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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2020
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
Living in a labyrinthine house of endless corridors, flooded staircases and thousands of statues, Piranesi assists the dreamlike dwelling’s only other resident throughout a mysterious research project before evidence emerges of an astonishing alternate world.
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The Constant Rabbit
by Jasper Fforde
In an England populated with anthropomorphic rabbits and humans, one hare family moves into a cozy little village that does not want them there and are defended by two human neighbors who take a stand against prejudice.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Elsewhere
by Dean R. Koontz
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
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Bright and Dangerous Objects
by Anneliese Mackintosh
Discovering she is on the short list to become one of the first humans to colonize Mars, a commercial deep-sea diver reevaluates her commitment to starting a family with her partner.
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A Wild Winter Swan: a novel
by Gregory Maguire
The best-selling author of Wicked reimagines Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans” in the story of an Italian-American rebel who encounters a handsome swan boy during the Christmas season in 1960s New York.
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A Deadly Education: a novel
by Naomi Novik
An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents.
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
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The Forgotten Kingdom: a novel
by Signe Pike
Languoreth endures imprisonment while one of the most violent battles of early medieval Scottish history scatters her loved ones, including her young daughter Angharad, who pursues her destiny in the mystical land of the Picts.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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Hench
by Natalie Zina Walschots
Temping for people on the wrong side of the law, Anna becomes unfairly unemployed before using her talents for manipulating data to expose how the heroes of her world do more harm than good.
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