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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Horror June 2018
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The Emerald Circus
by Jane Yolen
A first full collection in more than a decade by the Caldecott and Science Fiction Poetry Grand Master Award-winning author of Owl Moon reimagines the adventures of famous literary figures, from a Dorothy who returns to Kansas as a gymnastic sophisticate to a Wendy who leads a labor strike against the Lost Boys.
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How to stop time
by Matt Haig
A man with a secret rare condition that has enabled him to survive for centuries moves to London to become a high-school history teacher and considers defying his protective guardians' rule against falling in love when he becomes entranced by a captivating colleague. By the best-selling author of Reasons to Stay Alive.
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Beneath the sugar sky
by Seanan McGuire
Arriving with a splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, Rini is informed that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was conceived, a baffling revelation that Rini is forced to come to terms with in order to save the world. By the Hugo Award-winning author of the InCryptid series.
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The city of lost fortunes
by Bryan Camp
Maintaining a low profile in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, a street magician who inherited an ability to find lost things from his superhuman father, is drawn back into the world by the murder of a Fortune god to whom he owes a debt, an event that exposes a plot that threatens the city's soul. A first novel.
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The Armored Saint
by Myke Cole
Opposing the Order at great risk to herself, her family and her village, Heloise tries to expose the true risk that wizards pose to the world in the first book of a trilogy by the author of the Shadow Ops series.
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The shape of water
by Guillermo del Toro
The famed director of Pan's Labyrinth and a celebrated author combine their talents to craft an otherworldly story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America, in which an amphibious man is discovered in the Amazon—and subsequently finds love within the human race, in a tale that inspired the film starring Octavia Spencer.
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Queens of Innis Lear
by Tessa Gratton
An epic adult fantasy inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear depicts a once-bountiful isle decimated by a prophecy-obsessed king's erratic decisions, where three rival princesses use respective approaches to prepare for a war that will determine their realm's leadership and survival. By the author of the Gods of New Asgard series.
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Child of a mad god
by R. A. Salvatore
A first entry in a series by the best-selling author of Archmage follows the story of a witch's young daughter, born under a fateful Blood Moon, who finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians.
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Heart on fire
by Amanda Bouchet
Forced to unleash the power she’s been afraid of when her magic refuses to work like it should, Catalia Fisa, the future Queen of Thalyria, at war with her homicidal mother, must accept her fate when her misuse of the God’s gifts lands her in Tartarus, a land reserved for eternal punishment.
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New Science Fiction Reads
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The strange bird : a Borne story
by Jeff VanderMeer
Built in a laboratory, a creature that is part bird, part human and part other things endures the betrayal of its scientist designers and escapes into a world of hostile wildlife and the technological detritus of a civilization in decline before finding itself in the company of a collapsed biotech firm's successful and failed experiments. Original.
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Semiosis
by Sue Burke
Human colonists are forced to survive on limited resources on a planet with an inexplicable environment, where trees offer deliciously addictive fruit one day and poison the next and the ruins of an alien race are discovered within plant roots.
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Dark state
by Charles Stross
As two nuclear superpowers clash across timelines, Rita, a new spy and the estranged daughter of Commissioner Burgeson, must deal with an activated sleeper cell, in the second novel of the series following Empire Games.
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Red clocks : a novel
by Leni Zumas
Five women—including a high school teacher, a biographer, a frustrated mom, a pregnant adopted teen 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-day witch hunt. By the author of The Listeners. 50,000 first printing.
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The infinite future
by Tim Wirkus
An obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel writer and a Mormon historian embark on a search for a mystical, life-changing book about the true nature of the universe, and experience weird, out-of-this world paradigm shifts when they find it. By the award-winning author of City of Brick and Shadow.
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Binti : the night masquerade
by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti returns to her home planet to find the bloody conflict between the Meduse and the Khoush continues, and she, with the help of her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, must try to prevent an all-out war that could wipe out her people once and for all
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The hunger : a novel
by Alma Katsu
A supernatural reimagining of the Donner Party story follows a group of wagon-train pioneers who navigate sanity-testing misfortunes, including the mysterious death of a little boy and a series of disappearances that cause a beautiful member of the group to be accused of witchcraft. By the author of The Taker.
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Unbury Carol
by Josh Malerman
A woman prone to secret temporary comas that make her appear to be dead receives protection from a redemption-seeking former lover who would save her from being buried alive by her fortune-hunting husband. By the best-selling author of Bird Box
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The Outsider
by Stephen King
An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson and the district attorney are able to add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. But Maitland has an alibi, and it turns out his story has incontrovertible evidence of its own. How can two opposing stories be true?
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Ramses the damned : the passion of Cleopatra
by Anne Rice
Reawakened in turn-of-the-20th-century England, Ramses the Second and Cleopatra must face a ruler more ancient and powerful than either of them if they are ever going to discover the origins of the Elixer of Life that brought them back from the dead. By the best-selling authors of The Mummy or Ramses the Damned. Original.
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The Listener by Robert McCammon1934. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans.
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