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T Books & Bites Bingo: Books with Magic December 2023 |
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This month, we're focusing on books with magic, one of the squares on the Books & Bites Bingo card. Don't forget to turn in your card by Dec. 30. If you blacked out your card, you can enter to win a $125 Joseph-Beth gift card or a Kindle Paperwhite. You'll also receive an enamel Books & Bites pin. Visit jesspublib.org/books-bites for more info about Books & Bites Bingo and to download the bingo card. Info about next year's bingo is coming soon! |
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Hex Life : wicked new tales of witchery
by Christopher Golden
Eighteen tales of witchcraft from the mistresses of magic! Featuring brand-new stories written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon. These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today's women you should fear. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions!
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Sourdough : a novel
by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for a company that programs robotic arms, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop. It's a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses the magic of food with technology. By the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
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The darkest part of the forest
by Holly Black
Living in a town where humans and fae live side by side, Hazel and her brother, Ben, confront memories of heroism, shifting loyalties, and stinging betrayals when a boy who has been sleeping for decades awakens in his glass coffin.
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The house in the cerulean sea
by TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.
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Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries
by Heather Fawcett
A Cambridge professor, scholar, and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.
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The ballad of perilous graves
by Alex Jennings
In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this vibrant and imaginative debut contemporary fantasy.
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Palmares
by Gayl Jones
Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband lost in battle. Her story brings to life a world impacted by greed, conquest, and colonial desire. She encounters a mad lexicographer, desperate to avoid military service; a village that praises a god living in a nearby cave; and a medicine woman who offers great magic, at a greater price.
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Practical magic
by Alice Hoffman
Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a two-hundred-year-old family legacy they both try to escape--one through marriage, the other through running away--until they realize that their magic is a gift, rather than an affliction.
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem..
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Bestiary : a novel
by K-Ming Chang
One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her neighbor, a girl named Ben with mysterious powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies an old Taiwanese myth--and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny.
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The blacktongue thief
by Christopher Buehlman
When he tries to rob Galva, a knight and handmaiden of the goddess of death, thief Kinch Na Shannack finds their fates intertwined as they, due to common enemies, embark on an epic journey where honor is a luxury few can afford.
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Books & Bites Book Club Wednesday, Jan. 17, 4:00 p.m. Connect with other book lovers in our no-pressure book club! JCPL librarians will provide lists of recommended books. We'll also discuss your recent favorites. Books & Bites Podcast
Books & Bites Facebook Group |
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Jessamine County Public Library
600 South Main Street, Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356
(859) 885-3523www.jesspublib.org |
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