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  Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of...

  Lord Dunsany

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  Lord Dunsany was the progenitor of modern fantasy fiction. From Tolkein to Gaiman, from Le Guin to Moorcock, his words inspired an entire genre of modern dark fantasy.A fun adventure in a Spain that never was, in the vein of Dumas and Stevenson, with more than a taste of Cervantes. Don Rodriguez is a young nobleman who is banished from the family castle, and must set out with his rapier and mandolin to win his own estate, and perhaps even a bride. Along with his trusty servant Morano, he journeys far into the heart of the mythical Shadow Valley. Echoes of The Princess Bride resonate throughout. “How to describe this book? It's a pretty problem. As might a child, after dashing off to play on a bright summer morning—hours splashing in the river, exploring the forests, duelling with sticks against the Infidel (or the child next door if the Infidel be not available), winning a week's pocket-money at marbles and losing it again—as such a child, when asked "what did you do today?" simply shrugs and replies "oh, nothing much"; just so should I feel, dear Reader, were I to attempt to pin down the precise qualities of this book for you. It doesn't wash. And yet I must make the attempt. I can say this much: this is a book to be approached lightly. The magic Lord Dunsany weaves is delicate, and you may raise an eyebrow and start to protest that you know the history of Spain, and the events he relates cannot possibly have taken place in the manner he describes. Moreover the characters in his story are surely stereotypes, mere caricatures, and no such people can possibly have walked those dusty roads, and even if they did they cannot have subsisted merely on bacon. Not possible, you say. But when you read of Morano's noble frying pan, of bacon cooked beneath the stars and eaten at the wayfarer's green table, you might find that you believe in Bacon after all.” [Iain, Goodreads]

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  Emperor of the Borderlands #2

  Alex Toxic, Eugene Astakhov

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  "Power is given to those who are willing to accept responsibility." My village expands, my men master martial arts, and my magic grows ever stronger. But my enemies are also hard at work—an interrogator spreading false accusations, a monster hunting down the innocent, and a highborn countess who wants my head.But there’'s one thing they don't understand: every trial hardens me and every enemy only makes me stronger. With each passing day, more and more people learn my name. With each ritual, my magic becomes more powerful. With each victory, more allies join my side. My goal remains unchanged: transforming this disparate and divided backwater into a unified bastion against the encroaching darkness.

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  Sleeping Policemen - A Novel

  Dale Bailey, Jack Slay Jr.

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  A late-night joyride takes a sharp turn into nightmare territory when a group of college students tries to cover up a crime of carelessnessA moment of inattention on a winding roadway in the Smoky Mountains leaves a stranger dead and his accidental killers at the mercy of a possible witness. Finney Durant, Nick Laymon, and Reed Tucker are desperate not to be linked to the crime. Finney and Tucker insist on hiding the corpse, and Nick, hard up for money, takes the man’s cash. But the hit-and-run is just the beginning of their problems once they use a key found in the victim’s pocket to open a bus locker—and find a videotape that opens an ever-widening doorway into horror.

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  The Wolf Vs The Monster - The...

  Lauretta Hignett

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  Sometimes it's hard to tell who the real monsters are... 
  A strange creature attacked Romeo last night. A huge beast unlike anything anyone has ever seen in Philly before - an alien monster with natural armor, organic high-tech weaponry, and poison dripping from its limbs. 
  My intuition is screaming at me. It's telling me the monster is not here for Romeo. 
  It's here for me. 
  The Wolf Vs The Monster is book five in the Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth, a hot new Urban Fantasy series by bestselling author Lauretta Hignett.

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  Of Mages Claw and Shadow

  Christopher D. Schmitz

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  The Lightstarved return, and the Fianna have raided the academy. Now, the Frith Duine whip all of Arcadeax's fey into a frenzy with a unified slogan: No more humans. 
  Human children have gone missing in the feyland of Arcadeax for years. Now that whatever is behind it has upgraded to the aes sidhe postulates of the magiversity, Suíochán Naséan seeks an answer. 
  Remy Keaton is a human living among the fey. Working both with and for them. Protecting them. Loving them. He may have won his freedom in the fighting pits of Cathair Dé, but the life of a duelist unaligned with any guild house is a dangerous one—especially since he's human, and perhaps the most famous of his kind. Not only does every duelist badge seeker want to claim his head and steal his honor, but so do the human haters. The Frith Duine, have sponsored the harassment of Jaira, the fey woman Remy loves. 
  When Remy’s patron asks him to investigate the murders at Ollscoil Maginarius, the trail leads to an all too-familiar enemy, an Iron Legion, and the secret identity Remy forsook at the Solstox Canyons. Can Remy stop a plot aimed at the heart of Oberon’s Court?

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  The Concordia Deception

  J.J. Green

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  Terror stalks a new world colony. 
  After nearly two hundred years’ travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home. 
  Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time. 
  But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive. 
  Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind. 
  The Concordia Deception is book one in the compelling, provocative space colonization epic adventure, Space Colony One.

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