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The Kingdom of Copper

S. A. Chakraborty · 684 pages

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a

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The Stardust Thief

Chelsea Abdullah · 468 pages

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The Kingdom of Copper: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy)

Shannon A. Chakraborty · 640 pages

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These Infinite Threads

Tahereh Mafi · 432 pages

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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · 340 pages

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master,"--NoveList.

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The Ring of Solomon

Jonathan Stroud · 433 pages

Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.

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The Fire Wish

Amber Lough · 310 pages

"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--

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The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

Cameron Dokey · 221 pages

In a faraway kingdom, a king has been betrayed. Deeply hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. Unfortunately, the king's plan to protect himself will endanger all of the realm's young women, unless one of them will volunteer to marry the king - and surrender her life. To everyone's relief and horror, one young woman steps forward. The daughter of a legendary storyteller, Sha

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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · 518 pages

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

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The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 848 pages

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The Arabian Nights

Anonymous · 912 pages

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume

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The Crimson Crown

Cinda Williams Chima · 598 pages

"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--

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The Lotus Empire

Tasha Suri · 494 pages

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Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights [and Days]

Bill Willingham · 144 pages

**Culture Clash** With the identity of the Adversary finally revealed to the citizens of Fabletown, it's time to begin making preparations in earnest for the defense of their stronghold in the mundane world - and that means forging new alliances with whoever remains unconquered by the Adversary's legions. But the arrival in Fabletown of a delegation from the Arabian Homelands shows just how tri

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Furyborn

Claire Legrand · 501 pages

When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed ... unless the trials kill her first.

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Blood Passage

Heather Demetrios · 481 pages

When Nalia arrives in Morocco to fulfill Malek's third and final wish, she's not expecting it to be easy. Especially because Malek isn't the only one after Solomon's sigil, an ancient magical ring that gives its wearer the power to control the entire jinn race. Nalia has also promised to take Raif, leader of the jinn revolution, to its remote location.

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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown · 466 pages

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One Dark Throne

Kendare Blake

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The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 876 pages

When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, who she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of Avalon.

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Falling Kingdoms

Morgan Rhodes, Michelle Rowen

"A fantasy about three kingdoms on the brink of war and the destiny of one princess"--Provided by publisher.

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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian · 437 pages

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia s family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner. For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.

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Heart of the Sun Warrior

Sue Lynn Tan · 480 pages

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The Thirteenth House

Sharon Shinn

In a second novel set in the troubled land of Gillengaria, the shiftling Kirra returns home from a mission to rescue the kidnapped Romar Brendan to find that her half-sister Casserah has been named heir and falls in love with the married Lord Romar, a tempestuous affair that places them both in mortal danger and leads them to the stronghold of the lords of the Thirteenth House.

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A Thousand Nights

E.K. Johnston · 338 pages

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty

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