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Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2021
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City of Golden Shadow
by Tad Williams
Otherland... Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nighmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource--its children.
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Beneath the Keep: A Novel of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
What it is: a prequel to the bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy, which examines life in the feudal Tearling Kingdom.
Featuring: Princess Elyssa, mother of series protagonist Kelsea; Lazarus, who will play an important role in events to come; and members of the nascent Blue Horizon rebel group.
Is it for you? Human misery abounds in the Tearling, including but not limited to slavery, child abuse, and human trafficking.
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The queen's bargain
by Anne Bishop
Needing to marry quickly to restore his tarnished reputation, Lord Dillon pursues a relationship with young Eyrien witch Jillian, whose true connections pit him against a volatile Warlord Prince of Ebon Rih. By the award-winning author of the Ephemera series.
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A court of silver flames
by Sarah J. Maas
"Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms"
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Ghost money
by Stephen Blackmoore
When the barrier separating the dead from the living cracks, which causes innocent people to die, necromancer Eric Carter must revisit a past that he thought he was done with when another mage turns ghosts into deadly weapons.
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Into the light
by David Weber
In a follow-up to Out of the Dark, the survivors of a conquered Earth rapidly rebuild using left-behind technology, including a powerful spaceship that vengeful blood drinkers commandeer with intent to destroy the Shongairi homeworld.
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Focus on: Post-Apocalyptic |
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Hawk
by James Patterson
Growing up hard and fast in gritty, post-apocalyptic New York City, 17-year-old Hawk, a teen who is not aware of her relation to Max, gives up her search for her biological family before realizing that she is being targeted by an assassin. 250,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The power : a novel
by Naomi Alderman
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death
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Pure
by Julianna Baggott
In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm
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Ashes of the earth : a mystery of post-apocalyptic America
by Eliot Pattison
In a post-apocalyptic world, Hadrian Boone, a fallen founder of the colony of Carthage, joins forces with a police woman to investigate the camps of outcasts in the hopes of discovering who murdered the colony's leading scientist.
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