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The Bear and the Nightingale : a novel
by Katherine Arden
A debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces. A first novel.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane : a novel
by Neil Gaiman
Presents a modern fantasy about fear, love, magic, and sacrifice in the story of a family at the mercy of dark forces, whose only defense is the three women who live on a farm at the end of the lane.
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The Witch's Heart
by Genevieve Gornichec
A subversive reimagining of Norse mythology traces the experiences of a banished witch whose unexpected passionate relationship with the trickster Loki produces three remarkable offspring before her family is targeted by wrathful gods. A first novel.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N. K. Jemisin
After Yeine Darr is summoned to the majestic city of Sky and named an heiress to the king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, she is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had, drawing ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.
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All the Seas of the World
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Set in the near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago, two assassins hired by the most dangerous men alive begin a mission that, if successful, will alter the destinies of empires and the lives of all people.
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.
Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.
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The Ruin of Kings
by Jenn Lyons
Raised on storybook tales of royal adventure, Kihrin discovers his identity as the illegitimate son of a treasonous prince and is rendered a pawn in the royal family's power schemes before embracing his anti-hero destiny. A first novel.
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The Night Circus : a novel
by Erin Morgenstern
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways. A first novel.
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Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in this reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Xiala, a disgraced Teek who can calm waters or cause madness with her song, arrives and disrupts the holy city of Tova during the winter solstice in the first novel of a new trilogy.
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A River Enchanted : a novel
by Rebecca Ross
Jack Tamerlaine, a bard, returns to Cadence after 10 years to assist Adaira, heiress of the east and his childhood enemy, in contacting the spirits to discover why young girls have gone missing from the isle.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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The Golem and the Jinni : a novel
by Helene Wecker
Combining elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, this stunning debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures, Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, who form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
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Witch King
by Martha Wells
After being murdered, his consciousness confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai-Enna, waking to a lesser mage attempting to harness his magic to his own advantage, gathers his allies to discover why he was imprisoned and how the world's changed since his assassination.
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