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The Magician King (Paperback)

By Lev Grossman
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780452298019
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Plume, 5/2012
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Imagine Harry Potter and his friends in college and you have an idea of Lev Grossman’s achievement in The Magicians. Now imagine that Quentin Coldwater and his fellow students have completed their studies in sorcery and are ready for further adventures. The Magician King (Plume, $16) finds Quentin and Julia growing restless in Fillory, the Narnia-like kingdom they thought they’d dreamed up—only to find that it actually existed. Now Fillory’s reigning monarchs, the pair embarks on a complicated quest. Things go wrong, and they end up in the distinctly un-magical Chesterton, Massachusetts, where they must use all their wiles and worldly knowledge against the forces poised to destroy Fillory. Hannah Oliver

Reamde (Hardcover)

By Neal Stephenson
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780061977961
Availability: Not currently shipping from publisher – Subject to future availability
Published: William Morrow, 9/2011
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Take Richard Forthrast, ex-smuggler and now owner of a multi-player online game called T’Rain; REAMDE, a virus designed by Chinese hackers; Russian gangsters; a fantasy writer; a Welsh Muslim terrorist; add Forthrast’s niece, Zula, who’s caught in the middle of it all, and you have Reamde (Wm. Morrow, $18.99), by Neal Stephenson, the most engrossing thriller you’ll read this summer. True to his style, Stephenson also masterfully weaves in information on a number of subjects, including the Chinese city of Xiamen, with descriptions of its architecture, guns, and international air traffic. Reamde is an ambitious novel, and the plot comes together in an intense, all-guns-firing finale that will leave you incredibly impressed with Stephenson’s talent and erudition. Ellie Bogomazova