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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
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William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He began...
4. Starless
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2018
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English
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"Destined from birth to serve as protector of the princess Zariya, Khai is trained in the arts of killing and stealth by a warrior sect in the deep desert; yet there is one profound truth that has been withheld from him"--Book jacket.
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Sometimes hope is the most dangerous thing of all. When their brother dies, two sisters lose the one thing that connected them. But then a year after her twin's death, Tamsin goes missing. Despite police indifference and her husband's doubts, Freya is determined to find her sister. But a trail of diary entries reveals a woman she barely knew, and a danger she can scarcely fathom, full of deep waters and shadowy myths, where the grief that drove Tamsin...
6. Shadowstitch
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Language of Magic volume 2
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling series continues… Praise for world of THREADNEEDLE 'Enthralling and original fantasy'Jay Kristoff, SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of NEVERNIGHT and EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE - The exciting second book in a contemporary fantasy series - Priority title for the HarperVoyager list - Thomas's magic, created with knots and threads, is both innovative and based in traditional witchcraft Competition: the;invisible library;priory...
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Monstrous Heart Trilogy volume 3
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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The epic conclusion to the Monstrous Heart Trilogy; a magical tale of intrigue on dark waters and a love story for the ages. The perfect gothic, gaslamp fantasy - ideal for fans of V.E. Schwab and China Mieville Arden Beacon has nothing left to lose. Having fought monsters, the deep waters and the establishment to fulfil a promise the man she loved - she is no closer to peace. But against the odds, she has found Jonah once more and they are together...
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Sisters Grimm volume 2
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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"Van Praag braids mystery, magic, and a vicious hunt for power into a dark, delicious story of four estranged, supernatural sisters." - Publishers Weekly on The Sisters Grimm "Vividly drawn, evocative and complex, The Sisters Grimm is both absorbing and beautiful-a great achievement." - Bridget Collins, author of the international bestseller The Binding "Van Praag's character-driven, lush novel . . . is a story determined to exalt the powers of the...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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September 3, 1864, 4 Somewhere off the Coast of North Carolina The sleek Sea Breeze, staggered by the blockader's fusillade, now leaned like a drunk on a lamp post. Fireworks spewed from the engine room. Then it vanished under the waves, the gold in its hold plunging towards Blackbeard's wreck whence it was wrested many years before. N only a lifeboat with six survivors, all lost in the sullen silence of their shattered lives. Amelia Beach confronted...
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Freya and Mick Jobe
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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In a hidden garden where every flower holds a dream, Evie stumbles upon a magical secretdreams are fading, and it's up to her to save them.Guided by the mysterious Dreamkeeper, Evie learns that forgotten dreams wither, and when they are lost, they feed the Hollow, a dark force that erases dreams forever. As she journeys deeper into the enchanted garden, Evie discovers that some dreams have already been stolentaken by the Collectors, who trade them...
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S. Q. David
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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A spellbinding fantasy adventure where forgotten stories come to lifeand a young girl must write their endings before they disappear forever.Some books are meant to be read. Others are meant to find you.Twelve-year-old Evelyne "Evie" Alderton has always loved unfinished stories. The books missing their final pages, the fairy tales cut shortshe collects them, desperate to imagine how they might have ended.But when she stumbles upon a mysterious book...
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Pub. Date:
2019
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
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Best Science Fiction of the Year volume 4
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more-a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is...