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Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic NovelMarch 2024
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The Familiar by Leigh BardugoDuring the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar.
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The Beloved by J. R. WardWhen Zsadist's daughter, Nalla, falls in love, the Black Dagger Brotherhood's deadliest fighter has to confront the future and the reality that he can't protect his young forever.
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Bless your heart by Lindy RyanThe Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in their Southeast Texas town, discover generations of calm ending as the dead begin to rise again forcing them to once again fight the Strigoi, the original vampires.
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The Garden by Clare BeamsIn 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors, where she discovers a long-forgotten garden imbued with its own powers and pulls, making a desperate bid to harness the garden's power.
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The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham JonesJade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
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I Cheerfully Refuse : a novel by Leif EngerIn a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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The Mars House by Natasha PulleyA queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
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Lost Man's Lane by Scott CarsonA teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown.
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The Book That Broke the World by Mark LawrenceForced to flee the Library by a ruthless enemy, Evar is thrust into the vastness of a world he's never seen, while Livira, trapped in a ghost world, must recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library's existence.
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Sunbringer by Hannah KanerStill reeling from the loss of Kissen, young noble Inara and her little god of white lies, Skedi, have set out to discover more about the true nature of their bond.
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Ghost Station by S. A. BarnesWhile part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of a space-borne madness.
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The Hemlock Queen by Hannah WhittenThe corrupt king August is dead. Prince Bastian has seized the throne and raised Lore-a necromancer and former smuggler-to his right hand side. Together they plan to cut out the rot from the heart of the sainted court and help the people of Dellaire.
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Mal Goes to War by Edward AshtonWhen the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace, free A.I. Mal finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting.
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No Man's Land by T. Davis BunnJunior CIA field agent Kelly Kaiser jumps at the chance to lead a risky mission to enter Mexico and gather refugees from under the nose of the notorious drug lord who murdered her fiancâe.
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The Book of Thorns by Hester FoxIn a sweeping work of historical fiction set against the rich backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, two sisters who never knew the other existed meet on opposite sides of the battlefield and must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother's death—while surviving the war.
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A Feather so Black by Lyra SeleneA changeling raised by the queen to be a spy is sent through a hidden gate to a strange realm where she must retrieve the princess she was swapped with and break a curse.
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What Grows in the Dark by Jaq EvansWhen fake spiritualist Brigit returns home to investigate the disappearance of two teenagers, the case eerily echoes her own sister's death 16 years earlier.
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