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1) Iron flame
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Empyrean volume 2
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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
2) Fourth wing
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Empyrean volume 1
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DAML Staff Picks 2023
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
3) Cold fire
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Circle opens volume 3
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While studying with her teacher Frostpine in the northern land of Namorn, Daja helps the twin daughters of her host family discover their own magic and uses her powers to track a deadly arsonist.
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Elements of cadence volume 1
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House of Earth and Blood meets The Witch's Heart in Rebecca Ross’s brilliant first adult fantasy, set on the magical isle of Cadence where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan.
Jack Tamerlaine hasn’t stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments...
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Sword of truth volume 2
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Richard Cypher, Seeker of Truth, has succeeded in throwing the vile Darken Rahl into the underworld, but the battle is not over yet as Rahl continues to wield his sinister power through a rip in the veil to the underworld, threatening to unleash the ultimate evil upon the world above.
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Sword of truth volume 1
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The hero is Richard-the-Seeker, a woodsman with a magic sword. One day in his forest he rescues a woman pursued by assassins. She turns out to be Kahlan Amnell from the neighboring kingdom of Midlands who is seeking a wizard named Zedd to help her destroy the tyrant ruling her kingdom. Richard takes her to him and the novel is the story of their joint adventure. A first novel.
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"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
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While about to be executed for murder, Yelena receives a reprieve to eat the best of meals and have rooms in the palace. But she'd also risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. Yelena chooses to become food taster, but the chief of security feeds her Butterfly Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay the agonizing death from the poison. Can Yelena escape her new dilemma in the face of mounting disasters?...
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Sword of truth volume 3
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Richard Cypher and Kahlan face yet another challenge to the forces of love and truth when a group of anti-magic zealots known as the Blood of the Fold becomes an unwitting pawn of an ancient evil.
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"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan...
11) Shatterglass
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Circle opens volume 4
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Tris and her mage-student, a young man whose glassmaking magic has been amplified and mixed with lightning, team up to track a killer who may be nearer than they suspect.
12) City of the Rats
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Deltora quest volume 3
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Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. The gems have strengthened them and given them courage to move on to find the third stone. But none of them knows the horrors that await them in the forbidden City of the Rats ...
13) Dreamhunter
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Dreamhunter duet volume 1
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In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.
15) Godkiller
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"Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world--but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays "godkillers" to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
16) Mainspring
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In a world in which the planets are run by a sophisticated clockwork solar system that connects everyday people to the Creator, a young clockmaker's apprentice is appointed by the Archangel Gabriel to rewind the Earth's Mainspring to prevent a disaster.
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Secrets of Droon. Main series volume 3
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Eric, Julie, and Neal are sailing with Princess Keeah. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a magical ocean storm. They are shipwrecked in an island that belongs to one of Lord Sparr’s witches. Now Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to get off the island before Lord Sparr gets them!
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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
20) Eternity road
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact...
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