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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2018
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Ontario Public Library Week
Sunday, October 14 to Saturday, October 20,
Food for Fines (All Week) -- "The Desk Set" (Monday movie) -- Guess the bookworms (Tuesday) -- Superhero Day (Wednesday) -- "Pop" into the Library (Thursday) -- Spin the Wheel for Prizes (Friday) -- Book Sale and Silent Auction (Saturday 10am to 2pm) Check our online calendar for more details!
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Timeless : A Drizzt Novel
by R. A. Salvatore
A debut entry in a trilogy by the New York Times best-selling author of Maestro continues the story of beloved dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden to reveal the stories of his parents as well as the friendship between Zaknafein and Jarlaxle. 50,000 first printing
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Legion : the many lives of Stephen Leeds
by Brandon Sanderson
A savant with a genius compartmentalized brain is hired to recover a stolen camera capable of photographing the past and discovers information with the potential to upend the world's three major religions. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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| Wild Hunger: An Heirs of Chicagoland Novel by Chloe NeillIntroducing: Elisa Sullivan, the first and only vampire to be born instead of made.
What happens: Following a period of self-imposed exile in Paris, Elisa must return to Chicago to broker peace talks among the different vampire factions.
Series alert: Wild Hunger kicks off the Heirs of Chicagoland series, a spin-off of the Chicagoland Vampires novels. |
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Vengeful
by V. E. Schwab
A conclusion to the story that began with Vicious finds Marcella Riggins targeting the city of Merit while manipulating Victor Vale and Eli Ever into a battle against one another. By the best-selling author of the Shades of Magic series
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| The Power by Naomi AldermanWhat if... women were in charge? Would they create a more just society...or would they electrocute men with their bare hands and establish a matriarchy?
What it is: Framed as historical fiction penned millennia after the balance of power shifts, this thought-provoking novel follows a diverse cast whose abilities transform them from victims to oppressors.
Book buzz: The Power won the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. |
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| The Waking Land by Callie BatesWhat it's about: Lady Elanna Valtai grew up as a hostage in the court of a king who took her to ensure her rebellious father's compliance. Now the prime suspect in the king's murder, Elanna has nowhere to go to but the homeland she's spent her life trying to forget and no one to turn to except the family she's been raised to hate.
Why you might like it: Elanna's transformation from sheltered girl to courageous leader may appeal to fans of Erika Johansen's The Queen of the Tearling. |
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The sound of seas
by Gillian Anderson
A conclusion to the popular series finds Caitlin working to master the powers of the Gaalderkhani tiles to rescue her son and discover what the Gaalderkhani's modern relatives have been searching and killing for.
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Earth awakens
by Orson Scott Card
As invading aliens begin terraforming China, Mazer Rackham's squad attempts to stop them on the ground, while former space miner Victor Delgado and his allies try to find a way to destroy the Formic mothership
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Provenance
by Ann Leckie
Space Opera. Ingray Aughskold has never been her mother's favorite child; that distinction belongs to her brother, who will almost certainly be named heir. But will a scheme to shame one of her family's political rivals win Ingray enough plaudits to change her fate? Although set in the universe of the author's Imperial Radch trilogy, Provenance stands on its own.
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Sleeping giants
by Sylvain Neuvel
Years after waking up dozens of feet below the ground on the palm of what seems to be a mysterious giant metal hand, a top-level physicist leads a team of people to discover the nature of the hand, where it came from and what it portends for humanity.
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