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Brida

Paulo Coelho · 285 pages

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Hybrids

Robert J. Sawyer · 396 pages

From back cover Tor paperback November 2004: In *Hominids* Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his Reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry -- making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In that book and its sequel, *Humans*, Sawyer showed us the Neande

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The First Day

Marc Levy

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The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore · 314 pages

Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.

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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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Recursion

Blake Crouch · 329 pages

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Return to Summerhouse

Jude Deveraux · 436 pages

Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family, Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is

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The Book of Life

Deborah Harkness · 656 pages

After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat

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Map of Bones

James Rollins · 540 pages

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany

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The Star-Touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi · 355 pages

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political conve

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When the Killing's Done

T.C. Boyle · 369 pages

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The Coincidence Makers

Yoav Blum · 291 pages

"The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate is

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Darwin's Radio

Greg Bear · 440 pages

"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he's looking for, the answer proves to be stranger--and far deadlier--than he ever could have imagined. Something that has sle

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The Curiosity

Stephen P. Kiernan · 466 pages

After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.

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Light of the Moon

Luanne Rice · 479 pages

New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports readers across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Set in a landscape of stunning natural beauty, Light of the Moon is a chronicle of mothers and daughters, friendship and family, and an electrifying love that illuminates a path through heartbreak and loss...and will shine in your memory long after

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Queen of the Night

Leanne Hall

The dark is dangerous. So is the past. So are your dreams. For six months Nia-Wildgirl-has tried to forget Wolfboy, the mysterious boy she spent one night with in Shyness-the boy who said he'd call but didn't. Then Wolfboy calls. The things he tells her pull her back to the suburb of Shyness, where the sun doesn't rise and dreams and reality are difficult to separate. There, Doctor Gregory has see

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Claimed

Sarah Fine · 332 pages

Galena Margolis, a brilliant scientist with a tragic past, is determined to fulfill her destiny and develop the vaccine that could save millions. Yet when Galena's test subjects meet with foul play, it's clear that someone is still determined to stop her, and that Galena herself is a target. As the Ferry empire forges a plan to keep her safe, Declan Ferry, the politics-hating black sheep of the fa

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The Witches of Cambridge

Menna van Praag · 352 pages

"For fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Adriana Trigiani, The Witches of Cambridge reveals an astonishing world where the heart's deepest secrets give way to the magic of life-changing love. Be careful what you wish for. If you're a witch, you might just get it. Amandine Bisset has always had the power to feel the emotions of those around her. It's a secret she can share only with her

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Ritmo de la Guerra / Rhythm of War

Brandon Sanderson · 1,408 pages

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Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang · 428 pages

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The Scorpio Races

Maggie Stiefvater · 435 pages

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She

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Not in Love

Ali Hazelwood · 450 pages

"Not in Love" by Ali Hazelwood follows Rue, a brilliant but socially awkward food scientist, and Eli, a co-founder of a company attempting to take over her workplace, Kline. Though drawn to each other, they are on opposing sides of a potential takeover, and Rue feels conflicted due to her loyalty to her friend and mentor, Florence, who runs Kline.

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From the Mouth of the Whale

Sjon · 251 pages

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Fruits Basket, Vol. 5

Natsuki Takaya · 192 pages

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