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• Fool's Assassin

  Hobb, Robin

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  FitzChivalry has left his life of intrigue behind. Masquerading as Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is now married to his childhood sweetheart, Molly, and leading the quiet life of a country squire. Though Fitz is haunted by the disappearance of the Fool, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dungeon Crawler Carl

  Dinniman, Matt

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  A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Storm Waters

  Richardson, Kat

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  Prohibition has just ended, and the US is still struggling in the depths of the Great Depression. But for notorious playboy and ex-bootlegger Marty Storm, life couldn't be better. When he's accused of a gruesome murder, he knows he's been framed,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sword of Shannara Trilogy

  The Complete Three-Book Series

  Brooks, Terry

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  Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. But the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his wake. The sole weapon against this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everfair

  Shawl, Nisi

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  In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rosemary and Rue

  McGuire, Seanan

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  When the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. Outsiders from birth, these half-human, half-fae children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Was Her House First

  Priest, Cherie

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  Silent film star Venita Rost's malevolent spirit lurks spider-like in her cliffside mansion, a once-beautiful home that's claimed countless unlucky souls. And she's not alone. Snared in her terrible web, Inspector Bartholomew Sloan—her eternal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snow Crash

  A Novel

  Stephenson, Neal

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  A part-time hacker, information-scrounge, and delivery boy for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizzerias, and full-time Metaverse (virtual reality) samurai named Hiro Protagonist (one of the best names since Billy Pilgrim!), is slowly drawn into a mystery…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovecraft Country

  A Novel

  Ruff, Matt

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  Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. On…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hollow Kingdom

  Buxton, Kira Jane

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  S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. But when Big Jim's eyeball…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bird King

  A Novel

  Wilson, G. Willow

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  Hassan has a secret - he can draw maps of places he's never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Possession of Alba Díaz

  Cañas, Isabel

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  In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bones Beneath My Skin

  Klune, TJ

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  In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jade City

  Lee, Fonda

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  Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for — and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legends & Lattes

  Baldree, Travis

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  Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neuromancer

  Gibson, William

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  Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank

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  Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

• Forge of God

  Bear, Greg

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  A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot-high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.

• The Dispossessed

  A Novel

  Le Guin, Ursula K.

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  Anarres, Shevek's homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet,…Read moreRead more of this annotation