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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders--a primitive and lethal form of the Others--the few cities left under human control are far-flung. And the people within them now know to fear the no-man's-land beyond their borders--and the darkness......
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Dresden files volume 8
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The only wizard in the Chicago phone book, Harry is given the task of investigating rumors of black magic in the Windy City, while, at the same time, searching for some malevolent entities that feed on fear who have been set loose on Chicago.
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"For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they're willing to tolerate--both within themselves and within their community.... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others...
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Invisible library volume 1
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"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London....
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Age of fire volume 4
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Three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed, and the final hope for their species' survival. AuRon, Wistala, and Copper find themselves at odds over the coming human war. AuRon thinks dragons should have no part in the affairs of humans. Wistala believes dragons and man can peacefully co-exist. And Copper has designs of his own on the world.
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Mithgar novels volume 16
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In a tavern in Port Arbalin, a group of worldly travelers gathers together, drinking and telling tales of fantastical adventure set in the realm of Mithgar.
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Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a mysterious, wooded hill housing the crumbling fortress belonging to Anluan-a chieftain whose name is spoken throughout the region in tones of revulsion and bitterness. A curse lies over Anluan's family and his people, and the woods themselves hold a perilous force whose every whisper threatens doom. Then the young scribe Caitrin appears in Anluan's garden, admiring the rare plant known as heart's blood. Retained...
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Invisible library volume 3
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Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian-spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But trouble has a tendency of finding both Irene and her apprentice, Kai - a dragon prince - and, before they know it, they are entangled in more danger than they can handle. For Irene's longtime nemesis, Alberich, is back, and this time,...
10) Bridge of dreams
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Landscapes of Ephemera volume 3
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"When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and her work to keep Ephemera balanced, her brother, Lee, sacrifices himself in order to save her--and ends up an Asylum inmate in the city of Vision, far away from all he knows. At the same time, a darkness isspreading through Vision--a darkness that hides its nature from the Shamans, who tend the city and its people. Danyal, one of the Shamans, oversees the Asylum. A man whose heart is searching for its...
12) Ash and silver
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After a two-year training with the Order that erased his memory, Greenshank undertakes a mission to use magic to help Navronne, but events cause him to remember his past as an evil sorcerer and recognize that corruption has seeped into the Order itself.
14) Lightborn
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Darkborn trilogy volume 2
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Lady Telmaine Hearne, of the Darkborn aristocracy, has long kept her magical ability secret, but when her husband draws her into a conspiracy to protect the archduke and his brother, she has no choice but to use her powers.
15) Straits of hell
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Destroyermen volume 10
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Mysteriously transported to an alternate version of Earth, Matt Reddy and his crew fight to keep the reptilian Grik race from conquering the Lemurians' ancestral home on Madagascar.
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In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together . . . In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much...
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