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An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Aeschylus, Sophocles
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Bold, Iconoclastic New Look at One of the Great Works of Greek Tragedy In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions—Aischylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra, and Euripides’ Orestes—giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance... -
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie...Categorized as:
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Harry Potter - A History of Magic: The Book of the Exhibition by British Library
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHarry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library...Categorized as:
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The Enchantress by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it.San Francisco:Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path...Categorized as:
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City of Time and Magic by Paula Brackston
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsXanthe meets Brackston's most famous heroine, Elizabeth Hawksmith from The Witch's Daughter, in this crossover story with all the "historical detail, village charm, and twisty plotting" of the Found Things series (Publishers Weekly).City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet... -
The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSidra didn’t murder her husband. Yet even a jinni can’t wish away a wrongful imprisonment. Determined to prove her innocence, she returns to her adopted home—a French village renowned for its perfume witches—with her friends Elena and Yvette by her side. Here is where Sidra’s true destiny awaits, but danger also lurks in the village’s narrow lanes... -
A Radical Act of Free Magic by H.G. Parry
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Radical Act of Free Magic is the conclusion to this genre-defying series of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.The Concord has been broken, and a war of magic engulfs the world...Categorized as:
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The Warlock by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsThe twins of prophecy have been divided—the end has begun.AlcatrazAlthough their ally Dr. John Dee has been declared utlaga, Machiavelli and Billy the Kid will follow the plans the Elders have laid before them: they will loose the monsters of Alcatraz on the city of San Francisco, thereby triggering the end of the human race...Categorized as:
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The Sorceress by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsBook Three in the New York Times bestselling series.Nicholas Flamel's heart almost broke as he watched his beloved Paris crumble before him. The city was destroyed by Dee and Machiavelli, but Flamel played his own role in the destruction. Sophie and Josh Newman show every sign of being the twins of prophecy, and Flamel had to protect them and the pages from the Dark Elders...Categorized as:
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsChava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899... -
Storm Breakers: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by P.T. Hylton, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow do you defeat a magician who can shape mountains? Abbey and her friends travel across the sea in search of Syd’s brother, a sailor captured by a warlord years ago. To find him, they’ll need the help of their greatest enemy, the Storm Caller Dahlia.When they arrive, they discover a land ruled by a new form of magic: the Way of Stone...Categorized as:
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Disenchanted by Kara Pleasants
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a renowned wizard, Fitzwilliam Darcy thinks he is familiar with most of the spells, enchantments, and magic practised in the wizarding world. When he reluctantly joins his friend Bingley in Meryton, a small town not known for its magic, he is startled to stumble upon the rare gift possessed by Miss Elizabeth Bennet...Categorized as:
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Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Mildred Percy inherits a dragon. Ah, but we’ve already got ahead of ourselves…Miss Mildred Percy is a spinster. She does not dance, she has long stopped dreaming, and she certainly does not have adventures. That is, until her great uncle has the audacity to leave her an inheritance, one that includes a dragon’s egg... -
The Ancient Ones (The Ancient Ones Trilogy, Book 1) by Cassandra L. Thompson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen David stumbles upon a tragic young woman in a sordid Limehouse pub, he has no idea she’d recognize him as the last vampyre alive, nor that she’d be the one to pull out his story... -
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The Healer Series: The Complete Set, Books 1-4, A Fated Mates Fantasy Romance by C.J. Anaya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne god's love will heal my heart. Another god's love will heal humanity. From USA Today bestselling author, C.J. Anaya, comes an epic saga of love, betrayal, and the ultimate battle between good and evil. So I can heal people. Sounds cool in theory. Feels great when I can actually swing it...Categorized as:
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The Necromancer by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsSan Francisco:Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And they're both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they'll need to protect themselves, they've lost Scatty, and they're still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone?Alcatraz:Dr...Categorized as:
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The Slip by C. Gockel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings~ The Continuation of the USA Today Bestselling Series ~ It's only been a few days since Veterinarian Amy Lewis escaped Asgard with the FBI's professional hacker, Bohdi Patel. The escape involved "borrowing" Odin's magical, world-walking, eight-legged, horse, Sleipnir. Now Odin wants Sleipnir back. FBI Director Steve Rogers doesn't want Odin getting anything he wants... -
The Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe adventures of Li-lin, a Daoist priestess with the unique ability to see the spirit world, continue in the thrilling follow-up to the critically-acclaimed historical urban fantasy The Girl with Ghost Eyes.It’s the end of the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco’s cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin...Categorized as:
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The Magician by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsAlternative Cover Edition of ISBN 9780552562539 other edition found hereAfter fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenelle is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies...Categorized as:
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Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsBefore Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. The origins of the first ymbryne... -
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsChava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man... -
Night of the New Magicians by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMerlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a 100 years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their way to the 1889 World’s Fair. Below the Eiffel Tower, built especially for the fair, there are thousands of exhibits from all over the world... -
The Time Garden by Edward Eager
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"Anything can happen when you have all the time in the world" says the frog-like Natterjack in old relative Mrs Whiton's thyme garden. Cousins Roger, Ann, Eliza and girl-crazy Jack ride for American rebels, bow to Queen Elizabeth I, and even rescue their own parents when they were children... -
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsIn a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.Then she finds a strange book... -
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Princess of Sparta by Penelope Haines
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s Helen of Troy’s older sister.She’s a Spartan Princess.She’s High Queen of Mycenae.Her name is Clytemnestra.In a world where women are submissive, she rules.In a world where wives are loyal, she is unfaithfulIn a world where honour and blood feuds abound she exacts the ultimate revenge...Categorized as:
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Flanders by Patricia Anthony
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"A harrowing and beautiful novel, demonstrating — again — that Patricia Anthony is one of our great writers." — Publishers WeeklyIn this gritty look at World War I's trench warfare, a young American sharpshooter ventures into no man's land each night to be ready by daybreak for the grim business of slaying record numbers of enemies...Categorized as:
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Smoke City by Keith Rosson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He’s compelled to volunteer at the local Children’s Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.Oh, and he’s also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc’s pyre in 1431...Categorized as:
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Der Lehrling des Feldschers by Greg Walters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDer Medicus der Dämonen.Wir schreiben das Jahr 1642. Im Heiligen Römischen Reich tobt seit 24 Jahren ein mörderischer Krieg und er scheint kein Ende zu nehmen.Als plündernde Soldaten Gustavs Familie und Zuhause zerstören, ändert sich auch sein Leben von Grund auf. Der Wundarzt Martin nimmt ihn auf und offenbart Gustav eine Wahrheit, die für ihn alles ändert...Categorized as:
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Word of Honour by Michael Pryor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSinister plots, schemes within schemes, magical upheavals, and a world to save from evil. As always, Aubrey goes looking for trouble--and finds it, in spades.Magical genius Aubrey Fitzwilliam, along with his loyal friend George, is trying to immerse himself in his new life at university. But for Aubrey life is never straightforward... -
A Warning About Swans by R.M. Romero
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSwan Lake meets The Last Unicorn by way of the Brothers Grimm in a dreamy, original fairytale in verse which transports readers to the Bavarian Alps.Bavaria. 1880. Hilde was dreamed into existence by the god Odin, and along with her five sisters, granted cloaks that transform them into swans...Categorized as:
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Love & Sleep by John Crowley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe long-awaited new novel by one of the most important American authors of magical realism. In Aegypt Crowley opened the gates on a world of magic and mystery lying just beyond our own. In Love & Sleep, the second novel in a projected tetralogy, he renews his claim on the exalted territory of the imagination...Categorized as:
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Heir of Ra by M. Sasinowski
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlyssa signed up to study history, not to rewrite it. An excavation of the fabled Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx unleashes an ancient disease that leaves her father fighting for his life. As Alyssa races to find a cure, she stumbles onto an impossible artifact that could change history—or destroy our future...Categorized as:
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Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas by Michael Scott
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsYears before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought together for the first time. Billy the Kid and Scathach the Shadow. Now that lost story can be told . . . Billy the Kid is immortal. And being immortal means following unpredictable paths...Categorized as:
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A House Between Sea and Sky by Beth Cato
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1920s California, two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its own in an enthralling fantasy by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge.Grieving Hollywood writer Fayette Wynne arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1926 to finish her latest project in peace... -
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The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsBeneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers -- Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply "borrow" from the "human beans" who live above them. It's a comfortable life, but boring if you're a kid... -
Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMerlin's Missions are more detailed than regular Magic Tree House, fast-paced, detailed, easy to read. Jack and Annie quest to save Camelot. Beleaguered King Arthur learns that children and imagination really can make a difference...Categorized as:
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The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter S.' with Jorge Luis Borges' 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine...Categorized as:
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Dragon of the Red Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMerlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic tree house on another magical and historical adventure. Their mission: discover one of the four secrets of happiness...Categorized as:
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Earthquake in the Early Morning by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJack and Annie are all shaken up! The magic tree house whisks them back to California in 1906. As soon as they arrive, the famous San Francisco earhtquake hits the city. Chinese and English bilingual edition of Magic Tree House 24: Earthquake in the Early Morning...Categorized as:
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The Witch’s Lens by Luanne G. Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAs World War I rages, there are evils—both living and dead—that only a witch can see in a spellbinding novel by the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Raven Spell.With her husband off fighting at World War I’s eastern front, Petra Kurková embraces her fleeting freedom, roaming the city at night with her camera...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Sea by Sheila A. Nielson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA mermaid haunts Adrianne's dreams . . . is she coming to warn her, save her, or drag her down into the depths of the briny sea forever?When Adrianne comes face-to-face with the mermaid of Windwaithe Island, of whom she has heard terrible stories all her life, she is convinced the mermaid means to take her younger sister...Categorized as:
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Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLatro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete) are generally considered classics of contemporary fantasy...Categorized as:
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The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in a short, emotional story about survival by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous... -
The Fixed Stars by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratings"The Fixed Stars" was originally published in the anthology Shattered Shields, released in November 2014. Also available separately.Long, long ago, when the worlds of Faerie and Man had not yet fully separated, a battle was fought to determine the shapes those two worlds would take. Firstborn against merlin; strongest against least... -
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On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA new novelette from Hugo Award-winning author, Nghi Vo!While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authentic self, a hidden gift, and that there are no straight lines when you run the fox roads. .Categorized as:
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On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNPR Books We Love 2021, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021, Booklist Best of 2021 Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles, NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021, Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021.The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world...Categorized as:
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I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine.Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else’s story... -
The Shadow by Marianne Curley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom bestselling author Marianne Curley comes the highly anticipated return to the Guardians of Time Series…The battle is over. The war is won. The prophecy complete.But life can’t just pick up where it left off for Ethan...Categorized as:
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The Cursed by Dave Duncan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWar had killed Gwin's husband, and a plague of star sickness carried off her babies. Desolate, she nursed her stricken neighbors. But the few who would survive the sickness were doomed anyway. Every survivor would be cursed, and each would become outcast, for the curses were more deadly than the plague itself... -
Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice by Eugie Foster
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnchantment, peril and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village...Categorized as:
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