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1) Magic study
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Yelena is a survivor. Kidnapped as a child, held prisoner as a teen, then released to act as a poison taster, she is now a student of magic. But these magic skills place her in imminent danger, and with an execution order on her head, she has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth. But nothing in Sitia is familiar. Not the family to whom she is a stranger. Not the unsettling new facets of her powers. Not the brother who resents her...
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Magic shop books volume 1
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A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
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Dresden files volume 14
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After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn't all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard. He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn't about to let something as petty as...
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Tairen Soul volume 3
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"[Wilson] will dazzle readers."
—Chicago Tribune
The incomparable C.L. Wilson brings her phenomenal Tairen Soul novels to Avon Books! King of Sword and Sky is the third book in the epic romantic adventure that combines sweeping fantasy with breathtaking paranormal romance. USA Today and New York Times bestseller C. L. Wilson's magnificent story continues—as the Fey King Rain must risk everything for his truemate
...6) Breadcrumbs
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"Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life " -- Provided by publisher.
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
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Tairen Soul volume 4
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As the Fey King and his bride finally complete their truemate bond, they must learn to trust each other completely and defeat their most powerful enemy if they are to discover hidden truths about their world.
12) Winterling
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Winterling volume 1
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Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.
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Only magic will set Nora Fischer free in an alternate fairy tale world that offers anything but 'happily ever after." Illiterate women roam this world gone wrong, and men's spells hold the world in submission. When a mysterious magician teaches Nora the magic she needs to survive, a sudden doorway back to her world suddenly looks like one she may not want to go through.
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Six years ago, the Assassin in White killed the Alethi King Gavilar, and now he's murdering rulers all over Roshar; among his prime targets is Gavilar's son, King Elhokar, and Highprince Dalinar, leader of the restored Knights Radiant. Kaladin is in command of the royal bodyguards and must protect the king and Dalinar, while secretly mastering Windrunner powers linked to his honorspren, Syl. Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and...
15) Skylark
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Lark Ainsley has yearned to become an adult by having her magical energy harvested, but when she is finally chosen a special talent is revealed and, rather than become a human battery powering the dome that protects humanity, she escapes hoping to find the Iron Wood, a wilderness rumored to be inhabited by others like herself.
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Fire and thorns trilogy volume 1
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A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.
17) The way of kings
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Stormlight archive volume 1
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Roshar is a world of stone and storms. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. One such war rages between the Alethi and the Parshendi on a ruined landscape called the Shattered...
18) Brighid's quest
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Centaur Brighid Dhianna has found peace and acceptance among humans but is forced to leave them to guide the brother of the centaur clan's chieftain home. On the journey, she discovers the long dormant Shaman blood running in her veins and, as seductive powers beckon, she glimpses an unimaginable future. Soon she must make a challenging decision affecting not only her friendship with the humans, but the centaur herd and the world.
19) Poison study
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Yelena, about to be executed, is offered the job of food taster to the Commander of Ixia, but politics and magic keep threatening her life.
20) Deadlocked
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Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on that there are things she'd rather not know. And now that she's an adult, she also realizes that some things she knows about, she'd rather not see--like Eric Northman feeding off another woman. There's a thing or two she'd like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet--Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It's the worst possible...