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The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel

Brandon Sanderson · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement...
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By Fire Above: A Signal Airship Novel

ROBYN BENNIS · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

By Fire Above is the rip-roaring new adventure in Robyn Bennis's Signal Airship military fantasy series that Patricia Briggs hails as "full of sass and terrific characters.""All's fair in love and war," according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown...
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The Hive

Orson Scott Card · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars -- the alien invasions...
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The obelisk gate

N K Jemisin · Orbit

"This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world,...
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Foundryside: A Novel

ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself--the first in a dazzling new fantasy series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse...
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Tarnished City

VIC JAMES · Del Rey
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

MAGIC COMPELS. WE BLEED. The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues. In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics - and you - an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country's fate. The ruthless Jardines...
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The blood mirror

Brent Weeks · Orbit

"The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four-and those are falling before the White King's armies. Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold...
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The Memory of Fire

CALLIE BATES · Del Rey
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Callie Bates's debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, and romance. Thanks...
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Storm Cursed

PATRICIA BRIGGS · Ace
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves ... My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic. And a coyote shapeshifter. And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin...
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How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations ... .A delightfully witty ... poignant novel." - The Washington Post "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going ... I had existed...
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ME: A Novel

Tomoyuki Hoshino · Akashic Books
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback

"In Hoshino's dystopia, identities are fluid and any one is as good as another ... Hoshino's ambitious novel is pleasingly uncomfortable."--Publishers Weekly"[Some passages] surpass even Kobo Abe ... The author has leaped to a higher level."--Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel...
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It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel

JOSEPH FINK · Harper Perennial
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale ... "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I'm packing...
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Shadow of Victory

David Weber · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!Unintended Consequences Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically...
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The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror

Mallory Ortberg · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien -- from Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts From Jane Eyre.From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous...
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Norma: A novel

SOFI OKSANEN · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming...
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