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Winter by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsPrincess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land... -
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Cress by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsIn this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker... -
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsA publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie...Categorized as:
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![A House By Any Other Name by Jenny Schwartz]()
A House By Any Other Name by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReality is a complicated multiverse of many species and rare magic. Diplomats are the official envoys and investigators who hold the Union of Worlds together.Raisa never intended to be a diplomat. Like so many things in her life, it was her stepmother's idea.Hector is an elf in disgrace. He chose his cyborged brother over his lying, abusive family. Elves revile augmented people... -
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 89 ratingsCinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing... -
![Stars Above by Marissa Meyer]()
Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 64 ratingsThe universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic...Categorized as:
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The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsJim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors…Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world...Categorized as:
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Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsHOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon... -
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Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWed to a wealthy older man when she was just a girl, Lahsin Yew runs away from her abusive home to find a new life. At seventeen, she's about to enter her Second Passage, when her Flair?and perhaps her HeartMate?will be revealed. Lahsin finds sanctuary in a secret garden, where she meets Tinne Holly... -
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 100 ratingsHumans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness... -
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The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt is time. The boy must leave his family to serve in the Queen's army. To be chosen is an honor. To decline is impossible. The boy is modified. He is trained for several years, and learns to fight to the death. He proves to the Queen—and to himself—that he is capable of evil. He is just the kind of soldier the Queen wants: the alpha of his pack... -
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Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him--secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny... -
![The Chosen One by Anna Erishkigal]()
The Chosen One by Anna Erishkigal
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"At the dawn of time, two ancient adversaries clashed over control of Earth. One man rose to stand at humanity's side. A soldier whose name we still remember today..."Mikhail awakens, mortally wounded, in his crashed ship... -
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Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is a standalone sequel to Archangel, set 150 years later in proverbially interesting times. Samaria is industrialized; the Manadavvi and Jansai are wealthier; the Edori are marginalized, their roaming lifestyle disrupted; and Jovah seems to be turning a deaf ear to his angels' prayers for abatement of increasingly destructive storms... -
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![The Alleluia Files by Sharon Shinn]()
The Alleluia Files by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLegend has it that the Alleluia Files contain the truth about the god of Samaria. Now, a child raised in captivity among the angels will journey the length and breadth of her world to seek the documents that will alter the face of Samaria forever.. -
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Necessity by Jo Walton
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNecessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another... -
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Fairest by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsIn this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power... -
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Angel-Seeker by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others...Categorized as:
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![Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg]()
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsValentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise... Valentine's journey is a long one, a tour through a series of magnificent environments... -
![The Way Ahead by Kaleb England, NorskDaedalus]()
The Way Ahead by Kaleb England, NorskDaedalus
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA physics student’s talents are put to the test when he’s transported to a world of magic and alchemical mysteries in the first book of a new fantasy series.Fact one: Edwin Maxlin has fallen out of the sky and landed in a strange forest... -
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The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bold, genre-bending epic that chronicles madness, obsession, and creation, from the Paleolithic era through the Witch Hunts and into the space-bound future.Four linked stories boldly chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages... -
![Acorna's Quest by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough]()
Acorna's Quest by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThis follow-up to Anne McCaffrey's bestselling Acorna trails the unicorn girl across the galaxy as she searches for her mysterious home and lost people...Categorized as:
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![The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick]()
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, hope and heartbreak that shows us that for each of us, the world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets that illuminate the skies above us.Róisín and François first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes... -
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Saga, Volume 8 by Brian K. Vaughan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAfter the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe.Collects: Saga #43-48...Categorized as:
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![The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker]()
The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe star-studded stage show and Nerdist podcast sets its sights on a graphic novel! An anthology containing a series of short tales set within the various worlds covered throughout the run of the hit stage show and podcast The Thrilling Adventure Hour! Written by the creators of the show with art by some of the comics' best artists, bring all the best elements of the show to vivid... -
![Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron]()
Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWho is the Goddess of Thunder?The secrets of Original Sin have laid low one of Marvel's greatest heroes... -
![Buffy the Vampire Slayer: On Your Own by Andrew Chambliss, Scott Allie]()
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: On Your Own by Andrew Chambliss, Scott Allie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the Scooby gang on the skids, Buffy finds herself increasingly alone. When faced with some tough decisions grounded in “real world” problems (i.e., not the slaying of pesky demons), Buffy is determined to make her own choices, but that doesn’t mean she won't need a little handholding along the way. Cue Spike, compelled to stand by his best friend in her moment of need... -
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Thor, Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron, C.M. Punk
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWho is Thor?That's the question on everyone's lips. Most especially Prince Odinson of Asgard. This volume, he starts to narrow down the list of suspects... -
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Glitches by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsCinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder... -
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 4: The Tempest by Alan Moore
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been building to this, the most ambitious meta-comic imaginable...Categorized as:
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