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The Queen of the Tearling: A Novel

Erika Johansen - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mothers throne, learn to be a ruler - and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her. On her 19th birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh...
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The Little Shop of Found Things: A Novel

Paula Brackston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure.New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant...
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Death Star (Star Wars)

Michael Reaves - LucasBooks; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

“THAT’S NO MOON.”–Obi-Wan KenobiThe Death Star’s name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itself–equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blink of an eye. Its annihilation...
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Dark Lover

J.R. Ward - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing their enemies-the lessers-more...
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Here and Now and Then

Mike Chen - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere - and any-when ... Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career ... as a time-traveling...
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If, Then: A Novel

Kate Hope Day - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists. In the quiet haven of Clearing,...
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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever. "A transcendent, cross-cultural,...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon.Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown...
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A Toaster on Mars

Darrell Pitt - Text Publishing Company
Format: Print book

'This pseudo-science-fiction book provides laughs of all types: readers will progress from snickers to giggles to, finally, belly laughs and shouts of outrage...Puns, shaggy dog stories, snarky remarks, and hoaxes are just a few of the humorous elements used expertly here...The Hitchhiker's...
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Gingerbread: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive ... [Helen Oyeyemis] prose is not without its playful bite." -Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours...
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The Sisters of the Winter Wood

Rena Rossner - Redhook
Format: Hardcover

Captivating and boldly imaginative, with a tale of sisterhood at its heart, Rena Rossner's debut fantasy invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the dangers of the woods.Raised in a remote village surrounded by vast forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters...
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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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The Buried Giant (Vintage International)

Kazuo Ishiguro - Vintage
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged...
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things - which includes a never-before published American Gods story, "Black...
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A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin - Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFrom a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George...
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The Hobbit: or There and Back Again

J R R Tolkien - Houghton Mifflin Co.
Format: Paperback

J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves...
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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes...
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The Hydrogen Sonata

Iain M. Banks - Orbit; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...
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The Returned

Jason Mott - Harlequin MIRA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Returned transforms a brilliant premise into an extraordinary and beautifully realized novel. My spine is still shivering from the memory of this haunting story. Wow. -Douglas Preston, 1 bestselling author of The Monster of Florence The sensational New York Times bestselling novel about...
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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Deborah Harkness - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research....
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy...
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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

With five starred reviews, Tomi Adeyemi's West African-inspired fantasy debut, and instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, conjures a world of magic and danger, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Zlie...
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