|
Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2018
|
|
|
|
|
Blackfish City
by Sam J Miller
When a climate-wars project involving the construction of a sophisticated floating city in the Arctic Circle begins to succumb to corruption and crime, the arrival of a woman riding an orca at the side of a polar-bear companion brings together four people to stage strategic acts of resistance.
|
|
|
Of blood and bone
by Nora Roberts
Knowing she will have to reveal her identity as The One, Fallon Swift trains under a centuries-old mentor to hone her magical and fighting abilities to defend their world from violent raiders. By the best-selling author of Year One.
|
|
|
Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
What it is: a mash-up of "Rumpelstiltskin" and Russian fairy tales by the author of Uprooted.
Starring: moneylender's daughter Miryam, whose success in turning silver into gold attracts the attention of the icy Staryk, a race of otherworldly creatures.
You might also like: Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy, beginning with The Bear and the Nightingale.
|
|
|
Stealing Life
by Anthony Johnston
In the rough-and-tumble city of Azbatha, where every street hustler has an enchantment in his back pocket, Nicco prides himself on using his skills -- and the best technology money can buy -- to get him into the houses and boardrooms of the wealthy. But Nicco's last job went sour, leaving him in debt to a powerful gang boss, and deep in trouble. When a foreign wizard offers him a vast sum for a visiting diplomat's trinket, he leaps at the opportunity. But nothing happens in a vacuum. Caught in a game where the futures of whole nations are at stake, Nicco finds himself racing against time to right his wrongs... and save his own skin.
|
|
Visit the Library for more great books! |
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contact the Petawawa Public Library at
613-687-2227 | 16 Civic Centre Road, Petawawa, ON, K8H 3H5
|
|
|