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  The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy: Book 1

  Graceling

  by Kristin Cashore

  Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change.... (more)
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  Black Butler: Book 1

  Black Butler, Volume 1

  by Yana Toboso

  When a terrible fire claims his parents, Ciel Phantomhive must step up as the head of his father's company and as Earl Phantomhive. It would be a lot for the young boy to handle were it not for his faithful butler, Sebastian. Ever at Ciel's side, it seems there's little Sebastian can't do, whether it's saving a dinner party gone awry or probing the dark secrets of London's underbelly. He's almost too good to be... (more)
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  Black Butler: Book 5

  Black Butler (Volume 5)

  by Yana Toboso

  For an impeccable gentleman's butler like Sebastian Michaelis, the word "impossible" is just not in his vocabulary. Everything demanded of him under the English sun is well within his grasp. But do his talents extend to things under the scalding Indian sun?! As Harold West Jeb's plan to use Agni, Prince Soma's superhuman butler, in a curry battle to win himself a Royal Warrant is exposed, along with his role in... (more)
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  Black Butler: Book 3

  Black Butler (Volume 3)

  by Yana Toboso

  Terrorizing its populace, Jack the Ripper has shaken London to its very core. But when Sebastian Michaelis, singular butler of the Phantomhive house, lays bare the madman's true identity, all that is left for him to do is eliminate the perpetrator in the name of the Queen and Phantomhive. But inhumanly efficient skills don't guarantee victory when the opponent is just as super-naturally gifted! And though... (more)
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  Merchant Princes: Book 1

  The Family Trade

  by Charles Stross

  A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction! Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the... (more)
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  Push Not the River

  by James Conroyd Martin

  A panoramic and epic novel in the grand romantic style, Push Not the River is the rich story of Poland in the late 1700s--a time of heartache and turmoil as the country's once peaceful people are being torn apart by neighboring countries and divided loyalties. It is then, at the young and vulnerable age of seventeen, when Lady Anna Maria Berezowska loses both of her parents and must leave the only home she has... (more)
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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of retribution, inspired by a real-life... (more)
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  King Raven Trilogy: Book 2

  Scarlet

  by Stephen R. Lawhead

  After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest--and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion--Will joins the heroic archer and his men. Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging--unless he delivers King Raven and his band... (more)
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  The Man Who Laughs

  by Victor Hugo

  Published near the end of his exile from France, Victor Hugo's 'The Man Who Laughs' is an intricately woven tale that threads together the realms of royalty and freedom, of love and sex, of loneliness and friendship, of abandonment and rediscovery, and stitches them into a spellbinding tale of intrigue, irony and suspense.
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  Ward of Hurog: Book 2

  Dragon Blood

  by Patricia Briggs, René Baldy

  Ward, ruler of Hurog, joins the rebels against the tyrannical High King Jakoven. But Jakoven has a secret weapon. One that requires dragon's blood. The very blood that courses through Ward's veins.
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  Palace Circle

  by Rebecca Dean

  Palace intrigue, romance, and illicit affairs—Rebecca Dean has written a glorious novel that will sweep Philippa Gregory fans off their feet. Delia Chandler, an eighteen-year-old Southern girl, marries Viscount Ivor Conisborough just before World War II, becoming part of the Windsor court. It’s every girl’s dream come true. But Delia is jolted from her pleasant life when she realizes, after the birth of her two... (more)
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  Robert Amiss: Book 11

  Murdering Americans

  by Ruth Dudley Edwards

  "Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Martha’s College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished... (more)
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  The Weaver and the Factory Maid (Ringan Laine, 1)

  by Deborah Grabien

  When Ringan Laine, British folk musician, becomes the owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, he discovers right away that the cottage and the ancient barn on Ringan's property are haunted. Ringan and his longtime lover Penny, researching the identity of their unwanted tenants, learn that they were a young couple, victims of a famous double murder in the year 1817-their story the subject of a song that is... (more)
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  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: <ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə>) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in... (more)
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  Troilus and Cressida (The Pelican Shakespeare)

  by William Shakespeare

  With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: • Authoritative, reliable texts • High quality introductions and notes • New, more readable trade trim size • An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays... (more)
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  Julius Caesar

  by William Shakespeare

  Famous tragedy deals with the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination, and the defeat of the conspirators by Marc Antony and Octavius Caesar.
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  King Lear

  by William Shakespeare

  Gripping account of the tragedy of King Lear and his daughters, exactingly researched with the help of the Folger Library. Black-and-white illustrations.
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  Life Mask

  by Emma Donoghue

  The bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic... (more)
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  Bullfinch's Mythology: Book 2

  The Age of Chivalry

  by Thomas Bulfinch

  Here are the worlds most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for todays readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinchs has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring... (more)
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  The Wager

  by Donna Jo Napoli

  Don Giovanni was once the wealthiest and handsomest young man in Messina. Then a tidal wave changed everything.When a well-dressed stranger offers him a magical purse, he knows he shouldn’t take it. Only the devil would offer a deal like this, and only a fool would accept. Don Giovanni is no fool, but he is desperate. And so he takes the bet: he will not bathe for three years, three months, and three days. Beauty... (more)