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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This collection showcases Anne Bishop's range, from her earliest writing to the Realms of the Blood, from dark fairytale retellings to the Landscapes of Ephemera, and from standalone stories of space exploration and fantastical creatures to the contemporary fantasy terrain of the World of the Others. Includes previously published and unpublished tales, as well as two brand-new stories, written especially for this collection."--
2) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Series
Saga of the unfated volume 1
Language
English
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"After discovering that she is a shield maiden who can repel any attack, a fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath to protect Skaland"--
Author
Series
Dream keeper saga volume 4
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
413 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning from her quest in the Somnium Realm, Lily returns home only to discover evil nightmares have invaded the waking world, so she sets off on a worldwide quest through time to find other deram keepers and save the world.
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Language
English
Description
"Settling at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, which may cost her everything" --
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level" --
Author
Series
Restorationists volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his sister disappears into one of the world's most famous paintings, Vincent learns his family is the last of The Restorationists, a secret society with the power to travel through paintings--and a duty to protect them from evil forces. Vincent must team up with his know-it-all second-cousin Georgia, wrestle with why his parents lied to him, and confront both his past and a future he never wanted" --
Author
Series
Rook and Rose volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 664 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ren came to Nadežra with a plan. She would pose as the long-lost daughter of the noble house Traementis. She would secure a fortune for herself and her sister. And she would vanish without a backward glance. She ought to have known that in the city of dreams, nothing is ever so simple. Now, she is Ren, con-artist and thief. But she is also Renata, the celebrated Traementis heir. She is Arenza, the mysterious pattern-reader and political rebel. And...
Author
Series
Secrets of Oscuros volume 2
Publisher
CaribbeanReads Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"12-year-old JV is learning just how much truth lies behind those words. He has discovered that he's one of a select few entrusted with preserving the balance between the world's natural and unnatural realms and is now more driven than ever to know who his birth parents are. But there's another mystery in the usually quiet village of Alcavere that he can't ignore. He and his friends, Carol and Riaz, have received a cryptic warning from a supernatural...
Author
Series
Secrets of Oscuros volume 1
Publisher
CaribbeanReads Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Oscuros Forest is a place to be feared, inhabited by mythical characters of Caribbean lore. Everyone in Alcavere knows that. But when a disappearance shakes the village, twelve-year-old JV finds himself deep in the forest making surprising alliances in the name of a rescue mission-- uncovering in the process, a shocking secret that will force him to question everything he thought he knew." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
12) Ours
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Language
English
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"Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours, but, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage"--
13) From the forest
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 23
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alayiakal, who will one day be known by many names--not all of them flattering--has to climb the ranks of Cyador's Mirror Lancers, fighting against unforeseen weapons and ancient technology. Alayiakal, however, has secrets of his own to protect: his ties to the Great Forest and his magus abilities. He must silently pretend to be a conventional soldier favored by fate--until that very same fate forces him to choose"--
14) Nightbane
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark's seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Worse, her fellow rulers haven't ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla's midst who don't believe her ascent to power was earned. As certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must...
Author
Series
Empire of the vampire volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs' sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone. But the Last...
Author
Series
Shadow Age volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Working at the mages' university due to her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by spellwork--Petra Grady, after an unthinkable accident, seek out an outcast exiled for the crime of using dross to cast spells who convinces her to embrace her own hidden talents"--
Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu's village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile-her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an enchanted library that hasn't been touched in a thousand years. No Fae may enter the library, but there is a chance a human...
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 361 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase--or cure--characters with disabilities. These tales imagine such wonders as a shapeshifter on a first date, skin that sprouts orchid buds, and a cereal-box demon. An insulin pump diverts an undead mob. An autistic teen sets out to discover the local cranberry bog's sinister secret. A pizza delivery on Mars goes wrong.
Author
Series
This woven kingdom volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Determined to escape Cyrus, the mercurial ruler of Tulan, Alizeh, heir to the Jinn throne, realizes Cyrus may be the key to fulfilling her own destiny, while in Ardunia, Kamran finds a magical way to finally get to Tulan and rescue Alizeh"--
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