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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 16 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsNanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
The battle on Sharr is over. The dark forest has fallen. Altair may be captive, but Zafira, Nasir, and Kifah are bound for Sultan’s Keep, determined to finish the plan he set in motion: restoring the hearts of the Sisters of Old to the minarets of each caliphate, and finally returning magic to all of Arawiya...Categorized as:
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Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
When you gamble with kingdoms, all bets are off. Legends are born in this thrilling and New York Times bestselling spy saga from the fantasy author who is legend Tamora Pierce.Aly is from a family known for great deeds. She is the daughter of Alanna, the famed knight and King’s Champion of Tortall... -
Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong
The first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai.It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue...Categorized as:
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Deluge by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all... -
Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?” Gabi knows she’s left her heart in the fourteenth century and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives... -
Torrent by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in the third and final book in the River of Time series. Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times... -
Warden of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWarden of Time continues the story of time travel, romance, and adventure begun with Daughter of Time ...As both modern man and medieval king, David is committed to transforming medieval England into his own version of Avalon. Not everyone supports his ideals, however, and having offended the pope by welcoming Jews and heretics into England, David is summoned to Canterbury to explain himself...Categorized as:
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Risked by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he’s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance... -
Outpost in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMarch 1294. Ireland is at a crossroads. The different factions—Irish, Danish, and English—are tearing the country apart with their constant warfare. Hoping to hammer out a treaty, David calls the Irish Parliament into session. Unfortunately, some lords are far more interested in fighting than talking, and it isn’t long before the conference goes awry...Categorized as:
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The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape . . . and even less of being together. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komisar that she has a magical gift, and the Komisar's interest in Lia is greater than either Kaden or Lia foresaw...Categorized as:
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Outcasts in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin David and his friends and family for the next installment in the After Cilmeri series!Last we heard from David, he'd allowed George to abduct him at the behest of the CIA, for the stated purpose of forcing him to time travel between Earth Two and Avalon. Meanwhile, Lili and the refugees from Paris were floating down the River Seine, making for the English Channel...Categorized as:
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Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsArram. Varice. Ozorne. In the first book in the Numair Chronicles, three student mages are bound by fate . . . fated for trouble.Arram Draper is a boy on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness–and for attracting danger... -
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground...Categorized as:
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Shades of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMarch 1294. With David and Llywelyn in Ireland, the rule of Wales and England has fallen to Math and Anna. Unbeknownst to them, however, rebellious barons have tried to assassinate David and thrown Ireland into civil war...Categorized as:
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Masters of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 11 ratings...Categorized as:
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Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsA poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers... -
Unbroken in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1282, David and his sister Anna crashed through time to save the life of their father, the last Prince of Wales. Thirteen years later, David is a grown man--husband, father, and High King of Britain. He is also the Duke of Aquitaine, a fact which King Philip of France appears to resent...Categorized as:
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Children of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNovember 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Lili, travel to London to attend the wedding of William de Bohun and Princess Joan, they have no intention of involving themselves in local politics...Categorized as:
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Guardians of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsChristmas 1292. Time travel has meant many things to Meg, David, and Anna over the years. But regardless of the circumstances, it has always been about saving lives: their own, their family members’, their friends’. This time, it’s a combination of all three. Guardians of Time is the ninth book in the After Cilmeri series...Categorized as:
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Crossroads in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThree years have passed since the events chronicled in Prince of Time... Anna has made a place for herself in thirteenth century Wales as a wife, mother, and healer. David has taken more of the kingdom's rule on his shoulders, even as his relationship with Lili has caused friction with his father, King Llywelyn...Categorized as:
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The Wretched of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsIn the ancient and mystical land of Muirwood, Lia has known only a life of servitude. Labeled a “wretched,” an outcast unwanted and unworthy of respect, Lia is forbidden to realize her dream to read or write. All but doomed, her days are spent toiling away as a kitchen slave under the charge of the Aldermaston, the Abbey’s watchful overseer...Categorized as:
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The Water Dragon’s Bride, Vol. 5 by Rei Tōma
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAsahi is in constant danger from people trying to use her to get the water dragon god’s power for themselves. She doesn’t want anyone to get hurt because of her, so she, the water dragon god and Subaru pay a visit to the emperor... -
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski
There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.Following your heart can be a crimeA royal wedding means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement: that she agreed to marry the crown prince in exchange for Arin's freedom... -
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Exile's Return by Raymond E. Feist
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsSaved by a mage's intervention from certain death, Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko, is lord no more -- reduced to an exile's existence and forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved...Categorized as:
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Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne... death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of God Two... is surely a freakish coincidence Three... well, that’s starting to look deliberate. Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria’s artifact hunter, she’s adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum... -
The Elements of the Crown by Kay L. Moody
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTalise has a gift that could save her life.In an empire divided into three rings, seventeen-year-old Talise is from the outer ring. This dangerous and crime-laden land has one constant… death.Her only chance for escape is to become Master Shaper—an honored position in the palace court and military. Each year, the emperor chooses one student to receive the title...Categorized as:
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Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter Vol. 4 by Reia
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSACRIFICE YOUR HEARTHaving rescued her people in the eastern territories and thwarted another plot to undermine Armelia, Iris throws herself back into the work of governing her duchy. After all, it's only through work that she can make herself forget her growing feelings for Dean. But she can't put off all thought of marriage... -
The Water Dragon’s Bride, Vol. 4 by Rei Tōma
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA modern-day girl gets whisked away to a strange land where she is sacrificed to a water dragon god!In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she meets a water dragon god!Because the water dragon god wants to interact with Asahi more, he descends to the village in the guise of a human... -
A Crown Imperiled by Raymond E. Feist
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 31 ratings“Feist constantly amazes.”—SF Site“Feist has a command of language and a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.” —Chicago Sun-TimesThe Chaoswar—the fifth and final Riftwar—is in full, explosive swing in Raymond E. Feist’s A Crown Imperiled, the second book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling fantasist’s monumental saga of courage, conflict, and bitter consequence...Categorized as:
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A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsKarina lost everything after a violent coup left her without her kingdom or her throne. Now the most wanted person in Sonande, her only hope of reclaiming what is rightfully hers lies in a divine power hidden in the long-lost city of her ancestors...Categorized as:
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Time's Divide by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear...Categorized as:
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The Fire Queen by Emily R. King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, Emily R. King once again follows a young warrior queen’s rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers.Though the tyrant rajah she was forced to marry is dead, Kalinda’s troubles are far from over. A warlord has invaded the imperial city, and now she’s in exile. But she isn’t alone... -
Winter Wren by Miranda Honfleur
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mage apprentice and her master... against three hundred mercenaries sieging a town. Seventeen-year-old mage apprentice Rielle accompanies her master, Leigh, on a mission to save a viscount from a town under mercenary control. But mercenaries aren't the only newcomers to town. When the mission goes awry, Rielle must choose whether to follow her orders or her conscience...Categorized as:
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A Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsPlagued by rumour and instability. the Kingdom is losing spies in Kesh, disappearing - either murdered, or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant and unreliable; but dark forces are coming. The Keshian Confederacy is assembling under an old enemy in new guise., and powerful magician Pug's youngest son brings new apprentices into the family... -
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
The first in an immersive fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction—from debut author Roseanne A. Brown. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Renée Ahdieh, and Sabaa Tahir...Categorized as:
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The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYour blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair... -
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWilhelmina has a hundred identities. She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne. She is a spy... -
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love... -
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
The third and final book in the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. Lia has survived Venda—but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. And only Lia can stop it. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier—as leader... -
Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBrenden Vetch has a gift that connects him to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. Receiving a personal invitation from the wizard Od to become a gardener for her school in the great city of Kelior, he finds a home among every potential wizard who must be trained to serve the Kingdom of Numis...Categorized as:
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Awoken by Sarah Noffke
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAround the world humans are hallucinating after sleepless nights. In a sterile, underground institute the forecasters keep reporting the same events. And in the backwoods of Texas, a sixteen-year-old girl is about to be caught up in a fierce, ethereal battle. Meet Roya Stark...Categorized as:
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Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel 2083. London. Wake Romeo.It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind...Categorized as:
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For All Time by Caroline B. Cooney
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAnnie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Strat was born — to a world far removed from the one she knows...Categorized as:
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Every Never After by Lesley Livingston
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's happening again! Despite their vow to each other at the end of Once Every Never , best friends Clare and Allie once more find themselves in trouble—and travelling in time... -
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, Jim Tierney
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Boundless, the greatest train ever built, is on its maiden voyage across the country, and first-class passenger Will Everett is about to embark on the adventure of his life!When Will ends up in possession of the key to a train car containing priceless treasures, he becomes the target of sinister figures from his past... -
Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love... -
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology. Angrboda's story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning...Categorized as:
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The Naming by Alison Croggon
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsMaerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child after her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true heritage and extraordinary destiny unfold...Categorized as:
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One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
Return to the Five Hundred Kingdoms, where a damsel can rescue herself, thank you... Princess Andromeda knows that any problem can be solved with a bit of research. So when a dragon storms the kingdom of Acadia, she decides it's time to hit the books...Categorized as:
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