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  • Half a Soul

    by Olivia Atwater ...
    Series Book 1 - Regency Faerie Tales
    “Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm” (India Holton), Olivia Atwater’s delightful debut will transport you to a magical version of Regency England, where the only thing more meddlesome than a fairy is a marriage-minded mother!It’s difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you’re a young lady with only half a soul.Ever since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Six-Gun Tarot

    by R. S. Belcher ...
    Series series Golgotha
    Six-Gun Tarot is the first book in the twisted weird west world of the Golgotha series by R.S. Belcher.Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dandelion Wine

    by Ray Bradbury ...
    Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Razzmatazz

    A Novel

    by Christopher Moore ...
    New York Times Bestseller“Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way.” — San Francisco ChronicleRepeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in this outrageous follow-up to his madcap novel Noir.San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunc... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Arrest

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Lethem ...
    From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

    A Novel

    by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson ...
    A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman’s unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save.Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Lone Women

    A Novel

    by Victor LaValle ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    by Alix E. Harrow ...
    "A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers, and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."—Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost BoysLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards.In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 3

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 3 - Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel)
    The bloody war against the Wen Clan once led Wei Wuxian to seek power in demonic cultivation, and the dark acts he committed drove a wedge between him and Lan Wangji. Now, those old sins come back to haunt him as his reincarnated identity is revealed to the cultivation world. But even as the other clans call for Wei Wuxian's death, Lan Wangji stands by him, making Wei Wuxian realize what he took ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Secrets of the Lost Ledgers

    by C.J. Archer ...
    Series Book 5 - The Glass Library
    An invisible message from a dead man resurrects a decades-old mystery.With her sharpened magical senses, Sylvia recognizes invisible writing while cataloging an obscure book for the library. She’s shocked to discover the message, written many years earlier, pleaded for help. She’s even more shocked to discover the author of the message was married to a paper magician. Could there be a connection ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Journal of a Thousand Years

    by C.J. Archer ...
    Series Book 6 - The Glass Library
    An ancient family diary. A timely prophecy. An epic conclusion.As Sylvia prepares to meet Gabe’s parents for the first time, the last thing she needs is for her long-lost father to cause trouble. While his answers to her questions finally bring clarity, they also usher in danger.But that's not all her elusive father brings into Sylvia's life. His treasured gift of an ancient journal passed down ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

    A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass

    by Shannon Chakraborty ...
    "A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War***"***An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy." -- Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of Juniper & ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Time of Dread

    by John Gwynne ...
    Series Book 1 - Of Blood & Bone
    Acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne returns with the first book in a new trilogy, perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, and David Gemmell."A Time of Dread reminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place." -- Robin Hobb**A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 7 (light novel)

    Ut Sementem Feceris, ita Metes

    by Carlo Zen, Shinobu Shinotsuki ...
    Series Book 7 - The Saga of Tanya the Evil
    The eastern front is a place where soldiers never sleep and artillery guns howl without rest. This quagmire is where the Salamander Kampfgruppe has been hurled once again, just another cog in the grand war machine of their fatherland. Still, there's only so much one unit can do. As the fighting ramps up with renewed enemy attacks and a brand-new weapon that pitches the Federation's quantity ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Destroyer of Worlds

    A Return to Lovecraft Country

    by Matt Ruff ...
    “Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”—Publishers WeeklyIn this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.Summer, 1957. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Nocturnal Quarry

    a historical fantasy novella

    by Celia Lake ...
    Series Book 2 - Land Mysteries
    The world keeps changing.Alexander's world was upended three years ago when a spot of espionage had ripple effects that transformed every part of his life, even his relationship with his own magic. Now, he's compelled by politics to spend the summer of 1938 in America instead of with his family and friends. No problem, he can tend to loose ends, like a threat that's been looming over his chosen ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Librarian of Crooked Lane

    by C.J. Archer ...
    Series Book 1 - The Glass Library
    A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from C.J. Archer, the USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Graces

    a 1940s fantasy novella

    by Celia Lake ...
    Series Book 6 - Land Mysteries
    In May of 1945, as the war in Europe is coming to an end, three women can turn their attention to an old and lingering problem. Lizzie never met her brother-in-law, Temple. He died in 1922, in what she and her husband now know was a desperate attempt to stop further damage to the land magic.No one has been able to figure out what damaged Temple’s magic or why he’d insisted on such self-destructive ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Will of the Many

    by James Islington ...
    Series series Hierarchy
    At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.AUDI. VIDE. TACE.The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Peace

    by Joe Abercrombie ...
    Series Book 2 - The Age of Madness
    **A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy master Joe Abercrombie."A master of his craft." —Forbes**"No one writes with the seismic scope or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie." —Pierce BrownPeace is just another kind of battlefield . . .Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 6 (light novel)

    Nil Admirari

    by Carlo Zen, Shinobu Shinotsuki ...
    Series Book 6 - The Saga of Tanya the Evil
    Survival is always a fight. Lieutenant Colonel Tanya von Degurechaff has become keenly aware of this after deploying to the freezing eastern front. The bone-chilling weather makes every move a struggle, grinding even the Empire's proud army to a halt. And yet, winter is the time for the flowers of intrigue to blossom. When a supposed ally begins acting suspiciously and enemies begin to collude, a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Daughter of Calamity

    by Rosalie M. Lin ...
    Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty.Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nowhere Man

    Another John Pickett Novella

    by Sheri Cobb South ...
    Series Book 10.5 - John Pickett Mysteries
    Be careful what you wish for...Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone—anyone!—to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about London rather than admit his failure to his beloved wife Julia, the former Lady Fieldhurst.One day, while ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Magicians and Mrs. Quent

    by Galen Beckett ...
    Series Book 1 - The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
    In this enchanting debut novel, Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense, evoking a world of high magick and genteel society—a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined.Of the three Lockwell sisters—romantic Lily, prophetic Rose, and studious Ivy—all agree that it’s the eldest, the book-loving Ivy, who has ... Read more

    $3.99 USD