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The Lost City of Faar

D.J. MacHale · 400 pages

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InterWorld

Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves · 239 pages

Joey Harker isn't a hero.In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces—armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.When he sees the evil those forces are capa

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The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman · 352 pages

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres

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The Talisman

Stephen King, Peter Straub · 769 pages

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. King and Straub followed up with a sequel, Black House (2001). Followed by: Black House

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Blue Adept

Piers Anthony · 327 pages

In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren't

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The Maker of Universes

Philip Jose Farmer · 155 pages

When Robert Wolff finds a strange horn he has the key to the door between universes. A door through space-time leading to a space unlike ours, built on tiers, where he has to work his way up to find out who created it.

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Be My Enemy

Ian McDonald

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Eternity's Wheel

Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves · 288 pages

It has been two years since Joseph Harker first Walked between dimensions, met the alternate forms of himself, and formed a team to protect the Altiverse in the struggle between the vicious forces of magic and science--and now, injured, he has returned to his own dimension, bringing danger with him.

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The Transall Saga

Gary Paulsen · 252 pages

Find yourself in another world in The Transall Saga, the latest adventure from Gary Paulsen:Mark's solo camping trip to the desert begins as any other camping trip, until a mysterious beam of light appears. The trip turns into a terrifying and thrilling adventure when the light beam transports Mark into another time, and what appears to be another planet! Although he is searching for his way bac

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Conquistador

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

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The Blade of Shattered Hope

James Dashner

Mistress Jane has tapped into the universe's darkest secret to create the Blade of Shattered Hope, and in her quest to attain a utopian reality for the future of mankind she is ready to risk billions of lives to set her plan in motion.

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Trumps of Doom

Roger Zelazny · 184 pages

**Book 6 of the Chronicles of Amber.** Merlin, son of Prince Corwin, is finishing up his education on Shadow Earth, and wrapping up a few loose ends. For example, why does someone attempt to kill him, every April 30th? The latest attempt leads him to the loss of an old love, a strange deck of Trumps, and a reconnection with an old friend. But all roads lead to Amber, and the mystery leads him

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Doc Sidhe

Aaron Allston · 352 pages

Olympic kickboxer Harris Greene's career has just self-destructed, and both his manager and his fiance, Gaby, have dumped him. While looking for Gaby, he interrupts a bizarre trio as they are kidnapping her, and he is hurled into another, very weird, universe. His only hope is Doc Sidhe, this Art Deco universe's greatest champion of justice.

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Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 02

CLAMP · 195 pages

Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane, and Mokona venture to the Hanshin Republic to find one of the missing pieces of Sakura's memory transformed into magically powerful feathers. There, Syaoran meets his "Kudan": a fierce wolf-spirit whose fiery power mirrors Syaoran's personal strength. But with foes like a pop idol who sings words of pain, Syaoran's hunt for feathers is no child's game!

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The Lighthouse Land

Adrian McKinty · 372 pages

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Gateway

Sharon Shinn

As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring—and tells her that "black jade" translates to "Daiyu"—she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th century China. Almost immediately

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Song of Susannah

Stephen King · 442 pages

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Iron Gray Sea

Taylor Anderson · 431 pages

Matt Reddy sets off in pursuit of a rogue Japanese destroyer, the Hidoiame, while the invasion of Grik "Indiaa" begins with the Human-Lemurian Alliance fighting against the Dominion.

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Ten Thousand Skies Above You

Claudia Gray · 448 pages

As eighteen-year-old Marguerite struggles to get to the heart of the corrupt company that almost killed her father, she tries to save the boy she loves, whose soul is scattered in various dimensions.

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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

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Fair Coin

E.C. Myers

When evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day, teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds to make things right.

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Gateway to the Gods

Katherine Applegate · 176 pages

Most of us probably won't get the chance to travel to a parallel universe. Won't have the opportunity to encounter wizards, dragons, aliens, and mythological gods. But if what April, Jalil, David, and Christopher have had to experience is any indication of what another world might be like, perhaps not going there isn't such a bad thing. So, April and her friends are starting to get used to the

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The Wizard

Gene Wolfe · 480 pages

Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to the dragon king Anthor.

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The Merlin Conspiracy

Diana Wynne Jones · 470 pages

Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.

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