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Saga of the unfated volume 1
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English
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"After discovering that she is a shield maiden who can repel any attack, a fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath to protect Skaland"--
2) The familiar
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
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English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
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"The World Will Burn. Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever--but he did. A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become--Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld. Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will...
5) Naniki
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Rare Machines
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English
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"A speculative Caribbean Sea tale whose shape-shifting sea beings lead you through a wealth of musical cultures, myths, and biodiversity under impending disaster. Naniki honours the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean and is inspired by the sea as the vessel of collective memory. It is a cross-cultural, futuristic oceanic tale imbued with magical realism, set in the Caribbean Sea Basin. Co-protagonists Amana and Skelele, evolved sea beings of the Anthropocene,...
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Alamaxa duology volume 2
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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The Daughters of Izdihar--a group of women fighting for the vote and against the patriarchal rule of Parliament--have finally made strides in having their voices heard...only to find them drowned out by the cannons of the fundamentalist Ziranis. As long as Alamaxa continues to allow for the elemental magic of the weavers--and insist on allowing an academy to teach such things--the Zirani will stop at nothing to end what they perceive is a threat to...
7) Mine
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Lair of the wolven volume 3
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Pocket Books
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English
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In the conclusion to the series, Lydia and Daniel brace themselves for his inevitable decline, but must first go on a dangerous rescue mission.
8) Bride
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"A vampyre bride and an alpha werewolf form a dangerous alliance in this enthralling new paranormal romance"--Dust jacket.
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Agent Dylan Powers tracks the bad guys right to Roxie Wolff's ski lodge and finds love where he least expected…
Agent Dylan Powers is on a mission in Silver Town to catch four men hunting illegally and put them behind bars. With his heightened wolf senses, he's right on their trail, but the hunters know he's coming. Suddenly, Dylan finds himself in deep trouble, nearly drowned and left to die, until he's rescued by a beautiful she-wolf.
When...
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Sworn soldier volume 2
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Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
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English
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"The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their...
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The invitations always arrive the same way - without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with "Tonight." When struggling artist, Forster, finds an invitation, he's bewitched by the magic of the evening, swept up in the glamour of this notorious annual party and intrigued as to who is behind them. Determined to find out more about the mysterious host, Forster discovers an abandoned manor house silent...
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Small-town Wilfred has turned into a quaintly cozy Oregon destination—but it also keeps turning up corpses! As the bones pile up, librarian and apprentice witch Josie Way will need to use all the sorcery at her disposal to stop a killer . . . When human bones are discovered beneath an old outhouse covered in blackberry vines, no one knows who they once belonged to. But elderly Helen Garlington wants Sam the sheriff to test the remains, suspecting...
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Kitchen witch mysteries volume 5
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English
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"To keep her cooking school and catering business, Mia's Morsels, afloat, Mia's handed off oversight to her boyfriend Trent's mother while she focuses on earning a steady paycheck. Too bad her mean-spirited boss at the lodge keeps the misery flowing as steadily as the money. At least her roommate, Christina, is still dedicated to Mia's Morsels-though she's also distracted, thanks to her clingy mother's constant demands. And the distraction only grows...
14) Projections
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Tor Publishing Group
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After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied-or suffer a fate worse than death.
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Ace
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"Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic-and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork--into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom needs...
16) Sons of darkness
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Head of Zeus
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English
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The House of the Dragon meets Succession in an epic reimagining of the Mahabharata. Some ballads are inked in blood... Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
18) Night for day
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Ace
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English
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"Two people destined to be together, but to never see each other again, fight against the greatest odds in this powerful and moving fantasy novel by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Exes Ward Dunbar and Camille Buhay thought they would never see each other again. They had broken up to pursue their dream jobs on opposite sides of the country - her to New York City, and him to Los Angeles. But years later, they unexpectedly reconnect in London,...
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Grove Press
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English
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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
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Collecting nine enchanting stories set in the Immortal Realm--a world of gods, magic and legendary creatures--the beautifully illustrated volume, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, is filled with magic, mythology, friendship and love.
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