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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... -
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... -
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...Categorized as:
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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... -
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Firewalker by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWorlds divide, magic slays, and love lies in the second book of Josephine Angelini’s The Worldwalker Trilogy."You think I’m a monster, but my choices, as ruthless as they seem, are justified."Lily is back in her own universe, and she's ready to start a new life with Rowan by her side...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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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... -
Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe exhilaratingly seductive new series from the author of the bestselling Starcrossed seriesLove burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns.This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted... which is why she is determined to enjoy her first (and perhaps only) high-school party...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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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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Ink by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . -
Dreamseeker by C.S. Friedman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jessica Drake learned that her DNA didn’t match that of her parents, she had no idea that the search for her heritage would put her family’s lives in danger, or force her to cross into another world...Categorized as:
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House Immortal by Devon Monk
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOne hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world’s resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn’t placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized.... Matilda Case isn’t like most folk... -
Death Blows by D.D. Barant
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFBI profiler Jace Valchek was pulled into this parallel realm to hunt for Aristotle Stoker, a human serial killer who preys on vampires and werewolves. Now she works for the National Security Agency of the Unnatural States of America - and her boss is a vampire...Categorized as:
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A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis first volume in the stunning new Withern Rise trilogy is a gripping thriller about a boy and a girl who are the same person--but not quite--and who are living the same life . . . but not quite. Includes a sneak peek at Vol. II, Small Eternities... -
Traveler by L.E. DeLano
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJessa has spent her life dreaming of other worlds and writing down stories more interesting than her own, until the day her favorite character, Finn, suddenly shows up and invites her out for coffee. After the requisite nervous breakdown, Jessa learns that she and Finn are Travelers, born with the ability to slide through reflections and dreams into alternate realities... -
The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDarcy Jones doesn't remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn't have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn't happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population...Categorized as:
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Origins by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFrom Ilona Andrews—#1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Shifts and the Kate Daniels novels—comes a stark, seductive tale of a world torn asunder by supernatural gifts and irresistible passions...Karina Tucker is driving a van of children home from a field trip when an unplanned detour to a seemingly ordinary rest stop changes her life... -
Dying Bites by D.D. Barant
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHer job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world—one in which only one percent of the population is human—is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day…Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA...Categorized as:
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UR by Stephen King, Holter Graham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith's Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions... -
The Silver Dream by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSixteen-year-old Joey Harker has just saved the Altiverse—the dimension that contains all the myriad Earths—from complete destruction. After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey and his fellow InterWorld Freedom Fighters are on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds...Categorized as:
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The Hidden Family by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe second volume of Charles Stross's thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worldsMiriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers...Categorized as:
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Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons--and reconsider what it means to be a hero . . . by destiny or by choice...Categorized as:
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The Family Trade by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves...Categorized as:
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Vellum by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description. VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURSIt's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself... -
InterWorld by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhen Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel InterWorld. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war...
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