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Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2019
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| The Red-Stained Wings by Elizabeth BearWhat it's about: War has come to the Lotus Kingdoms, sending four individuals on separate quests.
Contains: automatons, radioactive dragons, chain-smoking volcano goddesses, tiger-sorcerers who feed on war, and more.
Series alert: Set in the world of the author's Eternal Sky trilogy, The Red-Stained Wings is book 2 in the Lotus Kingdoms series, after The Stone in the Skull. |
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| Lent by Jo WaltonStarring: Dominican friar Girolamo Savanarola, whose ability to see and cast out demons raises him to a position of power and influence in 15th-century Florence. Again and again and again.
Is it for you? Think Wolf Hall meets Russian Doll meets The Good Place, set in Renaissance Italy.
Want a taste? "And so often, Girolamo wants lines as straight and clean as a birch sapling, where human motives turn out to be as tangled as a bramble thicket." |
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Wild country
by Anne Bishop
What it's about: A follow-up to Lake Silence finds the human and shape-shifting citizens of Bennett struggling to coexist peacefully before profit-seeking humans and the power-hungry Blackstone Clan force neighbors to choose between uniting or turning on each other.
You may also like: The Wind through the Keyhole by Stepen King.
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Gingerbread
by Helen Oyeyemi
What it's about: The award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favorite recipe.
You may also like: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The deepest blue : Tales of Renthia
by Sarah Beth Durst
Living on an island subject to the whims of malicious ocean spirits, a fearless oyster diver, Mayara, is imprisoned by the queen because of her power to control the spirits. By the author of The Queen of Blood.
You may also like: The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.
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Focus on: Indigenous Apocalyptic Fiction |
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| Killer of Enemies by Joseph BruchacStarring: Chiricahua Apache warrior Lozen, whose skills are put to the test by the genetically engineered monsters that now roam the former American Southwest.
What happens: When the tyrannical rulers of Haven take her family members hostage, Lozen must defend the compound or forfeit their lives.
Series alert: This action-packed young adult novel is the 1st in a trilogy, followed by Trail of the Dead and Arrow of Lightning. |
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| Future Home of the Living God by Louise ErdrichWhat it's about: When Cedar Hawk Songmaker discovers she's pregnant, she seeks out her Ojibwe birth mother to learn more about her (and her unborn child's) family history.
But wait, there's more: Evolution is reversing itself, prompting the U.S. government to incarcerate pregnant women until they give birth.
For fans of: the reproductive dystopias of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale or Meg Elison's Road to Nowhere series. |
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Orleans
by Sherri L. Smith
What it's about: Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever.
You may also like: Inhuman by Kat Falls and The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi..
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Far north
by Marcel Theroux
What it's about: A last of a group of settlers in a hardscrabble abandoned western town, self-declared sheriff Makepeace decides to reconnect with others after a visit from a traveling refugee but finds his sense of the world unraveling through his encounters with other ghost towns, stockade villages that enforce a dubious sense of the law, and mysterious slave camps.
You may also like: Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson or Wolf Road by Beth Lewis.
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A river out of Eden : a novel
by John Hockenberry
What it's about: A U.S government marine biologist and Chinok Indian, Francine Smoholla is fighting to protect Washington's supply of salmon from the dams, but when power company workers and forest service employees start turning up dead with native harpoons in the backs, Francine quietly begins her own investigation.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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