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Tales of fantastical libraries and librarians. Perfect for the imaginative reader!
The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman - Ace
Format: Paperback

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization...
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Magic for Liars

Sarah Gailey - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it.Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she's perfectly...
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The Library of the Unwritten

A. J. Hackwith - Ace
Format: Paperback

In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.Many years ago, Claire was named...
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The Starless Sea: A Novel

Erin Morgenstern - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers...
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The Midnight Library: A Novel

Matt Haig - Viking
Format: Hardcover

'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance...
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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

Garth Nix - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesnt get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously...
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Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

Robin Sloan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life -- mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life...
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The Binding: A Novel

Bridget Collins - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Proclaimed as "truly spellbinding", a "great fable" that "functions as transporting romance" by The Guardian, the runaway number one international best seller arrives in America. "A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside...
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The Night Bookmobile

Audrey Niffenegger - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Audrey Niffenegger, the New York Times bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her two critically acclaimed “novels-in-pictures.” First serialized as a weekly column in the UK’s...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Thomas Sweterlitsch - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Sweterlitsch is a superstar. ...Tomorrow and Tomorrowis a brutal, beautiful book. Read it.Jesse Kellerman, internationally bestselling author ofTroubleTomorrow and Tomorrowis a rich, absorbing, relentlessly inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir a wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler,...
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The Archived

Victoria Schwab - Disney-Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when...
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The thirteenth tale : a novel

Diane Setterfield - Atria Books
Format: Book

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal...
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The Strange Library

Haruki Murakami - Knopf
Format: Print book

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami - a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's...
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