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Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine"--
"Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern'sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the...
5) Red sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Language
English
Description
"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors ... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when...
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Language
English
Description
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn't yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend's true name. The only chance of...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law General Arisaydia pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake-pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not travel alone. The mission from his god brings Penric some of his strangest new allies yet, and the return of some of his most valued old ones. This novel-length story takes place two years after the events of "The Physicians of Vilnoc."
Author
Series
Publisher
John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters ... The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present long enough to ensure that it has a future. Street magician Jude Dubuisson is likewise burdened by his past and by the consequences of the storm, because...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
462 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and their reawakening will have major consequences. In Africa, the colonial town of Essenwald has fallen into disarray because the timber workforce has disappeared into the Vorrh. Now a team of specialists are dispatched to find them. Led by Ishmael, the former cyclops, they enter the forest, but the Vorrh...
Author
Series
Dandelion Dynasty volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
623 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Grace of Kings, the first book in this epic series, tells the story of two men who become friends through rebelling against tyranny and then turn against each other in defense of irreconcilable ideals. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting...
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
561 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Calhoun is the 15 year old daughter of the elector Andrew Calhoun, one of the electors who gets to decide who will ascend as the emperor of the New World. None of that matters to Sarah. She has a natural talent for hexing and one bad eye, and all she wants is to be left alone. But then a Yankee wizard-priest tries to kidnap her. Sarah fights back with the aid of a monk named Thalanes, who is one of the not-quite-human Firstborns. It is he that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 400 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects three dystopian novellas set in the world of the author's "Darkest Minds" series, in which familiar and new characters struggle to survive and maintain hope in harrowing circumstances.
13) Gilded cage
Author
Series
Dark gifts volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, not all are free; not all are equal; not all will be saved. Commoners must serve the Equals for ten years. Abi is a servant to England's most powerful family, but her spirit is free. So when she falls for one of their noble-born sons, Abi faces a terrible choice. Uncovering the family's secrets might win her liberty-- but will her heart pay the price? Abi's brother, Luke, is enslaved in a brutal...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Guy Gavriel Kay and Robin McKinley, a prince and a princess must work together to save their kingdom from outside invaders ... and dangers within. Long ago the Kieba, last goddess in the world, raised up her mountain in the drylands of Carastind. Ever since then she has dwelled and protected the world from unending plagues and danger ... Gulien Madalin, heir to the throne of Carastind, finds himself more...
15) The waking land
Author
Series
Waking land volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder--and must flee for her life. Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has...
Author
Series
Codex arcanum volume 1
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For fans of J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, and anyone who ever wanted to be a sorcerer, Sorcery for Beginners is part novel, part For Dummies guide to magic, and every bit a fun, fast-paced adventure.
17) Last look
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compilation of the author's three previous graphic novels"--
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