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Fantasy and Science Fiction
eBook and eAudio edition - May 2020 |
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Important library update Our library branches are closed. Please hold onto your items at home until we re-open. Please do not try to return items to the library as our returns slots are closed. No overdue fines or charges will be incurred during the period of library closure and loan periods will be extended. Because of this, this newsletter will contain items from our eBook and eAudio platforms that are able to be borrowed from home.
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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas Wheelers/ePlatform eBookIntroducing: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion, otherwise known as Crescent City, has to offer.
What happens: It all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city-and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city's most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step.
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The End of the Line
by Gray Williams BorrowBox eAudiobook
What it's about: Set in contemporary London but with one crucial difference: magic exists. Abras, as they are known, can harness these illegal powers, but for con-artist Amanda Coleman – whose father was a powerful and abusive practitioner – magic is anathema.
When her criminal crew decide to hire an Abra to help with their heists, they don’t expect to raise a demon, or to quickly lose control of it. Now Coleman and her crew must travel across Siberia to a remote stone circle in order to kill this murderous creature, who has destroyed everything they hold dear.
But as the demon’s power grows, a battle of wills commences. Coleman must fight to survive, facing demons both in chains and within herself.
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Warrior of the Altaii
by Robert Jordan
BorrowBox eAudiobook and an Overdrive/Libby eBook
What its about: Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end.The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow more numerous, and bad omens abound. Wulfgar, a leader of the Altaii people, must contend with twin queens, warlords, prophets and magic in hopes of protecting his people and securing their future. Elspeth, a visitor from another world, holds the answers, but first Wulfgar must learn to ask the right questions.But what if the knowledge that saves the Altaii will also destroy them?
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Serengeti
by J. B. Rockwell Overdrive/Libby eAudiobook
What happens: An quick and easy job goes terribly wrong, leaving Serengeti - a Valkyrie class warship with a sentient AI brain - on her own; wrecked and abandoned in an empty expanse of space.
On the edge of total failure, Serengeti thinks only of her crew. She herds the survivors into a lifeboat, intending to sling them into space. But the escape pod sticks in her belly, locking the cryogenically frozen crew inside. Then a scavenger ship arrives to pick Serengeti's bones clean. Her engine's dead, her guns long silenced; Serengeti and her last two robots must find a way to fight the scavengers off and save the crew trapped inside her.
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Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Multiple formats
What it's about: The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon, now find themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.
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A Pale Light in the Black: A Neog Novel
by K.B. Wagers Overdrive/Libby eBook
Introducing: The Near-Earth Orbiting Guard, outer space's version of the U.S. Coast Guard.
What happens: While preparing for the Boarding Games, a competition between the different branches of the armed services, the crew of the Zuma's Ghost must solve a mystery that threatens one of their own.
For fans of: the upbeat tone and found families of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series; the conspiracy-laden intrigue of James S.A. Corey's Expanse novels.
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Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire Overdrive/Libby eBook
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn't attained.
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Wheelers/ePlatform eBookWhere it's set: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, we join the twelfth expedition.
Series alert: This is the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.
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