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Baxter, Stephen Navigator As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Brooks, Terry The Gypsy Morph Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man's-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. But from around the country, allies of good unite to challenge the rampaging evil and a young elf entrusted with an ancient magic, must deliver his entire civilization from a monstrous army. 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Butler, Octavia E Fledgling A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire. 2005 Appears on the following book lists:  Fantasy: Contemporary Vampires
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Card, Orson Scott Seventh Son The author of Ender's Game creates an alternative American frontier powered by folk magic where Native Americans remain powerful and a very special child is born. 1987 Appears on the following book lists: Fantasy: Classic
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Chabon, Michael The Yiddish Policemen's Union In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. 2007 Appears on the following book lists: Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winners Science Fiction & Fantasy Award Winners
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Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is disappointed by the ending of "Jane Eyre". But in this world there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic - and a woman called Thursday Next. 2002 Appears on the following book lists: If you liked . . . The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey Niffenegger Classics Revamped Alex Award - Fiction
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Gregory, Daryl Pandemonium In the 1950s, ordinary people of varying ages and backgrounds are possessed by entities that seem to spring from the collective unconscious, that many would call demons. It is believed that the key to resolving this plague pivots around the possessed Del Pierce; for whom the cure may be worse than the disease. 2008 Appears on the following book lists:
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Hamilton, Laurell K Guilty Pleasures Since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think that vampires are simply ordinary folk with fangs. Anita knows better - she has seen their victims and carries the scars. 1993 Appears on the following book lists: Vampires
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Harlan, Thomas The Dark Lord Seventh-century Rome faces new challenges to its power from the Emperor of Persia and his dark sorcerer, Lord Dahak, who have seized Constantinople and now march on Egypt, unless Rome's own powerful sorcerer can conquer the evil magic. 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Harrison, Kim Dead Witch Walking Sexy bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan prowls the dark streets of Cincinnati, keeping tabs on the vampires and other creatures of the supernatural who prey on the city's innocent and vulnerable inhabitants. 2004 Appears on the following book lists:
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MacLeod, Ian R. The House of Storms This sequel to The Light Ages continues the saga of an alternate Victorian Earth in which industry and subtle magic join forces to create a society in which powerful guilds control the destiny of the lower classes. 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Novik, Naomi Throne of Jade British naval officer Will Laurence's partnership with Temeraire, a rare Chinese imperial dragon, is threatened when Temeraire is summoned to the imperial court by the powerful Chinese emperor, who had intended the dragon to be a gift for Napoleon Bonaparte, not the companion of a lowly English pilot. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Park, Paul A Princess of Roumania Raised by her adoptive family in a quiet Massachusetts town, teenager Miranda Popescu is astonished to discover that she is a princess from an alternate world that is split by a deadly political battle. 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stross, Charles The Clan Corporate Young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggles with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family, a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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Turtledove, Harry Out of the Darkness A fantasy on a medieval war fought with modern equipment. As the forces of Algarve, Unkerlant, and their allies prepare for the final epic battle to determine the winner of the Derlavaian War. 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Turtledove, Harry The Disunited States of America When the latest war breaks out between Virginia and Ohio, using a tailored virus that unleashes a plague on the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia, Crosstime Traffic operatives Justin and Beckie become trapped in the middle of the conflict. 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Walton, Jo Farthing In an alternate post-World War II London in which an upper-crust political group has overthrown Churchill and negotiated peace with Hitler, Lucy, ostracized since her marriage to a Jewish man, is unexpectedly invited to a family gathering only to find her husband framed for a ritualistic murder.. 2006 |
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