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Rotherweird by Caldecott, AndrewThe town of Rotherweird stands alone, there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history. For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it must never be rediscovered, still less reused. But secrets have a way of leaking out. Two inquisitive outsiders have arrived: Jonah Oblong, to teach modern history at Rotherweird School (nothing local and nothing before 1800), and the sinister billionaire Sir Veronal Slickstone, who has somehow got permission to renovate the town's long-derelict Manor House.
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Forgotten worlds
by D. Nolan Clark
Aleister Lanoe has won a stunning victory against the alien armada that threatened Niraya, but it's not enough to satisfy his desire for vengeance. He won't rest until he's located the armada's homeworld and reduced it to ashes. Yet his personal vendetta will have to wait. Lanoe now faces a desperate race against time, and the merciless Centrocor corporation, if he's to secure the Earth's future - and discover the truth he seeks.
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The Librarians and the Mother Goose chase by Greg CoxBaird and her team of Librarians investigate a string of strange nursery rhyme-related phenomena around the world, and suspect that the magic of Mother Goose is behind it
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The found and the lost : The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Found and the Lost represents the first time that all of Le Guin novellas have been collected in a single volume. Featuring thirteen unforgettable stories, this literary treasure is easily one of the most anticipated collections of the year. In addition to more than 800 pages of extraordinary storytelling, it also includes an introduction from the legendary author
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| The Witches of New York: A Novel by Ami McKayRespectable Lady Seeks Dependable Shop Girl. Those averse to magic need not apply." After Beatrice Dunn answers this peculiar advertisement, she is hired by the witch-proprietresses of Tea and Sympathy, an establishment that discreetly caters to the needs of its female clientele in 1880 New York City. Beatrice's discovery of her own magic unfolds alongside a growing threat to the city's witches in this atmospheric novel, which should enchant readers who enjoyed Paula Brackston's Shadow Chronicles or Louisa Morgan's A Secret History of Witches. |
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| The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha PulleyStill recovering from his latest, near-lethal mission abroad, smuggler Merrick Tremayne is tapped by the East India Company to acquire cinchona tree cuttings from Peru, thus breaking the country's monopoly on quinine. But Merrick's expedition to the Andes soon takes a unexpected turn. Although the plot of The Bedlam Stacks is not directly connected to the events of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, readers can expect brief cameo appearances from some of the previous novel's characters. |
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| The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel by Daniel H. WilsonThe avtomat have always lived among us, as anthropologist June Stefanov learns while researching these mysterious mechanical beings. Although June's discovery threatens their survival, so does the avtomat's ignorance of their own history. If you enjoy political fantasies about intelligent automatons created by fusing magic and machinery, check out Ekaterina Sedia's The Alchemy of Stone or Ian Tregillis' The Mechanicals. |
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Fortress frontier
by Myke Cole
The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Suddenly people from all corners of the globe began to develop terrifying powers summoning fire, manipulating earth, opening portals and decimating flesh. Overnight the rules had changed but not for everyone. Alan Bookbinder might be a Colonel in the US Army, but in his heart he knows he's just a desk jockey, a clerk with a silver eagle on his jacket. But one morning he is woken by a terrible nightmare and overcome by an ominous drowning sensation. Something is very, very wrong. Forced into working for the Supernatural Operations Corps in a new and dangerous world, Bookbinder's only hope of finding a way back to his family will mean teaming up with former SOC operator and public enemy number one: Oscar Britton. They will have to put everything on the line if they are to save thousands of soldiers trapped inside a frontier fortress on the brink of destruction, and show the people back home the stark realities of a war that threatens to wipe out everything they're trying to protect.
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Department Zero
by Paul Crilley
Atticus Graves just wants to make sure his ex-wife doesn't take away his visitation rights. But when Graves stumbles through a portal, he finds himself in a world full of monsters and angels. There are thousands of these doors, thousands of different worlds. And now that he's seen them, Graves is recruited to Department Zero. Graves and his crew clean up any and all supernatural crime scenes. A secret society of Nazis from another reality, the Cult of Azathoth, have come to our world looking for the Spear of Destiny to bring back Azathoth and the Great Old Ones --among them Cthulhu Himself--from their prison in a timeless dimension. Graves and Department Zero must travel between realities to a Britain where it's always 1899, where Queen Victoria has ruled for 101 years. Here they will fight Nazi cultists with royal connections, demon-spawn mafia beneath the sewers of New York, and infiltrate the infamous Wewelsburg Castle in Germany. All in time to say goodnight to his daughter
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The fatal gate
by Ian Irvine
After invading Santhenar, the Merdrun are stranded when their portal fails and Llian, sent through another portal, convinces the Alliance that undertaking a dangerous alchemical quest is their only chance to destroy the Merdrun
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| Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireRecently returned from the Underworld, where she was the Lord of the Dead's beloved, Nancy has no desire to stay at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. Established to help young people who have journeyed to other realms and returned home to find that their former lives no longer fit, this highly unorthodox boarding school is supposed to be a sanctuary for girls like Nancy. However, when a killer starts stalking its hallowed halls, stealing pieces of the students' souls, Nancy must put aside her dreams of death and keep her peers alive. |
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| The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen BaxterIn the not-too-distant future, a process called "Stepping" allows humans to travel to parallel Earths. Only a few, like Joshua Valienté, can do so without technical assistance. Hired by the transEarth Institute to explore the limits of the Long Earth, Joshua soon makes an alarming discovery. Simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking, this collaboration by the late Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter kicks off the five-volume Long Earth series, which continues with The Long War. |
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| A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. SchwabRed London is rife with magic. Grey London has none at all. White London may soon destroy itself in its attempts to steal the powers of its rivals. (And Black London? Well, that city no longer exists except as a cautionary tale to magic abusers.) Traveling between these very different dimensions is Kell, ambassador for Red London's royal family. However, unbeknownst to his employers, he's also a smuggler, transporting forbidden artifacts from one world to the next. What happens when his illicit activities land him in serious trouble? This trilogy opener continues with A Gathering of Shadows and A Conjuring of Light. |
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| Empire Games by Charles StrossRita Douglas is a world-walker, who can travel between different versions of Earth. This unusual ability makes her a person of interest to not one but several government agencies across the multiverse, all of which have their own agendas. Although Empire Games is set in the world of the author's Merchant Princes fantasy series, the novel reads more like a futuristic tech thriller. |
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