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Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never know.Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans... -
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Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMaud Demille was a daughter of Innkeepers. She knew that a simple life wasn't in the cards, but she never anticipated what Fate would throw at her.Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her daughter, Helen, had been exiled for the sins of her husband to the desolate planet of Karhari. Karhari killed her husband, and Maud had spent a year and a half avenging his debts... -
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One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsDina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest… the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about... -
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Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDeath Stalks Them All... Kere is the second most infamous member of the shadow organization known as Sentella. An explosive engineer who strikes terror into the hearts of the League, the bounty on his head is truly staggering. No one knows his true identity.The daughter of a traitor, Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell- her family hunted to the brink of extinction... -
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![Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe war is on...Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella- an organization that has declared war on the League that rules the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrifies it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one... -
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Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere...the only survivors are those ones who are...BORN OF SHADOWSFor Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn't a right, it's a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary... -
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Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a starship decides to play Santa Claus… Ahab is a mLa’an artificial intelligence embedded in the starship, Orion. The campaign for AIs to be recognized as full citizens of Galaxy Proper is within reach of its extraordinary goal. The only thing that could stop it now is if an AI did something foolish…like take a space station hostage to save seven orphaned children... -
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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsHarrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash... -
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Cajole by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector... -
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Born of Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn the Ichidian Universe where The League is law, most live in fear. We fight back. Welcome to a world where corrupt assassination politics dominate everyone. It’s kill or be killed. Welcome back to the future…and meet hell's new breed of heroes.Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing and backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives...Categorized as:
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![Dawn of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Dawn of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere will be hell to pay.Evelyn’s parents have been missing for more than thirty years, and at last Evelyn has a clue as to their fate. Investigating won’t be easy, even for someone as powerful as she is, yet she won’t be deterred... -
![Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEvelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry... -
![The Soldiers of Halla by D.J. MacHale]()
The Soldiers of Halla by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIt has all been leading to this.Every victory. Every loss. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon's heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic moment. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. At stake is not only the tenth and final territory, but all that ever was or will be... -
![Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEvery Life Has A Price™One of the fiercest soldiers the Phrixians have ever produced, Maris Sulle has been an outsider from the moment he was born different from the rest of his royal military family. And once his deadly secret was exposed, it cost him everything—his birthright, his family, and his stellar military career... -
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![Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir]()
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 74 ratingsThe Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse... -
![Lieutenant Commander Spacemage by Timothy Ellis]()
Lieutenant Commander Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s no such thing as a nice clean war.If fighting a war which might never end wasn’t enough, now the Imperium has a new enemy.But now promoted to be a genuine squadron leader, Bud finds himself leading more than his squadron... -
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Commander Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever underestimate the capacity of a plant to learn something new from a dinosaur.Bud is getting a crash course in how to fight a war all on his own.At the same time, the needs of his homeworld and the Imperium distract him from the goal of finding where the Rawtenuga entered the core galaxy from... -
![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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Shield by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf Cherry was a selfish witch, she'd keep running. She's an oracle. She KNOWS that trouble is closing in. However, there's an instant in which she could escape, and so could those she loves.Too bad she's surrounded herself with ridiculously noble allies. The kind of self-sacrificing, kind, clever, and resolute people who force you to love them .. -
![The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher]()
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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![The Pilgrims of Rayne by D.J. MacHale]()
The Pilgrims of Rayne by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen Bobby Pendragon first arrives on the tropical world of Ibara, he finds paradise. There is beauty all around and the people of Ibara are blissfully happy. It's not long before Bobby discovers, however, that they are also blissfully...oblivious...Categorized as:
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![Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since... -
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The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Halcyon Classics ebook contains sixty-seven of celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft's best works central to his 'Cthulhu mythos.' Although Lovecraft's (1890-1937) readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century... -
![Empire Burning by Michael Chatfield]()
Empire Burning by Michael Chatfield
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPandora’s Box has been opened. The Pantheon of Emerilia has gone through tremendous changes the event of Myths and Legends suppressed. Warships now move in the stars, made of soul gem constructs, built by mages and engineers, crewed by those that lived on Emerilia or within Earth’s Simulation...Categorized as:
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![Death Becomes Her by Michael Anderle]()
Death Becomes Her by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe UnknownWorld is about to suffer change. For a thousand years, it has felt stifled by Michael's strictures, the rules they must follow on pain of death. As the first and most powerful vampire in existence, he has the power to keep the power struggles under the radar from the rest of humanity. Unfortunately that is changing... -
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Zinnia by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe's called the 'Scarlet Lady' - but only Zinnia Spring would rise above her shocking nickname by dressing defiantly in red. Ever since a false tabloid story ruined her reputation and her interior design business, this headstrong lady has made a living using her psychic abilities - a highly prized skill that sets her apart on the space colony of St. Helen's... -
![The Quillan Games by D.J. MacHale]()
The Quillan Games by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLET THE GAMES BEGIN....Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. Hosted by a strange pair of game masters, Veego and LaBerge, the games are a mix of sport and combat...Categorized as:
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![Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey]()
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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Fleet Captain Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA complicated war is about to get a lot more complicated. And Bud’s brought it on himself.There’s no end in sight to either the Rawtenuga or Trixone wars.And the search for the dinosaur home world is proving just how big the galaxy is, especially where it’s not properly mapped... -
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Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down... -
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Today's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThorn is back! The guilty will be punished. The war they dismissed as nonsense, is now raging. Jen needs Thorn. The military want Thorn. Thorn is older and wiser, and he doesn’t care what anyone wants. He has a better hold on his growing power, or so he thinks. The war calls, but there is unfinished business to attend to on the way...Categorized as:
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The Reality Bug by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereVIRTUAL REALITY?The territory of Veelox has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox - because it's deserted...Categorized as:
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![Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFame is overrated.Having rescued thousands of people from being sacrificed, Evelyn could use some peace and quiet. Life has other plans. She quickly finds herself drawn into assisting a deity with a small problem, only to return and find that her great grandmother has learned of her existence... -
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Blood Love by Connie Suttle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"You think maybe Breanne is somewhere else, now, deciding whether it's worth it to come back?""It's possible," Ashe said, rubbing his forehead. He hadn't had a headache this bad in almost a decade. He'd had this one for four days."She may not want to stay here if she wakes up," Trajan sounded troubled."I know. Sometimes I want to kick my own ass over that.""I'll do it for you... -
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![Tomorrow's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis]()
Tomorrow's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"So this is what my life's going to be from now on? Continually stepping into the middle of the eternally stupid, every time they do stupid?" Thorn is back. He's lost 1 civilization, and is still trying to fix 2 others. But fixing when you don’t know how it broke, is never as simple as you thought it was...Categorized as:
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![Only Cold Depths by Jennifer Estep]()
Only Cold Depths by Jennifer Estep
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA WOMAN WHO CAN’T CONTROL HER POWER . . .Everyone knows the name Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat working in a Regal-owned corporation, but thanks to my truebond with Kyrion Caldaren, I’m now one of the most wanted fugitives in the Archipelago Galaxy... -
![Yesterday's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis]()
Yesterday's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPirates and Slavers Beware, the Space Mage is coming for you!All Thorn wanted, was to be a Battle Mage.He had the talent, and his whole future was before him.On the day of Choosing, he finds things don't always go as planned. Suddenly Thorn's life is thrown into fast forward, and he finds himself in a world not of his own choosing...Categorized as:
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Wizard Scout by Rodney W. Hartman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. The Intergalactic Wizard Scout Academy has been producing wizard scouts for over 800 years. But is the Academy’s long history coming to an end? Richard is only in his junior year at the Academy, but it may well be his last... -
![High Wizardry by Diane Duane, Christina Moore]()
High Wizardry by Diane Duane, Christina Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNita's bratty little sister Dairine, 10, is too smart and powerful for a new wizard. Her computerized wizard manual glibly sends her off on her novice Ordeal. Kit and Nita chase her across the galaxy, trying to catch up before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can rescue her... -
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Unnatural by Alessandra Hazard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA planet at war. Two alphas forced into a political marriage. Attraction that defies all reason and logic… Or does it? The Kingdom of Pelugia and the Republic of Kadar have been at war for decades. Peace isn’t popular, but the planet can’t survive without it...Categorized as:
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![Wizard Cadet by Rodney W. Hartman]()
Wizard Cadet by Rodney W. Hartman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. They are a mix of technology and magic-like abilities. Richard, a cadet at the Intergalactic Wizard Scout Academy, is on assignment to retrieve a defecting scientist on a planet deep behind enemy lines. In theory, it should be a simple in-and-out mission. But as Richard learned long ago, nothing is ever simple... -
![The Mages of Starsea by Kyle West]()
The Mages of Starsea by Kyle West
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mage's fate is worse than death...Lucian dreams of a new life outside the cesspool of Earth. Unfortunately, his wish comes true when the government identifies him as a mage.No one knows why the mages are being born. No one knows why their powers lead to madness and death in a terrifying disease known as "the fraying". The only solution is to quarantine the mages in academies... -
![Daughter of Discord by J.J. Green]()
Daughter of Discord by J.J. Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA galactic empire in turmoil...Rival clans fighting for supremacy…Dark secrets bursting into the light…Time’s running out for Carina Lin. She’s given up her merc life in the hope of finding others like her: mages. But it’s a dicey endeavor. She can’t stay in one place too long because if her powers are revealed, she faces nasty consequences... -
![The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex by Tamsyn Muir]()
The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex by Tamsyn Muir
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEach of the Empire's houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the Sixth, every secret is a mystery, and every mystery is a puzzle to be solved or a paper to be published. Deep in the bowels of their house, one such secret is about to reveal itself...Categorized as:
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![The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer]()
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... -
![Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card]()
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... -
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Wizard Defiant by Rodney W. Hartman
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. They are a mix of technology and magic like abilities. Richard has been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become one of these legendary soldiers. All he has to do is make it through the Wizard Scout Academy. But with a TAC officer who hates his guts, will he even be allowed to graduate... -
![Perfect Prince by Michelle M. Pillow]()
Perfect Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe four Qurilixian Princes have no problem with commitment. In one night, using the power they were born with, they will meet and choose their life mate in a simplistic ceremony involving the removing of masks and the crushing of crystals. With very few words spoken and the shortest, most bizarre courtship in history, they will bond to their women forever. And once bonded, these men don't let go... -
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Balancing Karma by I.D. Locke
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKarma has it in for Moswen. Trouble follows him around like a demented, faithful dog. Moswen never means for things to happen the way they do. It just does. And while things may seem bad at first, everything eventually works out for the best even if the road to getting there is a less than a smooth ride... -
![Risen by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan]()
Risen by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades fall, fear threatens to consume the survivors in part four of The Boy in the Iron Box.Liev’s get his men out of this ancient stone prison, take their chances with the wolves, and descend the summit at first light. But in this snowbound hell, there’s soon to be a frightening new twist to survival...
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