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For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil. As the threat of war hangs over the...
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In The Mage Winds trilogy, which began with the best-selling novel, Winds of Fate, author Mercedes Lackey continues the epic that started with her first published book, Arrows of the Queen introduced readers to the remarkable land of Valdemar, the kingdom protected by its Heralds—men and women gifted with extraordinary mind powers—aided and served by their mysterious Companions—horselike beings who know the many secrets...
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Discworld (Young adult) volume 3
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English
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Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
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HarperTorch
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Fantasy stories. In Will Shetterly's Splatter, killers decide to show a novelist how it's really done, Karen Haber's A Bone Dry Place is set in a suicide-prevention clinic, and in John Ford's Chain Home, Low a sleeping virus strikes a group of wartime pilots.
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Cheeky Frawg Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical short stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the Pyret or the title story, Jagannath, about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeck's unique imagination will enthrall, amuse, and unsettle you.
6) Spellslinger
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Spellslinger novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Kellen is moments away from facing his first mage's duel and the start of four trials that will make him a spellcaster. There's just one problem: his magic is gone. As his sixteenth birthday approaches, Kellen falls back on his cunning in a bid to avoid total disgrace. But when a daring stranger arrives in town, she challenges Kellen to take a different path. Ferius Parfax is one of the mysterious Argosi - a traveller who lives by her wits and the...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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"Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing...
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Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Outlander series, a latest annual edition compiles top-selected short works of science fiction and fantasy from the year 2019."--Provided by publisher.
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde....
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Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
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2015.
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Español
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"Doscientos año después de la Conquista, la dinastía Targaryen vive su apogeo. Los Siete Reinos de Poniente atraviesan un momento de relativa paz en los últimos años del reinado del buen rey Daeron. Es con este escenario como telón de fondo que Dunk, un muchacho pobre del Lecho de Pulgas, tiene una oportunidad única: dejar su vida miserable y convertirse en el escudero de un auténtico caballero. Pronto, el caballero muere y Dunk decide tomar...
12) Tiassa
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Vlad Taltos novels volume 13
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living. That skill got him his foothold in House Jhereg, running the rackets for a chunk of urban Adrilankha. Later things happened, leaving Vlad a changed man, on the run from the Jhereg, and frequently involved in the affairs of Dragonlords, Empresses, and even Jenoine. Far more involved than the average short-lived human. Meanwhile in the very distant past, one of the gods fashioned an artifact...
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Incarnations of immortality volume 3
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Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1986.
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English
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When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target in a devious plot of the Devil's. Hoping for revenge, she discovered, too late, how intricate his scheming was, and that he had managed to trap her son and her granddaughter, Luna. Niobe's only chance to save them was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit--a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising! -- from Amazon.
15) Black cocktail
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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Ingram York is fascinated by the stories told by Michael Billa, who said that death is like the bartender who can whip up any number of exotic drinks, like black cocktails. Like Clinton Deix. Deix was the scariest and angriest kid in high school and now he's back to see he high school friend, Michael. And Clinton is still fifteen.
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Last kids on Earth volume 7
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English
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This much anticipated seventh book in the best-selling series finds Jack, Quint, June and Dirk continuing their journey with new friends, new stakes and a new ride.
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Hildafolk (Novels) volume 1
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
When the tiny, invisible elves start harassing Hilda and her mother, Hilda must negotiate peace with the magical creatures so she doesn't have to move to Trolberg City.
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Moomin books volume 9
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Winter's approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins' absence, they must visit with each other.
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces written and/or chosen by Diana Wynne Jones will be required reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the genre. Reflections includes insightful literary criticism alongside autobiographical anecdotes about reading tours (including an account of the author's famous travel jinx), revelations about the origins of the author's books,...
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