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"After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murders of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about...
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"After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders--a primitive and lethal form of the Others--the few cities left under human control are far-flung. And the people within them now know to fear the no-man's-land beyond their borders--and the darkness...As some communities struggle to rebuild, Lakeside Courtyard has emerged relatively unscathed, though Simon Wolfgard, its wolf shifter leader, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn must work with the...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy transports readers to a world of magic and political unrest-where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price... The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before-both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control...
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"Fourth in the "flawless" (The Reading Cafe) ... series.... For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they're willing to tolerate-- both within themselves and within their community ... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their...
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Beyond the circle volume 2
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Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong. Rachelle Matthews, who grew up in the small town of Eden, Utah, discovered just how wrong when she dreamed and awoke in another world. There she learned that she was the 49th Mystic, the prophesied one, tasked with finding five ancient...
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"In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late.... Crowbones will gitcha if you don't watch out! Deep in the territory controlled by the Others-shape-shifters, vampires, and even deadlier paranormal beings-Vicki DeVine has made a new life for herself running The Jumble, a rustic resort. When she decides to host a gathering...
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"Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters small and large that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator--a classics academic immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies--navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the...
8) Prophet
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Books of the Infinite volume 1
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At age 17, Ela Roeh of Parne becomes the Infinite's first female prophet sent to bring the Infinite's word to a nation torn apart by war, but her mission is endangered when she partners with a young ambassador determined to serve up his own justice.
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Black Land's Bane volume 1
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"The Black Land is spent myth. Centuries have passed since the Great Enemy was slain. Yet old fears linger, and on the longest night of the year, every village still lights a ritual fire to banish the dark. That is Solveig's duty. Favored by the gods with powerful magic, Sol calls forth flame to keep her home safe. But when her brother accidentally kills a northern lord's son, she is sent away as weregild--part hostage, part guest--for a year and...
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After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence. Towns like Vicki's have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what's out there watching you. When her lodger, Aggie Crowe-- one of the shapeshifting Others-- discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble. The detectives want to pin the...
11) The 49th mystic
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Beyond the circle volume 1
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"Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong. When a procedure meant to restore Rachelle's sight goes awry, she begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if...
12) Moth and spark
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"Prince Corin has been chosen to free the dragons from their bondage to the Empire, but dragons aren't big on directions. They have given him some of their power, but none of their knowledge. No one, not the dragons nor their riders, is even sure what keeps the dragons in the Empire's control. Tam, sensible daughter of a well-respected doctor, had no idea before she arrived in the capital that she is a Seer, gifted with visions. When the two run into...
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Delphic women novels volume 2
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Cassandra and Diomenes find their passion thwarted by the machinations of malicious gods against the backdrop of the doomed city of Troy.
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Brownstone's mythical collection volume 1
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"Buried among the treasures in Professor Brownstone's vault lie a humble collection of books. Filled with imaginary stories from his ancestors, they tell of fearless fighters and unlikely heroes. Join Arthur as we journey to the land of the Vikings in this exciting adventure from Brownstone's Mythical Collection. In a place filled wiath magical objects and powerful gods, can Arthur conquer the fearsom mythical beast and save his town from freezing...
15) The prophetess
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The time is December 1999. Millennial fever holds the world in its grip - stirring ancient and terrible fears that the apocalypse is at hand. In the Sinai desert, archeologist Catherine Alexander just unearthed a cache of six ancient papyrus scrolls that point to the millennium's most transforming secret. Discovered inside the legendary Well of Miriam, a site named after the ancient prophetess who was the sister of Moses, the scrolls reveal a hidden...
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The Temple Priestesses of Antiquity tells the story of the Oracles and Sibyls, Seers, Psychics, Sacred Dancers and Healers of ancient civilizations. They were empowered women who enthralled those who sought their advice and served the Goddess they revered. Tales about ancient Priestesses and the Sacred Temples where they lived, prayed and worked thousands of years ago, have fascinated archaeologists and historians for decades. Living in complex temple...
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Roma Sub Rosa series volume 13
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In 48 B.C., civil war rages across the Roman world. While Caesar and Pompey fight on distant battlefields, the powerful women left behind in Rome spin their own webs of intrigue and betrayal. When the beautiful young Cassandra staggers across the Roman Forum and dies in the arms of Gordianus the Finder, he becomes obsessed with finding her killer. Like her Trojan namesake, Cassandra was a seeress.To hear her prophecies, many paid handsomely. To silence...
18) Morderstwo wron
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Others volume 2
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"Zdobywszy zaufanie terra indigena zamieszkujących Dziedziniec w Lakeside, Meg Corbyn stara się żyć według ich zasad. Jest człowiekiem, więc powinni ją traktować jak zwierzynę, ale jako cassandra sangue posiada dar wieszczenia przyszłości, który czyni ją kimś wyjątkowym. Gdy na ulicach pojawiają się dwa nowe narkotyki, dochodzi do coraz częstszych konfliktów ludzi z Innymi. Ich rezultatem są ofiary po obu stronach, dlatego gdy...
19) Srebrzyste wizje
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Others volume 3
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"Inni uwolnili wizione przez ludzi cassandra sangue, nie zdajc sobie sprawy z tego, jak poważne konsekwencje bdzie to miało dla wieszczek. Tym delikatnym istotom grozi teraz podwójne niebezpieczeństwo - ze strony ludzi, którzy dla swoich niecnych celów chc kontrolować ich przepowiednie, ale też ze strony ich samych. W tej sytuacji Simon Wilcza Straż, zmiennokształtny przywódca Innych, zmuszony jest prosić o pomoc Meg Corbyn, wystawiajc...