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41) Threshold
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A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Agi are building to propel them into Infinity. But something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood, waiting to use threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod! thousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of threshold. Among them is tirzah,...
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In a world of magic Blessings gifted by gods, the Porters were viewed as both the weakest and the strongest, for their god Hermes gave no Blessings. Until one day, when a Porter gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of his cargo- and received the ultimate compensation.
Porter Lugot lost a precious cargo on his first Commission for his Order of Porters, and with it he lost his life, until he was dragged back to the living by the will of a being...
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The final novel of the acclaimed fantasy series continues the adventures of Titus, Earl of Groan, completed by the author's widow based on his fragments.
Mervyn Peake's series of novels featuring the inhabitants of Gormenghast castle are "a work of extraordinary imagination." After Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, Peake was working on a fourth chapter in the series before his death. Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake's widow, wrote Titus Awakes...
44) Sinner
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Sinner is the fourth book in Sara Douglass's The Wayfarer Redemption series, however it starts a brand new story arc and is the perfect place for new readers to enter this epic fantasy series.
The land Tencendor has been united for more than forty years. The Starman Axis defeated the dreaded monster Gorgrael and by fulfilling his destiny he has brought peace finally to the three races of this land: the Icarii bird people, the Avar tree people, and...
45) Whitehorse Peak
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On the borderlands of the Kingdom of Deran, a young forest scout named Dar Cabot fights off an attack by goblin warriors and finds the ruins of a village, its homes destroyed and people slain. Eager for justice and motivated by a family secret, he enlists the help of an unlikely combination of allies: a halfling spy with a hidden past, the adopted son of a famous wizard, two half-elven sisters from a enemy land, a widowed priestess of the Elven god...
46) Enchanter
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Enchanter is the riveting sequel to Sara Douglass's spell-binding first novel The Wayfarer Redemption, and winner of the 1996 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Sara Douglass has taken America by storm with this powerful tale of love, prophecy, battles, and revenge.
Axis is a true hero, in every sense of the word. On his shoulders lies the double burden of prophecy and war. Having fulfilled the first part of the prophecy by becoming the StarMan,...
47) Preylute
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In this world, there are beings who are more than humansthose who live in the shadows and thrive on blood and fear. In the darkness, a battle rages between the vampires and their sworn enemies, the Preylutes, the abominations created when vampires breed with werewolves. The vampires consider the half-breeds to be a threat to their way of life and have vowed to destroy them all. The Preylutes in turn fight to defend themselvesbut a Preylute named John,...
48) Amaskan's War
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Newly crowned Queen Margaret struggles with the loss of her father as the Kingdom of Shad's army marches for her border. But when the Boahim Senate refuses to step in, civil war threatens to break out across the Little Dozen Kingdoms. A harrowing journey reveals her greatest fears and unearths the Boahim Senate's darkest secret, leaving Margaret sure of one thing—neither she, nor the Little Dozen Kingdoms will ever be the same again. Now to secure...
49) StarMan
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Starman is the third title in Sara Douglass's epic fantasy Wayfarer Redemption series. A sprawling tale of love and magic, enormous battles and true monsters
Axis is the StarMan of prophecy and legend, destined to lead the three races of his world to unite as one people. The people of his world all know the Prophecy of the Destroyer, despite the failed attempts of the Seneschal to suppress it in the name of the god Artor the Ploughman, and it predicts...
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"The Faith requires all we have."
New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan returns to the Raven's Shadow world in this prequel novella set ten years before the events in Blood Song.
For decades the brothers of the Sixth Order have fought a savage war against the Lonak clans amidst the frozen peaks of their Dominion.
When word reaches the north of a fresh outbreak of the dreaded Red Hand, Brother Sollis, the finest swordsman in the Order,...
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Australian author Sara Douglass, author of the beloved Wayfarer Redemption series, presents a stunning standalone prequel to the Darkglass Mountain trilogy.
Like his physician father, Garth Baxtor is gifted with The Touch. By laying his hands upon a person, Garth can sense what dwells within: pain, illness, joy, or sorrow. It is through the application of The Touch that the gifted minister helps the sick of Escator by diagnosing ills and promoting...
52) Eye of Truth
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Fresh from their victory over the evil Ja'al cult in Whitehorse Peak, Dar Cabot and his friends set out to unravel the meaning of the mysterious prophecy of the Song of the Grey Riders, a poem that predicts heroism, calamity, and a clash of Darkness and Light - One Dark Rider fighting Seven of Grey. However, their efforts are interrupted by new dangers linked to events from their pasts: Andyn's husband's murder and the betrayal of Buck Bydecy by an...
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This is the second volume of an epic fantasy saga.
On a night of the full moon, in the tower of a castle that rises between the water of the Nàar, a witch is born, gifted with enormous, dark powers. In the city of Fedòra, the great capital of humans, an ancient Order guards a terrible secret that gravely threatens every living creature. In the Temple of Destiny, not all the wizards are what they seem, and dark threads are woven in the gelid nights....
54) Assassin Prince
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Freelance sell-swords no longer, the Grey Riders are elevated to rank and title for their role in the defeat of the Lich Princess in Helm of Shadows, but they have some unfinished business. Eric Indidarc is driven to atone for the evils of his parents, leaders of the Crossed Swords Assassins Guild. He leads the Riders on a perilous mission to bring them to justice. Meanwhile, the Alenar sisters infiltrate dangerous lands, seeking remnants of ancient...
55) The Inferno
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The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
57) Shadows of self
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law. With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America.The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are...
58) Fall of giants
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
59) A Booktiful Love
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A Booktiful Love is, a collection of poems that deal with the entirety of human experience in its various forms. Didactically rich, the poems explore ideas ranging from love, relationships, and patriotism to marriage, morality, and many other concepts pertinent to daily living.
Given its variety of themes, what unifies the poems in this collection is the simplicity and ambiguousness of language, which the poet employs. The poems draw their strength...
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