by Naomi Novik
   Fascinated with both history and legends, Novik is a first-generation American raised on Polish fairy tales and stories of Baba Yaga. Her own adventures include pillaging degrees in English literature and computer science from various ivory towers, designing computer games, and helping to build the Archive of Our Own for fanfiction and other fanworks. Novik is a co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works.
   She lives in New York City with husband and Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.
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   BY NAOMI NOVIK
   Uprooted
   Spinning Silver
   THE TEMERAIRE SERIES
   Temeraire
   Throne of Jade
   Black Powder War
   Empire of Ivory
   Victory of Eagles
   Tongues of Serpents
   Crucible of Gold
   Blood of Tyrants
   League of Dragons
   First published 2018 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House,
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   First published in the UK 2018 by Macmillan
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   ISBN 978-1-5098-9903-6
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   Author photo by Beth Gwinn
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