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21) Beyond compare
Author
Series
Mad Morelands volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysterious circumstances, she is confronted with danger, murder and a handsome American whose destiny is entwined with hers . . . Rafe McIntyre has enough charm to seduce any woman, but his smooth façade hides...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This...
23) Disruptor
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Finding herself trapped again in a plot that has been centuries in the making, Quin is forced to face the past and its enemies and save herself and everyone she loves.
Author
Series
Mythwoven volume 1
Language
English
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Best Recent Asian and Asian Heritage Science Fiction and Fantasy
Best Recent Asian-American Fiction
Diverse Speculative Fiction
Best Recent Asian-American Fiction
Diverse Speculative Fiction
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"Peeraphan Rahttana lives her life in Seattle, unaware of the complicated magical world spinning just beyond the shadows and mist...until a violent clash outside her dance rehearsal has her literally whisked off her feet. Her darkly brooding rescuer, vampire Bennet Andrews, claims to represent a secret organization dedicated to locating objects of myth and magic, tucking them safely away where they can do no harm-but he's too late to save Peeraphan...
25) Argylle
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Modern-day Japan. Robin Swann's life in Tokyo is grinding to a halt. She's stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. But with her grandmother...
27) The second sleep
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to...
28) Evil in me
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring musician Ruby Tucker has had enough of her small rural town and dysfunctional family. But a falling out with her best friend and bandmate has killed her dreams of escaping and making it big in the Atlanta punk scene. While helping her eccentric neighbor organize his religious artifacts, an ancient ring clamps down on her finger-possessing her with the spirit of a blood-thirsty demon. There's no exorcizing it unless hundreds of people chant...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts-and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer,...
30) The sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Naples, 1750. Three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis in search of a secret. Accused of being an imposter, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine mission discovers a state-of-the-art lab where dozens have died in gruesome experiments. The scientist escapes, leaving a puzzling clue behind: a symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. As the power of the symbol is revealed, one unsuspecting...
Author
Series
Space operas novels volume 1
Publisher
Parvus Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Max is cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home.Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir.Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past and toward an unknown future.On Wheel's ship, the Kettle, the trio traverses the galaxy, dodging Imperial patrols and searching ancient temples and ruins for anything they can sell. Back on the Wreck, their home and base of operations,...
32) The Paris widow
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy--a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him. But her secure world comes crashing down when Adam goes missing after an explosion in the city square. Unable to reach him, she panics. As the French police investigate, it's revealed that Adam was on their radar as a dealer of rare and stolen antiquities with a long roster of criminal...
33) Captive
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb--until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful criminal empires... one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the...
Author
Series
Emmeline Truelove novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure... Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by...
Author
Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways....
37) Relic
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of savage murders that disrupt a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, and a tense time for England's women's rights campaign--the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father's distractingly attractive young colleague. Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires...
39) Unholy war
Author
Series
Moontide quartet volume 3
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tensions are mounting after a devastating battle before the walls of Shaliyah, birthplace of the Prophet. The East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and despair to the magical world of Urte. For some Salim's victory is a call to arms, for others it is evidence of a world gone mad. While the armies of East and West clash in brutal conflict, emperors, inquisitors, Souldrinkers, and assassins all have their attention turned elsewhere as they...
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