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Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic NovelFebruary 2024 |
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The Sunlit Man : A Cosmere Novel by Brandon SandersonLanding 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 off world before he pays the ultimate price.
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Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita BlackburnDiscovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
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Parasol Against the Axe by Helen OyeyemiIn Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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Bride by Ali HazelwoodMisery Lark, daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest must abandonee her cloaked existence among humans and uphold a historic alliance with the Weres by marrying their Alpha, Lowe Moreland.
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The Bezzle by Cory DoctorowMartin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant stumbles upon the ultra-wealthy's newest mark, California's Department of Corrections, discovers they will stop at nothing to extract money from the government and the thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy.
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A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. JensenAfter 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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Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely LaresIn 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule—and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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Big Time by Ben H. WintersThe 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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The Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardVying for a coveted seat on the Conseil, 16-year-old Odile, who lives in an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, discovers her friend Edme is about to die, and sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, instead finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy.
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Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig RiceWhen a community of Anishinaabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors.
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Lore of the Wilds : a novel by Analeigh SbranaWhen her village is threatened, 21-year-old Lore makes a devil's bargain with a Fae lord and must catalog an enchanted library that hasn't been touched in a thousand years, but with the hostile world outside, she is forced to rely on two very dangerous Fae males to survive.
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Island Witch by Amanda JayatissaAmara, the daughter of a 19th century Sri Lankan village's demon-priest is accused of witchcraft and must clear her and her father's names after someone or something begins mysteriously attacking men in the jungle.
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River Mumma by Zalika Reid-bentaWhen the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover herself and what the river carries.
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Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah JohnsonWhen mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the enter world.
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The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn KisteThree childhood friends miraculously survive the night when everyone in their suburban hometown turns into ghosts.
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Remedial Magic by Melissa MarrIntrigued by the beautiful, too properly dressed woman in her library who has appeared as if out of nowhere, librarian Ellie finds the pull between them undeniable, but unbeknownst to Ellie, the woman, a powerful witch, has come to awaken Ellie's powers to help save her dying homeland.
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