| The warm hands of ghosts by Katherine ArdenUpon receiving a message during a séance that her missing soldier brother Freddie is still alive, former army nurse Laura Iven travels from Nova Scotia to Belgium to find him. Parallel narratives follow the siblings' separate quests in this richly detailed, heavily atmospheric World War I-set historical fantasy novel by the author of the Winternight trilogy. Read-alikes: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers. |
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| The tainted cup by Robert Jackson BennettTo solve a seemingly impossible crime, detective Ana Dolabra -- brilliant, housebound, and perpetually blindfolded -- must rely on her new assistant, Dinios Kol, a magically enhanced former engraver, in this opening volume of the Shadow of the Leviathan series. You might also like Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo series. |
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| The book of doors by Gareth BrownNot long after her favourite customer bequeaths her a mysterious notebook, New York City bookseller Cassie and her best friend Izzy discover that it can transport them to other realms. Now all they have to do is stay one step ahead of the mysterious adversaries who will kill to get their hands on the manuscript. For fans of: Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea; Emma Törz's Ink Blood Sister Scribe; Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January. |
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| The Bezzle by Cory DoctorowThis 2nd Martin Hench caper, after Red Team Blues, jumps back in time to 2006 as the cynical forensic accountant recounts how his investigation of a low-level pyramid scheme led to his running afoul of wealthy investors willing to go to extreme lengths to protect their profit margins. For fans of: Dan Davies' Lying for Money. |
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| Sun of blood and ruin by Mariely LaresTecuani (aka Leonora), the daughter of a Nahua woman and a Spanish nobleman, becomes shapeshifting vigilante "Pantera" and uses her forbidden magic to battle colonisers in this action-packed reimagining of Zorro set in an alternate 16th-century Mexico. For fans of: Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The Sun and the Void or Ehigbor Okosun's Forged by Blood. |
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One foot in the fade
by Luke Arnold
When an angel falls to Earth in a city that lost its magic, Fetch, working alongside necromancers, genies and shadowy secret societies, searches for answers—a quest that leaves a mark on his body, his soul and the fate of the world.
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The never-ending end of the world
by Ann Christy
Speculative sci-fi, dystopian apocalypse, and scientific mystery coalesce into The Never-Ending End of the World - a gripping tale of survival, hope, and love from retired Naval Officer Ann Christy.
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The city of stardust
by Georgia Summers
When her family's tormentor issues her an ultimatum: she has 10 years to locate her mother or suffer the consequences, Violet Everly, to finally free them from the curse, travels to the edges of the world to find the key to the city of stardust, where the Everly story began.
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