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If you like Court of Venom, by Kristin Burchell, from Multcolib

Court of Venom is our latest collaboration with Ooligan Press, a teaching press affiliated with Portland State University. For the past few years, Ooligan has chosen a work submitted through the Library Writers Project, our self-publishing project fueled by the creativity of local writers.

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  • A fantasy novel full of magic creatures, intrigue and divided loyalties, this book was first introduced to readers through The Library Writers project and is now available as part of a collaboration with Ooligan Press.
    BookPortland, OR : Ooligan Press, [2022] — SF BURCHELL 2022
  • As an outcast from a homeland where her talents are feared, Jasminda helps care for an injured spy, Jack, who enlists her help in guarding the protective mantle around two nations that are preparing for war.
    Book[United States] : Heartspell, 2015. — FICTION PENELOPE 2015
  • In this story that draws on South Indian culture, a legendary girl rebel attempts to assassinate a ruthless general in spite of her growing love for his nephew.
    BookNew York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — y TEERDHALA 2019
  • Exiled by her despotic brother when he claimed their father's kingdom, Malini spends her days trapped an ancient, cliffside temple, with only one servant to attend her--a servant with a dark past...
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, Hachette Book Group, 2021. — FICTION SURI 2021
  • Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — y LIN 2022
  • Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction.
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — y BARDUGO 2015
  • In a world ravaged by decay, Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland. Awa is training to be a powerful griot and her knowledge of powerful magic maybe be…
    BookNew York, NY : Tordotcom, 2020. — SF HAIRSTON 2020
  • Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything to the usurper, Atoc. When Atoc demands the real Condesa’s hand in marriage, it’s Ximena’s duty to go in her stead, but a masked…
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2020. — y IBANEZ 2020
  • Coming out of exile to claim her rightful throne, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, with the magical Tearling sapphire to protect her, makes a daring decision that evokes the wrath of the evil Red Witch, forcing her to embark on a quest to…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2014] — FICTION JOHANSEN 2014
  • After a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom as long as she helps the prince find a new royal assassin.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2012. — y MAAS 2012
  • Loulie al-Nazari, a hunter and seller of illegal magic, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, 2022. — FICTION ABDULLAH 2022
  • A queen who would survive assassination attempts to continue her ruling line is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — SF SHANNON 2019
  • Lanie Stones, the daughter of the Royal Assassin and Chief Executioner of Liriat, has a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence. When her parents are murdered, it falls on Lanie and her cheerfully psychotic sister Nita to…
    BookOxford, UK : Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishinig Ltd., 2022. — FICTION COONEY 2022
  • The imperial palace -- full of ambitious royals, sly gossip, and unforeseen perils -- is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Empire for Komor Yala, lady-in-waiting to the princess of the vanquished kingdom of Khir, has only her wits…
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, 2019. — FICTION EMMETT 2019
  • In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with…
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2012. — y LAFEVERS 2012
  • After she is given a reprieve from her death sentence, Yelena faces mounting disasters as rebels plot to seize Ixia, her life is once again threatened, and the chief of security is attempting to poison her.
    BookDon Mills, Ont. : Mira, [2007] — FICTION SNYDER 2007
  • A master poisoner works beside his sister to defend their city-state when the chancellor he worked undercover to protect is assassinated with an unknown poison at the same time an army lay siege to the city.
    BookNew York : Tor, 2018. — FICTION HAWKE 2018