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Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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Book cover for La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)

La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) by Philip Pullman

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he came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and there was nothing above but cold and fear and duty.

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“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you'd been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

tags: fiction, leigh-bardugo, loneliness, magic, ninth-house

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“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

tags: books, books-reading, library, reading

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“When it woke Cardenia up, Marce sounded like he was two cavemen having a very urgent conversation with each other about discovering fire, or hunting a feral hog, or something else along that line.”
― John Scalzi, The Last Emperox

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Goodreads group formed for /r/YAlit Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young a ...more