January 2017 List by Holly Whistler
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Illusion
by Tracey R. Newman
Sacred relics unearthed in a mountain cave deep within the Bolivian jungle plunge famed American archaeologist, Nickolaus Adallyus Piper into a world where reality and illusion converge. Abandoned to follow cryptic clues left in the wake of his mentor, Tobias Alger’s death, Nick races against time to save the one woman who holds the key to his redemption.
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The Tenth Virtue: Awakening
by M. C. Meinema
When Patrina Palinski is an infant, a strange fire rips through her tiny home, miraculously leaving her untouched physically but orphaned. Rescued by a nearby neighbor, Patrina is safe—until Uncle Vlad, one of the most powerful men in Poland, shows up to claim her and take her back to his estate, where he locks her in a tower with only a nanny to teach her about life and her heritage.
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The City of Ice
by K. M. McKinley
In a sequel to The Iron Ship, the Kressind siblings pursue their fortunes in the City of Ice, which, even though it stands upon the dawn of a new era, may yet be consumed by a darkness from the past.
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The Waterdancer's World
by L. Timmel Duchamp
Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries, adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and daughter of the general commanding the planet’s occupation forces, dreams of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet’s natural wealth so difficult and impede her father's efforts to crush the native insurgency.
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The Lost Child of Lychford
by Paul Cornell
Lizzie investigates after the apparition of a little boy appears in the church, right before her first Christmas as the Reverend of St. Martin¡s, in the second novel of the series following Witches of Lychford.
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The Shadow of What Was Lost
by James Islington
Epic Fantasy. Born after the civil war that overthrew the ruling Augurs, 15-year-old Davian of Andarra struggles as one of the Gifted, whose latent magical abilities make him a second-class citizen and an object of suspicion. When Davian learns that he may be an Augur, he embarks on a quest to discover his destiny. Fans of the detailed world-building and complex magic systems found in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels or Brent Weeks' Lightbringer series should enjoy The Shadow of What Was Lost, which is the 1st book in the Licanius trilogy.
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The Liberation
by Ian Tregillis
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Mechanical and The Rising finds Jax breaking with former masters and joining other mechanicals in a technological revolution.
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The Ace of Skulls: A Tale of the Ketty Jay
by Chris Wooding
The intrepid crew of the Ketty Jay have been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They’ve stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a 10,000-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blown up the son of the Archduke. Now they’ve gone and started a civil war. This time, they’re really in trouble.
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