Fantasy and Science Fiction
May 2023
Recent Releases
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
by Hester Fox

Yorkshire, England, 1925: Ivy Radcliffe inherits Blackwood Abbey and its mysterious library, which may be responsible for the untimely deaths of the estate's previous residents.

Reviewers say: This "atmospheric historical fantasy" (Publishers Weekly) full of ghostly visitors, strange happenings, and sinister locals harboring secrets makes "a fine addition to the gothic genre" (Booklist).

You might also like: Simone St. James' Silence for the Dead or Katie Lumsden's The Secrets of Hartwood Hall.
Camp Zero
by Michelle Min Sterling

In a world... where climate change has rendered much of the Earth uninhabitable, the northern settlement of Camp Zero welcomes two new arrivals -- sex worker and spy "Rose" and privileged professor Grant -- whose paths will intersect in surprising ways. 

Who it's for: Unfolding from multiple perspectives and jumping between past and present-day timelines, this stylistically complex dystopian novel may interest fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale or Catherine Hernandez's Crosshairs.

Media buzz: Camp Zero is a selection of The Today Show's Read With Jenna book club.
Alone With You in the Ether: A Love Story
by Olivie Blake

Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.
The Serpent & The Wings of Night
by Carissa Broadbent

Oraya, the adopted human daughter of the NIghtborn vampire king, must fight to survive the Kejari, a legendary tournament in which she must partner with the vampire Raihn to win over warriors from the other vampire houses.
Mr. Breakfast
by Jonathan Carroll

Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives.
Cold People
by Tom Rob Smith

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.
A Day of Fallen Night
by Samantha Shannon

What it is: a stand-alone prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, set 500 years before the events of that novel, in the period known as the Great Sorrow.

Featuring: Tunuva Melim, who has dedicated her life to serving the Priory; Glorian Berethnet, the teenage heir to the Queendom of Inys; and godsinger Dumai of Ipyeda, who seeks to wake sleeping dragons.

You might also like: Sofia Samatar's The Winged Histories.
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