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Fairy Wars: The Final Battles

Dr. L L Bower
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback

If you like epic quests, strange creatures like bogles and tomtes and magical powers, you'll love this conclusion to the Fairy Wars trilogy. Like Fablehaven, Fairy Wars takes you into a world parallel to ours which most humans cannot see. Sword fights, dragon battles, wizard duels and an age-old...
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The Fated Sky: A Lady Astronaut Novel

MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Continuing the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon andlooking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars.Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York...
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The Fall of Gondolin

JRR TOLKIEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar:...
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European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

THEODORA GOSS · Saga Press
Pages: 720
Format: eBook

In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature's mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society's nefarious...
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Empire of Silence

CHRISTOPHER RUOCCHIO · DAW
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.It was not his war.The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin...
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The Emissary

Yo?ko Tawada · New Directions
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her "brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness"Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world....
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Emergence

C. J. Cherryh · DAW
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The nineteenth book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi.Bren Cameron, acting as the representative of the atevi's political leader, Tabini-aiji, as well...
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An Easy Death

Charlaine Harris · Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main character you'll love." - Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO's...
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

Kelly Barnhill · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A stunning new collection of short fictions from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny...
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Dragonshadow: A Heartstone Novel

Elle Katharine White · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The author of Heartstone once again infuses elements of Jane Austen's beloved novel with her own brand of magic in this addictive fantasy that brings back sparring lovers Aliza and Alastair: fierce warriors who match wits, charm, and swords as they fight an epic war to save their world.The...
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