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December
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Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. While humanity reels from disaster, she must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
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A Fate Inked in Blood
by Danielle L. Jensen
A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king--while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son--in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
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Unbound
by Christy Healy
For fans of Hannah Whitten and Rebecca Ross, Unbound is a gender bent re-imagining of the classic tale of a monstrous beast and the beauty determined to tame it, set against the lush backdrop of Irish mythology and folklore.
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Fathomfolk
by Eliza Chan
From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of Tiankawi, perfect for fans of Jade City and The Bone Shard Daughter. Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears.
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The Tusks of Extinction
by Ray Nayler
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
Queen Sabran fights off assassination attempts to continue her ruling line and is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war.
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Song of the Huntress
by Lucy Holland
Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld. But years pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead. Cursed to wield his blade, she becomes Lord of the Hunt. Until the night she meets a woman on a bloody battlefield--the Saxon Queen Æthelburg of Wessex. The moment she and Æthel meet, Herla knows it's no coincidence. The Otherworld seeks to rise, to bring the people of Britain under its dominion. And as Herla and Æthel grow closer, Herla must find her humanity--and a way to break the curse--before it's too late.
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The Honey Witch
by Sydney J. Shields
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a skeptic who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
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Redsight
by Meredith Mooring
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her Order. As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium ship, Korinna's full destiny is revealed to her: blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the ship is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna's world is ripped apart.
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Floating Hotel
by Grace Curtis
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. Each guest has a secret. At the center of these interweaving lives and interlocking mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel. It's the love of his life and the only place he's ever called home. But as forces beyond Carl's comprehension converge on the Abeona, he has to face one final question: when is it time to let go?
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Translation State
by Ann Leckie
With the long-stranding treaty between humans and the dangerous alien Presger on the line, three individuals—Qvwn, a rebellious AI; Enae, a reluctant diplomat; and Reet, an adopted mechanic—make decisions that have ripple effects across the stars.
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The Mars House
by Natasha Pulley
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
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Faebound
by Saara El-arifi
Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the hidden world of the fae where danger, and love, lie in wait. Faebound is the first book in an enchanting new trilogy from the internationally bestselling author of The Final Strife.
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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
by Sofia Samatar
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out amongst the stars. His whole world changes when he is yanked "upstairs" to meet the woman he will come to call "professor." He has been gifted an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite.Together, the boy and the woman will learn from each other to grasp the design of the chains designed to fetter them both, and are the key to breaking free. They will embark on a transformation--and redesign the entire world.
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep
by Sylvie Cathrall
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries.
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Silver Under Nightfall
by Rin Chupeco
As the Rot plagues the kingdom, Remy Pendergast, the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne—and an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires—must decide where his loyalties lie when he joins two vampires in their quest to find the truth about this mutating virus—and develops complicated feelings for them.
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Sun of Blood and Ruin
by Mariely Lares
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro--featuring a heroic warrior sorceress--weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.
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An Education in Malice
by S. T. Gibson
Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor. But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
A novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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The Jasmine Throne
by Tasha Suri
When Malini, trapped in Hirana, an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters, witnesses her servant's true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled— and the course of a kingdom is forever changed.
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The Splinter in the Sky
by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
When her lover is assassinated and her sibling is kidnapped by Imperial solders, Enitan, using her fledgling tea business as cover, moves undetected through the Vaalbaran capital where she will learn just how far she'll go to exact vengeance, free her sibling and secure her homeland's freedom.
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Masquerade
by O. O. Sangoyomi
Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale of the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery in a patriarchal society, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djèlí Clark
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.
Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins.
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The Fifth Season
by N. K Jemisin
A first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
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House of Flame and Shadow
by Sarah J. Maas
The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath.
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