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Author
Series
Up-and-under volume 1
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two exceptional children, one precision-oriented and the other absolutely unpredictable, embark on an unplanned detour that finds them in a fantastical world of talking trees, sarcastic owls, and dangerous magical locals.
Author
Series
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Retired and living a perfect life with Francesca, Owen Hardy gets pulled into one last mission, with his grandson, for the Watchmaker that takes them to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule, while Marinda undertakes her own mission compiling the story of the Watchmaker and stopping a new group of anarchists.
63) The Hod king
Author
Series
Books of Babel volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public's entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion"--
64) The gift
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The User of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically twisted by his own ambition and by Tomen, a malevolent creatureof magic. Together Simon and Tim must rid their land of the magic that has been misused by Tomen and The User.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 8
Language
English
Description
After Nynaeve and his friends conquer the Seanchan forces they travel to Caemyln to reclaim the throne, but on their way they encounter enemies more powerful than they imagined, and they may have to sacrifice their lives to save the world.
The eighth installment in The Wheel of Time series follows familiar characters as they fight the Seanchan and continue to try and find peace and love amongst themselves.
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries ... Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil ... A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether."--
67) Water logic
Author
Series
Elemental logic volume 3
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Consortium
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
New government forms in the land of Shaftal. Now soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, weary of war, must fight to ensure revenge and retribution are not their only future. For there are those on each side who cannot forget their losses, and cannot imagine a place for themselves side by side with former foes in an enemy land.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, when people still talked about her, she was known as the end-of-the-line woman. Vasethe, a man with a troubled past, comes to seek a favor from a woman who is not what she seems, and must enter the nine hundred and ninety-nine realms of Mkalis, the world of spirits, where gods and demons wage endless war.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, this audiobook compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness.
70) Holy sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women."* *Library Journal"--
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the...
71) Born of silence
Author
Series
The League volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vowing to destroy his father's killer while outmaneuvering alter ego Kere, Darling Cruel, a dictator member of an elite ruling family, is shattered when Resistance leader Zarya, his most trusted ally, turns a specially designed weapon against Darling's family in her effort to rekindle his humanity.
"In a universe where corruption and deception rule all aspects of life, sparks of rebellion threaten to ignite . . . BORN OF SILENCE As the Resistance...
Author
Series
Zamonia novels volume 3
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The author of 13 1/ 2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner, finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death.
"From the Hardcover edition."
73) The shadow lamp
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Kit, Mina, Gianni, Cass, Haven, and Giles have gathered in Minas 16th century coffee house and are united in their determination to find a path back to the Spirit Well. Yet, with their shadow lamps destroyed and key pieces of the map still missing, the journey will be far more difficult than they imagine. And when one of their own disappears with Sir Henrys cryptic Green Book, they no longer know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Akers (Heart of Veridon) creates a complex steampunk world in which rival brothers Morgan, Alexander, and Amon are revered as gods. The last of Morgan's Paladins, Eva Forge, is tasked with providing security for Barnabas, the Fratriarch of the Cult of Morgan, just as a plot is set in motion--ostensibly by the remnants of the Cult of Amon--to destroy the Morganites. As she travels from the monorails above the city of Ash to the hidden underground lairs...
75) Armistice
Author
Series
Amberlough dossier volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Armistice returns to Donnelly's ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies. In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind-the-scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist nation, Aristide, an expatriate film director running from...
76) Son of the storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the thriving city of Bassa, Danso is a clever but disillusioned scholar who longs for a life beyond the rigid family and political obligations expected of the city's elite. A way out presents itself when Lilong, a skin-changing warrior, shows up wounded in his barn. She comes from the Nameless Islands- which, according to Bassa lore, don't exist- and neither should the mythical magic of ibor she wields. Now swept into a conspiracy far beyond his...
77) Night study
Author
Series
Study books volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ever since being kidnapped from the Illiais Jungle as a child, Yelena Zaltana's life has been fraught with peril. But the recent loss of her Soulfinding abilities has endangered her more than ever before. As she desperately searches for a way to reclaim her magic, her enemies are closing in, and neither Ixia nor Sitia is safe for her anymore. Especially since the growing discord between the two countries and the possibility of a war threatens everything...
Author
Series
Song of Ice and Fire volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Espaänol
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
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Description
New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.
79) Hard to be a God
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Don Rumata has been sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to save what he can. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler, and a brawler, he is never defeated, but yet he can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the first minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can...
80) Born of betrayal
Author
Series
The League volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name. Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again. But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancée back into his...
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