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Magic Street (2005)
Orson Scott Card.
Mack Street, found abandoned in a park as a baby, is raised in a middle-class African-American neighborhood in L. A., but never quite fits in. One day he sees a narrow house that is invisible to others and passes through it to another world of fairy rivalries and his real destiny. Check this item in our catalog
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Anansi Boys (2005), Neil Gaiman
After attending his father’s funeral, Fat Charlie learns two things that are going to shake up his rather mundane life: his father was a trickster god known as Anansi, and he has a brother he’s never met before who’s going to cause him a lot of trouble from now on. Check this item in our catalog
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Hammerjack (2005)
Marc D. Giller.
Cray Alden used to be a hammerjack, a high-tech information thief, but now he works for the corporate Collective and gets caught between them and an anti-technology cult called the Inru in a battle over who will have an edge in controlling the future – humans or machines. Check this item in our catalog
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Chainfire (2005)
Terry Goodkind.
In the latest book in the Sword of Truth series, Richard recovers from being seriously wounded only to find that his wife Kahlan is missing, and worse, he’s the only one who remembers her or believes that she ever existed. Check this item in our catalog
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Old Twentieth (2005)
Joe Haldeman.
On a long journey to a new planet, passengers of the starship Aspera spend time in a virtual reality version of the twentieth century. When users of the program start dying, engineer Jake Brewer needs to search for the cause. Check this item in our catalog
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Shaman's Crossing (2005)
Robin Hobb.
As the second son of a nobleman, Nevare Burvelle is destined to become a soldier. At first accepting of his fate, he begins to question his role when he sees evidence of magical ability in the people whose territory the cavalry is invading. Check this item in our catalog
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Knife of Dreams (2005)
Robert Jordan.
The eleventh book in the Wheel of Time series has Rand al’Thor preparing for his final battle against the Dark One while numerous intrigues play out across the land. Check this item in our catalog
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The Amphora Project (2005)
William Kotzwinkle.
Hidden inside the Junk Moon, a group of scientists runs a secret project to find a way to achieve immortality, but only a few people (and various secretive aliens) know that if this process is unleashed it will actually have the effect of turning living beings to solid crystal. Check this item in our catalog
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Child of a Rainless Year (2005)
Jane Lindskold.
When middle-aged Mira Fenn returns to her childhood home in New Mexico to try to understand her strange childhood and the disappearance of her mother, she finds that the mysterious silent women she remembered have returned and the house is awakening with powers of its own. Check this item in our catalog
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Son of a Witch (2005)
Gregory Maguire.
Liir, who may or may not be the son of the wicked witch of the west, starts his search for his lost half-sister Nor by following Dorothy to the Emerald City, but the journey turns into a search for his own identity and future. Sequel to Wicked. Check this item in our catalog
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A Feast for Crows (2005)
George R. R. Martin.
The king is dead, and Cersei rules as queen regent and descends into paranoia as opportunistic forces sow discord in the kingdom. The fourth book in A Song of Ice and Fire. Check this item in our catalog
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Market Forces (2005)
Richard K. Morgan.
Chris Faulkner is an up-and-coming executive in a corporate culture where the fight to get promoted can be quite literally deadly, involving car chases, investment in conflicts around the world, and murder. Check this item in our catalog
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Building Harlequin's Moon (2005)
Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper.
The ship John Glenn was meant to colonize the far planet Ymir, but due to a mistake is marooned in a different solar system, where the crew must build a moon and an antimatter generator to get to their original destination. Rachel is the leader of the children of the original colonists, and while she promises to help the colonists in their mission, she struggles with knowing that she may be among those left behind. Check this item in our catalog
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Thud! (2005)
Terry Pratchett.
The anniversary of the historic battle between dwarves and trolls at Koom Valley is approaching and City Watch Commander Sam Vimes has to keep tensions in the city from becoming a riot. The situation is complicated when an inflammatory dwarf speaker is found murdered and it is suspected to be the act of a troll. Check this item in our catalog
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Century Rain (2005)
Alastair Reynolds.
Verity Auger, an archaeologist who specializes in studying the now-ruined Earth, is sent through a wormhole to an amazing discovery: a copy of Earth from the mid-twentieth century, sealed off from the rest of the galaxy. What she runs into in the Paris of that Earth is a strange murder investigation that’s under way, and the futures of both Earths hinge on what it uncovers. Check this item in our catalog
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Elantris (2005)
Brandon Sanderson.
Prince Raoden is struck by the transformation known as the Shaod: randomly striking people of Arelon, it used to confer amazing powers, but has now become a curse, bringing deterioration to its victims and banishment to the city of Elantris. He needs to find out the secret that has ruined the magical power of the Elantrians in time to help protect Arelon from the plots of the rival nation of Fjorden. Check this item in our catalog
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Lady of Mazes (2005)
Karl Schroeder.
Livia, who lives in a “manifold” of people who see reality in a certain way through the technology of inscape, has the rare ability to travel to the manifolds of others and see the world in different ways. This talent will become crucial when her home is attacked by an entity known only as “3340” and she must find a way to protect her way of life. Check this item in our catalog
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A Secret Atlas (2005)
Michael A. Stackpole.
Qiro, a royal cartographer so important to the wealth of his nation of Nalenyr that he isn’t allowed to leave his tower, sends his grandsons on two dangerous journeys: one deep into the uncharted regions of the Eastern Sea, and the other to the ancient Spice Route, which has been tainted by dangerous wild magic. Check this item in our catalog
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The Resurrected Man (2005)
Sean Williams.
Awaking from hibernation with no memory of the last three years or knowledge as to why he was asleep, Jonah McEwen finds he has become a central suspect in a case involving the murderer known as the “Twinmaker,” who uses a common matter transporter device to duplicate his victims and kill their copies. Check this item in our catalog
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Inside Job (2005)
Connie Willis.
Rob and Kildy, debunkers of the supernatural, are taken by surprise when a patently fake spirit channeler named Ariaura appears to be involuntarily channeling the spirit of the great skeptical reporter H. L. Mencken. Check this item in our catalog
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Spin (2005)
Robert Charles Wilson.
One night when Tyler and his neighbors Jason and Diane were only children, the stars go out, replaced by a featureless black barrier – an event that will shape the lives of all three of them. Since time seems to run much faster outside the barrier, understanding how and why the Earth was enclosed is a problem that needs to be solved before the death of the sun. Check this item in our catalog
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