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The Fall of the Kings

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The Atlas Paradox

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Waking the Moon

Elizabeth Hand · 451 pages

Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, where she meets the mysterious Angelica and falls in love with the strange and beautiful Oliver. She gets tangled up in sinister, supernatural events involving a secret society and the awakening of an ancient, malevolent goddess. According to the afterword for the short story "The Bacchae", found in the c

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Lord of the White Hell, Book 2

Ginn Hale · 358 pages

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Kushiel's Scion

Jacqueline Carey · 768 pages

Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phedre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire. It is a court steeped in deeply laid conspirac

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Dragonfall

L.R. Lam · 336 pages

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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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The Oleander Sword

Tasha Suri · 513 pages

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The Lessons

Naomi Alderman · 288 pages

Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always

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A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon · 868 pages

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Bringing Down the Duke

Evie Dunmore · 335 pages

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Gabriel's Redemption

Sylvain Reynard · 495 pages

Gabriel's Inferno #3 "Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he's confident that they can face any challenge. And he's eager to become a father. But Julianne's graduate program threatens Gabriel's plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. When she is given the honor of present

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The Rebel Angels

Robertson Davies · 326 pages

Murder, theft perjury, love, and scholarship at a modern university trouble the life of a beautiful partgypsy graduate student.

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Tam Lin

Pamela Dean · 468 pages

Publisher's description: "In the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin," headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul. In this version of "Tam Lin," masterfully crafted by Pamela Dean, Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and

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Water Logic

Laurie J. Marks · 332 pages

New government forms in the land of Shaftal. Now soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, weary of war, must fight to ensure revenge and retribution are not their only future. For there are those on each side who cannot forget their losses, and cannot imagine a place for themselves side by side with former foes in an enemy land.

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Golden Fool

Robin Hobb · 616 pages

Taking up residence at Buckkeep as a spy, FitzChivalry Farseer navigates the complex intrigues of the court as he seeks to unravel the secrets of Prince Dutiful's betrothed and sort out his own chaotic personal life.

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A Fire Endless

Rebecca Ross · 512 pages

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The Shadowed Land

Signe Pike · 400 pages

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Notorious Sorcerer

Davinia Evans · 400 pages

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The Dream Thieves

Maggie Stiefvater · 448 pages

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.

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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Diana Gabaldon · 512 pages

Eighteenth-century Britain and the Seven Years' War form the backdrop for Lord John Grey's quest to uncover the truth about his father's death, a search that leads to deadly peril and an encounter with a Jacobite prisoner, Jamie Fraser, who may hold the key to his quest.

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If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio · 368 pages

Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.

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The Vampire Armand

Anne Rice · 452 pages

The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of death. Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the Vampire Chronicles returns to the glittering story of Armand, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven a

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