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DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain...
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Series
Dream keeper saga volume 1
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily discovers a stone pendant and is transported to a realm where people's dreams come to life"--
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Possessed with the ability to grant others extra time in their lives, when seventeen-year-old Hazeem gives away more time than he has left to live, he grapples with the consequences as he tries to reclaim those years and rediscover the true value of living.
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English
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"A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in. A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power. In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu's village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile-her scars are a testament to her past failures. But when her village is threatened, Lore makes a desperate deal with a Fae lord. She will leave her home to catalog/organize an...
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Series
Saint of Steel volume 1
Language
English
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"Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year ... Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing literary crossover novel about the pressures of growing up and the nature of authorship. In January 2314, Rowena Savalas -- a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet -- stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the mystery of the text: Is it autobiography, fantasy or fraud? What's the significance of the recurring number 381? In the story, the protagonist Fairly...
7) Kindling
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English
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After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Aqua Wave loves everything about dolphins: the way they swim and twirl, dance and dive. And more than anything she would love to ride one in the annual Trident City Dolphin Dash. But her older sister, Shira, is concerned Aqua will fall off and hurt herself--just like Shira once did--and she won't giver her permission. Will Aqua's wish come true or will Shira's worrying keep her from her deep-sea dreams?"--
9) Projections
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied -- or suffer a fate worse than death.
10) Sons of darkness
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither gold nor alliances last forever, and that they are not the only players on the board.
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Series
Last bloodcarver duology volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nhika, a young woman hiding in the fringes of society, must use her forbidden healing ability to cure the only witness to a murder.
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Series
Horsetail Hollow volume 5
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Maddie and her sister, Evie, moved with their family from the big city to a farm called Horsetail Hollow, it's been one magical adventure after another. A mixed-up wish has been bringing horses from fairy tale worlds to their farm--and the sisters are the only ones who can help them save their happily-ever-afters! In this must-have fifth book in the Horsetail Hollow series, Maddie and Evie open Horsetail Hollow for riding lessons, with...
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Series
Doomesday Archives volume 1
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New Rotterdam is no place for a kid and that's what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town's urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It's all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences. When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around...
15) The dark fable
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old orphan Evie Wilder catches the attention of the Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves impressed by her unique ability to turn invisible, which leads her into a newfound family, but as she delves deeper she uncovers dark secrets that may hold the key to her own mysterious past.
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Series
Moonstruck (P.C. Cast) volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Wren discovers latent magical powers, earning her a place at the secret Academia de la Luna, where alongside her childhood friend Lee, they uncover secrets and dangerous mysteries, forcing Lee to choose between his family's legacy and protecting the girl he loves.
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Series
Soulwood (Faith Hunter) volume 6
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a local vampire reports a dead body on her compound, Nell Ingram, along with her Psy-LED team, discovers this is just the beginning of a mystery involving supernaturals of all kinds, and as she gets closer to the truth, she senses there is something personal about this crime.
18) Twice lived
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Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you're a shifter. Canna and Lily are the same person but they refuse to admit it. Their split psyche has forced them to shift randomly between worlds -- between lives and between families -- for far longer than they should. But one mind can't bear this much life. It'll break under the weight of it...
19) To cage a god
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"To cage a god is divine. To be divine is to rule. To rule is to destroy. Using ancient secrets, Galina and Sera's mother grafted gods into their bones. Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in millennia, the sisters have grown up to become living weapons. Raised to overthrow an empire - no matter the cost. With their mother gone and their country on the brink of war, it falls to the sisters to take the helm of rebellion...
20) A game of Noctis
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Paro questions the system she once believed in and joins the Seafoxes, a ragtag team of players seeking to win the deadly Noctis games, to saver her grandfather.
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