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Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe breathless finale to the New York Times bestselling Rebel of the Sands series will have you on the edge of your seat until the dust from the final battle clears!When gunslinging Amani Al’Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she’d join a revolution, let alone lead one... -
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The Far West by Patricia C. Wrede
When the government forms an expedition to map the Far West, Eff has the opportunity to travel farther than anyone in the world. With twin Lan, William, Professor Torgeson, Wash, and Professor Ochiba, she finds that nothing on the wild frontier is as they expected...Categorized as:
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![Peace Like a River by Leif Enger]()
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsA boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy... -
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Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFawn and necromancer-patroller husband Dag seek solutions to the perilous split between their peoples, joined by her brother Whit, two novice patrollers, a flatboat captain searching for her vanished father and fiancé, a shrewd backwoods hunter, and a farmer boy unintentionally beguiled by Dag's growing magery...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Self-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
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Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsOne of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold has won numerous accolades and awards, including the Nebula and Locus Awards as well as the fantasy and science fiction genre’s most prestigious honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, four times (most recently for Paladin of Souls)...Categorized as:
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Peacemaker by Lindsay Buroker
Half-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn’t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north—all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world... -
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Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsOnce upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother.Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall... -
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Calamity Jack by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsJack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying beanstalk... -
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Tales from Sand & Sea by Alwyn Hamilton
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn exclusive short story collection from the world of Rebel of the Sands. Includes .. -
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Kurohime, Vol. 1 by Masanori Ookamigumi Katakura
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsKurohime is a big busty witch with the command of magical guns. She was once foolish enough to challenge the Gods and in doing so was punished. A curse was put on her that turned her into a little girl... -
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Healer's Touch by Deb E. Howell
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Young Riders meet The Vampire Diaries in this tale of brother versus brother and blood-magic set in a gaslamp fantasy world. Book 1 in the Deadly Touch Trilogy.Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury – but at a cost to anyone nearby.Llew’s father disappeared when she was eleven, leaving her orphaned, as far as she knew...Categorized as:
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Relic by Renee Collins
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a raging fire consumes her town and kills her parents, Maggie Davis is on her own to protect her younger sister and survive best she can in the Colorado town of Burning Mesa... -
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The Shack by William Paul Young
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 77 ratingsMackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend... -
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The Girl from Shadow Springs by Ellie Cypher
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Revenant meets True Grit with a magical twist in this thrilling and atmospheric debut fantasy about two teens who must brave a frozen wasteland and the foes within it to save their loved ones and uncover a deadly secret.The answer to what freezes first is the eyes. That ain’t what most people would guess.Everyone in Shadow Springs knows that no one survives crossing the Flats... -
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Wranglestone by Darren Charlton
Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared...In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter comes, there's nothing to stop them from crossing the ice.Then homebody Peter puts the camp in danger by naively allowing a stranger to come ashore and he's forced to leave the community of Wranglestone... -
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A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf magic lives anywhere, it’s in the stars…Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But after her mother dies, and Vega sees the fabled twin stars in the sky, it’s an omen she can no longer ignore, forcing her to leave the protective boundaries of the valley... -
![Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson]()
Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts.This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict...Categorized as:
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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action...Categorized as:
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Right of Retribution by William D. Arand
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWarner spent his days like almost anyone else. He got up, went to work, answered phone calls in a call center, went home, spent time with his daughter, and went to sleep. Only to repeat the pattern over and over and over. Life was as mundane as anyone could ever fear it to be. Today was the day that all that would change... -
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Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton
Rebel by chance. Traitor by choice.Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne... -
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Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsKai and Caleb Goodacre have been kidnapped just as rumors of a cult sweeping across the reservation leads Maggie and Hastiin to investigate an outpost, and what they find there will challenge everything they've come to know in this action-packed sequel to Trail of Lightning... -
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Liberty by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it’s close to becoming a reality. There’s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him... -
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The Serpent in Heaven by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series... -
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![Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse]()
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsWhile most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope... -
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Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsAfter a harrowing journey across the country, Leah Westfall and her friends have finally arrived in California and are ready to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush. Lee has a special advantage over the other new arrivals in California—she has the ability to sense gold, a secret known only by her handsome best friend Jefferson and her murdering uncle Hiram...Categorized as:
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Horseman by Kyle Robert Shultz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn the year 1790, monster hunter Ichabod Crane searched for a mysterious creature called the Headless Horseman. His quest ended in an embarrassing failure that marked his family with disgrace for generations. Now, in 1891, his descendant (and part-time centaur) Todd Crane is determined to clear his family’s name. There's just one problem--Todd deals in illegal magic potions... -
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Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSupernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the conclusion of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy adventure series that began with Wake of Vultures. "I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Buy this book because it's the thrilling, delightfully written, and important one you've always wanted to read... -
![The Legend of the Bloodstone by E.B. Brown]()
The Legend of the Bloodstone by E.B. Brown
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"Perhaps I will cut your throat as you tried to cut mine. Will I still want to touch you when your blood is on my hands? Or will it chase your ghost from my thoughts?" He held his hands out and considered his open palms for a moment, shaking his head. "I think not. I think still you would haunt me...Categorized as:
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Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsSaba lives in Silverlake, a wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms where her family scavenge from landfills left by the long-gone Wrecker civilization. After four cloaked horsemen kidnap her beloved twin brother Lugh, she teams up with daredevil Jack and the Free Hawks, a girl gang of Revolutionaries. Saba learns that she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent...
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