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Golem and the jinni volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
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Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to S. A. Chakraborty's brilliantly imagined fantasy The City of Brass, which #1 New York Times bestelling author Sabaa Tahir called "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind", in which a young con artist drawn into the kingdom of the djinn must navigate her way through their dangerous world of magic, court politics, and ever-shifting alliances"--
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Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those...
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Golem and the jinni volume 2
Language
English
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Pretending to be human, magical beings Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, find their lives intertwined as they try to make sense of the world around them and the people whose lives they have unwittingly affected.
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Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Language
English
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"The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands,...
Author
Series
Accidentally paranormal novels volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a bottle, caterer extraordinaire-turned-instant-genie Jeannie Carlyle can't stop granting wishes to werewolf Sloan Flaherty who works for OOPS -- Out in the Open Paranormal Support. The two must figure out how to break their unwanted bond before they get into more trouble than even the OOPS girls can handle.
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Series
Sandsea trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land-at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong--along with all its remaining residents--to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the State's electronic...
10) All your wishes
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A client begs Celia Graves to help return a genie to his bottle. The attempt makes Celia a target for the currently incorporeal ifrit. If she doesn't give him her body, he'll kill everyone she loves. If she does, he'll use her physical form to free thousands of evil djinn. Celia's not going to hand over her body, but her client tries to trick her into it -- so that he can kill the ifrit while it's trapped in her flesh. That doesn't end well for the...
11) Three wishes
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Publisher
Bold Strokes Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Since she took her first trip to the little island of Nosy Bé off the coast of Madagascar, Porter has been drawn back to it time and again. When a mysterious vendor sells her an antique, jewel-encrusted oil lamp, Elise is thoroughly surprised by the mystical appearance of a beautiful and scantily clad woman offering to grant her three wishes. Naima is a Jinni, and she has a wish of her own. A cursed princess's spirit, who also happens to be the Jinni's...
Author
Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent....
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Amina al-Sirafi ha sobrevivido a traiciones, a príncipes vengativos, a varios maridos y a un auténtico demonio para retirarse pacíficamente con su familia a una vida de devoción y maternidad, alejada de cualquier cuestión sobrenatural. Sin embargo, cuando le ofrecen un encargo que ningún bandido podría rechazar, aprovecha la oportunidad de vivir una última aventura con su antigua tripulación; una hazaña que la convertirá en leyenda y le...
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. There is no part of the world...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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