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Beauty Is a Wound

Eka Kurniawan · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality,...
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Penric and the Shaman

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD · Subterranean
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover

Young Lord Penric now wears the white robes of the Bastard's Order, complete with shoulder braids marking him as a divine and sorcerer, while he pursues scholarly studies in the court of the Princess-Archdivine. His demon of disorder, Desdemona, is, of course, present, accounted for, and offering...
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Natasha Pulley · Bloomsbury
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind,...
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Feedback

Mira Grant · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A new beginning for Mira Grant's "New York Times" bestselling NEWSFLESH series "There are two sides to every story... " We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving...
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Isis Orb

Piers Anthony · Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

A quest to fulfill a lifelong wish turns into an adventure rife with magical creatures and arduous tasks - and puns, of course - when New York Times-bestselling author Piers Anthony revisits the enchanted land of Xanth In Xanth, everyone has a talent. But that doesn't mean everyone loves...
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The Jane Austen Project: A Novel

Kathleen Flynn · Harper Perennial
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers...
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Miranda and Caliban

Jacqueline Carey · Tor
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will?In this incredible retelling...
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Timeless

Gail Carriger · Orbit
Format: Print book

Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampires second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Until,...
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Dead Ice: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K. Hamilton · Berkley Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She's a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude's...
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Eleanor: A Novel

Jason Gurley · Crown Publishers
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

Eleanor and Esmerelda are identical twins with a secret language all their own, inseparable until a terrible accident claims Esme's life. Eleanor's family is left in tatters: her mother retreats inward, seeking comfort in bottles; her father reluctantly abandons ship. Eleanor is forced...
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Jeweled Fire: An Elemental Blessings Novel

Sharon Shinn · Ace Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The national bestselling author of Troubled Waters and Royal Airs returns to her Elemental Blessings series with the story of a young princess who will need more than blessings to survive in a kingdom where everyone will do whatever it takes to claim the throne ... As one of the four princesses...
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A Conjuring of Light

V E Schwab · Tor Books
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final book in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light...
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Cat's Lair

Christine Feehan · Jove Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leopard's Prey returns to the feral underworld of her astonishing Leopard novels in an arousing new romance of forbidden animal instincts ... Cat Benoit has finally escaped the past - and the man who was the source of her nightmares. She's...
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Heroes Are My Weakness: A Novel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips · William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charmDeepest winter.An isolated island off the coast of Maine.A man. A woman.Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .)And . . .A mysterious house looming over the sea . . .He's...
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

Heather O'Neill · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington PostA spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents...
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