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21) Bone weaver
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"The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution...but seventeen-year-old Toma lives blissfully disconnected from the conflict in the empire with her adoptive family of benevolent undead. When she meets Vanya, a charming commoner branded as a witch by his own neighbors, and the dethroned Tsar Mikhail himself, the unlikely trio bonds over trying to restore Mikhail's magic and protect the empire from the...
23) Dark heir
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[2023]
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Will travels to the heart of the ancient world where he must keep his true identity hidden as he’s tempted by the darkness within.
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2023.
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When three human empires unite to defeat the inhuman Drenhu, Captain Alastor Nevelon, setting sail against the enemy, is forced to send his daughter Chrysanthe to the capitol city--a dangerous place where courtly manners hide murderous intentions--to discover whatever plots may be afoot in the heart of Ophion.
25) The champion
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2021.
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"In this explosive final book in the Contender trilogy, Cade and his friends wage the ultimate battle for their lives--and the fate of Earth itself--in the Game set by the cruel and mysterious Pantheon"--
28) The storm crow
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In the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire, magical, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life. Then the Illucian empire invades, destroying everything. Princess Anthia and her sister Caliza are running the kingdom after their mother's death, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost. Then Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia. When Thia stumbles upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery,...
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The war with the Parshendi moves into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains. Meanwhile Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and Kaladin, leader of the restored Knights Radiant, masters the powers of a Windrunner.
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"An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at...
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After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. few legitimate claims to the Iron Throne still exist, and the war that has turned the world into little more than a wasteland has finally burned itself out. Or so it appears. For it's not long before th survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes,...
32) Children of Dune
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2023.
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When their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides, plans to obtain the secrets of their prophetic visions to maintain control over her dynasty, twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies.
33) Starsight
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"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
36) Iron flame
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
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[2021]
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"Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together they brought the whole continent to its knees ... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory. 40 years later, she must bring her former captains back together for...
38) Sons of darkness
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2023.
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Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither gold nor alliances last forever, and that they are not the only players on the board.
39) Aspects
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"At last, the final work of John M. Ford-one of the greatest SF and fantasy authors of his time. Enter the halls of Parliament with Varic, Coron of the Corvaric Coast. Visit Strange House with the Archmage Birch. Explore the mountains of Lady Longlight alongside the Palion Silvern, Sorcerer. In the years before his unexpected death, John M. Ford wrote a novel of fantasy and magic unlike any other. Politics and abdicated kings, swords and sorcerous...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes the third gripping adventure in the Shattered Realms series, where intricately interwoven storylines converge as the warring Seven Realms struggle to unite against a horrific tyrant. Vagabond seafarer Evan Strangward can move wind, waves, and weather, but his magical abilities can't protect him forever from the brutal Empress Celestine. As Celestine's relentless bloodsworn armies grow,...
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