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"Searching for Petronius Totem is a satirical novel about Hamilton artist Jack Vesoovian, who -- after his wife Elaine kicks him out, for good reason -- goes on the road to search for his friend, the disgraced memoirist Petronius Totem. Along the way he discovers a sinister plot to take over the world involving evil multinational corporations and flying edible robot chickens. An utterly original love story for the age"-- Publisher.
82) Starter villain
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Tor Publishing Group
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English
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
84) The stone sky
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Broken Earth novels volume 3
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English
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"Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be...
85) The night born
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Stormbringer (Isabel Cooper) volume 2
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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English
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Seeking military aid from the High Council of Heliodar, Sentinel Branwyn, who spends her life fighting storm-born monsters that prey upon humanity, is framed for the murder of the High Lord and must place her trust in the council's youngest member to clear her name.
86) Red right hand
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Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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English
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When Charlie Tristan Moore is saved from a nightmarish attack by a sinister Man in Black with a black blade in his red right hand, he demands that she become his acolyte and assist him in destroying his fellow elder gods who threaten humanity.
88) Soot: a novel
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The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper, and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of what remains of the English state. All these people seek to discover the true nature of Smoke and thereby control its power. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms. The Smoke will either bind them together or...
89) Seventh decimate
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Great god's war volume 1
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Berkley
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English
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A prince makes difficult sacrifices and discovers that he has been rendered a pawn as he searches for a powerful repository of sorcerer knowledge in order to reverse the fate of his land.
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Sisters Grimm (Menna van Praag) volume 1
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English
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As children, Goldie, Liyana, Scarlet, and Bea dreamed of a strange otherworld where the four girls, half-sisters connected by blood and magic, could nurture their elemental powers. But at thirteen, they were ripped from Everwhere and separated. They later searched for one another and yearned to rediscover their supernatural strengths. But to realize their full potential, the blood sisters must return to the land of their childhood dreams where their...
92) Winterlight
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DAW Books, Inc
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English
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"This seventh novel of the Green Rider series follows the adventures of messenger, magic wielder, and knight Karigan G'ladheon as she fights to save king and country from dark magic and a looming war."--
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Shepherd king novels volume 2
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English
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"Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders. If they are going to find it before the Solstice and cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it, they will need to journey beyond the dangerous mist-cloaked forest that surrounds their kingdom. And the only one who can lead them there is the monster that shares Elspeth's head: The Nightmare. And he's...
94) Fire & blood
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English
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Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
95) Smoke: a novel
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Smoke volume 1
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English
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Taking place in England a century ago, here the sinful are marked by Smoke, a sign of their fallen state. Three friends are about to discover that everything they've been taught about Smoke is a lie. And so, their adventure begins. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric, and intensely suspenseful. Dan Vyleta's most recent novel "The Crooked Maid" was...
96) Dragonsworn
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Dark-Hunter novels volume 28
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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When Apollo makes a strategic move that backfires, he forces Falcyn back into play. Now Medea either has the weapon she needs to save her people, or she's unleashed total Armageddon. If she can't find someway to control the dragon before it's too late, Falcyn will be an even worse plague on the world than the one Apollo has set loose. But how can anyone control a demonic dragon whose sole birthright is world annihilation?
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Blood and Ash volume 3
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English
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Poppy found love with Prince Casteel, but is determined that they free his brother, and find hers. The mission will have far-reaching consequences: Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. She will have to choose to forsake her birthright, or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. A long-forgotten power will...
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Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
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English
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Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire-and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes and foes struggle alike. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final book in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light sees Schwab reach a thrilling culmination concerning the fate of beloved protagonists-and old enemies.
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Atria Books
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English
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"Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that's haunted the nation for years: was...
100) Nettle & Bone
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English
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"This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a...
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