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Thursday, May 18 The library will open at 10:00 am on Thursday, May 18, due to a staff meeting. Sunday, May 28 The library will be closed on Sunday, May 28 and all Sundays through September 3. Monday, May 29 The library will be closed on Monday, May 29 in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.
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Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula
by Valdimar Ásmundsson
A first English translation of a newly discovered, Icelandic adaptation of Stoker's classic Dracula novel, titled Makt Myrkranna, includes an original author preface, new characters and a completely reworked plot that incorporates additional suspense and eroticism.
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| Gather Her Round: A Novel of the Tufa by Alex BledsoeContemporary Fantasy. Not long after Cloud County resident Kera Rogers disappears, her half-eaten body is found in the woods near Needsville, Tennessee. Was she attacked by feral hogs? Murdered by a spurned lover? Or is there a less mundane explanation? After all, Needsville is the home of the Tufa, an insular group rumored to be descended from the fair folk. The discovery of a second victim, one of Kera's boyfriends, prompts an investigation by game warden Jack Cates and Tufa military veteran Bronwyn Chess. Imagine Charles de Lint's Newford series but with the plotting of an Appalachian murder ballad and you've got Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels, beginning with The Hum and the Shiver. |
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Silence Fallen
by Patricia Briggs
Rendered a pawn against werewolf Adam and the Tri-Cities vampires, Mercy flees her captor and struggles to recruit allies while avoiding activities that could cause an interspecies war. By the best-selling author of Fire Touched.
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Miranda and Caliban
by Jacqueline Carey
Historical Fantasy. Miranda lives on an island with her magician father Prospero, whose lust for power and obsession with revenge make him a less-than-attentive parent. Alone and lonely, Miranda befriends a strange boy named Caliban, the orphaned son of the witch Sycorax. As they grow up, their friendship turns to romance, inciting the ire of Prospero and setting in motion a series of events that can only end in tragedy. Readers who enjoy a lush and richly detailed tale of star-crossed lovers will want to check out this retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest by the author of the Kushiel's Legacy series.
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| Game of Shadows by Erika LewisCeltic Fantasy. On his 15th birthday, Ethan Makkai learns that his entire life is a lie. Living in Los Angeles with his overprotective mother, he has always believed that she's an undocumented Irish immigrant and that their biggest worry is deportation. The truth, of course, is much stranger: they're fugitives from Tara, the hidden continent to which the Celtic gods and goddesses fled after losing an ancient war. When Ethan's mother is kidnapped, Ethan must travel to Tara to rescue her. This debut novel reimagines Celtic myth and legend to tell a compelling coming-of-age story that may appeal to fans of James Treadwell's Advent trilogy. |
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The Song Rising: A Novel
by Samantha Shannon
Dark Fantasy. Once a prisoner in Sheol I, now Underqueen of the criminal syndicate known as the Mime Order, "dreamwalker" Paige Mahoney leads the clairvoyants of London in an uprising against the authoritarian Scion government, which has intensified its efforts to exterminate them. Rephaite allies known as the Ranthen have pledged their support, but can Paige afford to place her trust in supernatural beings that view clairvoyants as prey? The Song Rising is the 3rd book in a projected seven-volume series. Given the intricacy of the world-building and the complexity of the plot, newcomers are advised to start at the beginning with The Bone Season, followed by The Mime Order.
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Spymaster
by Margaret Weis
Pirates from the warring Rosian and Freyan empires continuing preying on each other’s ships, unaware that they are being controlled by a sinister cabal, in the first book of a new series set in the world of the Dragon Brigade trilogy.
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Magical Coming-of-Age Stories
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| Thorn Jack: A Night and Nothing Novel by Katherine HarbourContemporary Fantasy. Haunted by her older sister's suicide, Serafina “Finn” Sullivan moves with her father to Fair Hollow, a tiny town in upstate New York. Attending a local college, Finn meets the enigmatic Jack Fata (with whom she falls in love) and his strange, insular family, who unsettle her for reasons she cannot quite articulate. Based on the Scottish ballad Tam Lin, this opening installment of the Night and Nothing trilogy may appeal to fans of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, another version of the tale set at a small liberal arts college. |
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| Roses and Rot by Kat HowardContemporary Fantasy. Having grown up with a parent who rivals any wicked stepmother, sisters Imogen and Marin are understandably obsessed with fairy tales, which inform their present-day careers as a writer and a dancer, respectively. Having lived apart since adolescence, the once-close siblings are reunited when both women are accepted to Melete, a prestigious artist's colony that seems too good to be true. And it is, of course, though neither woman could have ever imagined the darkness concealed beneath the colony's idyllic facade. For another fantasy novel that uses folklore to explore sisterly bonds, try Krassi Zourkova's Wildalone. |
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| Among Others by Jo WaltonFantasy. After the death of her twin sister, 14-year-old Morwenna, or "Mori," flees her unstable mother and her Welsh hometown to live with the father she barely knows -- and never will, since he immediately packs her off to a boarding school in the English countryside. Grief-stricken and friendless, Mori takes refuge in books, eventually meeting others who share her interests in fantasy and science fiction. But Mori can't avoid her past forever. Unfolding in the form of a diary, Among Others is both a coming-of-age story full of magic and a love letter to literature that fans of Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock may enjoy. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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