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1) The familiar
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Series
Saga of the unfated volume 1
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English
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Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband's back. Freya's dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region's jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess's blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable...
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Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first adventure in the Buccaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven powrie pirates and merchants sail. But the golden-skinned Xoconai have begun to encroach upon these waters behind the rapacious attacks of the frigate Crocodile, helmed by Captain Aketz. But when forced to submit, these sailors choose to live, free to do as they please, without some fool or another pretending...
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Series
Night and its moon volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
If Nox and Amaris are ever to have the life together they've always hoped for, they will have to use all the power and strength within them to protect their continent. When powerful enemies from Sulgrave wielding unspeakable access to magic threaten to shatter their world for good, they must join with Raascot's military, the reevers, and an unlikely ally from the mountains to have any hope of saving their kingdoms. Together, their forces press north...
5) Wind
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Starless clan volume 5
Warriors. Starless clan volume 5
Warriors a starless clan volume 5
Warriors. Starless clan volume 5
Warriors a starless clan volume 5
Language
English
Description
While Frostpaw takes refuge in ShadowClan as Splashtail seizes control of her home, Nightheart returns to ThunderClan and to a complicated reunion with his mate Sunbeam whose efforts to fit in as ThunderClan's newest member are hampered by her treacherous mother.
6) Odin
Author
Series
Asgardians volume 1
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Nine Worlds, home of Gods, Valkyries, Dwarves, Jotnar, and more! Travel the burning rainbow bridge to Asgard where Odin, king of the Aesir, surveys his realm. His thirst for knowledge drives him ever onward, but nothing is learned without sacrifice ... In Asgardians, George O'Connor's highly kinetic illustrations bring these gritty and astonishing tales of war, betrayal, and the quest for enlightenment at any cost to vivid and startling...
7) Alpha wave
Author
Series
Sleepers war volume 1
Publisher
Aethon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Created to defeat the invaders. Forgotten in victory. They will rise again-- We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One Spec-Ops agents into deadly super soldiers. In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace. The Flock surrendered and spent the next two hundred years making reparations, indentured to humanity, doing everything humans did not want...
Author
Series
Nightfall saga volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When the demons return with a vengeance, Olive, destined for a role as leader and savior, and Darlin, struggling with his supernatural senses, strive to walk their own path, but are inextricably tied to the legacies of their parents and a fated confrontation with the demon king and his new, hatchling queen.
Author
Series
Mechanists volume 2
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries who fight a government which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen's fate.
10) Wicked problems
Author
Series
Craft wars volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A deadly force has been unleashed into the world. With apocalypse on the horizon, a girl and a god have joined in order to turn back the coming end. Young, brash, and desperate, they are willing to destroy anything and everything that stands between them and their goals. The structures of the Craft are theirs to overturn, with billions of lives in the balance. And it is all Tara Abernathy's fault. The battle for the world of the Craft is heating...
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Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse...
12) Valdemar
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
13) Warriorborn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster hasn't even broken in his lieutenant's insignia when he's summoned to meet with the Spirearch of Spire Albion himself for a very special--and very secret--purpose. The Spirearch needs Benedict to retrieve a bag he's "misplaced" on the Colony Spire known as Dependence, which has strangely cut off all contact with the outside world. It's a delicate mission at best, a potential bloodbath at worst. To this end, the Spirearch...
14) To cage a god
Author
Series
These monstrous gods volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"To cage a god is divine. To be divine is to rule. To rule is to destroy. Using ancient secrets, Galina and Sera's mother grafted gods into their bones. Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in millennia, the sisters have grown up to become living weapons. Raised to overthrow an empire - no matter the cost. With their mother gone and their country on the brink of war, it falls to the sisters to take the helm of rebellion...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos--the galaxy's finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett--find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalone with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata's ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others--including men from Delta and...
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Series
Alamaxa volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Daughters of Izdihar--a group of women fighting for the vote and against the patriarchal rule of Parliament--have finally made strides in having their voices heard...only to find them drowned out by the cannons of the fundamentalist Ziranis. As long as Alamaxa continues to allow for the elemental magic of the weavers--and insist on allowing an academy to teach such things--the Zirani will stop at nothing to end what they perceive is a threat to...
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