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- The Gargoyle
Andrew Davidsonstandalone novel2008
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The Gargoyle is the debut novel by Andrew Davidson. It was published in 2008.
- The Time Keeper
Mitch Albomstandalone novel2012
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The Time Keeper--a compelling fable about the first man on earth to count the hours. The man who became Father Time. In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world--now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began--and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.
- Warm Bodies
series3 books2010
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In an abandoned airport where the dead shuffle through half-remembered lives, a zombie known only as R feels something stir when he meets Julie, a survivor he chooses to protect instead of eat. Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies follows R's slow, contagious return to feeling -- reshaping the zombies around him along the way -- and continues through the novella The New Hunger and the sequel The Burning World.
- His Dark Materials Universe
universe13 books1995
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In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends. This is the country of His Dark Materials: a company of parallel worlds across which an invisible dust of consciousness drifts down upon the waking mind; where a Church that calls itself the Magisterium would sooner sever a child's soul than let that Dust be understood; and where a golden instrument, the alethiometer, answers true questions for anyone with the patience to read it. Philip Pullman's design stands in two trilogies and a scatter of shorter tales. His Dark Materials — Northern Lights (published in America as The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass — carries Lyra Belacqua from the rooftops of a shadow Oxford across the borders between worlds. The Book of Dust returns to that same territory: La Belle Sauvage looks back to Lyra as an infant carried through a great flood, while The Secret Commonwealth follows her grown and less certain into adulthood, with a concluding volume closing the arc. Around them sit slim companion books — Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, Serpentine — and Nicholas Wright's stage adaptation, made with Pullman's blessing. The register is grave and luminous at once, its title lifted from Milton and its quarrel drawn from Blake: a story that takes the side of curiosity, love, and the physical world against any authority that would forbid them. It reads as adventure — armoured bears, aeronauts, knife-cut windows between skies — yet reasons like philosophy. Begin with Northern Lights / The Golden Compass and read the first trilogy through before turning to The Book of Dust, which deepens everything the first has already made you feel.
- The Bird with the Broken Wing
D. L. Richardsonstandalone novel2011
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"When mortals make mistakes, they're forgiven. When angels make mistakes, they're forsaken." ― quoted from this book's product page on the Amazon.com website as of 2019-01-01.
- His Dark Materials
series8 books1995
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His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
- Black Dagger Brotherhood
series40 books2005
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The Black Dagger Brotherhood is an ongoing series of paranormal romance books by author J. R. Ward. The series focuses on a society of vampire warriors who live together and defend their race against de-souled humans called lessers. The first book in the series was published in 2005.
- Treasure Box
Orson Scott Cardstandalone novel1996
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A family secret best kept quiet. Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madeleine. Witty and beautiful, she is as uncomfortable with the world as he is. After a few whirlwind weeks of love, they marry. Perfectly happy, there is only one thing that mars their complete bliss - Madeleine's strange cantankerous family. And one more thing. There's an ancient family secret to which Madeleine holds the key. Soon Quentin realizes that only he can stop her from unleashing an ageless malevolence that will rule the world. But to do so, he must do the impossible - step outside of himself and join the world he has always avoided. Quentin must learn to trust, to hope, and to forgive. How he does it, while stabilizing a vengeful, volatile family, makes for an unsettling and poignant story that only acclaimed author Orson Scott Card could create. (from the back cover of the HarperCollins first edition)
- The Taker / Immortal
series5 books2011
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Alma Katsu's The Taker opens the Immortal trilogy (plus a linked prequel novella) when a young doctor named Luke meets a woman who reveals she is immortal, and hears how she was abandoned by a lover two centuries earlier and made eternal by a centuries-old Hungarian count who abducted her. The dark historical fantasy continues across The Reckoning and The Descent, with The Devil's Scribe serving as a prequel novella.
