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A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 174 pages

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from whi

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The Desert Spear

Peter V. Brett · 689 pages

The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a general--some would say prophet--who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those t

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The Verdant Passage

Troy Denning · 330 pages

A new creed kindled from despair... Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear. His thousand-year reign of death is about to end. Banding together to spark a revolution are a maverick statesman, a winsome half-elf slave girl, and a man-dwarf gladiator bred for the arenas. But if the people are to be freed, the

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Saga, Vol. 2

Brian K. Vaughan · 144 pages

"Après avoir réchappé aux horreurs de la planète Clivage, à ses champs de bataille, et aux chasseurs de primes lancés à leur poursuite, Alana, Marko et leur fille Hazel, symbole d'une paix possible entre les deux peuples, s'apprêtent à relever leur plus grand défi : faire la connaissance des grands-parents !" [Source : 4e de couv.].

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Dune

Frank Herbert · 541 pages

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's famil

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Sword-Dancer

Jennifer Roberson · 286 pages

SOUTHRON BLADE SKILL, NORTHERN SWORD MAGIC... He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. Now he was an almost legendary sword-dancer, ready to take on any challenge--if the price was right...or the woman pretty enough. She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest of Northern swor

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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

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Jane Carver of Waar

Nathan Long

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The Sword and the Chain

Joel Rosenberg · 250 pages

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Traitor's Blade

Sebastien de Castell · 372 pages

Reduced to demeaning work when the Greatcoats are disbanded after the king's death, swordsman Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates are framed for murder by a scheming adversary who would destroy everything they once worked to create.

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The Nomad

Simon Hawke · 310 pages

To Find an Avangion... Armed with Galdra, the fabled sword of elven kings, Sorak has forged his way across the forbidding wilds of Athas, from the peaks of the Ringing Mountains to the shores of the Great Silt Sea. Now, along with his villichi companion Ryana, he closes in on the goal of his quest, a natal avangion who holds the secret of Sorak's past and the promise of Athas's future. Unfortunate

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John Carter of Mars: Warlord of Mars: Omnibus

Marv Wolfman, Gil Kane, Chris Claremont, Bill Mantlo, Peter B. Gillis · 632 pages

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Almuric

Robert E. Howard · 126 pages

An amazing story from the pen of a master of weird fiction and the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conqueror, and many other characters. It begins on our own planet and ends on the demon-haunted world Almuric. Follow the adventures of Esau Cairn and his love, Altha.

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The Witches of Wenshar

Barbara Hambly · 339 pages

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness · 518 pages

Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town?

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The City of the Beast or Warriors of Mars (Michael Kane 1)

Michael Moorcock, Edward P. Bradbury · 159 pages

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The Desert of Souls

Howard Andrew Jones · 309 pages

When a stranger begs the vizier of ninth-century Baghdad to protect a bejeweled tablet and is murdered before he can explain, the scholar Dabir pursues suspicions that the subsequently stolen tablet may unlock secrets to the lost city of Ubar.

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Paul of Dune

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson · 512 pages

As all good Frank Herbert fans know, a gap of several years occurs between the events of Dune and its sequel Dune Messiah. Now Frank Herbert's son Brian and famed science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson have ably bridged that chasm with Paul of Dune, a novel that sustains the mythos and majesty of the original series. This epic installment describes Paul's triumph over the galaxy and struggles, m

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Blood of the Fold

Terry Goodkind · 464 pages

The third book in the sword of truth series The Blood of the Fold continue to hunt down those with the gift, unwittingly being used by the Emperor Jagang, aka the Dream Walker, who tells some that he is the Creator and others that he is the Keeper. Either way, the images he shows them in their dreams, along with the commands he gives them, are enough to make them comply with whatever he says to

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Katherine Woods · 87 pages

A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells of his own planet with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower are unforgettable. A strange and wonderful parable for all ages, with superb illustrations by the author.

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Two to Conquer

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 335 pages

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