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In the Stacks: Author's Enhanced Edition


A Fantasy Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Magic Academy,
  • Haunted Library,
  • Sword and Sorcery,
  • Darkly Whimsical,
  • Group Adventure
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Magical libraries where the books fight back
  • Battle-librarians and students facing reality-warping chaos
Publisher Description

Life is always complicated for students of magic at the High University of Hazar, but the fifth-year exam is a particular challenge: Each student must return one library book.

Of course, they must return it to the Living Library, a haunted collection of ten million magical tomes, a collection where the rules of time, space, weather, and reality itself are subject to sudden change. Escorted by armored battle-librarians, a group of four students must face mysteries and monsters in a fight to get their books back on the shelves in this brisk, darkly whimsical sword and sorcery tale.

Originally published in 2010, the Author's Enhanced Edition of "In the Stacks" is newly revised and expanded, featuring new dialogue, new scenes, and a new introduction from the author, internationally best-selling fantasist Scott Lynch, creator of Locke Lamora and the Gentleman Bastard Sequence.

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