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21) Under heaven
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Under heaven volume 1
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Shen Tai, a general serving the Emperor of Kitai, receives 250 Sardian horses, an unthinkable gift fit to overwhelm an emperor, and travels to claim the horses in person.
22) Olympos
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A temporary alliance between Achilles and Hector brings Greeks and Trojans together to lay siege to the mountain home of the gods. Soon other powerful beings become involved in a cataclysmic battle between humans and powerful entities, with names such as Demogorgon and Night. Library Journal
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"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed...
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The dwarves are going to battle for the last time.
There has been no word from the courageous warrior Tungdil since the bitter struggle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the cruel älfar have advanced far into the kingdom Girdlegard, ruthlessly seizing vast areas of land. It seems that the dwarves are facing their next battle with very little hope of survival.
But then the inexplicable happens; a dwarf warrior dressed in black armor returns...
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Farian war volume 1
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The first volume of an epic space opera trilogy featuring the gunrunner empress Hail Bristol, who must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war.
Hail Bristol: former runaway princeess, interplanetary gunrunner, Empress of Indrana.
When the Empire's closest ally asks her to intervene in a galactic military crisis, she embarks on the highest stakes diplomatic mission Indrana has ever faced.
Caught between two powerful...
26) Iron flame
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Empyrean volume 2
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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....
27) Distant thunders
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Destroyermen volume 4
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After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commaner Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy-an island-nation populated by the descendants of British East Indiamen swept through the rift centuries before.With the Walker undergoing repairs, Reddy already has a great deal on his hands. For the...
28) Home fires
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Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But, the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate...
29) Generation one
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Lorien legacies reborn volume 1
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The war may be over, but for the next generation, the battle has just begun. Set in the world of the I Am Number Four series, this spin-off series follows a group of human teens who've begun developing powers.
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 15
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After a malignant power is summoned, the six owl kingdoms prepares for war, and while the Guardians of the the Great Ga'Hoole Tree call together an army of gadfeathers, kraals, polar bears, green owls, puffins, seagulls, and dire wolves, another army of free creatures travels to the Hot Gates of Beyond.
31) Man in the dark
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While recovering from a car accident at his daughter's home in Vermont, seventy two year old August Brill dreams up an alternate twenty first century reality where the results of the 2000 Presidential election resulted in the secession of various states and the events of September 11, 2001 never happened.
32) Echoes of war
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Echoes trilogy volume 1
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Decades of war started by a genocidal faction of aliens threatens the existence of any human or alien resisting their rule on Earth. Dani survives by scavenging enough supplies to live another day while avoiding the local military and human-hunting Wardens. But then she learns that she is part of the nearly immortal alien race of Echoes-not the human she's always thought herself to be-and suddenly nothing in her life seems certain.
Following her...
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A court of thorns and roses volume 4
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Feyre's first Winter Solstice as High Lady is drawing near. With it will come a hard-earned rest from the work that she, Rhysand and their friends have done to rebuild the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond. Yet the festive atmosphere can't keep shadows from looming. Even as her own heart heals, she finds that those dearest to her have wounds that go deeper than she knew. And the scars of the past will touch her court in times to come....
34) Age of swords
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Legends of the First Empire volume 2
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"Age of Swords continues the epic story of the war between humankind and the elves--and of ordinary people becoming legendary heroes. It introduces a set of new characters: the dwarves, whose magical weaponcraft could decide the war. It's up to our heroes to win over the dwarves to the side of humankind...or else lose the war forever"--
36) Magician's end
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Riftwar. Chaoswar saga volume 3
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Pug, now the greatest magician of all time, must risk everything he has fought for and everything he cherishes in the hope of destroying an evil enemy once and for all. But to achieve peace and save untold millions of lives, he will have to pay the ultimate price.
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Riftwar. Chaoswar saga volume 1
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Midkemia's most powerful sorcerer Pug faces a major magical cataclysm that forces him to question everything he's ever held as true and dear ... including the loyalty of his beloved son Magnus.
38) Scent of magic
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Healer novels volume 2
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Coming out of hiding to find her sister and repair their estrangement, and to stop King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry of Kazan, the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, must support Tohon's opponents by teaching them forest skills and destroying an army of the walking dead.
39) Worldbinder
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Runelords volume 6
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Fallion and Jaz, sons of the late Earth King Gaborn, are now living as fugitives in their own kingdom. Attempting to heal the world, Fallion succeeds in combining two entire worlds, but also brings forth new monsters and monstrous people.
40) The judging eye
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Some twenty years have passed since the events narrated in The Prince of Nothing. Anasurimbor Kellhus now rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years leading a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.
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