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"ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect,...
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Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 2
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The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover-a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty--and discover how truth can survive becoming history. Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and the Singing Hills Cycle in When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, a...
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Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 1
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"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... "The Empress of Salt and Fortune" is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."
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Confederation novels volume 5
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After pirates invade the ship of her lover, Craig Ryder, and kidnap him, former Marine Torin Kerr calls in the Marines to get Craig back--and to stop the cosmic swashbucklers from changing the balance of power in space.
5) Quatrain
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Sharon Shinn's Twelve Houses books have fascinated readers and critics alike with their irresistible blend of fantasy, romance, and adventure. Now in Quatrain, she weaves compelling stories in four of the worlds that readers love in Flight, Blood, Gold, and Flame.
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Enduring flame volume 2
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Aspiring High Mage Tiercel and reluctant Knight-Mage Harrier work on their powers while witnessing devastating attacks by the Wild Mage Bosochim, and while young Shaira leads the desert tribespeople toward a legendary oasis.
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Acacia trilogy volume 2
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Queen Corinn, who is firmly in control of the Known World in the years after the conquering of the Mein, sends her brother, Darial, to the Other Lands, where he discovers a threatening tribal alliance.
8) Endless blue
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The appearance of the warp drive from the long lost Fenrir spaceship triggers an epic quest for Captain Mikhail Volkov. According to the drive's computers, Fenrir had been lost to hypothetical 'nowhere' of subspace, but with the drive's housing covered with coral and sea life, obviously Fenrir has gone somewhere. Faced with genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humans need a miracle to survive. On the chance that Fenrir's mysterious location...
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Vineart war trilogy volume 1
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Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines and who selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and they are prohibited from holding power.But now rumors...
10) Terminal world
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Living in the last human city, incognito enforcement agent Quillon discovers a near-dead angel while working in the Spearpoint district morgue, and must travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city to save the angel's life.
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Void trilogy volume 1
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In a high-tech, far future world, the Void, a massive black hole lying at the center of the Intersolar Commonwealth universe, projects dreams that are transforming the lives of those who experience them.
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Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 3
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"Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be. Accompanied by...
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Long ago, a human astrophysicist, Inigo, began dreaming scenes from the life of a remarkable human being named Edeard, who lived within the Void, a self-contained microuniverse at the heart of the galaxy. There, under the beneficent gaze of mysterious godlike entities, humans possessed uncanny psychic abilities, and Edeard's were the strongest of all. Equally strong was his determination to bring justice and freedom to a world terrorized by criminal...
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Vatta's war volume 5
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Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
15) Elder race
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In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people...
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