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  Knight's Wyrd

  James D. Macdonald, Debra Doyle

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  Ahead of its time on its original publication, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald's award-winning dark medieval fantasy Knight's Wyrd is perfect for contemporary tastes. 
   
   
   
  On the eve of his knighting, Will Odosson learns his wyrd, or destiny: He shall meet death before a year has passed. Will rushes north to release his betrothed from their engagement, but on the way he is beset by all manner of horrors—a man-eating troll, carnivorous mermaids, a magic-working dragon . . . and something far worse: an evil unlike anything Will ever imagined. 
   
   
   
  Knight's Wyrd is an award-winning gem that will appeal to fans of books like Hild and Spear, and films like The Green Knight–-a medieval fantasy with the authentic lived-in strangeness of the real Middle Ages. It was originally published by a pair of YA imprints, but it works equally well as an adult novel.

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  Animal Farm

  George Orwell

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  Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state far worse than before.According to Orwell, Animal Farm reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, a period when Russia lived under the communist ideology of Joseph Stalin. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Barcelona May Days conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces, during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay, "Why I Write" (1946), wrote: "Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

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  Deathmark

  Kate Stradling

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  Purple spur and silver thread, waste away until you’re dead. 
  Necromancers infest the land of Alderyth, fueling a dark plague that always kills its victims. For Nell, it’s more than a story told by travelers. The deathmark claimed her family and fated her to a life of servitude. 
  When a battered old hag collapses in her arms, suspicion swirls through her fearful town. Could Nell be a carrier of the plague? She flees rather than submit to prying authorities, but not without trouble. The deathmark dogs her footsteps, and her best escape might lie with a reclusive man who knows far more than he should about the curse.

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  The Hunger

  A.D. Starrling

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  Discover the origin of the love story behind Empire.  
  1695. Spanish Netherlands.  
  The war between King Louis XIV and the League of Augsberg reaches a pivotal moment at the Siege of Namur.  
  When the besieged French army starts to mount an increasingly fierce resistance, Bastian immortal Conrad Greene and his company of elite intelligence operatives are sent to Liège to track down the traitor supplying the enemy with stocks of a new, powerful gunpowder.  
  Frustrated at every turn, an unexpected visit from Conrad’s superior results in a surprising addition to his team. Can the captain resist his all-consuming attraction for immortal Laura Hartwell long enough to solve the mystery of the gunpowder plot?  
  The Hunger is a short story set in the riveting world of A.D. Starrling’s award-winning supernatural thriller series Seventeen.

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  Sunday Morning Giraffe - A...

  J. Daniel Sawyer

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  When five-year-old Aldo wakes up his father at 3AM on Sunday and demands a giraffe, his father takes him on a giraffe-hunting safari.Because when Aldo doesn't get his way, bad things happen.But Aldo's father might reconsider if he knew the source of Aldo's power: A talking rat with its own designs on a toy giraffe, which can only be found in a dusty display case at a creepy little pawnshop way out on the edge of nowhere.

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  Royally Treasured - A Royal Sons...

  Elle Boon

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  She needed a protector. He was judge, jury, and executioner. For her, he'd become whatever she needed to keep her safe! 
   
   
   
  Lennox had big dreams . . . until one night all her hopes and dreams came crashing down, sending her running back home. 
   
   
   
  Duke is judge, jury, and executioner . . . when it comes to those who fall under his protection, he'll stop at nothing to keep them safe. 
   
   
   
  Life lessons are sometimes best given with a little help . . . as Duke finds those responsible for hurting Lennox, he'll make sure they pay the ultimate price with a little help from some friends. Will she be able to accept the man he is, knowing he isn't a knight in shining armor? Lennox has been through hell, but having a man like Duke willing to do anything to keep her safe is more than she could hope for. 
   
   
   
  Welcome to the Royal Sons, y'all. They might seem like the good guys, but they're hot, they're bad, they're dirty, and they're gonna drag you down to Hell with them, but you'll have a smile on your face the entire time and you'll enjoy every minute of the ride. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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