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If I Pay Thee not in Gold – Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey

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Xylina is a Manzonite, but not a very good one.    While her skills at magic are strong, she’s not much of a warrior, unlike her famous mother, who sadly passed away, leaving Xylina destitute. She’s reached the end of the time where she has to do the Challenge that will either confirm her as a […]

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Lady Friday – Garth Nix

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In this latest book of The Keys to the Kingdom, Arthur is going after the fifth piece of the Will in Lady Friday’s realm in the Middle House.    It’s basically anything having to do with printing, including a river of words where everyone has to wear clothes made of paper with moveable text to protect

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The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne Duprau

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In this prequel to the City of Ember, a girl named Nickie has come to the small North Carolina town of Yonwood with her aunt so that they can get her great-grandfather’s house ready to sell.    At the same time, the United States is teetering at the end of war with an unnamed enemy (it’s

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Netherworld – Lisa Morton

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Lady Diana Furnaval’s husband, William, is the last in the line of gatekeepers.    It turns out the family estate has a gate into another realm on it, and William’s family has kept the worst of what can come from the gate from effecting other people.     There are of course other gates, and when William is

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House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

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This book is billed as the sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, but it actually takes a little while for Howl and Sophie to make an appearance.   Instead, the main character is a young woman named Charmain, who has been drafted to mind her Great-Uncle’s house while he’s away being  cured of some unnamed illness.    Turns

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Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater

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When Grace was young, she was attacked by wolves in her back yard.     She thought she was dead, but somehow, ended up back in her house, safe.    From then on, she would often catch a glimpse of one member of the pack watching her – she always knew it was the same wolf because of

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Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris

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I think the Sookie books are getting a little long in the tooth.   (Though not as bad as the tv show, which I stopped watching a couple of seasons ago.)    In this book, Sookie’s great-grandfather, the fairy prince, comes to warn her that there’s war in the fairy realms, between his faction, which likes humans,

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Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Mercy Thompson owes a few people some favors.    Since she can turn into a coyote whenever she likes, her vampire friend Stefan asks her to go along when he needs to deliver a message to another one of his kind.    Unfortunately, it turns out that this vampire has

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. A middle aged man has returned to the town he grew up in for a funeral.    Afterwards, he drives around aimlessly, and realizes that he is drawn to the farm at the end of the lane from where he grew up.     When he was young, he remembered that

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The Mislaid Magician – Patricia A. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

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This is the last book of the Kate and Cecy Regency themed books that happen to involve magic.    (It’s ten years later, so this one actually takes a bit of a steam punk turn.) Cecy, and her husband James, have been asked by the Prime Minister to investigate the disappearance of a German magician who

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