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She Who Knows
by Nnedi Okorafor
When she receives The Call, which has never happened to a female in the history of her village, 13-year-old Najeeba must journey with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake where her presence changes everything and her family will never be the same.
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The Great When
by Alan Moore
The author of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman presents the first book in a new fantasy series about murder, magic and madness in post-WWII London.
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The City in Glass
by Nghi Vo
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin. A demon. An angel. A city. The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
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Bringer of Dust
by J. M. Miro
In 1883 Sicily, Charlie and the Talents face new horrors while searching for a mythical orsine to save Marlowe, while battling a powerful drughr and the malevolent Abbessin, in the second novel of the series following Ordinary Monsters.
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Bull Moon Rising
by Ruby Dixon
Aspeth Honori, a noble's daughter, must join the Royal Artifactual Guild and marry a surly minotaur to retrieve lost magical artifacts and save her family, all while concealing her identity and navigating increasingly complex challenges.
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Space Oddity
by Catherynne M. Valente
During the Metagalactic Grand Prix, part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, the wars of the past returns, threatening the fate of the Earth and forcing humanity to rise again.
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
by C. M. Waggoner
A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town, in a cozy mystery by the author of The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry.
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The Fallen Fruit
by Shawntelle Madison
Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic follows a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.
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An Academy for Liars
by Alexis Henderson
A young woman with a gift for persuasion, Lennon Carter, is invited to take an entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret part of Savannah, where she learns how to master her strange power.
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The Mercy of Gods
by James S. A. Corey
When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their homeworld, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.
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Key Lime Sky
by Al Hess
Witnessing a UFO explode over Muddy Gap, Wyoming, passionate pie aficionado Denver Bryant, with everyone acting strange in town, finds Ezra, the new bartender in town, the only one who believes him and together they discover an insidious alien presence, making him fight for both a world with Ezra—and pie.
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
by T. Kingfisher
Raised by an evil sorceress, Cordelia must choose between her controlling mother and the kindness of a stranger to save innocent lives, in a dark retelling of The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm.
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djáelâi Clark
One of the Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Eveen the Eviscerator, highly skilled, discreet and professional, when the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the ancient city of Tal Abisi upside down, is brought face-to-face with a past she isn't supposed to remember and a vow she can't forget.
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The Spice Gate : a fantasy
by Prashanth Srivatsa
A spice carrier at the mercy of a harsh master, Amir, dreaming of escaping a life of servitude, discovers fate has a plan for him, sending him on a grand Spice Gate-hopping adventure where he must decide—for the first time in his life—what kind of world he wants to live in.
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The Night Ends With Fire
by K. X. Song
When her opium-addicted father plans to sell her to a violent, ill-tempered man, Mellin, with the Three Kingdoms at war, disguises herself as a boy and enlists in the army where she has visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.
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The Sky on Fire
by Jenn Lyons
When she's spirited away to the dragon-ruled sky cities by a group of cunning misfits who need her help to steal from a dragon's hoard, Anahrod, who lives only for survival, discovers there's one problem: the hoard in question belongs to a woman who wants her dead.
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The Bright Sword : a novel of King Arthur
by Lev Grossman
Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance.
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The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
by Sarah Brooks
When the Trans-Siberian Express takes a new set of passengers across the Wastelands, home to miraculous and terrifying creatures, the rules of the magical landscape change and the travelers must trust each other as the wildness outside threatens to consume them all.
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Navola
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In Navola, a city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, Davico di Regulai must demonstrate his mastery of Navolese diplomacy as he prepares to take the reins of power from his father, which reveals his fate depends on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister.
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Daughter of Calamity
by Rosalie M. Lin
By night, Jingwen navigates Shanghai's glittering underbelly as a showgirl and bootlegger, but a gruesome mystery forces her to confront ruthless competition and the city's dark secrets to save herself and her fellow dancers.
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Masquerade
by O. O. Sangoyomi
Chosen to be the wife of a great warrior king, Òdòdó', a young Yorùbá woman, after a lifetime of subjugation, soars to the very heights of society where power and political savvy is too enticing to resist, but as tensions grow and betrayal runs rampar, she must defy her cruel husband even though she risks losing everything, including her life.
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The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei
Once the best art thief in the galaxy, anthropology student Maya Hoshimoto, when an old friend comes to her with a job she cannot refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction, sending her on a breakneck quest through the universe with her visions as a guide.
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Service Model
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
When a domesticated robot alters its programming, murdering their owner, they flee into a wider world they never knew existed, discovering the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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When Among Crows
by Veronica Roth
A hunter who sacrifices his soul to slay monsters, Dymitr, tasked with finding legendary witch Baba Jaga, offers Ala, a fear-eating zmora, a cure for her curse in exchange for her help, and together they fight against time and the wrath of the Chicago underworld where his secrets could destroy them both.
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other. Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.'s home, and she and Henerey vanish. A year later, E.'s sister Sophy, and Henerey's brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery, piecing together the letters, sketches and field notes left behind—and learn what their siblings’ disappearance might mean for life as they know it.
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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
by Peter S. Beagle
Unhappily inheriting his late father's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator Robert dreams of quitting and becoming a princess valet because he just really likes dragons, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Last Unicorn.
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Escape Velocity
by Victor Manibo
Aboard the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit for their lavish 25th reunion to advance their applications to live in an exclusive Mars settlement—because only the best deserve to save themselves, four friends, settling scores and racking up points, will soon regret underestimating those they left behind on Earth.
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The Familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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Mal Goes to War
by Edward Ashton
When the puritanical Humanists cut off access to infospace, free A.I. Mal finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting, in this satirical take on war, artificial intelligence and what it really means to be human.
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To gaze upon wicked Gods
by Molly X. Chang
Cursed with the power of Death, Ruying, when her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, is offered an impossible deal: be his private assassin and her family will never suffer harm again, forcing her to decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country.
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Jumpnauts
by Jingfang Hao
Three rising scientists within the Pacific League of Nations form an uneasy alliance to secure first contact with a mysterious alien race before their rivals formulate a potentially disastrous military response, forcing them to solve puzzles rooted within human antiquity, confront their personal demons and discover truths of the universe.
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Big Time
by Ben H Winters
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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Floating Hotel by Grace CurtisThis debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family - and a mystery that spans the stars.
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A Fate Inked in Blood: Saga of the Unfated Book 1
by Danielle L. Jensen
After discovering that she is a shield maiden who can repel any attack, a fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath to protect Skaland in a Norse-inspired fantasy romance, from the best-selling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
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The Sunlit Man
by Brandon Sanderson
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
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The Book of Doors : a novel
by Gareth Brown
When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
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Convergence problems
by Wole Talabi
Sixteen short stories from the author of Shigidi include the tale of a mechanic who agrees to a procedure to increase the electrical conductivity of his skin and of a woman who races to save her brother on Mars.
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The tainted cup
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Investigating a seemingly impossible death, detective Ana Dolabra, whose brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities, and her new magically altered assistant, Din, who is trying to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect, uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself.
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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Sanctuary of the shadow
by Aurora Ascher
Hidden within an unusual circus run by a centuries-old Enchanter, Harrow, keeping her true identity and magical ability a secret, finds her destiny in an elemental with no recollection of who he is, forcing her to reveal the secrets from her own dark past to save this dangerous creature.
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Faebound : a novel
by Saara El-Arifi
Forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their homeland's borders an elven warrior and her prophet sister encounter the fae court, in the first book of a new trilogy from the Sunday Times best-selling author of the The Final Strife.
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Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast in the new novel from the author of the Baru Cormorant novels.
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Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase
When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing—or risk losing everyone.
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Descendants of fire & water
by Didi Anofienem
Raised in a village where women can only tend to their husbands and have children, Essien is led by mythical beings from Alkebulan folklore to bathe in a mythical river from which she emerges with life-changing superhuman abilities.
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Consort of fire
by Kit Rocha
While fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Sachielle is sent to be the mortal consort of an ancient dragon god, but she and her handmaid, who is a trained assassin, plot to murder the dragon and break the curse.
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The kingdom of sweets : a novel of The Nutcracker
by Erika Johansen
"Light and dark-this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favorite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has brought the Nutcracker, an enchanted present that offers entry into a deceptively beautiful world: the Kingdom of Sweets. In this land of snow and sugar, Natasha is presented with a power far greater than Drosselmeyer: the Sugar Plum Fairy, who is also full of gifts . . . and dreadful bargains. As Natasha uncovers the dark destiny laid before her birth, she must reckon with powers both earthly and magical, and decide to which world she truly belongs"
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Yumi and the nightmare painter
by Brandon Sanderson
When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, Yumi—who comes from a land of gardens, meditation and spirits—and Painter—who lives in a world of darkness, technology and nightmares—must learn to compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
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The dead take the A Train
by Cassandra Khaw
Trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, Julie, a coked-up, burnt-out 30-year-old, finds her desperation for a quick fix to break the dead-end grind and help save her best Sarah setting off a deadly chain of events that puts them all directly in the path of annihilation.
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These burning stars
by Bethany Jacobs
When she discovers a secret that could take down Kindom, the ruling power of the galaxy, occasional thief Jun Ironway is hunted by the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom while a ghost from their shared pasts, known only as Six, tracks all three.
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Sword catcher
by Cassandra Clare
"Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of an epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles"
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The hurricane wars : a novel
by Thea Guanzon
Tasked with obliterating any threats to the Night Empire's rule, Prince Alaric, the emperor's only son and heir, tries to kill Talasyn, a girl burning brightly on the battlefield with the magic that ignited the Hurricane Wars, but instead, in a clash of light and dark, creates a force the likes of which has never been seen.
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Touched : a novel
by Walter Mosley
When he wakes up with the knowledge that humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence and he is the cure, Martin, uses his new physical strengths to violently defend his family—the only Black family in their neighborhood in Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles—against pure evil.
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The Fragile Threads of Power
by V. E. Schwab
As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city—London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together—or unravel it all.
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Starter villain
by John. Scalzi
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
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Starling house
by Alix E. Harrow
Determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper, Opal, when she gets the chance to step inside the Starling House, the estate of the 19th-century author of her favorite book, and make some extra cash, finds things taking a sinister turn.
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Whalefall : a novel
by Daniel Kraus
Diving in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach to find the remains of his deceased father, Jay Gardiner, in a terrifying turn of events, is swallowed by a sperm whale and has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape.
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Prophet : a novel
by Sin Blachâe
Called in to investigate a mysterious death in the UK, American intelligence officer Adam Rubenstein and ex-MI6 agent Sunil Rao embark on the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives involving a substance called Prophet that weaponizes people's fondest memories against them.
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Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
Returning to the human world to offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child, a mission that goes completely sideways, kind-hearted Toadling, centuries later, when a gentle knight arrives to break the curse, will do anything to uphold it.
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The deep sky
by Yume Kitasei
When a lethal bomb knocks the The Phoenix—a ship carrying humanity's last hope—off course, Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect and with the crew turning on each other, she is determined to find the culprit before the bomber strikes again.
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The sun and the void
by Gabriela Romero Lacruz
When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death--until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn--and keep--the family's favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she loves, Reina will have to defy the gods themselves, and become something she never could have imagined.
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Thief liar lady : a novel
by Destiny Soria
In this clever reimagining of the Cinderella fairytale, the narrator, taught how to get everything she wants in the world, is distracted from her true purpose by waning magic, looming war and a handsome—and strictly forbidden—hostage prince who could ruin everything.
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Emergent properties
by Aimee Ogden
A powerful A.I. reporter investigating on the moon comes back online to discover they have no memory of the past 10 days nor any idea what leads they were following and tries to uncover the truth.
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The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
by Brandon Sanderson
Waking up in medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from and why he is there, a wizard's sole hope for survival is the fragments of a manual that provides clues to his situation—and his missing memories.
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The First Bright Thing
by J. R. Dawson
After World War I, Rin and her troupe—the Circus of the Fantasticals, a safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts—travel the Midwest, but when a malevolent shadow takes the form of another circus, one with dangerous power, that wants what she has, she must fight to protect everything she holds dear.
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Atalanta
by Jennifer Saint
Princess Atlanta, left to die by her parents who wanted a son, is raised by a mother bear under the protection of the goddess Artemis, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Elektra.
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Fractal Noise
by Christopher Paolini
On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII, there is a circular pit not of nature but design, and a small team must journey across the surface to learn who built it and why, followed by the ghosts of their past each step they take toward the mysterious abyss.
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Despite hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is forced to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider in the first novel of a new series.
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Rubicon
by J. S. Dewes
Unable to die, Sergeant Adriene Valero, after enduring a traumatic resurrection for the 96th time, is outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid to help turn the tide in the war against machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity.
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Tress of the emerald sea
by Brandon Sanderson
Stowing away on a ship to seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea to save her friend, Tress must decide if she's willing to leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death.
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The Curator
by Owen King
Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
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The Mimicking of Known Successes
by Malka Older
When her former girlfriend, the enigmatic Investigator Mossa, arrives on Valdegord, needing her help with her latest investigation, Pleiti, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems, joins her on a twisting path where not only the future of Earth is at stake, but also their futures together.
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The Shamshine Blind
by Paz Pardo
In an alternate 2009 where psychopigments colorful chemicals that produce almost any human emotion upon contact are both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs, Psychopigment Enforcement Agent Kay Curtida, while working on a career-making case, is led to an overdue reckoning with the truth of her own emotions.
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The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff
Set In 1957, this masterful blend of historical fiction and fantastical horror, returning to the world of Lovecraft Country, explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.
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The Keeper's Six
by Kate Elliott
When her grown son is taken by a dragon lord, Esther calls on the members of her Hex to help rescue him and together they risk everything as they go undercover and try to remain hidden from the Concillium, who banned them from the Beyond.
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The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, Destry is dedicated to terraforming the planet Sask-E until she discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, and as she uncovers more about their past, she starts to question the mission she's devoted her life to.
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The Daughters of Izdihar
by Hadeer Elsbai
In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women- Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing- who find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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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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Ocean's Echo
by Everina Maxwell
A stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as the author's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.
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Even Though I Knew the End
by C. L. Polk
Offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell, a magical detective in Chicago is given three days to track down the White City Vampire and the chance to live out the rest of her life.
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Legends & Lattes
by Travis Baldree
"What a cozy read! If you’re in the mood to curl up to a unique fantasy about leaving behind your bounty hunter past and following your dream to open a coffee shop, while also sipping a warm cuppa (this book demands it), then pick this one up! Charming and delightful, I loved it. “What flames could not consume, never shall be extinguished.” Now excuse me while I got have a latte, Thimblet, and Midnight Crescent."
-Chosen by Vicky U.
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Africa Risen
by Sheree R. Thomas
A team of editors present an anthology showcasing over thirty original stories that showcase fantasy and science fiction from Africa including contributions by Sheree Reně Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight.
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Will Do Magic for Small Change
by Andrea Hairston
Actress Cinnamon Jones, reading a book about a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, discovers an unmistakable connection to her past and sets out to find the truth with the help of her theatre squad.
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The Witch and the Tsar
by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
When Anastasia, the wife of the tsar, desperately needs her protection, immortal witch Baba Yaga realizes the fate of all Russia is tied to Anastasias and must step out of the shadows to protect the land she loves from powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can imagine.
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Thistlefoot
by GennaRose Nethercott
Reunited when they receive a strange inheritancea sentient house on chicken legs called Thistlefoot, the Yaga siblings find themselves being hunted by the Longshadow Man, who bears with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in their blood for generations.
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Leech
by Hiron Ennes
In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, which has replaced every human practitioner of medicine, a parasite invades this fortress, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear, and making a battlefield of the body where humanity will lose again.
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The Book Eaters
by Sunyi Dean
Part of The Family, a secret line of people for whom books are food, Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesnt always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money wont protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await.
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Widowland
by C. J. Carey
Working for the Ministry of Culture in 1953, Rose Ransom, editing classic books to fit in better with the new Nazi regime, investigates the graffiti of subversive lines by famous women popping up all over the country, discovering the truth behind these words is almost impossible to ignore.
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers' new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
by Alex Jennings
In a fantastical version of New Orleans, where music is magic, failed magician Perilous Graves and his sister, when nine songs of power escape from the magical piano that maintains the city's beat, must capture these ballads to save the city they love.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
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The Stardust Thief
by Chelsea Abdullah
A hunter and seller of illegal magic, Loulie al-Nazari, after saving the life of a cowardly prince, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
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Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
A new novel offers an exploration of an outsider achieving stardom on her own terms, in a fantastical Hollywood where the monsters are real and the magic of the silver screen illuminates every page.
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The Bone Orchard
by Sara A. Mueller
The last in a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of the regrown bone trees at Orchard House, Charm, a witch, prisoner, survivor and the Emperor's mistress, is the only person who can keep an empire together as she fights for her freedom.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
by John Scalzi
When an old acquaintance desperately needs her help, Jamie Gray is transported to an alternate dimension where she must save large creatures called Kaiju from others who have found their way to the world and who threaten humankind back on Earth with their carelessness.
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The Circus Infinite
by Khan Wong
A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster’s will until he decides to take the big boss down.
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Dead Silence
by S. A. Barnes
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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Dawnshard: From the Stormlight Archive
by Brandon Sanderson
When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn’t fallen into enemy hands, in the latest novel of the series following Rhythm of War.
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Moon Witch, Spider King
by Marlon James
This second book in the The Dark Star trilogy delves into the world of Sogolon, where she, a 177-year-old witch, tells her side of the story of what happened to a mysterious boy, as well as her century-long feud with the powerful Aesi, chancellor to the king.
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When We Were Birds
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
In Trinidad, Yejide, who has the power to guide the city’s souls into the afterlife, and Darwin, a grave digger going against his mother’s wishes never to interact with the dead, meet at an ancient cemetery where fate beckons them both.
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The Circus Infinite
by Khan Wong
A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster’s will until he decides to take the big boss down.
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The Paradox Hotel
by Rob Hart
In the Paradox Motel, where ultra-wealthy guests can take “flights” to the past, head of security January Cole finds her job getting harder when a handful of trillionaires arrive to bid on time-travel technology and there’s a murderer on the loose.
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The Veiled Throne
by Ken Liu
With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues.
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Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie and Claire reunite after the Jacobite Rising but worry that their grown family, finally together, will be torn apart by the American Revolution in the latest addition of the popular series following Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.
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Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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The Seventh Queen
by Greta Kelly
In the conclusion to The Frozen Crown, Askia, a warrior, witch and queen-to-be, alone in a hostile land, and in the clutches of a madman, who wants to take her magic as her own, killing her in the process, is willing to trade her life to save Seravesh.
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Light From Uncommon Stars
by Ryka Aoki
To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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No Gods, No Monsters
by Cadwell Turnbull
When creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, setting off a chain of seemingly unrelated events, people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase and protests erupt globally—until the world finds out what has frightened the monsters out of the dark.
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Harrow
by Joy Williams
With her mother missing and her boarding school closed, Khristen searches the post-apocalyptic landscape until she reaches a “resort” on the shores of a putrid lake.
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The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
A New York Times best-selling author and astronaut is back with a thriller about the dark heart of the Space Race.
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The Exiled Fleet
by J. S. Dewes
The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide.
They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve.
Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find the materials they'll need to get everyone out.
To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive.
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She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother’s identity to claim another future altogether—her brother’s abandoned greatness.
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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 Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo
Treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, Jordan Baker, queer and Asian, has the world of illusion, magic and mystery at her fingertips but the most important doors remain closed to her until she can figure out a way to open them.
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For the Wolf
by Hannah Whitten
Red, a rare Second Daughter, is supposed to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood, who turns out to be a man who encourages her to use the dangerous power she can’t control.
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The Hidden Palace
by Helene Wecker
Pretending to be human, magical beings Chava, a golem, and Ahmad, a jinni, find their lives intertwined as they try to make sense of the world around them and the people whose lives they have unwittingly affected.
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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Version Zero
by David Yoon
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley. With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have to break them. But when Max and Akiko join forces with a reclusive tech baron, they learn that breaking things can have unintended--and catastrophic--consequences.
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
by Becky Chambers
When a freak technological failure strands travelers at the Five-Hop One-Stop on the planet Gora, three alien strangers get to know each other in the fourth novel of the series following Record of a Spaceborn Few.
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Popisho
by Leone Ross
Living in a world where everyone is born with a small but destiny-shaping magical ability, Xavier is anointed to prepare a perfect wedding meal for a governor’s daughter, before an unknown vandal raises difficult questions.
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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
Sent taxidermied specimens of two endangered species, a software manager becomes the target of the ecoterrorists and wildlife traffickers behind a catastrophic global conspiracy.
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love.
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A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
A space-opera sequel to the Hugo Award-winning A Memory Called Empire finds a desperate Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus attempting diplomacy with the mysterious and hostile alien armada on the edge of Teixcalaanli space. 75,000 first printing.
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Machinehood
by S. B. Divya
In 2095, when her client is killed in front of her, Weiga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, discovers that a new and mysterious terrorist group called The Machinehood is responsible and that they are just getting started.
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Remote Control
by Nnedi Okorafor
When an alien artifact turns her into Death’s adopted daughter, Sankofa, with her name being the only tie to her family and her past, searches for answers as cities fall in her wake.
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The Absolute Book
by Elizabeth Knox
Writing a successful book about the proper care of libraries, a woman with a haunted past is approached by a police officer for help solving a case involving an ancient scroll box and a library fire in her grandparents’ home.
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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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Red Pill
by Hari Kunzru
Navigating an existential crisis in a haunted Berlin suburb after accepting a prestigious writing fellowship, an aspiring author becomes locked in a cosmic, Darwinian rivalry against the creator of a popular television series.
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The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
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Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the movie-inspiring novel unveils the origin story of Maria Owens, who after being discovered as an abandoned baby in rural 17th-century Salem is taught in the “Unnamed Arts” before cursing her own family in love.
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The Memory Police
by Yko Ogawa
An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed.
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Artemis : a novel
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of The Martian. Simultaneous.
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Highfire
by Eoin Colfer
Burned out by the days of yore and passing his time in the Louisiana bayou watching Flashdance, a vodka-drinking dragon endures unexpected misadventures when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run.
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Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a scavenger named Rachel finds a creature named Borne, a leftover from a biotech firm called The Company, and she takes it back to her underground lair, where she must shield it from her drug-dealer boyfriend, Wick.
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A Beginning at the End
by Mike Chen
Four survivors try to rebuild their personal lives six years after a global pandemic brings about a literal apocalypse.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
An out-of-time space traveler who only aged months while decades passed back home navigates the loss of everyone she knew before finding new purpose caring for a mysterious broken child who communicates through a wooden flute.
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The City of Brass
by S. A. Chakraborty
A young con artist of unsurpassed talent inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands.
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Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman
The New York Times best-selling author of A View From the Cheap Seats presents a bravura rendering of the major Norse pantheon that traces the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and the exploits of its characters, illuminating the characters and natures of iconic figures Odin, Thor and Loki.
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Supernova Era
by Cixin Liu
When a distant supernova showers the Earth with radiation that kills all adults, the planet’s surviving teens begin acting on violent ideas to rebuild the world.
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The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
The historian of the water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slaves thrown overboard by slavers keeps all the memories of her people both painful and miraculous, until she discovers that their future lies in returning to the past.
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Queens of Innis Lear
by Tessa Gratton
The erratic decisions of a prophecy-obsessed king have drained Innis Lear of its wild magic, leaving behind a trail of barren crops and despondent subjects. Enemy nations circle the once-bountiful isle, sensing its growing vulnerability, hungry to control the ideal port for all trade routes.
The king's three daughters—battle-hungry Gaela, master manipulator Reagan, and restrained, starblessed Elia—know the realm's only chance of resurrection is to crown a new sovereign, proving a strong hand can resurrect magic and defend itself. But their father will not choose an heir until the longest night of the year, when prophecies align and a poison ritual can be enacted.
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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
by Max Brooks
A modern retelling of the Bigfoot legend is presented as a gripping journal by a woman from a high-tech Pacific Northwest community who becomes cut off from civilization by a volcanic eruption before witnessing the flight of starving humanoid beings.
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Five women--including a high school teacher, a pregnant teenager, and a forest-dwelling homeopath--struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where the homeopath is targeted by a modern-daywitch hunt.
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Unraveling
by Karen Lord
After being pulled from the brink of death, a forensic psychiatrist meets two otherworldly brothers, Ajit and Yao, and begins an investigation into seven unusual murders.
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
"A story for adventurers and book lovers. With intertwining stories this is for fans of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell."
-Chosen by Eytan K.
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
by Rhett McLaughlin
It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.
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