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The Sentient
by Nadia Afifi
2227: Amira Valdez is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to put her past on a religious compound behind her. But when she's assigned to a controversial cloning project, her dreams of working in space are placed in jeopardy. Using her talents as a reader of memories, Amira uncovers a conspiracy to stop the creation of the first human clone at all costs. As she unravels the mystery, Amira navigates a dangerous world populated by anti-cloning militants, scientists with hidden agendas, and a mysterious New Age movement. In the process, Amira uncovers an even darker secret, one that forces her to confront her own past.
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Nightchaser
by Amanda Bouchet
"Captain Tess Bailey and her crew are on the run from a dangerous tyrant, and their best hope for help is a tall, dark and much-too-appealing stranger, Shade Ganavan. By the ""USA Today"" best-selling author of The Kingmaker Chronicles."
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The garden of promises and lies
by Paula Brackston
This third installment in the Found Things series finds Xanthe taking responsibility for inadvertently transporting the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time, while learning to use her skills as a spinner to keep her and Flora safe.
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Ready player two : a novel
by Ernest Cline
A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
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| The Frozen Crown by Greta KellyWhat it's about: Princess Askia Poritskaya e-Nimri, heir to the Frozen Crown of Seravesh, seeks an alliance with Emperor Amaan of Vishir against their common enemy, the Roven Empire.
Why you might like it: This opening volume of the Warrior Witch duology features a strong female lead with a dangerous secret, plentiful palace intrigue, an inventive magic system, and forbidden love.
For fans of: Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling novels, Jennifer Estep's Crown of Shards series, or Callie Bates' Waking Land trilogy. |
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Strange Labour
by Robert G. Penner
The majority of the global population have left the cities and towns to become diggers and work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are part of a dwindling population that survives in the margins of a new society, struggling to construct a meaningful future for themselves. Miranda travels alone across what had once been the American West. After taking care of, and then abandoning a group of dementia patients, she meets Dave, who becomes her travelling companion. Dave recounts his many theories about how and why the apocalypse happened, as they search among the dispossessed for a place called Big Echo. A mesmerizing and uncanny meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe indifferent to our extinction.
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| Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuireIntroducing: Regan Lewis, a horse-loving intersex girl who travels through a magical portal to the Hooflands, where, to her delight, she is adopted by a herd of centaurs.
The problem: In this realm, humans are rare and exotic creatures who only show up in times of trouble to save the day. However, Regan doesn't believe in destiny.
Can you start here? Although Across the Green Grass Fields is the 6th book in the award-winning Wayward Children series, it stands on its own. |
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| When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi VoWhat it's about: Trapped in a barn by a trio of tigers, cleric Chih and their traveling companions, Si-yu and Piluk, buy themselves time by telling their captors the tale of Ho Thi Tao, the tiger who loved a human.
Everyone's a critic: The tigers, who prefer their version of the folktale, don't hesitate to set the record straight in this witty meditation on the power of storytelling.
Can you start here? This 2nd book in the Singing Hills series, after The Empress of Salt and Fortune, stands on its own. |
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The bladebone
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Sinnia, Arian and the Citadel of Companions rely on an ancient, magic weapon to thwart the oppressive One-Eyed Preacher in his quest to conquer Ashfall in the fourth book in the series following The Blue Eye. Original.
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Gardens of the moon
by Steven Erikson
When the last of the free cities of the Malazan Empire is targeted by the forces of the Empress Laseen, Bridgeburner squad leader Sergeant Whiskeyjack and the mage Tattersall confront dark gods to protect the citadel of Darujhistan. Part one of the Epic Malazan Book of the Fallen Series.
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Fool's assassin
by Robin Hobb
Illegitimate royal and former assassin FitzChivalry Farseer masquerades as a country squire with his beloved wife, but finds himself drawn back to his former life by old allegiances. Book one of the Fitz and the Fool series.
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The fifth season
by N. K Jemisin
A first entry in a new trilogy, 'Broken Earth' by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
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| Rosewater by Tade ThompsonWelcome to: Rosewater, a doughnut-shaped Nigerian city that rings the mysterious alien biodome that has become an object of veneration since it first appeared back in 2055.
Meet: government agent Kaaro, who owes his psychic abilities to the biodome. When his fellow "sensitives" start dying, Kaaro investigates and makes some unsettling discoveries about his past -- and his future.
Book buzz: Rosewater, the 1st installment of the Wormwood trilogy, made the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist. |
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| The Rage of Dragons by Evan WinterStarring: Tau Tafari, a reluctant warrior-in-training who fights his way to the top of a socially stratified society to exact revenge on his enemies.
Why you might like it: This series opener (followed by The Fires of Vengeance) boasts a sympathetic protagonist and a vividly depicted, African-inspired setting.
For fans of: the inventive system of magic in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels, the gritty battles of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy, and the world-building of Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy. |
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