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The Municipalists: A Novel

Seth Fried · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu)

*Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal...
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Realm of Ash

Tasha Suri · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

The fate of an empire rests in the hands of a young woman with magical blood and nothing left to lose, and an outcast prince determined to save his family at any cost, in this "dark, melodious, and memorable" new fantasy (Library Journal, starred review) from the author...
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The Queen of Crows

Myke Cole · Tor.com
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Myke Cole, star of CBS's Hunted and author of the Shadow Ops series returns with book two of the Sacred Throne Trilogy: The Queen of Crows.

In this epic fantasy sequel, Heloise stands tall against overwhelming odds -- crippling injuries, religious tyrants -- and continues...

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The Killing Light

Myke Cole · Tor.com
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to Myke Cole's Sacred Throne trilogy

Heloise and her allies are marching on the Imperial Capital. The villagers, the Kipti, and the Red Lords are united only in their loyalty to Heloise, though dissenting voices are many and they are loud.

The unstable...

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Priest of Lies

Peter McLean · Ace
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster...and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series.

People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become--until they can't...
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Flamebringer: A Heartstone Novel

Elle Katharine White · Harper Voyager
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Monsters, manners, and magic combine in this exciting final volume in the Heartstone Trilogy - an exhilarating blend of epic fantasy and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - in which a fearless healer and her dragon-riding husband must stop a reawakened evil from destroying their world.

It...

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Trolls

Stefan Spjut · Faber & Faber
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Let the Right OneIn meets The Passage, in this creepy new Scandi horror, from the author of The Shapeshifters, which was hailed as "fantastic" by Karl Ove Knausgård.

What if our forests are inhabited by beings we do not understand, creatures neither...
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Knight of the Silver Circle

Duncan M. Hamilton · Tor Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Dragons have returned after a thousand years, but greater dangers lurk in the shadows...

As the lines between enemy and ally blur, Guillot dal Villerauvais is drawn farther into the life and service he had left far behind. Solène attempts to come to terms with the great magical...

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Dragonslayer

Duncan M. Hamilton · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In his magnificent, heroic, adventure fantasy, Dragonslayer, Duncan M. Hamilton debuts the first book in a fast-moving trilogy: a dangerous tale of lost magics, unlikely heroes, and reawakened dragons.

Once a member of the King's personal guard, Guillot dal Villevauvais...

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The Impossible Contract: Book 2 in the Chronicles of Ghadid

K. A. Doore · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The Impossible Contract is the second book in K. A. Doore's high fantasy adventure series the Chronicles of Ghadid, where a determined assassin travels to the heart of the Empire in pursuit of a powerful mark, for fans of Robin Hobb, Sarah J. Maas, and S. A. Chakraborty

Thana...

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War of the Spark: Ravnica

Greg Weisman · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Experience the first official adventure in Magic: The Gathering's multiverse in nearly a decade as the ultimate battle begins on Ravnica.

Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from...
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Ironfoot: The Enchanter General, Book One

Dave Duncan · Night Shade Books
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback

***A FINALIST FOR THE 2018 ENDEAVOUR AWARD***/b>

A lowly enchanter finds himself entangled in a plot to assassinate the king in a new historical fantasy series set in twelfth century England.

Medieval magic, murder, and mayhem!

It is 1164, and for a hundred...
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Trial by Treason: The Enchanter General, Book Two

Dave Duncan · Night Shade Books
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

A burgeoning Saxon enchanter confronts a demonic plot against the king in the sequel to Ironfoot, a historical fantasy series set in twelfth century England.

King Henry, campaigning in France, receives a muddled warning of a treasonous conspiracy in Lincoln Castle, his great fortress...
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Merlin Redux: The Enchanter General Book Three

Dave Duncan · Night Shade
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Sir Durwin must overcome a cloak-and-dagger plot to usurp the king in the final novel of the Enchanter General, a historical fantasy trilogy set in twelfth century England.

King Henry is dead; Richard the Lionheart now rules England. The new king does not believe in magic, and is interested...
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Priest of Bones

Peter McLean · Ace
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind...
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Queen of the Conquered

Kacen Callender · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

An ambitious young woman with the power to control minds seeks vengeance against the royals who murdered her family, in a Caribbean-inspired fantasy world embattled by colonial oppression.
Sigourney Rose is the only surviving daughter of a noble lineage on the islands of Hans Lollik....
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Ormeshadow

Priya Sharma · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil.

Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder...

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Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince: Night of Knives

V. E. Schwab · Titan Comics
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shades of Magic sequence, this all-original comic book adventure continues the story begun in The Steel Prince - perfect for fans of bloody, swashbuckling adventure and gritty fantasy!

The...
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Half Way Home

Hugh Howey · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Wool and the Molly Fyde saga comes a story of teenage colonists marooned on a distant planet.

WE WOKE IN FIRE
Five hundred colonists have been sent across the stars to settle an alien planet....
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The End of the World

Don Hertzfeldt · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out.

Created during sleepless nights while he worked...
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Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow

Charlie Jane Anders · The Unnamed Press
Pages: 256
Format: Book

Future Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who's-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders, Nnedi Okorafor, Paolo...

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