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Jade War by Fonda Lee
The Kaul siblings' battle with rival clans reaches new heights in the heart-pounding continuation of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade... -
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Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsThe first book in the stunning and strange debut fantasy series that's receiving major praise from some of fantasy's biggest authors such as Mark Lawrence and Django Wexler.The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake... -
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Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollow the law and you’ll stay safe. But what if the law is wrong?Tashué’s faith in the law is beginning to crack. Three years ago, he stood by when the Authority condemned Jason to the brutality of the Rift for non-compliance. When Tashué’s son refused to register as tainted, the laws had to be upheld... -
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Ex-Superheroes 2 by A.J. Markam
He’s still saving the world and getting hot chicks… but the job just got a lot tougher. Hunter McNeil, former soldier and ex-superhero, just barely survived his last mission in Tokyo. But with his forcefield powers back at full strength and two smoking hot superheroines on his arm, he’s on to his next challenge. Unfortunately, the supervillain in charge of San Francisco is ready for him... -
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Black Hole by Charles Burns
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsSuburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back... -
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The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsAfter the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder... -
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Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee
Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios... -
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The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsAfter leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment... -
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Fade by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsYears after the bombs of WWIII have changed the physical and political landscape, the Agency ruthlessly works behind the scenes to take down rebel groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means. Hsin Liu Vega (Sin) is their most efficient and deadly assassin ever... -
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The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon
Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade – but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory. As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals... -
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe... -
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Ascension Day by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsCaught in the middle of two powerful forces, can Thea find a way to survive?The Archon has ordered a day of celebration to mark her ascension to power. While most people in the city are looking forward to a day off and an excuse to drink and eat too much, Thea and the rest of the city's Watch are on high alert... -
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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
HIDDEN TRUTHS AND BURIED HEARTS The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say nothing of the teacher he so hated. As emperor of the mortal realm, Mo Ran loathed Chu Wanning with all his being, but the Chu Wanning of this life has sacrificed himself for his student's sake time and again... -
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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson BennettIn Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body... -
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Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York... -
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Dragon's Storm by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsLeda's quest to gain the magic she needs to save her brother leads her to the castle of the Dragons, home of four soldiers in the Legion of Angels with extraordinary powers over the elements. If she makes it through their training, she might just survive her next sip of the gods' Nectar and level up her magic. But the gods' gifts of magic come at a price... -
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The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMore information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA... -
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Psychic's Spell by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn the immortal war between gods and demons, one woman’s past holds the key to humanity’s future. One year after joining the Legion of Angels in New York City, Leda Pierce returns home to visit her family in Purgatory, a rough and rugged frontier town that borders the plains of monsters. Leda’s family reunion is cut short, however, when her little sisters are captured by supernatural mercenaries... -
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The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsAs a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines... -
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Pandora Hearts, Vol. 10 by Jun Mochizuki, Jun Mochizuki
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA century before, in Sablier, a forbidden portal was flung wide by a boy, Vincent, in his single-minded desire to protect his brother, Gilbert. And thus did that foolhardy desire lead to the corruption of that innocent boy's soul like a sweet poison... Now, as Gil, Oz, and Alice wander the ruins of the former capital, they are assaulted by illusions from the past... -
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Morning Trap by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBeneath the unrelenting sun of Accanter's summer, an ugly conspiracy is underway.A desperate mother asks Watch Officer Thea March for help. Her daughter has gone missing. No one else at Thea's Watch Station will help the mother.More bad news follows when a body is found. A young man who had gone missing some time before and whose death her superior officer wants to write off as natural causes... -
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Assassin's Noon by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOne dead man. A fortified house full of innocent people.One of the city's wealthiest and most powerful residents is found dead in his own home. Murder is suspected, but the house was supposed to be absolutely secure against any intruder. Thea is faced with a hostile group of household servants inside the house and demands for swift justice outside its walls... -
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Siren's Song by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsWhen gods and demons clash, mortals bleed.Leda Pierce’s latest mission brings her back to her hometown at the edge of the Frontier. But things have taken a turn for the worse in the six months since she left home to join the Legion of Angels in New York City... -
![The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou]()
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
The Emperor Reborn and His Dearest EnemyCruel tyrant Taxian-jun killed his way to the throne and now reigns as the first ever emperor of the mortal realm. Yet somehow, he is unsatisfied. Left cold and bereft, abandoned by all he held dear, he takes his own life...only to be reborn anew... -
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Angel's Flight by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since... -
![Bonesmith by Nicki Pau Preto]()
Bonesmith by Nicki Pau Preto
Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.Ready your blade. Defeat the undead.In the Dominions, the dead linger, violent and unpredictable, unless a bonesmith severs the ghost from its earthly remains... -
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Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer
The realm’s darkest secret is out. The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents. On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers... -
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating... -
![Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Vol. 1 by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto]()
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Vol. 1 by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAfter a catastrophic epidemic kills every adult on earth, vampires arise from the shadows to enslave the remaining human population. Yuichiro escapes from captivity and joins the Japanese Imperial Demon Army... -
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The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 27 ratings"The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent...
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