A Brightness Long Ago
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
4.18
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth …
Want to Read $ 14.99"We are what we are and the world is what it is"-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune’s wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
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1. Company Town
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Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Meet Hwa. One of the few in her community to forego bio-engineered enhancements, she's the last tru… read more
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2. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
By: R. Scott Bakker
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more
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3. Breath of Earth (Blood of Earth, #1)
By: Beth Cato
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
After the Earth's power is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique mag… read more
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4. The Fire's Stone
By: Tanya Huff
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
THIEF, SWORDSMAN, AND WIZARDESS AARON. Clan Heir, he has fled his people when his beloved was slain… read more
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5. A Shadow in Summer (Long Price Quartet, #1)
By: Daniel Abraham
3.47
Format: 156 pages,
The city-state of Saraykeht dominates the Summer Cities. Its wealth is beyond measure; its port is … read more
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6. Gather Her Round (Tufa, #5)
By: Alex Bledsoe
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Hardcover
In critically-acclaimed Alex Bledsoe's latest Tufa novel, a monster roams the woods of Cloud County… read more
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7. The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)
By: Ken Liu
2.00
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni… read more
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9. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more
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10. The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
By: Ken Liu
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Two men rebel together against tyranny--and then become rivals--in this first sweeping book of an e… read more
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11. The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy, #1)
By: James Logan
4.02
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced … read more
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12. The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)
By: Richard Swan
4.11
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The third novel in an epic fantasy trilogy, which follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Empero… read more
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13. The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)
By: Richard Swan
4.01
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's… read more
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14. The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2)
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4.30
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
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4.62
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more
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"Your road will not be easy, nor your burden light." "That does not matter," I said. "It must be."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
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"You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
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4.45
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None
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19. A Brightness Long Ago
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
4.18
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth … read more
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"We are what we are and the world is what it is"-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune’s wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
"Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back."-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago
20. Gods of the Wyrdwood (Forsaken, #1)
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