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The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
3) Fantasy
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"Virginia Woolf's Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature,' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning thee centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces experiences with first love as England, under James I, lies locked...
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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while...
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In this debut collection, you will meet runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, a touring band, under-employed Americans, retired time travelers, and doppelgängers. Explore music, memory, technology, love, and mystery in settings which range from generation ships to cruise ships to road trips, from murder houses to treehouses, in stories which are weird, wired, and hopeful. Pinsker's stories are often described as hauntingly beautiful, but Pinsker also...
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Her way of life in the mountains is being destroyed. Her role as warrior is outlawed. Isa journeys to the Federation intent on confronting the policies which undermine the traditions of her people. But the Federation will not tolerate diversity. Despite efforts by some citizens to help her, she is banished to the satellite Olyeve. There she encounters silver filamented communicators, lavender winged flyers, walls oozing life-sustaining liquids, Agents'...
10) Dragon vs snake
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"Nicholas the Crown Prince of the Snake Shifter Kingdom meets Edward the Crown Prince of the Dragon Shifter Kingdom. Sparks fly immediately and not just of the intimate kind. There is a traitor in the midst... their fathers find out and war ensues. In order to prevent too much damage from being done the two have to undergo a ritual sexual ceremony with witnesses for Mother Nature to bind them together. Be wary though; trying to come between Mother...
17) Briar girls
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"Lena has a secret: the touch of her skin can kill. Cursed by a witch before she was born, Lena has always lived in fear and isolation. But after a devastating mistake, she and her father are forced to flee to a village near the Silence, a mysterious forest with a reputation for luring people into the trees, never to be seen again… Until the night an enigmatic girl stumbles out of the Silence and into Lena’s sheltered world. Miranda comes...
19) Fires of Aggar
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The novel features the Amazons of the Sisterhood, women with "blue sight," which enables them to see across light years. A tale of political intrigue and lesbian bonding of such magnitude that a brief separation can cause death. By the author of The Shadows of Aggar.