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Fantasy and Science Fiction November 2019
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| Ninth House by Leigh BardugoThe offer: a full scholarship to Yale for Galaxy "Alex" Stern, a high school dropout with the rare ability to see ghosts.
The catch: Tasked with monitoring the university's secret societies, Alex soon discovers that the elite institution is often willing to turn a blind eye to their occult transgressions.
Is it for you? This adult fantasy novel by Grisha trilogy author Leigh Bardugo is grittier than her YA books and includes scenes of murder, child abuse, sexual assault, and self-harm. |
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Supernova Era
by Cixin Liu
When a distant supernova showers the Earth with radiation that kills all adults, the planet’s surviving teens begin acting on violent ideas to rebuild the world. By the Hugo Award-winning author of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.
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The Burning White
by Brent Weeks
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds Kip navigating escalating violence throughout the kingdom and struggling to escape his family’s shadow to protect the land and people he loves. By the author of the Night Angel trilogy.
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| The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee NewitzWhat it's about: The Daughters of Harriet, a coalition of feminist activists, and the Comstockers, a men's rights group, travel through time, editing history like a Wikipedia page.
Reviewers say: "a matryoshka doll meditation on the pointlessness and necessity of violence...bathed in pop culture references (real and imagined)" (NPR).
For fans of: the LGBTQIA-friendly change wars of Amal El-Mohtar's and Max Gladstone's This is How You Lose the Time War; |
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The Name of All Things
by Jenn Lyons
A sequel to The Ruin of Kings finds a fugitive Kihrin navigating a secret rebellion and a formidable dragon to help a mysterious Joratese woman prevent the wizard Relos Var from obtaining an artifact of extraordinary power.
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Salvation Lost
by Peter F Hamilton
Humans on earth in the 23rd century are threatened by the Olyix, an alien race determined to make everyone believe in, and bow to, their version of god, in the second novel of the series following Salvation.
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Whispers of Shadow & Flame
by L. Penelope
Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. Known as the Poison Flame in the kingdom of Lagrimar, she is notorious and lethal, but secretly seeks freedom from both her untamed power and the blood spell that commands her.
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