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Let It Be Me

Kate Noble · 311 pages

Bridget longs to meet a gentleman who doesn't mention her beautiful sister upon shaking her hand. But since being branded a shrew after a disastrous social season, Bridget knows she's lucky to even have a man come near her. It's enough to make a lady flee the country. So Bridget heads to Venice for music lessons with the renowned Italian composer Vincenzo Carpenini, with whom she's been correspond

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The Last Magician

Lisa Maxwell · 528 pages

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The Gilded Wolves

Roshani Chokshi · 400 pages

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A Matter of Magic

Patricia C. Wrede · 448 pages

When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician's wagon, Kim doesn't hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. A hard life and lean times have schooled her in one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for. Until he su

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Dark Mirror

M.J. Putney · 304 pages

When a shocking accident forces Tory to demonstrate her despised skill, the secret she's fought so hard to hide is revealed for all to see. She is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. There she will learn to suppress her deplorable talents and maybe, if she's one of the lucky ones, be able to return to society.

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Sorcerer to the Crown

Zen Cho · 384 pages

"In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite... The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman--a freed slave who doesn't even hav

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The Dark Days Pact

Alison Goodman · 512 pages

"In 1812, Lady Helen, taking refuge for the summer in Brighton, learns the Dark Days Club has a secret mission for her"--

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The Ruin of Angels

Max Gladstone · 570 pages

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The Shadow of the Lion

Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer · 825 pages

"Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic ag

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Mistborn Trilogy

Brandon Sanderson · 1,414 pages

This discounted ebundle includes: Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn trilogy is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand year

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One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · 377 pages

New York Times bestseller • USA Today bestseller • Booktok sensation • Amazon Charts bestseller • Over 3 million copies sold of The Shepherd King Duology From the queen of gothic romantasy, Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window is the dark, mist-cloaked tale of a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monst

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Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo · 560 pages

Crooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel written by Leigh Bardugo.The book is set in a world loosely inspired by 20th century Europe.Crooked Kingdom takes place days after the events of the first book, Six of Crows, finishes.The plot is told from the close third-person viewpoints of six different characters, plus a first and last chapter from two minor characters' points of view.

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The Serpent

Claire North

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The Drowned Woods

Emily Lloyd-Jones · 368 pages

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Skin Game

Jim Butcher · 585 pages

Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.

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Book of Night

Holly Black · 304 pages

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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Foundryside

Robert Jackson Bennett · 501 pages

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The Alchemist's Apprentice

Dave Duncan · 320 pages

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The Fallen Blade

Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 419 pages

Venice, 1407. The city is at the height of its powers. In theory, Duke Marco commands, but Marco is a simpleton so his aunt and uncle rule in his stead. They seem all powerful, yet live in fear of assassins better than their own. On the night their world changes, Marco's young cousin prays in the family chapel for deliverance from a forced marriage. It is her misfortune to be alone when Mamluk pir

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The Magician's Land

Lev Grossman · 416 pages

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The Merchant of Dreams

Anne Lyle

Book Two of the Night's Masque series, sequel to The Alchemist of Souls Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical

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The Masked City

Genevieve Cogman

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City of Masks

Mary Hoffman · 344 pages

Lucien is very sick with cancer and struggles with his parents' worry every day. But each night, through a magical gift from his father, his mind is transported to an enchanting city, Bellezza, a parallel city to Venice of our world. In Bellezza, Lucien discovers that he is a Stravagante, a rare person able to travel through worlds while sleeping. Befriended by a local girl and protected by an

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