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The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsOf course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there’s a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic—but potentially very dangerous—mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family to spend several years traveling to Mars? And with the Civil Rights movement taking hold all over Earth, will the...Categorized as:
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Kral by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing. After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission... -
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![Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2 by Fumi Yoshinaga]()
Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2 by Fumi Yoshinaga
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCurious about why female lords must take on male names, the shogun Yoshimune seeks out the ancient scribe Murase and his archives of the last eighty years of the Inner Chambers--called the Chronicle of the Dying Day. In its pages Yoshimune discovers the coming of the Redface Pox, the death of the last male shogun, and the birth of the new Japan…. -
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Arena by Karen Hancock
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Repackaged Award Winner From Karen Hancock. Callie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters...Categorized as:
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![The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper]()
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 38 ratings“Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative. ”—Ursula K...Categorized as:
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![Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes]()
Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best. " -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution... -
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Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 4 by Fumi Yoshinaga
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDespite Iemitsu and Arikoto's best efforts, there is no male heir to take over the shogunate. As the Redface Pox continues to ravage the country, it becomes increasingly clear within Edo Castle that Japan's continued existence relies on overturning the centuries of custom that define it! -
![What We Can Know by Ian McEwan]()
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost...Categorized as:
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![Omegas of Pandora, Volume One by Lillian Sable]()
Omegas of Pandora, Volume One by Lillian Sable
She never wanted to be Omega. Ianthe keeps her freedom because her dynamic is a carefully guarded secret. Omegas are rare and highly prized, but they have no rights. An Omega is the property of whatever Alpha is strong enough to claim her. Ianthe toils in the slums, pretending to be Beta, so she can hide from a world that wants to make her a pet in a gilded cage...Categorized as:
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![Heart of a Warrior by Johanna Lindsey]()
Heart of a Warrior by Johanna Lindsey
Stunning statuesque Brittany Callaghan isn't used to seeing Nordic gods in her tiny California town. But when the spectacular blond Viking—whose name is Dalden—turns up at her doorstep, Brittany knows her dream man is very real...Categorized as:
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![The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde]()
The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse, a journey that tests not only his physicality, but his heart. In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land...Categorized as:
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![The Plague Tales by Ann Benson]()
The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague...Categorized as:
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![Embracing His Empire by Sai Marie Johnson]()
Embracing His Empire by Sai Marie Johnson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCaecelia of House Servili was born and bred to be a powerful woman with an education and the life of splendor as a senator's daughter, but when a foreign enemy sieges their estate, killing her family and abducting her, her entire world changes...Categorized as:
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![Wild Beast Mate by Milana Jacks]()
Wild Beast Mate by Milana Jacks
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe will bring his wild thing to his bed… even if it kills him. After Dewlyn’s, third, heart-stopping attempt to escape their mating bed, Vice is more determined than ever to plant babies in his little daredevil’s luscious body. Even if it means feeding the heat between them until she hungers for him alone — and her resistance is starved into submission. But she’s hiding something... -
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![Souls of Steel by Eva Brandt]()
Souls of Steel by Eva Brandt
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo woman has ever piloted a chimera, the legendary mechas that once served to defend Earth from the alien invasion that nearly destroyed us all. No one. .. until me. Once, I was a normal girl. Much to my mother's dismay, I didn't have any magic, but that was all right. Not every girl carried Gaia's Gift. There were other things I could do to prove myself, even if I couldn't heal the earth...Categorized as:
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![Police Your Planet by Eric van Lhin, Lester del Rey]()
Police Your Planet by Eric van Lhin, Lester del Rey
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the future Mars is inhabited. Cities are growing fast and crime is rampant. Bruce Gordon, an ex-cop, was shipped to Mars with no return ticket. Caring with himself nothing but a knife he has only one order, to police the Red Planet! -
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Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence
The 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... -
![The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsMary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon. The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program... -
![The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov]()
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsAndrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.Categorized as:
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Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it's worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain... -
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The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe new gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. A nest of vipers, they called us. But that is not how it was. Mercia, 775 AD. In the grand Saxon halls of Mercia, King Offa rules with ruthless ambition. Aggressive and relentlessly acquisitive, his three daughters are destined to marry advantageously in service of their country...Categorized as:
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![Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman]()
Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsCallum is a naught, a second-class citizen in a society run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, and daughter of the man slated to become prime minister. In their world, white naughts and black Crosses simply don't mix -- and they certainly don't fall in love. But that's exactly what they've done. When they were younger, they played together...Categorized as:
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![Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine]()
Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
For the US hardback, see ISBN13: 9780451489210. To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have begun... -
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Son and Throne by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEveryone they love is in the past. The throne is in the future, it demands to be reckoned with. And Kaitlyn and Magnus must protect the son, no matter the cost. Even if it means losing it all. ___________________. A blend of contemporary, historical, fantasy, and SciFi, Son and Throne is the eleventh book in the Kaitlyn and the Highlander series...Categorized as:
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![Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren]()
Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 27 ratings[Spoiler for the faint hearted at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through. ]. Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. Now, Yosemite city stands as the gateway between two worlds. The empire of humanity to the west, and the wild wastes to the east... -
![Caravan Witch by Shannon Mayer]()
Caravan Witch by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAs if surviving the end of the world, and the theft of my powers wasn’t enough on their own, a heaping pile of Ogre and a side of human raiders has been added to my plate while trying to feed our starving caravan. The worst of what I face though is far harder to admit. My black magic takes it’s pound of flesh every time I use it, and each time the cost climbs... -
![Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier]()
Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She’s only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her... -
![Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister]()
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 103 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family... -
![The Cornish Witch by Elena Collins]()
The Cornish Witch by Elena Collins
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPreorder the BRAND NEW spellbinding historical novel from bestseller Elena Collins. ‘Heartbreaking and hopeful, it’s a brilliant read. ' Nicola Cornick When Megan’s father gets a letter containing a secret from the past, he asks her to go to the Cornish village of St Mawgen Cove to get to the bottom of the mystery...Categorized as:
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![Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman]()
Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Will truth and virtue triumph over the deadly darkness of an all-consuming evil? The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical Dragon Orbs and the shining, silver Dragonlance, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a desperate final battle...Categorized as:
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