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  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf

    by Marlon James ...
    Series Book 1 - The Dark Star Trilogy
    **One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All TimeWinner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury PrizeFinalist for the 2019 National Book Award**The New York Times BestsellerNamed a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman"Gripping, ac... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Magician's Daughter

    by H. G. Parry ...
    "That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic." —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling authorIn the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry’s cozy tale of magic, miracles, and an adventure of a lifetime.Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 5 - Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel)
    Ghosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this--by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance. His heavenly powers are weakened near the cursed mountain, but he has one trump card on his side--Hua Cheng, who has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Serpent's Egg

    by Caroline Stevermer ...
    “A rousing tale of courtly intrigues and chivalrous honor” from the author of The Glass Magician (Charles de Lint, award-winning writer).Just as hard-fought peace has come to the land of Staunton, war hero Sir Anthony Folville lies dead—but not due to his battle wounds. He has been poisoned by the medic treating him, a man supposedly paid by Queen Andred’s heir to perform this dastardly act.Now, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Power Unbound

    by Freya Marske ...
    Series Book 3 - The Last Binding
    A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light."Messy people and burn-it-down conflict. . . . **Marske uses the full span of the trilogy to build to a beautiful, devastating conclusion.****"—**The New York Times"Stunnin... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Riddle-Master

    by Patricia A. McKillip ...
    For over twenty years, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. Now at last her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy–The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind–long out of print, is collected in one volume.It is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Shield Maiden

    by Sharon Emmerichs ...
    Both epic and intimate, Sharon Emmerichs's extraordinary debut novel reimagines Beowulf from the perspective of a young woman reclaiming her power.All her life, Fryda has longed to be a shield maiden, an honor reserved for Geatland’s mightiest warriors. When a childhood accident leaves her tragically injured and unfit for the battlefield, her dreams are dashed—or so she thinks. But a strange, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Restless Truth

    by Freya Marske ...
    Series Book 2 - The Last Binding
    **"A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility."—The New York TimesNow an International Bestseller, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, an Indie Next pick, a Bookpage Best Book of the Year, and a LibraryReads pick—with three starred reviews!**A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Tyrant's Throne

    The Greatcoats Book 4

    by Sebastien de Castell ...
    Series Book 4 - The Greatcoats
    The Greatcoats are back. 'First-rate fiction, first rate adventure, first rate full stop,' says Conn Iggulden, author of the Sunday Times Top Five bestseller The Gates of Athens.Would you - could you? - uphold the law at the cost of those you love?Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

    by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ...
    Series Book 4 - Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel)
    The Reverend of Empty Words, a monster that feeds off the fears of the fortunate, is hunting Xie Lian's friend, the Wind Master Shi Qingxuan. Knowing that his abysmal luck inoculates him from the creature's power, Xie Lian doesn't hesitate to throw himself into harm's way--to Hua Cheng's horror and panic. But another one of the Four Calamities may be closer than anyone knows, and even a ghost as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • The Blade Itself

    by Joe Abercrombie ...
    Series Book 1 - The First Law Trilogy
    The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian -- leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Burning White

    by Brent Weeks ...
    Series Book 5 - Lightbringer
    In this stunning conclusion to the epic New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series, kingdoms clash as Kip struggles to escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves.Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been laid low. He's lost his magic, and now he is on a suicide mission. Failure will condemn the woman he loves. Success will ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Eyre Affair

    A Thursday Next Novel

    by Jasper Fforde ...
    Series Book 1 - A Thursday Next Novel
    **Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriendJasper Fforde’s beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit**Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Heart's Blood

    by Juliet Marillier ...
    National bestselling author Juliet Marillier revisits the classic fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast in this “engaging Gaelic fantasy romance staring two fascinating reluctant souls”(Genre Go Round Reviews).Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a mysterious, wooded hill housing the crumbling fortress belonging to Anluan—a chieftain whose name is spoken throughout the region in tones of revulsion ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Bone Shard War

    by Andrea Stewart ...
    Series Book 3 - The Drowning Empire
    From the author of The Bone Shard Daughter comes the final book in the Drowning Empire series, as the fate of Lin Sukai—and her family’s dynasty—lay in her hands in this action-packed, magic-laced epic fantasy.Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance – and Lin is dangerously short of allies.As her own governors plot treason, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Frankenstein

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series Book 78 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he has made a monster. And, abandoned by its maker and shunned by everyone who sees it, the Doctor's creation sets out to destroy him and all that he holds dear.Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN remains one of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Song of King Gesar

    by Alai ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Series series Canongate Myths
    The first English translation of Tibet’s founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China’s Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world’s great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set partly in ancient Tibet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traitor's Blade

    the swashbuckling start of the Greatcoats Quartet

    by Sebastien de Castell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Greatcoats
    When every noble is a tyrant and every knight is a thug, the only thing you can really trust is a traitor's blade.**The Three Musketeers meets Joe Abercrombie via Mark Lawrence: '**Guaranteed to increase household swashbuckling by 100%,' says Library JournalThe Greatcoats - legendary heroes, arbiters of justice . . . or notorious traitors?The Greatcoats are travelling magistrates bringing justice ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Four Profound Weaves

    by R. B. Lemberg ...
    Otherwise Award Honor ListWorld Fantasy Award FinalistNebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards FinalistTwo transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler—in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe**“The Four Profound Weaves is the anti-authoritarian, queer-mystic... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jolene

    by Mercedes Lackey ...
    Series Book 15 - Elemental Masters
    The beloved Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country.Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter’s health—and lessen the burden on their family—Anna's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Broken Eye

    by Brent Weeks ...
    Series Book 3 - Lightbringer
    As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Master of Djinn

    by P. Djèlí Clark ...
    Series Book 1 - Dead Djinn Universe
    Included in NPR’s Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade (2011-2021)A Nebula Award WinnerA Ignyte Award WinnerA Compton Crook Award for Best New Novel WinnerA Locus First Novel Award WinnerA RUSA Reading List: Fantasy WinnerA Hugo Award FinalistA World Fantasy Award FinalistA NEI... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD