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The lawless land
by Boyd Morrison
"Ex-communicated knight Gerard Fox is a battle-hardened warrior whose ancestral home was unjustly taken from him. Now, he roams across the known world of Europe looking for work as a man-at-arms. Equipped with only his Damascus-steel sword and war bow, Fox takes out tyrannical and dishonorable men in a land still blighted by the Black Death. In his ongoing crusade to deliver justice, Fox comes to the aid of Lady Isabel, who is fleeing from her brutal betrothed. But she hasn't told him the whole story. Isabel is guarding a priceless holy relic. One many men would kill for. Fox and Isabel soon find they are being chased across the continent and try to evade those who seek the relic. But as more assassins close in, Fox realizes they will stop at nothing to possess the sacred treasure that Isabel has sworn to protect
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Sophie Go's lonely hearts club
by Roselle Lim
Revealed as a fraud, matchmaker Sophie Go, desperate for clients, convinces a secret club within her condo complex to hire her and finds her matchmaking skills put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life. Original.
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The witch and the tsar
by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
When Anastasia, the wife of the tsar, desperately needs her protection, immortal witch Baba Yaga realizes the fate of all Russia is tied to Anastasia's and must step out of the shadows to protect the land she loves from powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can imagine.
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Summer's end
by John Van Stry
"Forced to take the first berth he can find, Dave ends up on the Iowa Hill, an old tramp freighter running with a minimal crew and nearing the end of its useful life, plying the routes that the corporations ignore and visiting the kinds of places that the folks on Earth pretend don't exist. Between the assassins, the criminals, and the pirates he needs to deal with, Dave is discovering that there are a lot of things out there that he still needs to learn. But there's one hard lesson he learned long ago that he's being forced to remember: how to be ruthless"
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The Sweet Spot : a novel
by Amy Poeppel
"In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep"
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The weight of air
by Kimberly Duffy
"In 1911, Europe's strongest woman, Mabel MacGinnis, loses everything she's ever known and sets off for America in hopes of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. When circus aerialist Isabella Moreau's daughter suddenly appears, she isforced to face the truth of where, and in what, she derives her worth"
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In the lives of puppets
by TJ Klune
When an unwitting act of betrayal leads to the capture of his android Gio, who once hunted humans, Victor Lawson and his assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to the City of Electric Dreams to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. 400,000 first printing.
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The house in the cerulean sea
by TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.
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Love after love : a novel
by Ingrid Persaud
An award-winning Trinidadian author offers a novel that looks at a complicated marriage, an unconventional family and the shocking secrets that unite them.
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The archive of the forgotten
by A. J. Hackwith
A sequel to The Library of the Unwritten finds ex-librarian Claire and her muse Brevity investigating strange character manifestations and mysteriously leaking ink that reveal a new threat from within the Library itself. Original.
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The god of lost words
by A. J. Hackwith
To protect the Unwritten Wing and stave off one of Hell's most bloodthirsty generals, Hero Claire, the angel Rami and the muse turned librarian Brevity must decide how much they're willing to sacrifice to keep their vulnerable corner of the afterlife. Original.
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Even greater mistakes
by Charlie Jane Anders
A collection of short stories from the best-selling author of All the Birds in the Sky includes the tale of a pair of psychics who date and of a popular slapstick filmmaker who begins working with a fascist militia.
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The hourglass throne
by K. D. Edwards
"As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis' famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic... what do they want from the immortality clinic... and what remains of the dozens trapped inside? Though Rune and his lifelong bodyguard Brand are tasked with investigating the mysterious barrier, Rune is also busy settling into his new life at court. Claiming his father's throne has irrevocably thrown himinto the precarious world of political deception, and he must secure relationships with newfound allies in time to keep his growing found family safe. His relationship with his lover, Addam Saint Nicholas, raises additional political complications they must navigate. But he and Brand soon discover that the power behind the barrier holds a much more insidious, far-reaching threat to his family, to his people, and to the world. Now, the rulers of New Atlantis must confront an enemy both new and ancient as the flow of time itself is drawn into the conflict. And as Rune finds himself inexorably drawn back to the fall of his father's court and his own torture at the hands of masked conspirators, the secrets that he has long guarded will be dragged into the light--changing the Sun Throne, and New Atlantis, forever"
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The gentleman's book of vices
by Jess Everlee
Determined to meet Miles Montague, his favorite author, in person before he's married to a woman he cannot love, dandy Charlie Price, in 1883 London, finally gets his chance, setting off a passionate affair that neither of them had seen coming
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