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Armageddon by Travis Bagwell
15 ratingsNew Enemies. Reluctant Allies. A World on Fire.Jason has barely had a chance to catch his breath since Westley's interview and the break-in at Cerillion Entertainment headquarters. And yet the world keeps spinning...A new threat has emerged, but this one is coming from inside Awaken Online. An unknown guild has somehow managed to threaten the game world... -
![El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García]()
El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García
18 ratingsLos caminos de Axlin y Xein vuelven a cruzarse, pero ambos parecen estar más alejados que nunca. Ella trabaja en la biblioteca y sigue recopilando información para completar su bestiario, mientras investiga lo que parece una presencia anormal de monstruos dentro de los muros de la Ciudadela...Categorized as:
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![The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos]()
The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos
29 ratingsIn this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future.After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Farouk to use...Categorized as:
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![Inne Pieśni by Jacek Dukaj]()
Inne Pieśni by Jacek Dukaj
14 ratingsStarogrecki świat pięciu żywiołów pod władzą formy w opowieści o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne...Categorized as:
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![The Rising by Will Hill]()
The Rising by Will Hill
16 ratingsJames Bond meets Dracula in this epic saga of one boy and a ton of weapons versus the world's oldest evil--vampires as you've never seen them before! Sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter's life was violently upended when he was brought into Department 19, a classified government agency of vampire hunters that was formed to deal with a little problem . . . known as Dracula... -
![The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1: Stories from the Powder Mage Universe by Brian McClellan]()
The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1: Stories from the Powder Mage Universe by Brian McClellan
8 ratingsEnter a new world or return to see old friends in four Powder Mage Universe novellas featuring Erika, Tamas, Adamat, Taniel, Ka-poel, and Ben Styke.ForswornServant of the CrownMurder at the Kinnen HotelGhosts of the Tristan Basin... -
![Rebellion by C.M. Raymond, L.E. Barbant]()
Rebellion by C.M. Raymond, L.E. Barbant
10 ratingsWhen you sow tyranny, you better be prepared to reap the rebellion. Hannah and Ezekiel dig deeper into the corruption of the Noble Quarter, and the sick truth of Adrien’s master plan becomes clear.They need to call upon the diverse group of those loyal to the cause in order to stop the Chancellor’s reign of terror--before any more innocents die by his hand...Categorized as:
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![The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone]()
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
14 ratingsMax Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls "the best kind of urban fantasy" and NPR calls "sharp, original, and passionate"The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place... -
![Catalyst by Shelly Crane]()
Catalyst by Shelly Crane
14 ratingsIn the third installment of the Collide series, we start off with Sherry, taken prisoner in the enforcement facility. The little bunker family must now decide whether it's worth the risk to try to save her or if it would bring doom to them all. Lily has started showing signs of her gift progressing, which may not be a desirable thing... -
![The Ascent by Edward Brody, Pavi Proczko]()
The Ascent by Edward Brody, Pavi Proczko
14 ratingsBook 6 of the bestselling Eden's Gate series! As a newly anointed member of the Mage's Guild, Gunnar begins his training under Darion and Eanos. Resistance, staves, and ranged fighting are all staples of any mage, but the pride of being a member of the guild is access to a strange device that helps its members locate areas of powerful magic... -
![Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett]()
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
28 ratingsSancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving...Categorized as:
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![Loyal Magic by Jenny Schwartz]()
Loyal Magic by Jenny Schwartz
8 ratingsAncient secrets and modern conspiracies swirl around Amy and her griffin partner, Istvan. The inaugural South Eastern Magisterial Circuit is underway and as Amy accompanies Istvan on his magisterial duties, she faces hostility she hadn’t expected. The Faerene of Atlanta aren’t happy that a human has magic, even if Amy has sworn hers to Istvan... -
![House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz]()
House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz
10 ratingsThe drumbeat of war pursues Kira as she sends the House along forgotten Reality paths searching for the grimoire that Carlene believes can stop the conflict. Or rather, the Spell of Amber within the grimoire that she hopes can preserve the Reality paths against the Emperor's siphoning of their power. Not everyone in the House agrees with Kira's choice, or trusts Carlene... -
![Catcher (Catcher #1) by Kalyn Nicholson]()
Catcher (Catcher #1) by Kalyn Nicholson
10 ratingsWhen a boy with grey eyes tells you it’s not your time to die, do you listen?Ever since the day her baby brother Axel died, Carson has been dreaming of the same boy — the one who told her it wasn’t her time to go when her family’s lift crashed through a bridge railing and sank to the bottom of a river, shattering her life forever... -
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![The Scar by China Miéville]()
The Scar by China Miéville
27 ratingsAboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city...Categorized as:
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![A Gallery of Mothers by J.S. Latshaw]()
A Gallery of Mothers by J.S. Latshaw
12 ratingsThe highly anticipated sequel to The Threat Below.Unearth OurselvesMountaintop, the last known refuge of humanity, faces a new cataclysm, and only exiled Icelyn Brathius can stop it. But to do so, she must give up all she loves and journey to an accursed, legendary tower in the middle of an unforgiving desert... -
![Wolf Who Rules by Wen Spencer]()
Wolf Who Rules by Wen Spencer
16 ratingsThe popular fantasy novel Tinker introduced the inventor-heroine of the same name, who lives in a near-future Pittsburgh, which shares an interdimensional border with the land of the elves. In this sequel, Wolf Who Rules, the elven noble whose destiny is intertwined with Tinker, finds himself besieged from all sides...Categorized as:
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![Amidst the Rising Shadows by Ken Lozito]()
Amidst the Rising Shadows by Ken Lozito
6 ratingsIn this third installment of the Safanarion Order Series, the Free Nations Army desperately scrambles to prepare for war not only with the High King, but the looming threat of an invasion force determined to enslave them all. Aaron is held captive on the Hythariam home world that’s only weeks away from being destroyed...Categorized as:
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![Veiled Intentions by Kate Allenton]()
Veiled Intentions by Kate Allenton
6 ratingsClairvoyant, Sophie Masterson has been cheated on, lied to, and underestimated at every turn since she found out she had gifts. But her luck has finally changed. She has a family that loves her, a best friend that keeps her sane, and the one man who has always believed in her wants to date... -
![Cast A Long Shadow by Kwen D Griffeth]()
Cast A Long Shadow by Kwen D Griffeth
6 ratingsEver try to fill boots a size too large? Ever keep pace with strides too long? Ever try to cast a long shadow? “Bad Bobby” Trent, star high school athlete, college scholarship holder, pro-rodeo circuit rider lived an unencumbered life. He was a man, who by his own definition, limited his concentration to no more than eight seconds at a time... -
![Stray Magic by Jenny Schwartz]()
Stray Magic by Jenny Schwartz
10 ratingsWhen magic crashes through the Rift, Earth devolves into an apocalyptic nightmare. Survival becomes the only game in town, and college girl, Amy Carlton, learns she’s a more ruthless player than she ever imagined. Magistrate Istvan signed up for the Faerene Migration knowing that the price of Earth’s future would be paid for in hellfire and blood... -
![Charley's Christmas Wolf by C.D. Gorri]()
Charley's Christmas Wolf by C.D. Gorri
10 ratingsRafe Maccon is the Alpha of the Macconwood Pack, for now. His rule is being questioned by a rogue Wolf who wants him ousted for breaking an ancient law that states the Alpha must be mated! He must find a mate in order to keep his position. Seeing their Alpha in trouble, Rafe’s Wolf Guard take it upon themselves to find one for him... -
![The House That Fought by Jenny Schwartz]()
The House That Fought by Jenny Schwartz
10 ratingsThe Reality Wars have begun and the House is at the center of them. Still reeling from betrayal, Kira has to protect the innocents who've sought sanctuary with her. The thrilling conclusion to the "Uncertain Sanctuary" series. Science fantasy at its startling, genre-bending best... -
![Borderland by Terri Windling, Charles de Lint]()
Borderland by Terri Windling, Charles de Lint
11 ratingsThe land of fairy returns, and it’s a messy reunification at best. The land between the normal human world and Fairy is called "The Border," a place where one can easily become lost—or found. In the rements of evacuated cities from this rebirth the two worlds come together in Bordertown, where magic and technology don't always work... -
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![Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
12 ratingsThe Familiar, Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . .The Familiar, Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the second volume of The Familiar, a "novel [which] goes beyond the experimental into the visionary, creating a language and style that expands the horizon of meaning . . -
![The House That Walked Between Worlds by Jenny Schwartz]()
The House That Walked Between Worlds by Jenny Schwartz
12 ratingsA tornado of chaos is tearing through Reality and in its path is the newest House, a bleak and forbidding fortress built of magic and grief by the most unlikely of sorcerers, a human.A reckless act of compassion costs Dr. Kira Aist her family and her future on Earth. To escape her enemies, she calls on her heritage as a descendant of Baba Yaga and walks between worlds... -
![Arena by Karen Hancock]()
Arena by Karen Hancock
14 ratingsCallie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters. When she demands to be released from the program, she is suddenly dropped into a terrifying alien world and into a perilous battle between good and evil...Categorized as:
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![The Guard by Pittacus Lore]()
The Guard by Pittacus Lore
14 ratingsIn this spectacular one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, learn how Loric hacker Lexa became the shadowy figure known as GUARD.A sequel to I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Navigator, this novella picks up with Lexa shortly after the Mogadorians raided her hideout and murdered her friend...Categorized as:
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![The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft]()
The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
16 ratingsThe incredible final book in the word of mouth phenomenon fantasy series that began with Senlin Ascends. "The "Books of Babel" are something you hope to see perhaps once a decade — future classics, which may be remembered long after the series concludes...Categorized as:
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![The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller]()
The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller
19 ratingsBased on the best-selling CD-ROM game, a fantasy novel fills out the lives of the game's characters, tracing the strange apprenticeship of Atrus to his father, Gehn, who wields the power to create worlds... -
![The Night Visitor and Other Stories by B. Traven]()
The Night Visitor and Other Stories by B. Traven
6 ratingsHere are ten of B. Traven's remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend...Categorized as:
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![Nighttrap by Tom Becker]()
Nighttrap by Tom Becker
6 ratingsA third spine-tingling visit to the secret borough of Darkside... Mrs Elwood has been kidnapped. And Jonathan will do anything to get her back, even if this means breaking in to the home of one of Darkside's most sinister citizens...Categorized as:
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![Cosmic Crush: An Alien Burlesque Romance by Clio Evans]()
Cosmic Crush: An Alien Burlesque Romance by Clio Evans
6 ratings“Please welcome the salacious, glitter-gun slinging, hussy, Little Miss Mercury!”Mari is a famous star in her intergalactic troupe. As headliner at the Comet Canyon Saloon, the last thing she expected to go wrong was being lassoed off stage by a chaps-wearing outlaw.Raider’s name has been tarnished by his good-for-nothing brother... -
![Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser]()
Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser
8 ratingsCartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers... -
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![The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle]()
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle
10 ratingsFeaturing the Hugo and Nebula award-winning original novelette from the world of The Last Unicorn, "Two Hearts."The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of this powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy's most original voices, such as J. R...Categorized as:
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![Winter Count by Barry Lopez]()
Winter Count by Barry Lopez
10 ratings"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain...Categorized as:
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![The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz]()
The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz
10 ratingsLove something enough, and your obsession will punch holes through the laws of physics. That devotion creates unique magics: videogamemancers. Origamimancers. Culinomancers.But when ‘mancers battle, cities tremble…ALIYAH TSABO-DAWSON: The world’s most dangerous eight-year-old girl. Burned by a terrorist’s magic, gifted strange powers beyond measure... -
![The Air War by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Air War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
12 ratingsAll is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, the spies watch each other and ready their knives, while Myna sees the troops muster at its border and emotions run high as it vows never to be enslaved again. In Collegium, the students argue politics, too late to turn the tide... -
![Heirs of the Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Heirs of the Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky
14 ratingsShe remembered how it felt to lose Salma, first to the wiles of the Butterfly-kinden girl, then to hear the news of his death, abandoned and alone in the midst of the enemy. She remembered how it felt to see her father hacked to death before her eyes... -
![City of the Dead by Vasily Mahanenko]()
City of the Dead by Vasily Mahanenko
14 ratingsThere are whole anthologies of stories out there about what humankind does when a game enters their world. But what about when they’re living in one where a game arrived thousands of years before? What if they’re the survivors of a bloody struggle, having fought for and earned their place on the planet?Tailyn Vlashich was a young nobody far away from all those grander issues...Categorized as:
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![Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz]()
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
14 ratingsAt the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend... -
![Myst: The Book of Ti'ana by Rand Miller, David Wingrove]()
Myst: The Book of Ti'ana by Rand Miller, David Wingrove
17 ratingsPublished to coincide with the release of the new Myst CD-ROM, an atmospheric fantasy tale chronicles the desperate struggle of Ti'Ana, the grandmother of Atrus, against the evil schemes of Veovis, the architect of the destruction of the D'Ni...Categorized as:
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![A Meeting at Corvallis by S.M. Stirling]()
A Meeting at Corvallis by S.M. Stirling
18 ratingsIn the tenth year of The Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned how to live in a world without technology-but there are those who would exploit the new world order. On one side stands Michael Havel's Bearkillers and their allies, Clan MacKenzie under the leadership of Juniper MacKenzie...Categorized as:
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![How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman]()
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman
24 ratingsA Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it.And it was unquestionably his...Categorized as:
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![Perdido Street Station by China Miéville]()
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
37 ratingsBeneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research...Categorized as:
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![Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders]()
Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
20 ratingsMacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the... -
![The Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky
16 ratingsThe war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease and seeking meaning in a city that no longer feels like home... -
![Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck]()
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
16 ratingsAn award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time...Categorized as:
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![Last Defense by Pittacus Lore]()
Last Defense by Pittacus Lore
14 ratingsIn this electrifying one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, discover what happened to Malcolm Goode after the Mogadorian invasion began.When the Garde split up, heading off to New York City and Mexico, Malcolm decided to stay behind in Ashwood Estates, the Mog’s formerly hidden base located near Washington DC...Categorized as:
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![A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson]()
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
14 ratingsA stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive; and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know...Categorized as:
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