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ISBN 10 : 9780356511184
Pages : 416 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9780786468331
Pages : 217 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9780356511153
Pages : 267 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9780356507224
Pages : 384 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9780356511115
Pages : 384 pages
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Download Fallen PDF Full Free by Benedict Jacka and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is on the line for probability mage Alex Verus in the tenth urban fantasy novel from the bestselling author of Fated. Once Alex Verus was a diviner trying to live quietly under the radar. Now he's a member of the Light Council who's found success, friends . . . and love. But it's come with a price - the Council is investigating him, and if they find out the truth, he'll lose everything. Meanwhile, Alex's old master, Richard Drakh, is waging a war against the Council, and he's preparing a move that will bring Alex and the life mage, Anne, under his control. Caught between Richard and the Council, Alex's time is running out. To protect those he cares for, Alex will have to become something different. Something darker. . .

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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ISBN 10 : 9781443858625
Pages : 310 pages
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Publisher : Routledge
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ISBN 10 : 9780429516061
Pages : 244 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9781472111623
Pages : 448 pages
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Download What Makes This Book So Great PDF Full Free by Jo Walton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton’s many subjects range from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Among them, the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by ‘mainstream’; the under-appreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field’s many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

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Publisher : Baen Books
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ISBN 10 : 9780671722104
Pages : 316 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9781618247063
Pages : 480 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9780743435581
Pages : 576 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9781789621730
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ISBN 10 : 9780671578084
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ISBN 10 : 9783031200175
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ISBN 10 : 9780252097379
Pages : 216 pages
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ISBN 10 : 9789401204477
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ISBN 10 : 9780356504391
Pages : 416 pages
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Download Burned PDF Full Free by Benedict Jacka and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Verus has a magic shop in Camden, London, and an uncanny ability to see the future. But suddenly everyone can see Alex's future. Because the Mage's Council of Great Britain just named him a traitor and ordered his death in seven days' time, and there's no way anyone can get out of that. Alex's friends - Luna and the other apprentices he's taken in - are tainted by association. They'll be marked for death too when the ruling comes into play, and Alex becomes locked in a race against time to save them. But with only seven days to work with, will he have time left over save his own skin?