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Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2024
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| The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine ArdenUpon receiving a message during a séance that her missing soldier brother Freddie is still alive, former army nurse Laura Iven travels from Nova Scotia to Belgium to find him. Parallel narratives follow the siblings' separate quests in this richly detailed, heavily atmospheric World War I-set historical fantasy novel by the author of the Winternight trilogy. Read-alikes: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers; Luanne G. Smith's The Witch's Lens. |
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| The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson BennettTo solve a seemingly impossible crime, detective Ana Dolabra -- brilliant, housebound, and perpetually blindfolded -- must rely on her new assistant, Dinios Kol, a magically enhanced former engraver, in this opening volume of the Shadow of the Leviathan series. You might also like: Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo series; Alexis Hall's The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. |
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| The Book of Doors by Gareth BrownNot long after her favorite customer bequeaths her a mysterious notebook, New York City bookseller Cassie and her best friend Izzy discover that it can transport them to other realms. Now all they have to do is stay one step ahead of the mysterious adversaries who will kill to get their hands on the manuscript. For fans of: Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea; Emma Törz's Ink Blood Sister Scribe; Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January. |
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| Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely LaresTecuani (aka Leonora), the daughter of a Nahua woman and a Spanish nobleman, becomes shapeshifting vigilante "Pantera" and uses her forbidden magic to battle colonizers in this action-packed reimagining of Zorro set in an alternate 16th-century Mexico. For fans of: Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The Sun and the Void; Ehigbor Okosun's Forged by Blood; or the television series Queen of Swords. |
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| River Mumma by Zalika Reid-BentaUnexpectedly tasked with finding Jamaican water guardian River Mumma's missing comb, 26-year-old Toronto resident Alicia embarks on a fantastical quest with apocalyptic stakes. You might also like: Wole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon; Karen Lord's Unraveling; or Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine. |
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| Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig RiceTwelve years after the events of Moon of the Crusted Snow, Anishinaabe man Evan Whitesky and five others from the Shki-dnakiiwin community in Northern Ontario set out on a scouting expedition to their ancestral home near Lake Huron, not knowing what they'll find when they arrive. For fans of: community-focused apocalyptic fiction, such as adrienne maree brown's Black Dawn series. |
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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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