Ava Reid
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"Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces--both mortal and magical--that threatens to consume them both"--BTCat.
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By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt, enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus's livestreamed assassination spectacle : the Lamb's Gauntlet. Melinoe is a Caerus assassin,...
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Marrying a Scottish warrior, Lady Macbeth must use all her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive his hostile, suspicious court but unbeknownst to her, he has occult secrets of his own and a prophecy that girds him like armor, making her magic even more dangerous as it threatens the order of the world.
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"In the vein of Naomi Novik's New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden's national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut- inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology-follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant. In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an...
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"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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"Return to the immersive, haunting, and lush world of the bestselling A Study in Drowning as the aftermath of their first discovery pulls Effy and Preston into a new adventure with the promise of magic, romance, and stories that might be washed away-and may be safer that way"-- Provided by publisher.
"All stories come to an end. Effy learned that when she defeated the Fairy King. Even though she may never know exactly what happened at Hiraeth, she...
8) Lady Macbeth
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"Lady Macbeth conoce los rumores: sus ojos provocan locura en los hombres. Sabe que la casarán con un salvaje escocés que no abandona su temperamento de guerrero ni siquiera en el lecho matrimonial. Sabe que para sobrevivir en la corte hostil y recelosa de su señor necesitará de toda su astucia y brujería oculta. Pero lady Macbeth no sabe que su marido también esconde secretos sobrenaturales. No sabe que las profecías lo protegen como una armadura....
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"Marlinchen y sus dos hermanas viven con su padre mago en una ciudad que cambia de la magia a la industria. Como las ͠ltimas brujas verdaderas de Oblya, ella y sus hermanas son poco m̀s que una trampa para turistas, ya que tratan a sus clientes con remedios arcaicos y los seducen con nost̀lgicos Marlinchen pasa sus d̕as adivinando secretos a cambio de rublos y tratando de aplacar a su padre tir̀nico y xen̤fobo, que mantiene a sus hijas aisladas...
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"Effy Sayre siempre ha creído en los cuentos de hadas. No le ha quedado más remedio, ya que, desde niña, la persiguen visiones del rey de las hadas. Ha hallado consuelo en las páginas de Angharad, la apreciada novela de Emrys Myrddin, que trata sobre una chica mortal que se enamora del rey de las hadas y luego lo destruye. El ejemplar desgastado de Effy es lo único que la mantiene a flote durante su primer trimestre en la prestigiosa Facultad...

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