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Runemarks Runemarks
by Joanne Harris
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 13 Oct 2009
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Master storyteller Joanne Harris has created a magical and epic romp– a fresh, funny, and wonderfully irreverent new take on the old Norse tales, sure to be enjoyed by readers young and old.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein : A Novel
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: 6 Oct 2009
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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
Leviathan Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
Hardcover: 6 Oct 2009
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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe.
Graceling Graceling
by Kristin Cashore
Hardcover: Oct 2008
Paperback: 7 Sep 2009
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Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight - she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. And now she is forced to work as the king’s thug. But she never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po...
The Magicians The Magicians : A Novel
by Lev Grossman
Hardcover: 11 Aug 2009
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A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
The Red Wolf Conspiracy The Red Wolf Conspiracy
by Robert V. Redick
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 26 Jan 2010
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The Imperial Merchant Ship Chathrand is the last of her kind. Six hundred years old, the massive vessel dwarfs every other sailing craft in the world. It is on its most vital mission yet: to deliver a woman whose marriage will seal the peace between Arqual and its mortal enemy. But the ship's true mission is not peace but war.
Resistance Resistance
by Owen Sheers
Hardcover: Feb 2008
Paperback: 10 Feb 2009
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Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
Eon Eon : Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
Hardcover: 26 Dec 2008
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Action - a stunning magic system - swordplay galore for ages 12+.
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