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The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep into a tangled web of loyalty and power to keep her friends safe.Irene is trying to learn the truth about Alberich-and the possibility that he's her father...Categorized as:
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The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAfter being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae. In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot...Categorized as:
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The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA professional spy for a mysterious Library which harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything she has worked for.Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected... -
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The Paradox by Charlie Fletcher
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR – SOMETIMES IT LOOKS BACKThose who belong to the secret society called the Oversight know many things. They know cold iron will hold back the beasts in the darkness. They know it is dangerous to stand between two mirrors. And they know that, despite their dwindling numbers, it remains their duty to protect humanity from the supernatural. And vice versa...Categorized as:
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![City of Ships by Mary Hoffman]()
City of Ships by Mary Hoffman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIsabel was rushing to her next lesson when she nearly tripped over the little ped pouch. She picked it up, fascinated; it looked like a prop from a school play. It definitely did have something inside and she couldn't resist opening the string to see what it was.Until she finds the mysterious little bag that seems to be from another time and place, Isabel is anything but extraordinary... -
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The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure! Librarian spy Irene has professional standards to maintain. Standards that absolutely do not include making hasty, unplanned escapes through a burning besieged building...Categorized as:
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![The Laughter of Carthage by Michael Moorcock]()
The Laughter of Carthage by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second volume of the Pyat Quartet.Having escaped the horrors of the Russian civil war, Maxim Arturovitch Pyat discovers that the hazards of Europe are as nothing to the perils that await him in America.He is almost immediately involved in further scandals, touring the country as a speaker for the Ku Klux Klan...Categorized as:
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Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of CaliforniaUrsa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past...Categorized as:
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Athenian Steel by P.K. Lentz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe is doom and madness. She is Thalassia.In 425 BCE, the Athenian general Demosthenes comes into possession of a weapon from the stars. He fears to wield it against his city's bitter enemy Sparta, but he knows that he must, lest it be wielded by others... -
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City of Secrets by Mary Hoffman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano and Arianna, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world... -
![The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones]()
The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl from the hated Petrocchi family of spell-makers...Categorized as:
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![City of Swords by Mary Hoffman]()
City of Swords by Mary Hoffman
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDesperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates to 16th-century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith...Categorized as:
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![The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the Cure for the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock]()
The City in the Autumn Stars: Being a Continuation of the Story of the Von Bek Family and Its Association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the Cure for the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sequel to The Warhound and the World's Pain, The City in the Autumn Stars continues the story of the German prince Manfred von Bek and his search for the devil--for the causes of evil in mankind. "A glorious tapestry of late-18th-century historical fantasy"...Categorized as:
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![Past Imperative by Dave Duncan]()
Past Imperative by Dave Duncan
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdward Exeter, seemingly a golden child of a golden age, has a past spattered with tragedy and blood. His present is marred by the outbreak of the Great War, and it is further stained by the death of his friend, Timothy Bodgley, in circumstances that leave Edward in hospital, implicated as Bodgley's murderer...Categorized as:
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![The Dark World by Henry Kuttner]()
The Dark World by Henry Kuttner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWorld War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar... -
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DC: The New Frontier, Volume 1 by Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAcclaimed writer/artist Darwyn Cooke (Catwoman: Selina's Big Score) turns his attention to the dawn of the Silver Age in DC: The New Frontier — which takes readers on a journey from the end of the Golden Age to the genesis of a bold new heroic era in the late 1950s!World War II is over. The Cold War has begun. The Age of the Superhero is in decline...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 3 by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in America's heartland, Lewis & Clark's expedition discovers a civilization unlike any they—or anyone else on Earth—has encountered. An encounter that will push their men to the brink of mutiny, and redefines the relationship between man and monster, predator and prey...Categorized as:
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![Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni]()
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLewis, Clark and the surviving members of their expedition continue westward across America, only to learn there is nowhere to run on a river.Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #7-12...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 4 by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLewis & Clark didn’t lead the first expedition west...nor were they the first to encounter the BIGGEST mammal in all the land: SASQUATCH! Many have claimed to have seen this legendary creature..Categorized as:
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![Manifest Destiny, Vol. 5: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni]()
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 5: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs winter begins, Lewis & Clark hunker the Corp of Discovery down in their new fort on the very frontier of civilization. All is calm... until old enemies emerge from the fog... and the real nightmare begins. Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #25-30... -
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 6: Fortis & Invisiblia by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf Meriwether Lewis hopes to reach the Pacific coast, he must learn an important lesson: Don’t listen to the voices in your head... -
![Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni]()
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark set out on an expedition to explore the uncharted American frontier. This is the story of the monsters they discovered lurking in the wilds...Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #1-6... -
![The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 4: The Tempest by Alan Moore]()
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...
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