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Prince of Ayodhya

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A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated

Danielle L Jensen · 448 pages

Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess’s

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Bhima Lone Warrior

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Sons of Darkness

Gourav Mohanty · 636 pages

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Rick Riordan · 1,032 pages

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Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince

Anuja Chandramouli · 364 pages

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The Palace of Illusions

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 372 pages

A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of the wife of an amazing woman.Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancien

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The Alchemyst

Michael Scott

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The Hero of Ages

Brandon Sanderson · 760 pages

Emperor Elend Venture, having survived only to become a Mistborn himself, struggles to find clues by the Lord Ruler that will save his world, while a guilt-consumed Vin takes on a task of ending the cosmic power of the Ruin mystic force.

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Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

Kavita Kane · 320 pages

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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

R.K. Narayan · 171 pages

A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.

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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 512 pages

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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

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The Pregnant King

Devdutt Pattanaik · 349 pages

Novel on Yuvanashva, a childless king from Mahabharata.

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Heart of the Sun Warrior

Sue Lynn Tan · 480 pages

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Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny · 261 pages

A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappin

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Neon Gods

Katee Robert · 408 pages

**He was supposed to be a myth. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.** Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous

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Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse · 454 pages

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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake · 336 pages

Athena and Hermes' search for the cause of their unexpected, life-threatening illnesses leads them to Cassandra, a former prophetess, who may be key to a war started by Hera and other Olympians who have become corrupt anti-gods determined to destroy their rivals.

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Castle of Wizardry

David Eddings · 384 pages

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