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Nancy's List I love series, so many of these are the first books of my favorite ones!
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What angels fear : A Historical Mystery
by C. S. Harris
The prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose body is left on the altar steps of an ancient church, Sebastian St. Cyr, a young aristocrat haunted by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes a fugitive, joining forces with an unlikely group of allies as he flees a ruthless powerbroker with ties to the Prince Regent. A first novel.
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Veil of lies : a medieval noir
by Jeri Westerson
Stripped of his rank and honor for plotting against Richard II, disgraced knight Crispin Guest uses his wits to eke out a living in fourteenth-century London, taking on an investigation on behalf of a reclusive merchant that draws him into the middle of a complex conspiracy involving dark secrets, international plots, a missing religious relic, and murder. A first novel. 10,000 first printing.
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The dead travel fast
by Deanna Raybourn
Journeying to Rumania, a land rife with strange occurences, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence, Theodora Lestrange arrives at a decaying castle in the Carpathians where she finds a cast of eccentric characters, including the castle's master, Count Andrei Dragulescu, who has an unexplainable hold over those around him. Original.
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Event
by David Lynn Golemon
When a second unidentified craft crashes, leaving two survivors--one, a being of remarkable strength and power sent to assist humankind, and the other, whose goal is the total extinction of life on Earth--Major Jack Collins and the top-secret Event Group race against time to stop the "Destroyer of Worlds" before it is too late. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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Sandstorm
by James Rollins
Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source with the potential to both fuel and destroy the planet.
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The Templar legacy : a novel
by Steve Berry
Cotton Malone, a former covert U.S. Justice Department operative, and his ex-supervisor Stephanie Nelle, follow a labyrinthine trail of danger, treachery, high-level intrigue, and overwhelming ambition across Europe on a quest that leads them to the enigmatic secrets of the Knights Templar. 120,000 first printing.
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Gideon's sword
by Douglas J. Preston
After his relentless quest to avenge his father's death leads him to become a rogue operative with only one year to live, Gideon Crew must search the globe for plans to a menacing weapon of mass destruction, in a new series by the best-selling authors of Cemetery Dance.
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Angels & demons
by Dan Brown
The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case
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Theft of swords
by Michael J. Sullivan
Two thieves, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater, become the unwitting scapegoats in a plot to murder the king after taking on too many dangerous assignments for machinating and conspiring nobelpeople in the first volume of The Riyria Revelations. Original.
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Wizard's first rule
by Terry Goodkind
In the first installment of an epic fantasy series, an unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, and only a single man can stop him.
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The bone shard daughter
by Andrea Stewart
Her father's mastery of bone shard magic has maintained law and order in the kingdom for many years, but with the threat of revolution, his daughter, who has been trapped in the palace, is determined to learn the secret of the magic to claim her birthright and save the kingdom
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The eye of the world
by Robert Jordan
Relates a tale of the bestial Trollocs, the witch Moiraine, and three boys, one of whom is fated to become the Dragon--the World's only hope and the sure means of its destruction
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The alloy of law : a Mistborn novel
by Brandon Sanderson
After 20 years in the Roughs, Waxillium Ladrian--a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy--is forced by family tragedy to return to Elendel, where he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
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The Elfstones of Shannara
by Terry Brooks
The grandson of Shea, Wil Ohmsford, searches for Amberle, the Chosen whose gift of Bloodfire is needed to create the Ellcrys tree that protects against demons
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The warded man
by Peter V. Brett
As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise, demons who well up from the ground like a hellish steam, and when young Arlen decides to brave the night roads and face the demons, he attempts something not dreamt of since ancient times: a stand against the night.
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Spymaster
by Margaret Weis
Pirates from the warring Rosian and Freyan empires continuing preying on each other’s ships, unaware that they are being controlled by a sinister cabal, in the first book of a new series set in the world of the Dragon Brigade trilogy.
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Storm front : a novel of the Dresden files
by Jim Butcher
A modern-day mage and consultant to the Chicago police, wizard Harry Dresden finds his stale life suddenly enlivened when he is called to share his expertise in the investigation into a grisly double murder, a crime that reveals the presence of a rival who practices the darkest of black arts. Originally in paperback.
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The historian : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor. A first novel. 300,000 first printing.
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Written in red : a novel of the Others
by Anne Bishop
Blood prophet Meg Corbyn escapes enslavement by Others and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison in the first novel of a new fantasy series from the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy. 40,000 first printing.
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Born of night
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Command Assassin Nykytian Quikiades, while being hunted by the League, a group of expertly trained assassins who are the backbone of the government, must protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father's political alliances have made her a target, in a new novel by the best-selling author of the Dark-Hunter series. Original.
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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Raised in a hostile undead world where she would escape servitude and a zombie afterlife, a lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom in a solar system of swordplay and cutthroat politics. A first novel.
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The cold between
by Elizabeth Bonesteel
When her lover becomes the main suspect in the murder of her crewmate, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, uncovers a Central Gov conspiracy that actually links the man's death to an explosion at a wormhole. Book 1 of a trilogy.
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Lord John and the private matter
by Diana Gabaldon
Returning from Scottish exile in 1757, Lord John Grey pursues a traitor through London and across the seas, an endeavor that is complicated by a delicate family affair and his memories of the Jacobite Rising. By the author of Outlander. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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Witchmark
by C. L. Polk
After going to war to escape his destiny, Miles Singer is unable to leave his past behind when he, after faking his own death, reinvents himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veteran’s hospital where he can no longer hide what he truly is. Original.
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Lover at last : a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
by J. R. Ward
Disavowed from his family and ostracized by the aristocracy, vampire soldier Qhinn must deal with Blay's love of a Chosen female and the young they are having together in the latest novel of the series following Lover Reborn. 300,000 first printing.
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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
by Ken Kesey
Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he turns the place upside-down and challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse. By the author of Sometimes a Great Notion.
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Beowulf
by Maria Dahvana Headley
Book Annotation
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Scott, Walter
Book Annotation
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Walking the Himalayas
by Levison Wood
A travel writer and explorer describes his journey following in the footsteps of other great explorers, recounting his trips along the Silk Road of Afghanistan, the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, disputed territories of Kashmir and earthquake-damaged regions of Nepal. 50,000 first printing.
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