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Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2024
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The book of doors : a novel
by Gareth Brown
When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
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Exit Black
by Joe Pitkin
Imperium is the most expensive structure ever created. Once an orbiting laboratory, it is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium's resident biophysicist, finds herself questioning whether babysitting a passel of space glampers is worth the distraction from her research.
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Gogmagog : the first chronicle of Ludwich
by Jeff Noon
"Tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady Meade, a veteran taxi pilot on the river Nysis. In her heyday she carried people and goods from the thriving seaports...Now she's drunk, holed up in a rundown seaside resort, telling her bawdy tales for shots of rum. All that's about to change, when two strangers seek her out, asking for transport, one of whom--a young girl--is very ill, and in great danger. The other, an artificial being of singular character, has secrets hidden inside his crystal skull"
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
by Malka Older
In this cozy 2nd outing for Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti, following The Mimicking of Known Successes, the duo once again returns to their alma mater, Jupiter's Valdegeld University, where 17 students and faculty have mysteriously disappeared. For fans of: Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man or Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night.
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Night for day
by Roselle Lim
When exes Ward and Camille unexpectedly reconnect in London after getting the same job working opposing shifts, they decide to give their relationship another try, but discover they can only talk to each other a few minutes before dawn due to their immortal clientele. Original.
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Past crimes
by Jason Pinter
In 2037, where criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, expectant mother Cassie West, who licenses crimes for V.I.C.E., convincing grieving families to sell their tragedies to the highest bidder, finds herself in a fight for survival, becoming a target in both the real and virtual world after her husband is murdered.
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Projections
by S. E. Porter
After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied—or suffer a fate worse than death.
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Triangulum : An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya
by Subodhana Wijeyeratne
The distant future. Humanity is ruled by the godlike Dawn and her Triangulan allies. Her Golden Swarm keeps the garden world of Prithvi safe. Her nephew's Red Fleet secures the rest of the Nine Worlds. In the depths of the system, her regents--the Charioteer of Daitya, and the Huntress of Himenduh--bolster her authority with their own fleets, their own armies, and their own power. So it has been for three thousand years. But, of course, nothing lasts forever.
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Tomorrow's children
by Daniel Polansky
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing,worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails"
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| The Kingdom of Sweets: A Novel of The Nutcracker by Erika JohansenOn the eve of their 17th birthday, twins Clara and Natasha receive gifts from their godfather that open a portal into the mysterious Kingdom of Sweets in this "beautifully twisted" (Library Journal) retelling of the Nutcracker by the author of the Queen of the Tearling series. Read-alikes: Gregory Maguire's Hiddensee; Kell Woods' After the Forest; Ava Reid's Juniper and Thorn. |
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| The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-GarciaAn unexpected visitor upends the sheltered life of Carlota Moreau, whose father, mad scientist Doctor Moreau, keeps her isolated on their estate in 1870s Yucatán, Mexico, along with the human-animal hybrid creatures he has created. Try this next: Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau. |
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| Arch-Conspirator by Veronica RothIn the post-apocalyptic settlement of Thebes, the human race survives by extracting ichor, or genetic material, from the dead and storing it in the Archive for future use. When Thebes' authoritarian ruler Kreon bans Antigone's deceased brothers' ichor from the Archive, the young woman rebels. Unfolding from multiple viewpoints, this SF retelling of Sophocles' Antigone offers "a heroine to root for, a despot to revile, and a thought-provoking ending" (Library Journal). |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Rochester Hills Public Library 500 Olde Towne Rd Rochester, Michigan 48307 248-656-2900www.rhpl.org/ |
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