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Ritualist by Dakota Krout
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA game that puts all others to shame. Magic that has been banned from the world. A man willing to learn no matter the cost.The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted... -
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Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAll things in their time . . .Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands...Categorized as:
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Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University... -
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King of Death by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEverything should be fine. The Brid is dead. I’m the new seelie king. And Lonan is with me, safe from the unseelie queen—his mother—and terrible brothers.But it’s not fine. Nothing is fine.I can’t seem to let go of my old life, even as this new one—and my new responsibilities—overwhelm me... -
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Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings, Leigh Eddings
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsBestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings and Gods.When the world was young and Gods still walked among their mortal children, a headstrong orphan boy set out to explore the world... -
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A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsJason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power...Categorized as:
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Phantom by Terry Goodkind
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsBestselling author Terry Goodkind's epic Sword of Truth series continues with the next stunning installment, PhantomOn the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end... -
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Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold by Terry Brooks
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsLandover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years...Categorized as:
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The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAs long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread... -
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Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmara is never alone. Not when she's protecting the cursed princess she unwillingly serves. Not when they're fleeing across dunes and islands and seas to stay alive. Not when she's punished, ordered around, or neglected.She can't be alone, because a boy from another world experiences all that alongside her, looking through her eyes.Nolan longs for a life uninterrupted...Categorized as:
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Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess.A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she's ever known... -
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Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsHe called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah...Categorized as:
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The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA beautifully written story of friendship, discovery, myths, and magic that the London Times called "reminiscent of fantasy greats such as Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman." Legends say that the island of Joya was once a place where songbirds sang in every tree and the islanders were free to come and go as they pleased...Categorized as:
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 2: Chapter 1: A Day in the Capital (manga) by Tappei Nagatsuki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubaru Natsuki had just been trying to get to the convenience store, but he wound up summoned to another world. Worse, he has only one special ability, and he has to die to use it! At least now he's got a goal—save the girl with the silver hair and bring a smile to her face...
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