January 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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The Beauty
by Aliya Whiteley
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.They are the last generation. One evening, Nate brings word of new signs of a strange and insidious presence…Discover the Beauty.
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Elysium Fire
by Alastair Reynolds
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths...
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The Emerald Circus
by Jane Yolen
A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Alice’s wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but really needs a sense of humor. Yolen’s first full collection in more than ten years discovers new and uncollected tales of beloved characters, literary legends, and much more.
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Eternal Life
by Dara Horn
What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she’s tried everything to free herself. But as the 21st century begins and her children and grandchildren develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.
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Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway
In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When a suspected dissident dies in government custody, Mielikki Neith is assigned to the case—the staggering consequences of which will reverberate throughout the world. Gnomon is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle—set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state.
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Gunpowder Moon
by David Pedreira
The Moon smells like gunpowder. Every lunar walker has noticed it: a burnt-metal scent that reminds them of war. It’s 2072, and lunar mining is powering the fusion reactors that are bringing Earth back from environmental disaster.When a bomb kills one of Caden Dechert’s diggers—the first murder on the Moon—he's on the hunt to expose the culprit before more blood is spilled.
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The Lost Plot
by Genevieve Cogman
After being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York. Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot. Caught in the middle of a dragon political contest, Irene and Kai are locked in a race against time (and dragons) to procure a rare book. They'll face gangsters, blackmail, and the Library's own Internal Affairs department. And if it doesn't end well, it could have dire consequences on Irene's job. And, incidentally, on her life.
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The Outcasts of Time
by Ian Mortimer
December 1348. What if you had just six days to save your soul? With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries – living each of those six remaining days 99 years after the last. John and William choose the future, finding themselves in stranger and stranger times.
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Probing
by Bill Myers, Frank Peretti, Angela Hunt, & Alton Gansky
Cycle Three of the Harbingers series offers more suspense, more chills, and a deeper look into the battle for light in a growing darkness. It includes: "Leviathan" by Bill Myers; "The Mind Pirates" by Frank Peretti; "Hybrids" by Angela Hunt and "The Village" by Alton Gansky.
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The Sky Is Yours
by Chandler Klang Smith
In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash, are forced to flee everything they've ever known. Wandering toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves.
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The Two of Swords, Volume Three
by K. J. Parker
The epic concluding volume in The Two of Swords trilogy. A soldier with a gift for archery. A woman who kills without care. Two brothers, both unbeatable generals, now fighting for opposing armies. No one in the vast and once glorious United Empire remains untouched by the rift between East and West, and the war has been fought for as long as anyone can remember. Some still survive who know how it was started, but no one knows how it will end.
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Weave a Circle Round
by Kari Maaren
When the unexpected moves in next door, anything can happen. Freddy doesn’t want people to think she’s weird. Her family makes that difficult, though: her deaf stepbrother Roland’s a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel’s training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. All Freddy wants is to survive high school. Then two extremely odd neighbors move in next door. Cuerva Lachance and Josiah definitely aren't normal. Neither is their house, which defies the laws of physics. Neither is Freddy’s situation, when she suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors. And that’s only the beginning.
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The Wolves of Winter
by Tyrell Johnson
Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edge of the world. Simultaneously a heartbreakingly sympathetic portrait of a young woman searching for the answer to who she is meant to be, and a frightening vision of a merciless new world in which desperation rules, The Wolves of Winter is enveloping, propulsive, and poignant.
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