The Hum and the Shiver – Alex Bledsoe

About the book No one knows where the Tufa camefrom, or how they ended up in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, yet whenthe first Europeans arrived, they were already there. Dark-haired, enigmatic,and suspicious of outsiders, the Tufa live quiet lives in the hills and valleysof Cloud County. While their origins may be lost to…

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Sea Witch – Helen Hollick

About the book The time: the golden age of piracy- 1716  The Place: the Pirate Round – fromSouth Africa to the Islands of the Caribbean. Escaping the bullying of his elder brother, from the age of fifteen JesamiahAcorne has been a pirate, with only two loves – his ship and his freedom. Buthis life is…

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Awakenings – Edward Lazellari

About the book Cal MacDonnell is a happily married New York City cop with aloving family. Seth Raincrest is a washed-up photographer who has alienatedeven his closest friends. The two have nothing in common—except that they bothsuffer from retrograde amnesia. It’s as if they just appeared out of thin airthirteen years ago, and nothing has…

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The Rift Walker – Clay & Susan Griffith

About the book Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriageand obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic alliesstand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, thealliance’s horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her dutyand embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation…

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The Urban Fantasy Anthology – Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale

About the book Star-studded and comprehensive,this imaginative anthology brings a myriad of modern fantasy voices under oneroof. Previously difficult for readers to discover in its new modes, urbanfantasy is represented here in all three of its distinct styles—playful newmythologies, sexy paranormal romances, and gritty urban noir. Whether theyfeature tattooed demon-hunters, angst-ridden vampires, supernatural gumshoes,or pixelated…

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With Fate Conspire – Marie Brennan

About the book Seven years ago, Eliza’s childhood sweetheartvanished from the streets of Whitechapel. No one believed her when shetold them that he was stolen away by the faeries. But she hasn’t given up the search. It will lead her across London and into thehidden palace that gives refuge to faeries in the mortal world. That refuge isnow…

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Bricks – Leon Jenner

About the book This is the story of a bricklayer.A master of his craft, he keeps its sacred teachings secret. For him a house isthe dwelling place of a soul, and a house must be built in the right spirit orthe soul inside it will suffer. The building of an arch is a ritual to…

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Low Town – Daniel Polansky

About the book Drug dealers, hustlers,brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.  In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus,the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an uglyplace, and its cham­pion is an ugly man….

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Lamentation – Ken Scholes

About the book Anancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir.  From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees thehorrifying column of smoke rising.  He knows that war is coming to theNamed Lands. Nearerto the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only survivor of the city – hesat waiting for his father…

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Time and Chance – Alan Brernnert

About the book A classic novel from the bestselling authorof Moloka’i and Honolulu Before Alan Brennert became abestselling author of historical novels, he wrote this lyrical fantasy in thevein of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Part love story, part deeply affecting characterstudy, it is a literary tour de force chronicling the parallel lives of two menwho were once the same man–until,…

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