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Jack's Day by Julie Mannino
Jack and his two sisters, Fiona and Amelia, have watched their older brother, Jacknell, grow from a young King placed on the throne too early to a cruel man who rules Camaday through fear. Fiona, beset by anxiety, is only seen as a pawn for Jacknell to create an alliance with Gredoria or Emaray. Charlotte, who ends up at the Castle after escaping a brothel she was sold to, befriends Fiona...Categorized as:
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Before the Storm by Robert Thier
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMr. Rikkard Ambrose, cold-hearted billionaire and hero of the “Storm and Silence” series is without a doubt the richest and most powerful man of the British Empire...Categorized as:
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Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSet in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population (San Francisco Chronicle), a haunting, dystopian vision of humanity and its last hope for survival from the bestselling author of The Queen's GambitIn the future, the human race has ceased to progress...Categorized as:
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The Final Storm by Liz Hambleton
Rowan wishes for simple things. Her family has endured so much, and she doesn’t have the luxury of wanting any more than she needs.Safety for the people she loves.A bed to share with Sam.The people on this island to survive.Surviving is all they can do until the storms end their disastrous attack on the world. The fight isn’t over, no matter how much Rowan wants to believe they’ve found safety... -
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Man Made God 002 by Brandon Varnell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAdam is the first person to reach level 10 and leave the Village of Beginnings, but before he can even reach the Sun Continent, the vessel he's on is attacked by pirates!Age of Gods continues to be the most realistic game he has ever played. Nothing about it is like the old VR games of yesteryear, and he isn't just talking about how oddly real the non-player characters act... -
Rescued by the Convicts by Julie K. Cohen
Sci Fi Reverse Harem RomanceSection B on the prison planet is simply a greenhouse, right?The prison planet Veenith holds secrets.Like Section B, a greenhouse with vegetables...And illegal activities, the type that get a woman beaten for trespassing.Then there are the prisoners who have gone missing.Some will be found when the snow melts.Others, well, that ties back to Section B...Categorized as:
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Hatshepsut's Collar by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Loving you is easy, it's living with you that's killing me." An ancient Egyptian artifact is driving Queen Victoria insane, and that's not top of Cara Devon's growing list of problems. Viscount Nathaniel Lyons is a man of numerous secrets, but there is one in particular that threatens his fledgling relationship with Cara...Categorized as:
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Taken by the Convicts by Julie K. Cohen
They all want her. Only four will succeed.They say being convicted to the prison planet of Veenith is a life sentence.Melina Archer would argue that point.Granted, she’s stuck there for the rest of her life,With hundreds of rapists and murderers.But her ex can’t touch her there.The only ones who will be touching herAre the four prisoners who’ve taken her...Categorized as:
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The Timeseer's Gambit by Kate McIntyre
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s been three months since mild-mannered Christopher Buckley began working with Olivia Faraday, the eccentric Deathsniffer. They’ve hunted killers, solved murders, and learned to work together. But their greatest challenges are yet to come… As a brutal heat wave wracks an increasingly unstable Darrington City, someone is killing young priests. Worse, they are using bound elementals to do it... -
The Time Collector by Gwendolyn Womack
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller Travel through time with the touch of a hand. Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can perceive the past of any object he touches. A highly skilled pyschometrist, he uses his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change... -
The Oldest Soul - Animus by Tiffany FitzHenry
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEve has no idea she’s the oldest soul on earth, with a pre-wired connection to every other soul on the planet and that the boy she’s mysteriously drawn to, named Roman, has been her soul mate, her love of nearly three hundred lifetimes—until he tells her...Categorized as:
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A Tapestry of Treason by Anne O'Brien
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 11 ratings‘Gripping’ The Times ‘Fans of Philippa Gregory and other historical fiction writers will love Anne O’Brien’s A Tapestry of Treason’ Yours Her actions could make history – but at what price? 1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York...Categorized as:
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Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter Vol. 2 by Reia, Hazuki Futaba
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou love the manga, now try the original light novels about one woman's search for a happy ending when she's trapped in an otome romance game--as the antagonist! Iris Almeria, the daughter of a powerful duke, is arrested and forced to her knees in front of her fianc�e... -
Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsImagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You’re Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world...Categorized as:
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Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Lo, Michael!" is a story of a young newsboy Mickey who saves the life of a wealthy girl Starr by taking a bullet for her. As a way of gratitude Starr's father sends Mickey off to the law school... -
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga, Akemi Wegmüller
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected... -
A Lady of Resources by Shelley Adina
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBook 5 in the Magnificent Devices series! You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Now sixteen, the twins Lizzie and Maggie are educated young ladies who have not been called “the Mopsies” in years … except by their guardian, Lady Claire Trevelyan...Categorized as:
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Lady of Magick by Sylvia Izzo Hunter
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSylvia Izzo Hunter brought “both rural Brittany and an alternative Regency England to vivid life”* in The Midnight Queen, her debut novel of history, magic, and myth. Now, in her new Noctis Magicae novel, Sophie and Gray Marshall are ensnared in an arcane plot that threatens to undo them both... -
Kingdom of Chains by Tanya Bird
She was trained to please. He was trained to kill.Isabel Maddock is living a lie. She is betrothed to a man she loathes, living in a place she does not belong. But the home she craves no longer exists, and the people from her youth are gone. Or are they? The wastelands are calling, but they are not for the faint of heart. Luckily a certain defender is close by to keep her safe. Very close...Categorized as:
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Afterwar by Lilith Saintcrow
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey say the war's over when the surrender is signed. It's a lie.America's bloody Second Civil War lasted for years. When the surrender is signed, it's supposed to be over; refugees flood the highways, trying to get back home. For Swann's Riders-especially their newest addition Lara Nelson, snatched from certain death in the Firster kamp system-there's no such thing as a home to return to... -
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 84 ratingsIn a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city... -
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter—Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film—this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film... -
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsKDP-OVERALL EDITION 1:-Metropolis is set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited class of laborers who live underground, far away from the gleaming surface world. Freder, the son of one of the city?s founders, falls in love with Maria, a girl from the underground. The two worlds are destined to clash and upheaval is inevitable... -
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭
THE TOUCH OF A HAND, A ROLL OF THE DICEXie Lian has confirmed that the bewitching youth San Lang is actually Hua Cheng, one of the Four Calamities and a supreme ghost despised by all heavenly officials. Still, he has trouble matching the terror of his companion’s reputation with the charming, clever, and protective young man he’s come to know...Categorized as:
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Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
Shanghai is under siege in this captivating and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls “deliciously dark.”The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath...Categorized as:
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Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits... -
Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsThe searing conclusion of the thrilling epic fantasy trilogy that saw a young girl trained by an arcane order of nuns grow into the fiercest of warriors...They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat... -
Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 78 ratingsKylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. The Godking's successful coup has left Kylar's master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession... -
A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival... -
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic." Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson...
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