It
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Author: Stephen King
Genres: Adventure, Coming of Age, Horror, Love, Mystery, Time Travel
Publisher: Viking Press
Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s upcoming Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It.
Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
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Author: Beth Revis
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Space Traveling
Series: Star Wars
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Most of us are familiar with the love affair arc of Leia and Han (insert the infamous “I Love You!” “I Know” scene). This story picks up after Episode 6 and brings some major Bridgerton vibes. The Empire is desolate, and perhaps happily ever after does exist? While we know the answer, we're all in on any additional Han and Leia swoon-worthy content.
The Institute
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Author: Stephen King
Genres: Action Adventure, Adventure, Magic, Mystery, Science Fiction
Publisher: Gallery Books
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks…
The October Country: Stories
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Author: Ray Bradbury
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Ghost Stories, Gothic, Horror, Love, Mystery, Religious, Short Stories
Series: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Publisher: Ballantine Books
The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. Renowned for his multi-million-copy bestseller, Fahrenheit 451, and hailed by Harper’s magazine as “the finest living writer of fantastic fiction,” Ray Bradbury proves here that he is America’s master of the short story.
The Turn of the Screw
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Author: Henry James
Series: The Two Magics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence, or a…
The Three-Body Problem
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Author: Cixin Liu
Genres: Horror, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling, Time Travel, Virtual Reality
Series: The Three-Body Problem Series
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings…
The Dark Forest (Three-Body Problem Series #2)
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Author: Cixin Liu
Genres: Future, Mystery, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling, Time Travel, Virtual Reality
Series: Remembrance of Earth's Past
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
"Wildly imaginative." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human…
Death’s End (The Three-Body Problem Series, #3)
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Author: Cixin Liu
Genres: Chaos Theory, Love, Religious, Romance, Science Fiction, Space Traveling, Time Travel, Virtual Reality
Series: The Three-Body Problem Series
Publisher: Tor Books
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series! “The War of the Worlds for the 21st century… packed with a sense of wonder.” – Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer. The Three-Body Problem Series The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
The Redemption of Time (Three-Body Problem Series #4)
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Genres: Chaos Theory, Future, Love, Mystery, Religious, Romance, Science Fiction, Space Traveling, Time Travel, Virtual Reality
Series: The Three-Body Problem Series
Publisher: Tor Books
Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’s multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu—published with Liu’s support—envisions the aftermath of the conflict between humanity and the extraterrestrial Trisolarans.
DUNE
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Author: Frank Herbert
Genres: Messiah, Religious, Science Fiction
Series: Dune Chronicles
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Theaters and HBO Max, directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling. Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with…
Dune Messiah
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Author: Frank Herbert
Genres: Messiah, Religious, Science Fiction
Series: Dune Chronicles
Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within…
Children of Dune
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Author: Frank Herbert
Genres: Messiah, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia’s rule…
God Emperor of Dune
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Author: Frank Herbert
Genres: Religious, Science Fiction
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.
Heretics of Dune
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Author: Frank Herbert
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling, Witches
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God-Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis—has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.
Chapterhouse: Dune
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Author: Frank Herbert
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.
Hunters of Dune
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Authors: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Genres: Action Adventure, Adventure, Fantasy, Future, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Tor Books
Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent…
Sandworms of Dune
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Authors: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Messiah, Religious, Science Fiction, Space Traveling
Series: Dune Chronicles
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past—including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica—to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley - a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the…
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Witches, Wizards
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Time Travel, Witches, Wizards
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the series. Harry returns to Hogwarts with nightmares about Voldemort looming in his head. This year, there is an exciting event at Hogwarts, but will it be more dangerous than fun? Between the weird dreams Harry's been having, his scar hurting, and rumors of the Dark Lord's return, Harry's godfather Sirius Black grows increasingly concerned as he tries to ensure Harry's safety. Will Harry's…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The book that took the world by storm....In his fifth year at Hogwart's, Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be- Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Along the way he learns about the strength of his friends, the fierceness of his enemies, and the meaning of sacrifice.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Future, Ghost Stories, Horror, Love, Magic, Mystery, Witches, Wizards
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
As the Harry Potter series draws to a close, Harry's greatest adventure yet is just beginning. The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love.…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
We now present the seventh and final installment in the epic tale of Harry Potter. “As a farewell to the series, Deathly Hallows is everything fans of Harry Potter could hope for.”
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II
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Authors: J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Future, Witches, Wizards
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Though originally written for the stage, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is an enchanting must-read story set 19 years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that is well-deserving of a place on every muggle’s bookshelf. Prepare to be spellbound!
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
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Author: J.K. Rowling
Series: Wizarding World
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," "The Fountain…
Jurassic Park
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Author: Michael Crichton
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Series: JP Series
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . .
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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Author: Michael Crichton
Genres: Action Adventure, Chaos Theory, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller
Series: JP Series
Publisher: Knopf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo comes the sequel to the smash-hit Jurassic Park, a thriller that’s been millions of years in the making. “Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public.
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series #2)
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Author: Ransom Riggs
Genres: Action Adventure, Horror, Romance, Superhero, Time Travel
Series: Miss Peregrine Series
Publisher: Quirk Books
Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience. September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of…
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series #3)
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Author: Ransom Riggs
Genres: Action Adventure, Horror, Romance, Superhero, Time Travel
Series: Miss Peregrine Series
Publisher: Quirk Books
A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl…
A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series #4)
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Genres: Action Adventure, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Series: Miss Peregrine Series
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
“A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more.” –NY Journal of Books Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery—a…
The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series #5)
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Author: Ransom Riggs
Series: Miss Peregrine Series
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
With enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the fifth novel in the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs.
The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Series #6)
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Author: Ransom Riggs
Genres: Action, Action Adventure, Adventure, Fantasy, Future, Horror, Love, Magic, Mystery, Romance, Time Travel
Series: Miss Peregrine Series
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series. Now available in paperback with an exclusive map of Devil's Acre! The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Now Jacob and Noor have been inexplicably transported back to the place where everything began—his grandfather’s house. He doesn’t know how they escaped from V’s loop to find themselves back in Florida. But he does know…
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very…
The Fellowship of the Ring
The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken…
The Two Towers
The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost…
Return of the King
The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan…
The Silmarillion
“Majestic! . . . Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury . . . It overwhelms the reader.” — Time The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them,…
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
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Authors: Christopher Tolkien (Editor), J.R.R Tolkien
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Religious, Romance, Short Stories
Series: Middle-Earth
Publisher: HMH Books
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf’s lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the…
The Fall of Númenor
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Author: J.R.R Tolkien
Genres: Action Adventure, Fantasy, Love, Religious, Romance
Series: Middle-Earth
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
For the first time ever, stories from the Second Age of Middle-earth have been collected in one volume. Not only that, but it’s also illustrated in watercolor and pencil by none other than Alan Lee! Adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of Years,” this new volume is perfect for fans who want to immerse themselves in the world once again.
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle Series #1)
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Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Series: The Kingkiller Chronicles
Publisher: DAW
My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written…
Treasure Island
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Genres: Action Adventure, Pirate Stories, Sailing, Treasure Hunting
When he attends a dying patron of his family's boarding house, young Jim Hawkins has no idea that the man was once a pirate, or that the man's possessions include a map that will lead whoever has it to the island where the notorious buccaneer, Captain Flint, buried his treasure. Jim and his guardians hire a boat to sail to the island, unaware that crew they have hired includes many members of Flint's pirate band, among…