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Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 3
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English
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Without the protection of Gavin Guile, who has been captured and enslaved and has lost his powers, Kip, Teia, and Karris fight to survive a secret war between the nobles, rebels, and an ancient order of stealthy assassins called The Broken Eye.
2) The traveler
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Series
Fourth Realm trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Their lives shaped by their father's role as a Traveler, an elite prophet able to attain pure enlightenment, Gabriel and Michael Corrigan become a target of the Tabulas, a ruthless cadre seeking world domination.
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Gavin Guile thought he had five years left--now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin...
4) Anansi boys
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English
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One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts"...
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Series
Blood and Ash volume 3
Language
English
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Poppy now has the love of Prince Casteel, but finds they must together rescue both their brothers and weather all manner of danger, to save their people as well as each other.
Poppy found love with Prince Casteel, but is determined that they free his brother, and find hers. The mission will have far-reaching consequences: Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the...
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Series
Patternists volume 5
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English
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In the far future, humans are connected by a telepathic web that is controlled by the Patternmaster, a man whose sheer mental power has made him the uncontested ruler of humankind. As strong as his mind is, the Patternmaster's body is weakening by the day, and when he dies, his people will descend into anarchy unless a clear successor steps forward. Of the Patternmaster's many children, only two have the potential strength to take the throne. Teray...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
July 2019.
Language
English
Description
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob -- a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life -- hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his life's duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then, literary...
8) Ymir
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Series
Violet wars volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yorick never wanted to see his home world again. Thirty years later, he finds himself sent back to the icy mining colony as a company man--and he can't leave this frozen rock in the dust until he neutralizes the threat. A vicious, long-forgotten machine has newly thawed from the ice, and it seems to have a mind of its own. But as Yorick plumbs the depths of the mines and his own past, he finds a tangled conspiracy that's much more than he bargained...
Author
Series
Remembrance War series volume 2
Publisher
Flame Tree Press, an imprint of Flame Tree Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.
Author
Series
Age of Ire volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Scott Drakeford's epic fantasy debut, Rise of the Mages combines gripping, personal vengeance with compelling characters for an action packed first book in a trilogy. Emrael Ire wants nothing more than to test to be a weapons master. His final exam will be a bloody insurrection, staged by corrupt nobles and priests, that enslaves his brother. With the aid of his War Master tutor, herself an undercover mage, Emrael discovers his own latent and powerful...
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Camcat Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town-a good streak for her-but the peace is broken when actual villain Last Dance sets his sights on Decimen. And he wants Rex's help. Before Rex can say "I didn't do it," superheroes who've dragged her to jail on her worst days are crowding...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A nameless, dying narrator takes us back to his childhood home in a remote corner of the ubiquitous 'Empire'. The second of three sons, he lives there with his mother in a state of unrelieved poverty. Life eventually becomes so dire that the mother-who can only find work as a prostitute-is forced to sell one of her children. The oldest son, Nico, volunteers to be sold in order to protect his family, and that decision sets in motion everything that...
14) Temper
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Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Auben Mutze has more vices than he can deal with-six to be exact-each branded down his arm for all the world to see. They mark him as a lesser twin in society, as inferior, but there's no way he'll let that define him. Intelligent and outgoing, Auben's spirited antics make him popular among the other students at his underprivileged high school. So what if he's envious of his twin Kasim, whose single vice brand is a ticket to a better life, one that...
15) Blindspace
Author
Series
Common volume 2
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite soldier injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech: the DNA of a genocidal alien race, the Shenoi. It makes him stronger, faster, more aggressive. At a price. A price that, if the House of Suns cult isn't stopped, all of humanity will have to pay. Vakov saved his estranged brother from the cult and killed their leader. Now they want his head on a spike, and they're hunting him and his friends down to get...
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