malerman, Josh,

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  A woman prone to secret temporary comas that make her appear to be dead receives protection from a redemption-seeking former lover who would save her from being buried alive by her fortune-hunting husband.

• The Curse of Jacob Tracy

  Messinger, Holly,

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  Developing an overwhelming ability to see ghosts after nearly dying on the battlefield at Antietam, Civil War veteran Jacob Tracy accepts a job helping a wealthy Englishwoman retrieve a dead friend's legacy in exchange for helping him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Iron

  Monk, Devon

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  Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buntline Special

  a Weird West Tale

  Resnick, Michael D.

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  In a steampunk-style alternate-history fantasy tale, America's only hope for expansion past the Mississippi River in 1881 is a mission to Tombstone, Arizona, headed by Thomas Edison, whose protectors include Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation