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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Spellbound – Blake Charlton

About the Book Francesca DeVega is a healer in the city of Avel, composing magical sentences that close wounds and disspell curses, but her life is thrown into chaos when a newly dead patient sits up and tells her that she must flee the infirmary or face a fate worse than death. Now Francesca is…

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The Dervish House – Ian McDonald

About the Book It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House; the great, ancient, paradoxical…

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The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss

About the Book I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by…

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Promises to Keep – Charles de Lint

About the Book The year is 1972. Jilly Coppercorn is struggling to stay clean and make ends meet. In the early stages of rebuilding her life from a past that included abuse, addiction, prostitution, and homelessness, her new life in Newford revolves around studying art at Butler University, while surrounded by a small coterie of…

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Ember and Ash – Pamela Freeman

About the Book The old ones will have their revenge. Two peoples have been fighting over the same land for a thousand years. Invaders crushed the original inhabitants, and ancient powers have reluctantly given way to newer magics. But Ember was to change all this with a wedding to bind these warring people together –…

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The Company – K.J. Parker

About the Book Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need – food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep…

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The Dragon’s Path – Daniel Abraham

About the Book Summer is the season of war in the Free Cities. Marcus wants to get out before the fighting starts. His hero days are behind him and simple caravan duty is better than getting pressed into service by the local gentry. Even a small war can get you killed. But a captain needs…

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Sati – Christopher Pike

About the Book I once knew this girl who thought she was God. She didn’t give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn’t even teach anything, not really, and she never told me anything I probably didn’t already know. On the other hand, she didn’t expect to be worshipped, nor did she…

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Dream of Legends – Stephen Zimmer

About the Book Dream of legends, and soar across the world of Ave… For Janus and the other exiles from a modern world, finding themselves in the fantastical lands of Ave was just the beginning.  The assault upon the Kingdom of Saxany and the tribes of the Five Realms ignites, as the eyes of The…

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