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• The Storm Gathers

  Holladay, Maelan,

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  After being forced from her home five years ago, Alana Zaya has finally been given the opportunity to return and claim her rightful place on the Okaron throne. When her voyage is waylaid by pirates, she soon finds herself stranded at sea, surrounded…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sunlit Man

  Sanderson, Brandon,

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  Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap off world before he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Untethered Sky

  Lee, Fonda,

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  "From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester's family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Immortal Longings

  Gong, Chloe,

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  "Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scorpica

  Macallister, Greer,

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  Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Blade Priest

  a Novel

  Wiles, Will,

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  Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh. Life is hard after the Kingdom lost the war against the League of Free Cities. Doubly so since his father betrayed the King and paid the ultimate price. And now the King's terrifying chancellor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In a Garden Burning Gold

  Power, Rory,

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  "Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Child of Light

  Brooks, Terry,

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  "From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Day of Fallen Night

  Shannon, Samantha, 1991-

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  "This stand-alone is set in the same world and approximately 500 years before The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019). As with Priory, the action concerns the balance of energies in the world, represented by fire-breathing wyrms and water-wielding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Country

  Gladstone, Max,

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  "Tara Abernathy has counseled gods and faced down monsters. She walked away from her tiny, dusty hometown of Edgemont to learn her Craft, but now she must go back and face her past—and the death of her father. On the way, Tara saves a teenager from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Daughters of Izdihar

  Elsbai, Hadeer,

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  "In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--who find they have far…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Last Chances

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  "The tyrannical regime occupying the City of Last Chances doesn’t know that Anchorwood, a dark grove of trees outside the city, is a portal to strange and different worlds in the new novel by the author of Shards of Earth." -- Novelist.

• The Art of Prophecy

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  Chu, Wesley,

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  "Magic, martial arts, prophecy, and fallacy all contribute to one young man's attempt to rebuild his life's worth. Wen Jian has known his entire young life that he is the Hero of Prophecy, foretold to defeat the Eternal Khan and save the kingdom.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spear Cuts Through Water

  Jimenez, Simon, 1989-

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  "The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Feather

  Patel Papathanasiou, Shameez,

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  "Four years ago, med student Cassia Khan’s best friend Lucas disappeared while they were on a camping trip with friends. Now her little sister Calla is dying from a mysterious illness. Cassia discovers these facts may have something in common after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Final Strife

  a Novel

  El-Arifi, Saara,

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  Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control. Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistance. Clear is the blood of the slaves, of the crushed, of the invisible. Sylah dreams of days…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of Redwinter

  McDonald, Ed (Fantasy fiction author),

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  First in a series. "Raine can see — and speak — to the dead, a gift that comes with a death sentence. All her life she has hidden, lied, and run to save her skin, and she’s made some spectacularly bad choices along the way. But it is a rare act of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stardust Thief

  Abdullah, Chelsea,

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  First in a series. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "In the sultanate ruled from the great city of Madinne, where magical jinn are persecuted on sight but still prized for their miraculous blood, Loulie al-Nazari, the mysterious Midnight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Seas of the World

  Kay, Guy Gavriel,

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  Also available in eBook or eAudiobook. "On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kagen the Damned

  Maberry, Jonathan,

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  "Sworn by Oath Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the place guard, charged with protection the royal children of the Silver Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in…Read moreRead more of this annotation