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Laurence and Temeraire race to save the British dragon corps from a deadly plague, journeying to Africa for a cure.
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The Once and Future Witches
In 1893, three estranged sisters arrive separately in the city of New Salem and get swept up in the suffrage movement, which they intend to win with witchcraft people thought had been burned out of the world.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Two rival magicians in Napoleonic England restore magic to Britain, but their competition awakens something dangerous from Faerie.
A Master of Djinn
A queer woman detective investigates a locked-room murder in a 1912 Cairo powered by djinn, automatons, and revolutionary politics.
Dragonflight
On the planet Pern, threatened every two hundred years by Thread falling from the sky, the dragonrider F'lar finds Lessa, the last of her noble line, hiding as a drudge, and brings her to bond with a new queen dragon.
In Desert and Wilderness
During the Mahdist uprising in Sudan, fourteen-year-old Staś Tarkowski and eight-year-old Nel Rawlison are kidnapped from Egypt and carried south, then escape into the African interior on their own.
Akata Witch
Sunny Nwazue, twelve, born in New York to Nigerian parents and now living in Nigeria, an albino who can't play football in the sun, finds out she is one of the Leopard People, who work juju.
The Dragon Waiting
In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.
The Winner's Curse
Kestrel, the daughter of a conquering general who would rather play music than fight, impulsively buys a young slave named Arin at auction, and the price of that choice grows as she discovers what he is hiding.
Seraphina
In the kingdom of Goredd, where humans and dragons in human form keep an uneasy forty-year peace, Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides the truth about her mother, and a prince is murdered in a way that looks like a dragon's work.
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Stories set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, of clever women, fairies and English magic.
Babel
Robin Swift, an orphan from Canton brought to Oxford to study at the Royal Institute of Translation, where silver and words power the British Empire, has to choose between Babel and the resistance working against it.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.