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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2019
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| The Harp of Kings by Juliet MarillierWhat it's about: A group of apprentice warriors from Swan Island must locate the ancient Harp of Kings before Midsummer, when it will be used in the coronation of the next king of Breifne.
Why you might like it: Unfolding from the perspectives of its three main characters, this intricately plotted series opener's central quest narrative is enhanced by a coming-of-age story and a slow-building romance.
About the author: No one does Celtic-inspired historical fantasy like New Zealand-born, Australia-based author Juliet Marillier, best known for her Sevenwaters series. |
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The future of another timeline
by Annalee Newitz
A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history-changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel-world America where time travel is possible.
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Ninth house
by Leigh Bardugo
Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
by Theodora Goss
Historical Fantasy. After her parents' deaths, Mary Jekyll makes a discovery that leads her (with the help of Sherlock Holmes) to a young woman named Diana Hyde. Soon, Mary and Diana are working with Beatrice Rappacini, Catherine Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein to infiltrate the mysterious Société des Alchimistes. Fans of the television show Penny Dreadful or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels should enjoy this metafictional Victorian gothic adventure.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there
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The Loch
by Steve Alten
When his estranged father Angus is put on trial for murdering his business partner, marine biologist Zach Wallace returns to the Scotland he left as a boy to help prove that "something" in Loch Ness was the real cause of the man's death
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Red moon : a novel
by Benjamin Percy
On the eve of the emergence of a new and unrecognizable world that will challenge the existence of humanity, a group of people begin to notice they are different from everyone else in this new novel from author of The Wilding.
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