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Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2025
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V.E. Schwab
This genre-defying novel follows three lesbian vampires, their lives connected across centuries as they come to terms with their affliction and face love, hunger, immortality, and grief. For fans of: LGBTQIA fantasy with intricately plotted narratives and complex supernatural characters such as Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell.
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Subgenre Spotlight: Urban Fantasy |
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Storm front
by Jim Butcher
A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts
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Dead until dark
by Charlaine Harris
Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers
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Cry wolf
by Patricia Briggs
A rare Omega wolf and the enforcer leader of the North American werewolves team up to find a rogue werewolf who wields sinister dark magic, in a hardcover release of a first Alpha and Omega novel that is complemented by a bonus novella and a new introduction. 25,000 first printing.
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Hounded
by Kevin Hearne
Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, finds his peaceful life in Arizona shattered by the arrival of an angry Celtic god who wants Atticus's magical sword, forcing Atticus to call upon some unlikely allies for help
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Rosemary and rue
by Seanan McGuire
Half-fae Toby retreats to the human world after being rejected by her Faerie family, but finds her anonymity compromised by the murder of an important countess who binds her to investigate, forcing Toby to resume her fae position
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A discovery of witches
by Deborah Harkness
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches, and vampires whose activities center around an enchanted treasure
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Night pleasures
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
A hardcover re-release of the Dark-Hunter tale featuring vampire Kyrian of Thrace finds the immortal handcuffed to beautiful accountant Amanda as part of a dangerous adversary's cat-and-mouse game, a confrontation for which the fate of the world hangs in the balance. 100,000 first printing.
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