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Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic NovelNovember 2023 |
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Out There Screaming : an Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan PeeleVisionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates an anthology of all-new stories of black horror, exploring the supernatural and the reality of injustice that haunts our nation.
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Sister of Starlit Seas by Terry BrooksWhen her pirate captain, the man she believes she loves, is captured by those in charge of the slave trade he has been fighting, Char embarks on a high-seas adventure to rescue him, uncovering secrets she never suspected about herself that teach her to look before she leaps.
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The Kingdom of Sweets : a novel of The Nutcracker by Erika JohansenCursed to live in her sister Clara's shadow, Natasha gets her chance at revenge when an enchanted Nutcracker offers entry into a deceptively beautiful world where she must decide to which world she truly belongs.
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System Collapse by Martha WellsWhen Murderbot doesn't run within normal operational parameters, ART's crew and the humans from Preservation must protect an entire colony of humans until Murderbot figures out how to fix itself—and fast.
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The Lost Cause by Cory DoctorowThirty years from now, young Americans help mitigate climate change to heal our planet, but some elderly Americans, who cling to their grievances and anger, rely on“alternative” news sources that validate their resentment and their belief that“climate change” is just a giant scam.
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Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu KawaguchiA new set of customers at a Tokyo café experience a trip into the past as long as they return before their coffee gets cold, in the fourth novel of the series following Before Your Memory Fades.
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The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick RothfussIn this touching stand-alone story, the Kingkiller Chronicle's most charming fae, Bast, who cares nothing for the laws of man, finds himself forced to choose between betraying his master and helping a hated enemy.
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Good Girls Don't Die by Christina HenryThree women, Celia, Allie and Maggie find themselves suddenly trapped in lives and stories they each know are not their own and must fight their way out, in the new dark fantasy from the author of Near the Bone.
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The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance SayersFrom the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession and the eternal mystery and magic of film.
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The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa MorganA story of obsession, redemption and the magic of unexpected friendship, from the acclaimed author of A Secret History of Witches.
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Calamity by Constance FayTemperance Reed tries to keep her crew together on her beloved, but obsolete ship while facing off with Arcadio Escajeda on a scouting mission to the backwater desert planet Herschel 2.
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Like Thunder by Nnedi OkoraforReuniting with his best friend, a shadow speaker girl named Ejii Ubaid, to complete the epic and mystical quest they started years ago, rainmaker Dikéogu Obidimkpa, more powerful than ever, soon discovers that nothing will ever be the same again.
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The Serpent & the Wings of Night by Carissa BroadbentThe adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya, to become something more than prey, enters a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself and, to survive, forms an alliance with a mysterious rival to whom she is oddly drawn.
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Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle KornIn 2050, behind the exclusive Inside Project—a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world—three women, notice cracks in the system, in this thrilling story of queer love, betrayal and chosen family.
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Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom…and from the humans who don’t know they are Wolves. Each twin has their own purpose in life.
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Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. AdamsThorns, Tides, Embers, Storms, and Ores. All five covens are bound in servitude to the tyrant High Warden of Halstett. Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death.
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Mister Lullaby by J. H. MarkertAs coma patients are trapped in a world full of evil mythical creatures of sleep, which is linked to an old train tunnel around town, one troubled man finally acts upon the voice in his head called Mr. Lullaby who wants him to kill all the coma patients he can find.
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The Nightmare Manby James MarkertBlackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow.
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