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  Tapestry - The Wildlands Saga: Book 1

  Escaping Destiny

  by Jeffrey Pierce

  An ebony finger points skyward, emerging from the center of Node. Known simply as The Gate, it disappears into the clouds, massive spokes extending from the immense structure to stretch through the streets of the largest human city. No one knows who built the towering obelisk, but all are aware of those who have been entrusted as its caretakers.They call themselves The Maat.Otherworldly... (more)
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  Starfire Angels: Book 1

  Starfire Angels

  by Melanie Nilles

  They've been coming here for thousands of years, using Earth as a sanctuary to escape threats from their own kind. Mankind knows them as angels, and one of them left a child upon her death to be raised as a human.Raea is now a high school senior and her life as a human is about to end. The crystal shard she bears is not a pretty pendant; it's a collective of powerful entities who chose her as their... (more)
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  Sylph: Book 1

  The Battle Sylph

  by L. J. McDonald

  Solie finds herself kidnapped as bait for a dangerous Battle Sylph named Heyou, but she fights back and takes control of him, an immensely powerful shapeshifter. Solie & Heyou flee death to seek sanctuary, and Heyou begins to fill Solie with desires that threaten to change the world.
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  Saardu: The Adventure Begins

  by Carma Dillon

  SAARDU: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS is a classic hero's journey centered around a little girl who lives in a sentient spacecraft that is actually a boy from the 11th dimension projecting himself into our universe. The story begins when Ruby, age 7, is having the worst day of her entire life. Ruby lives in a culture that is strictly ruled by superstitious genetic engineers who put her parents down for being incurable... (more)
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  Lyonesse: Book 2

  Lyonesse: The Green Pearl

  by Jack Vance

  In this second volume of the Lyonesse trilogy, THE GREEN PEARL, King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both the Ska marauders who once enslaved him and the wicked King Casmir. While organizing the unruly barons in the frontiers of his land, Aillas goes out of his way to capture the lovely Ska noblewoman who once stung him with her disregard. When he gets separated from his men, his... (more)
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  Light Blade: Book 1

  Vengeance Born

  by Kylie Griffin

  There is no mercy in the demon realm. No escape. In this place of desperation and conflict, anyone who is not pure bred is virtually powerless. Until an unlikely champion is born…Annika, half-blood daughter of the Na’Reish King, longs for more than her tormented life among her father’s people. Conceived in hatred and bred as a tool of retribution, she’s gifted with a special talent that can heal as well... (more)
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  Frozen In Time

  by Marie Symeou

  Set in Ancient Greece, a time when the spirit world of gods and goddesses and other immortal beings bleeds into the world of mortals, Frozen in Time is a rich vampire tale of betrayal and revenge, and the eternal longing for blood and love.After the death of his wife in childbirth, Philip, grief stricken and suicidal, joins the army of his half brother Alexander the Great, with whom he has a very uneasy... (more)
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  Saardu 2: New Game New Rules (Saardu: A Science Fantasy Series for Incurable Daydreamers)

  by Carma Chan

  Edition 2011-1225 especially celebrates the launch of the Saardu series in the worldwide Kindle Owners' Lending Library. The story is unchanged since its first publication in 2010, only the format and front pages are revised. This story picks up where Saardu 1 ended. Readers are encouraged to read Saardu 1 first. This series deals with timelessness and higher dimensions. In this book, Ruby and life on Saardu are... (more)
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  The Dying Earth: Book 1

  The Dying Earth

  by Jack Vance

  The Moon was an almost-forgotten memory. The dull red sun drifted toward the gray horizon like an old man creeping to his death-bed. Sorcery, rather than science, was the only knowledge worth pursuing. And magic worked!Yet a few men still thought otherwise, and in his laboratories, Turjan of Miir, one of the last of Earth's true scientists, labored to create a new humanity.
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  The Demon Princes: Book 4

  The Face

  by Jack Vance

  Book four in the series which relate the story of Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his childhood.
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  The Dying Earth: Book 2

  The Eyes of the Overworld

  by Jack Vance

  Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing; an earth populated with vibrant, interesting people and creatures that are unaware of the fate their planet has in store for them. "A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and... (more)
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  The Demon Princes: Book 1

  The Star King

  by Jack Vance

  Issued as a signed limted and as a regular edition.
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  The Dying Earth: Book 3

  Cugel's Saga

  by Jack Vance

  In Cugel’s Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, the novel that first featured the scoundrel, Cugel against tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers. Though Vance puts himself in tradition of popular fantasy writers, one might assume that he had also grown up with Ovid and Herodotus, Homer’s Odyssey, Don Quixote, and Candide. The Cugel tales lack some of the scope and pathos of the... (more)
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  Dream Hunter: Book 3

  Dream Chaser

  by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherrilyn Kenyon The spellbinding Dream-Hunter series continues! Hades doesn’t often give second chances... Xypher has one month on Earth to redeem himself through one good deed or be condemned to eternal torture in Tarturus. But redemption means little to a demigod who only wants vengeance on the one who caused his downfall. Until one day in a cemetery... ... (more)
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  Whispered Promise

  by Kally Jo Surbeck

  Fionn helped save Yadderwal proper, but can he save the world for one woman? Book II Yadderwal Balance Lord Fiontenhal Banaghal Gellert, the thirteenth Marquis De LaRounge, heir to Numarea is a gifted alchemist who has just helped save the planet. Tannah ust Nairn, who is held captive by the vile soul stealer Keegan, is his soul mate. Keegan has promised Tannah her freedom if she does what she is told--give... (more)
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  Final Prophecy / Nightkeepers: Book 1

  Nightkeepers

  by Jessica S. Andersen

  The exciting debut of a new paranormal romance series As a Miami narcotics detective, Leah Daniels never knows how her day will turn out. But she certainly never expected to be strapped to a stone altar, the human sacrifice in an ancient Mayan ritual meant to coax up a demon from the underworld. Or that she’d be saved by a handsome warrior-priest king who claims to recognize her from his visions... Jaguar... (more)
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  The Trouble with Moonlight

  by Donna MacMeans

  Another fabulously funny and sexy romp from the author of The Education of Mrs. Brimley In the midst of a moonlit safecracking mission, British spy James Locke witnesses a ruby necklace spirited away as if by conjurer’s trick. Following the jewels leads him to Lusinda Havershaw, who’s inherited the talent of turning invisible in the moonlight—at least, the parts of her that are unclothed. Locke trains Lusinda... (more)
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  The Graveyard Book

  by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris Riddell

  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of... (more)
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  Repairman Jack: Book 12

  By the Sword

  by F. Paul Wilson

  By the Sword takes up the adventures of Repairman Jack directly after Bloodline .  Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. Central characters include the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, plus Hank Thompson, the Kicker cult leader from Bloodline . The cult, the... (more)
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  Human Trial

  Human Trial

  by Timothy N. Stelly Sr.

  What happens when all that remains of the world is fear, distrust and desperation? Daron Turner is the leader of a ragtag collection of small town Americans who've managed to survive a thermal war waged by intergalactic attackers. The survivors have gathered together in a sporting goods store, where they not only endure the heat, but ward off marauders, rabid animals and overcome their own fears and... (more)