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• The Bone Maker

  a Novel

  Durst, Sarah Beth,

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  Five warriors—one broken, one gone soft, one pursuing a simple life, one stuck in the past, and one who should be dead. Their story should have been finished. But evil doesn’t stop just because someone once said, “the end.”

• Blood Over Bright Haven

  a Novel

  Wang, M. L. (Maya Lin),

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  A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Shard Daughter

  Stewart, Andrea (Andrea G.),

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  The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands.

• Mistress of Lies

  Enright, K. M.,

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  The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of spies, and gathering every scrap of power she could. Now, to protect her brother, she assassinates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Darker Shade of Magic

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.

• Down Among the Sticks and Bones

  McGuire, Seanan,

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  Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first.

• Bonesmith

  Pau Preto, Nicki,

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  Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.

• Blood Song

  a Raven's Shadow Novel

  Ryan, Anthony

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  Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Orchard

  Mueller, Sara A.

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  Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.