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The Book of Taltos

Steven Brust · 389 pages

An omnibus featuring assassin Vlad Talot and his dragon companion contains "Taltos," in which Vlad pursues a thieving Dragaeran employee to the lair of Sethra Lavode, and "Phoenix," in which he must repay a debt to the Demon-Goddess with his professionalservices as an assassin.

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The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks · 645 pages

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted,

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The Blacktongue Thief

Christopher Buehlman · 416 pages

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The Shadowdance Trilogy

David Dalglish · 738 pages

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Crownbreaker

Sebastien de Castell · 546 pages

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

A Coast Guard vet named Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, are trapped in a fantasy dungeon. Read by Jeff Hays. 13 hours, 31 minutes unabridged.

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The Crown Tower

Michael J. Sullivan · 432 pages

Thieving assassin Royce Melborn and warrior Hadrian Blackwater are forced to work together to steal a treasure that no one can reach in the Crown Tower, an impregnable fortress that houses the realm's most prized possessions.

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Dawn of Night

Paul S. Kemp · 302 pages

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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 544 pages

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the af

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The Legend of Nightfall

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 496 pages

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · 379 pages

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El

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Free the Darkness

Kel Kade · 422 pages

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The Young Elites

Marie Lu · 392 pages

I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel fat

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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

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Heroes Die

Matthew Woodring Stover · 563 pages

HEROES DIEBut Caine's no hero. He's an assassin.Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does. He is free.At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures command an audience of billions. Yet he is shackled by

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Shadow's Son

Jon Sprunk

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The Electric Church

Jeff Somers · 373 pages

In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion which preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans.

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The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso · 432 pages

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Waylander

David Gemmell · 320 pages

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Prince of Thorns

Mark Lawrence · 354 pages

After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch · 512 pages

"HIGH-OCTANE FANTASY...A CREAT SWASHBUCKLING YARN OF A NOVEL." -Richard Morgan In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's El

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Spider's Bite

Jennifer Estep

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Streams of Silver

R.A. Salvatore · 342 pages

The epic tale of everyone's favorite dark elf, Drizzt Do'Urden, reaches new heights!Drizzt Do'Urden struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitiless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends, and the dream that drives Bruenor Battlehammer on to reclaim Mithral Hall. Time and again they're told to turn back, that some dreams can n

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Assassin's Quest

Robin Hobb · 757 pages

From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from th

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