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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - HarperSanFrancisco
Format: Hardcover

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago,...
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

Arden, Katherine

Katherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up." - Naomi Novik, bestselli
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The Book of Lost Things: A Novel

John Connolly - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother !' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That...
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Circe

Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The...
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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury Usa
Format: Print book

The stunning sequel to Sarah J. Maas' New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses.Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible...
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel

Alice Hoffman - Scribner
Format: Book

Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean...
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The Girl in the Tower: A Novel

Katherine Arden - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home - but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under...
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Catherynne M Valente - ‎Feiwel & Friends; 1st Edition
Format: Hardcover

welve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket) , who invites her on an adventure,...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom,...
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The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel

Helene Wecker - Harper
Format: Hardcover

?In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage...
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The Last Unicorn The Lost Journey

Peter S. Beagle - Tachyon Publications
Format: Hardcover

Special Commemorative Edition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Last UnicornPeter S. Beagle first imagined his beloved heroine when he was twenty-three, half a decade before she sprang into the world. Now the Last Unicorn's fantastical origins are recaptured in this lovely...
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The Marriage of Opposites

Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Audiobook

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific...
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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern - Doubleday
Format: Book

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rves, and it is only open at night....
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival,...
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

William Goldman

William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and un
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The Sleeper and the Spindle

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman and Kate Greenaway-winning illustrator Chris Riddell have created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, "told in a way only Gaiman can" and featuring "stunning metallic artwork" (GeekInsider.com)...
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The Snow Child: A Novel

Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first...
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Stardust

Neil Gaiman

In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall--a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the in
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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 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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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel

Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months...
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Uprooted

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL * Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.. HUGO AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
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Watership Down

Richard Adams

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival.
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire - Harper Collins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens....
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The Winter of the Witch: A Novel

KATHERINE ARDEN - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias,...
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