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Grass for His Pillow

Lian Hearn · 306 pages

SamuraiSilkpunkJapanMultiple POV
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The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu · 640 pages

"Wily, charming Kuni Garu--a bandit--and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu--the son of a deposed duke--seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who se

SilkpunkRebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasy
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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.

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyEnvironmental Collapse
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SamuraiJapanDarkViolent
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SamuraiJapanFantasyViolent
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A Torch Against the Night

Sabaa Tahir

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyDark
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The Wind and the Void

Ryan Kirk · 440 pages

SamuraiJapanFantasyViolent
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War Storm

Victoria Aveyard · 672 pages

Mare and her Scarlet Guard had nearly triumphed over the oppressive Silvers and the wicked King Maven when Cal's betrayal sent Mare reeling. Now with the Scarlet Guard at her back, Mare is determined to destroy the Silver world once and for all--starting with Maven.

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyViolent
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House of Flame and Shadow

Sarah J Maas · 848 pages

The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to ne

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyDark
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Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 15: Brothers of the Grass

Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima · 352 pages

SamuraiJapanDarkViolent
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Two Dark Reigns

Kendare Blake · 463 pages

Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There s also the alarming issue of whether her sisters are actually dead or if they re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne.

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyDark
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The Trouble with Peace

Joe Abercrombie · 509 pages

Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion. Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end

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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 560 pages

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyViolent
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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVEnvironmental CollapseDark
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Okko: The Cycle of Water

Hub · 300 pages

SamuraiJapanFantasyViolent
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Samurai Deeper Kyo, Volume 05

Akimine Kamijyo · 208 pages

SamuraiJapanFantasyViolent
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Of Dreams and Rust

Sarah Fine · 277 pages

When the downtrodden Noor rebel in the West, Wen, overhearing a plan to crush the Noor with powerful war machines, leaves the ghostly Bo, now a boy determined to transform himself into a living machine, and journeys into the war zone to warn the Noor--and her great love, Melik.

SilkpunkRebels and ResistanceFantasyFemale Lead
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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.

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyDark
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SamuraiJapanDarkViolent
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Saga, Vol. 1

Brian K. Vaughan · 160 pages

From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous o

Rebels and ResistanceMultiple POVFantasyDark
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Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros · 527 pages

Rebels and ResistanceFantasyDarkViolent
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Flame in the Mist

Renee Ahdieh · 392 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Tamora Pierce.The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place--she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always

SamuraiJapanFantasySeries
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Shōgun

James Clavell · 979 pages

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and free

SamuraiJapanMultiple POVViolent

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