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All Systems Red

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A Deadly Education

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The Man Who Smiled

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Hell's Bounty Hunter: The Lost Vegas Saga

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In Every Possible Way

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

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The Runaway

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Network Effect

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The Beast's Ruined Bride

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La casa sotto il cielo stellato

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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Tress of the Emerald Sea

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Murder in Tuscany

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A Man With One of Those Faces

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The Blade Itself

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Howl's Moving Castle

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The Library of the Unwritten

Hackwith, A. J.

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Murray the Knight

Adam Stower

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River Secrets

Shannon Hale

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Sybil Bartel

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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari

Dorothy Gilman

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Firefox

Thomas, Craig

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Crap Kingdom

D. C. Pierson

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The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine

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The Curse of Chalion

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Nash Falls

David Baldacci

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Metal Gear Solid

Raymond Benson

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Picture Miss Seeton

Heron Carvic

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The Poison Grove

Jill Johnson

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Mister

E L James

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The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy

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Inkheart

Cornelia Funke

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Under the Dixie Moon

Robert Peecher

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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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The Traitor's Gambit

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The Syndicate

Guy Bolton

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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

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Alex Rider: Stormbreaker

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The Valley Of Lost Children

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Bromantasy

Máire Roche

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The Ashen City

Marshall J Moore

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Novels (Hobbit / Lord of the Rings)

J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Anubis Gates

Powers, Tim

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Silverblood Promise

Logan, James

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The Janson Directive

Ludlum, Robert

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Serial Killer Princess

R.J. Blain

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Dead Beat

Jim Butcher

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Penric's Demon

Bujold, Lois McMaster

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Breakers

Edward W. Robertson

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Poor Man's Fight

Elliott Kay

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Fool Moon

Butcher, Jim

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Mandanna, Sangu

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