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A disfigured former page, Cazaril, now secretariat to a strong‑willed princess, faces court intrigue, a looming curse, and forbidden magic while trying to protect the royal heir in the world of the Five Gods.

The Lions of Al-Rassan is a sweeping fantasy set in a world echoing medieval Spain, following rival champions and a court physician as political intrigue and looming holy war threaten to reshape their land.

Five college students are transported to the first of all worlds, Fionavar, where they must help a mage prepare the land for an impending battle against an ancient evil.

In France’s historic Saint‑Saveur Cathedral, teenage photographer Ned Marriner confronts the building’s living past as he investigates secrets that blur time, destiny, and the boundary between the seen and unseen.

In 1883 New York City, two women doctors from the Woman’s Medical School treat the city’s most vulnerable amid the era’s splendor and peril, confronting poverty, anti‑vice crusader Anthony Comstock, and the harsh demands of their pasts.

A coming‑of‑age tale that follows teenage girls as they form bonds over shared love for books in a library setting, weaving in themes of friendship, English literature, and the lives of widowers.

The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, this book is neither historical biography nor scholarly study, but instead a biography of Keats's poetic imagination. Here the noted poet Dan Beachy-Quick enters into Keats's writing--both his letters and his poems--not to critique or judge, not to claim or argue, but to embrace the passion and quickness of his poetry and engage the aesthetic difficulties with which Keats grappled. Combining a set of biographical portraits that place symbolic pressure on key moments in Keats's life with a chronological examination of the development of Keats-as-poet through his poems and letters, Beachy-Quick explores the growth of the young man's poetic imagination during the years of his writing life, from 1816 to 1820.--From publisher description.