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An orphaned Chinese boy is raised in Britain and trained as a student at the Royal Institute of Translation, Oxford’s tower of Babel for language and magic. When he encounters a group stealing from the tower, competing loyalties reign as he uncovers the insidious nature of the institution that raised him.
Mika Moon knows that the absolute rules of being a witch is to hide your magic and avoid other witches. Therefore, she is very surprised when she receives a mysterious message asking her to come to Nowhere House and teach three young witches to control their magic.
After he dies, Wallace is given one week to cross over to the land of dead. In the meantime, he sets about reconsidering his life at Charon’s Crossing, the tea shop owned by the Ferryman named Hugo who is supposed to guide him onward.
An orc retires from adventuring to start a fantasy city’s first ever coffee shop. This cozy and fun novel is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and full of lots of love.
Six young magicians compete for five spots in The Alexandrian Society, the protectors of the world’s knowledge, in this dark academia fantasy.
Inspired by the myth of Chang’e, the moon goddess’s daughter, Xingyin, must flee her home, hide her identity, and make her life anew in the Celestial Kingdom.
In a world where Gloamists can control shadows for strange and sinister spells, bartender Charlie takes up an odd job and gets caught up in the dark underworld of shadow trading.
In 1955, thousands of women, including Alex’s Aunt Marla, transformed into dragons and left a trail of destruction in their wake. Alex now tries to make a future for herself in a world transformed.
Devon is a Book Eater, part of the Family that survives off of eating books. When her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds, she must decide how far she will go for those she loves.
The Yaga siblings are gifted the strange inheritance of a sentient house on chicken legs, and decide to take it on tour across the United States. But then a sinister presence begins to follow them, bearing secrets from their ancestor’s past.
The Zhu’s family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, is told he is destined for greatness, and then dies young during a brutal attack. His sister then uses his identity to claim his fate and his future.
Emily Wilde, a folklore researcher and Cambridge professor, travels to the countryside to conduct field work. Teaming up with rival colleague, Wendell, they investigate local happenings and their mystical origins.
Marra must protect her sisters from horrific marriages by completing three impossible tasks. A very grim and macabre fairy tale follows as Marra assembles a ragtag team to conquer evil.
Forced into a politically arranged marriage, Velasin Vin Aaro is outed and winds up both exiled and engaged to his intended’s brother, instead. Political intrigue further upends his life and he tried to reestablish himself in a foreign land.
Demir, a powerful glassdancer, returns from exile to investigate his mother’s murder. Through spycraft and politics, he begins to uncover shocking secrets that go deep to the core of their civilization.
Josephine’s future is in doubt in a world where single women are closely monitored when learns her mother’s will asks her to fulfill one last, strange request.
Based on the traditional epic of Ramayana, here Kaikeyi studies magic and how to enter the Binding Plane. Then one day, she is unwilling married off to the Raja of Kosala and caught up in the world of politics and gods.
Decades before, al-Jahiz, a powerful magician, ripped open the veil between magical entities and humankind. Now, Fatma, a special investigator, is called into investigate the murders of his supporters and signs that he has returned.
New York City has been born, living within six different avatars, and they must defend themselves, and their city, from an otherworldly and dark force determined to destroy them.
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