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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]()
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]()
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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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... -
![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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Small Eternities by Michael Lawrence
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFour months ago, Alaric and Naia, two teenagers who'd never met, discovered they were living almost identical lives at alternate versions of Withern Rise, their family's riverside home. One day, they accidentally stranded themselves in the wrong realities. It's summer now, and heavy rains have caused the river to overflow. Withern Rise's grounds are under water...Categorized as:
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![Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini]()
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... -
![Athenian Steel by P.K. Lentz]()
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... -
![Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund]()
Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is water pooled deep within the earth--a forbidden spring that flows through the history of humankind.There is a reborn ghost town in New Mexico where real phantoms congregate--along with artists, shamans, witches. . .and all manner of evil.Lightning has chased Larry Ngitis to this place where he will be called upon to do the impossible... -
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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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The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for their own purposes.Roddy enlists the help of Nick, a boy from another world, and the three turn to their own impressive powers... -
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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... -
![Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones]()
Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1 Warlock at the Wheel - Warlock drives away to flee Chrestomanci, gets bullied by toddler Jane and dog Towser.2 Stealer of Souls - Evil Neville Spiderman kidnaps jealous Cat Chant and homesick Tonino from dying Gabriel de Witt.3 Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream - Dream subjects drunkenly object to typecast roles... -
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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...Categorized as:
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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]()
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]()
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... -
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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... -
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The Revolution Business by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThings are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once...Categorized as:
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![The Merchants' War by Charles Stross]()
The Merchants' War by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMiriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Dream by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves]()
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... -
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![The Hidden Family by Charles Stross]()
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... -
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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... -
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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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