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The Book of Lies

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The Son of Neptune

Rick Riordan · 521 pages

Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells wit

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Phantom

Terry Goodkind · 590 pages

Richard desperately searches for his long-lost, amnesiac beloved, Kahlan Amnell, racing against time to find her before she can uncover the secrets of her lost identity, thereby making her vulnerable to evil.

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The Black Reckoning

John Stephens

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The Lost Planet

Rachel Searles · 379 pages

Waking up on a distant planet, Chase Garrety is horrified to learn that he has no memory of his life and finds himself under the protection of a mysterious benefactor who requires him to complete an important mission before time runs out.

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The Chronicles of Amber: Volume I

Roger Zelazny · 188 pages

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The Lost Years

T.A. Barron · 304 pages

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The Man Called Noon

Louis L'Amour · 188 pages

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead--and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions--or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' wort

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Flyte

Angie Sage · 544 pages

When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry wolverines and carnivorous trees.

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The Forbidden Library

Django Wexler · 373 pages

When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books. When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includ

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Ash & Bramble

Sarah Prineas · 464 pages

After Pin and Shoe escape from servitude in the Godmother's fortress, they learn that she has taken control of Story, which can warp the world around it, forcing people into its shape, and they decide to try to break out and create their own destinies in this tale that features many familiar characters.

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The Book of Dead Days

Marcus Sedgwick · 273 pages

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.

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Drink of Me

Jacquelyn Frank · 378 pages

When Reule, the telepathically gifted Prime of the Sánge, who are scorned by every other race, rescues a beautiful amnesiac outlander he names Mystique, he is unable to control his need for this mysterious woman.

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Warrior Woman

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 205 pages

This is not a typical Marion Zimmer Bradley novel. This book is the result of a bet between Marion and Don Wollheim, her editor for the Darkover novels at DAW Books. In addition, it's her response to the Gor novels - where men were men and women were slaves - that were also being published by DAW Books. Yes, this book does start out with a heroine who has been captured and is being sold as a sl

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The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer · 448 pages

Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),

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Dreadful

Caitlin Rozakis · 344 pages

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Shadow

K.J. Parker · 576 pages

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The Hounds of the Mórrígan

Pat O'Shea · 472 pages

When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.

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Cold-Forged Flame

Marie Brennan

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The Dragon of the Month Club

Iain Reading · 236 pages

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The Indigo King

James A. Owen

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The Bourne Identity

Robert Ludlum · 576 pages

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Restart

Gordon Korman

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Salman Rushdie · 219 pages

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins.

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