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  The Caledonian Gambit - A Novel

  Dan Moren

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  The galaxy is mired in a cold war between two superpowers, the Illyrican Empire and the Commonwealth. Thrust between this struggle are Simon Kovalic, the Commonwealth's preeminent spy, and Kyle Rankin, a lowly soldier happily scrubbing toilets on Sabaea, a remote and isolated planet. However, nothing is as it seems. 
   
   
   
  Kyle Rankin is a lie. His real name is Eli Brody, and he fled his home world of Caledonia years ago. Simon Kovalic knows Caledonia is a lit fuse hurtling towards detonation. The past Brody so desperately tried to abandon can grant him access to people and places that are off limits even to a professional spy like Kovalic. 
   
   
   
  Kovalic needs Eli Brody to come home and face his past. With Brody suddenly cast in a play he never auditioned for, he and Kovalic will quickly realize it's everything they don't know that will tip the scales of galactic peace. Sounds like a desperate plan, sure, but what gambit isn't? 
   
   
   
  The Caledonian Gambit is a throwback to the classic sci-fi adventures of spies and off-world politics, but filled to the brim with modern sensibilities.

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  Weather Child

  Philippa Ballantine

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  From the writer of Books of the Order and the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences comes a new historical fantasy about two lovers separated by magic and circumstance.  
  Never alone. Never apart. They are the Awakened, a unique breed of people in a remote corner of the world. Faith is one of these gifted carriers of the Seraphim; and in return of her unconditional love, her Seraphim grants her powers of incredible potential. But not all carriers embrace their blessing. Jack loathes being an Awakened. He never asked for it, his Seraphim keeping him alive even in spite of his desire to die. Not even a great war could rid him of this curse.  
  Now a magician of incredible ability and a walking dead man must find a way to work together to save the Seraphim. Someone covets the power of the Awakened, and will not stop until that power belongs to him. Jack Cunningham comes home to New Zealand from the First World War deeply changed. He is now unwilling one of the Awakened, a magician who gains his power from the creature whispering inside his head. He calls it a parasite.  
  Faith Bennetts is a young woman with a far different relationship with her seraph. He gives her the power of the Wellington weather, and an ever present friend. However when her cousin is caught up in a terrible manipulation, she becomes aware that someone is twisting the Awakened for their own dark reasons.  
  Together Faith and Jack become embroiled in conspiracy, murder, fire and death that ranges across many years. They are drawn together, then flung apart, in a tangle of family relationships, and looming danger.

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  The Primitive Menace

  Michael Anderle, Sarah Noffke

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  The worst villain any Beaufont has ever faced has just stepped out of the shadows. Genevieve Beaufont can't hide from the evil that's unveiled itself. And no one can believe who it is. 
   
   
   
  It has been foretold that when Gen's true nemesis revealed themselves that this would launch her into her ultimate role. It is time for this medieval warrior to rule over the world of magic—having ultimate domain. 
   
   
   
  Besides from the gods, who started this all, no one is more powerful than Gen and her dragon, Emperor. 
   
   
   
  That's why one man wants to stop her. Gen simply can't have her title. She must fight for it. 
   
   
   
  Everything has been building towards this. No war will be more epic than this one—when the final fight happens for the throne to rule over magic. 
   
   
   
  Can Gen Beaufont defend her role, taking supreme authority? Or will this ancient evil stop her, stealing dominion and taking over all. She must fight for this role or watch as tyranny reigns over the world. 
   
   
   
  Mother Nature and Father Time can no longer help. They've chosen their player. Now, it's time for them to sit back and watch the game of life unfurl. The future of the world of magic and mortals ultimately depends on who wins this war.

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  Super Powereds: Year Two (3 of...

  Drew Hayes

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  "Despite having their secret revealed, the residents of Melbrook Hall return to Lander University for another year in the Hero Certification Program. Good thing the focus of this year is teamwork, because with their origins known they’ll have to lean on each other more than ever. 
   
  Now finally sophomores, their curriculum expands, allowing them to train in the majors that Heroes specialize in. The new classes will test their minds, bodies, and determination in ways never anticipated. In a year filled with the unveiling of secrets, unexpected entanglements, and, of course, super-powered battles, who will be left standing is anyone’s guess. Because if all that weren’t enough, more light is being shed on last year’s kidnapping attempt, and the results point at something far bigger than mere rogue educators. 
   
  Something that isn’t even close to being over with.  
   
  Performed by Jonathan Lee Taylor, Robb Moreira, Darius Johnson, Megan Poppy, James Konicek, Rana Kay, Zeke Alton, Tanja Milojevic, Jefferson Russell, Wyn Delano, James Lewis, James J. Johnson, Holly Adams, Matthew Bassett, Joel David Santner, David Zitney, Matthew Schleigh, Nora Achrati, Yasmin Tuazon, Chris Stinson, John Kielty, Kay Eluvian, Rayner Gabriel, Lolita Horne, Lydia Kraniotis, Bradley Foster Smith, Shanta Parasuraman, Terence Aselford, Carolyn Kashner, Laura C. Harris, Steve Wannall, Jessica Lauren Ball, MJ Casey, Colleen Delany, Emlyn McFarland, Julienne Irons, Scott McCormick, and Richard Rohan."

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  The Man Who Killed The World

  Ray Cummings

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  The Man Who Killed The World by Ray Cummings - Groff ruled the world through Fear. Fear of his awful power ... his twisted, mad brain. For one day that brain would crack. When it did, the World would dissolve in cataclysmic Chaos. 
  In his little tower, perched at the very peak of the great terraced pile of buildings which was his home and his citadel, Peter Groff sat brooding with hatred. The city, its factories, its vast plowed fields, lay stretched below him. Millions of humans, at play in little games. How he hated them! And they hated him—hated and feared him. It made him chuckle. For all his life he had worked and schemed and fought to make himself a power. The richest, most powerful man in the world—he had attained it. They had called him cruel, in his youth, with his ruthless business methods. He had laughed. Then they had no longer dared call him anything which would anger him. And he had laughed at that, while he had bought their governments and their armies with his money. 
  He was laughing now as he thought of it. In seventy years he had made the name Peter Groff a thing at which to tremble. Over all the earth, from the heads of his groveling puppet governments down to the lowliest child driving a plow in the fields, there was no one who did not secretly fear Groff, the power of his money, the sound of anger in his voice. Here in his citadel his servants trembled—and hated him. It was funny, because by their methods they had gotten nothing; and he had gotten everything.

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  The Knight of the Swords...

  Michael Moorcock

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  The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear. 
    
  Prince Corum is the last remaining Vadhagh. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body, and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina...

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