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Kontesa Nera by Marija Jurić Zagorka
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrič spava dubokim snom, Mjesec je razastro srebrn plašt nad crkvene tornjeve, gradske kule, plemićke dvorove i kućice gričkih purgara. Ulice su zamrle, a željezni kapci na prozorima kao da su zakovani. Nigdje znaka budnog čovjeka. I lavež pasa je zamuknuo... -
Tajna Krvavog mosta by Marija Jurić Zagorka
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGlas da pod Krvavim mostom leži mrtav čovjek otvarao je vrata purgerskih kuća, budio gospodu na Kaptolu i dopro čak u spavaće odaje gričkih plemkinja... Tako počinje roman “Tajna krvavog mosta” koji je izlazio u svescima 1912. godine u Malim novinama... -
Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRead throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience... -
The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation... -
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Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons by Quenby Olson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMiss Mildred Percy has no wish to go to London.Unfortunately, her niece, Belinda, has recently absconded from Nyth y Ddraig with 1) a newly-hatched white dragon, 2) over a dozen (unhatched) dragon eggs, and 3) an extraordinary surfeit of hubris. All clues lead to London, and so Mildred and company have no choice but to follow her to town... -
The Saint of the Bookstore by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA feel-good fantasy short story for the winter holidays!Early in the new year, Sister Mirabelle of the Linder Church of the Lady is sent to Ragnor Bella to investigate rumours of a saint. Her job is to determine whether it's magic, trickery, or actual miracle. In the town's small bookstore, she encounters one Jemis Greenwing, who has a few mysteries to his name... -
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEvocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways...Categorized as:
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Ken Follett Epic Historical Collection by Ken Follett, Joachim Kerzel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEpic Historical Collection Ken Follett Dive into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's masterpiece of medieval drama, The Pillars of the Earth, and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End... -
Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and has left in Japanese literature a mass of artistic work, often grotesque and curious, that, while it undoubtedly angers the proletarian experimenters who now hold the stage and fight with lusty pens and a highly developed class consciousness against all that he stood for, will continue to live as... -
Hyperversum: Il cavaliere del tempo by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSono passati tre anni dal momento in cui Ian e Daniel si sono salutati prendendo strade (e secoli) molto diversi tra loro. Di tanto in tanto, Daniel non può fare a meno di ritentare una partita con Hyperversum, nella speranza di incontrare nuovamente l'amico...Categorized as:
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Brother Wind by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time before time at the top of the world -; in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -; courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter."Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin must sacrifice her love for the sake of her tribe and the safety of her children...Categorized as:
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Baron by Ed Nelson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn Engineer finds himself in an Alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron.Retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.His love of Engineering has him taking university courses his entire life...Categorized as:
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Faery Forged by Donna Joy Usher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother book by the multi-award-winning novelist Donna Joy Usher. If you are a fan of my other works, please note that this is a fantasy novel suitable for YA readers. It still embodies my writing style and sense of humour, but there is also magic, fighting, blood and gore. I would love for you to read this, but if you do not enjoy it, please feel free to refund it... -
The Maze of the Enchanter by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts... -
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Rival by J.M. Kearl
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the arrival of dragons and a massive enemy army, the war for magic freedom looks grim. When Daelyn goes down behind enemy lines, she has one chance to convince King Enden to call a truce and set magic free in Hesstia. To fulfill the terms of the truce, Daelyn must face the devious Queen Kyria in a savage challenge where only the winner may survive... -
The Game of Courts by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius—Conju to his friends, or he would be if any of them had survived the Fall of Astandalas—survived the cataclysmic destruction of the Empire of Astandalas in perfectly good health, thank you very much. If he spent the year (or hundred years) afterwards partying while the world burned .. -
Call Down the Stars by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son...Categorized as:
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Echoes of Magic by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHiding a secret so awful that his only hope for survival is to remain hidden, Grayson has lived most of his life pretending to be someone he isn’t. After years serving as a commander to his lord and friend, Grayson can no longer hold back the past. He leaves in search of answers only to find evil awaits him... -
At The End There Was You by Wendy Heiss
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world will end in seven days.Winter is a Priestess, her life is simple and uncomplicated, but shortly takes a turn when she is appointed as an aide for a Mage who intends to stop the God of Death from spreading a plague that would end their world. Both of them begin searching the Urvalis library for answers and find more than they had bargained for... -
Hyperversum Unknown by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCastello di Pointeriche, Piccardia, Francia, 1235. Alexandra e Marc stanno per coronare il loro sogno: mancano poche settimane alle nozze e poi finalmente saranno uniti per sempre...Categorized as:
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Cry of the Wind by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge?Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness...Categorized as:
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Song of the River by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed, bestselling author of "Mother Earth Father Sky" comes an extraordinary new novel of courage and human conflict in a prehistoric wilderness of ice and snow. Eighty centuries before our time -- in the frozen interior of a place that would someday be called Alaska -- a clubfooted babe was left in the snow to die..Categorized as:
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The Moorwitch by Jessica Khoury
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this sweeping romantic fantasy from bestselling author Jessica Khoury, a young witch caught in a twisted bargain with the fae must disguise herself as a governess and uncover the gateway to the realm of faerie in order to save her dying magic and escape the clutches of her controlling fae handler—even as she finds herself falling for her new employer, an enigmatic young Scottish laird and the... -
Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs it ever possible for the undead to find true love? You'll find no definitive answer here. Be aware of this much though: When werewolves and vampires clash; there can be no winners.When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria... -
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Il cuore di Derfel by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTorna l'attesa voce di Derfel Cadarn, il guerriero fattosi monaco, un tempo protetto di Merlino e paladino fedele di Artù, per accompagnarci lungo un nuovo capitolo delle sue memorie, che lo vede impegnato a lottare su due fronti ugualmente insidiosi: l'amore e la guerra...Categorized as:
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La spada perduta by Bernard Cornwell, Gaetano Luigi Staffilano
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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Royaume de vent et de colères by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1596. Deux ans avant l'édit de Nantes qui met fin aux guerres de Religion, Marseille la catholique s'oppose à Henri IV, l'ancien protestant. Une rébellion, une indépendance que ne peut tolérer le roi... -
Jade Dynasty 诛仙 by Xiao Ding
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The book by Xiao Ding is a full-length novel.This is a legendary journey by a brave man, a fire stick and the resistance with destiny.A decade ago he was an ordinary teenager who chopped firewood, cooked and walked his monkey around the Dazhu Peak;A decade later, he becomes the Ghost King and raises the reign of terror...Categorized as:
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Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHEY CALLED HER JANI BUT SHE ONCE HAD ANOTHER NAME. AND A PAST SHE NEVER KNEW.From far-off Tibet to England's rich countryside, this marvelously enchanting novel unfolds the incredible saga of a beautiful, young half-caste whose strange destiny pulls her into a world of love and terror--a worlds a mysterious power moves slowly toward her, threatening her sanity...and her life... -
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambition, set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London. Be careful what you wish for it may just come true.At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse... -
Daughter of the Otherworld by Shauna Lawless
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the Gael Song trilogy, an epic new historical fantasy set in the tumultuous, magical world of medieval Ireland during the time of the Norman invasion.Over a hundred years after she went missing, Isolde, born to the family of a famous Irish king and a powerful immortal, inexplicably reappears.Her mother's kin, the Descendants, are one of the two magical races of Ireland...Categorized as:
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The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA glittering family. A Notting Hill house. Step into their secrets...Notting Hill, 1998. Dee Delancey—loving mother, grieving widow, sometime model—heads out for the evening, blowing a kiss before vanishing down the crescent. She doesn't come home that night. Nor the one after.. -
L'Enchanteur by René Barjavel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsQui ne connaît pas Merlin ? Il se joue du temps qui passe, reste jeune et beau, vif et moqueur, tendre, pour tout dire Enchanteur... -
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The White Spell by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Nine Kingdoms Saga continues in a land where light and dark magic vie, and where a reluctant hero and seemingly defenseless stable maid must join forces against an encroaching evil... -
The Cursed One by Ronda Thompson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Ronda Thompson captivates readers in her darkly seductive Regency werewolf romance series, the Wild Wulfs of London…Wed and widowed in one day, stunning socialite Amelia Sinclair’s honeymoon is anything but typical. Then again, neither is Amelia—rebellious and impulsive, marrying Robert Collingsworth was the one sensible thing she ever did... -
Precious Bones by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are found entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house, Cassandra is overcome with grief. She seems to know who the young woman was, but not how she knows, or how she came to be there. Cassandra becomes inexplicably drawn to the house and the mystery of the "Bones of Blackfriars... -
Glow by Megan E. Bryant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 SelectionLydia is thrilled to join the working girls in the factory, where they paint luminous watch dials for the soldiers fighting in World War I. In the future, these girls will be known as the tragic Radium Girls: factory workers not only poisoned by the glowing paint, but who also had to fight against men who knew of the paint's deadly effect...Categorized as:
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To Charles Fort, with Love by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo Charles Fort, with Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlín R. Kiernan's third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe... -
Sensual Danger by Tina Folsom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVenice, Italy - early 1800sWhen vampire Nico purchases a house to further his fellow vampires' goal of creating a secure compound within Venice, he doesn't expect to get a headstrong wife in the bargain. He plans to send her to the mainland after their wedding night so he can continue his debauched bachelor life... -
Duty by Rachel Rossano
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDuty to KingTomas Dyrease, the newly made Earl of Irvaine and the village of Wisenvale, owes his good fortune to his king and the recent civil war. When his benefactor demands Tomas marry the cousin of a noble, he obeys. However, no one warned him that she wasn’t a typical noblewoman.Duty to OthersBrielle Solarius struggles to keep her village from starvation under the new Lord Wisten, her cousin... -
Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tales of Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan with Faustian elements, and centering a fierce Mexican-American poet on a quest to rescue her brother.1836. Wisconsin Territory. All Catalina has left is her little brother—Mama died years ago, and Papa was buried just yesterday...Categorized as:
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Gorilla City by Charlie Small
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life-and still only be eight. And yet . .Categorized as:
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Darkest Dreams by Jennifer St. Giles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove can unite what rivalry attempts to tear apart. Or so Andromeda thought when she journeyed to Dartmoor's End to be with her sister, recently wed to the legendary Sean Killdaren. Andromeda is hopelessly drawn to Sean's estranged twin brother and rival, Alexander Killdaren, Viscount Blackmoor... -
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Midnight Harvest by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFleeing Spain as it becomes engulfed in Civil War, the immortal vampire Saint-Germain heads for California, where he is reunited with Rowena Saxon, unaware that Cenere, a ruthless assassin, is pursuing him and will do anything, even kill those under Saint-Germain's protection, to achieve his objective. Reprint... -
A Candle for d'Artagnan by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne... -
Fishboy: A Ghost's Story by Mark Richard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the brilliant idiom of a modern Melville or Conrad, an odyssey of discovery by a bold and outrageous talent--the PEN/Hemingway Award--winning author of The Ice At The Bottom Of The World...Categorized as:
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Jassy by Norah Lofts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was the daughter of a preacher and a gypsy. A strange and elusive child with powers of prophecy, she grew into an even stranger woman. From those around her she inspired love and admiration or furious hatred. Nothing in between. And somehow Jassy could transform even those who loved her into her enemies. Barney Hatton, the disposessed heir of Mortiboys, loved her but not enough... -
Monkspike: You Are Not Forgiven by S.E. England, Sarah E. England
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1149 was a violent year in the Forest of Dean. During the reign of King Stephen laws were lax, and landowners exacted high tithes from peasants forced to hand over their produce or face torture. One sector in society however, did not have to pay, and those were the monks. A fact which enraged local tyrant, Baron John Rivers... -
Vampire Dreams Revamped by Gabrielle Bisset
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Prequel to the Bestselling Erotic Paranormal Romance series, The Sons of Navarus! "Packed full of action, surprises, hot alpha vampires, romance and hot sex that make for a great read for any fan of the genre." --Romance Book Junkies A vampire for hundreds of years, Brandon Ridley is surrounded by others of his kind who enjoy their world to the fullest...
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